The Second Cycle

-500,000 YBKC – -9,000 YBKC

As the last embers of the The War of the Races began to go out the Humans began to become the dominant race. In many places they sought to not make the same mistakes which led to the century of devastation, and their interests went to innovation and study as they created great societies. There are some rumors in some circles that there were even those who made spelljamming ships and began to explore the stars...

As the civilizations began to grow, so did the the beasts and monsters... then everything fell apart.

The first rise of D’ierde and now people knew the prophecy of the Dragon That Slumbers was real. Many came together to help defeat the dragon. It did not stop the release of so many other dragons.

The Age Of Explorations. Man begins to mix simple technology with science. A space race happens, leading to SpaceJammer adventures. It also leads to others finding Dierde. Technology begins to get a bit out of hand and it is sabotaged by both sides of the Dark War.

Outside of the Great Library, many of the events from this time are lost to time. There are ruins lost to many and no memory of those who left for space. It was not seen as important to many of the other races (for the most part) and therefore not in many of their histories either.

It is a time of powerful weapons, magic, and other things though that could still have merit for current days.

The Lost Space Race. As the different races sought all types of power and fought various battles they gave power to many of their different gods. Some of these gods found ways to actually enter and as technology advanced for many of the different species there was a great space race as some of the more intelligent and magically-inclined found ways to create spaceships that would leave the planet they called home. With the great need to learn, conquer, and explore they sought new adventures and of course even Geskiedenis used this to send some monks to other planets and places. She had learned from Giae that D’erletztesøhn sought rest to heal from his wounds, he sought great warriors who would ascend to immortality and in that pursuit some would succumb to his side as sacrifices to grant him more power. Geskiedenis and Giae wanted to stay abroad of any signs that would show D’erletztesøhn was getting ready to awake because they knew that would spell the end of their universe. They also sought a way to protect the diversity of life that was evolving on Gaea.

-500,000 YBKC – -200,000 YBKC

The Age of Exploration. Man begins to mix simple technology with science. A space race happens, leading to SpaceJammer adventures. It also leads to others finding Dierde. Technology begins to get a bit out of hand and it is sabotaged by both sides of the Dark War.

Outside of the Great Library, many of the events from this time are lost to time. There are ruins lost to many and no memory of those who left for space. It was not seen as important to many of the other races (for the most part) and therefore not in many of their histories either.

It is a time of powerful weapons, magic, and other things though that could still have merit for current days.

-200,000 YBKC – -100,000 YBKC

The Lost Space Race. As the different races sought all types of power and fought various battles they gave power to many of their different gods. Some of these gods found ways to actually enter and as technology advanced for many of the different species there was a great space race as some of the more intelligent and magically-inclined found ways to create spaceships that would leave the planet they called home. With the great need to learn, conquer, and explore they sought new adventures and of course even Geskiedenis used this to send some monks to other planets and places. She had learned from Gaea that D’erletztesøhn sought rest to heal from his wounds, he sought great warriors who would ascend to immortality and in that pursuit some would succumb to his side as sacrifices to grant him more power. Geskiedenis and Gaea wanted to stay abroad of any signs that would show D’erletztesøhn was getting ready to awake because they knew that would spell the end of their universe. They also sought a way to protect the diversity of life that was evolving on Gaea.

-100,000 YBKC – -10,000 YBKC

The Rise of the Beasts & Monsters. The Rise of the Beasts & Monsters. The end of the exploration age was brought up by the hubris of many and by the rise of monsters. Caused by many factors -- one is that a great device was made to harness the Black Glass and set off a prophecy of awakening the sleeping dragon in Dierde. As he began to awake (just beginning), it created a hollow Earth and monsters began to form which all came out and took over many parts of the Earth. This would all lead to a major explosion and the heralds of the dragon god would break free…

This also opened up some of the evil gods, very much like the “old gods” of the void. They caused much havoc and helped create much of the monsters on the planet. This lasted for 5,000 years and one day. On that final day Gaea was able to take some of the energy that had built up from D’ierde’s rest to banish these old gods. Some were unable to be banished and they were put into deep hibernations in different places. For another 5,000 years and a day the main races slowly built their societies. All while the dragons began to flex their muscles causing havoc and pain. Some were killed, others went to hibernation.

The Third Cycle

-9,000 YBKC – Present Day

As the dragons began to once again take over the lands it would be the rise of the heroes to put them back in place. And as people felt safe enough to explore again, they were hit by war. Many wars took place and things were constantly changing.

Pre-Common Era

The Age of Heroes (and the Second Rise of Immortals). This is the Era where more records are kept and some history may be known by people. Mostly in large cities and scholarly circles, but it is the “ancient history” for this world analogous to our ancient history. The Era ends in great wars that would Lead to the somewhat “peaceful” era of the Common Era.

Now came the time where the Dragon gods and the misplaced gods felt they needed to raise up their heroes. In each culture they found a few heroes, some who join the ranks of immortals. Some of these immortals found ways to escape this universe and others were “eaten” by D’erletztesøhn to feed his needs to come back

Many of the dragons not slain nor in slumber either moved to the Broken Isles and others left the planet to form a forth planet. They tired of the heroes who came to conquer them and Giae was grateful for them leave and so helped grant the necessary magics to create the fourth planet.

The planet that was formed was a big deal in many cultures and led to many myths and other events. As the heroes and immortals rose to great prominence many different societies were formed in different regions and pockets.

This led to

The Age of Exploration. The Age of Exploration is how many of the modern societies began, but it led to

The Age of War. Many wars raged and great kingdoms rose and fell until a Romanesque kingdom began to spread. They allowed other cultures to retain their cultures and all they sought were taxes.

This helped spread the Common Tongue, even though many retained their local dialects. In some regions there sprouted mixed languages, but this allows someone who speaks only Common to have a good chance in conversing with people in almost any region. Almost any.

This mixing of cultures however led to some of the gods taking and collecting different species which they hid inside Hollow Erde.

As the Age of War settled and most cultures were complacent in the taxes, but benefiting off the peace and ability to better study things this led to the Common Era.

5,000 YBKC – 0 YBKC

0 - 1000 KC

The Great Peace.

Commerce was the new thing that really spread and now there was mostly peaceful connection between most societies even though some skirmishes did arise for a variety of reasons. Here is where we stand today in

1000+

1914

The Last Dragon Unsettling

Timeline of The Mighty Menagerie

See also: The Mighty Menagerie, who are now officially called The Wild Cards. - Menagerie: Barlo

• Menagerie: Bastion
• Menagerie: Calliope
• Menagerie: Reginald
• Menagerie: Sas
• Menagerie: Shadow

Major Events

The world seems to need evil just as much as it seems to need good. —Dark Triad motto

The Moons of Dierde

This is a planet with a long unknown history. What is known is a long history of wars, civilization, monsters, and exploration. This region is a continent rife with opportunities for explorers. North-West is a large continent where the Elves dwell, North-East is the hearty Nordish Vikingr, South-West is the wild and dangerous islands where many pirates reside -- only venturing out from time to time to attack ships for supplies and fame. Further West and South of those island chains live all types of creatures and humanoid-animal types. To the East are the vast nations of Dierde. Past those limits much is unknown, and mostly resides in myth and legend.

Krídzjash. This moon goes through its whole cycle in a week. Starting the week as a full moon, meaning it also starts the year as a full moon, it has long been used to track time. For most cultures, the moons have been used more than the Sun to track time. There are stories of a large Dragon or many dragons on or in this moon. It is often given male attributes, especially since many hunter/gathering type societies based their hunts on the week. In some select circles, it is referred to as “D’ermond”, or a similar name. It is the moon of the hunter, the warrior, the fighter, and anyone who must use violence or weapons to attack, defend, or hunt. It is also the moon of neutrality.

Yulíjash. This is often given a female attribute, due to reproductive reasons. It is thought of as a moon with healing and rebirth properties. She has long been used to track the months and is the moon for farmers, healers, priests, and those in the forests. She starts as a full moon and as the month goes on there is the middle day of the month where both she and her brother are absent from the sky. Some have seen various disturbances, changes, and other occurrences more frequently on such midpoint days. By those who have heard of D’ermond they call this moon “D’iestern”. She is the moon of Law.

Rustulítsaíjash. This moon does not follow the Calendar and is off by a day from the year. In the first year of the King’s Calendar, it was a full moon on the first day, which was year 0. It was this event that helped them choose it as the year of the King’s Calendar. This is the moon of wizards, sorcerers, demons, the dark, for chaos. D’iethloki it is called by some. This moon is notable for many reasons and is carefully studied by many occultic scholars.

History

Divine magic

Magic that originated from a spell-granting deity, usually through prayer, was considered divine in nature and called the Power by the common folk. Clerics, druids, paladins, rangers, and others all derived their spells and spell-like-abilities from their deity. A practitioner of the Power had no affinity with the Art, as their spells were planted in their minds directly by their patron deity, and they did not tap the Weave. Casting divine spells was more like an exclamation of faith that brought about a sensation appropriate to the patron deity to whom the faith was devoted.

Arcane magic

Any magic that didn't originate from a deity was defined as arcane magic. The use of arcane magic was referred to in day-to-day speech as the Art, and a wide variety of people were able to practice it, to a small or larger extent, though the way in which they accessed the Weave differed dramatically.

Most wizards spent long years researching their art, gathering spells to their personal book, and each day they could only memorize a small fraction of these. The memory of the spell is wiped from his or her mind as it was cast. The wizard had to re-study the spell before he or she can cast it again, unless more than one casting of the spell in question was prepared. This changed at the conclusion of the Spellplague when the goddess Mystra was reborn, and the casting of magic changed once again with her rebirth. Spells only require preparation once per day and are not forgotten upon casting, meaning that as long as the wizard has spell slots, the spell can be cast repeatedly.

