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1d4chan>Zzedar at 11:11, 9 August 2020

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	The '''World Axis Cosmology''' is a multiverse set-up that replaced the traditional [[Great Wheel]] in [[Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition]] as part of the [[Nentir_Vale\|Points of Light]] campaign setting. Forsaking the sprawling, Byzantine planar mashup of the Great Wheel (which wouldn't have worked in 4E anyway with the ~~changed~~ to the alignment system), it goes for a simpler, more "classically fantastic" approach, boiling itself down to a few planes that adhere to distinct mythological archetypes; the mortal world, the god's world, the primordial chaos, the land of [[fey\|faeries]] and the land of the dead.		The '''World Axis Cosmology''' is a multiverse set-up that replaced the traditional [[Great Wheel]] in [[Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition]] as part of the [[Nentir_Vale\|Points of Light]] campaign setting. Forsaking the sprawling, Byzantine planar mashup of the Great Wheel (which wouldn't have worked in 4E anyway with the changes to the alignment system), it goes for a simpler, more "classically fantastic" approach, boiling itself down to a few planes that adhere to distinct mythological archetypes; the mortal world, the god's world, the primordial chaos, the land of [[fey\|faeries]] and the land of the dead.

	As the name suggests, the World Axis cosmology is centered around "The World" (also known as the [[Prime Material]]), with other planes being either adjacent ([[Feywild]], [[Shadowfell]]), above ([[Astral Sea]]) or below ([[Elemental Chaos]]) - this marks "the World" as literally the Axis of the planes.		As the name suggests, the World Axis cosmology is centered around "The World" (also known as the [[Prime Material]]), with other planes being either adjacent ([[Feywild]], [[Shadowfell]]), above ([[Astral Sea]]) or below ([[Elemental Chaos]]) - this marks "the World" as literally the Axis of the planes.

159.41.8.8 at 15:03, 17 February 2020

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	[[File:World_Axis_(PoL).jpg\|300px\|thumb\|right\|What the cosmos looks like in [[Points of Light]].]]		[[File:World_Axis_(PoL).jpg\|300px\|thumb\|right\|What the cosmos looks like in [[Nentir_Vale\|Points of Light]].]]
	[[File:World_Axis_Orrery.jpg\|300px\|thumb\|left\|A fancy way to display something that... isn't.]]		[[File:World_Axis_Orrery.jpg\|300px\|thumb\|left\|A fancy way to display something that... isn't.]]

	The '''World Axis Cosmology''' is a multiverse set-up that replaced the traditional [[Great Wheel]] in [[Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition]] as part of the [[Points of Light]] campaign setting. Forsaking the sprawling, Byzantine planar mashup of the Great Wheel (which wouldn't have worked in 4E anyway with the changed to the alignment system), it goes for a simpler, more "classically fantastic" approach, boiling itself down to a few planes that adhere to distinct mythological archetypes; the mortal world, the god's world, the primordial chaos, the land of [[fey\|faeries]] and the land of the dead.		The '''World Axis Cosmology''' is a multiverse set-up that replaced the traditional [[Great Wheel]] in [[Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition]] as part of the [[Nentir_Vale\|Points of Light]] campaign setting. Forsaking the sprawling, Byzantine planar mashup of the Great Wheel (which wouldn't have worked in 4E anyway with the changed to the alignment system), it goes for a simpler, more "classically fantastic" approach, boiling itself down to a few planes that adhere to distinct mythological archetypes; the mortal world, the god's world, the primordial chaos, the land of [[fey\|faeries]] and the land of the dead.

	As the name suggests, the World Axis cosmology is centered around "The World" (also known as the [[Prime Material]]), with other planes being either adjacent ([[Feywild]], [[Shadowfell]]), above ([[Astral Sea]]) or below ([[Elemental Chaos]]) - this marks "the World" as literally the Axis of the planes.		As the name suggests, the World Axis cosmology is centered around "The World" (also known as the [[Prime Material]]), with other planes being either adjacent ([[Feywild]], [[Shadowfell]]), above ([[Astral Sea]]) or below ([[Elemental Chaos]]) - this marks "the World" as literally the Axis of the planes.

