The Outer Planes
The Outer Planes: realms of alignment and afterlife in the Great Wheel.
The Outer Planes consist of: the Abyss, Acheron, Arborea, Arcadia, Baator, Beastlands, Bytopia, Carceri, Elysium, Gehenna, Gray Waste of Hades, Limbo, Mechanus, Mount Celestia, the Outlands, Pandemonium, and Ysgard.
Quick Facts
- Setting
- The Outer Planes (primarily Sigil, the City of Gates)
- Developer
- Black Isle Studios
- Publisher
- Interplay Entertainment
- Release year
- 2000
- Genre
- Isometric single-player CRPG
- Player character
- The Nameless One (the Dead One)
- Source material
- Planescape D&D campaign setting
Lore & Background
The Outer Planes represent alignments and the primary domains of the various deities, where their petitioners spend their afterlives. They are part of the Great Wheel cosmology solidified by Planescape, which began in 1st edition and would later be reinstated in 5th edition as the dominant of three theoretical models.
Reader's Guide
The Outer Planes are one of several regions in the Planescape cosmology, which also includes the Inner Planes, the Ethereal Plane, the Prime Material Plane, and the Astral Plane.
Did You Know?
- The Great Wheel cosmology was originally developed in the 1987 Manual of the Planes by Jeff Grubb.
- Planescape was designed by David 'Zeb' Cook and published by TSR in 1994.
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