Dungeon Master's Guide 5e

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~ravelers who know the strange tides and currents

o f t he plane can travel between worlds freely, but the

5 orms also wreck ships from the Material Plane on the

• a nd's shore.
  T he region of the Plane of Water nearest the Swamp
  of Oblivion (on the Plane of Earth) is called the Silt
  Flats. The water is thick with soil and sludge, and turns
  .mo muddy ground before giving way to the great swamp
  between the planes.
  At the other extreme of the plane is the Sea oflce,
  bordering the Frostfell. The frigid water is choked with
  cebergs and sheet ice, inhabited by the cold-loving
  creatures that inhabit the Frostfell. Drifting icebergs
  can carry these creatures farther into the Plane of
  'Yater to threaten ships and islands in warmer seas.
  T he Frostfell, also called the Plane of Ice, forms the
  border between the planes of Air and Water and is a
  see mingly endless glacier swept by constant, raging
  blizzards. Frozen caverns twist through the Plane of
  Ice, home to yetis, remorhazes, white dragons, and other
  creatures of cold. The inhabitants of the plane engage in
  a never-ending battle to prove their strength and ensure
  their survival.
  Its dangerous monsters and bitter cold make the
  F ro stfell a dangerous place to travel. Most planar
  ·:oyagers keep to the air, braving the powerful winds and
  d r iving snow to avoid setting foot on the great glacier.

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OUTER PLANES

Streamers of noxious gas streaked that crimson dome like

dirty clouds. They whirled to form what looked like giant

eyes staring down, eyes that were swept away before they

couldfocus, only to form anew, again and again. Beneath

the ruby glow lay a dark nightmare land of bare rock and

flumes of sparks and goutingjlame, where things slithered

and scrambled half-seen in the shadows. Mountains clawed

the ruby sky. The Land of Teeth, Azuth had once aptly

called it, surveying the endless jagged rocks. This was the

Greeting Ground, the realm of horror that had claimed

the lives of countless mortals. He was whirling along above

Avernus, uppermost of the Nine Hells.

-Ed Greenwood, Elminster in Hell

If the Inner Planes are the raw matter and energy that

makes up the multiverse, the Outer Planes provide the

direction, thought, and purpose for its construction.

Accordingly, many sages refer to the Outer Planes as

divine planes, spiritual planes, or godly planes, for the

Outer Planes are best known as the homes of deities.

When discussing anything to do with deities, the

language used must be highly metaphorical. Their

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