Acid Plane

•  Imdgrys: (eem-day-grehs) All within this plane is damaging but for the stone paths. The rain, the dirt, the acid breathing--spitting--spraying animals, the vegetation, the water sources, all here eat away at anything it contacts but those things which evolved on this plane to resist acid, and that which is capable of resisting acid.

Plane of Earth

•  Talyss: A world of canyons, deserts, rock mountains, dirt, sand and stone where all structures are carved out of stone and earth. Terramancers and many earth elementals inhabit this plane.

•  Talgeard; the Plane of Flora
A Kingdom of botanical gardens, orchards, wilderlands, jungles, grasslands, and forests where sentient plants called Talgeardians dwell. There are many insects, including a race of insect people called the Virosians which the Talgeardians have symbiotic relationships with. In this world the lives of plants are valued more highly than the other beasts and people who live there, whereby the consumption of animal flesh is accepted and killing all but carpet plants is considered murder. Only eating the fruits of plants is acceptable, and then ONLY if the seeds are preserved. All structures are formed of live plants which are woven and twined together, while the hollows and roots of immense trees also provide homes for this world's beings. The Talgeardian Verduremancers who dwell here are very tricky and not be thought of salad brains at all.

Plane of Flora

Talgeard

A Kingdom of botanical gardens, orchards, wilderlands, jungles, grasslands, and forests where sentient plants called Talgeardians dwell. There are many insects, including a race of insect people called the Virosians which the Talgeardians have symbiotic relationships with. In this world the lives of plants are valued more highly than the other beasts and people who live there, whereby the consumption of animal flesh is accepted and killing all but carpet plants is considered murder. Only eating the fruits of plants is acceptable, and then ONLY if the seeds are preserved. All structures are formed of live plants which are woven and twined together, while the hollows and roots of immense trees also provide homes for this world's beings. The Talgeardian Verduremancers who dwell here are very tricky and not be thought of salad brains at all.

Plane of Light

Solendor: This is a plane where almost everything gives off some kind of light, the plants, the rocks, the beasts, and even the soil, and where stairways of light rise up out of the gossamer forests; great peaks thrust up covered with a glowing pale grass where great towers, shrines, and keeps of white stone stand. Four suns and eight moons rise and fall over this land which is never dark. The Levimancers of Solendor are friendly, cheerful people who love to entertain and celebrate all of life's wonders, but they can turn deadly if they, their people, or their territories are threatened. Many animals here have eyes, claws, or tails which can burn with lazor light to defend themselves and some can even spit a radioactive or ultraviolet liquid so potent that it can burn right through flesh and bone causing extreme sickness or even death. Creatures here are immune to the dire effects of radiation.

Spectral Plane

•  Mantizor: The 'otherside' of whatever world you step out of, where other elements beside the spectral ether and telekinetic energy have no sway and all countours seen and felt are substantial only because of a telekinetic field which defines surfaces. Only by finding phased areas called conduits can you leave the spectral plane and reenter the world it edges, or enter 'dark conduits' which lead deeper into the spectral plane beyond the middle kingdom. There one might find the Fortress Citadel and Kingdom of Santoriz, named after the great spirit Santor, ruler also over Mantizor. There is also Nisi, Elephant Lord of Escongrinn, the jungle and grasslands territory of the spectral plane.

Grymoria: A vast Kingdom of Ice where snow, ice, glaciers, ice-caves, and snowcapped mountains dominate the landscape. Almost any creature one encounters here can spit, throw, infuse, sling or command ice elements.

Ymllaadri: A great Kingdom of Tempests by a sea including many islands where high winds, pouring rains, hail storms, tornadoes, hurricanes, crashing lightning and thunder, ball and aural lightning, dominates the climate. Any creature met here is likely able to spit, throw, infuse, sling or command various storm elements if not all of them. The Sounding Sea of Ymllaadri meets with the ice fields which indicate the beginning of Grymoria. Within the Sounding Caves of Ymllaadri, is the ancient lost Citidal of Llos'Aadri and its tunnels leading to the Chamber of Gateways, a cave where there are passages which lead to all the elemental planes, including Ymlladdri itself. Symbols (which are easy to decipher), are carved into the stone above each tunnel, revealing where each passage leads. An obvious clue to where each tunnel leads is the elemental conduit one must pass through at the end of each passage (much as one can see through it to the plane it will enter) to leave the cavern and enter the other plane. There are hidden doors here as well which open into various underworlds including but not limited to Acheron and Anwnn

Plane of Time - Chronostaan

•  Chrovania: This is a gateway world which brings one into the Universe where time travel is so much the norm that if something is done to alter history a new time line is NOT created, rather the entire universe and all worlds affected shift to accomodate the changes. Simultaneously this is also where all time lines created in other universes appear, whereby there are countless reproductions of the same universe, many of which do not last at all long relative to others owed to the fact that alternate timelines, particularly accidental ones, have a tendency to collapse far more readily than stable 'drafted' and 'origin' time lines.

