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Deep Ethereal

To reach the Deep Ethereal, one needs a Plane Shift spell or arrive by means of a Gate spell or magical portal. Visitors to the Deep Ethereal are engulfed by roiling mist. Scattered throughout the plane are curtains of vaporous color, and passing through a curtain leads a traveler to a region of the Border Ethereal connected to a specific Inner Plane, the Material Plane, the Feywild, or the Shadowfell. The color of the curtain indicates the plane whose Border Ethereal the curtain conceals; see the Ethereal Curtains table.

d8	Plane	Color of Curtain
1	Material Plane	Bright turquoise
2	Shadowfell	Dusky gray
3	Feywild	Opalescent white
4	Plane of Air	Pale blue
5	Plane of Earth	Reddish-brown
6	Plane of Fire	Orange
7	Plane of Water	Green
8	Elemental Chaos	Swirling mix of colors

Traveling through the Deep Ethereal to journey from one plane to another is unlike physical travel. Distance is meaningless, so although travelers feel as if they can move by a simple act of will, it’s impossible to measure speed and hard to track the passage of time. A trip between planes through the Deep Ethereal takes 1d10 × 10 hours, regardless of the origin and destination. In combat, however, creatures are considered to move at their normal speeds.