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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 9487016" data-attributes="member: 42582">I'm having trouble following this analogy.A mirror creates a "visual space" that is governed by physical law. The space is illusory, in the sense that no one can enter it - its "inhabitants" are mere illusions of real beings in real space.But the Feywild and Shadowfell are real spaces. Real beings can travel there, and perform physical activity there. So while they are metaphorically described as "reflections", they are not actually reflections. They are (imperfect) copies. And a copy of a material thing is itself a material thing.These distortions are what cause the imperfection in the copying of the Material Plane. But they don't render the Feywild or Shadowfell non-material.I don't follow this analogy either.Gravity may be immaterial (if it is a field). If it is carried by a particle, then there's an argument that it is material. Likewise if gravity is really just the shape of space about massive bodies, then it is as material as spatial orderings are.The Feywild and Shadowfell are not forces, nor fields, nor spatial orderings of the material plane. They are copies, that can be visited by travellers, that can be affected materially and that have material effects.</blockquote>