On the Planes Elemental

(Some more fluff from my Homebrew D&D 3.5 setting. The setting is aptly called Shadesong. There are still a lot of aspects yet to be fleshed out so if there is anything anyone would like to see just post a comment for it.)

Of the known Elemental and Quasi Elemental planes there is much that is thought to be true.
The Elemental planes do not exist apart from one another. Instead, they all form one infinite Plane. Known conventionally as the Elemental Plane, this Plane contains the Sub-Planar Districts of Air, Earth, Water and Fire. Of the four, Earth and Water are the most easily reached. The realm of the Aerie Spirits above must be reached through flight whether natural or magical, and the Fiery Spirits of Flame and their demesnes may only be toured at certain gateways known as Volcanoes to most civilized folk. The Elemental Plane exists somewhat outside of the known Universe, and as such it is believed that it has existed for quite some time prior to the creation of ones own Universe. It is still a great mystery who originally created the Elemental Plane...or what.

Note that unlike many other cosmologies, the cosmology of Sin and Sol contains no "Negative" or "Positive" Planes of Energy. Energy is present in all things, and it is outside classifications of boonful or entropic. One could surmise that "replacements" for these would be the dualism of Light and Dark, yet even then one could note that Life exists both in darkness and the light.

Within the Elemental Plane there exists the Major Elemental Planes:

The Elemental Plane of Earth, also known as Lifehome, is a limitless expanse of Jungle and Forest. Some small bodies of water may be found here which lead to the Elemental Plane of Water, although areas larger than lakes are absent.

The Elemental Plane of Water, also known as Aquaris, is a great ocean interspersed with small islands. The depth of the ocean floor is vastly different from one area to the next, and the islands are ripe with Naiads and Nymphs of the Waters. The Elemental Plane of Water can be reached most commonly through aquatic tunnels from the bottoms of lakes on Lifehome. Some islands here host Volcanoes, although these isles are few.

The Elemental Plane of Air, also known as Aerie, is made up of the clouds above all the other Major Elemental Planes. These clouds are easily malleable, and the palaces and island strongholds of the Aerie peoples are made of magically reinforced cloud. To exit Aerie, one simply need drop from the cloud they are on, although they may hit another on the way down...

The Elemental Plane of Fire is a rarely visited place, and as such is called many derisive names by those who despise its harsh conditions. Of course, one could call it by its Fire Elemental name, which would then be the sylabalistically intensive "Shalaxxgritixagra", meaning Sparkheart. The Plane is reached easily by surviving the heat of a Volcano or braving a portal, yet exit from Sparkheart is dangerous and haphazard at best. Colossal rivers of Lava, fields of ash, and flaming citadels of obsidian mark Sparkheart as heavily associated with the bedrock and stone of Lifehome, yet entrance into that Plane is difficult in that it requires an absence of heat to allow life to flourish and weaken an areas Planar boundary in this lifeless place. Even entrance upon the Aerie realms above Sparkheart offers temporal escape, for unless the Aerie spirits know a way to create life in the cold altitudes above there is no point.

At the moment, the only interesting thing about Sparkheart are the ruins. Ruins? Yes, the idea is strange for an Elemental Plane, but no less day after day shows lava waves uncovering more and more buried citadels and towers and keeps of stone and steel. Opportunists need to act fast, for the lava waits for none but the Lord of Fire, and gold and silver don't play nice with fire.

It is said that these ruins are in fact from different realities, and are sent to Sparkhome as a kind of disposal process.


The Quasi Elemental planes are much more temporary and transient in their natures that not much ink shall be wasted on them. Simply put, a Quasi Elemental Plane exists only in the presence of combinations of the other elements that create it. A blade of forged steel has its own Quasi Elemental plane as long as the blade exists in a steel form for example.

Entrance onto a Quasi Elemental Plane is impossible: individually they are smaller than the Planck length, which is the size that allows them to exist in the first place.