Editing Talislanta (section)

==The Planes==
Talislanta has its own planar [[Cosmology]] which it names the ''Omniverse''. This shares some similarities with the [[Great Wheel]] cosmology of D&D especially down undah. Its planes are in three different groups: the [[Middle Planes]], the Spheres, and the [[Lower Planes]].

===Middle Planes===
*'''The Elemental Plane:''' The heart of the Omniverse, also called the Green World. Everything here is alive, from the mountain ranges and oceans, to the gentle gusts and individual blades of grass, as these are inhabited by the elementals, who take the raw aetherium from the Aethereal Sea and shape it into the substance of reality.
*'''The Material Plane:''' Also called Primus, here's where the substance from the Green World collects and becomes the various worlds supporting life.
*'''The Dreamrealms:''' An infinite number of realms created from the dreams of others, spread amid the Aethereal Sea, where reality is entirely subjective. Some say it's split between the Dream Dimension ruled by Dreamweaver and the Nightmare Dimension ruled by Noman; others say they're one and the same, distinguished only by the observer's point of view.
*'''The Aethereal Sea:''' Also called the [[Astral Plane]], the sea is made of formless grey and blue mists that fills the distance between the Material Plane and the Spheres and the Lower Planes. It has currents, tides, storms, occasional islands, and fragments of destroyed realities. Anyone can sail through it with an oceangoing or aerial vessel, but navigating it requires the proper charts and equipment.

===The Spheres===
*'''The Silver Sphere:''' A peaceful realm inhabited by Paramanes, 10-feet tall, sliver-skinned spirits of of the dead that appear as idealized versions of themselves, who act as guardian angels and perform worthy deeds to ascend to the Radiant Sphere. The realm itself gives a polished, flawless, and unreal semblance <small>sic</small>.
*'''The Golden Sphere:''' Permeated by a golden, warm light, hence the name, within here lies a great amber castle inhabited by the Illuminus, the keepers of the Eternal Records, a book that supposedly contains all the secrets of the Omniverse. Living here are also the Guardians, 20-foot, winged, gold-skinned giants clad in enchanted armor and wielding enchanted blades. Mortals aren't allowed entry here unless accompanied by a Paramane or other higher spirits.
*'''The Radiant Sphere:''' Home to the Archons, nearly omniscient and omnipotent beings of pure, white light who guide and direct the Material Plane according to the will of The Light, a shimmering intelligence to which all higher form are drawn to and is worshipped as the Creator of the omniverse and life itself.
*'''The Crystalline Sphere:''' A collection of countless realms, reflecting the mind of its primary resident, namely a powerful spirit or a deity. Every realm is a paradise the specifics of which depend on the expectations of the main denizens loyal followers.

===The Lower Planes===
*'''The Underworld:''' Classical Sheol in as much as it is not an evil place, but also not a ''nice'' place. Dotted with graveyards, burial mounds, tombs, mausoleums, catacombs, and cenotaphs, all souls of the dead come here, crossing the Sea of Eternity, and walking the Forever Road to the Halls of Death, where Death judges them. In the northern region is the citadel Omnus, a library presided over by the spectral being called Destiny, or the Author of Fate, where all days, past, present, and future are written. If one can pass the Nine Gates of Omnus, they can petition Destiny for a glimpse of the future. This features the city Ebon; whose residents are tall, dark, and undead. The Malum now in the Iron Citadel in Talislanta are Ebonites back to the world of the living.
*'''Oblivion:''' A volcanic realm inhabited by devils. Once they were Archons, but they were cast out and make their home here now. Oblivion is surrounded by the Barrier Wall, a 1000 ft tall structure guarded by sentries, with two great iron portals allowing access and egress to the realm, one coming and going to the Underworld, and the other to the Riven Lands. Most devils live in the bleak stone castles that extend into the noxious atmosphere, while the lesser ones toil in the mines, pits, and dungeons, or hide in whatever crevices and holes they find.
*'''The Demonrealms:''' Home to the anti-elementals that are the demons. The ground is constantly breaking away into floating masses of sludge, seas burn, and black lightning rends the poisonous skies. Everything that is destroyed or dies in the Material Plane eventually ends up here to be broken down by the demons.
*'''The Void:''' A swirling darkness with a central nucleus of negative energy, The Dark, to which everything in the Void is drawn towards. All matter and energy that comes from the Demonrealms is turned back into aetherium here and distributed back into the Omniverse through the stars. Think, Room Of Lost Souls in ''Beetlejuice'' - damnation for the damned.

In those Riven Lands the devils and demons fight until the end of time. The parallels to [[Planescape]]'s [[Blood War]] are obvious - although, since Talislanta had already been puttering along over the 1990s, this might well be an independent borrowing from Michael Moorcock's classic Law/Chaos dynamic.

South of the Demonrealms is the Raging Sea; south of that is the chaotic Nether Dimension. The Sepharans are from the latter. They've got a lust for the Nether Ones from the Void. Think of the Nether Realm as Talislanta's Leng.

The Dark Dimension, not to be confused with the Dark or the Darkness (we didn't come up with these names, leave us alone), is its own horrible thing, riddled with canyons and pits under a manta-infested black sky. It mainly interacts with other planes by way of the Brood.