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They consist of the Elemental Planes [1] of air, earth, fire and water, and the Energy Planes. Some descriptions also contain the Para-elemental (magma, ice, etc.) and Quasi-elemental planes (lightning, dust, etc.) linking them. [1] The energy planes are the Positive Material Plane and Negative Material Plane.
The Elemental Chaos – the plane below; consists of Elemental Realms; 4. Demiplanes – unique bubbles of existence such as Sigil; 5. Anomalous Planes – planes of an obscure nature The Far Realm – uncharted plane that exists beyond the known cosmology; The Plane of Dreams – composed of all the dreams that have ever been dreamt
The Outer Planes were presented for the first time in Volume 1, Number 8 of The Dragon, released July 1977 as part of the Great Wheel of Planes. [1] In the article "Planes: The Concepts of Spatial, Temporal and Physical Relationships in D&D", Gary Gygax mentions that there are 16 Outer Planes and describes the Seven Heavens, the Twin Paradises, and Elysium as "Typical higher planes", Nirvana ...
The mean height of land above sea level is about 797 m (2,615 ft). [109] Land can be covered by surface water, snow, ice, artificial structures or vegetation. Most of Earth's land hosts vegetation, [110] but considerable amounts of land are ice sheets (10%, [111] not including the equally large area of land under permafrost) [112] or deserts ...
In esoteric cosmology, a plane is conceived as a subtle state, level, or region of reality, each plane corresponding to some type, kind, or category of being.. The concept may be found in religious and esoteric teachings which propound the idea of a whole series of subtle planes or worlds or dimensions which, from a center, interpenetrate themselves and the physical planet in which we live ...
The etheric plane (see also etheric body) is a term introduced into Theosophy by Charles Webster Leadbeater and Annie Besant to represent the subtle part of the lower plane of existence. It represents the fourth [higher] subplane of the physical plane (a hyperplane ), the lower three being the states of solid , liquid , and gaseous matter.
An artistic representation of the grand design of the Planes. The Dungeons & Dragons cosmology as reflected in Planescape consists of a number of planes, which can be divided into the following regions: [1] The Inner Planes (representing planes of elemental nature, such as Water, Earth, Fire, and Air, as well as the Positive and Negative energy ...
In Jainism, there is a superficially similar concept within its general cosmology, the ekendriya jiva, "one-sensed beings" with bodies (kaya) that are composed of a single element, albeit with a 5-element system (earth, water, air, fire, and plant), but these beings are actual physical objects and phenomena such as rocks, rain, fires and so on ...