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| Psychic impressions carried down ley lines can impact the cultural and psychological growth of peoples living along the path of a ley line. Such alignments can cause two civilizations separated by thousands of miles—or even separated by planar boundaries—to evolve along similar developmental paths. Towns built on opposite ends of a ley line may have identical (or sometimes mirrored) street plans and similar histories. Artists living near a ley line may unconsciously convey their ideas to other artists on other planes, creating instances of parallel design. | Psychic impressions carried down ley lines can impact the cultural and psychological growth of peoples living along the path of a ley line. Such alignments can cause two civilizations separated by thousands of miles—or even separated by planar boundaries—to evolve along similar developmental paths. Towns built on opposite ends of a ley line may have identical (or sometimes mirrored) street plans and similar histories. Artists living near a ley line may unconsciously convey their ideas to other artists on other planes, creating instances of parallel design. | ||
| - | When a ley line penetrates planes, it can carry influences from one plane into another, making ley lines partially responsible for the appearance of [[tieflings]] and [[aasimars]] in bloodlines that had no prior history of contact with outsiders. This effect is also responsible for some of the propagation of sorcerous power, psychic powers, and other unusual magical phenomena such as haunts and loci spirits. | + | When a ley line penetrates planes, it can carry influences from one plane into another, making ley lines partially responsible for the appearance of [[tieflings]], [[genasi]], |
| Like the arteries of a circulatory system, ley lines come in many different sizes. The larger a ley line, the more capacity it has to carry magical energy. The size of a given ley line can change over time, however, and may vary at different points along its length. The size of a ley line generally impacts the strength and kinds of power that can be drawn from it by spellcasters. | Like the arteries of a circulatory system, ley lines come in many different sizes. The larger a ley line, the more capacity it has to carry magical energy. The size of a given ley line can change over time, however, and may vary at different points along its length. The size of a ley line generally impacts the strength and kinds of power that can be drawn from it by spellcasters. | ||
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| The landscape of the Shadowfell is a dark, twisted echo of what exists on the Prime Material Plane. Upon entering the Plane of Shadow, the local features are usually quite similar. A forest or body of water has an eerily similar counterpart in the shadow plane. However, from that starting point the landscape diverges rapidly away from the familiar. On subsequent visits from the same starting point the geography and structures themselves diverges in different ways, making mapping the Shadowfell futile. Landmarks are usually recognizable but altered in some bizarre way. Buildings might be constructed in a different style, built with different materials, at a different location, and/or in any condition from dilapidated ruins to a distorted version of its normal appearance. | The landscape of the Shadowfell is a dark, twisted echo of what exists on the Prime Material Plane. Upon entering the Plane of Shadow, the local features are usually quite similar. A forest or body of water has an eerily similar counterpart in the shadow plane. However, from that starting point the landscape diverges rapidly away from the familiar. On subsequent visits from the same starting point the geography and structures themselves diverges in different ways, making mapping the Shadowfell futile. Landmarks are usually recognizable but altered in some bizarre way. Buildings might be constructed in a different style, built with different materials, at a different location, and/or in any condition from dilapidated ruins to a distorted version of its normal appearance. | ||
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| + | Sometimes the Shadowfell goes by another name such as "the upside-down" | ||
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