The Plane of Water
There is no deep or shallow, no dark depths nor wavy surface, just an endless ocean that feels as if you were submerged several feet (say a couple meters) in any body of water on the Prime Material Plane. There is no sun, yet the water itself seems to glow dimly with a bluish green luminescence. Volumes of water at any temperature and salinity can be found if you know where to look or have a guide. Water becomes cold and forms icebergs as you neared the Plane of Ice; water becomes silty and slimy as you near the Plane of Ooze. Life that depends on particular conditions flows along with their preferred environment or suffer the consequences. Impurities such as bubbles of air, chunks of earth, and even short-lived balls of fire can be found floating about due to elemental vortices or the workings of powerful beings. Habitats and settlements typically form near sources of food and shelter, or near portals and vortices to facilitate trade.
This plane is abundant with life: native creatures born of the elemental nature of the plane itself, sentient water-breathing peoples, and most every species of aquatic life that can survive after being sucked through a vortex from their plane of origin.
Geography
Supporting the teeming life of this plane are the corals and plants that make their way here and find purchase. Huge drifting three-dimensional reefs and loose spheres of freshwater grasses, kelp, and seaweed are home to myriad species and are fertile fishing spots. Currents, whirlpools, tidal bores, and flows of ice, steam, or silt that inconvenience travelers are some of the deadly surprises of the Plane of Water. Usually invisible, currents can be strong enough to pull visitors off in some direction for long distances before they are able to exit the current. Tidal bores are the most dangerous currents, hitting like a thrown boulder and carrying the unlucky creature away for miles. Whirlpools are caused by countervailing currents that sucks everything in a tightening spiral, some of which lead to vortices to other planes.
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