The people of this world are called Chronesians. Their natural life span is anywhere between 180-200 years of age. Some of these people, the 'travelers' in particular, those who time travel and manipulate time, are immortal through cloning via a seven day process which also clones the memory and personality of each predecessor. This process can be sped up by time manipulation techniques. The moment a clone has 'matured' to replace a dead clone; a new clone 'injection' is placed in stasis to be activated when the death of its antecedent has been confirmed. Clone Injections are a gel containing genetic materials and memory receptors which are injected into a cloning environment stasis field (CESF) to produce a clone. The advantage to cloning is that one's mind and will is their own, the disadvantage is that they are still prone to disease and rare genetic defects, and should something happen to their 'cloning vault' they will be unable to replicate should they perish. Most clones travel WITH a spare clone injection in the event something happens to their vault. The last disadvantage is the slight chance of a 'duplicate clone' occuring, which can happen if a confirmed death was not actual. Duplicate clones are legal IF they are registered. Rogue duplicates on the other hand are illegal for security reasons. Clones tend to beat aging by chronomantic techniques (reverse aging and the like). Other clones may be perfectly content with the natural process of aging as a matter of pride. The more times a clone survives to die by old age, the more respected he or she is by other clones.

The second process of immortality is achieved via nano-technology whereby a 'carrier' is injected with self-replicating nano-droids which are perpetually repairing any damage to nano-carriers and building replacement nano-droids as they are needed or destroyed. The advantage to nano-carriers is that injuries, disease, toxins, genetic flaws and the very process of aging is eliminated; The most obvious disadvantage is that time travel is extremely difficult for carriers to achieve, much as they are traveling with a vast colony of microscopic androids inside of them. The only way a nano-carrier can become a traveler is to use a nano-canister, a special transfer device which transfers the nano-droids inside of them into the canister which is designed for transporting nano-droids en-mass through time. Once a destination is reached, the nano-droids can be transfered back into the body. The transfer causes some great amount of discomfort much as the body is so well adapted to accomodate the droids. Another disadvantage is in the fact that the millions of nano-droids within a carrier develope a colony or collective mind which acts an alter-ego and personality, a price many are willing to pay for immortality.

Lastly, travelers may become immortal via a blood engendering immortal or an immortally altered state.

A person here may be a Rah (high commander) one moment and a pauper the next and not even be the wiser for it. Others might be quite keen to the change. Some races here have a time sense ability which makes them aware of shifting time events, while others do not share this trait. A person, place or even a species here may exist one moment and not the next; or important events in history may be completely rewritten, although owed to strict time manipulation laws these sorts of drastic occurances may not happen as often as one might believe.

Time travelers are required to attain 'Time Stamps' for one, a tattoo which identifies someone as a 'traveler', and to become a legal traveler one must pass rigorous tests before being issued a time travel stamp. The penalty of breaking the 'law of existance', the 'law of imperitives' or 'traveling without a stamp' is erasure and in extreme cases as with the elimination of a leader or species, erasure with no chance to 'reoccur' ever again.

It is dangerous to be a 'rogue traveler' here. If outlanders seek a visa they are treated with respect and granted a temporary stamp in the form of a bracelet. Outland travelers are otherwise dragged to a Processing Center if caught by a Chronesian officer and if any laws were broken an outlander waits here until they stand trial in a 'time courte'.

True oracles or diviners are aware of Chronostaan, and by being able to tap into the nuances of time here, they are able to predict the future, present and past.

Contents by JD and Sparky © Copyright 2008

• Anuardda: (an-war-dah) An underwater world with sprawling underwater cities, with deep sea rifts which can reach tremendous depths where its leviathons live, or where vast shallows with white sand bottoms stretch for miles around patches of land too small to call islands. Though this plane can be explored by landlovers, exploring its inhabited regions requires water-breathing capabilities or apparatus.