Plane of Earth

Plane of Earth

(Plane)

N

Earth

Titles

The Eternal Delve
The Foundation

Sphere

Inner Sphere

Gravity

Normal

Time

Time

Realm

Immeasurable

Structure

Lasting

Essence

Earth

Alignment

Mildly neutral

Magic

Enhanced or impeded

Denizens

Jabalis, earth elementals, crystal dragons, xorns, earth veelas, elemental scamps

Divinities

Nivi Rhombodazzle; Ayrzul and other elemental lords of earth

Description

Unending caverns containing untold mineral wealth

Images of Plane of Earth

Source: Planar Adventures, pg(s). 130–135

This article discusses the elemental plane. For the planet, see Earth.

The Elemental Plane of Earth, the Eternal Delve, is located within the Inner Sphere, between the Plane of Water and the Plane of Fire. It is a realm of seemingly endless rock riddled with caverns, some of them the size of entire planets.

Ruler

The religious symbol of Ayrzul.

The ruler of the Elemental Plane of Earth is Ayrzul, the Fossilized King, who plots against his many enemies from the his radioactive Blistering Labyrinth at the plane's center.

The plane's recently restored second elemental lord Sairazul, once imprisoned for thousands of years by her rival Ayrzul, has established her emerald domain of the Emerging Facet near the plane's border with the Plane of Metal.

Geography

This plane is composed primarily of rock and earth, criss-crossed by veins of precious metal and gemstones of such gigantic proportions that they cannot be believed by those who have never set foot there. Interspersed with this solid rock and earth are caverns of all sizes, some of them dark and dry, others filled with water and phosphorescent fungus. Others yet are lit by enormous crystals, enchanted by the native jabali genies to illuminate vast caves, like miniature suns.

Intrusions of elemental fire and water extend from the Plane of Earth's borders with the other elemental planes: bodies of magma and volcanic tunnels extend from the Plane of Fire, while the influence of the Plane of Water results in vast buried oceans and in bodies of limestone and salt. A tunnel known as the Vent extends through the Plane of Earth from its border with Fire on one side to that with Water on the other.

Inhabitants

The Plane of Earth is home to mighty mercantile empires of jabalis who freely trade the incredible mineral wealth of their home to planar travelers or the migrating nations of jann merchants. Also found in the plane are the haunts of the crystal dragons, a native race of dragons who fiercely guard their treasures and are often found ruling small nations of other species, providing safety from the slavery common in the jabalis' empire. Xiomorns control large sections of the plane, and themselves pay obeisance to Ayrzul. Earth elementals are much more protective of the plane's mineral riches, seeing its dispersal as an almost personal violation of their bodies.

Other native life in the Endless Delve includes earth and dust scamps, mud elementals, xorn, cullitox, and the serpentine agrawghs, whose tunneling is thought to have created many of the Plane of Earth's tunnels. Species more common on other planes, such as oreads, dwarves, humans and the occasional elves, can be found inhabiting larger caverns and hollow spaces. Magma elementals, magma oozes and the huge, wormlike thoqquas live along the Plane of Earth's border with the Plane of Fire.

References

Paizo published chapters about the Plane of Earth in Planes of Power and Rage of Elements.

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