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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>[[Category:Planes]]<br />
The Plane of Norden is an artificial world, one of a group of 7 hourglass-shaped worlds created by a mysterious elder race of "dreamers".<br />
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Norden is circular and arranged in three layers, like a wedding cake. The levels are connected by sheer cliffs ½ mile high. There are stone stairs at irregular intervals.<br />
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The outer, lowest level of the plane is a swampy plain hundreds of miles across, relatively deserted except for a few cattle herders ekeing a living in the difficult conditions.<br />
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The second level is a smaller plain, fertile and grassy with farms and villages.<br />
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The third level is a walled city on a hill surrounded by a moat, leading up to a central tower that supports the sky which arches down, glassy and blue, to meet the earth at the centre of the world.<br />
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Half of the plane is daylight, and the other half night, and the line of dawn/dusk slowly turns once a day, pivoting on the central tower. North is always towards the centre of the world.<br />
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Magical flying is forbidden, and lightning strikes repeatedly at those who try, though ordinary birds are unaffected.<br />
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The plane of Norden is populated entirely by humans though the world is relatively under-populated due to various (un)natural disasters over the past 100 years or so.<br />
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A number of portals exist, dotted around all three levels, allowing freely-available instant teleportation to any other portal in the network.<br />
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There is a fair amount of commerce with the other 6 planes which are also accessible through the portal network. These other planes have the same basic shape and world-mechanics, but different terrains:<br />
*[[Chos]]<br />
*[[Sudar]]<br />
*[[Kerax]]<br />
*[[Eradin]]<br />
*[[Lorgos]]<br />
*[[Virym]]<br />
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Outside of the other 6 sister-planes, there was little contact with other planes of existence until Lord Arondel, then the ruler of Norden, hired a party of adventurers to help him regain control of his world. Arondel has since retired and handed over the running of Norden to his successor, Lord Sarn.<br />
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During investigations an eighth, "linchpin" world was discovered:<br />
* [[Alleshim]] (spelled Allusin in some sources).<br />
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See scribe notes:<br />
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:[http://dq.sf.org.nz/library/snsp9802.pdf Return to Norden] (Spring '98)<br />
: [http://dq.sf.org.nz/library/snsp9902.pdf Return to Sudar] (Spring '99)<br />
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And [http://dq.sf.org.nz/library/sgt25.pdf Issue 25 of the Seagate Times], pages 4-5.</div>Martin