Elemental Planes

* Each of the 4 elements is a quadrant in a great sphere. 
* Where the 4 elements meet they create the Staff of the World that supports and spins the world.
** Bits of this staff that fall to earth are called Philosophers' Stones.
* Life
** If the elemental planes are the building blocks of the world, then the life within them is the contamination from the world they built. Contamination is worst in the Plane of Earth (since so much of it was used to create the world) and it contains the creatures that look most like those found in the PMP.
* Each world (Dragon Homeworld, Demon Homeworld, and The World) have their own set of Elemental Planes. Only The World has a Staff of Creation however.
==Plane of Earth==
*A mass of earth and stone, solid all the way through. Networks of rock travel like veins through the plane. Using something like a “meld into stone” spell would permit a traveler from the PMP to ‘walk’ through the plane of earth.
*The elemental plane of earth acts as the center of gravity for the other planes. Those in the water or fire planes are automatically oriented with an up/down in relation to air/earth.
*Life: Xorns, worms, and other more normal looking forms of life.
==Plane of Water==
* Great pillars of salt traverse the otherwise sweet water, creating zones of saline water that are deadly to some forms life on this plane.
* A vast ocean lit from the Stellar / Celestial Plane. This light comes in from the side “outside”. It is claimed In the opposite direction of the light is the shadow plane, and then the Prime Material Plane, but this plane has no connection to the Shadow Plane. Up is towards the plane of air, down is towards the plane of earth.
* Life: slimes that feed on the salt pillars create briney blobs (via waste removal) that grow ever larger as they devour each other. When they die, they sink towards the elemental plane of earth where they are eventually taken back up into the salt pillars.
==Plane of Fire==
*A writhing mass of fire and light. There is no air to breath and temperatures are hot enough to ignite any combustible materials.
*Life: While there is no life native to the elemental plane of fire, occasionally an air elemental will get trapped within the fire plane and “shift” from air spirit to fire spirit. These elementals are appropriately hot tempered and fast acting. They are difficult, if not impossible, to control. Knowing how difficult it is to survive in the plane of fire, a few creatures of exceptional power have made homes here (to keep out the riffraff). 
==Plane of Air==
*A vast empty space lit from two sides. The Stellar edge, “outside” provides dim light in comparison to the brightly lit border of the Fire plane that is blindingly bright. Since the plane of air opposes that of the plane of earth, there is no set down direction. A creature in the plane of air simply decides which way is “down” and falls in that direction until they change their perspective or run into the plane of water/fire (probably at high speeds, killing them).
*Life: Clouds absorb water near the plane of water and grow agitated near the plane of fire. This proto-life form stores energy until it can hold no more, and lets it out in large bolts of lightning. Where they strike the fog, new clouds form, grow, and shift about. Cloud Giants & Jinn also live here.
==The Borders of the Elemental Planes==
===Earth/Water===
Bordering the planes of earth and water are the remains of all life that has died in the elemental plane of water. Most of this material is a soft silt, creating a semi-liquid viscous material that slowly becomes more dense until you arrive at the plane of earth.
===Earth/Fire===
Where the plane of fire meets the plane of earth is a blackened and charred wasteland of hot rock. Occasionally the plane of earth will quake, opening small fissures that reach out to the plane of fire. This intense heat, mixed with the pressures of the earth plane closing back in create various pockets of raw gems which make their way to the PMP by traveling earth elementals who leave them in their wake.
Mountains of rock burst across the divide creating a hellscape. Shards of obsidian the size of mountains force their way from the stone. These landscapes crumble as quickly as they form.
===Air/Water===
The border between these two planes is the surface of an ocean blanketed with dense fog. As you move into the plane of air, the fog thins into transparent air. Air bubbles spontaneously form under the surface of the water giving this ocean a carbonated look.
===Air/Fire===
Raging firestorms make the border between two planes more fluid than all the rest. Hot gases rush in all directions and spontaneous gouts of fire belch into the plane of air, while cool breezes and pockets of tranquility occasionally find their way into the plane of fire.
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