Sorcerers, also known as innatoths, for their innate mastery of the Weave, were not required to research spells. They tapped into the Weave in a more direct manner, but because of this, the selection of spells available to a sorcerer was more limited than those available to a wizard.

Warlocks gained access to their arcane power by forging pacts with supernatural beings of the Realms, such as powerful aberrations from the depths of the Underdark, or even the ancient fey of Evermeet. Even bards of the Realms had access to the Weave to use certain magical abilities. Some, such as assassins and swordmages, could blend their arcane gifts with martial prowess.

Schools Schools of magic, also known as schools of philosophy, were categories into which spells were organized by function. Spells were created by wizards with these schools in mind.

Wizards chose to specialize in spells from a certain school; they focused more effort into these spells than any other, but at the expense of all spells from one or more other schools. These schools of magic had been in existence for ages and their origins were mostly unknown. They were not yet used by the arcanists of Netheril, however, who only distinguished three schools or Fields of Mythal: Inventive, mentalism and variation.

The major schools of magic were:

Schools of Magic PHB 2E Revised The opposing schools of magic and their traditional symbols.

Abjuration : A collection of spells of a protective nature. Transmutation : Formerly also known as alteration, these spells could transform the nature of the physical world or objects in it. Conjuration : This group of spells created or transported people, energy or objects. Divination : This school had fewer spells than others, but allowed the caster to see things that they normally would not be able to. Enchantment : An area of arcane study that specialized in manipulating the minds of others. Evocation/Invocation : Although spells of this school seemingly created effects out of nothing, they drew raw power from out of the Weave. Illusion : This school was almost a secret society prior to the Time of Troubles, even possessing their own language. Their spells were those that fooled the senses. Necromancy : A dichotomous school that wielded positive energy into healing spells, and negative energy to affect both the dead and undead. Universal : A small number of spells were not associated with any school but universally available, even to specialists. Other schools The rarely studied schools of chronomancy and wild magic were special cases, as they contained many spells that can be used only by those specializing in them. The latter was even a school of magic in the discipline of thaumaturgy.

Chronomancy : Spells that used and manipulated time and included time travel. Some schools of magic were unique to certain cultures. These spellcasters of Maztica each used their own selection of exclusive spells, which was somewhat of a cross between a school of magic and a priestly sphere.

Hishna : Talonmagic shaped the dangerous aspects of nature with the help of talismans to dominate and help in warfare. Pluma : Feathermagic used the benevolent aspects of nature, in what were often bird-related spells, for the benefit of communities. Similarly, the mages of Zakhara distributed their spells into the elemental provinces of wind, sand, flame, and sea, as well as the universal province, open to all wizards.

Alternative Systems of Magic Some casters organized arcane spells not into the traditional schools of philosophy, but instead, based on what they produced. These were known as schools of effect:

Dimensional: Mages known as dimensionalists employed space, time and the planes for their purposes. Elemental: Spellcasters that worked in this school of effect, known as elementalists, specialized in spells of one of the four elemental schools of air, earth, fire, and water. Force: This school concentrated on constructs of and manipulation of energy into cohesive, tangible effects. A specialist in this school was known as a "force mage". Incantation: This magic specialized in spells that affected magic itself. A practitioner of this school was known as Incantatrix. Shadow: Practitioners of this school, which was also known as talfirian magic, used twilight, darkness and forces from the Plane of Shadow. Followers of path magic did not recognize schools of magic, but specialized in paths of power, much smaller selections of spells of increasing power unified by a single topic.

Thaumaturgy The schools of thaumaturgy not only put spells into categories different from the traditional schools, but used alternative ways to access magical energy:

Artifice: This school taught the use of substances and magical items to channel magic. Geometry: To channel magic, this school used diagrams, symbols and complex geometric patterns. Song: Any spell that required singing or command of the voice belonged to this school of thaumaturgy. Wild magic: A school whose spells tapped into raw magic, with powerful but often chaotic results. Raw magic Raw magic was a powerful force, locked within all matter, that was difficult and dangerous for even the most patient of mortals to wield.

Mana: Also referred as "spell power", this form of raw magic appeared as a golden light and was gathered through meditation. Spellfire: This rare, supernatural-arcane ability was refined and controlled raw magic, drawing the living energy from diverse sources throughout the world. This manifested in a variety of ways, such as destructive silver bolts, healing radiance of silver light or white-hot jet of consuming energy. It was believed to uniquely manifest in a single person once per generation, granting the wielder magnificent feats capable of great magical transference or absolute mass destruction. Wild magic: Areas where the weave had been badly damaged during the Time of Troubles, which produced wild magic effects, were scattered sporadically throughout Toril, similarly to dead-magic zones. They caused spells and spell-like abilities cast within their borders to exhibit random complications like spell failure, effects rebounding back to the caster, or random creatures being assigned as a spell's target, among others. Study of these effects inspired the development of a thaumaturgical school of magic. Weird Magic The magic of hags was often described by other creatures as "weird magic", being mistaken as a distinct form that didn't follow the normal rules of magic. In actuality, hags simply called upon the Weave in ways that were different from others.

Weird magic took on a multitude of forms with various means of activation, all of which were strange and unusual to other creatures. Each hag spent her life time developing her weird magic. Because of this individualized nature to weird magic, it was impossible to predict what a hag was capable of. And because hags carefully shepherded their use of weird magic, it was often impossible to duplicate or replace the magic items they created.

High magic Main article: Elven high magic This ancient form of magic, Arselu'Tel'Quess in elven, meaning the Great Art of the People, went far and beyond normal spellcasting, often affecting massive areas and vast populations of their kind. It was an incredibly rare type of magic to learn, required decades of study and research and was only taught to a select few of their kin. A single spell, or ritual, required anywhere from a single to dozens of mages casting a spell over the course of days.

Mythals One of the more widely-known uses of Elven High Magic was the ritual used in the creation of mythals, such as the one that protected the ruined city of Myth Drannor.

Shadow Weave The Shadow Weave was a source of magic, alternate to the Weave, that in a way, occupied its negative space. It was created by the goddess Shar as a response to the birth of Mystra. This source of arcane power was not without its advantages; it was immune to disruptions of the Weave, such as areas of wild magic or dead magic. However, as it was still a source of magic itself, antimagic effects would still nullify any spells cast by those who tapped into the Shadow Weave, such as the Shadow adepts.

Spellcasters accessing the Shadow Weave were bolstered when using spells from the necromancy, illusion and enchantment schools of magic but experienced weakened effects with evocation and transmutation spells. While magic from the Shadow Weave was evocative of shadow magic, they were in fact unrelated.

Psionics Unlike traditional arcane arts that tapped into the Weave, or that which accessed the Shadow Weave, psionics was a manifestation of magic came from the inner life force of their practitioners, known as psions. Also known as the invisible art, psionic abilities appeared in only a select few, but were more common among certain races such as illithids, yuan-ti and even the ghostwise halflings.

The collective psionic powers were broken down into 6 disciplines, analogous to the philosophical schools of arcane magic. Scions were capable of crafting magical items through a process known as empowerment.

Elemental Magic Main article: Elemental magic A form of magic that revolved around the elements. Unlike psionics, arcane magic, and divine magic — which all accessed and manipulated elemental power — in this system of magic, spells were driven by elemental power.

Casting Alena-dubrovina-elminster-spellcasting Elminster Aumar mid-casting a fire-based spell.

Preparation Arcane spellcasters copied all of their known spells into what was an invaluable item to them, their spellbook. These often included personal notes and specifications from the mages, and their own personal mage sigil. Before they slept for the night, or otherwise rested for an extended period, they would prepare certain spells from their book for use for the next day, or at least until their next rest. These books went by other names such as arcanabulae, a workbook used by mages during travel, and grimoires, large, often disproportional anthologies of magic.

Arcane casters from certain wizard guilds could also often access magical reservoirs known as spellpools. These locations allowed casters, who had been granted access, to swap one known spell for another that had been placed within the pool, albeit at the cost of one of their own. The circle magic extensively used by the Red Wizards of Thay and the Witches of Rashemen allowed groups cooperating spellcasters to grant extraordinary powers to a leading wizard.

Divine casters were required to pray to their patron deity for access to the power of their spells. The time of day of these prayers would typically be at dawn, noon, dusk or at midnight, depending on the deity. For example, priests of Ilmater prayed for their spells in the morning, while the clergy of Waukeen prayed just before sundown.

Components The casting of both arcane and divine spells required certain components. Some spells only needed one or two, while others required all three:

Verbal component: Many spells required the caster to speak certain words, or, in the case of a bard, create music, to cast a spell. Being prevented from speaking, such as being gagged or magically silenced, made it impossible for a caster to cast such a spell. A deafened caster could fail when casting a spell, by misspeaking, which caused the spell to be lost. Somatic component: Many spells required the caster to make a motion to cast the spell. If the caster was immobilized or otherwise unable to move their hands or body, the spell could not be cast. Wearing armor or using a shield interfered with the somatic components of arcane spells, creating a risk of spell failure. Some casters, like bards, could cast spells in light armor without this risk. Material components: Casting a spell often requires that the caster sacrifice some sort of material component. While often these were virtually worthless, some spells, such as spells to raise the dead, required material components costing thousands of gold pieces. If a caster is unable to access or use the correct spell component, the spell cannot be cast. As the spell was cast, the material components were destroyed and were not reusable in any way. Magical focus: Alternatively, casting a spell could require that the caster have access to a holy symbol or other special object, to focus on when casting the spell; after which they were not damaged and could be reused. This was required more often in the casting of divine spells. Magic items Main article: Item enchantment The power and energy of both arcane and divine spells could also be imbued into items. Many items shared similar effects to the point where they were named, such as blueshine or everbright armor, while others, such as the longsword Namarra, had unique properties. The most powerful magical items, typically created by archmages, liches or even the gods themselves were known as artifacts and relics. The main difference between the two being the significance of the latter to a particular faith or holy sect. Most magical items drew upon power from alternative planes of existence.

