Re: Planar Structure and Cosmology

My personal Speculation on the Phlogiston:

I actually see the Phlogiston as being the most objective portion of
reality out there. It is a giant tapestry that holds everything
together. Though the Phlogiston seems to just be a sea of floating
flammable gas, it is the raw stuff that everything else is made of.

Dimensionally the Phlogiston is flat. A solid monolith of reality.
There are of course rumors of the rare portion of space outside the
phlogiston but the only other plane that truely runs parallel to it is
the Plane of shadow which is stretched much too thin as it reaches
across the distances to be able to interact with the phlogiston or
beings in it.

The Crystal Spheres have long since pulled the raw material they need
in order to create everything they need inside themselves. Like
bubbles in seafoam this is a naturally occuring process specific to
the materia of the phlogiston.. just like how in our reality spaces
gasses collase and eventually erupt into new stars, so too does the
phlogiston collasce until its outsides seal into a new crystal shell.

Within each shell as it forms is first simply "reality".. the material
plane of that world. Solid and relatively unchanging. As it stabalizes
though, Dieties either move in, are called by the sentients
developing.. or the reality is simply 'nothingness' until a creator
diety gets its hands on it. Through whatever means however new planes
are then fasioned off of the material.. they have a
spiritual/conceptiual nature that goes beyond the prime but is based
off of it... just like each person has a soul. (Yes, this is very
existentialist theory)

Generally, the plane of shadow isn't created within the world but it
finds its way in there anyway.. sometimes appearing to be just a minor
demi-plane but often growing to take over and more strongly influence
things. The rawest of Crystal Spheres involves a single shell holding
a material plane plus the mirrored shadow plane.

So because of this, I don't see the Phlogiston as having any
relationship with the other planes of a sphere beyond the material
just as the desk I'm sitting at has no interaction with my soul.


On 4/12/05, Dreamer <dreamer@??????.?????.??.uk> wrote:
> 
> I would be interested to hear other people's speculations on the
> phlogiston!
> 
> Hope this lot might be some use to someone! [grin]
> 
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> Dreamer
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