Great Beyond

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The Great Beyond is the multiverse of planes unique to Golarion, the setting of Pathfinder. In many ways, it is a mash-up of ideas taken from both the Great Wheel which preceded it and its World Axis competitor. There are nineteen major planes that comprise the Great Beyond, modeled as two spheres: the Inner Sphere and the Outer Sphere. Connecting the two spheres is the Astral Plane. The spaces between the primary nineteen planes contain countless demiplanes. Despite the names implying a spherical layout, the planes exist on dimensions incomprehensible to mortals, thus these terms are used to represent the planes in two or three dimensions.

The Inner Sphere is depicted as consisting of the Energy Planes, surrounded by the Material Plane and the Plane of Shadow, and in turn surrounded by the Elemental Planes. The Ethereal Plane is a medium that insulates and touches upon all of these planes, serving as the Transitive Plane

The Outer Sphere is depicted as consisting of 9 alignment based planes, all insulated by the Astral Plane as a Transitive Plane. These 9 planes are divided into the Middle Planes of Axis, Boneyard and Maelstrom, the Upper Planes of Elysium, Heaven and Nirvana, and the Lower Planes of Abaddon, The Abyss and Hell.

Scattered throughout the cosmology are multiple demiplanes and dimensions, which defy neat categorization. The most important and oft-referenced of these is the First World, a prototype for the Material & Shadow Planes which is the Golarion equivalent of the Feywild.