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===The So-Called "First World" of the Elves===
===The So-Called "First World" of the Elves===


==The Elemental Planes==
==The Elemental Planes==
Air, Earth, Fire, and Water
Air, Earth, Fire, and Water


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Despite their extreme danger and high levels of peril, the Elemental Planes are relatively easy to get to from the Prime Material, as they are connected in many ways to the Prime Material. As a result, they are comparatively well-known compared to such places as the Astral, Ethereal, Shadow, or Energy planes.
Despite their extreme danger and high levels of peril, the Elemental Planes are relatively easy to get to from the Prime Material, as they are connected in many ways to the Prime Material. As a result, they are comparatively well-known compared to such places as the Astral, Ethereal, Shadow, or Energy planes.


==The Energy Planes==
==The Energy Planes==
Positive, Negative, Light, Dark, and Force
Positive, Negative, Light, Dark, and Force


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These 'nested demiplanes' may include such places as Solaria, Hellecore, and Apocolyptica, assuming such places exist at all.
These 'nested demiplanes' may include such places as Solaria, Hellecore, and Apocolyptica, assuming such places exist at all.


===Solaria===
===Solaria===
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Sadly, as few other scholars claim any knowledge or expertise on Solaria, Roam's journals are the only potential source of information.
Sadly, as few other scholars claim any knowledge or expertise on Solaria, Roam's journals are the only potential source of information.


===The Well of Power===
===The Well of Power===
Also known as the Fount of Reality or the Nascent Seed, the Well is that place from which all flows.  It is widely supposed to be 'within' the Plane of Force, but it exists at such a high level of power no mortal has ever gotten any proof of its existence.  There is fierce debate among the learned as to whether there is one Fount or many, or even if the Fount, the Well, and the Seed are completely different things. Exploration of such matters usually drive the curious past the Apotheosis, and once that terrible threshold is passed, little useful information trickles back.
Also known as the Fount of Reality or the Nascent Seed, the Well is that place from which all flows.  It is widely supposed to be 'within' the Plane of Force, but it exists at such a high level of power no mortal has ever gotten any proof of its existence.  There is fierce debate among the learned as to whether there is one Fount or many, or even if the Fount, the Well, and the Seed are completely different things. Exploration of such matters usually drive the curious past the Apotheosis, and once that terrible threshold is passed, little useful information trickles back.


==The Silent Black==
==The Silent Black==
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Beyond the infinite expanses of the Silent Black, underneath the Hells and above the Heavens, outside the edges of reality as we know it, existence eventually grows mad with the ennui of nothingness.  The expanse of the Outer Madness flows away in all possible directions through all possible flows of time, forever. This would be a very boring place, except that in the Outer Madness, there are monsters.
Beyond the infinite expanses of the Silent Black, underneath the Hells and above the Heavens, outside the edges of reality as we know it, existence eventually grows mad with the ennui of nothingness.  The expanse of the Outer Madness flows away in all possible directions through all possible flows of time, forever. This would be a very boring place, except that in the Outer Madness, there are monsters.


==The Astral Plane==
==The Astral Plane==
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Of course, the possibility that Shadow Stuff infects your mind and permanently alters you is perhaps even worse....
Of course, the possibility that Shadow Stuff infects your mind and permanently alters you is perhaps even worse....


==The Wards of the Will==
==The Wards of the Will==

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