Any more info on these alternate Earths/Oerths? Please help! What order do they go in (i.e between Oerth and Earth, from most magical to least...)
Oerth, Aerth, Uerth, Yarth, Earth from Expedition to Greyhawk Ruins
Tue, 2007-08-28 20:39
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Oerth, Aerth, Uerth, Yarth, Earth from Expedition to Greyhawk Ruins
Fri, 2011-11-04 12:26
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Re: Oerth, Aerth, Uerth, Yarth, Earth from Expedition to ...
well, and technically, Oerth is part of a constellation of 5 parallel primes (from left to right = non-magical -> ultrahigh-magical; with oerth being the right-most). the least magical is our earth, or a subtle variant thereof. a number of famous individuals in the greyhawk setting have artifacts from our world, including a coke machine, a vcr, and a membership in the lake geneva tactical studies rules association.
the best write up has been done on the venerable greyhawk community boards of canonfire, here: www.canonfire.com/cfhtml/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=2507. this should give in one place all the varied bits that have been published or quoted in any part of d&d regarding the parallel worlds of oerth.
hopefully, late is better than never... sorry for the threadnecro.
Fri, 2011-11-04 14:23
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Re: Oerth, Aerth, Uerth, Yarth, Earth from Expedition to ...
Heh, Rasgon == Rip as far as I know. Thanks for the link though, I'm always happy to see Rip's D&D knowledge in action.
Thu, 2011-11-17 11:37
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Re: Oerth, Aerth, Uerth, Yarth, Earth from Expedition to ...
Yep, Rasgon is me. I wrote that thing on Canonfire before Expedition to the Ruins of Greyhawk came along and did its best to ruin it (smiley).
I think the idea of an opposite-alignment mirror universe is good, but I'd place it outside the continuity of five worlds. I played with multiverses where alignment is different a little bit in Sciborg's cosmology thread, notably the "Mad Queen Morwel" multiverse in which every plane other than Baator has been swallowed up by a merged Limbo/Arborea/Abyss.
Before this year, Uerth only existed in one sentence, from Polyhedron: "On Earth, magic is virtually non-existent. On Uerth, dweomers are weak, chancy things. Yarth has a sprinkling of things magical, and Oerth is pure magic."
The Uerth from Expedition to the Ruins of Greyhawk really doesn't fit that description. It seems to be just as magical as the Oerth - only the alignments of its inhabitants are different. Mona and crew reused the name "Uerth" without it having anything to do with the old Polyhedron description.
Uerth is the doppel-cosmology version of Oerth, the world you'll find on the other side of the Plane of Mirrors.