![]() ![]() ![]() The very dramatic slopes of Mount Celestia. It was thought to be the ultimate goal of the inhabitants of Celestia to ascend the layers one by one in order to reach Chronias, where their souls would join with the essence of the plane itself. Many religions made this level the home of their lawful good deities, believing any lesser realms were merely to accommodate less worthy souls. The legends said that Chronias was so good and lawful that it glowed of its own accord and any who entered had all evil and neutrality burned out of them, leaving them inherently good, if they survived. Little was known of its structure because nothing was ever recorded by the few who had visited and returned. The topmost and final layer of Celestia, Chronias was called the Illuminated Heaven. ![]() Uroboros, the Gates of Wisdom, the airborne realm of Jazirian of the couatl, floated above the mountainside of Solania. It was the location of the giant Soul Forges, which Moradin was said to use to temper the spirits of his people. In the Great Wheel cosmology, a vast dwarven mansion called Erackinor was located on the slopes of Solania, where the dwarven deity Moradin made his domain, with his wife Berronar Truesilver. Many pilgrims came questing to the roof of this layer in the hopes of finding answers to life's persistent questions. Many of the slopes were rich in precious ores and minerals and were mined by populations of dwarves that resided there. The peaks were home to numerous holy shrines, including monasteries and magnificent cathedrals controlled by demigods. Its valleys were enveloped in mist, fog, and strange scents. Solania, the fourth layer, had a sky that glowed like burnished silver and was called the Electrum Heaven, or sometimes the Crystal Heaven. ![]() Lunia was the location of a number of godly realms, including Tyr's secondary realm of the Court. The starlit night of Lunia, surrounded by the Silver Sea. Travelers merely had to touch a block to activate the portal. Black granite blocks veined with gold led to Arcadia, white granite blocks with veins of silver led to the Twin Paradises, and red granite blocks flecked with blue took you to Concordant Opposition. Also in the surf of Lunia were the portals to the Twin Paradises, Arcadia, and Concordant Opposition which were large, permanent, free-standing blocks of finished stone. Descriptions of the citadels varied among travelers leading cosmologists to theorize that there were many of these mountain islands. The adjacent beach belonged to an island with a majestic mountain decorated with grand citadels made from polished white stone. The dark, starry Silver Sea was full of many good aquatic beings, including celestial whales and sea elves. The sky above Lunia was perpetually dark, filled with beautiful constellations of silver stars bright enough to illuminate the base of the mountain. The color pools of the Astral Plane would deposit visitors in the surf of a vast ocean, the Silver Sea, full of clean, fresh water that had the properties of holy water. The sky of Lunia was a nighttime sky filled with stars that illuminated the layer with a silver glow. Known as the Silver Heaven, Lunia was the first layer travelers encountered. Lunia Ĭelestia's first (bottommost) layer shared borders with the neighboring planes of the Peaceable Kingdoms of Arcadia and the Twin Paradises of Bytopia travel was possible between Celestia and these planes at certain locations. The sky of each layer had its own hue which softly bathed everything in gentle shades of luminance. The barriers between the seven layers were arranged such that entrances were at the lowest geographical points and exits were at the highest, so a traveler from the Astral Plane would enter the first layer at the base of a mountain (actually, in the surf of the ocean surrounding the mountain) and had to climb to the peak to reach the next layer, only to emerge at the nadir again. Each of the seven layers contained at least one mountain or high structure rising into the sky, and most had whole mountain ranges. Ascending the mountain was analogous to travelling through subsequently higher or 'deeper' layers to the top. The seven individual layers formed a colossal mountain that rose from an infinite sea of holy water on the bottommost layer, to the summit on the topmost layer. Īs an outer plane, Celestia was spatially infinite and consisted of seven infinite layers (or sub-planes). Celestia was home to numerous celestial creatures including various types of archons, the petitioners of this plane. All aspects of Celestia were beautiful and perfect it was where the souls of many creatures of lawful good alignment went to after death. Celestia was the ultimate in law and good. ![]()
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