|||
Home
Actions/Activities
Afflictions
Ancestries
Archetypes
Backgrounds
Classes
Conditions
Creatures
Equipment
Feats
Hazards
Rules
Setting
Skills
Spells/Rituals
Traits
Licenses
Sources
Contact Us
Contributors
Support the Archives
Maximize Menu
Archives of Nethys
Afflictions
Character Creation +
Ancestries
Archetypes
Backgrounds
Classes
Feats
Skills
Creatures
Equipment
Setting
Spells/Rituals
Rules +
Actions/Activities
Conditions
Rules
Traits
Hazards
Sources
About the Archives +
Licenses
Contact Us
Contributors
Support the Archives
Toggle Theme
Archives of Nethys
Articles
|
Deities
|
Domains
|
Languages
|
Planes
Dimensions
|
Inner Sphere Planes
|
Outer Sphere Planes
|
Transitive Planes
First World
Plane
N
Erratic
Metamorphic
Source
Gamemastery Guide pg. 141
Category
Transitive Planes
Divinities
the Eldest
Native Inhabitants
fey
,
linnorms
The First World was a first draft of the Material Plane, crafted by divinities to test their metaphorical crafting materials and palettes of colors before setting it aside to create a second, final version of their work. A realm of extremes—savage, primal, and beautiful—with colors and sensations brighter and more intense than the mundane world created after it, the First World is populated by fey and the divine entities known as the Eldest. Mirroring mercurial fey whimsy, the First World’s laws of nature constantly and unpredictably change. Distance and time are wildly inconsistent, such that mortal travelers might spend an hour or a day within the First World, only to find a century or only a few seconds passed once they return to their own plane.
The First World stands outside the cycle of souls, something the fey call the Great Abandonment, save for rare worshippers of the Eldest whose souls incarnate here as fey. However, the plane’s proximity to the Positive Energy Plane provides an environment bursting with all manner of strange life and a general absence of true death for its native fey unless they leave—as did
gnomes
. Natural gates in wild places of the mortal realm connect to the First World, which fey often use to visit the Material Plane or ensnare mortals for their own capricious desires.