Echos of Eldritch: The Planescape

Well Met Travelers,

This post is going to be an overview of my creation myth and the Planescape that it Coincides with. After this week, all subsequent Monday posts Will cover the topic of an individual plane.  Each of these weekly posts will talk about the overall construction of the plane, the inhabitants of the plane, and any notable locations within the plane.

Now for the creation myth,

My Hand Drawn Map of the Planes

Before time itself, the Planescape was but an idea, a canvas to be painted upon.  Anarchist arose, whose existence the gods do not fathom.  The artist first painted the world we call Antediluvian.  He then wrapped in this plane in a silver linen that we now know as the AEther.  He then forged the elements and cast them into the corners of his canvas, and where they collide we call the convergence.  These elements mirror the plane within the linen.  Looking upon his half-finished work, he was overcome with both whimsy and horror.

These emotions lead to him spelling paint, and the spots formed by the paint were the Faerie and the Realm of the Obscured.  Having disrupted the symmetry, the artists needed time to ponder how to proceed.  This thought would give birth to the Astral Plane.  He then quickly grew tired, and if this first dream would fashion the dreamscape.

Having his next project in mind, the painter creates a place where they would dwell: respectively, a heaven and a hell.  He named the heavens Elysium, a true paradise. Areqar his hell was called, a place of the darkest damnation.

The world a lacked progress, so he wove a fabric so thin but so strong that even he could not complete it. For this task, he constructed Tempus, the celestial clock, which shall weave the fabric of time until the end of days.

Looking upon his finished creation, he decided that he needed a place to observe it from without, a place beyond time.  This is the kingdom of Ostium, the realm of doors.  It sits aloof from the rest of creation, there to interact, but never interfere.

One plane that does not fit into my Planescape myth is the Eldritch Plane, which was a plane created by the gods as a prison, which you can see in one of my other posts, but I will talk about it in more detail later.

And that’s my creation Myth, it outlines the painting of my Planescape and the name of each plane of existence.  As I said above, in each of my following Monday posts, I will detail one of the planes.

Until next time,

Farewell and safe journeys, Travelers.