Creation Although there could be a dozen different ways to create the same magical item, the crafting process generally followed the same steps:

Design:The crafter planned out the form and function of their item and prepared their focal stones. Primary casting: The energy of spells, from which the item would draw its properties, were linked to the stones via the casting of specific spells. Shell creation: The non-magical components of the item were prepared, usually made from select woods and metals, and then magically joined together, if multiple substances were used. Enstarment: Spells were used to allow a prepared shell to accept magical energy. Mastering: The focal stones, holding the energy of cast spells, were joined with the prepared shell in a time-sensitive stage of the process that determined whether the item came out successful or otherwise. Rune magic This form of magical writing, similar to the process of inscribing scrolls, originated from the shield dwarves of the north. Symbols of the Dwarven written language of Dethek, were painted, drawn or engraved on a surface and imbued with a spell's magical energy.

After a runestone, or other rune-inscribed surface, was imbued with magic it would be triggered by touch. Unlike glyphs of warding they were not magically concealed at all.

Gem magic Similar to how a gemstone could be imbued with the energy of a spell to create a focal stone, a gem could be attuned to receive the same magical energy, to store it for release later on. A practitioner of this long-since-lost art could imbue a gem with the effects of a spell, affix it to another item, say the pommel of a sword or end of a staff, and in the willful process of destroying the gem, release the spell's effects.

Other items created with these attuned gems, known as gem wards, could be harmlessly handled until their wielder chose to trigger their effects. These preservative items tended to be enchanted with protective magics.

Portals Main article: Portal While capable of travelling vast distances across Toril, or even to other planes of existence, portals were simply just a permanent teleportation effect (akin to the spell teleport without error). For a magical means of conveyance, they were particularly durable, often remaining for centuries or millennia after their creation.

Portals came in a number of varieties including, keyed portals, which required a specific trigger to activate, portal networks, where one portal entrance had multiple destinations, elfgates to the island of Evermeet and the elemental vortices that permanently connected Toril to the four elemental planes, among others.

Magic locations The world of Toril was abundant with places of magical power, both natural in origin and artificially created. Some could hamper the magical powers of spellcasters within while others would amplify their abilities.

Fey crossroads: These magical archways, well known to fey creatures, druids and some bards alike, granted access across Toril via the Feywild. They functioned very much like portals, but were protected by guardians. Earth node: Geological anomalies where streams of arcane energy crossed one another. They were often linked to particular rituals, granted boons to spellcasters in a manner similar to a spark and could be used as if it were a permanent teleportation circle. Earthmotes: These floating patches of land were a result of the geographical shifts between Toril and Abeir in 1386 DR, following the Spellplague. Fey mounds: Hidden within the deep, untouched locales of nature, these were the communal burial sites of fey creatures such as dryads, pixies, satyrs, and others. As generations of fey were interred and had decomposed within the same barrow, the ground became hallowed (as per the spell) and radiated magical energy that promoted growth of flora, caused hallucinatory effects, induced sleep and even put creatures under a geas. Mystic maelstrom: Also known as mystic whirlpools, these naturally-occurring areas put anyone within their radius under the effects of Dispel magic and antimagic field. Spark: These phenomena would greatly magnify the effects of any spell cast therein. As such, knowledge of their locations were well-kept secrets. When rumors of a newly-discovered spark did arise, wizards would flock to its location for an opportunity of increased magical power.

Nature of the Weave

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Thus comes the question: what is the Weave? It is an essential element of the universe. It runs through everything in unseen threads. It is what makes magic possible. [...] The Weave isn't magic, precisely. Rather, it is the raw material from which magic is woven, not entirely unlike how a collection of threads is shaped and formed into a garment.

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— Excerpt from Magic of the Weave - An Introduction.

The Weave was considered many things, including Mystra's body, the source of magic, all the studies of casters, arcane and divine alike, and the many energies and forces that existed around the planes. Many saw it as a "fabric" on which magic was "drawn", and damaging the fabric caused magic to go awry. Preparing a spell was a means by which a small amount of the Weave could be "contained" and transported for a specific effect, while the casting of a spell was equivalent to telling the Weave to rearrange itself to create the effect.

Importantly, the Weave was not magic itself, but rather a force by which its flows could be channeled, and a means by which magic could be understood and harnessed. In the years after the Spellplague, the term Weave also became a synonym of the use of magic, although this was not true either. Other systems for calling upon magic had always existed within the Realms, but the Weave was by far the most commonly used, thoroughly refined and best understood.

The Weave was also linked to fate, and a rare few individuals could manipulate such connection to alter the future to their advantage. However, usually the Weave punished those who used "her" in such a way.

Spellfire was the raw magical energy of the Weave. Some people had the rare talent to manipulate this underlying energy directly, producing many magical effects. Silver fire was a similar ability granted by Mystra only to the Chosen of Mystra that enabled its users to envelop themselves in silvery white flames that bestowed many potent magical powers.

Some textbooks deliberately falsified the nature of the Weave, as an attempt to limit the knowledge associated with spellcasting. One book that correctly outlined the nature of the Weave was Magic of the Weave, although its wizard author demonstrated a clear bias towards his own form of spellcasting.

The relationship between Mystra and the Weave was roughly analogous to different parts of a body, Mystra being the brain that has degrees of control over the heart that is the Weave.

The Weave Across Reality

The Weave did not extend across all reality. For example, it did not exist on Abeir, making casting magic in that world more difficult than in Toril. At the same time, many other worlds and planes have Weaves of magic, yet they are not the same as the Weave of Toril and Realmspace. Other realms had their own natural cycles of energy and magic, and thus their own Weaves.

Weave-based spellcraft functioned even on worlds with a Weave different to the caster's own. Every mortal spellcaster or magic-item wielder called upon tiny amounts of their original Weave stored within themselves or their items, and could do so until they exhausted that power source. Afterwards, a caster on another plane of existence (such as the Outer Planes), would have to regain their spells and other magical energies by calling on the Weave of their current plane to power them.

The spells gained from different Weaves could have subtle differences, even if cast on one's plane of origin or if carried to another plane and cast there. For example, when working with the Weave of Avernus, first of the Nine Hells, spells that conjure hands, like mage hand or bigby's hand, might instead create fiendish claws; spells that find things, like find familiar or find the path, may call forth an imp to do the desired tasks; and telepathic communication may be accompanied by vague whispers and the feeling of being watched, whether or not an archdevil or other infernal presence is listening in.

Spellplague

Because Mystra (and formerly Mystryl) was inextricably bound to the Weave (one cannot exist without the other), when Mystra was assassinated by Cyric and Shar on Tarsakh 29 1385 DR, the Weave collapsed and initiated the Spellplague. Henceforth, it presented itself as scraps of burning crystal tumbling through an endless void. With the death of Mystra, Shar was unable to maintain the Shadow Weave and it collapsed as well.

In 1479 DR it was revealed that Mystra foresaw her own fall and let it happen because the Weave was growing more and more unstable, and needed to be renewed as part of a cycle fated to repeat again and again. In 1487 DR the Weave was almost repaired to its former state.

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Dead Magic Zones

Dead magic zones were places where the Weave was no longer in existence. Both it and its boundaries could be detected in the same way a wild magic zone could, but from outside the zone. Unlike wild magic zones, most casters innately knew when they've stepped into a dead magic zone. A dead magic zone could only be fixed with a wish spell or silver fire.

Everywhere but Evermeet

When the elves caused the First Sundering, they did almost destroy everything, which the timely intervention of the Seldarine limited to the destruction of a continent.

Alongside sundering the continent of Faerûn, they ripped the Weave in an irrecoverable manner beyond its self-repairing capabilities with the parts in Evermeet being the only whole parts of it, turning it into the only normal Weave to exist, and thus causing no abnormalities to exist on that island.

According to Corellon Larethian, the elves robbed themselves of the ability to cast true elven high magic outside of Evermeet and people such as the Grand Master Laeroth Runemaster suspected in the 13th century DR, that their ancestors did indeed destroy the entire elven race's special connection to the Weave when they caused the disaster.

Shadow Magic

Certain practitioners of shadow magic could create a form of "dimensional twisting" from shadowstuff. By creating a barrier in this manner, a shadow mage could prevent anyone from passing through a designated area, and cut off access to the Weave for anyone within.

Wild Magic Zones

In wild magic zones, a spell could backfire upon its caster, target the wrong location, be dramatically increased in power, or many other things. A wild magic zone and its parameters could be detected using a detect magic spell. A caster could temporarily fix a wild magic zone with any dispel or permanently fix it using a wish spell.

Cosmic disasters like the Time of Troubles caused the emergence of severe wild magic zones after the Weave was heavily damaged. After the Time of Troubles, most wild magic zone disappeared but some remained.

Another source of wild magic zones were the artificial distortions of the Weave called mythals. Apart from decay due to neglected maintenance, events such as the Fall of Netheril or the Time of Troubles damaged them. The damage turned these corrupted mythals into - even by wild magic standards - unpredictable wild magic zones.

