Hi,
Does anyone know if there a Planescape faction or Power focused on warding and maintaining portals linking Prime Worlds into Planescape, or regulating Planeshifting abilities/access in developing societies and protecting Prime Worlds from extraplanar invasion? While all major alignments have their champions and enforcers who would carry out such regulatory work in specific instances, I am wondering if there is an overarching Faction responsible for protecting clueless Prime Worlds from too rapid exposure to the Planes.
The closest I can think of are the Regulators (3rd ed. Epic Level Handbook) who are devoted to maintaining balance and stability across the Planes. What are the core classes/prestige classes that they would deploy as mid-lower level field agents to regulate portal use and creation in the aim of maintaining the order?
I do not have a great deal of material on the Rilmani beyond (3rd ed.) Fiend Folio, though presumably this race could have some vested interest in preventing a careless wizard tearing a hole from his world into the Abyss, or stopping Formians from enslaving and reordering Prime Worlds in the aim of maintaining the power equilibrium between the different Planar Alignments. In terms of aligned powers, this focus on broad control of extra-planar activities seems rather Lawful. Would Primus take any interest in the creation and abuse of Prime portals and travel between the Planes and the Prime? Are there other Powers more focussed on this area? Is there any agency within Sigil that cares what happens to berks who leave the door open behind them to their world's detriment?
Any thoughts or ideas are most welcome.
I can easily imagine such a sect existing. I cannot however, imagine one being available to PCs, because they're very likely to have a nativist mindset (meaning they frown on interplanar travel). I had thought of making such a sect myself based loosely on the Gate Wardens from Eberron (yes, one of their major objectives is to wipe out "unnatural" and invasive creatures, particularly those originating from the Far-Realm. Though I didn't make them too hardline-- they don't frown on interplanar trade or travel, only immigration.)
In a more detailed writeup I'm working on in the timeline thread, there are some interesting details on the Vast Gate incident-- namely that the entire multiverse was aware of it, and the powers, outsiders, elementals, etc. all scrambled to destroy (or at the very least, seal from their end) every last portal to Greyspace. Cryonax and his herald go to Oerth themselves after his lesser minions fail to deal with Father Llymic (Cryonax is certain that Celestian and some of the other deities will seal Greyspace off from the rest of the Multiverse is worst comes to worse, but fears that this will not be enough to stop the reality-taint from spreading into the Phlogiston and into other prime worlds, which eventually would affect the planes. Also, Father Llymic and the Shivhads *both from the same plane of the Far Realm cosmology* did not emerge from the Vast Gate-- they emerged from one of the dozens of portals that began to open spontaneously due to the reality-rending effects of the Amoebic Sea's reality pouring out of the Vast Gate. This destablilized reality around Firestorm Peak and allowed innumerable tears into the Far Realm cosmology. The other tears however did not leave the scars in the fabric of reality that the Vast Gate did.)