Material Plane

The **Material Plane**, or sometimes **Prime Material Plane**, is the plane of existence in which the world of Blaedura exists.

## **Blaedura**

→ *Main article: Blaedura.*
Blaedura is the world on which most events of Books 1, 2, and 3 take place.

### **Satellites**

Blaedura has three moons:

* **Cynthia:** close to Blaedura and appears large in the sky. It has a pale blueish tint and has a 32-day cycle in which it waxes and wanes.

* **Rhys:** the smaller, reddish-brown colored moon with a 392-day cycle. The annual calendar is based off of Rhys, making it so the full moon is the first night of the new year.

* **Krauss:** the smallest/farthest of the moons. It has a deep blueish purple hue and it is only visible in the sky every other year due to its 3-year cycle.

## **Relationship to Other Planes**

In some places, the barriers between the Material Plane and other planes become thin or are simply punched through. Some rifts are stable for long periods: there are settlements around long-lasting rifts with the Elemental Planes, and known portals to the Feywild, for example. The barriers become especially thin under a Celestial Solstice.

Once opened, rifts can be widened or they can be sealed. Long-term doorways can be established between planes and realms, starting with anchor glyphs and building a permanent enchantment around them, similar to building a permanent *teleportation circle*.

### **Echoes of the Material Plane**

#### **The Feywild**

→ *Main Article: Feywild*
The Feywild, or Plane of Faerie, overlaps the Material Plane. There are many points of crossing that were well documented in the ancient city of Molaesmyr, but said records were lost when the city was brought to ruin.

#### **The Shadowfell**

→ *Main Article: Shadowfell*
The Shadowfell, like the Feywild, overlaps the Material Plane. The dark city of Thar Amphala, using threshold crests, was able to shift between the Plane of Shadow and the Material Plane.

### **Transitive Planes**

#### **Astral Sea**

→ *Main article: Astral Sea.*
The Astral Sea, or Astral Plane, contains gateways to other planes and is home to the Githyanki.

* When a Bag of Holding is destroyed, its contents are jettisoned into the Astral Sea.

#### **Ethereal Plane**

→ *Main article: Ethereal Plane.*
The Ethereal Plane overlaps the Material Plane, but they are somewhat out of phase with each other. There are several spells, items, and even innate abilities allowing creatures on the Material Plane to interact with the Ethereal Plane.

* The spell *True Seeing* allows the target to see 120 feet.
* Creatures slathered in *Oil of Etherealness* enter the Ethereal Plane for an hour.
* The spell *Blink* allows the caster to enter the Ethereal Plane for short periods and move up to 10 feet to a different position in the Material Plane.

### **The Divine Gate and the Outer Planes**

At the end of the Calamity, the Prime Gods erected the Divine Gate, a sort of lattice through which gods cannot pass, between the Outer Planes (where the divine exist) and the rest of creation: the Prime Material, Ethereal, Astral, and various Elemental planes, as well as the Feywild and Shadowfell. Most people call this event the Divergence, though some more religious folk call it "The Penance" while students of the arcane call it "The Second Spark." The Divine Gate has been narrated as a visible phenomenon while shifting between the mortal planes and the divine Outer Planes. (It does not appear when traveling, say, from the Material Plane to the Feywild. It also does not stop a god from traveling between the Outer Planes.) A unanimous effort of the Prime Gods or possibly an unchained Tharizdun could break the Divine Gate, which would lead to another Armageddon on the mortal realm.