D&D General What Does Your Cosmology Look Like?

There are “Heavenly” and “Earthly” realms. For the earthly realms, they’re more like layers of one place than separate places. For instance, and godling might have their castle on another layer at this mountain, but it’s still on this mountain.

This leads to the rather unsettling reality that celestials, fey, and fiends are constantly present. Most of the time they’re on other layers, which limits what they can do, but their presence still has an effect.

Heavenly realms are beyond this world entirely. Most of them don’t have room for matter, so you can only visit them in visions rather than physically. It should be noted that “heavenly” here doesn’t necessarily mean good, archfiends can rule from one of these planes as well.

The world the dead go to is not an earthly layer, as might be suspected, spells that can take you to other layers won’t get you there. Instead, ghosts have to pass through a specific gate to get to the afterlife. The gate has a crack in it, which is why undead exist.
 

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