Demiplane of Imprisonment

## Planar Traits

* Great Wheel

The **Demiplane of Imprisonment** was an extremely obscure demiplane. Very little was known about it.

## Geography

The demiplane resembled a crystalline cyst floating through the Ethereal Plane. The ether for 500 feet (150 meters) around the demiplane continuously manifested dreamscapes for the nightmares that an intelligence within sent around the multiverse to its would-be worshipers; these were dominated by purple eyes, mouths, veined whirlpools, and dark humanoid figures. The visions continuously attempted to goad, tempt, and seduce travelers into touching the crystal, which would trap them in the demiplane.

## History

Sometime after −3234 DR, the archwizard Madryoch was banished to this demiplane. The plane was rediscovered later by Netherese arcanists following up on the work of the archmage Shadow; a handful of them became imprisoned in it. Shadow himself used assassins he caught alive as exploration guinea pigs, making them touch its surface; he never managed to retrieve them afterwards.

## Inhabitants

People who touched the crystal were absorbed into the demiplane. No one could leave on their own power; it took a spell like *wish* or *miracle* from someone outside the demiplane to escape. Those removed would be under the effects of an *insanity*, that could be healed in the same ways as the effects of the spell of the same name.

The archwizard Madryoch had been banished to this demiplane. Madryoch's essence later escaped the imprisonment, instead being trapped in the Plane of Shadow.

## Legends

The Demiplane of Imprisonment was a legend even to the gods. According to its legend, an irredeemably evil creature and its servants had been banished from all of reality to the Negative Material Plane by the gods that came before the gods, with this demiplane housing remnants of their forces.

The color of this demiplane's ethereal curtain was unrecorded. Travelers were recommended not to cross color pools of unrecognized color, lest they accidentally find themselves here. Most realms had similar legends about a demiplane of this nature, with the local theology substituted, having all come together to imprison there what remnants of the evil force they could not or would not completely annihilate.

## Appendix

### References

1. ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 Amber Stewart and Oliver Diaz (March 2007). “Multiple Dementia: A Guide to the Demiplanes”. In Erik Mona ed. *Dragon* #353 (Paizo Publishing, LLC), pp. 36–42.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Brian R. James, Ed Greenwood (September 2007). *The Grand History of the Realms*. Edited by Kim Mohan, Penny Williams. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 18. ISBN 978-0-7869-4731-7.
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4. ↑ *Various* (December 1997). *Realms of the Arcane*. (TSR), p. 194. ISBN 0-7869-0647-2.
5. ↑ Richard Baker (1998). *The Shadow Stone*. (TSR, Inc), chap. 18. ISBN 0-7869-1186-7.
6. ↑ Jeff Grubb (July 1987). *Manual of the Planes 1st edition*. (TSR), p. 21. ISBN 0880383992.
7. ↑ Bruce R. Cordell (1998). *A Guide to the Ethereal Plane*. Edited by Michele Carter, Keith Francis Strohm. (TSR, Inc.), pp. 20, 46. ISBN 0-7869-1205-7.