Kensan Oni (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} kensan_oni) wrote,@ 2008-05-06 17:02:00 |
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D&D Thoughts
Pandemonium. It's a scary place in the D&D universe. It's place where the wind howls with all sorts of sounds, because the physics of the place don't let sounds die. They just keep going on forever and ever. Sometimes this forms tremendous winds that whip around the planes. The first layer is the most hospitable, given one shelter against the winds, but as one descends into the layers of the plane, there is less and less shelter, till all you have is a flat windy plane, that has holes that you can hide in.
With all sorts of secrets kept in the winds, it is very probably at the very bottom you have a race of very powerful wizards that are very keen and adept at picking out a slim whisper of a conversation or utterance that is centuries old, out of the huge sound that surrounds them.
It's also possible that the most common inhabitants of the world are deaf. They can't hear the maddening winds that surround them. They use telepathy to communicate to each other, if they are intelligent enough to have speech, and they would be keenly alert in other alien ways.
Even so, it is amazing to me that basically no one has ever tried to populate the plane. Outside of a reference to a city that people take shelter in, like some forsaken Casablanca, there is no real reference to what lives there.
I suppose I'm going to have to make up that something.
Pandemonium. It's a scary place in the D&D universe. It's place where the wind howls with all sorts of sounds, because the physics of the place don't let sounds die. They just keep going on forever and ever. Sometimes this forms tremendous winds that whip around the planes. The first layer is the most hospitable, given one shelter against the winds, but as one descends into the layers of the plane, there is less and less shelter, till all you have is a flat windy plane, that has holes that you can hide in.
With all sorts of secrets kept in the winds, it is very probably at the very bottom you have a race of very powerful wizards that are very keen and adept at picking out a slim whisper of a conversation or utterance that is centuries old, out of the huge sound that surrounds them.
It's also possible that the most common inhabitants of the world are deaf. They can't hear the maddening winds that surround them. They use telepathy to communicate to each other, if they are intelligent enough to have speech, and they would be keenly alert in other alien ways.
Even so, it is amazing to me that basically no one has ever tried to populate the plane. Outside of a reference to a city that people take shelter in, like some forsaken Casablanca, there is no real reference to what lives there.
I suppose I'm going to have to make up that something.
