Elemental plane of dust
The Elemental Plane of Dust is a vast, desolate expanse where all things decay, crumble, and return to nothingness. It is a realm of endless dunes, swirling dust storms, and ancient ruins eroded by the passage of time. Unlike the more volatile Elemental planes , Dust is a place of slow, inevitable entropy, where even the strongest structures eventually erode into fine grains.
Geography and Environment
The landscape of the plane is ever-changing yet perpetually barren. Dust constantly shifts, forming dunes, ravines, and valleys that never remain the same for long.
The Endless Expanse: A vast wasteland of fine dust and ash, where visibility is low, and the ground is unstable, shifting beneath one’s feet.
The Shifting Ruins: Ancient, crumbling remains of unknown civilizations litter the landscape, slowly dissolving into dust, their origins lost to time, but are not of this plane.
The Stormfields: Immense dust storms sweep across the plane, obscuring vision, eroding all in their path, and making travel treacherous.
The air is thick with suspended particles, making breathing difficult for unprotected travelers. Light is dim, filtering through a perpetual haze of dust, giving the entire realm a muted, faded quality.
Inhabitants
While the plane may seem lifeless, it harbors entities that thrive in decay and erosion.
Dust Elementals and Mephits : Living embodiments of entropy, they roam the plane, scattering and dispersing anything in their way.
Ashen Wraiths: Spirits of those lost to time, whispering through the dust, clinging to echoes of forgotten memories.
The Forgotten Ones: Entities that barely exist, flickering between form and oblivion, remnants of beings that have long faded from existence.
Natural Phenomena and Dangers
The Elemental Plane of Dust is not just barren—it is actively hostile to permanence.
Erosion Effect: Anything left in the plane for too long, including creatures and structures, will slowly erode, their forms becoming weaker until they turn to dust.
Suffocating Air: The air is filled with fine dust, making breathing difficult without magical protection.
The Sands of Oblivion: Strange pockets of dust exist that do not just erode physical objects but memories and existence itself, making those who step into them slowly forgotten even by reality.
The Ever-Looming Stillness: Silence dominates the plane, broken only by the occasional howl of a windstorm. It is a place where sound, movement, and time feel sluggish and muted.
Notable Locations
1. The Crumbling City: A once-great metropolis now reduced to half-formed ruins, its streets shifting beneath the dust, swallowed piece by piece by the plane’s hunger.
2. The Obsidian Monolith: A singular dark tower that somehow resists erosion, standing untouched amidst the desolation, radiating a strange and unnatural presence.
3. The Endless Dunes: A place where time itself feels uncertain, and wanderers risk being lost forever, slowly fading from existence and from ever existing.
Connections to Other Planes
The Elemental Plane of Dust is linked to various other elemental planes, often serving as a transitional space between realms:
earth & air : Dust is the bridge between the Elemental Plane of Earth and the Plane of Air, where solid ground gives way to shifting particles and eventually nothingness.
The Wastes of Time: Some scholars theorize that the Plane of Dust touches upon the edges of forgotten time, where history itself crumbles into oblivion.
Role in Myth and Magic
The Dustborn: Some believe that ancient beings once ruled here before even the gods, but over time, they eroded, their power fading into the sands.
The Curse of the Plane: Some say those who stay too long on the Plane of Dust become Unremembered, losing their identity, name, and purpose, becoming part of the eternal wasteland.
Artifacts of Dust: Rare and powerful relics exist within the ruins, enchanted with entropy itself, capable of dissolving objects, magic, or even reality.
"What is dust but the memory of things that once were?" – Unknown Wanderer
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