Pentalithic Ramblings

As mentioned in a previous post, Hell consists of nine layers. This post goes into more detail about the individual layers, describing additional planar traits, landscape features, inhabitants, and other tidbits. River Styx The River Styx springs up in Asphodel from the Spring of Lethe and flows down through all the laters of Hell, eventually exiting …

£éŋωi has a total of seven noun cases: nominative, accusative, dative, genitive, instrumental, comitative, and vocative. Pronouns and some irregular nouns also have an ablative case. Other noun functions beyond those of the seven cases can be obtained using prepositions. Typically, prepositions take an object in the accusative or dative cast, though there are some exceptions, …

The Six Elements Pentalithia has a system of six elements, rather than four. The elements are Light, Fire, Air, Water, Earth, and Mystery or Darkness. Many people associate the elements with basic states of water, such as liquid, solid, gas, and plasma. With this association, light represents energy, and mystery represents a super-cooled state. Others associate …

£éŋωi verbs inflect for tense, aspect, and voice, and agree with the subject of the sentence according to number and person. There are nine tenses, three voices, and four aspects. The infinitive inflects only for voice and aspect. Some verbs (especially auxiliary verbs) are defective, meaning that not every possible inflection is valid. In addition to …

Pixies (sometimes called “fairies” or “sprites”) are a class of small winged fey mostly associated with flowers and other plants. There are many types of pixie; some scholars suggest every flower has an associated pixie, though this is not a widely accepted belief, as the number of flowers with no known associated pixie greatly outnumbers the …

Annûtawar (sometimes called the West Country) is almost entirely forested; the boundaries of the country correspond to the boundaries of the forest, though there are one or two large open areas to be found, and some stretches of the coast also have few trees. The forest stretches from the Dragon’s Teeth in the north, right down …

The Fair Folk, the oldest of the fae, have many, many names. In Ireland they have been called Tuatha dé Danaan, Daione Sídhe, Aos Sí, and similar names. In Scotland they were usually known as the Daoine Sith. In Wales they were known as the Bendith y Mamau, Gwyllion, or Ellyllon. And they were known outside …

There are multiple creation myths in the world of Tarosir, but one of them has the distinction of being based in fact. It also has the distinction of being mostly forgotten. This is something of a work in progress, and I may edit the post periodically with revisions. On the other hand, I might make a …

As mentioned in the previous post, the Tarosir cosmology contains six Inner Planes (which are pretty much the same as in the SRD) and six Outer Planes. As a note, any magic traits also apply to psionics unless specifically noted. This applies to the traits in the previous post as well. Inner Planes The Inner Planes …

For the Tarosir setting I have created an almost entirely new planar mythology, though pretty much everything in the SRD is still true. This post will summarize the planes; later posts will go into greater detail on specific planes. Outline of Cosmology The setup is quite a bit simpler than the Great Wheel of the standard …