Outsider

## **Outsiders**

An outsider, or being from outside the Material Plane is composed of two of the main quintessence of beings and has an intrinsic connection to one of the various Source Planes. Outsiders are also known as etheric beings. They come into being in one of three ways;

### **Core Outsiders**

First, they are generated through an unknown process within a plane, usually a Outer or Inner Plane, created from the quintessence of their home plane as well as the souls of petitioners that have been absorbed by the plane.

### **Forged Outsiders**

Second, they are created through the actions of a deity, either from the plane and ethos contained within or a mortal who had never become a petitioner and crossed to the outer planes as a mortal or was chosen by a deity just as they became a petitioner.

### **Imbued Outsiders**

Finally there are **Imbued**, or outsiders that were mortal, became petitioners, and who transformed from their own actions or through the planes quintessence.

### **Native Outsiders**

Native outsiders, or mortal outsiders are a rare case of breeding between an outsider and mortal, a magical or divine accident or some other convergence of events. While they have a connection to a non-material plane, outsider traits and sometimes more, they are still contained with a shell of essence, and therefore can be revived and travel ethereal the same as others, though normal magic must be at least 9th circle or higher to succeed. Their souls are also much more likely to be sent to the plane of their connection as the planar influence tends to tainted their personality and disposition for better or worse. Examples of these include half-outsiders, and touched folk such as Aasimar and Tieflings.

### **Greater Outsiders**

A outsider that gains enough power to break the limits of what is normal for their type of being is known as a **Greater Outsider**. These beings include some demi-gods and demon lords as well as the individuals that make up the groups known as the Lords of Hell, the Empyreal Kings or the Rakshasa.

## **Source Planes**

#### Material Plane

Mortals and other native outsiders can be considered the be Insiders: Outsiders of the Inner Plane. New souls can be viewed the petitioners and their travel to find the correct vessel of lifeforce as their journey.

#### Heaven

The forces of Heaven are the smallest of the outsiders within the Higher Planes. The strict righteousness and zealotry in life is hard found, and drives many mortals to fight the darkness and lose themselves against its' power. Those that do arrive as petitioners and manage to prove their worth, or are created as Forged and Core outsiders find themselves as either archons or angels of law and good.

#### Nirvana

While there are more outsiders in the Enlightened Land than Heaven, it is still small compared to the multitudes of evil outsiders. Those that do come to Nirvana as petitioners and achieve enlightenment, or created by the plane or its' deities that live here find themselves as either good agathions or angels.

#### Elysium

Of the three Higher Planes, the realm of freedom holds the greatest number of outsiders. Attributed to the mercurial and rebellious nature of the mortal being, it fields the greatest number of champions against the forces of evil. Those that find themselves here as petitioners and free themselves or are liberated by the plane or its' deities find themselves as azatas or angels, beings chaos and good.

#### Axis

The most rigid of the outer planes, it constantly maintains a tenuous balance with the Maelstrom in order to regulate cosmic stability. Those that find themselves in the First City either as petitioners that solve the riddle etched into their ethosic flesh or forged by the plane and its' deities are known as axiomites or inevitables, beings of order and law.

#### Limbo

The rarest found and most expansive outer plane, it holds the Spire and its' Court of Judgement. All souls flow throw here at different points of their lives, escorted by reapers from the Material Plane, inspected by the aeons, petitioners, mortals and Core outsiders who have received the blessing of the Elder Goddess. Finally they receive their judgment from Yumee, delivered in the hands of pyschopomps. Rumors of even greater outsiders in the depths of Limbo abound.

#### Maelstrom

Of all the outsiders, the chaotic proteans are by far the most unpredictable as they are empowered with the energy of chaos. They are almost never are imbued outsiders, rarely are forged outsiders, as most of their species consists of core outsides. Most petitioners that arrive in the Maelstrom find themselves transformed into chaos beasts by the planes intense energies.

#### Hell

The embodiment of ancient darkness and rule and order, the souls here find themselves damned to one of the layers, either as petitioners under the dominion of one the Archdevils or as a member of one of the two fiend species: Devils or the velstrac. Each draws powers from different aspects of the various layers and delight in bending the will of souls.

#### Abaddon

Beings tossed into the depths of the Dead Fields come to know the horror of being hunted by the creatures of the plane: Daemons and the Div. Those that survive and consume others find themselves transformed. There are no known core daemons, and few forged.

#### Abyss

A realm of endless and everchanging pockets of darkness and evil awaits those that find themselves sent here or created by the hands of the plane or its' many masters as core or forged outsides. They become demons if they survive the harsh and unreal climates; Adapting to their new realm. The core species of the Qlippoth naw at the boundaries of the Abyss; An ever waging war against the beings of ethos.

#### First World

The closest realm to the Material of the various source planes; Here those with a connection to the natural world find themselves becoming or created to be one of the many wild spirits: The Fey.

#### Elemental Planes

The strangest of the source realms: It is here that most atheists and agnostic petitioners or many of those of the Dispersed that finally manage to develop a moral direction find themselves. Any broken or fractured remains of souls that are incapable of finding judgement of also are absorbed from the Ethereal Plane, directed by Reapers, to be used in the formation of core and forged elementals.

#### Plane of Life

Lifebinders are considered the rarest of outsiders; As uncommon as reapers, these elemental beings of light and life are rare to behold and mostly consist of core outsiders, though a rare few are instead forged. There are no known imbued lifebinders.

#### Plane of Death

The antithesis of the Lifebinders are Nightshades. These beings of darkness and death are thankfully rare; No core outsider of their species exists and instead only forged and imbued nightshades, all once mortal, exist.

## **Outsider Death**

An outsider can only truly die if they are in a plane whose quintessence is of the same dimensional sphere or greater. If they are killed on a plane of a lesser quintessenal sphere they are merely dispersed and will reform upon their home plane in due time, dependent on the individual outsider. This gives outsiders from the Outer Planes a distinct advantage in war against those from the Inner Planes when in combat. When killed upon a plane of a equal or greater sphere to their own, the quintessence of the outsider condenses into a core that then is slowly consumed by the plane they are on. If an outsider is killed on their actual source plane their ethos is instead absorbed by Limbo and the Spire.