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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 9856353" data-attributes="member: 6779196">Faerie is the border between the material plane and all other planes. Where faerie is closest to the material plane it reflects the latter geographically (though much like you said, everything is “more”), but the deeper you go, the more it begins to deviate from the material. It’s like if you draw the same picture from memory every day on a new page of a sketchbook. The ink will bleed through in places, and over time the parts you draw most often and most consistently will become clearer and darker because more ink is bleeding through there, while the parts you don’t remember as well will become more distorted over time. Deeper faerie is like later pages in the sketchbook, where the picture is more informed by emotional impression than accurate memory. Except the drawing isn’t just done by you, it’s done by everyone who has ever visited that place. And some of them have more abstract or impressionistic styles.While within faerie, proximity has more to do with sympathetic alignment than physical space. Getting from place to place is not so much a matter of putting one foot in front of the other, and more a matter of becoming mentally and emotionally attuned to your destination. This is also how you can reach the other planes from there. If you want to get to the plane of water, go for a swim. Being surrounded by water makes you more sympathetically attuned to water, and so you become closer to that plane. That of course also means you are further from the material plane, so things become less geographically similar to it, but instead of just being shaped by your emotional impression of a place, the picture is now being informed by the concept of water. As if you’re still drawing in that same sketchbook but with each page you emphasize a little more the things that remind you of water. You start making your lines softer, more fluid, start using more blues and greens, maybe adding bubbles or waves, until you’ve eventually got a picture that’s an abstract meditation on water.You can reach any of the elemental planes in a similar way. Light a fire and feed it until it grows to be your entire environment. Climb to lofty, windy peaks and leap. Find a cave and follow it deep into the earth. Though, if your hope is to reach the plane of earth, be sure to maintain that intent, because underground is also very dark, and where the dead are interred. You may end up in the plane of shadow, or the underworld, if you don’t maintain the proper metaphysical alignment. Indeed, should you delve too greedily and too deep you may even find yourself digging a hole all the way to the abyss. The elemental plane of ether is quite difficult to access for beings of crude physical matter. It is a place of ephemera, made up of and making up spirits. Probably the best way to try to reach it would be to bathe oneself in light.The astral plane is also quite difficult to reach. You might be able to project your mind there through stargazing, but to reach it physically, you will probably need some sort of flying vessel - and one that can take you beyond air, to the heavens themselves. But from there, entire other worlds can be accessed, should you be able to attune yourself to their alien natures.</blockquote>

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