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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 8730999" data-attributes="member: 4937">They actually created the Outer Planes in response to a war between the deities that nearly destroyed and ruined the material world.   Technically all the Outer Planes in my homebrew are realms in the far Astral.   The exceptions to this, and perhaps the inspirations for the god's movement are Limbo and Mechanus.  The modrons (often referred to as 'the Auditors', which is what they call themselves) and the Slaad both seem to have either preexisted the gods or came into being at the same time.  Both are campaign level mysteries in my world on the level of Tom Bombadil in Tolkien's legerdemain.  Although, I actually do know what the Slaad are, and at least one of the Slaad and probably two of them also knows.   It's probable that Maglubiyet suspects or knows the truth, and maybe a few of the other older gods.  See my Slaad thread for some hints.  I've never exactly worked out why the Modron are there but they themselves seem to believe that they came along as a necessary component of keeping the universe functioning, so it's possible that Primus and his energy pool are as foundational in the (homebrew) universe as other things like The Tree of Life and The Cascade.  I don't mind that there are questions that most gods in the setting couldn't answer.Demons and devils though don't really exist in my game per se, except as servitors of evil deities that created (or possibly molded) them for some purpose.  The same is true of the celestials.  Therefore, the classical D&D division between the deities and the native inhabitants of the outer planes generally does not exist, because generally there aren't native inhabitants to the outer planes.  Note that while this borrows heavily from Gygax's "great wheel" cosmology, it's no longer congruent.  For one thing, it's no longer a wheel per se of theoretically physically joined infinite universes.  Each domain is finite and is on the edge of the astral sea and is not connected physically to the others except by the astral sea.</blockquote>

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