1d4chan>Agiletek at 03:34, 17 October 2018

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	The '''World Axis Cosmology''' is a multiverse set-up that replaced the traditional [[Great Wheel]] in [[Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition]] as part of the [[Points of Light]] campaign setting. Forsaking the sprawling, Byzantine planar mashup of the Great Wheel, it goes for a simpler, more "classically fantastic" approach, boiling itself down to a few planes that adhere to distinct mythological archetypes; the mortal world, the god's world, the primordial chaos, the land of [[fey\|faeries]] and the land of the dead.		The '''World Axis Cosmology''' is a multiverse set-up that replaced the traditional [[Great Wheel]] in [[Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition]] as part of the [[Points of Light]] campaign setting. Forsaking the sprawling, Byzantine planar mashup of the Great Wheel (which wouldn't have worked in 4E anyway with the changed to the alignment system), it goes for a simpler, more "classically fantastic" approach, boiling itself down to a few planes that adhere to distinct mythological archetypes; the mortal world, the god's world, the primordial chaos, the land of [[fey\|faeries]] and the land of the dead.

	As the name suggests, the World Axis cosmology is centered around "The World" (also known as the [[Prime Material]]), with other planes being either adjacent ([[Feywild]], [[Shadowfell]]), above ([[Astral Sea]]) or below ([[Elemental Chaos]]) - this marks "the World" as literally the Axis of the planes.		As the name suggests, the World Axis cosmology is centered around "The World" (also known as the [[Prime Material]]), with other planes being either adjacent ([[Feywild]], [[Shadowfell]]), above ([[Astral Sea]]) or below ([[Elemental Chaos]]) - this marks "the World" as literally the Axis of the planes.

1d4chan>QuietBrowser at 22:44, 12 September 2018

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	The '''World Axis Cosmology''' is a multiverse set-up that replaced the traditional [[Great Wheel]] in [[Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition]] as part of the [[Points of Light]] campaign setting.		The '''World Axis Cosmology''' is a multiverse set-up that replaced the traditional [[Great Wheel]] in [[Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition]] as part of the [[Points of Light]] campaign setting. Forsaking the sprawling, Byzantine planar mashup of the Great Wheel, it goes for a simpler, more "classically fantastic" approach, boiling itself down to a few planes that adhere to distinct mythological archetypes; the mortal world, the god's world, the primordial chaos, the land of [[fey\|faeries]] and the land of the dead.

	As the name suggests, the World Axis cosmology is centered around "The World" (also known as the [[Prime Material]]), with other planes being either adjacent ([[Feywild]], [[Shadowfell]]), above ([[Astral Sea]]) or below ([[Elemental Chaos]]) - this marks "the World" as literally the Axis of the planes.		As the name suggests, the World Axis cosmology is centered around "The World" (also known as the [[Prime Material]]), with other planes being either adjacent ([[Feywild]], [[Shadowfell]]), above ([[Astral Sea]]) or below ([[Elemental Chaos]]) - this marks "the World" as literally the Axis of the planes.

	The World Axis was created when [[Archomental\|The Primordials]] arose in the Elemental Chaos and sought to use the barren expanse of planar space between the Chaos and the Sea as a playground, scooping up elemental matter and shaping it into the proto-realms of the Prime Material, the Feywild (from the matter that was "too bright") and the Shadowfell (from that which was "too dark"). Afterwards, the first ~~gods~~ descended from the Astral Sea, stabilizing the World and giving it things like life, time, seasons, and other forms of order, in contrast to the eternal flux it shared with the Elemental Chaos.		The World Axis was created when [[Archomental\|The Primordials]] arose in the [[Elemental Chaos]] and sought to use the barren expanse of planar space between the Chaos and the Sea as a playground, scooping up elemental matter and shaping it into the proto-realms of the [[Prime Material]], the [[Feywild]] (from the matter that was "too bright") and the [[Shadowfell]] (from that which was "too dark"). Afterwards, the first [[god]]s descended from the [[Astral Sea]], stabilizing the World and giving it things like life, time, seasons, and other forms of order, in contrast to the eternal flux it shared with the Elemental Chaos.

