The realm is embodiment of the concept of pure good without being overly restricted by law nor dissipated by the randomness of chaos. It is home to many heavenly creatures, and is a bucolic place of rest and refuge. Elysium is a place of unrestricted purity, goodness, and kindness, given shape by ineffably beautiful landscapes, forests, and waterways. It is also the main afterlife to Gnomes and their Pantheon. One half of this heavenly plane is a perfectly cultivated, pastoral landscape-orderly in every way the other is an untamed, unrestricted wilderness, but no less perfect and beautiful. Bytopia is a land divided yet unified by its purity, goodness, and relative order. The seven individual layers formed a colossal mountain that rose from an infinite sea of holy water on the bottommost layer, to the summit on the topmost layer. Celestia was home to numerous celestial creatures including various types of archons, the petitioners of this plane. All aspects of Celestia were beautiful and perfect it was where the souls of many creatures of lawful good alignment went to after death. Vast and indescribably beautiful, it is made up of seven distinct demiplanes, each with its own heavenly mountain or mountain range, and ruled by Faerûn's elder gods of goodness and light. The Seven Heavens of Mount Celestia is a plane of perfect goodness and order. We have now reached the Outer Planes, we shall start. Combining into hybrid elemental planes and it the ever churning Elemental Chaos. They are where the primordials came from and where some of them were banished to. These primordial realms are what helped created Toril’s seas, land, heat, and Sky. The Elemental Planes of Air, Earth, Fire, and Water. It is a place where the soul leaves the mortal body to head to astral plane. Surrounding the Mortal Realm and it’s echos is, The Ethereal Plane. A creation of Shar, the goddess of Darkness. The most striking and immediate impression a visitor to the Plane of Shadow experienced was the lack of color and light no sun, moon, or stars adorned the vault of the inky black sky, and all things looked as if the color had leeched out, leaving nothing but black and white, which in the dimness were more like "dark black" and "light black". The Shadowfell, the Plane of Shadow, Unlike the Feywild, it was a bleak, desolate place full of decay and death. Strong emotions even altered the landscape of the Feywild itself, wilting flowers trailed the despondent or furious and carefree animals traveled alongside chipper and cheerful individuals. The plane is always bathed in twilight of the setting (or perhaps rising) sun, with lanterns and fireflies providing additional, haunting lights. The Feywild was a place of unrestrained and awe-inspiring natural beauty. It was the place from which fey originated, and from where the first elves arrived in Faerûn. The Feywild, the Plane of Faerie, is land suffused with potent magic, and unrestrained emotions. ![]() The Mortal Realm has echoes, reflections that are similar but quite different it comparison. Here on Toril many legends and heroes were born, empires that rose and fell, and great stories were told. The cosmos was born here, Toril has its solar system and is orbited by a moon which will often be surrounded by seven silver stars called the “Tears of Selûne” these are the very first stars to be born. This world is a special, it is where the Gods have given life to their creations. The Mortal Realm (Toril) is where the Mortal races live. We shall explore this Cosmology and its 16 realms. The creation of the OverGod Lord Ao at the beginning of time. The inner planes are were the mortal world is and the elements and The Outer Planes are afterlives to mortals depending on how they were in life and who they worshipped. Regardless how it is described the Cosmology is a complex, comparatively cosmopolitan place in which the gods of the world and pantheons mingled, the beliefs of many faiths and peoples bleeding together in a set of Outer Planes shaped predominantly by the polar forces of Law, Chaos, Good, Neutrality, and Evil. (This is a similar concept to Norse Mythology) ![]() The cosmology has been described as being a giant tree supporting the Realms or an Axis. This is a mere artistic depiction of a very complex Cosmic structure that is so complex that the Mortal mind can not comprehend it. ![]() ISBN 0-7869-1239-1.This is the Cosmology, well to be more accurate the Great Wheel Cosmology. ↑ 15.0 15.1 A page detailing the specialty priests of Luiren that's included in Tom Prusa (1993).Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting 3rd edition. Reynolds, Skip Williams, Rob Heinsoo (June 2001). Cordell, Christopher Lindsay (April 2006). ↑ Mike Mearls, Jeremy Crawford (2014).↑ Jeremy Crawford (November 17, 2020).
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