Eberron - Rising from the Last War

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PLANES OF EXISTENCE

Eberron is part of the Great Wheel of the multiverse, as

described in the Player's Handbook and the Dungeon

Master's Guide. At the same time, it is fundamentally

apart from the rest of the Great Wheel, sealed off

from the other planes even while it's encircled by its

own wheeling cosmology. Eberron's unique station in

the multiverse is an important aspect of the world: its

planes have profound and shifting influences on the

Material Plane, and it is sheltered from the influences

and machinations of gods and other powers elsewhere

on the Great Wheel.

The planet of Eberron is the heart of its own Material

Plane. It is surrounded by the Ring of Siberys. Beyond

this band of dragonshards, thirteen moons orbit the

world. To date, no creature from Eberron has explored

the moons, and none can say whether they are lifeless

rocks or thriving worlds. Some sages believe that the

moons are connected to the planes, or that they might

even be physical extensions of the planes, but the truth

of these assertions remains unknown.

CHAPTER 4 I BUILDING EBERRON ADVENTURES

Planes of Existence

No other planets have been discovered within Eber­

ron's Material Plane. The underworld of Khyber, how­

ever, contains a host of demiplanes, tiny pockets of

altered reality. As such, venturing beneath the surface

of Eberron can lead you to a network of caverns and

passages, and if you find the right passage, it can take

you to fantastic and deadly places inhabited by fiends,

aberrations, and other children of Khyber.

PLANES OF EBERRON

The Material Plane is enfolded by thirteen planes of

existence. Many of these have aspects of both Outer

Planes and Inner Planes. All of them overlap with Eber­

ron in some way, and they influence and are influenced

by the Material Plane. The intensity of this influence

waxes and wanes; scholars often depict the planes as

orbiting Eberron-sometimes coming close, other times

far away-though this manner of expression is merely

a metaphor for their shifting influence. When another

plane's influence on the Material Plane is especially

strong, the plane is said to be coterminous. When its

influence is weak, a plane is remote. The state of a plane