Weave whispers

Weave whispers were echoes of utterances, repeated as a byproduct of uncontrolled magic.

Contents

• 1 Nature of the Weave - 1.1 Special Practitioners

• 2 The Weave Across Reality

• 3 History - 3.1 Spellplague

• 4 Phenomena - 4.1 Dead Magic Zones

  • 4.2 Everywhere but Evermeet
  • 4.3 Shadow Magic
  • 4.4 Wild Magic Zones
  • 4.5 Weave whispers

• 5 Appendix - 5.1 See Also

  • 5.2 Appearances
  • 5.3 References

Nature of the Weave[]

“

Thus comes the question: what is the Weave? It is an essential element of the universe. It runs through everything in unseen threads. It is what makes magic possible. [...] The Weave isn't magic, precisely. Rather, it is the raw material from which magic is woven, not entirely unlike how a collection of threads is shaped and formed into a garment.

”

— Excerpt from Magic of the Weave - An Introduction.^[3]

The Weave was considered many things, including Mystra's body, the source of magic, all the studies of casters, arcane and divine alike, and the many energies and forces that existed around the planes. Many saw it as a "fabric" on which magic was "drawn", and damaging the fabric caused magic to go awry.^[2] Preparing a spell was a means by which a small amount of the Weave could be "contained" and transported for a specific effect,^[4] while the casting of a spell was equivalent to telling the Weave to rearrange itself to create the effect.^[2]

Importantly, the Weave was not magic itself, but rather a force by which its flows could be channeled, and a means by which magic could be understood and harnessed.^[4][5] In the years after the Spellplague, the term Weave also became a synonym of the use of magic,^[1] although this was not true either. Other systems for calling upon magic had always existed within the Realms, but the Weave was by far the most commonly used, thoroughly refined and best understood.^[6]

The Weave was also linked to fate, and a rare few individuals could manipulate such connection to alter the future to their advantage. However, usually the Weave punished those who used "her" in such a way.^[7]

Spellfire was the raw magical energy of the Weave. Some people had the rare talent to manipulate this underlying energy directly, producing many magical effects. Silver fire was a similar ability granted by Mystra only to the Chosen of Mystra that enabled its users to envelop themselves in silvery white flames that bestowed many potent magical powers.^[8]

Some textbooks deliberately falsified the nature of the Weave, as an attempt to limit the knowledge associated with spellcasting.^[9] One book that correctly outlined the nature of the Weave was Magic of the Weave, although its wizard author demonstrated a clear bias towards his own form of spellcasting.^[3]

The relationship between Mystra and the Weave was roughly analogous to different parts of a body, Mystra being the brain that has degrees of control over the heart that is the Weave.^[10]

The Weave Across Reality[]

The Weave did not extend across all reality. For example, it did not exist on Abeir, making casting magic in that world more difficult than in Toril.^[12] At the same time, many other worlds and planes have Weaves of magic, yet they are not the same as the Weave of Toril and Realmspace. Other realms had their own natural cycles of energy and magic, and thus their own Weaves.^[10]

Weave-based spellcraft functioned even on worlds with a Weave different to the caster's own. Every mortal spellcaster or magic-item wielder called upon tiny amounts of their original Weave stored within themselves or their items, and could do so until they exhausted that power source. Afterwards, a caster on another plane of existence (such as the Outer Planes), would have to regain their spells and other magical energies by calling on the Weave of their current plane to power them.^[10]

The spells gained from different Weaves could have subtle differences, even if cast on one's plane of origin or if carried to another plane and cast there.^[10] For example, when working with the Weave of Avernus, first of the Nine Hells, spells that conjure hands, like mage hand or bigby's hand, might instead create fiendish claws; spells that find things, like find familiar or find the path, may call forth an imp to do the desired tasks; and telepathic communication may be accompanied by vague whispers and the feeling of being watched, whether or not an archdevil or other infernal presence is listening in.^[13]

The Weave of Realmspace could be brought into other planes, such as by Mystra (who was the Weave) entering a given plane herself. In this case the Torillian Weave would be present, but as an aura enfolded tightly around the goddess unable to operate reliably beyond her. The Chosen of Mystra were also known to carry their own tiny cycle of the Weave within themselves, which they could send parts of throughout the planes of existence to rejoin the "parent Weave". These small parts of the Weave hold the potential to be "tainted" by extraplanar influences, and thus permanently lost to Mystra. More dangerous is the possibility that insidious influences could be implanted in the wayward cycles of magic, through which the masters of other planes could influence the Weave.^[10]

There is also the broader issue of instability that comes when two Weaves meet, for the resultant clashing can open planar rifts. The violent collision between and roiling mixing of the energy flows of two planes causes wild magic to be ever-present. Similarly spread across the planes will be the tendency of the fabrics of both to try and knit themselves back together and seal the breach, usually after many elements and creatures from both have "leaked" into the other.^[10]

History[]

Eushia (Hwomdyaolrá)

This continent is a large island which has always been very independent, even during the years of The Great King. They were one of the very first to be blatant in how they no longer considered themselves of the “Kingdom” after the king died.

The westside of the continent is settled by many various races and cultures, with the east being avoided by most except the more “monster-kin” of species such as Bugbears, Hobgoblins, Orcs, Goblins, and others. Most of the roads are generally safe, but there are occasionally bandits who find stretches to attack and raid. There are also ocean raids during certain times of year against the more northern and southern settlements. The Free Lords’ Alliance has been growing in power since the fall of the king seeking to help stave off such dangers.

The most notable trading city is Neyer (aka Neyerswinter) on the westside. It is not raided, but has other dangers it faces. Many of the various nations trust the artisans and mints of Neyer for minting new coinage and it is a great trading center for most anything. The continent does have a large mountain range where gnomes and dwarfs live as well as many monsters who reside on the continent. The west side of the continent is mostly civilized with Neyer as the Jewel of the North and a bustling market center. Near the center are tall mountains that house many dwarves and gnomes who mine for metals, stone, and precious gems to sell and trade for other goods and services. There is a colony of Dark Elves who also reside there. On the other side of the mountains are various tribes of monsters who do tend to seek resources from time to time. There have been incidents in the past where the monsters have overtaken major areas and there have been times where the civilized folk have beat back the monsters. The cost to eradicate all the monsters is just not feasible, and so it is pretty stable right now.

Kampos (Gir)

A land of mystery where many animal humanoids reside. Other societies also live here, and they do trade and interact with other societies. There are some trade centers on the West coast, but the further East that one travels they get into uncharted lands. Past the Eastern villages and trading posts there is very little known for certain outside of rumors and myths. The most notable location is Wideberth on the west coast which is a major trading port. Off the coast is Oth’Mar, an island nation settled by Tortles. More inland the continent is a sprawling rainforest. A large network of Tabaxi and Leonin nations are around the North side with a loose affiliation to the Majestic Empire of Enond. A notable nation of Leonin reside in a grand city called Forlione, the Kingdom of Lights and there is a nomadic tribe of Tabaxi in the Shadowed Highlands which treats the world as a grand adventure.

There are many great resources to be found by those willing to work as the Bronze Canyon continue to find all types of metals and gems in their mines. Near the center of the continent is the Skola Vale and the Village in that area has a unique connection to the Feywlid. They export some uniqe woods, herbs, and other items sought after by many around the world. There are many mines for precious metals and stones in this area as well. Most of these places are in the Dark Rain Forest which gets a magic influx with its unique Feywlid connection from Skola Vale.

Carrune (Yulílvz)

This chain of islands is the home of many a pirate. As trade routes go between Kampos and Eushia, and other lands they must go near here and every past event to rid the islands has failed. The Main Trading Mar is north of the islands and is generally safe, but the pirates find many ways to lead ships into their islands. It is also known as Thousand Isles these jungle-filled islands and beautiful beaches also are home to many various pirate cultures and encampments. Generally in an effort to attack traders who may drift too far from Eushia or those coming and going from Kampos The East is full of very dangerous reefs that come up from the water. There is an underwater society under those reefs and they do have some trade with the land walkers, as well as some past aggression.

South of these islands is Lost Sailor Pass which leads to Outding Refuge before the Straits of Madness. Outding Refuge was a small trading port, especially for adventurers seeking fame and glory to the south in the less established lands. Around the year 2020 there was a large magic research facility established by the leader of this island, Lars Heyton.

Hyulla-Putyor (Kyeft)

Aka, the Green Isle. The home of the Elves, non-Elf races are only allowed on the SouthEast coast with very few exclusions. There have been stories about some smaller Elf societies to the Northwest with the bulk of the Elven societies living in the thick jungles and mountains. There are many mixed settlements around the south that use the Trade Mar to trade all matter of things on and off this large nation. The Elven Nations here have a Royal Council that speaks for them on world matters. The Royal Council was meant to be a temporary situation, but the heir to the last queen was never found, but if one is ever found the nation is sworn to bow before them.

It is said that this continent, or at least part of it, is actually a part of Arvandor, a realm in the first layer of the Outer Plane of Arborea. It was the home and shared divine realm of most of the Seldarine (Elven Pantheon, Elvish for “fellowship of brothers and sisters of the wood”). The continent seems to be in a state of coexistence between the Prime, the Feywild, and Arvandor. The nation has a long history of staving off attacks, but not in a long time as it has a very powerful navy and military which has scared off any potential attackers as well as a few aerial forces that have aided in keeping attackers at bay.