	This resulted in the [[Dawn War]], when the outraged Primordials attacked the gods for messing around in their sandbox, only to be ultimately defeated.		This resulted in the [[Dawn War]], when the outraged Primordials attacked the gods for messing around in their sandbox, only to be ultimately defeated.

1d4chan>Biggus Berrus at 22:42, 28 August 2017

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	[[File:World_Axis_Orrery.jpg]]		[[File:World_Axis_(PoL).jpg\|300px\|thumb\|right\|What the cosmos looks like in [[Points of Light]].]]
			[[File:World_Axis_Orrery.jpg\|300px\|thumb\|left\|A fancy way to display something that... isn't.]]

	The World Axis Cosmology is a multiverse set-up that replaced the traditional [[Great Wheel]] in [[Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition]] as part of the [[Points of Light]] campaign setting.		The '''World Axis Cosmology''' is a multiverse set-up that replaced the traditional [[Great Wheel]] in [[Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition]] as part of the [[Points of Light]] campaign setting.

	As the name suggests, the World Axis cosmology is centered around "The World" (also known as the [[Prime Material]]), with other planes being either adjacent ([[Feywild]], [[Shadowfell]]), above ([[Astral Sea]]) or below ([[Elemental Chaos]]) - this marks "the World" as literally the Axis of the planes.		As the name suggests, the World Axis cosmology is centered around "The World" (also known as the [[Prime Material]]), with other planes being either adjacent ([[Feywild]], [[Shadowfell]]), above ([[Astral Sea]]) or below ([[Elemental Chaos]]) - this marks "the World" as literally the Axis of the planes.
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	Fourth Edition was controversial for a number of reasons, and this was one of them. No one would argue that this cosmology is necessarily ''bad'', even if it was a bit [[Exalted\| derivative]]. But it was a "change for change's sake" rather than something that came about because of burning needs on the part of the playerbase, and [[grognard]]s who liked the old system ''hated'' it - especially [[Planescape]] fans, who were furious at no longer being able to consider themselves the holder of D&D's true cosmological secrets. The best ideas in it were quietly glued onto the old continuity in 5e, but much less of it survives in its present form.		Fourth Edition was controversial for a number of reasons, and this was one of them. No one would argue that this cosmology is necessarily ''bad'', even if it was a bit [[Exalted\| derivative]]. But it was a "change for change's sake" rather than something that came about because of burning needs on the part of the playerbase, and [[grognard]]s who liked the old system ''hated'' it - especially [[Planescape]] fans, who were furious at no longer being able to consider themselves the holder of D&D's true cosmological secrets. The best ideas in it were quietly glued onto the old continuity in 5e, but much less of it survives in its present form.

	~~[[File:World_Axis_(PoL).jpg]]~~

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1d4chan>QuietBrowser: I think this page could use some refinement, but I'm at a loss as to how.

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	~~The World Axis Cosmology is a multiverse set-up that replaced the traditional~~ [[~~Great Wheel]] in [[Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition~~]].		[[File:World_Axis_Orrery.jpg]]

	As the name suggests, the World Axis cosmology is ~~divided into three~~ "~~layers~~"; the [[~~Astral Sea~~]], ~~"The World"~~ (~~which combines the Prime Material, the~~ [[Feywild]] ~~and the~~ [[Shadowfell]]), ~~and the~~ [[Elemental Chaos]].		The World Axis Cosmology is a multiverse set-up that replaced the traditional [[Great Wheel]] in [[Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition]] as part of the [[Points of Light]] campaign setting.

			As the name suggests, the World Axis cosmology is centered around "The World" (also known as the [[Prime Material]]), with other planes being either adjacent ([[Feywild]], [[Shadowfell]]), above ([[Astral Sea]]) or below ([[Elemental Chaos]]) - this marks "the World" as literally the Axis of the planes.

