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<blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 9330139" data-attributes="member: 58172"><p>In the 5e Great Wheel map, the Elemental Planes look as if discrete demiplanes within the Elemental Chaos. However, in the textual descriptions, the 5e elemental "planes" are moreso a region in the Elemental Chaos, where a particular element happens to prevail. These regions always include the other elements as well. Their boundaries are always porous and intermingling, where the various elemental influences drift thru each other.</p><p></p><p>The Elemental Chaos proper appears visually as emanating directly from Astral thought. As such, the Elemental Planes are treated as if matter, but are actually the immaterial "concepts" of matter. The Elemental regions are the conceptual blueprints that the Material Plane materializes. The Elemental Planes are more precisely the "spirit" of elemental matter.</p><p></p><p>At the "edge" of the Elemental Chaos is where thought becomes ethereal force, then explodes as a kind of perpetual Big Bang within the Elemental Chaos. The randomness of elemental energies prevails: fiery (Fire, Radiant), airy (Lightning-Thunder), and watery (Cold). The fleeting instantaneous formation and disintegration of solid elemental Earth corresponds with the energy of Acid. Only within the Earth region does solidity gain some measure of persistence. D&D 5e has surprisingly many spells relating to energy flux of the Elemental Chaos, from Chromatic Orb, to Protection from Energy, to Prismatic Spray.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Yaarel, post: 9330139, member: 58172"] In the 5e Great Wheel map, the Elemental Planes look as if discrete demiplanes within the Elemental Chaos. However, in the textual descriptions, the 5e elemental "planes" are moreso a region in the Elemental Chaos, where a particular element happens to prevail. These regions always include the other elements as well. Their boundaries are always porous and intermingling, where the various elemental influences drift thru each other. The Elemental Chaos proper appears visually as emanating directly from Astral thought. As such, the Elemental Planes are treated as if matter, but are actually the immaterial "concepts" of matter. The Elemental regions are the conceptual blueprints that the Material Plane materializes. The Elemental Planes are more precisely the "spirit" of elemental matter. At the "edge" of the Elemental Chaos is where thought becomes ethereal force, then explodes as a kind of perpetual Big Bang within the Elemental Chaos. The randomness of elemental energies prevails: fiery (Fire, Radiant), airy (Lightning-Thunder), and watery (Cold). The fleeting instantaneous formation and disintegration of solid elemental Earth corresponds with the energy of Acid. Only within the Earth region does solidity gain some measure of persistence. D&D 5e has surprisingly many spells relating to energy flux of the Elemental Chaos, from Chromatic Orb, to Protection from Energy, to Prismatic Spray. [/QUOTE]
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