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The Astral Plane

The Astral Plane is described by those who have traveled there as a vast, empty, silvery sea, marked only by wisps of stray thought, where direction and distance are meaningless, and time does not seem to pass.

There is much debate about the true nature of the astral plane among scholarly circles. At the University of Chardon, the Standard Multiversal Model holds that the astral plane is an dilute echo which resonants from the Plane of Souls, flowing upward in slow currents towards the Plane of Creation, bisected by the Land of the Dead, which divides the near Astral from the far Astral. Others, especially those who follow the doctrine of planar dualism, claim the Astral Plane is the fundamental plane of Soulstuff, and consider the Plane of Souls, the Land of the Dead, and the Plane of Creation to be simply regions of the Astral Plane, where the density of Soulstuff is higher than normal. The followers of the radical stoneborn metaphysicist Yendalo even claim that the Astral Plane does not exist: what others call the near Astral is merely an extension of the Plane of Souls, and what others call the far Astral is merely an extension of the Plane of Creation.

Whatever the true nature of the Astral Plane, all scholars agree that the Spiritual Realms are embedded within the Astral Plane, but only in the far Astral, the portion of Astral Plane that is beyond the Land of the Dead; and that one can, using powerful magic, project ones’ consciousness from the Plane of Souls to the Astral Plane, leaving the body behind.