Thomar_of_Uointer
2013-10-25, 06:45 PM
So this article (https://www.wizards.com/dnd/Article.aspx?x=dnd/4ll/20130701) laid out the (tenative) new cosmology for D&D Next. That's fine, it's actually pretty neat to have the elemental planes be hospitable to adventurers. I want to use this in a campaign.
The article confirms that the Feywild is the positive energy border plane. I'm going to throw out that nonsense about Ravenloft and use the Shadowfell as the negative border plane. However, that leaves us four planes short.
Positive - The Feywild, an overgrown jungle full of fey creatures, dire animals, and even the vegetation wants to eat you. The more dangerous regions are home to more abstract and strange forms of life, and eventually the jungle gives way to a radiant void of positive energy.
Negative - The Shadowfell, a dark landscape full of vegetation which seems to be dead, but on closer inspection it is found to grow in an unliving mockery of life and seeks to infect the living. Travellers who go deep into the wastes will find the terrain gives way to deep, dark pits that lead into the black void of elemental negative energy.
Earth - ???, massive rocky caves, native vegetation is made of crystal, light is provided by a few large glowing crystals on the ceilings, walls, and floors of the caves. As you travel deeper into the dark, dirt and organic life and open space become sparser until you come to pure elemental earth that can only be traversed by earth gliding.
Fire - ???, ash fields, rocky volcanoes, and lakes and oceans of magma. Travel deeper into the ocean of lava and the air and sea become hotter and purer as elemental fire.
Air - ???, an endless sky marked by continents and islands that are suspended by updrafts (or a lack of gravity, it's hard to tell which). The higher you climb, the cleaner the air is until you reach the pure blue void of elemental air.
Water - ???, an endless ocean marked on the surface by islands, large rocky reefs that float suspended underwater, but there is no bottom to the ocean. The deeper you swim, the deeper you travel into the endless abyss of water.
Any ideas on what to name these?
The article confirms that the Feywild is the positive energy border plane. I'm going to throw out that nonsense about Ravenloft and use the Shadowfell as the negative border plane. However, that leaves us four planes short.
Positive - The Feywild, an overgrown jungle full of fey creatures, dire animals, and even the vegetation wants to eat you. The more dangerous regions are home to more abstract and strange forms of life, and eventually the jungle gives way to a radiant void of positive energy.
Negative - The Shadowfell, a dark landscape full of vegetation which seems to be dead, but on closer inspection it is found to grow in an unliving mockery of life and seeks to infect the living. Travellers who go deep into the wastes will find the terrain gives way to deep, dark pits that lead into the black void of elemental negative energy.
Earth - ???, massive rocky caves, native vegetation is made of crystal, light is provided by a few large glowing crystals on the ceilings, walls, and floors of the caves. As you travel deeper into the dark, dirt and organic life and open space become sparser until you come to pure elemental earth that can only be traversed by earth gliding.
Fire - ???, ash fields, rocky volcanoes, and lakes and oceans of magma. Travel deeper into the ocean of lava and the air and sea become hotter and purer as elemental fire.
Air - ???, an endless sky marked by continents and islands that are suspended by updrafts (or a lack of gravity, it's hard to tell which). The higher you climb, the cleaner the air is until you reach the pure blue void of elemental air.
Water - ???, an endless ocean marked on the surface by islands, large rocky reefs that float suspended underwater, but there is no bottom to the ocean. The deeper you swim, the deeper you travel into the endless abyss of water.
Any ideas on what to name these?