Category:Planar Wound

A planar wound is a tear, a puncture, a blemish, and similar damage to the very fabric of the Land of Mists. By far the most glaring planar wound is the Shadow Rift, a miles long and wide gash torn open during the Great Upheaval when Gwydion, in attempting to break free of his prison, dragged himself and the hidden kingdom of the Arak from beneath the Mountains of Misery to the frontier of Falkovnia, displacing in the process G'Henna and Markovia. Portals, in contrast, are punctures clean through the planar fabric of the Land of Mists. Whereas the exterior side of this fabric is porous, permitting one way portals into the domain opened by potent spellcasters, mere mortal magic cannot pierce the internal side of the fabric. A handful of artifacts and gates have the potential to perhaps do so, but even this remains to be proven. Evil outsiders constitute a further wound, their reality wrinkles being significant blemishes upon the face of the planar fabric. The blemishes are healed bit by bit as fiends are lured with power rituals into trading away their otherworldly essence for power within the Land of Mists. Good outsiders constitute a more significant wound than those their evil opposites. The stability of the Land of Mists errodes in their very presence. The good outsiders may curtail the cumulative effect by not lingering overlong in one place or they may let loose the whole of the twisting with maddening consequences for the bodies and minds of others. Outsiders of either stripe cannot puncture the planar fabric short perhaps of the most extraordinary ingenius means, but they are less bound by its rules than any other beings in the Land of Mists.