An Elemental Primer (TIP)

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When folks think of the Inner Planes, they often think of just the four core Elemental Planes. They picture the endless azure skies of the Elemental Plane of Air and the hellish blaze of the plane of Fire. They envision the eternal tides of Water and the oppressive depths of Elemental Earth. Such thinking, however, results in a limited scope. There's a lot more to the Inner Planes than this.
Even cutters experienced in planar travel-those who've explored one or more of the Outer Planes (or even hail from one of them)-find the Inner Planes as absolutely different from what they've seen before as they can possibly imagine. They come away awed by the sheer fundamental, tangible reality, something they can't find even on the Prime, let alone the belief-based Outer Planes. Everything in the Inner Planes feels more real, appears more vivid, and affects them more deeply. Raw, powerful, deadly, and passionate (yet paradoxically detached), the Inner Planes seethe and roil, caring not how the rest of the multiverse fares. Sigil, the Prime, the Blood War, modrons on the marchnone of these mean anything to the Inner Planes or to those who live here. And that's ironic, considering that the Inner Planes're the soil and nutrients from which the rest of the multiverse grows.
The Inner Planes comprise six major planes and a dozen lesser ones. The former include the four Elemental Planes and the two Energy Planes. The latter are divided into four Paraelemental Planes and eight Quasielemental Planes. Each of these regions is described in brief below and in more detail later in this book.
* The Elemental Planes
* The Energy Planes
* The Paraelemental Planes
* The Positive Quasielemental Planes
* The Negative Quasielemental Planes