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<blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 9330112" data-attributes="member: 58172"><p>I would use the more familiar cosmology map to represent the 4e World Axis. Essentially the Material Plane is the trunk of tree, the Astral is the branches, and the Elemental is the roots. The Feywild is the part of the trunk in the sunlight of Positivity and the Shadowfell in the shade of Negativity. Note that any Astral dominion might be anywhere within the Astral Sea. The distances are rather proximal conceptual similarities and affinities, versus distant dissimilarities and unrelated concepts.</p><p></p><p><img src="https://cdn.obsidianportal.com/map_images/106751/cosmology_map.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p></p><p>The 4e Axis is a visualization of the completist 3e multiverse, where the Elemental Inner Planes orient downward and the Astral Outer Planes orient upward. The Material Planes are the Axis between them.</p><p> <img src="https://i.pinimg.com/originals/91/27/14/91271436e60cf2b5e8cda0ef7668f142.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>Meanwhile, the 5e Wheel is the same thing as the 4e Axis, looking down from above, where the Astral, Ethereal, and Material are separate layers, and each level nesting within the one above it, in concentric circles.</p><p></p><p><img src="https://www.belloflostsouls.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/great-wheel-map.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p></p><p>In sum, I prefer the 5e visualization of overlapping concentric circles and the fluidity of the 4e Astral Sea. I acknowledge both are continuations of formative 3e developments.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Yaarel, post: 9330112, member: 58172"] I would use the more familiar cosmology map to represent the 4e World Axis. Essentially the Material Plane is the trunk of tree, the Astral is the branches, and the Elemental is the roots. The Feywild is the part of the trunk in the sunlight of Positivity and the Shadowfell in the shade of Negativity. Note that any Astral dominion might be anywhere within the Astral Sea. The distances are rather proximal conceptual similarities and affinities, versus distant dissimilarities and unrelated concepts. [IMG]https://cdn.obsidianportal.com/map_images/106751/cosmology_map.jpg[/IMG] The 4e Axis is a visualization of the completist 3e multiverse, where the Elemental Inner Planes orient downward and the Astral Outer Planes orient upward. The Material Planes are the Axis between them. [IMG]https://i.pinimg.com/originals/91/27/14/91271436e60cf2b5e8cda0ef7668f142.jpg[/IMG] Meanwhile, the 5e Wheel is the same thing as the 4e Axis, looking down from above, where the Astral, Ethereal, and Material are separate layers, and each level nesting within the one above it, in concentric circles. [IMG]https://www.belloflostsouls.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/great-wheel-map.jpg[/IMG] In sum, I prefer the 5e visualization of overlapping concentric circles and the fluidity of the 4e Astral Sea. I acknowledge both are continuations of formative 3e developments. [/QUOTE]
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