Birds in the forests, flowers in the meadows, and everything is in its place—why argue with perfection?— A common saying by petitioners in Arcadia
The Peaceable Kingdoms of Arcadia is the Outer Plane representing alignments between lawful neutral and lawful good.
Arcadia connects to Seven Heavens, Nirvana, and Concordant Opposition by portals made of either white ivory or black steel, shaped like flower trellises. These portals are few in number but rest at fixed locations in the first layer. Little is known about the other two layers.
- Abellio
Abellio is the first layer of Arcadia. An endless stretch of orderly plains dotted with a few mountains and hills, it contains the divine realms of Angradd
- Buxenus
Buxenus us the second layer of Arcadia. It contains the divine realms of Sophis.
- Orb of Day and Night
The Orb of Day and Night is a great sphere perched atop Arcadia's highest peak, with one half glowing and the other half dark. It rotated evenly and continually, at all times illuminating one half of the infinite plane and leaving the rest in natural darkness. This caused day and night in Arcadia, though there was no twilight, just day and night.[
Inhabitants
Many woodland creatures roam the mountains, hills, forests, and fields of Arcadia. They resemble Prime Material creatures except for their coloring, which is metallic like the trees, and their eyes, which are white without iris or pupil. Examples include copper colored rabbits, golden foxes, and sheep with silver wool. Organized, hive-dwelling insects such as ants, bees, and wasps are also found in this plane. None of the animals can speak but all are peaceful in nature and native to the Outer Planes so they are unaffected by magics that usually work on Prime Material creatures. In addition, their eyes allow them to see through any illusion and the more intelligent animals could be trained into superb watch beasts.
The primary inhabitants of Arcadia are the spirit legions, which are formed from the souls of good and lawful warriors, much like their evil counterparts in Acheron. Other sentient creatures that dwell in Arcadia include hollyphants, planetars, foo creatures and the occasional deva. It is not uncommon to see creatures from neighboring planes visiting: shedu, greater and lesser lammasu, and ki-rin for example.
Realms
- Sophis the High One, Patron of Magic Users, has a realm sharing his name on the layer of Buxenus.
- Angradd, the dwarven Father of Battle commands an impenetrable fortress carved out of a mountain located near the peak that holds the sphere of day and night. It is said that this mountain redoubt was big enough to house all the dwarves on the Prime Material Plane.
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