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There are three Origins that all characters can select. Below is an explanation of each and examples of where each may come from.
Prime / Primer
Primers are those born in the Prime Material Plane. Most primers are mortal and are usually born on planets or other similar celestial bodies. The Prime Material Plane is also known as the 'Mortal Plane' or 'Mortal World' by some cosmologists.
Worlds of the Prime Material Plane
Worlds of the Prime Material Plane were believed to be encased by powerful crystal structures which were surrounded by an infinite expanse of universal fluid known as phlogiston. The individual worlds of the Prime Material Plane were not located near one another, but some were aware of one another to a degree and wizards or other similar beings could move between worlds by magical means.
- Aebrynis (Birthright / Spelljammer)
- Athas (Dark Sun)
- Avaras (Planescape)
- Eberron (Eberron)
- Io's Blood Isles (Council of Wyrms)
- Krynn (Dragonlance)
- Mystara (DnD 1E / Blackmoor)
- Oerth (Greyhawk)
- Ortho (Planescape / Harmonium)
- Toril (Forgotten Realms)
- Wildspace (Space between worlds / overlap between Material and Astral Plane)
Planar
Planars are those born anywhere outside of the Prime Material Plane. Some planars were immortal, though many were also mortals born in the various planes. Elves and goblins born in the Feywilds, and Gith born in the Astral Planes were examples of this. The rules of existence were different for those created in the planes, meaning that planars could be bound, summoned, or utilized in various ways with magic that Primes were not necessarily as easily bound to.
Feywilds
Also known as the Plane of Faeries was an echo of the Prime Material Plane suffused with potent magic and unrestrained emotional energy. It was the place in which Fey, Elves, and Eldarin originated and from. The Feywild consists of the hopes, dreams, emotions, desires, and vices of the Prime, all in an unrestrained and breathtakingly beautiful environment. Various sections of the Feywild echoed the various worlds of the Prime Material Plane.
- Astrazalian (City of Starlight)
- Brokenstone Vale
- Evermeet (Former Faerunian city now in the Feywilds)
- Feydark (Fey reflection of the Underdark)
- Iliyanbruen
- Mithrendain (The Autumn City)
- Nachtur
- Realm of Malabog
- Seelie Court (Also exists in Arborea)
- Unseelie Court (Also exists in Pandemonium)
Shadowfell
Similar to the Feywilds, the Shadowfell was a dark and twisted reflection of the Prime Material Plane. Also known as the Plane of Shadow, it was a bleak and desolate place full of decay and death. Souls departing for the Fugue Plane often found themselves in the Shadowfell along the way. It was a dimmension lacking color, light, sun, moon, and stars in most places. Light sources only lilluminated half the distance it normally would, flames produced less heat, and dread and lethargy gripped those visitors to the plane.
- Chaulssin
- Chaul'mur'ssin
- Evernight
- Gloomwrought
- Mausoleum of Pain (Domain of Null - connected to Mausoleum of Pain in the Outlands)
- Mulsantir
- Shadow Keep (Domain of Mask)
- Shadow Swamp
- Sphur Upra
- Towers of Night (Domain of Shar)
- Thultanthar (City of Shade)
- Ravenloft (Curse of Strahd)
Astral Plane
Serves as a conduit to the Outer Planes, and surrounds the Material Plane but does not overlap it.
Wildspace
Astral Sea
Deep Wilds
Ethereal Plane
Exists between the Prime Material Plane and the Inner Planes, and also overlaps each.
- Border Ethereal
- Deep Ethereal
Inner Planes
Elemental Planes
- Plane of Air
- Borealis
- Citadel of Ice and Steel
- Palace of Tempests
- Plane of Earth
- Great Dismal Delve
- Hidden Fulcrum
- Iron Crucible
- Pale River
- Plane of Fire
- City of Brass
- Undying Pyre
- Plane of Water
- Citadel of Ten Thousand Pearls
- The Murky Depths
- Sea of Timelessness
- Shelluria
Para-Elemental Planes
- Fountains of Creation (Plane of Magma / Fire and Earth)
- Swamp of Oblivion (Plane of Ooze / Water and Earth)
- Frostfell (Plane of Ice / Water and Air)
- Great Conflagration (Plane of Smoke / Fire and Air)
Quasi-Elemental Planes
- Plane of Radiance (Fire and Positive)
- Plane of Minerals (Earth and Positive)
- Plane of Lightning (Air and Positive)
- Plane of Steam (Water and Positive)
- Plane of Salt (Water and Negative)
- Plane of Dust (Earth and Negative)
- Plane of Ash (Fire and Negative)
- Plane of Vacuum (Air and Negative)
Energy Planes
- Positive Energy Plane
- Negative Energy Plane
Outer Planes
- The Abyss (Chaotic Evil)
- Acheron (Lawful Evil / Lawful Neutral)
- Arborea/Olympus (Chaotic Good)
- Arcadia (Lawful Good / Lawful Neutral)
- Beastlands (Neutral Good / Chaotic Good)
- Bytopia (Split - Lawful Good / Neutral Good)
- Dothion
- Shurrock
- Concordant Oppostion (The Outlands) (True Neutral)
- Elysium (Neutral Good)
- Gehenna (Lawful Evil / Neutral Evil)
- Hades (Neutral Evil)
- Limbo (Chaotic Neutral)
- Nine Hells (Lawful Evil)
- Avernus
- Dis
- Minauros
- Phlegethos
- Stygia
- Malbolge
- Maladomini
- Cania
- Nessus
- Mechanus (Lawful Neutral)
- Pandemonium (Chaotic Neutral / Chaotic Evil)
- Seven Heavens (Mount Celestia) (Lawful Good)
- Lunia
- Mercuria
- Venya
- Solania
- Mertion
- Jovar
- Chronias
- Tartarus/Carceri (Neutral Evil / Chaotic Evil)
- Ysgard (Chaotic Good / Chaotic Neutral)
Blotter
Blotters are individuals that have no history. They simply came into being one day. Perhaps they have simply forgotten their history, or maybe there are other forces at work?