Alter Aeon Online Help

Keywords are:  'planes'

You may occasionally hear other players talking about other 'planes', or
hear of areas such as 'the outer-planar ice world'.  These are real
places, but there are things about them you should know.

In general, planes are usually just places that are 'somewhere else', where
the 'somewhere else' is not known.  Most planes are rather ordinary and are
suspected to lie within our universe, while other planes are clearly well
outside the bounds of what we know as reality.  Places such as the Ethereal
Plane of Darkness blur the line and are only suspected to lie within our
universe.

(One rather strange plane was discovered in the year 116 AE by Rat and Draco.
It was filled entirely with rotating ceiling fans arranged as an infinite
cellular automaton.  What it was supposed to calculate was never determined.)

The most obvious feature of all planes is that conventional magic is not
capable of communicating between them.  Spells such as summon are usually
totally incapable of pulling creatures across planes, and typically
teleportation can only drop you within the plane you started.  Even built
in communications magic such as Tell may fail across the distances involved.

As a further warning, there are planes in which magic does not work at all,
for any purpose.  Further, there are objects which can only exist in certain
planes, and which are destroyed when removed from those planes.

Regardless the destination, exploring different planes can be a very
dangerous, but profitable, enterprise.