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<blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 8301500" data-attributes="member: 58172">I am still intrigued by your post.I reading this as both the Feywild and the Shadowfell are mindscapes (made out of subjective mental phantasms). One is a dreamscape, and one is a memoryscape. Perhaps the memoryscape is something like an archive.The mind, mental, aspect interests me. I normally associate mental stuff with the &quot;domains&quot; of the Astral Plane&quot;, including the Wheel, which are mental ethical ideals, so that each alignment has a domain. But all of it is made out of mindstuff.Yet, having the Feywild and Shadowfell be made out of mindstuff can make alot of sense.In my campaign, I focus more on the ether as the fifth element, which is force (including gravity but by extension telekinetic force and magical energy). So, the Feywild is the magical energy that the Positivity energizes. And the Shadowfell is the magical energy that the Negativity unravels.But if we are talking about mindscapes, then Fey is psychic/phantasmal at the threshold of Positivity and Shadow is psychic/phantasmal at the threshold of Negativity.While I associate the ether with force because of certain reallife alchemical traditions, there are other alchemical traditions that identify ether with consciousness, mind, spirit, soul, and lifeforce.Perhaps ether the fifth element is curious because it is at state of being that is simultaneously both mind and matter. There are alchemical traditions that are something like this.Anyway your campaign got me thinking.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Yaarel, post: 8301500, member: 58172"] I am still intrigued by your post. I reading this as both the Feywild and the Shadowfell are mindscapes (made out of subjective mental phantasms). One is a dreamscape, and one is a memoryscape. Perhaps the memoryscape is something like an archive. The mind, mental, aspect interests me. I normally associate mental stuff with the "domains" of the Astral Plane", including the Wheel, which are mental ethical ideals, so that each alignment has a domain. But all of it is made out of mindstuff. Yet, having the Feywild and Shadowfell be made out of mindstuff can make alot of sense. In my campaign, I focus more on the ether as the fifth element, which is force (including gravity but by extension telekinetic force and magical energy). So, the Feywild is the magical energy that the Positivity energizes. And the Shadowfell is the magical energy that the Negativity unravels. But if we are talking about mindscapes, then Fey is psychic/phantasmal at the threshold of Positivity and Shadow is psychic/phantasmal at the threshold of Negativity. While I associate the ether with force because of certain reallife alchemical traditions, there are other alchemical traditions that identify ether with consciousness, mind, spirit, soul, and lifeforce. Perhaps ether the fifth element is curious because it is at state of being that is simultaneously both mind and matter. There are alchemical traditions that are something like this. Anyway your campaign got me thinking. [/QUOTE]

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