Outlands
Concordant Opposition/Outlands
Concordant Opposition, also called the Friendly Opposition, the Outlands, Godsland, and simply the Land, was the plane of true neutrality. Divine realms on this plane included the Caverns of Thought, Ilsensine's realm; the Court of Light, Shekinester's realm; Dwarven Mountain, which was the realm of Dumathoin, Vergadain, and Dugmaren Brightmantle; Annam's Hidden Realm, Semuanya's Bog, Sheela Peryroyl's Flowering Hill, Thoth's Estate, Oghma's House of Knowledge, Silvanus's realm of Summeroak, Gond's realm of Wonderhome, and Ubtao's Labyrinth of Life.
(OUTER PLANES)
The Concordant Domain of the Outlands, also known as Concordant Opposition, was the center of the Great Wheel of Outer Planes. It connected to all other Outer Planes and was truly neutral in alignment. Other names for this plane were the Outlands, Godsland, and Friendly Opposition. Some characteristics of this plane were ascribed to the World Tree cosmology unaligned planes of Cynosure and the Fugue Plane when that cosmology became popular. Both of these planes survived the Spellplague to float in the Astral Sea.
The Outlands was the exception to many of the rules governing the Outer Planes, the first being its lack of alignment or true neutrality. It was an infinite plane, yet it had a definite center (the Spire with Sigil on top). The properties of all the other Outer Planes were mixed together in the Outlands. Good, Evil, Law, and Chaos existed here in all their forms, but they were less able to affect each other due to the neutralizing effect of this plane.
Realms
Annam All-Father of the giants maintained his Hidden Realm, a crystal tower on top a mountain noone could find, during his exile from Gudheim.
Asgorath was believed to lair in the Outlands under his name of Io by some planar scholars, while their Torilian colleagues maintained the location of his realm could not be pinpointed within the Outer Planes, or at all.
Dugmaren Brightmantle of the Morndinsamman resided in Soot Hall within the Dwarvish Mountain.
Dumathoin of the dwarven pantheon once had a large underground realm called Deepshaft Hall that reached almost to the center.
Eadro of the merfolk and locathah lived in a huge sea outside the ring of portals.
Gond the Wonderbringer once had a realm called Wonderhome here.
Gzemnid, the Gas Giant of the beholders, kept his realm of tunnels close to that of Ilsensine.
Ilsensine, greater god of the Illithids, once had its base, the Caverns of Thought, here.
Null, draconic deity of judgement, had a realm named the Mausoleum of Chronepsis in his aspect of the Guardian of the Lost here, with some link to the Negative Energy plane, the Plane of Shadow and the Mausolem of Pain on Carceri.
Oghma the Binder, patron of bards and god of knowledge, had a realm named the House of Knowledge close to the center of the plane where he maintained a prison for trouble-makers, usually demons and devils.
Semuanya of the lizardfolk once had a realm in a large swamp that bordered the sea of Eadro.
Sheela Peryroyl had a farm and orchard together named Flowering Hill here.
Shekinester, the three-aspected deity of the nagas, made her Court of Light in the Outlands.
Silvanus Oak Father and his Celtic brethren once controlled a large area named Tir na Og outside the ring of portals.
Thoth of the Mulhorandi pantheon maintained homes both inside and outside the ring of portals.
Ubtao, Creator of Chult, had his primary realm here, the Labyrinth of Life.
Untamo had his Sleeping Lands here.
Vergadain, dwarven god of wealth and luck, once made his home, Strongale Hall, here.
Waukeen, Liberty's Maiden and Merchants' Friend, once had her realm, the Marketplace Eternal, here.
Zorquan, the Greatest Wyrm, was believed by many to reside somewhere in the Outlands, while others thought he lived on the Prime Material plane.
Geography
Description
While there was no sun in the Outlands, the plane still had day and night cycles.
Geography
This plane defied description by changing the perception of those who entered, becoming a completely new and yet familiar plane with each visit. Typically on the first visit the plane appeared as a larger version of the visitor's homeland. (A farmer would see vast farmland, a scribe would see a huge library for example.) Subsequent visits would reveal a different face but demesnes remained in the same spatial location—a city on one visit might be a forest with inhabitable trees on the next—chaotic variation but with the same order and placement. Deities could not fully control what visitors saw and heard in their realms, but they could influence the appearance to represent their proclivities.
The Outlands had a neutralizing effect on the randomness of weapons and spells, reducing all healing and damage to the minimum possible while having no effect on strength or magical bonuses. In addition to this, magic itself was gradually neutralized as you approached the center of the plane (which appeared as a huge mountain, tree, fountain, tornado, tower, column, etc.). At about 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers) out, high-level spells ceased to function. Every 100 miles (160 kilometers) or so, lower level spells would begin to fail, until finally at 200 miles (320 kilometers) from the center even first-level spells would not function. This applied to divine magic and the powers of the gods as well. Therefore, this ring around the center of the plane became a meeting place, bazaar, and common ground used by every intelligent species of the Outer Planes including greater deities of differing alignments. Moving in closer to the center, at about 100 miles (160 kilometers), all chemical reactions ceased to function and even the gods could not get any closer to the center of the plane.