Locations

Inner Planes

• The Prime Material Plane

Standard Languages

Exotic Languages

From URSPEECh to Supernal

Starts with URSPEECH, the progenitor. That leads to the “Words of Creation”, fragments of this language that will be known as the SUPERNAL and is the ultimate language of all the most powerful gods.

SUPERNAL was a language of the gods. It was a universal language, understandable by any sentient mind (which heard the words as if they were spoken in its own languages).

The gods shared the SUPERNAL language with their servants, the angels, and devils spoke a version of it as well. Mortals were unable to learn the language completely, so the words of creation lacked power, and they were unable to use SUPERNAL to make themselves understood by those who spoke only other languages.

When the gods created the races of the world, each race heard the SUPERNAL language in a different way, based on fundamental characteristics of their nature. From those distinct ways of hearing, the foundational languages of the world arose—Common for humans and halflings, Elven for elves and eladrin, Goblin for the goblin races, Dwarven for the dwarves, and Draconic for dragons.

The primordials had their own language with none of the special qualities of SUPERNAL. The titans and giants adopted a debased version of this language for their own tongue, and Abyssal is a form of PRIMORDIAL warped and twisted by the evil at the heart of the Abyss.

Strangely, despite being neither CELESTIAL nor infernal, astral dreadnoughts were capable of understanding and/or speaking the language.

SUPERNAL had its own hieroglyphic script.

As the gods spoke in SUPERNAL, they caused other species to form their own languages as the listeners heard what they understood and that was the basis of their languages, in the beginning. The closest any non-god can do is to study the CELESTIAL language which is the common form of the SUPERNAL.

The Great Ring and the Outer Planes

The Great Ring was historically known as a complex, diverse location where the beliefs of countless peoples, worlds, and pantheons converged. Its structure is defined predominantly by the polar forces of Order, Chaos, Good, and Evil. Many powerful beings and demigods from disparate origins historically established alliances and rivalries here.

The actual term "Great Ring" or "Outer Ring" refers specifically to the outermost layer of planes, which are shaped by these fundamental moral and ethical principles. The cosmology as a whole, before the long-forgotten alternatives were developed, was simply referred to as "The Planes" or "The Multiverse."

Basic Structure

The Great Ring Cosmology consists of a series of concentric spheres and layers, radiating outward from the central worlds:

1. The Prime Material Planes (The Worlds): At the center, these planes hold the physical worlds, including Dierde. Each world exists within its own protective Crystal Sphere filled with a non-elemental, flammable ether (historically called Phlogiston).
2. The Transitive Planes: These layers connect the various realms and allow for interplanar travel. They consist of:
   • The Ethereal Planes: Misty, quasi-material realms that touch the Prime Material Planes and the Inner Planes.
   • The Astral Plane: A silvery, void-like realm that connects all the Prime Material Planes to each other (bypassing the Phlogiston) and to the Outer Planes.
3. The Inner Planes (The Elemental Planes): Located outside the Ethereal, these are the realms of pure energy and matter.
4. The Outer Planes (The Great Ring): The outermost sphere, surrounding a neutral core.

The Inner Planes

The Inner Planes, or Elemental Planes, possess their own spherical structure:

• Major Elements: Six primary planes: Fire, Earth, Water, Air, Pure Positive Energy, and Pure Negative Energy. These are arranged with Positive Energy at the "North Pole," Negative Energy at the "South Pole," and Fire, Earth, Water, and Air equidistant around the "Equator."
• Para-Elemental Planes: Four planes found at the boundaries between the four equatorial elements (e.g., Magma between Fire and Earth; Ice between Air and Water).
• Quasi-Elemental Planes: Eight planes found at the boundaries between the four equatorial elements and the two polar energies (e.g., Steam between Positive Energy and Water; Vacuum between Negative Energy and Air).

The Inner Planes are surrounded by the Ethereal Planes, which facilitate connection to the Prime Material Worlds.

The Ethereal Planes (Transitive)

Each Prime Material Plane possesses its own Ethereal Plane, a misty, proto-material realm.

• Ethereal Matter: Nothing in the Ethereal is truly solid; all objects and beings (flesh, metal, stone) become their ethereal counterparts.
• Border Ethereal: This is the area of gradual transition where the Ethereal Plane meets its adjacent Prime Material Plane. A creature in the Border Ethereal is typically invisible to the Prime Material world but can dimly perceive it, much like standing in the surf near a shore. Travel along this border allows one to re-enter the Prime at a distant location.
• Deep Ethereal: Moving away from the Border Ethereal leads to the Deep Ethereal. A curtain of vaporous color marks the boundary between the Border and Deep Ethereal of different planes. Traveling across the Deep Ethereal and finding the curtain of the correct color allows passage to the Border Ethereal of the desired destination plane.
• Movement: Gravity provides a sense of up and down, but movement in any direction is easy, and released objects hover.
• Demiplanes: These are realms of finite extent found within the Ethereal. They may be created by natural fluctuations of the proto-matter, or by the actions of powerful mages or cosmic beings. Known demirealms included those of Shadow, Time, and Energy Flux, and some may eventually collapse or merge with other planes.

That’s a comprehensive description of the Astral and Outer Planes. To separate the cosmology of Dierde from copyrighted material, I will rewrite the names of the planes and remove specific deity, character, and location names while retaining the core concept, structure, and alignment of each plane.

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The Astral Void (Transitive Plane)

The Astral Plane is described as an infinite void of silvery nothingness (the Astral Void). It is interrupted only by occasional material remnants (small islands broken off from their native planes) and rare, rotating conduits of planar energy (sometimes called gates or wormholes).

• Function: The Astral Void connects all Prime Material Planes to each other, bypassing the Phlogiston (the ether between worlds), and connects them to the first layers of all the Outer Planes.
• Travel: Transit is typically achieved through magic, psionics, or specific devices. This often involves the traveler's consciousness and spirit leaving the physical body, forming an astral self. A nearly unbreakable silver cord connects the astral self back to the physical body until the destination is reached.
• Arrival: Upon reaching another plane, a new physical form spontaneously manifests from the local planar materials.
• Wormholes: These conduits link specific, fixed locations in the Prime Material Planes to fixed points in the Outer Planes. While much faster, they are significantly more dangerous, as the traveler's physical body is transported directly to a potentially hostile or guarded terminus.

The Outer Planes (The Great Ring)

The Outer Planes are organized strictly according to alignment, and this structure is best visualized as a wheel or ring with spokes radiating from the central hub of true neutrality (The Nexus/Central Plane).

• Upper Planes (Good): Found on the Good axis.
• Lower Planes (Evil): Found on the Evil axis.
• Planes of Order (Law): Found on the Law axis.
• Planes of Chaos (Chaos): Found on the Chaos axis.

Many of these planes are layered, consisting of infinite sub-regions that metaphysically overlap the other layers of the same plane.

The Upper Planes (Good Alignment)

The Chaotic Sector

The Evil Sector

The Lawful Evil Sector

The True Neutral Sector

The Major Elemental Planes

The Energy Planes

The Para-Elemental Planes

These planes exist at the intersections of the four equatorial elements.

The Plane of High Voltage (Lightning)

• Location: Intersection of Positive Energy and Air.
• Description: Also called the Plane of Storms. At the border with Air, a perpetual thunderstorm rages, with a constant barrage of lightning bolts and ball lightning. The atmosphere is filled with the sharp tang of ozone and a deafening cacophony.
• Features: All forms of powerful electrical discharge are present. At the border with Positive Energy stands a great, mysterious Pylon of Storms, a gateway leading into a torrent of raw electrical power emanating from a wall of pure, blinding brilliance.
• Boundaries: It touches the planes of Positive Energy, Air, Radiance, Smoke, Steam, and Ice.

The Plane of Crystalline Light (Radiance)

• Location: Intersection of Positive Energy and Fire.
• Description: This is where fire burns at its brightest and hottest, exhibiting every color of combustion in a dazzling display. The light becomes sharper and more crystalline toward the Positive Energy border, blending into an eye-searing, coruscating whiteness.
• Danger: Extreme heat precautions are necessary, and travelers must use heavy eye protection to prevent permanent blindness.
• Features: Near the border stands a Tower of Blue Fire, rumored to be a place of potent healing.
• Boundaries: It touches the planes of Positive Energy, Fire, Lightning, Smoke, Minerals, and Magma.

The Plane of Raw Wealth (Minerals)

• Location: Intersection of Positive Energy and Earth.
• Description: The entropy-fighting influence of Positive Energy causes the surrounding rock to be permeated by growing veins of crystal and metal-bearing ore. All manner of gems and metals aggregate in their pure forms, lacing the rock.
• Danger: The greatest risk is fossilization; the forces acting on the minerals may turn a non-native being to stone, crystal, or gold-veined granite. Magical protection from petrification does not prevent this transformation. Furthermore, crystalline structures formed here are highly likely to shatter upon transport to a world with normal gravity.
• Features: Near the border stands a structure known as the Tower of the Great Forge, rumored to contain the most magnificent workshop in the multiverse.
• Boundaries: It touches the planes of Positive Energy, Earth, Radiance, Magma, Steam, and Ooze.

The Plane of Warm Mist (Steam)

• Location: Intersection of Positive Energy and Water.
• Description: The temperature varies from cool to near boiling, creating conditions for all varieties of mist, fog, and vapor. The plane is suffused with a soft glow that becomes a brilliant glare at the Positive Energy border.
• Danger: While the most hospitable of the Positive Quasi-Elemental planes, air-breathing creatures find it difficult to get sufficient oxygen from the humid water vapor, resulting in a slowed, labored feeling.
• Features: Near the border is the curiously named Tower of the Glacial Heart, sometimes used as an alchemical laboratory.
• Boundaries: It touches the planes of Positive Energy, Water, Minerals, Ooze, Lightning, and Ice.

