Outer Planes

*Main article: Great Wheel cosmology#Outer Planes*
*Main article: World Tree cosmology#Outer Planes*
**Outer Planes** is a collective term used to describe a subset of the known planes of existence in various cosmology models. The term refers to the placement of the planes being the outermost concentric sphere that made up the multiverse in the Great Wheel cosmology model. The term continued to be used in the World Tree cosmology model but referred to a different set of planes.

Outer Planes could refer to:

* These seventeen planes of the Great Wheel cosmology model:
	1. The Abyss
	2. Acheron
	3. Arcadia
	4. Concordant Opposition/Outlands
	5. Elysium
	6. Gehenna
	7. Gladsheim/Ysgard
	8. Hades/The Gray Waste
	9. Happy Hunting Grounds/Beastlands
	10. Limbo
	11. The Nine Hells/Baator
	12. Nirvana/Mechanus
	13. Olympus/Arborea/Arvandor
	14. Pandemonium
	15. Seven Heavens/Mount Celestia
	16. Tarterus/Carceri
	17. Twin Paradises/Bytopia
* These twenty six planes of the World Tree cosmology model:
	1. The Abyss
	2. Arvandor
	3. The Barrens of Doom and Despair
	4. Blood Rift
	5. Brightwater
	6. Clangor
	7. Deep Caverns
	8. The Demonweb Pits
	9. Dragon Eyrie
	10. Dwarfhome
	11. Dweomerheart
	12. Fated Depths
	13. Fury's Heart
	14. The Gates of the Moon
	15. Golden Hills
	16. Green Fields
	17. Hammergrim
	18. Heliopolis
	19. The House of Knowledge
	20. The House of Nature
	21. The House of the Triad
	22. Jotunheim
	23. The Nine Hells
	24. Nishrek
	25. The Supreme Throne
	26. Warrior's Rest
* Incorrectly refer to the Astral dominions of the World Axis cosmology.

## Appendix

### References

1. ↑ David "Zeb" Cook (1989). *Dungeon Master's Guide 2nd edition*. (TSR, Inc.), p. 132. ISBN 0-88038-729-7.
2. ↑ Jeff Grubb (July 1987). *Manual of the Planes 1st edition*. (TSR), p. 73. ISBN 0880383992.
3. ↑ Ed Greenwood, Julia Martin, Jeff Grubb (1993). *Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting 2nd edition (revised), Running the Realms*. (TSR, Inc). ISBN 1-5607-6617-4.
4. ↑ Richard Baker, James Wyatt (March 2004). *Player's Guide to Faerûn*. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 140. ISBN 0-7869-3134-5.

### Connections

Cosmologies of the Realms

The Great Wheel

Prime Material plane • Feywild • Shadowfell • Fugue Plane
**Transitive Planes:** Astral Plane • Ethereal plane
**Inner Planes:** Elemental Plane of Air • Elemental Plane of Water • Elemental Plane of Earth • Elemental Plane of Fire • Elemental Chaos
**Para-Elemental Planes:** Frostfell • Swamp of Oblivion • Fountains of Creation • Great Conflagration
**Quasi-Elemental Planes:** Lightning • Radiance • Minerals • Steam • Vacuum • Ash • Dust • Salt
**Outlands:** Sigil
****Outer Planes**:** Arcadia • Mount Celestia • Bytopia • Elysium • Beastlands • Arborea • Ysgard • Limbo •
Pandemonium • Abyss (Layers) • Carceri • Hades • Gehenna • Nine Hells • Acheron • Mechanus
**Energy planes:** Positive Energy plane • Negative Energy plane
**Planar Pathways:** Infinite Staircase • Oceanus • Mount Olympus • Styx • Yggdrasil
**Far Realm**

The World Tree

Prime Material plane • Cynosure • Fugue Plane
**Transitive Planes:** Astral Plane • Ethereal plane • Plane of Shadow • Spirit World
**Celestial Outer Planes:** Arvandor • Brightwater • Dwarfhome • Dweomerheart • Gates of the Moon • Golden Hills • Green Fields • House of Knowledge • House of the Triad
**Fiendish Outer Planes:** Abyss (Layers) • Barrens of Doom and Despair • Blood Rift • Clangor • Deep Caverns • Demonweb Pits • Fated Depths • Fury's Heart • Hammergrim • Nine Hells • Nishrek • Supreme Throne
**Neutral Outer Planes:** Dragon Eyrie • Heliopolis • House of Nature • Jotunheim • Warrior's Rest
**Inner Planes:** Elemental Plane of Air • Elemental Plane of Earth • Elemental Plane of Fire • Elemental Plane of Water • Positive Energy plane • Negative Energy plane
**Planar Pathways:** Infinite Staircase • River of Blood • World Tree
**Far Realm**

The World Axis

Prime Material plane
**Fundamental planes:** Astral Sea • Elemental Chaos
**Astral dominions:** Arvandor • Banehold • Celestia • Cynosure • Deep Wilds • Demonweb Pits • Dismal Caverns • Dwarfhome • Eternal Sun • Fugue Plane • Gates of the Moon • Green Fields • House of Knowledge • Nine Hells • Nishrek • Supreme Throne • Towers of Night • Tu'narath • Warrior's Rest
**Elemental realms:** Abyss (Layers) • City of Brass • Cresting Spires • Fimbulwinter • Hidden Realm • Muspelheim • Root Hold • Sky Home • Steading • Thraotor • Undying Pyre • Zerthadlun
**Parallel planes:** Feywild • Shadowfell
**Anomalous planes:** Far Realm