The Impossible Realities of our Existence

Written by TheArchitectSol

The planes all move in a synchronous fashion. Affected and unaffected by the presence of one another in odd pseudo-scientific ways. One theory would be to model them as great wheel or clock that rotated around itself in opposite directions based upon plane location. With the Outer Planes moving from left to right in a clockwise motion situated over vast expanse of aether across from the direct opposite polarization and the Demi-Planes, the spaces in between the Inner Planes and Outer Planes moving from right to left, or counter clockwise and organized in a similar matter. Meshing together like gears at certain points of extreme proximity. The centre of this large clockwork machination possessed three planes rotating about themselves on axis while also rotating clockwise together as if joined by an apex. This was the material plane, the Shadowfell, and the Feywilds.
Another conception is that the planes are situated in a more chaotic way forsaken by the Gods and subject to their whimsy. The Material pane once more sits at the centre of this model with the other planes losing their outer and inner modifiers and instead simply orbit the much larger material plane for all of time. Briefly coming close enough to breach the astral barriers that separate each plane within its own contained environment. Allowing for sometimes strategic and sudden transportation from one plane to the next.
Yet another interpretation is that all of the planes hang in a previously mentioned substance called the Aether. The stuff from which everything is originated, even Gods. The Aether keeps the planes at an infinite or undeterminable distance apart where exact measurement is unfathomable and short of impossible. The planes are supposedly equidistant apart and do not move closer nor farther from one another. They are connected by an intricate web of portals and nexuses that are meant to act as conduits of travel between the planes. If one knew how they operated they could traverse the planes with ease with each portal and adjoining nexus growing more challenging to traverse and difficult to navigate the closer one came to the polar opposite of the plane.
The reality of these concepts are that they are all indeed true in some fashion or another. The planes are hurling through the Aether at incomprehensible speeds. Stretching and compressing to adapt to the unpredictability of the primordial forces that populate the vast infinity. To understand wholeheartedly the mechanics of the Planescape is to welcome the madness of eternity.

Type

Metaphysical, Supernatural