planer relations

[Sargon]

okay i have an idea bout planer relations that i decided that i should share with you all. first of all this is going to be a mouthful.

but first i should tell you that many settings in DnD have different definations of planer reactions, like spelljamer, planescape, and darksun and various other settings. but the one i will be working with is plane scape, what i think the best system is.

okay here is the idea, and i think it would go a good ways to explaining why there are other parts of worlds, with brand new races yet the continent that your character is in, has never heard of them.

its a problem in realism i belive in DnD for things to be unknown, on the material plane. when in truth your character could jsut go to the plane of the dead and talk to people who are dieing. if you go to the plane of the dead and see a new race, you can walk up to them and ask "hey where are you from?" they eventaully tell you, and bam a new race is dicovered.

due to just the amount of information that a person on the planes can get, nothing on the material plane should ever really be a mystery. you wanna find out hwat kinda people inhabited this anchient ruins? go to the outer planes and ask around with some of the insanly old beings that inhabit the plane.

here is my idea, and it will require some explaining.

my basic idea is in 3 parts that would solve a lot of things about the planes for me.

first. two of the same plane can be in existance at the same time in the same cosmology.

second. no person truly knows the extent of all the planes in a cosmology.

third. due to the forgetfulness of petitioners lost of information of the past would be lsot forever.

im going to take these in order, in the next at least 3 posts over the next day or so.

[Sargon]

two of the same plane can be in existance at the same time in the same cosmology

explination

okay ther outerplanes work on a system of belife, not defined rules.

there is a city that hosts a portal to the abyss, the job of that city is to bring the area into such levels of chaos and evil that the city shifts to the abyss.

the lower level of acaida merged with mechanus because it inhabitants were too lawful, and not good enough to resist the pull of the plane of ultimate law.

these are jsut a few examples of belife on the outerplanes mergeing and changeing due to the belifes of the inhabitants that are there. this is obviously the truth of that matter.

now the planes can merge with eachother, so they should be able to seprate from eatherother. so the truth about arcaida and baator could be they both came from mecahnus. its jsut the inhabitants of the plane of law were splitting down the lines of good and evil and eventually 2 planes were birthed from the plane of law those 2 planes being arcaida and baator.

so takeing this as fact (which something very close to that might be true) we see that planes can be birthed. so one plane of law, is now 3 planes of law, one good, one evil, and the other nuteral. so belife is rather powerful.

now if planes can be birthed from belife which i belive must have orginally have been the case, beacuse the multiverse probbly didnt start with the planar configuration jsut like it is now, naturally planes have been birthed, and merged back into eachother.

the existance of the plans would depend on the cultures that the planes are serveing, certianlly in no one on the prime material plane belived in goodness (as bizzare as it seams) they would not be a plane of good.

belife infulences the configuration of the planes, so if enough of people belive that they have a certian plane of law, and enough people belive that they have certian plane of law,and they each dont know of the other plane of law. is it not narutal that there should be 2 seprate planes of ultamate law?

if 2 different cultures belive in 2 different planes of law, and dont know of eather other. it seams very possbily that both could have a seprate plane of law. naturally when they learned of the existance of the other plane of law, no belife could really keep the 2 incredably simular planes of law from mergeing with eachother.

under this system it makes sense that one part of the world could have a different cosmology then another part of the world. if one part of the world belives that there are the only people out there. and another group belive that they are the only one, then it would makes sense that they have different planes.

in this type of organization the only true planes that would always be around are the prime material plane, and the various inner planes. the outerplanes would always be in a state of shift and they would merge with eather, and similar planes would blend into each other like all the time.

since groups of deities can inhabit the same planes as other groups, this type of cosmology would not change the divine interaction enough for it really to matter, espically to mortals that will not live long enough to see anything large change, espically if these large things change slowly. which basically every planer interaction does.

[Sargon]

accutally, ive decided that implementing these thigns in a champign setting would be so insanley compelx that it would be not be healthy to ones (my) mental health.

so im going to try to keep planer relations simple, and not even think about these things. but i will leave this up as a testiment to my temporary insanity.