This is a fascinating and complex creation myth and world history! You have masterfully woven together elements of cosmology, deity conflicts, lost civilizations, and the overarching threat of a slumbering Dragon God, all while replacing copyrighted material.

Here is the final part of your world primer, covering the Negative Quasi-Elemental Planes, the overall organization, and the rewritten introductory content, using neutral terms and maintaining the cosmic scale of the lore you've established.

The Plane of Vacuum

• Location: Intersection of Negative Energy and Air.
• Description: A realm of absolute, freezing void, devoid of air or breath. It is a chilling expanse of blackness.
• Danger: Travelers cannot breathe and suffer immense cold damage. Any form of fire or light is instantly extinguished or absorbed, leaving only absolute darkness.
• Boundaries: It touches the planes of Negative Energy, Air, Ash, Smoke, Salt, and Ice.

The Plane of Ash

• Location: Intersection of Negative Energy and Fire.
• Description: A cold, lightless place filled with endless clouds of fine, corrosive soot and ash. All heat is aggressively drawn out.
• Danger: Unprotected matter crumbles to dust and is carried away by the cold currents. The dust irritates flesh and lungs, and the planar energy rapidly drains all heat and vitality.
• Boundaries: It touches the planes of Negative Energy, Fire, Vacuum, Smoke, Dust, and Magma.

The Plane of Dust

• Location: Intersection of Negative Energy and Earth.
• Description: This realm is composed of endless, gritty, ultra-fine dust and sand, which is constantly agitated by unseen forces. It is dark, dry, and cold.
• Danger: The primary danger is desiccation and suffocation from the omnipresent fine particulates. Unprotected matter slowly erodes, feeding the dust.
• Boundaries: It touches the planes of Negative Energy, Earth, Ash, Magma, Salt, and Ooze.

The Plane of Salt

• Location: Intersection of Negative Energy and Water.
• Description: An infinite ocean of intensely concentrated, chilling salt water that actively sucks the moisture out of living organisms. It is extremely dark and cold.
• Danger: The intense salinity and negative energy draw all water from a traveler's body, causing rapid desiccation and severe pain.
• Boundaries: It touches the planes of Negative Energy, Water, Dust, Ooze, Vacuum, and Ice.

Precise Overview

Conspectus

Introduction: Dierde

Dierde is a world of adventure, full of possibilities for those brave enough to explore it. For the inhabitants, however, it is a world of survival—whether navigating the treacherous social landscape of a large city or facing the countless dangers of the wilderness.

Many factions and individuals seek power, and history has shown that such pursuits can only be stopped by those willing to stand against them. Currently, the world seems to be in a state of relative peace, as no major outright wars are taking place. While regional conflicts occasionally flare up, the powerful factions operating in the shadows understand that massive war risks their profits and power, so they often employ more subtle means to maintain a precarious "peace."

The major wars of conquest and superiority ended long ago when a common, terrifying problem literally broke through the Earth and threatened the survival of all. The legend of the Slumbering Dragon and the Great King who united the nations to contain the threat has begun to fade into myth.

Today, many seek fame and glory through exploration, venturing into the growing evils that appear in various lands, or undertaking grand adventures.

These adventures may lead across new unexplored lands, into ancient forgotten temples, through the sprawling and dangerous Underdark, or even into the Wild Space surrounding Dierde. Once in the Wild Space of this universe, one can explore the nearby celestial bodies, have countless encounters, or even find a way to navigate the Phlogiston to another distant world.

Other planes of existence are not as hospitable, but that has never stopped the determined. Seek your power, your wealth, and whatever your heart may desire—but hopefully, you will get to enjoy it before the Slumbering Dragon once again wakes, spelling the end of all.

This primer will attempt to explore the foundations of the world to assist you in play. It is, of course, always possible that errors exist, that things have changed, or that this history reflects only what powerful forces wish others to believe, rather than the complete truth. In the end, have fun exploring!

Magic Types (Conceptual Split)

Magic in Dierde is functionally split into two main sources, though they are fundamentally interlinked:

1. The Weave (Cosmic/Arcane Magic): The organized, ubiquitous matrix of magical energy that permeates the universe. This is the source of all formalized Arcane spellcasting.
2. The Raw Essence (Chaos/Elemental Magic): The wild, chaotic, and often destructive raw energies of the Inner Planes and the residual power left over from the Primeval conflicts. This is often channeled directly by elemental beings, primal entities, or by the Dragon Gods' machinations.

The Weave

The Weave is the essential, but damaged, fabric of magic.

Basic Structure

The Great Wheel cosmology consisted of a series of somewhat concentric spheres. In the center was the Prime Material plane containing the phlogiston with the crystal spheres and worlds within, surrounded by an Ethereal plane (misty realms of proto-matter). Outside of the Prime and Ethereal were the Inner planes, also called the Elemental planes, which had their own structure based on a sphere. Then came the Astral plane which connected the worlds in the Prime Material plane to each other (bypassing the phlogiston) and also to the last sphere, the Outer planes.

The Prime Material plane touched both the Astral plane and its Ethereal plane, though these planes did not touch one another. The Outer planes, also called the Planes of Power, were 16 planes arranged in a circle (the Great Wheel) defined mainly by alignment and surrounding a 17th neutral plane known as the Outlands.

Interconnectivity of the planes in the Great Wheel model.

The Inner planes were the six major elemental planes (Fire, Earth, Water, Air, Positive Energy, Negative Energy), the four para-elemental planes (Smoke, Ice, Ooze, Magma), and the eight quasi-elemental planes (Lightning, Steam, Radiance, Minerals, Vacuum, Salt, Ash, Dust). They could be thought of as being on the surface of a sphere with Positive Energy at the north pole, Negative Energy at the south pole and Fire, Earth, Water, and Air on the equator, equidistant from each other. The para-elemental planes were found on the equator between the boundaries of Fire, Earth, Water, and Air (Magma was between Fire and Earth, for example). Four of the quasi-elemental planes were found between the boundaries of Positive Energy and the four elements (Steam was between Positive Energy and Water, for example). And the other four quasi-elemental planes were between Negative Energy and the four elements (Vacuum was between Negative Energy and Air, for example). The Inner planes were surrounded by the Ethereal planes, which connected them to the Prime Material planes.

Demiplanes were planes of finite extent found within an Ethereal plane. They may have been the creations of extremely powerful wizards, technologists, or demigods or they may have been created when a large glob of proto-matter began to pull away from its Ethereal plane and achieved separation. Demiplanes might eventually collapse in on themselves, re-merge with its parent Ethereal, or merge with an Inner plane or Prime Material plane. Each demiplane had its own rules regarding gravity, vision, magic, and material make-up.

Transitive Planes

Elemental Plane of Air

This plane was the most hospitable to beings from the Primes because the substance of the plane was breathable and travel was fairly easy. The whole plane looked like the bluest sky on a summer day with only the occasional cloud or storm indicating the intrusion of some other element into the constant wind that was the Plane of Air. Pieces of solid matter floated in this realm and became home to other-planer creatures. The open space belonged to the air elementals. Bahamut was thought to have a citadel here, as well as many other deities of various pantheons. Akadi, the queen of free-willed elementals was said to dwell in The Great Funnel, within a huge maelstrom able to swallow the known world.

Elemental Plane of Fire

The Plane of Elemental Fire was a hellish place, filled with all manner and color of flame from the candle to the white-hot glow of heated steel, all burning without fuel and radiating light and heat at maximum levels. Most unprotected matter was quickly consumed by the flames but pockets of other elements could survive in “cold spots” where the temperature was near that of a hot Prime desert. The evil efreet and their fabled City of Brass resided here. Also the dwarf-like azer mined the basalt rocks that survived the heat for metals for their craft. Kossuth, the tyrant-king of the fire elementals dwelt in his palace at the center of his realm called The Crimson Pillar.

Elemental Plane of Earth

More inhospitable than even the Plane of Fire, the Plane of Elemental Earth was so solid that movement was nearly impossible unless a traveler could find a pocket of some less dense element or use magic to force an opening or permit them to walk through solid material. Without some protection, a non-native being would be caught like a fly in amber under tremendous pressure from the surrounding rock and without air to breathe or light to see. Inhabitants of this plane included xorn, crysmal, and the dao. Grumbar, the largest and most powerful Earth elemental, resided in The Great Mountain. Ogremoch, the prince of evil earth creatures, had his own flat-topped mountain inside the largest pocket of vacuum known to exist in the plane. The only deity from the Realms to make his home here was Geb in his Caverns Under the Stars.

Positive Energy plane

Also known as the Positive Material plane and the Plane of Life, every atom of this plane vibrated with intense energy and produced light across a wide spectrum. An unprotected traveler, if continuously exposed to the energies of this plane, would at first be healed of any wounds, then the cells of the body would quickly reach their maximum potential and then explode and become part of the plane, all in a matter of minutes. All non-magical or non-living material was quickly destroyed. The only known inhabitants of this plane were the inscrutable xag-ya which seemed mindless by Prime Material plane standards, but must have had some intelligence because they could act as a local guide or a guardian when summoned to other planes. Where the Positive Energy plane metaphysically intersected with the four major elemental planes, Air, Fire, Earth, and Water, it created the quasi-elemental planes of Lightning, Radiance, Minerals, and Steam respectively.