The Astral Plane connected to the plane of the Outlands by color pools, which were never closer than 600 miles (970 kilometers) from each other. In addition, Yggdrasil, the World Ash, extended a branch to one of the realms in the plane.
The Outlands connected to all the other Outer Planes via portals. According to one early scholar, these sixteen portals were always seen as white disks of various sizes laid into the ground and were found at the 1,000‑mile (1,600‑kilometer) mark in a ring around the center of the plane. Each disk could send travelers to any plane they concentrated on. If a group used the portal, the destination was determined by the majority. Beings of a chaotic nature would sometimes be taken to the wrong destination. However, all later reports from visitors to the Outlands instead reported the existence of sixteen gate-towns leading to the other Outer Planes, as described below.
The Concordant Domain of the Outlands
Realms
Caverns of Thought • Court of Light • Dwarvish Mountain (Deepshaft Hall • Soot Hall • Strongale Hall) • Flowering Hill • Gzemnid's Realm • Hidden Realm • Labyrinth of Life • Marketplace Eternal • Mausoleum of Chronepsis • Palace of Judgement • Semuanya's Bog • Sigil • Sleeping Lands • Tir na Og (Deep Forest • the Great Smithy • House of Knowledge • the Pinnacle • Tir fo Thuinn) • Thoth's Estate • Wonderhome
Gate-towns
Automata • Bedlam • Curst • Ecstasy • Excelsior • Faunel • Fortitude • Glorium • Hopeless • Plague-Mort • Ribcage • Rigus • Sylvania • Torch • Tradegate • Xaos
Climate
Atmosphere
Reminiscent of the Material Plane, it is easy to mistake the Outlands for your home plane, at least for a short while. The icy mountains, parched deserts, and mist-covered forests dot across the plane, though the further you may out from the spire and get past the gate towns, the pastoral plains and sweeping grasslands become the dominant biome. There is no sun, stars, or a moon, instead travelers orient themselves based on where the spire is, known as spireward. The day and night cycle is similar to the Material Plane, but instead of a sun rising in the distance, the plane just starts to become brighter. Heavy fogs and early-day mists are a constant threat to travelers as it is easy to become lost when you can’t see the spire. The weather of this plane is never extreme, instead, it is largely moderate and maintains a steady feel to it. Due to the true-neutrality of this plane, ice storms and blazing hot deserts are almost unheard of, gentle snowfalls and warm deserts greet travelers. The weather is rarely something that must be fought while in the Outlands.Fauna & Flora
Inhabitants
Although the Outlands had no known native species or races, members of all intelligent species could be found here meeting in dead magic zones, trading goods, or traveling between planes, often in service to the higher powers. All manner of demons, devils, spirit legions, einheriar, planetars, devas, rilmani and slaadi could be found here, for example.
Tourism
Notable Locations
Gate-Towns
Main article: Gate-town
Around the outer edge of the Outlands were sixteen evenly spaced settlements that were each constructed around a portal to one particular Outer Plane. For that reason, each gate-town shared many characteristics of the plane to which it connected.
The sixteen gate-towns were:
Excelsior
A beautiful, well-defended city with a kind population, it connected to Mount Celestia.
Tradegate
A star-shaped city that bristled with commerce and constant activity, it connected to Bytopia via a complex trade system with a bariaur known as the Master Trader.
Ecstasy
A peaceful, pastoral town, it connected to Elysium.
Faunel
A ruined city, but bristling with life, it connected to the Beastlands.
Sylvania
A constantly partying town where music played day and night, it connected to Arborea.
Glorium
A fishing village built at the edge of a fjord, it connected to Ysgard via two different portals. Another branch of Yggdrasil led to a cavern near the city.
Xaos
Also known as aXos, sXoa, oasX, and all other permutations, it was an ever-changing city that connected to Limbo.
Bedlam
A fan-shaped town built haplessly on the slopes of the Maurash hill, it connected to Pandemonium.
Plague-Mort
A diseased, ruined, and decaying town, it connected to the Abyss.
Curst
A bleak, dusty city organized in rings, it connected to Carceri.
Hopeless
A large city with a single entrance and organized as a spiral, it connected to Hades.
Torch
Built on the slopes of a range of volcanoes and surrounded by a disease-ridden marsh, it connected to Gehenna.
Ribcage
A mid-sized settlement, beautiful, but oppressive, located at the bottom of the Vale of the Spine, it connected to the Nine Hells.
Rigus
A huge military encampment, it connected to Acheron.
Automata
A perfectly ordered city, it connected to Mechanus.
Fortitude
A mid-sized, well-ordered city with an oppressive population eager to enforce the law, it connected to Arcadia.
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5E Statistics
Outlands
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Plane of Conflict
Basic Information
| Natives | Animals solars hollyphants planetars foo creatures agathia baku devas mortai |
| Color Pools | Emerald |
| Tuning fork | Gold, F |
Outer Plane
| Shape & Size | Infinite |
| Gravity | Normal |
| Time | Normal |
| Morphic trait | Alterable |
| Alignment trait | CG / NG |
| Magic trait | Limited (by the mortai): air and weather spells |
| Layers | Krigala Brux Karasuthra |