Manual of the Planes

CHAPTER 7:THE OUTERPLANES146The Seldarine: The masters of Arvandor rule it withan artistic hand. The Seldarine’s halls can be natural, hugecathedrals grown from the living trees. They can also bewondrous palaces made of crystal and white marble withgolden towers, as befits the deity of such a noble race.Corellon Larethian’s tower is the latter type. Festoonedwith colorful banners, it dominates the surroundingcountryside. But only elves and Corellon’s allies are permittedthrough its doors to share in the song and feast.Corellon’s Court: Corellon has divided some of hisduties as deity of the elves among members of his court.Sehanine Moonbow wields power over death anddreams, Hanali Celanil is the paragon of love and beauty,and Labelas Enoreth is the administrator of time. AerdrieFaenya is the master of air and weather, Erevan Ilesere isbehind much of the court’s mischief, and Fenmarel Mestarineis the ambassador to the wild elves. Finally, DeepSashelas is the deity of the sea elves.AquallorThe second layer of Arborea is an eternal ocean. It is likethe Elemental Plane of Water, and indeed there are vorticesbetween the two. But unlike that Inner Plane, thelayer of Aquallor has both a surface and a bottom. At itslower reaches, it’s as black as night.Aquallor is the home of Deep Sashelas, the deity of thesea elves. His realm is a construct of coral, gold, andmarble veined with streaks of blue and green. The wateraround it is crystal blue and glows of its own volition.Deep Sashelas grants the ability to breathe water to thosewho find their way into the blue waters of his realm.What the layer lacks is islands, for great storms stalkAquallor’s surface, swamping any boats that dare itsheavy seas. Beneath the surface, Aquallor has the waterdominanttrait, and those reaches under Deep Sashelas’scontrol offer protection against the pressures of the deep.Much like the first layer of Arborea, Aquallor is subjectto quicksilver changes in the weather. Such weathertakes the form of great underwater currents that drag thetraveler miles off course.Sea life fills this layer, most of it either celestial or anarchicin nature. Larger beasts and aberrations can befound by explorers who swim deep enough.Aquallor is the ending point of the River Oceanus,which weaves its way through many of the upper planes.Yet there are maelstroms within Aquallor’s depths thatmight lead back to the river’s headwaters, so perhaps thepqsOPTION: MORE DEITIES IN ARVANDORThe D&D game presents Corellon Larethian as the deity of theelves. If your campaign has many elven characters and youwant more elven deities, use the members of Corellon’s courtas lesser and intermediate deities.If you create your own elven deities, you’ll need to pick alignments,favored weapons, and domains for them.pqsArvandorMithardirArboreaAquallorriver is like a snake swallowing its own tail, endless innature. Those seeking to escape Aquallor can be sweptaway by one of the maelstroms, but only at the risk ofencountering more unfriendly creatures elsewhere.MithardirMithardir means “white dust” in the elven language, andindeed this layer is a desert of fine, white, chalky grit thatextends forever. This layer was once a great forest as wellas home to creatures that campfire stories alternatelydescribe as giants or titanlike deities. Why they no longerlive on the layer is unknown, but Mithardir is now anempty layer.Persistent explorers can still find the great towers andtombs of this lost race of deities or giants, their minaretsbreaking through the grit like fingers straining to escapea premature grave. Brave travelers seek out Mithardir inhopes of prying away the secrets of the lost giants. Moreoften than not, the incessant winds of this layer wind upgrinding the bones of such explorers into powder.As with the rest of Arborea, the weather in Mithardir issudden and dramatic. Lightning storms regularly lashacross the desert, driving huge duststorms ahead of them.Travelers can be buried by a sudden attack (see Duststormin Chapter 3 of the DUNGEON MASTER’s Guide).EvergoldOne feature of Arborea that makes the plane attractive tovisitors is the Fountain of Beauty, called Evergold by the