Negative Energy plane

Also known as the Negative Material plane or the Plane of Death, everything in this plane sucked in all matter and energy creating a cold, pitch dark realm with structures made up of physical, solid blackness. Any unprotected visitor would quickly sicken, shrivel up, and die in mere minutes. Magical light sources could barely penetrate the darkness and non-magical material collapsed into dust and joined the black. Many undead drew their animating force from the Negative Energy plane which allowed them to drain life force from the living. The only known inhabitants of this plane were the mysterious xeg-yi, analog to the xag-ya in the Positive Energy plane, and a species of “energy vulture” called the trillochs which may have originated on a demi-plane that got absorbed. Where the Negative Energy plane metaphysically intersected with the four major elemental planes, Air, Fire, Earth, and Water, it created the quasi-elemental planes of Vacuum, Ash, Dust, and Salt respectively.

Para-Elemental Plane of Smoke

Between the planes of elemental Air and elemental Fire was the plane of para-elemental Smoke, also called plane of Ash or the Great Conflagration. It appeared as a cloud of foul-smelling fog which got a little more pleasant as you approached the plane of Air, or hotter and more luminous as you moved toward the plane of Fire. Smoke particles made breathing difficult to the point of asphyxiation so travelers needed to be prepared or death was delayed only as long as you could hold your breath. Pockets of Air were a welcome relief. Pockets of Fire looked like free-floating fireballs. Using the sphere model discussed above, the para-elemental plane of Smoke touched the planes of Air, Fire, Lightning, Radiance, Vacuum, and Ash, and could be reached directly through the Ethereal plane. Ehkahk, the Smoldering Duke, lived in the Choking Palace and proclaimed himself ruler of the smoke mephits.

Para-Elemental Plane of Magma

Between the planes of elemental Fire and elemental Earth was the plane of para-elemental Magma, also known as the Fountains of Creation. It was a long sea of molten lava that thinned out and became gaseous toward the plane of Fire, or thickened until it became solid rock toward the plane of Earth. Breathing difficulty went from bad to worse in the same manner. Pockets of Fire would be bubbles of elemental Fire and the thin gasses from that plane. Pockets of Earth were pillars of granite or rough-cut stone floating in the magma. The para-elemental plane of Magma touched the planes of Fire, Earth, Radiance, Minerals, Ash, and Dust, and could be reached directly through the Ethereal plane. Chilimba, First General of the Cauldron, Master of All Mephits, claimed rulership over the entire plane from his stronghold Caldera.

Para-Elemental Plane of Ooze

Between the planes of elemental Earth and elemental Water was the plane of para-elemental Ooze, also known as the Swamp of Oblivion. Close to Earth the rocks and dirt took on a clammy dampness. As you moved toward Water, the density decreased to a quicksand-like state and then thinned out to muddy silt. Spells and devices that provided water breathing capability worked in this plane also. Pockets of Water would form an irregular bubble in the muck. Pockets of Earth were solid nuggets suspended in the ooze. The para-elemental plane of Ooze touched the planes of Earth, Water, Minerals, Steam, Dust, and Salt, and could be reached directly through the Ethereal plane. Ooze was the location of Ghaunadaur’s realm, the Cauldron of Slime. The only other name that survives in lore related to this plane is Bwimb, another possible prince of para-elemental evil.

Quasi-Elemental Plane of Lightning

Where the Positive Energy plane intersected with the plane of elemental Air, it created the quasi-elemental plane of Lightning, also called the plane of Storms, the Vengeful Land, or the Great Illumination. At the border with Air was a continual thunderstorm with a constant barrage of lightning bolts arcing between ominously dark clouds. The atmosphere was filled with the sharp tang of ozone and a deafening cacophony of thunderclaps. All form of electrical discharge could be found here: lightning bolts, ball lightning, sheet lightning, static shocks and the gentle glow of St. Elmo’s fire. It is said that quasi-elemental creatures cavorted amid the chaos. At the border with the Positive Energy plane stood the mysterious Tower of Storms, gateway to a continuous torrent of electrical power that issued from a wall of pure brilliance. Following the sphere model discussed above, the quasi-elemental plane of Lightning touched the planes of Positive Energy, Air, Radiance, Smoke, Steam, and Ice, and could be reached directly through the Ethereal plane.

Quasi-Elemental Plane of Radiance

Between the Positive Energy plane and the plane of elemental Fire was the plane of quasi-elemental Radiance where all manner of flame and fire burned at its brightest and hottest. Every color of combustion could be found here in a dazzling display seen nowhere else, and the creatures were equally brilliant. As you approached the Positive Energy plane, spheres, walls, and lines of prismatic force crisscrossed the plane as the light became sharper and more crystalline until finally blending into the coruscating whiteness of blinding intensity that indicated you had reached the border. Standing at the border was a tower of blue light called the Heart of Light that was rumored to be a place of great healing. In addition to the precautions necessary to travel the Plane of Fire, eye protection was needed to prevent permanent blindness while in this plane. The quasi-elemental plane of Radiance touched the planes of Positive Energy, Fire, Lightning, Smoke, Minerals, and Magma, and could be reached directly through the Ethereal plane.

Quasi-Elemental Plane of Minerals

Between the planes of Positive Energy and elemental Earth was the plane of quasi-elemental Minerals. Upon crossing the border from the Plane of Earth, the entropy-fighting influence of the Positive Energy plane manifested in growing veins of crystal and metal-bearing ore permeating the rock, which itself became black marble. All manner of gems and metals aggregated in their pure forms and laced the marble, becoming increasingly fragile and vibrating with energy until finally shattering at the fluctuating cliff-face border with the Positive Energy plane. Near the border was the Tower of Lead, said to contain the most magnificent forge in the multiverse, where master craftsmen sometimes would risk death to perfect their art.

In addition to all the difficult and deadly conditions of the Plane of Earth, this plane presented even more challenges. Sharp crystalline edges could cut travelers not native to this plane or elemental Earth as they passed through. Likewise the delicate insect-like inhabitants were beautiful jeweled creatures with sharp angular features. By far the greatest danger to any being not native this plane was fossilization.

The longer one stayed in this plane, the greater the chance the forces acting on the minerals would turn you to stone (if you were lucky) or transform you into crystal, gemstones, or gold-veined granite. Magical protection from petrification did not prevent fossilization. On top of that, any crystal that formed in the intense pressure and zero gravity of the Plane of Minerals was almost certain to shatter when brought into a plane with gravity and normal atmospheric pressure. The quasi-elemental plane of Minerals touched the planes of Positive Energy, Earth, Radiance, Magma, Steam, and Ooze, and could be reached directly through the Ethereal plane.

Quasi-Elemental Plane of Vacuum

Between the Negative Energy plane and the plane of elemental Air was the plane of quasi-elemental Vacuum. As in other Inner planes, standard physics did not apply to this plane; as the air got thinner moving toward the Negative Energy plane the temperature and pressure remained the same even when the region of perfect vacuum was reached—there was just nothing there. Spells that offered protection from the elements did not protect from the lack of all elements. Even beings from neighboring planes could not survive for long as they began to consume their own essence to stay alive. The ambient light radiating from the Plane of Air faded to absolute black at the border with the Negative Energy plane, and there is where the Doomguard built a structure called Citadel Exhalus, Portal of the Last Breath. Creatures of invisible force flitted through the gloom, but for what purpose no one has ever discovered. The quasi-elemental plane of Vacuum touched the planes of Negative Energy, Air, Smoke, Ash, Ice, and Salt, and could be reached directly through the Ethereal plane.

Quasi-Elemental Plane of Ash

Between the planes of Negative Energy and elemental Fire was the plane of quasi-elemental Ash. Moving from the Plane of Fire, the last embers died out leaving the cold remnants of combustion hanging in the gloomy atmosphere. The temperature dropped quickly to a bone-chilling cold, all light from the Fire plane was rapidly blocked from view, and the ash steadily thickened toward the Negative Energy plane until it ended in a gray wall in the darkness at the border. Vision was limited and breathing impossible without assistance of some sort. This plane would leech the warmth out of any creature with a body temperature above freezing, especially natives of Fire, Smoke, and Magma which would die in a matter of minutes. Creatures of Ash shunned warmth because their bodies could explode into lumps of ash if brought to room temperature. Another of the Doomguard’s strongholds, the skull-shaped Citadel Cavitius, was here at the border with the Plane of Death, but it was taken over by the lich Vecna long ago. They subsequently built a replacement and named it the Crumbling Citadel. The quasi-elemental plane of Ash touched the planes of Negative Energy, Fire, Magma, Dust, Smoke, and Vacuum, and could be reached directly through the Ethereal plane.

Quasi-Elemental Plane of Dust

Where the Negative Energy plane intersected with the plane of elemental Earth it created the quasi-elemental plane of Dust, home of the dune stalkers, sandlings, and sandmen. From the border with the Plane of Earth, the earth and rock cracked and split into smaller and smaller pieces, losing cohesion and variation until nothing was left except fine sand. At the same time the pressure experienced in the Earth plane was reduced to normal but there was still no breathable atmosphere. Continuing on, the grains got finer and farther apart, the empty blackness between the dust motes grew until finally all motes dispersed and only Negative Energy was left. Here the Doomguard built their favorite tower, the Citadel Alluvius. The disassociation and dispersal properties of this plane acted on anything solid that lacked protection. In a matter of minutes, non-native items and creatures, including beings from neighboring Inner planes that were at least partially solid, would break down and drift apart long past the point where life was sustainable. The quasi-elemental plane of Dust touched the planes of Negative Energy, Earth, Ooze, Salt, Magma, and Ash, and could be reached directly through the Ethereal plane.

