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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bluescale_Kobold" data-source="post: 5915256" data-attributes="member: 81435">The cosmology to homebrew I'm currently designing is specifically being made vague enough so that things from the Great Beyond or the Great Wheel can be added, though its origin story is quite different. The framework of the universe is based on duality, specifically Potential (Chaos) vs. Actual (Existence). The Actual arose from Potential like an iceberg rising from the ocean. An ancient being of chaos saw so much possibility forced into a single form as an affront and tried to destroy it, but only succeeded in releasing the four states of existence: Solid (Earth), Liquid (Water), Gas (Air), and Plasma (Fire). These interacted to form the material universe, and the remaining elements grouped together to form four of the elemental planes. There are a total of seven elemental planes (though some scholars think that the Positive and Negative Energy Planes are two sides of the same plane and it should really be six planes):Earth, Water, Air, Fire, Positive (Energy), Negative (Void), and Ice (everything that was left after the four elemental planes left. It's also referred to as Solidified Order, but Ice is more easily understood).The material plane and multiple demiplanes are also mirrored by two dependent planes (meaning these planes cannot exist without some quality of the material plane existing): the Shadow Plane (where the only semipermanent things there are three-dimensional solid "shadows" of objects in the material plane), and the Plane of Dreams (a plane created out of the thoughts and imaginings of all life the the material plane).The outer planes do exist, as Hell, Heaven, and a mysterious plane of absolute law were responsible for creating a prison demiplane named "Tartarus", and the Abyss has been mentioned, but not too much has been done with them, and I will probably just use things from Manual of the Planes and The Great Beyond to flesh them out if needed.</blockquote>

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