The Beastlands
The Wilderness of the Beastlands, also known as the Happy Hunting Grounds, is the Outer plane representing alignments between neutral good and chaotic good.
The name Happy Hunting Grounds is given to this plane by those that first scried it, assuming the abundant and varied game and wildlife would be a sportsman's paradise. But the native inhabitants of this plane are all capable of speech and comparable to humans in range of intelligence. Some of the most intelligent creatures can even wield magic. All natural creatures and their giant versions from the Prime Material Plane, including mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, amphibians, insects, and invertebrates, excluding enchanted creatures and monsters, are represented here, and they call their home the Beastlands.
The Beastlands has three layers, all heavily forested with normal and giant trees, plants, moss, and fungi. Each layer has its own time of day which never varied. Weather is regionally distributed and provided all manner of conditions for the habitats of all creatures. Weather in one region does not affect adjacent regions, so an arid desert could exist next to a snowy winter region for example. Any attempt to control the winds, weather, or atmosphere is countered by those airborne creatures who lived in the region.
- Krigala A representation of the layers of the Beastlands, Hovering over the map will reveal main features. Krigala is the upper layer, connected to the Astral Plane by color pools and to Elysium, Arborea, and the Outlands by portals disguised as large holes in hollow trees. The river Oceanus flows in a relatively straight course from Amoria in Elysium through Krigala on its way to Arborea. The sky is perpetually lit by a noonday sun directly overhead regardless of distance traveled.
- Brux The second layer of the Beastlands is constantly in dusk or dawn due to two suns on opposite ends of the horizon, hovering there and turning the sky a reddish hue. The landscape of Brux is similar to that found in Krigala. Brux is the location of the Library of All Knowledge.
- Karasuthra The bottommost layer is the land of starlight. Above any clouds or fog that might exist in a region was a clear night sky full of wandering stars. The stars move randomly such that all attempts to map them into constellations were unsuccessful.
Inhabitants
In addition to the myriad species from the animal kingdom are the usual Upper plane sentient creatures, such as hollyphants, planetars, solars, devas, foo creatures, agathia, and baku. Another form of life unique to the Beastlands are the mortai, also known as the "faces in the clouds". They appear as cumulus clouds with large humanoid faces and can communicate with anyone if they so wish. The mortai are considered very wise and can converse on most any subject. They also have complete control over the air and weather. Their origin is unknown but it is thought they might be collections of good and somewhat chaotic spirits.
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Happy Hunting Grounds
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Dimensional plane
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