Outlands

Geography

The Outlands is the plane between the Outer Planes, a plane of neutrality, but not the neutrality of nothingness. Instead it incorporates a little of everything, keeping it all in a paradoxical balance—simultaneously concordant and in opposition. It is a broad region of varied terrain, with open prairies, towering mountains, and twisting, shallow rivers, strongly resembling an ordinary world of the Material Plane.
The Outlands is circular, like a great wheel—in fact, those who envision the Outer Planes as a wheel point to the Outlands as proof, calling it a microcosm of the planes. That argument might be circular, however, for it is possible that the arrangement of the Outlands inspired the idea of the Great Wheel in the first place.
Around the outside edge of the circle, evenly spaced, are the gate-towns: sixteen settlements, each built around a portal leading to one of the Outer Planes. Each town shares many of the characteristics of the plane where its gate leads.
At the center of the Outlands, like the axle of the planar wheel, the Spire shoots impossibly high into the sky. Above this thin peak floats the ring-shaped city of Sigil, the City of Doors. This bustling planar metropolis holds countless portals to other planes and worlds.

Alternative Name(s)

The Plane of Concordant Opposition/Godsland

Type

Dimensional plane

Location under

The Outer Planes

Included Locations

• Automata
• Bedlam
• Curst
• Ecstasy
• Excelsior
• Faunel
• Fortitude
• Glorium
• Hopeless
• Plague-Mort
• Ribcage
• Sigil
• Sylvana
• Torch
• Tradegate
• Xaos

Owner/Ruler

The Lady of Pain