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Also, planar intrusion appears to make the area very high in mana, which makes it easier for magic users to use more powerful spells, as well as making it easier for floating cities to stay aloft.
People and beings who become trapped or lost in these planes of existence may become assimilated or contaminated by the essence of the plane, and become unable to leave without help -- often times going insane or very eccentric at the minimum. Other times, when entities from other realms die, they may leave behind echoes of themselves. An emptiness which is then filled in by the essence of the plane and becomes an echo or shades of the original. More powerful entities can spawn echoes in a plane on purpose, with varying degrees of control. These shades normally cannot leave their home plane without vanishing.
**Note**: Some of the meta-elemental planes, such as Mirrors, create echoes -- or in this case, reflections -- of visitors nearly automatically if precautions are not taken. The plane of Mirrors or Reflections is considered one of the more dangerous ones.
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Also, planar intrusion appears to make the area very high in mana, which makes it easier for magic users to use more powerful spells.


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Edited on 2012-12-06 22:34:27 by Samanthia
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- Shadows
- (Un)death - your one stop shop for zombies and necromancy
- Cities/Building/Architecture - nothing but buildings in all directions -- up, down, to the sides, etc. Can overlap with Maze or Labyrinth.


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Edited on 2012-12-06 22:27:33 by Samanthia
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Hence the need for a class of people capable of surviving such environments and the competition to loot as much as possible. In order to fulfill that need with a steady supply of such people, there is ... [[AATheAcademy|The Adventurers' Academy]].


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Edited on 2012-12-06 22:22:39 by Samanthia
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- Mirrors


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Edited on 2012-12-06 22:20:27 by Samanthia
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Also, planar intrusion appears to make the area very high in mana, which makes it easier for magic users to use more powerful spells.
When multiple elemental planes intrude onto Alurith in the same location, the effects become even more extreme, and meta-elemental or stranger planes may also make an appearance. So a simultaneous intrusion of air and water in the same area may cause a small intrusion of the plane of 'storms' -- a storm which is an embodiment of the very concept or a Platonic Ideal of a 'Storm'. Such a primal storm is very dangerous, but offers the chance to imbue items with the same embodiment. I.e. a magical war hammer forged in such conditions by a skilled crafter, successfully, would literally have the essence of 'Storm' in it -- being struck by the hammer would have the victim also struck by wind, rain, hail, thunder, and lightning at the same time and perhaps be capable of summoning storms. However, getting all the necessary equipment, people, and materials to create such a thing through an area of multiple planar intrusions and surviving being near or in such a primal storm -- while competing adventurers or nations may be trying to stop you -- is no minor feat.
The meta-elemental planes, such as lightning, wood, metal, or crystal, for examples -- are reasonably common when two of the basic elemental planes collide on Alurith. When three or four do, however, then more complicated ones may appear:
- Primal Nature - a feral, primal plane where crafted items and created concepts (language, math, civilization) do not fair well, and beings contaminated by it become more animal, often in a powerful way. However, tapping into that plane/concept can create powerful healing items, or powerful items that boost strength or stamina, as well as items for shapeshifting into animal forms.
- Storm - snow storms, ice storms, rain storms, hail storms...
- Crystal -- sometimes touched with coral or ice, too.
- Metal
- Ice
- 'Holy' and 'Unholy' - 'Holy' or 'Deific' is not necessarily 'good', but generally what are considered the more orderly, positive concepts such as honesty, honor, fidelity, trust, obedience, etc. 'Unholy' or 'Demonic' is generally more chaotic, negative concepts such as lust, blind green, raw rage, raw hunger, etc. Some concepts/emotions such as love and hate or beyond both planes as love can encompass both order and chaos at the same time.
- Clockwork/gears - contamination can lead to partially or completely clockwork animals or people.
- And many more...
Under extreme circumstances, even more abstract or esoteric planes, or rather, concepts, can intrude. Strange zones which embody a verb or concept that normally is not inherently physical. Again, these can be incredibly valuable (depending on what they are) to the right mages or nations.
When many, many planes happen to intrude in one zone, nearly anything is possible -- it becomes almost literally chaos, unlimited, unconstrained potential, and very, very dangerous.
====Political Conflict Zones====
The potential power and valuable magical resources that can be harvested from the planar conflict zones make them almost automatically political and economic conflict zones as various city-states, nations, or other groups try to stake out claims, harvest, exploit, explore, etc.


