Mechanus

Mechanus is the Outer Plane representing the alignment of lawful neutral. It is the home of the modrons.

Geography

The plane of Mechanus is filled with an infinite number of country-sized circular interlocking gears which are habitable on one or both sides. These great flat wheels are at least 1,000 miles in diameter and have teeth that mesh at right angles, all turning slowly in synchronicity. Each disk has its own gravity that operates in a sphere circumscribing it exactly and pulling normally to the top and bottom surfaces. The void between the gears is filled with air, allowing easy flight. Outside a gravity sphere, objects feel only very weak attraction to nearby disks. A plane of Law and order, Nirvana has equal amounts of light and dark, heat and cold, and equal measures of the four elements. There is a place for everything and everything is in its place here. Even individuals living here exist to fit into the greater scheme of things and thus achieve a perfect society. There is no pain, but the only pleasure is in successfully filling a role like a gear in a machine. Passion, fantasy, and illusion does not exist here, except for what might be brought in by visitors, and any who tries to foment individualism or stir passions for a cause soon find they are not well received. Nirvana is connected to the Prime Material Plane via the Astral Plane, and to the Outer Planes of Arcadia and Acheron by portals which appear once every revolution of the gears they belonged to. The period of rotation depends on the size of the gear, but a typical period is twenty days. The portals stay open for exactly one day.

Inhabitants

The only creatures native to Mechanus are the modrons, a race of beings organized in a rigid caste system and ruled by Prims, the One and the Prime. The most common modrons are the monodrones, single-function drones used as common laborers, servants, or soldiers.

Notable Locations

Regulus - The realm of Primus, the One and the Prime, centered on his great tower at the hub of a huge gear.

Alternative Name(s)

Nirvana

Type

Planar Sphere/Grouping