THE ELEMENTAL PLANE OF EARTH

A solid mass of rock and dirt, that's all you will find here on first glance. Here can be found all existing types of stone --granite, graphite, flint, chalk and marble to name a very few. Also, within the rock itself run veins of valuable ores and metals. The Plane of Minerals has a much higher concentration of valuable stones, but the Plane of Earth is richer in every variety of sand, dirt, clay, gravel, soil and dry dust.

Without magic, it's a great trial breathing, seeing and simply moving through the rock. Fortunately, pockets of air and water grant a cutter refuge from the surrounding mass, and plenty of spells and magical items creates spaces in which a body can rest or move around.

In general, beings from the Plane of Earth are slow movers and slow thinkers; they're not stupid, but just ponderous.

Despite the hazards, there are a handful of realms and sites scattered about the plane; the Black Palace is a fortress buried deep within a vein of obsidian. Supposedly it has been created by a priest from the prime-material world of Oerth. A canny blood would do well to avoid the Great Dismal Delve. In these series of caverns resides the ruler of the dao, an evil slaver king. It's said that the dao travel the Inner Planes and the Prime looking for slaves to sell to various fiends through a githyanki contact on the Astral Plane. It would be better leave these ruthless bashers alone.

 

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