	The World Axis was created when [[Archomental\|The Primordials]] arose in the Elemental Chaos and sought to use the barren expanse of planar space between the Chaos and the Sea as a playground, scooping up elemental matter and shaping it into the proto-realms of the Prime Material, the Feywild (from the matter that was "too bright") and the Shadowfell (from that which was "too dark"). Afterwards, the first gods descended from the Astral Sea, stabilizing the World and giving it things like life, time, seasons, and other forms of order, in contrast to the eternal flux it shared with the Elemental Chaos.		The World Axis was created when [[Archomental\|The Primordials]] arose in the Elemental Chaos and sought to use the barren expanse of planar space between the Chaos and the Sea as a playground, scooping up elemental matter and shaping it into the proto-realms of the Prime Material, the Feywild (from the matter that was "too bright") and the Shadowfell (from that which was "too dark"). Afterwards, the first gods descended from the Astral Sea, stabilizing the World and giving it things like life, time, seasons, and other forms of order, in contrast to the eternal flux it shared with the Elemental Chaos.
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	Specific realms of editions past became locales in this cosmology; [[Baator]], for example, is one of the planets that floats within the [[Astral Sea]].		Specific realms of editions past became locales in this cosmology; [[Baator]], for example, is one of the planets that floats within the [[Astral Sea]].

	Fourth Edition was controversial for a number of reasons, and this was one of them. No one would argue that this cosmology is necessarily ''bad'', even if it was a bit [[Exalted\| derivative]]. But it was a "change for change's sake" rather than something that came about because of burning needs on the part of the playerbase, and ~~grognards~~ who liked the old system ''hated'' it. The best ideas in it were quietly glued onto the old continuity in 5e, but much less of it survives in its present form.		Fourth Edition was controversial for a number of reasons, and this was one of them. No one would argue that this cosmology is necessarily ''bad'', even if it was a bit [[Exalted\| derivative]]. But it was a "change for change's sake" rather than something that came about because of burning needs on the part of the playerbase, and [[grognard]]s who liked the old system ''hated'' it - especially [[Planescape]] fans, who were furious at no longer being able to consider themselves the holder of D&D's true cosmological secrets. The best ideas in it were quietly glued onto the old continuity in 5e, but much less of it survives in its present form.

			[[File:World_Axis_(PoL).jpg]]

	{{WorldAxisCosmology}}		{{WorldAxisCosmology}}

1d4chan>Biggus Berrus at 14:50, 28 August 2017

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	Fourth Edition was controversial for a number of reasons, and this was one of them. No one would argue that this cosmology is necessarily ''bad'', even if it was a bit [[Exalted\| derivative]]. But it was a "change for change's sake" rather than something that came about because of burning needs on the part of the playerbase, and grognards who liked the old system ''hated'' it. The best ideas in it were quietly glued onto the old continuity in 5e, but much less of it survives in its present form.		Fourth Edition was controversial for a number of reasons, and this was one of them. No one would argue that this cosmology is necessarily ''bad'', even if it was a bit [[Exalted\| derivative]]. But it was a "change for change's sake" rather than something that came about because of burning needs on the part of the playerbase, and grognards who liked the old system ''hated'' it. The best ideas in it were quietly glued onto the old continuity in 5e, but much less of it survives in its present form.
	~~[[Category: Dungeons & Dragons]] [[Category: Planes]]~~
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73.131.105.129 at 12:07, 13 January 2016

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	Specific realms of editions past became locales in this cosmology; [[Baator]], for example, is one of the planets that floats within the [[Astral Sea]].		Specific realms of editions past became locales in this cosmology; [[Baator]], for example, is one of the planets that floats within the [[Astral Sea]].

			Fourth Edition was controversial for a number of reasons, and this was one of them. No one would argue that this cosmology is necessarily ''bad'', even if it was a bit [[Exalted\| derivative]]. But it was a "change for change's sake" rather than something that came about because of burning needs on the part of the playerbase, and grognards who liked the old system ''hated'' it. The best ideas in it were quietly glued onto the old continuity in 5e, but much less of it survives in its present form.
	[[Category: Dungeons & Dragons]] [[Category: Planes]]		[[Category: Dungeons & Dragons]] [[Category: Planes]]