<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Xaeyruudh&#039;s Index]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://xaeyruudh.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[Xaeyruudh]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://xaeyruudh.wordpress.com/author/xaeyruudh/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[The Outer Planes]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>This information is intended for use with the <a href="http://www.wizards.com/Company/Brands/DnD.aspx" target="_blank">Dungeons &amp; Dragons</a> role-playing game.</p>
<h3>At a Glance</h3>
<p>The planes are organized (or imagined) in different ways, according to one of several cosmologies.</p>
<h4>The Great Wheel</h4>
<p>There are seventeen Outer Planes in this cosmology: <a href="https://xaeyruudh.wordpress.com/2012/05/23/celestia/" title="The Seven Mounting Heavens of Celestia">Celestia</a>, <a href="https://xaeyruudh.wordpress.com/2012/05/23/bytopia/" title="The Twin Paradises of Bytopia">Bytopia</a>, <a href="https://xaeyruudh.wordpress.com/2012/05/23/elysium/" title="The Blessed Fields of Elysium">Elysium</a>, <a href="https://xaeyruudh.wordpress.com/2012/05/23/beastlands/" title="The Wilderness of the Beastlands">Beastlands</a>, <a href="https://xaeyruudh.wordpress.com/2012/05/23/arborea/" title="The Olympian Glades of Arborea">Arborea</a>, <a href="https://xaeyruudh.wordpress.com/2012/05/23/ysgard-plane/" title="The Heroic Domains of Ysgard">Ysgard</a>, <a href="https://xaeyruudh.wordpress.com/2012/05/23/limbo/" title="The Ever-Changing Chaos of Limbo">Limbo</a>, <a href="https://xaeyruudh.wordpress.com/2012/05/23/pandemonium/" title="The Windswept Depths of Pandemonium">Pandemonium</a>, <a href="https://xaeyruudh.wordpress.com/2012/05/23/abyss/" title="The Infinite Layers of the Abyss">the Abyss</a>, <a href="https://xaeyruudh.wordpress.com/2012/05/23/carceri/" title="The Tarterian Depths of Carceri">Carceri</a>, <a href="https://xaeyruudh.wordpress.com/2012/05/23/hades/" title="The Gray Waste of Hades">Hades</a>, <a href="https://xaeyruudh.wordpress.com/2012/05/23/gehenna/" title="The Bleak Eternity of Gehenna">Gehenna</a>, <a href="https://xaeyruudh.wordpress.com/2012/05/23/baator/" title="The Nine Hells of Baator">Baator</a>, <a href="https://xaeyruudh.wordpress.com/2012/05/23/acheron/" title="The Infernal Battlefield of Acheron">Acheron</a>, <a href="https://xaeyruudh.wordpress.com/2012/05/23/mechanus/" title="The Clockwork Nirvana of Mechanus">Mechanus</a>, <a href="https://xaeyruudh.wordpress.com/2012/05/23/arcadia/" title="The Peaceable Kingdoms of Arcadia">Arcadia</a>, and <a href="https://xaeyruudh.wordpress.com/2012/05/23/outlands/" title="The Concordant Domain of the Outlands">the Outlands</a>.</p>
<h4>The Realms Cosmology</h4>
<p>In place of the seventeen Outer Planes there are 21 planes where <a href="https://xaeyruudh.wordpress.com/2012/02/13/faerunian-pantheon/" title="The Faerunian Pantheon">the Faerunian powers</a> are said to dwell: <a href="https://xaeyruudh.wordpress.com/2012/05/23/abyss/" title="The Infinite Layers of the Abyss">the Abyss</a>, <a href="https://xaeyruudh.wordpress.com/2012/05/23/arvandor/" title="Arvandor">Arvandor</a>, the Barrens of Doom and Despair, Brightwater, <a href="https://xaeyruudh.wordpress.com/2012/05/23/demonweb-pits/" title="The Demonweb Pits">the Demonweb Pits</a>, Dragon Eyrie, Dwarfhome, Dweomerheart, Fury&#8217;s Heart, the Gates of the Moon, Golden Hills, Green Fields, Hammergrim, Heliopolis, the House of Knowledge, the House of Nature, <a href="https://xaeyruudh.wordpress.com/2012/05/23/baator/" title="The Nine Hells of Baator">the Nine Hells</a>, <a href="https://xaeyruudh.wordpress.com/2012/05/24/nishrek/" title="Nishrek">Nishrek</a>, the Supreme Throne, the House of the Triad, and Warrior&#8217;s Rest.</p>
<h3>Sources</h3>
<ul>
<li>Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting [11836] page 257</li>
<li>Manual of the Planes (3e) page 85</li>
</ul>
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