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Edited on 2012-12-06 21:54:06 by Samanthia
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**Note**: Sufficiently skilled/crazy/experienced ship mage-pilots can attempt feats like steering an airship or water craft through the elemental plane of air or water, respectively. This can cut dozens, even hundreds of miles or more of travel. However, it does risk losing the entire ship, and can result in the ship ending up in a random location. This requires much power -- either from the ship mage-pilot, or the drive mechanism of the ship -- as well as skill and experience, and finding some sort of entry point into the other plane, either along a planar conflict zone, an intense storm, or something similar. Generally, the latter two are gained by becoming an apprentice to someone who has been able to do the trip successfully, and going through enough successful trips to get a 'feel' for the other plane. This is fairly rare as only a few crazy captains are willing to risk their ships that randomly that often.
====Elemental Planar Conflict Zones -- Here There Be Magic, Treasure, and Trouble!====
When another plane intrudes on Alurith, some of the effects are fairly obvious -- an intrusion of the elemental plane of fire tends to cause the area to become hotter and for things to start burning. The less obvious affects are that things become contaminated by the elemental plane -- a tree might not merely catch on fire, but start becoming fire itself -- something which is both tree and fire at the same time. When this happens, wood from that 'tree' can be very valuable to mages and artisans and crafters of magical weapons. This makes investigating and exploiting those zones and areas very profitable for adventurers -- though also potentially dangerous, as the local plants and wildlife may also become contaminated. Generally, people are smart enough to flee the area, but occasionally adventurers may run into elementally enhanced bandits, etc.
This sort of contamination can also extend to unprotected items left in such a zone. A sword left unprotected in an planar conflict zone with the elemental plane of water might pick up something of the fluid nature of water -- this may lead to a sword which is too malleable or soft to be useful, or it may lead to a sword that glides through the air like water, or some of both, or other effects. It is entirely possible to find these 'natural' magic items from things left behind by others when fleeing from a planar conflict zone.
When a planar conflict zone subsides, it may take contaminated items or creatures or beings with it. Sometimes, they may persist in the other plane in one form or another. This may include entire villages, towns, or cities. An axe left behind by a fleeing woodsman might be pulled into the elemental plane of earth and gain a touch of that, but it may then encounter another planar conflict zone, but with another element, and perhaps pick up a touch of elemental fire... it is very rare, but possible to find items that have happened to survive multiple such conflicts, and are imbued with very strange properties. Adventurers have found cities of crystal where some ancient city had been swallowed up and swept into another plane, but somehow was not completely broken down, and after passing through plane after plane, has re-emerged into Alurith -- and quite possibly filled with both magical artifacts, crazy quasi-elemental beasts, and possibly very dangerous inhabitants that might have once been people centuries ago who were unable to flee fast enough.
====Complex Planar Conflict Zones -- Powerful and Peculiar ====
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**Note**: Sufficiently skilled/crazy/experienced ship mage-pilots can attempt feats like steering an airship or water craft through the elemental plane of air or water, respectively. This can cut dozens, even hundreds of miles or more of travel. However, it does risk losing the entire ship, and can result in the ship ending up in a random location. This requires much power -- either from the ship mage-pilot, or the drive mechanism of the ship -- as well as skill and experience. Generally, the latter two are gained by becoming an apprentice to someone who has been able to do the trip successfully, and going through enough successful trips to get a 'feel' for the other plane. This is fairly rare as only a few crazy captains are willing to risk their ships that randomly that often.


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