Great wheel cosmology

The Great Wheel Cosmology of D&D.

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The Great Wheel cosmology was the prevalent cosmological model in which the world of Toril was said to exist during the mid-14th century DR and the post-Second Sundering era.[1][2][note 1] The Great Wheel was described as a complex, comparatively cosmopolitan place in which the gods of many worlds and pantheons mingled, the beliefs of many faiths and peoples bleeding together in a set of Outer Planes shaped predominantly by the polar forces of Law, Chaos, Good, and Evil. Thus it was that…

The universe of the Maya was centered on a tieredpyramid, and rest upon a crocodillian cosmic sea. Recall that the first nagua, Imix, is the crocodile. Each quarter of the earth was associated with color, and the center of the earth was a "fifth direction".

Sigil (pronounced: /ˈsɪgɪl/ SIG-il[9]), also known as the Cage, the City of Doors,[1] or, less commonly, the City of Secrets,[7] was a floating city in the center of the Outlands and the self-proclaimed center of the multiverse in the Great Wheel cosmology.[4][10] A major hub for interplanar travel, the city contained multiple portals to every single plane, as well as to numerous locations in the Prime Material Plane.[4][2] It was considered a demiplane in the World Axis cosmology.[11] Ah…

Arrangement of the universe as according to the traditional Ethrath faith of the Solis region. Being: The origin and creator of the Universe, sole... Cosmology