D&D General What Does Your Cosmology Look Like?

[Mind of tempest]

honestly mine is depressing, no heavens only hells as I can't ever find convincing descriptions of heaven but hells are all you need.

 

[EzekielRaiden]

Which cosmology--the one known and accepted, based on all observable evidence available to the finest natural and esoteric philosophers?

Or the truth?

According to all data available to Waziri mages and other, non-magical observers, there are only and exactly three observable planes: the mortal world, Al-Duniyyah (with the Spirit World as a sort of altered-perspective version thereof); the Elemental Otherworld, Al-Akirah; and the Netherworld, aka "(the) Hell(s)" and "the Abyss". The mortal world and elemental otherworld are globes which orbit stars in different parallel dimensions, which is why their geography is nearly but not perfectly identical. Other stars exist, but are so distant they cannot be reached.

The truth is that this is but one world among many, one plane among many, but this world, specifically, has been walled off--or, more accurately, barred up. It is a prison for something, and (nearly) all transplanar beings except devils and demons departed it about two thousand years ago, when those supernatural, invisible bars went up. What else lies in the Deep Beyond, no one knows...yet.

 

[jdrakeh]

By default, it consists of the Heavens (where Gods dwell), the Hells (where demons and devils dwell), and The Beyond (where your spirit goes when it is separated from your mortal body). These are also the originating points of the three kinds of magic in the campaign world, conveniently (i.e. miracles, demonic pacts, and necromancy). And, of course, the mortal realm. Which is where the game takes place, by default.