Inner Planes

The Inner Planes are the planes immediately surrounding the Prime Material Plane which keep it separate from the Outer Planes. The Inner Planes are very sparsely inhabited and generally present a barrier to travel between the Prime Material Plane and the Outer Planes. It is from the contents of the Pure Elemental Planes that everything natural and most things supernatural are crafted. The Para-Elemental Planes are at the intersections of the four non-aligned Pure Elemental Planes and the Quasi-Elemental Planes are the intersections of aligned and unaligned Pure Elemental Planes.

A useful image is to image the Inner Planes as being a cube. The front, right, back and left faces are the Elemental Plane of Air, Elemental Plane of Fire, Elemental Plane of Earth, and Elemental Plane of Water respectively. The top is the Positive Energy Plane and the bottom is the Negative Energy Plane. The Para-Elemental Planes and Quasi-Elemental Planes line on the edges of the cube. While all are infinite in size, the planes on the edges of the cube are comparatively smaller.

This content is borrowed from Dragon #73 by Gary Gygax


 * 1) Pure Elemental Planes
 * 2) Elemental Plane of Air
 * 3) Elemental Plane of Fire
 * 4) Elemental Plane of Earth
 * 5) Elemental Plane of Water
 * 6) Positive Energy Plane
 * 7) Negative Energy Plane
 * 8) Para-Elemental Planes
 * 9) Elemental Plane of Smoke
 * 10) Elemental Plane of Ice
 * 11) Elemental Plane of Ooze
 * 12) Elemental Plane of Magma
 * 13) Quasi-Elemental Planes
 * 14) Elemental Plane of Lightning
 * 15) Elemental Plane of Steam
 * 16) Elemental Plane of Radiance
 * 17) Elemental Plane of Minerals
 * 18) Elemental Plane of Vacuum
 * 19) Elemental Plane of Salts
 * 20) Elemental Plane of Ash
 * 21) Elemental Plane of Dust