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==The Wards of the Will== | ==The Wards of the Will== | ||
These are unstable | These are unstable Material Planes that have orbited near the Fount, via the Will of the Greater Gods, for untold ages. They are home to weirdly alien cultures and races, with strange and terrible Ways of Power. There are uncounted numbers of these so-called 'Outer Planes', although many of them are apparently semi-permanently 'connected' to the Prime Material (and by extension, to the Fount of Creation and the Nascent Seed) by the Celestial Cascade, a vast semi-real structure in the Astral Sea. | ||
Those Wards of the Will that are connected to the Celestial Cascade are almost entirely dominated by deific-level entities who apparently maintain the Wards through the sheer unbreakable power of their Will. | |||
There are many lesser Planes in the Wards of the Will that are not connected to the Celestial Cascade, and include some Lateral Material planes along with lesser Wards. The Lateral Material Planes are sometimes copies, or echoes, of the Prime Material, and sometimes they are completely different versions of reality. | |||
===The Deific Agencies=== | ===The Deific Agencies=== | ||
These are sub-domains of the Wards of the Will, places where the Reigning Deifics are of a more kind, positive bent. Woe betide any who fall astray of the guiding strictures of a Deific Agency, however! | These are sub-domains of the Wards of the Will, places where the Reigning Deifics are of a more kind, positive bent. Woe betide any who fall astray of the guiding strictures of a Deific Agency, however! The most well known of the Deific Agencies are heavily connected to the Astral Sea via the Celestial Cascade, and include places such as the Seven Heavens, the Elysian Fields, the Happy Hunting Grounds, and Valhalla. | ||
===The Realms of Hell=== | ===The Realms of Hell=== | ||
These are sub-domains of the Wards of Will, places where the Reigning Deifics are not kind, or positive, but hellishly efficient nonetheless. If you can stomach the guiding strictures here, you will certainly prosper. | These are sub-domains of the Wards of Will, places where the Reigning Deifics are not kind, or positive, but hellishly efficient nonetheless. If you can stomach the guiding strictures here, you will certainly prosper. The most well known of the Realms of Hell include Carceri, Niflheim, Hades, Gehenna, and Acheron. | ||
===The Demesnes of Daemonkind | ===The Demesnes of Daemonkind=== | ||
These are sub-domains of the Wards of the Will where the ruling Deifics consider all other life to be either fodder, food, thralls, or, reluctantly, allies. If you go here, be an ally. The other options are not...palatable. | These are sub-domains of the Wards of the Will where the ruling Deifics consider all other life to be either fodder, food, thralls, or, reluctantly, allies. If you go here, be an ally. The other options are not...palatable. The most well known of the Demesnes include The Abyss, Pandemonium, Limbo, and Tartarus. | ||