Here's a link that quotes the 3rd Edition Manual of Planes.
- Mount Celestia (LG)
- Bytopia (LG/NG)
- Elysium (NG)
- Beastlands (NG/CG)
- Arborea (CG)
- Ysgard (CG/CN)
- Limbo (CN)
- Pandemonium (CN/CE)
- Abyss (CE)
- Carceri (CE/NE)
- Gray Waste (NE)
- Gehenna (LE/NE)
- Baator (LE)
- Archeron (LN/LE)
- Mechanus (LN)
- Arcadia (LG/LN)
I recall immediately placing Jyggalag at Lawful Neutral and Sheogorath at Chaotic Neutral, Mechanus and Limbo respectively.
Mechanus is where perfectly regimented order reigns supreme. It consists of equal measures of light and dark, and equal proportions of heat and cold. It is as predictable as the drip of a water clock and as obvious as a tree in a field. On Mechanus all law is reflected in a single infinite realm of clockwork gears, all interlocked, all turning according to their own measure. The cogs seem to be
engaged in a calculation so vast that no deity knows its purpose, except that it is somehow a function of law. At first glance Mechanus seems as straightforward as anything on the Outer Planes. However, subtleties lurk just below the surface. Every kind of law can be found in the Clockwork Nirvana of Mechanus, from simple maxims to devilishly twisted rules of decorum. But for the most part, Mechanus contains no passion, illusion, or pain. When all consciousness is completely subsumed into the whole, perfection follows.
Limbo is a plane of pure chaos. Untended sections appear as a roiling soup of the four basic elements and all their combinations. Balls of fire, pockets of air, chunks of earth, and waves of water battle for ascendance until they in turn are overcome by yet another chaotic surge. However, landscapes similar to ones found on the Material Plane drift through the miasma: bits of forest, meadow, ruined castles, and small islands. Limbo is inhabited by living natives. Most prominent of these are the githzerai and the slaadi. In Limbo, most petitioners take the form of unthinking, ghostly spheres of swirling chaos. Limbo has no layers. Or if it does, the layers continually merge and part, each is as chaotic as the next, and even the wisest sages would be hard-pressed to
distinguish one from another.
I've also endeavored to try and reduce the Daedric Princes down to their most basic concept, thinking it might help me place them and for my own purposes in world building.
- Azura - Change
- Boethiah - Freedom
- Clavicus Vile - Pacts
- Hermaeus Mora - Secrets
- Hircine - Predation
- Jyggalag - Logic
- Malacath - Outsider
- Mehrunes Dagon - Destruction
- Mephala - Manipulation
- Meridia - Energy
- Molag Bal - Domination
- Namira - Revulsion
- Nocturnal - Mystery
- Peryite - Order
- Sanguine - Pleasure
- Sheogorath - Dementia
- Vaermina - Despair
And the Aedra for good measure
- Akatosh - Time
- Arkay - Cycles
- Dibella - Arts
- Julianos - Wisdom
- Kynareth - Nature
- Mara - Community
- Stendar - Law
- Talos - War
- Zenithar - Crafts
Here's a link that quotes the 3rd Edition Manual of Planes.
- Mount Celestia (LG)
- Bytopia (LG/NG)
- Elysium (NG)
- Beastlands (NG/CG)
- Arborea (CG)
- Ysgard (CG/CN)
- Limbo (CN)
- Pandemonium (CN/CE)
- Abyss (CE)
- Carceri (CE/NE)
- Gray Waste (NE)
- Gehenna (LE/NE)
- Baator (LE)
- Archeron (LN/LE)
- Mechanus (LN)
- Arcadia (LG/LN)
I recall immediately placing Jyggalag at Lawful Neutral and Sheogorath at Chaotic Neutral, Mechanus and Limbo respectively.
Mechanus is where perfectly regimented order reigns supreme. It consists of equal measures of light and dark, and equal proportions of heat and cold. It is as predictable as the drip of a water clock and as obvious as a tree in a field. On Mechanus all law is reflected in a single infinite realm of clockwork gears, all interlocked, all turning according to their own measure. The cogs seem to be
engaged in a calculation so vast that no deity knows its purpose, except that it is somehow a function of law. At first glance Mechanus seems as straightforward as anything on the Outer Planes. However, subtleties lurk just below the surface. Every kind of law can be found in the Clockwork Nirvana of Mechanus, from simple maxims to devilishly twisted rules of decorum. But for the most part, Mechanus contains no passion, illusion, or pain. When all consciousness is completely subsumed into the whole, perfection follows.
Limbo is a plane of pure chaos. Untended sections appear as a roiling soup of the four basic elements and all their combinations. Balls of fire, pockets of air, chunks of earth, and waves of water battle for ascendance until they in turn are overcome by yet another chaotic surge. However, landscapes similar to ones found on the Material Plane drift through the miasma: bits of forest, meadow, ruined castles, and small islands. Limbo is inhabited by living natives. Most prominent of these are the githzerai and the slaadi. In Limbo, most petitioners take the form of unthinking, ghostly spheres of swirling chaos. Limbo has no layers. Or if it does, the layers continually merge and part, each is as chaotic as the next, and even the wisest sages would be hard-pressed to
distinguish one from another.
I've also endeavored to try and reduce the Daedric Princes down to their most basic concept, thinking it might help me place them and for my own purposes in world building.
- Azura - Change
- Boethiah - Freedom
- Clavicus Vile - Pacts
- Hermaeus Mora - Secrets
- Hircine - Predation
- Jyggalag - Logic
- Malacath - Outsider
- Mehrunes Dagon - Destruction
- Mephala - Manipulation
- Meridia - Energy
- Molag Bal - Domination
- Namira - Revulsion
- Nocturnal - Mystery
- Peryite - Order
- Sanguine - Pleasure
- Sheogorath - Dementia
- Vaermina - Despair
And the Aedra for good measure
- Akatosh - Time
- Arkay - Cycles
- Dibella - Arts
- Julianos - Wisdom
- Kynareth - Nature
- Mara - Community
- Stendar - Law
- Talos - War
- Zenithar - Crafts
