Looking out into the great expance of space, small balls light up the sky as distant stars and planets light up the sky. The space between the different celestial bodies or planes of existance as they often are called is the Astral plane. It is mostly devoid of any life but the things that exists out in the Astral plane are able to live there for a reason, and few want to run into them.
Travell
Travelling through the Astral plane is not as simple as one would image. The space outside of planes of existance do not follow the normal convensions of movement but is non-linear in its space. Flying in a straight line towards a distant plane of existance does not guarante that you will end up there, nor does the time for that journey stay consistant. When travelling through the astral plane, one needs a compass attuned to the plane of existance that they are travelling to in order to both ensure that they will end up where they wish to and to take a fast path.
There are two primary ways of travelling through the astral plane that is used by most creatures. The first is through giant ships, equiped with both a advanced compass system that can detect planes of existances and guide the ship along the lines of the weave for safe travel. The second is through plane shifting in which high leveled magic is used to collapse the space between to planes of existance to bypassing any real tavel of the Astral plane.
Dangers of Astral plane
The creatures living in the astral plane are in some cases even older than the planes of existances and they sometimes fool travellers with their size as they can appear as distant planes of existances or small astroids. It is unkown how they could remain alive for so long in the emptiness of the Astral plane but regardless of how they are able to survive, they have been able to thrive as their strenght is almost unparalled. Comparing them to ancient dragons is the weakest one could see them as. Although many have been documented during travell, the full extent of what is alive out in the astral plane is far from known.
While the creatures of the Astral plane are few and far between, the real threat is so called Astral winds that blow through the wast empty space. There is nothing visual or sensatory about the winds, but once they sweep through somewhere they move the entire space aound them and things caught in the Astral winds risk getting ripped apart as the winds can pull a ship in two different directions simultaniously, breaking the ship in two sepperate pieces several kilometers apart in a matter of seconds.
