BYTOPIA -- NEUTRAL LAWFUL GOOD

Gate-town: Tradegate. Most folks just come here to buy and sell, since this is the center of Outlands commerce. Walls of gray stone give this town the shape of a star. The gate: it's an errant creature named Master Trader, a huge bariaur with rich ornaments on his horns. For a fair exchange he guides travelers and merchants to Bytopia.

Bytopia's home to hardworking, ethical, moral sorts. Folks here generally keep to themselves, but also help a neighbor when there's need.

The two layers that compose the plane are sprinkled with towns and villages, which seem randomly dropped among beautiful forests, babbling brooks and tall mountains. Most bashers will find something beautiful about the plane of Bytopia.

The place is industrious. If a body doesn't like work, then this isn't the place for him. People here don't take to berks who don't pull their own weight. On Bytopia "adventurer" is synonymous with "someone trying to avoid an honest job". However real dangers exist here, the problem is about simply getting from one layer to the other. On Bytopia, a body gets to the next layer the hard way --he climbs.

The twin layers of this plane --Dothion and Shurrock-- hover over one another, like a sandwich with nothing in the middle. At certain places, tall mountains from each layer meet to form columns joining the two layers. So a basher is able to climb up one mountain and down the other to get from layer to layer. But it's not all that easy, in fact a body's got to be prepared when the gravity of one layer shifts over to the other. The reorientation can be dangerous problem.

Flying beasts that aren't subject to gravity's pull hover about such areas, waiting for berks to hit the changeover point. Canny planewalkers keep a peery eye out for such flying dangers.

The usual list of upper-planar creatures can be found on Bytopia as well --hollyphants, baku, treants and even an aasimon or two. Bytopia is also the home of a small handful of good-aligned powers, but they're even more reclusive than the people and petitioners of the plane. If a body needs good quality manufactured goods and items, Bytopia is the place to shop --in particular in a burg called Yeoman. Great veins of minerals and metals, as well as fine woods, provide the local folks (mostly petitioner gnomes) with great quantity of materials for their skillful crafts.