The Land of Stories
It's where all myths, legends, and even works of fiction become real.
It's where all lies are truth.
It's where we all dream together.
Once upon a time, the Land of Stories was known as Arborea. The best guess is that this is because so many stories take place in the same archetypal Dark Wood that makes up so much of the plane. However, many other environments can be found in the Land of Stories, as many as can be found in all the imagination: wild plains where the heroes of the Old West still reenact their gunfights and train-robberies, tumultuous seas where determined captains still explore lands of giants and dwarfs or try to kill elusive white whales, dark metropolises that never sleep, empires that reach between the stars themselves.
The Land of Stories is where the gods and heroes of myth reside. For a time, the inhabitants of all stories no matter how obscure, whether they're actually written down or not, can be found here. However, when a story is forgotten its inhabitants disappear from the Land of Stories forever to become lost in the dusty Waste of Forgotten Giants. When a story changes in the minds of those who remember it, the beings created from that story are also changed, though alternate versions sometimes manage to survive.
The Land of Stories is ruled by no one; it is too diverse and wild. However, the most powerful entity on the plane is known as the Queen of Stories, who rules with her consorts from her Court of Lore. There are some indications in the Waste of Forgotten Giants that the Queen was once known as Morwel... or was it Morpheus? Regardless, she is simply the Queen now, though the inhabitants of that part of the plane known as the Galaxy, high in the infinity of the sky beyond the moons and suns, call her the Queen of Stars.
Layers: The Land of Stories, the Land of Forgotten Giants
Realms: Olympus, Asgard, Vanaheim, Arvandor, Jotunheim, Hades, Hel, Kalevala, Al-Rashid, the Holy Land, Faerie, Wonderland, Never-Never Land, Oz, Narnia, Middle Earth, Fantasia, the Big City, the Dark Forest, the Seven Seas, the Galaxy, the Hinterlands.
Planar Connections
The Land of Stories connects to the Astral Plane, and it touches several other (perhaps all other) Outer Planes as well. There are many portals connecting it with the Material Plane; often these are called "rabbit holes" by Storyland natives.
In recent times, parts of the Land of Stories have been merging with the Pseudoplane of Cyberspace.
Planar Traits
Alignment: Minor Chaos and Good
Highly/Divinely Morphic: The landscape can be altered by any storyteller, to some small extent, but the big realms have their own rules resistant to any attempts to change them.
Flowing Time: Travelers between the realms of the Land of Stories sometimes find centuries have elapsed on the world they left behind, or no time at all. The realms each have their own chronologies that don't affect one another.
Normal Gravity: The worlds of the Galaxy impose their own normal gravity.
Infinite: The realms of imagination extend without limit. Beyond the region claimed by sentient imaginations - millions of miles away - the Land of Stories is unformed wilderness and then, finally, pure chaos, constantly changing elements highly reactive to the minds of any who enter. This region, called the Hinterlands, contains many tiny realms where lesser storytellers create their own fantasy worlds.
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