A GUIDE te THE ETHEREAL PLANE Being a Recital of Strange Conditions, Ways by which one might Survive, Extraordinary Features, and Peculiar Entities that abide on the Ethereal Plane. CREDITS Designer: Bruce R. Cordell Editors: Michele Carter and Keith Strohm Cover Artist: rk post ¢ Interior Artists: Adam Rex and Hannibal King Cartographer: Sam Wood ¢@ Brand Manager: Thomas Reid @ Art Director; Dawn Marin Typography: Angelika Lokotz ¢ Graphic Designer: Matt Adelsperger Conceptual Artist: Dana Knutson Special Thanks to John W. Mangrum, MagianChua, Mr. Niceguy, and the rest of the PLANESCAPE mailing list for their help in compiling the list of demiplanes. Sources: Sources for this work include the following: PLANESCAPE? Campaign Setting by Zeb Cook: Planewalker's Handbook, PLANESCAPE MoNnsTROUS COMPENDIUM? 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Any reproduction or unauthorized use of the material or artwork contained herein is prohibited without express written permission of TSR, Inc. © 1998 TSR, inc. All rights reserved. Made in the U.S.A. TSR, Inc. is a subsidiary of Wizards of the Coast, Inc.‘THE FABRIC GF THE MULTIVERSE: INTRODUCTION THE SHAPE OF THE WAVE! ETHEREAL OVERVIEW y. Planar Geography ........ 0.0.0.0. eee eae # The Cosmology of the Ethereal Reaching the Ethereal Plane Survival on the Ethereal Senses on the Ethereal........... Ethereal Combat ......... 00.00. STANDING ON THE SHORE! THE BORDER ETHEREAL .. 12 Sensing Through the Border ............... 13 Border Movement 2.0... 000 cece eee eens 13 Obstacles to Ethereal Movement Into the Deep and Back Again “Skirting the Curtain .....0....00005 . Border Materializations Gone Wrong ..... 15 Border Exceptions .........0-2.0..0-20 2045 16 Athas .....00... 0.00.02 -020022-0-. Krynn’. Cerilia . 3 Ravenloft : The Inner Planes and the Border Ethereal ...... 16 BINTO THE DEPTHS: THE DEFP ETHEREAL .......... 18 *Ethersickness 2.0.2.0... 0.000 c eee eee eee ee 18 Deep Ethereal Movement ...............005 19 The Wall of Color 0... cece ee eee eee 20 Deep Ethereal Features .............0..-4- 21 Chronolily .. 0.0. e cc eee eee 21 Ether Cyclones 0.6... cc eee eee eee 22 Ether Gaps... -.--.-...----------0--. 23 Protomatter . 2.2.2... ee ee eee 25 Vortex Fronts... cic c ee er eee eee ree 28 VAMING THE EPHER: PROBICIENCIES 22... 0000.008 30 Curtain Cognizance .....2....0..0.-.. 30 Ethereal Sight ©... . cece ee eee eee 30 Ethereal Tracking ...... 0.0.0... sev eeee 31 Iusion Pierce .......-0....-2..2022-- 31 Nutriment oc. ccc a cece eee eae 31 Vapor Weave oo. eee eee eee 31 TABLE OF CONFEN+TS SPELLWARP: ETHEREAL MAGIC 2... 0.0.0.0 ee ee General Conditions Wizard Spell Alterations . Abjuration ... cece eee 33 Conjuration and Summoning . 33 Divination ...........- 33 Elemental Earth and Water 34 INusions and Phantasms ... 34 Spells that Access the Astral . 36 Ethereal Spell Keys ....... 36 Priests and Prayers ........ 36 Magical Weapons and Armor . ..37 New Wizard Spells ........ 37 Mournful Mutter (Lvl 1) . . 37 Chamber (Lvl 2} ....... +37 Lob (Lvl 3) ..... . 38 Lesser Etherealness (Lvl 5) 38 Stabilize Ether (Lvl 5)... . 38 Dissipate (Lvi 6) .......-.- . 38 Greater Etherealness (Lvl 7} Demiplane Seed (Lvl 8)..... Demiplane Decay (Lvl 9}. New Magical [tems Boots of the Border ...........2-0.... 4] Gloves of Retrieval 2.2... 02. eee eee 4) Horn of the Inner Planes .............. 41 ISLANDS IN THE MIST: THE DEMIPLANES 0200. e ce eee eee 42 Known and Suspected Demiplanes ........... 43 The Black Abyss... 0.00 e cece ea aee 44 The Boundless + 45 The Demiplane of Dread + 46 The Demiplane of Electromagnetism ...... 46 The Demiplane of Imprisonment ......... 46 The Demiplane of Moi] ..............-- 46 The Demiplane of Nightmares ........... 47 The Demiplane Of Shadow ............. A? The Demiplane That Lives............0.. 49 The Demiplane of Time 50 Maelest ...........0000.. - 50 The Mazes oo. cece cece eee 51 The Semblance .. 0... eee eee eee 51 Wormscape ......2. 002.0020... 2 ee eee 51 Designing Demiplanes ..........----.....- 52 Generating Random Demiplanes ......... 52