Oerth

Oerth ( ) was a planet located in the center of Greyspace, a crystal sphere located in the Prime Material Plane.
==Cosmography==
Greyspace was part of a celestial configuration known as the Triad, which also included Realmspace, where the world of Toril was found, and Krynnspace, home of the world of Krynn. The phlogiston, a rainbow-colored chaotic liquid that surrounded the spheres, had strong currents flowing from Grayspace toward Krynnspace, from Krynnspace toward Realmspace, and in both directions between Greyspace and Realmspace. Traveling with any of these currents was a relatively simple matter, but traveling directly from Krynnspace to Greyspace or from Realmspace to Krynnspace was impossible.
==Geography==
There was a land here called the Flanaess and a body of water called the Coral Sea.
===Calendar===
Similarly to Toril, the inhabitants of Oerth used a number of different calendars to mark the time. The standard most commonly used was the Common Year (CY) calendar. A year on Oerth lasted 365 sidereal days, but as a result of the sun's orbit around the planet, a calendar year contained only 364 solar days.This difference in the number of days of the Oerthian year is due to the fact that the sun orbits Oerth in the same direction as the planet's rotation around its own axis. For that reason, every 365 times Oerth completes a full rotation around itself, the sun completes one, subtracting a day, for a total of 364 calendar days.
The marked the first meeting between Elminster and Mordenkainen on Earth. On Oerth, this was shortly before the year 581 CY, when Mordenkainen was beginning to suspect a plot to destroy the Circle of Eight, which culminated in Vecna's first failed attempt at becoming a greater deity.
==History==
In the mid‒14 century DR, Jewely Carseah and Marcus of the Waters were sent as emissaries from Oerth to the Rock of Bral to discuss the threat of invasion the Vodoni Empire posed to the crystal spheres of Realmspace, Greyspace, and Krynnspace, in the early stages of the War of the Spheres. The meeting marked the formation of the Free Space Alliance.
In the late 15 century DR, a book on the history of Oerth was part of the collection of the arcanaloth headmaster of the Dweomercore level of Undermountain.
==Inhabitants==
Oerth was home to prominent wizards such as Bigby, Drawmij, Tenser, and Mordenkainen, whose spells were well known on Toril. Mordenkainen was an acquaintance of Elminster's; the two had met on numerous occasions in the home of Ed of the Green Wood on Earth to exchange spells and lore.See other articles in the Wizards Three series in Dragon Magazine. Mordenkainen, when he had newly mastered interplanar travel, used to visit Waterdeep with some regularity.
When Harkle Harpell entered into an unorthodox contest of wizardry with the Sea Sprite's wizard Robillard, Harkle and Robillard mentioned a number of Oerthly wizards, including Bigby, Melf, Otiluke, and Tenser. In particular, Robillard regarded Bigby as one of the most powerful and impressive wizards of all time, on any world.
The Oerthly bard Gwydiesin of the Cranes also chatted with Elminster on occasion.
Both Elminster and Khelben "Blackstaff" Arunsun spent time on Oerth, and Elminster suspected that Khelben Arunsun the Younger settled there to begin a life away from the elder Khelben.
Oerth was the homeworld of Scaldulin, a famous hero who wielded a powerful enchanted sword, the Hoarfrost Blade. Before the blade ended up broken and then reforged on Toril, the sword accompanied its owner in the Battle of the Thousand Dead, battle against lich Scaroth the Warped of Blackmoor, and stayed with its master after his transformation into a death knight. The sword also cut down a solar named Arazium.
==Culture==
Large green plover's eggs were a delicacy in the Flanaess.
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*Cook, Monte and Ray Vallese. Faction War. Renton, WA: TSR, 1998.
*Cordell, Bruce, and Steve Miller. Die Vecna Die!. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, 2000.
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===Gallery===
Gray Guard.jpg|A half-elf gray guard paladin of Heironeous on Oerth.
===References===
Category:Locations in Greyspace
Category:Locations