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TABiE E8f CE8N+EN+S THE FABRIC OF THE MULTIVERSE: INTRODUCTION .... .4 SPELLWARP: ETIIEREAL MAGIC ...............•. 32 General Conditions ...................... 32 THE SIIAPE OF THE WAVELESS SEA: Wizard Spell Alterations .................. 33 ETHEREAL OVERVIEW .•.••............•... 6 Abjuration ......................... 33 Planar Geography ........................ 7 Conjuration and Summoning .......... .33 The Cosmology of the Ethereal .............. 8 Divination ........................ .33 Reaching the Ethereal Plane ................ 9 Elemental Earth and Water ............ .34 Survival on the Ethereal .................. 10 Illusions and Phantasms .............. .34 Senses on the Ethereal .................... 10 Spells that Access the Astral ............ 36 Ethereal Combat ........................ 10 Ethereal Spell Keys .................. .36 Priests and Prayers ..................... .36 STANDING ON THE SHORE: THE BORDER ETHEREAL ... 12 Magical Weapons and Armor ............... 37 Sensing Through the Border ............... 13 New Wizard Spells ..................... .37 Border Movement ....................... 13 Mournful Mutter (Lvl 1) ............... 37 Obstacles to Ethereal Movement ......... 14 Chamber (Lvl 2) ..................... 37 Into the Deep and Back Again .......... 14 Lob (Lvl 3) ......................... 38 Skirting the Curtain .................. 14 Lesser Etherealness (Lvl 5) ............. 38 Border Materializations Gone Wrong ..... 15 Stabilize Ether (Lvl 5) ................. 38 Border Exceptions ....................... 16 Dissipate (Lvl 6) ..................... 38 Athas ............................ 16 Greater Etherealness (Lvl 7) ............ 39 K.rynn ............................ 16 Demiplane Seed (Lvl 8) ................ 39 Cerilia ............................ 16 Demiplane Decay (Lvl 9) .............. .40 Ravenloft ......................... 16 New Magical Items ...................... 41 The Inner Planes and the Border Ethereal ...... 16 Boots of the Border .................. 41 Gloves of Retrieval ................... 41 INTO THE DEPTHS: THE DEEP ETIIEREAL .......... 18 Hom of the Inner Planes .............. 41 Ethersickness .......................... 18 Deep Ethereal Movement .................. 19 ISLANDS IN Tl-IE MIST: The Wall of Color ....................... 20 TH£ DEMIPLANES .•••................... 42 Deep Ethereal Features ................... 21 Known and Suspected Demiplanes .......... .43 Chronoilly ......................... 21 The Black Abyss ..................... 44 Ether Cyclones ...................... 22 The Boundless ...................... 45 Ether Gaps ......................... 23 The Demiplane of Dread .............. .46 Protomatter ........................ 25 The Demiplane of Electromagnetism ..... .46 Vortex Fronts ...................... 28 The Demiplane of Imprisonment ......... 46 The Demiplane of Moil ............... .46 TAMING THE ETHER: PROFICIENCIES ..........•.• 30 The Demiplane of Nightmares ........... 47 Curtain Cognizance .................. 30 The Demiplane Of Shadow ............. 47 Ethereal Sight ...................... 30 The Demiplane That Lives .............. 49 Ethereal Tracking ................... .31 The Demiplane of Time .............. .50 Illusion Pierce ...................... 31 Maelost ........................... 50 Nutriment ........................ .31 The Mazes ......................... 51 Vapor Weave ....................... 31 The Semblance ..................... .51 Wormscape ....................... .51 Designing Demiplanes .................... 52 SampleGenerating Random Demiplanesfile ......... 52 TABJ.E ef ceN+EN+S ALTERNATEREALITIES: LOCATIONSIN THE ETHER: REALMS OF DREAMS AND POWERS .......... .54 SPECIFICETHEREAL ENCOUNTERS ........•..•. 7 4 Where Dreams Take Form ................. 54 Anavaree: A Ruptured Dreamscape .......... 74 The Landscape of Dreams .............. 55 Inside Anavaree ..................... 75 Adventuring within the Dream .......... 56 Believer's Forge ......................... 77 one Travelers: Ethereal Powers ............. 57 Ambar's Palace ..................... 78 Land of the Immortals ................ 57 The Body Luminous ...................... 79 The Lost Citadel of Magic .............. 57 Castle at the Edge of Time ................. 79 Lost Powers ....................... .57 Approaching the Castle ............... 80 The Pavilion of Cynosure ............. .57 Castle Environs ..................... 80 Ptah, the Opener of the Way ........... 57 The Embryonite ......................... 82 Etherfarer Society ....................... 82 CREATURESOF TIIE MIST: ETHEREALINHABITANTS •• .58 Freehold City ....................... 84 Creatures that See in Two Worlds ........... 58 New Kit: The Etherfarer ............... 85 Basilisk ........................... 58 Fellfield .............................. 86 Cockatrice ......................... 59 Leicester's Gap ......................... 86 Medusa .......................... .59 Gap Proximity Conditions ............. 87 Mordenkainen's Faithful Hound ......... 59 The Station ........................ 87 Creatures that Call Kip on the Ethereal ........ 60 Ommiad's Web ......................... 89 Aerial Servant ...................... 60 A. Guard Knots ..................... 90 Apparition ......................... 60 B. Reinforcements ................... 90 Cerebral Parasite .................... 61 C. Nursery ......................... 90 Chukrix .......................... 61 D. Ommiad's Knot ................... 91 Devourer .......................... 61 Urunaland, a Plane in Progress ............. 92 Dharculus ......................... 62 The White Galleon. ..................... 93 Dhour ............................ 63 Ebon Tiger ......................... 63 APPENDIX: ETHEREALENCOUNTER TABLE .....•... 94 Ether Horse ........................ 63 Foo Creature ....................... 64 TABLES Ghost ............................ 64 Table I: Elemental Border Conditions ......... 17 Gingwatzim ........................ 64 Table II: Ethereal Planar Travel Times ......... 19 Gk'lok-lok ......................... 65 Table III: Color Curtain Index ............... 20 Magran ........................... 65 Table N: Ether Cyclone Effects ............. 24 Meme ............................ 66 Table V: Ether gap Proximity Conditions ...... 26 Memedi (Gendruwo) .................. 67 Table VI: Illusion Manifestation ............. 34 Nathri ............................ 67 Table VII: Random Curtain Colors ........... 53 Neth's Child (Nethling) ................ 68 Table VIII: Demiplane Characteristics ......... 53 Phase Spider ....................... 70 Table IX: Demiplane Inhabitants ............ 53 Phirblas ........................... 70 Table X: Demiplane Size .................. 53 Plasm ............................ 70 Table XI: Ethereal Encounters .............. 95 Rabbiun ........................... 71 Shedu ............................ 71 Terithran .........................