The Celestial Planes

### **Lunia**

Also known as **The Silver Heaven** is sparely covered with citadels of white stone and the palaces of minor deities. Various elven races can often be found trading amongst the lower reaches.

The plane is covered in permanent night, but the silvered stars provide enough light that a moon was deemed unnecessary and the temperature is maintained as thought it were a warm summer.

Most portal connections from the **Grand Realm** arrive at this layer. Most of those who arrive find themselves plunged just off the coast of **Lunia** into the **Silver Sea**, a vast ocean of clean and fresh holy water.

The ruler of **Lunia** is **Barachiel, The Messenger**, patron of trumpet archons, whose **Citadel** **of** **Stars** sits on the shores of the **Silver** **Sea**. **Barachiel** is charged with defending the **Heavens** from incursion, a task which, even on this lowest and most accessible layer, he rarely has to act upon.

### **Mercuria**

Also known as **The Golden Heaven** is the location containing the divine realms of the Gods **Torm, The Loyal Fury** and **Bahamut, The Platinum Dragon.**

The air in **Mercuria** is very thin, which can cause dizziness in creatures until their bodies have time to adapt to it. The landscape is typically high mountains and deep valleys
which are bathed in a permenant golden light.

This layer also serves as the armoury of the **Seven Heavens**, as well as the staging
ground for its troops. Fallen soldiers are remembered annually on the final day
of **Vult**, known as the **Day of Memories** by all inhabitants of **Mercuria**.

The ruler of Mercuria is **Domiel, The Mercy-Bringer** from the Golden Spire of **Aurilon**, a huge golden tower in the midst of a valley fed by four rivers.

### **Venya**

Also known as **The Pearly Heaven** is covered in smooth, rolling hills and arable land.

The sky emanates a soft white glow, reminiscent of the lustre of white pearls. A gentle layer of snow often covers the landscape.

Large amounts of woodland cover **Venya**, and the rivers which ran through would not freeze even in winter. It is also home to the Gods **Yondalla**, **Arvoreen, The Defender** & **Cyrrollalee** as well as being the final resting place for the souls of the halfling races.

The ruler of **Venya** is **Erathaol,** **The** **Seer**, an incredibly handsome archon with subtle masculine features, governs **Venya** from his underwater library-fortress of **Xiranthador**. Within its pearl-lined halls are said to lay more tomes of knowledge than can be read in a thousand lifetimes.

### **Solania**

Also known as **The Electrum Heaven** has a sky that glows like burnished silver, also sometime called **The Crystal Heaven.**

The valleys of **Solania** are filled with mists, fogs and strange scents, dozens of shrines and monasteries to various deities both big and small dot the landscape. Much of the land is rich in ore and gemstone, much to the pleasure of the souls of the dwarves that reside there.

A vast dwarven mansion called **Erackinor** is located on the slopes of Solania, where the dwarven deity **Moradin** makes his domain, with his wife **Berronar** **Truesilver**. Here exists the giant SoulForges, that **Moradin** is said to use to temper the spirits of his people.

The ruler of **Solania** is **Pistis** **Sophia**, **The** **Ascetic.** Calledso due to her monk like tendencies, holds no abode but travels the misty hills of her layer, helping out all who greet her along the way.

### **Mertion**

Also known as **The Platinum Heaven** is full of gentle slopes and wide plains, with majestic citadels and huge black spherical domes dotting the area.

This layer is often used as a mustering ground for Paladins and other Lawful Good servants. **Empyrea**, **The City of Tempered Souls** is located here. It is host to many magical fountains with powerful healing properties as well as many hospitals and expert healers.

The Ruler of **Mertion** is **Raizel, The Firestar** As the patron of paladins and warriors, he holds no permanent fortress but can be found in any of the city’s many hospitals and infirmaries, providing spiritual guidance and protection to the clerics and patients within.

### **Jovar**

Also known as **The Glittering Heaven** or **The Heaven of Gems.** Its hills are studded with precious gemstones that glitter in the light.

A seemingly unending ziggurat is the home of the archons and guarded the entrance to the seventh heaven.Known as **Yesteria**, **The** **Heavenly** **City**, the huge seven-layered ziggurat displayed a large staircase on each face connecting the terraces of each layer. The stones that made up the city were made of precious gemstones, similar to those seen around the surrounding hills.

 On the topmost terrace was the bridge of **Al**-**Sihal**, formed of pure light, where the portal to the topmost layer, **Chronias**, was located, It is guarded by a powerful solar named **Xerona** who judged who was allowed to enter.

The ruler of **Jovar** is **Sealtiel**, **The** **Defender**. **Sealtiel** commands one of the largest standing armies from his fortress of **Pax** **Exaltea** and is charged with preventing impure beings entering the uppermost layer.

### **Chronias**

Also known as **The Illuminated Heaven.** There is no real account or description of **Chronias**, as no entity that has entered has ever returned.

The legends said that **Chronias** was so good and lawful that it glowed of its own accord and any who entered had all evil and neutrality burned out of them, leaving them inherently good, if they survived.

It is thought to be the ultimate goal of the inhabitants of the **Heavens** to ascend the layers one
by one in order to reach **Chronias**, where their souls will join with the essence of the plane itself.

If anyone can be said to rule in **Chronias**, that being would be **Zaphkiel, The Watcher**. **Zaphkiel** is the mysterious ruler of the **Hebdomad**, and embodies the "perfect good", and only the most righteous and exalted individuals can stand in his presence without being consumed.

**Zaphkiel** is the patron of dead children and stillborn babies and
watches over their spirits. Beyond this **Zaphkiel's** motivations and plans are unknowable, though it is known that he intends to
make the planes as good as they can be, and only he can promote an archon into the **Hebdomad**.