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<blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 8331483" data-attributes="member: 58172">Re this site (<a href="http://pandius.com/mystcosm.html" target="_blank">Mystara Cosmology</a>)Im exploring the Mystara cosmology, and whether it can fit into the 5e multiverse or not.One thing I know, I love the way Mystara depicts the elemental planes.The way I understand it, each elemental plane is the actual material plane, but where only the specific element appears. So, In the water plane, only the oceans, rains, rivers, aquifers, lakes, atmospheric humidity, and anywhere else where there is water, can be seen. Everything else gets screened out by the ether of the ethereal plane.The fiery aspect of the material volcanoes exists in the fire plane. Everything not fire is ether. And so on for the planes of air and earth.This one-to-one overlap is awesome.Since humans are solid but also constitute much liquid, mainly water, perhaps humans show up within the water plane too, perhaps as liquid or misty shapes?When thinking about elements, I like the medieval tradition that explicitly identifies them with &quot;states&quot; of matter (rather than kinds of substance).• Fire = plasma, sun, lightning, even the &quot;dark fire&quot; plasmasphere between the earth and the moon. This heavenly fire differs from normal fire.• Air = gasses• Water = liquids• Earth = solids• Ether = force, gravity, etceteraFind this modern-friendly medieval worldview helpful when trying to make sense of the D&amp;D elemental cosmology in a consistent way.A consequence of this view is, the D&amp;D ethereal plane is moreorless the samething as a realm of invisible telekinetic forces.Taking a leaf from Asian traditions, I also find it helpful to think of &quot;Plant&quot; (tree, vegetation, improperly including fungi, etcetera) as a kind of element.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Yaarel, post: 8331483, member: 58172"] Re this site ([URL='http://pandius.com/mystcosm.html']Mystara Cosmology[/URL]) Im exploring the Mystara cosmology, and whether it can fit into the 5e multiverse or not. One thing I know, I love the way Mystara depicts the [B]elemental planes[/B]. The way I understand it, each elemental plane is the actual material plane, but where only the specific element appears. So, In the water plane, only the oceans, rains, rivers, aquifers, lakes, atmospheric humidity, and anywhere else where there is water, can be seen. Everything else gets screened out by the ether of the ethereal plane. The fiery aspect of the material volcanoes exists in the fire plane. Everything not fire is ether. And so on for the planes of air and earth. This one-to-one overlap is awesome. Since humans are solid but also constitute much liquid, mainly water, perhaps humans show up within the water plane too, perhaps as liquid or misty shapes? When thinking about elements, I like the medieval tradition that explicitly identifies them with "states" of matter (rather than kinds of substance). • Fire = plasma, sun, lightning, even the "dark fire" plasmasphere between the earth and the moon. This heavenly fire differs from normal fire. • Air = gasses • Water = liquids • Earth = solids • Ether = force, gravity, etcetera Find this modern-friendly medieval worldview helpful when trying to make sense of the D&D elemental cosmology in a consistent way. A consequence of this view is, the D&D ethereal plane is moreorless the samething as a realm of invisible telekinetic forces. Taking a leaf from Asian traditions, I also find it helpful to think of "Plant" (tree, vegetation, improperly including fungi, etcetera) as a kind of element. [/QUOTE]

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