Revision

When sages of the late 15th century began to use the Great Wheel model again, they revised it to include the new planes discovered after the Spellplague and normally associated with the World Axis model.

The Elemental Chaos was considered to be the farthest extent of the inner planes, a hostile and unknown plane where all the elemental planes were combined. Some speculated it was home to strange elemental creatures.

The Feywild and the Shadowfell were considered to be parallel planes to the Prime Material, extreme echoes of the worlds of the Prime much like in the World Axis model. Those planes replaced the Plane of Faerie and the Plane of Shadow of the earlier version of the Great Wheel model. The Echo Planes have caused a lot of confusion as they seem to have many layers, so you could be in the same Shadowfell or Feywild you have been to in the past, or even a pocket of those Planes so almost as if in a different version.

Crystal Shell

Similar to all crystal spheres. the crystal shell of Realmspace is so vast that it appears as a perfectly flat, solid wall to most observers, though the surface itself is somewhat bumpy and cold to the touch. The crystal shell is made of a dark ceramic material that is completely invulnerable, and is immune to damage from all known forms of attack, including magic.

However, throughout the crystal shell, seemingly naturally occurring portals open to the phlogiston, allowing solid bodies to pass through to and from the Flow, without allowing the phlogiston itself to enter the perfect vacuum of wildspace. The portals themselves appear to open and close at random. These temporary doorways can be found through the use of divination spells or by magical items specifically designed for that purpose. Portals can also be opened through the use of magic, allowing the magic user to open a portal whenever desired. However, opening a portal immediately closes a naturally occurring portal on the other side of the sphere, with possibly catastrophic results for any ship or creature passing through the portal.

Unique to Realmspace, the entire interior surface of the crystal shell is covered by millions upon millions of glyphs and wards. The symbols and words are hundreds of miles tall and completely illegible. However, a suitably powerful mage can read the glyphs if they so wish, by casting a read magic spell, but this would be a mistake: merely discerning the meaning of the words invokes the magic inherent to these writings, The magic stored within the glyphs are many times more powerful than an equivalent spell cast by a magic user, and there is only one-in-one-thousand chance that the spell triggered is beneficial in any way. The glyphs appear to be permanent, allowing them to be triggered over and over. For some unknown reason, the glyphs cannot be duplicated in any way, and cannot even be copied onto paper.

The Wanderers

Also unique to Realmspace is the group of humanoids, known as the Wanderers, who continually walk across the inside of the crystal sphere. These humanoids, representing all known sentient bipedal lifeforms within the sphere, number in the hundreds of thousands. Aligning themselves in a perfectly straight line, they walk side by side across the inside of the sphere, in a north-south direction. They all possess the mark of Torm on their palms.

The Wanderers walk continually and without interruption. Their mouths move in a rhythmic pattern, resembling chanting, and their hands make various gestures, similar to the gestures made when casting spells. There is no way to communicate with them, and there is no way to interrupt their journey. According to legend, the Wanderers are the souls of individuals who died performing evil deeds of horrific proportions. When they died, they were cursed to eternal servitude; to march in perfect formation while chanting across the sphere for the rest of their existence.

Their purpose is to create, through their chanting, the portals that allow spelljammers to pass in and out of the crystal sphere. If the Wanderers were to cease to exist, the portals would no longer spontaneously open throughout the sphere. Without the chanting of at least one Wanderer, the crystal sphere would be sealed until another evil individual dies within the sphere. Occasionally a portal will open directly in the path of the Wanderers, and individual Wanderers can actually fall through the portal, into the phlogiston. Once gone, the missing Wanderers can be replaced, but the process is incredibly slow (only every five years or so is an individual deemed reprehensible enough to warrant this eternal servitude.)

Constellations

Every dot, dash and tilde within the glyphs that cover the surface of the crystal sphere shines with the flickering, everlasting light of the stars of Realmspace. Each of these pseudo-stars is in fact a gate that opens to the Quasi-Elemental Plane of Radiance, and it is these gates that give the sphere’s inhabitants the illusion of twinkling stars and constellations.

The portals to the Plane of Radiance all range in diameter from only a few yards to hundreds of miles long, and it is this difference in size which gives the illusion of distance in the celestial heavens. Most of the gates are large enough for spelljamming ships to pass through, but travelling through these planar portals is tantamount to suicide.

Once a ship enters the Plane of Radiance, any wood, cloth, or other combustible material bursts into flame immediately, and soon after all metallic substances begin to melt. All living creatures that enter the Plane are either immolated immediately or die soon after if they cannot escape. Creatures can escape easily enough by backing out or by turning around, assuming they survive the heat long enough to do that.

Luckily, the tremendous heat within the Plane of Radiance does not spill over into the vacuum of wildspace. Additionally, as long as a spelljamming vessel remains at least a hundred miles away, the bright light radiating from a star poses little danger to the eyes of any passengers or crew. When a spelljamming vessel breaches the crystal sphere, the portal supersedes the planar gate, allowing safe passage over it. Once the portal closes, the planar gate once again shines with its never ending brilliance. Any inhabitant planet-side who happens to be watching the stars at that particular moment will see one of the stars wink out of existence for a few minutes.

Features

The sun’s surface was made up of varying areas of molten earth and fluid flame, a distinction which only was useful for its fire-loving inhabitants. Some areas called sunspots were somewhat cooler than their surroundings and could be recognized by their darker color. At other places, pillars and loops of flame could violently spurt outward from the sun’s surface for millions of miles.

The surface also featured hundreds of portals to the Elemental Plane of Fire, allowing access to the natives of that place.

Another dreaded feature could be found 40 million miles (64 million km) away from the sun: like balls on the spokes of a wheel, twelve spherical dead-magic zones with a diameter of 100,000 miles (160,000 km) each orbited Realmspace’s central body. They were called the sargassos and were feared by every spelljammer crew, which depended on magic for movement after all.

Inhabitants

The surface of the sun is dotted by hundreds of small portals to the Elemental Plane of Fire, which allow various fire elementals and other fire-loving creatures to make their homes on this stellar object. Many of these creatures are relatively well known, such as the efreeti, firenewts, salamanders, and fire minions. Other less well-known creatures also make their homes here, including lavaworms and helians. The creatures that live on the sun appear to be able to return to their native planes, but they all seem to prefer the sun to their original homes.

The sun was inhabited by many creatures originally native to the Elemental Plane of Fire: efreet, fire elementals, firenewts, fire minions, helians, lavaworms, and salamanders had been recognized. It has also been surmised that inhabitants of other fiery places on the planes made their home there.

Only a few attempts by the sun’s denizens to leave their home have been registered, but any spelljamming ship that got close to the sun was violently attacked by them, especially the helians.

Trade

Unfortunately, there has been no reliable way of communicating with the sun’s inhabitants. Additionally, whenever a spelljamming vessel gets within ten million miles (16 million kilometers) of the sun and survives, the inhabitants react with hostility and attack the vessel. There have been many documented accounts of helians riding a solar flare from the sun’s surface and throwing burning fragments of intense nuclear heat at all ships passing within range.

However, it is believed that some of the more intelligent elemental creatures living on the sun are aware of spelljamming technology. There have been several reported cases of spelljamming vessels made entirely out of flames. There is even a documented case from a reliable source who reported that such a ship had departed from the sun. Unfortunately, the flames of the ship had died long before the vessel could reach the orbit of Deana.

Since there has only been one reported case from a reliable source, it is believed that the sun’s inhabitants either have no desire to exploit this particular mode of transportation or that they view spelljamming as being too unreliable. Since the Elemental Plane of Fire is as broad and expansive as the prime material, there is still much that requires exploration.

History

The wildspace of the Realmspace crystal sphere was unusually warm compared to others. This led sages to speculate that the sun and Realmspace itself were the oldest among the generally known crystal spheres.

It was believed by sages and priests that the sun was created when the goddess Chauntea begged for a source of warmth, so that she could sustain the life flowering on Toril. The goddess Selûne ignited one of the heavenly bodies floating in Realmspace with pure flame from the Elemental Plane of Fire, creating the sun. This act started the enmity between Selûne and Shar that had lasted ever since.

Geography

Each sargasso was a globe about 100,000 miles (160,000 kilometers) in diameter. They orbited the sun at a distance of 40 million miles (64 million kilometers) and were all equidistant to each other. From that orbit, they could pass as close as two spelljamming hours away from Anadia, which orbited at a distance of 50 million miles (80 million kilometers) from the sun.

A spelljammer that entered a sargasso powered down in bursts until the spelljamming helm and any other magic items onboard stopped working within a few seconds, giving very little time for the navigator or the crew to react. For the helmsman, the sickening feeling of an approaching sargasso was similar to that of falling off a cliff. If the helmsman were unsuccessful in maneuvering the ship away, it slowly drifted into the sargasso carried by its own inertia, incapable of escaping until it reached the other side, which could take months.

Population Analysis

Avian humanoids, reptiles, and avian life.

Climate

Because of its proximity to the Sun, the planet is quite warm. The temperature never falls below 75 degrees F. except at the poles, where it can reach 40 during the winter.

Prominent Land Features

Inside the huge atmospheric envelope float thousands of earth and water islands. The upper atmosphere is completely shrouded with a 100-mile thick cloud cover making vision into the interior impossible.

Resources/Trade

The aarakocra are known to trade gems for smokepowder and weapons. The lizard men import SJ technology in exchange for aarakocra meat and feathers, gems and water.

Ports of Call

There are 50 different trading posts throughout the planet.