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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shemeska" data-source="post: 3339756" data-attributes="member: 11697">The 2e 'Guide to the Astral Plane' is the best source of detail on the Astral that you'll find.I've handled tons of stuff on the Astral, and here's a random list of things on the astral in general, and a few things that I've used myself: renegade githyanki conspiring with fiends to mine the bodies of dead gods; the so-called "Colorless Pool" which has a number of legends surrounding it; the notion that the Astral Dreadnaughts either project into the Astral from another plane and/or answer to some figure such as the Guardian of Dead Gods / Anubis; there's the madman Ghyris Vast and a pair of Rakshasa allies who seek to wrench deific essence from the corpses of gods through a device he terms "The Divinity Leach"; there's a massive ocean complete with all manner of sea life drifting in the Astral having been sucked from a prime material world through an astral breach; there's a massive and drifting mass of undead called the Bone Cloud who as mindless beings can't move on their own, though more powerful undead have made themselves a home within places carved out of the bulk of bone, there's even the broken godisle of Aoskar the dead god of portals, killed by The Lady of Pain and now drifting, pierced through with blades, with a look of terror upon his petrified face.Lots of stuff on the Astral besides killing Githyanki <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> One of the segments of the prelude to my 2nd storyhour starts on the Astral actually.I currently have my PCs searching the Astral for a possible astral sublayer called the House of Memory. In my conception it's a sort of universal repository of the memories of dead mortals that manifest and crystallize as their souls funnel through the Astral and into the outer planes to become petitioners. Normally these "memory cores" appear to dwindle and erode over time, vanishing into nothingness and becoming one with the astral wind; but what if they actually go somewhere? Nothing is forgotten. Nothing is lost. But does such a place exist, and what would be its purpose? I've been spinning a campaign around it.For info on Vlaakith herself, you'll want to look at the various Dungeon magazine issues that cover the Incursion series of adventures and the 'Beloved of the Lich Queen' material. Really nice stuff.</blockquote>

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