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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 8610058" data-attributes="member: 58172">The shallow ethereal is the material plane, the immaterial forces that are part of material plane.An ethereal creature is an object  made out of force, and walks among the objects made out of matter, within the material world.An ethereal creature perceives the matter according to its forces. Moreorless material objects look normal, except more transparent, diffuse and misty, possibly involving visible auras.The spirit worlds of feywild and shadowfell are ethereal forces.The positivity enlivens the fey ether. Oppositely, the negativity deadens the shadow ether. The positive energy plane is actual energy, imbuing blessings of life and success. The socalled negative energy plane is a misnomer. There is actually no such thing as "negative energy". Negativity is resistance that eventually nullifies positive energy. Pure negativity is emptiness. The shadow is absence of light.In contrast to a dead creature that rests, an "undead" creature reuses positive energy to physicalize memories of once having been alive. These semblances of life are deathly distortions - vague rememberings interrupted by the factuality of death - and never an actual life. But the undead can appear convincing to the living, at least at times. The alternative to undeath is oblivian, but to rest in peace is its own kind of good. To persist actively as undeath is various kinds of dissatisfaction and torment. Typically only a powerful incentive can motivate a dead being to persist as undeath.The fey and shadow are ethereal forces, under positive and negative influence,  respectively. The shallow ethereal includes the shallow fey and the shallow shadow.The positivity and negativity alter the perception of the material plane. From the perspective of the shadow, the objects of matter appear deathly. Humans move about yet corpselike, trees are rotting, iron tools rust, gorgeous fabrics unravel, all things decay and disintegrate under the deenergizing influence of negativity. When shadow ether manifests physically in the material world, as if tangeable matter, it typically includes its deathlike features.Oppositely, from the perspective of the fey, the objects of matter appear vivacious, vigorous, vibrant, fresh, alive. The fey view is glamorous, larger than life, stunningly beautiful. The "elf shine" is a literally a luminous energy but even more so, a psychologically compelling loveliness. Where the neutral ethereal perspective sees the worldly objects as-is albeit faintly, the fey ethereal perspective sees the worldly objects as even more real than real, bursting with new possibilities and effectiveness.There is deep ethereal that virtually disconnects from the the material plane. The link to matter never truly disconnects, but the forms within the deep no longer correlate with what is actually happening in the material plane.The deep shadow are memories of things that may no longer exist.The deep fey are alternate timelines - the fates - that might never happen.Within the shallow ethereal, fey spirits and shadow spirits can perceive each other, and interact with each other, while in the same house that is made out of matter in the material plane. The fey spirits perceive the shadow spirits as deathly. They are blackholes within a living world. Viceversa, the shadow spirits perceive the fey spirits as vibrant. They are suns blazing within a dead world.</blockquote>

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