The Astral Plane

According to the Great Wheel cosmology model, the Astral Plane connected the Prime Material Planes to the first layers of the Outer planes.

In the World Tree cosmology, the Astral Plane was described as a shapeless cloud that surrounded all the other planes, including the Inner Planes which were not accessible via the Astral in the Great Wheel model

Inhabitants

On this plane of thought, the existence of true natives was doubtful. The githyanki, however, had been a dominating presence for long ages, ruled from their great city of Tu’narath but mostly spread about innumerable fortresses.

Astral searchers, astral streakers, astral whales, the mighty astral dragons, and the tiny kodragons inhabited the Silver Void. The dreaded astral dreadnoughts were believed by some to be a manifestation of the Astral Plane itself, while others pointed to their indefinitely long tails as an indicator of originating elsewhere.

All manner of fiends, celestials, slaadi and other planars used the Astral as shortcuts to their business elsewhere, but both astral devas and shedu patrolled the plane regularly to keep evil in check.

Planar Nature

The Astral Sea is in the Astral Plane, which is colloquially known as the realm of thought and dream. Creatures can propel themselves through the plane by merely thinking about moving in a specific direction.

Within its silvery depths, alien predators lurk in silence and fallen gods lie in stasis. Adventurers known across the multiverse as spelljammers gallivant through space in ships powered by magic.

Air and Gravity

The Astral Plane, despite all visual evidence to the contrary, contains breathable, comfortable air. It should be a void, but isn’t. Gravity varies, serving mainly as an anchor in zones of dense matter.

Timelessness

Time has no meaning on the Astral Plane. Creatures on the Astral Plane don’t age or experience hunger or thirst.

Dead Gods

The Astral Plane was the graveyard of the gods. If a deity, which could be considered among the greatest of concepts, died, its remnant were cast into this realm of thought. Here it remained as a floating “god-isle”, a piece of solid matter within the endless empty void, with only a fraction of residual energy left.

Scattered throughout the Astral Sea are the remains of dead and dying gods who are here either because they were forgotten by their worshipers or slain at the hands of more powerful entities.

Sessions played: March 3 2025