Prime Material Plane

Corellon and Lolth parted ways, with Lolth becoming a Demon Lord of the Abyss and Corellon becoming the leader of the remaining Elven Gods.

In the aftermath, Corellon cast the primal elves out of Arvandor, condemning them to mortal existence across the Material Plane and other worlds.

Those who remained loyal to Lolth followed her into exile and eventually became the drow, while the elves who followed Corellon became the various surface-dwelling elven peoples.

Lolth layers in the 66th layer of the Abyss, a terrible realm known as the Demon Web.

In this interminable black void, webs stretch in an elaborate network that supports ruined cities and relics stolen from other worlds.

The webs change constantly, shifting as Lolth spins new threads and destroys old ones.

Lolth seeks to expand her realm by drawing worlds of the material plane into her cosmic demon web, gaining additional power with each conquest.

The Demon Queen of Spiders covets the status of the most powerful gods, and seeks to achieve their station through treachery, deceit, and murder.

a big other thing from when you were around is there are a lot of gods now.

Very powerful beings in the material plane.

Well, not on the material plane.

How

many in the last 4,000 years?

We've done everything that we can.

Do you guys have Identify? I do.

Okay, so yeah, identifying it would reveal the spell that the stone, just by itself, without being set in anything, has enough magic juice for three uses that can take a group of people or a person or people and some objects to anywhere on the material plane, whether they're willing or not.

Okay? So I'm thinking in my brain, maybe the one picture we can actually find of the Duskling – that's not some strange alien – Is it's not super symbolic of who it is.

Maybe the description implies that the Duskling is actually any sort of fey creature that has resided in the Material Plane or the Outer Plane for a long period of time.

Like maybe a, let's say a fairy that leaves the Feywild could spend, I don't know, 20, 30 years in the Material Plane.

Kind of not too far off from things we're doing in our own campaign at the current moment.

right maybe if they're here for a long period of time they start to turn into a duskling or a considered one i'm not i don't know the lore like

So the overall survival rating, and this one, I think this actually probably breaks the rating system that I set up.

Unless I'm missing something, I'd say that chances of survival are actually really no worse than they would be on the material plane.

There's nothing native in Mechanus that will bother you unless you behave in an ungovernably chaotic way.

If you come to Mechanus to look around, you can look around.

Mm-hmm

... to some sort of a temple on the clearing of this eternal springtimes, blah, blah, blah, and found there was a Sun Eater Owlbear, a sort of fae creature that crossed over because the veil between the Faewild and the Material Plane here is really, really thin, and during that fae festival week, the veil is even thinner than before, so it could cross over easily, but couldn't find its way back.

And from where, uh, where this creature was coming from in the Faewild, there was always an eternal sunrise or a sunset.

The, these are the two settings, basically, in the area where this, uh, creature was coming from, and isn't used to the day-night cycle of the Material Plane.

So it was basically starving for sunlight, and that whole energy seeped into the groundwater-

Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm

... and that's kind of what the Feywild is, is it's kind of, it looks like stuff, certain things look like they should be and act in a certain way, but you can't use your knowledge of the material plane to apply to the things of the Feywild-

Yeah

... because it doesn't work the same.

Um, time and distance are mutable.

You mentioned that with the Dresden Files.

Very similar here in the sense of, like, uh, how a day is in the Feywild may not be a day on the material plane, vice versa.

Mm-hmm.

The gulf between the Elves and Corellon and the split between Corellon and Lolth arose from the same transgression.

That one incident set all the many races of Elves on their present paths, determined their unique life cycle, and triggered an unflagging hatred between the drow and the Elves of the Material Plane.

No other event has had such a momentous impact on Elven history as the one that began it all.

Long before elves existed, Coralon danced from world to world and plane to plane.

Lolth to become a demon lord in the Abyss, and Corellon to become the de facto leader of a pantheon that could no longer be trusted.

The elf gods who sided with Corellon became the Sildari, and those who fled along with Lolth became the Sildari's dark reflection.

Save for those who had been named gods, Coralon cast out the primal elves from Arvandor and consigned them to a physical existence on the material plane and the other worlds of the multiverse, such as the Feywild and the Shadowfell.

From then on, all elves would be mortal, fixed in the forms they had adopted in defiance of Coralon's will.

You were in the Feywild for a good 20 or so years.

And then you pop back after, uh, helping Gorbo back from Material Plane.

I know this is a lot of, of insane things just to say out loud with no context, but here we are.

So, um, back to Material Plane.

You guys have been back to Material Plane for about five years now.

And, um, as tradition, so our very first of this, um, side series happened on the holiday of Baron's Due, which was a basically Christmas if you will, but this is not, you know, real, let's be honest.

So you guys, as tradition, have met every year on said anniversary for a meal together, and this is no different.

Uh-