Need Help Naming Some Alternate Material Planes (Long-ish) [Archive] - Wizards Community

Need Help Naming Some Alternate Material Planes (Long-ish) [Archive] - Wizards Community

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The Wilgar
03-06-06, 11:38 PM Okay, just from the title, you may wonder, what's this doing with the Eberron stuff? Here's what's going on. I recently got Stormwrack, Frostburn, and Sandstorm, and have been wanting to hit my players with stuff from them. Now I know that elements from these books fit easily into many places in Eberron, but I want to really throw them in. I would send them to the Frostfell, but from how I see it, the place is a death trap even for resonably high level PCs. So here's what I resolved to do:

The Setup: The PC acquire (in some manner yet to be determined) a map to an ancient giant ruin in Xen'drik. When, after the course of a game session or two, they arrive there, they discover a large, raised platform. As events will transpire, this platform is a sort of plane-shifting device that will send the character into the Plane of Shadow, through the Deep Shadow, and to an alternate material plane. In a series of plane-hopping misadventures, they endeavour to return to Eberron.

What I need is the names of the planes they will visit. There will be one Arctic, one Desert, and one Ocean with Many Islands. To throw out one that I was thinking of, I kind of like "Sahel" for the desert world (I think my players are sufficently geographically un-savvy as to not call me on it :) )

So, please, any ideas would be much appreciated.
BoneLord_of_Skullthrone
03-07-06, 12:12 AM I can think of one plane where they could visit....it even has a *few* books already published for it! Of course, if you don't have any Greyhawk books, F******** R***** may have to do. :mad:
DarkWarriorKarg
03-07-06, 09:33 AM Hoth, Tattoine and Mon Calamar?

<sees lawyers...>

Thanks to ETACTO, online translation (so it may be a flawed)

Frozen World: Donma (Turkish for Freezing)
Desert World: Kaynama (Turkish for Boiling or Boiling point, not sure)
Ocean World: Islak (Turkish for wet, I believe)
The Wilgar
03-07-06, 11:14 AM I can think of one plane where they could visit....it even has a *few* books already published for it! Of course, if you don't have any Greyhawk books, F******** R***** may have to do.
With the exception of an old 3.0 DragonLance book, the only world settings books I own are Eberron. Besides, I kind of wanted to create something of my own, from the ground up, even if they only last for a few game sessions. It'll give me some practice in case I decide to home-brew my next game.

Hoth, Tattoine and Mon Calamar?

<sees lawyers...>

Thanks to ETACTO, online translation (so it may be a flawed)

Frozen World: Donma (Turkish for Freezing)
Desert World: Kaynama (Turkish for Boiling or Boiling point, not sure)
Ocean World: Islak (Turkish for wet, I believe)
Great, these are the kinds of names I was thinking. Any others?
Esgay
03-08-06, 10:36 AM How about having them all called eberron just to add mystery and intrigue. It'll leave the PCs guessing as to what's going on, are they in the same eberron? the past? the future? or somewhere else...
The Wilgar
03-08-06, 08:33 PM What do you guys think of these?

Ocean Material Plain - Aeram
Desert Material Plain - Odira
Arctic Material Plain - Chsitkra

I came up with the in the following manner:
Step 1: Look up the word (Ocean/Desert/Arctic) in a thesaurus, and pick a synonym you like.
Step 2: Translate the synonyn into another lanuage (I used Spanish for Ocean and Desert, and German for Arctic).
Step 3: Write the word backwards, swaping letters as nessicary for pronouncibility.
ArcTan
03-09-06, 05:02 PM I actually really like the idea of them not really being sure whether or not they're still in Eberron or actually on an entirely different plane, and possibly hinting that, if these are alternate material planes, they're "close" to Eberron and similar in certain ways (i.e. the races and creatures that populate them will still be analogues of Eberron's, etc.)

So possibly something like this:

Frozen World: Eihvron
Desert World: I'branzha
Ocean World: Ay-Por'poron

(All variants of "Eberron", pronounced in a vaguely Nordic, vaguely Arabic and vaguely Hawaiian way, respectively.)

There could be variants of the Three Dragons in each one -- they could picture the Dragons instead as being ice wyrms or sea serpents or something -- with names for those, too. (Shivahrk, Sibherel and Cy'bolara, and Cheibron, Quboras and K!b'ler'a, perhaps?)

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The Wilgar 03-06-06, 11:38 PM	Okay, just from the title, you may wonder, what's this doing with the Eberron stuff? Here's what's going on. I recently got Stormwrack, Frostburn, and Sandstorm, and have been wanting to hit my players with stuff from them. Now I know that elements from these books fit easily into many places in Eberron, but I want to really throw them in. I would send them to the Frostfell, but from how I see it, the place is a death trap even for resonably high level PCs. So here's what I resolved to do: The Setup: The PC acquire (in some manner yet to be determined) a map to an ancient giant ruin in Xen'drik. When, after the course of a game session or two, they arrive there, they discover a large, raised platform. As events will transpire, this platform is a sort of plane-shifting device that will send the character into the Plane of Shadow, through the Deep Shadow, and to an alternate material plane. In a series of plane-hopping misadventures, they endeavour to return to Eberron. What I need is the names of the planes they will visit. There will be one Arctic, one Desert, and one Ocean with Many Islands. To throw out one that I was thinking of, I kind of like "Sahel" for the desert world (I think my players are sufficently geographically un-savvy as to not call me on it :) ) So, please, any ideas would be much appreciated.
BoneLord_of_Skullthrone 03-07-06, 12:12 AM	I can think of one plane where they could visit....it even has a few books already published for it! Of course, if you don't have any Greyhawk books, F****** R*** may have to do. :mad:
DarkWarriorKarg 03-07-06, 09:33 AM	Hoth, Tattoine and Mon Calamar? <sees lawyers...> Thanks to ETACTO, online translation (so it may be a flawed) Frozen World: Donma (Turkish for Freezing) Desert World: Kaynama (Turkish for Boiling or Boiling point, not sure) Ocean World: Islak (Turkish for wet, I believe)
The Wilgar 03-07-06, 11:14 AM	I can think of one plane where they could visit....it even has a few books already published for it! Of course, if you don't have any Greyhawk books, F****** R*** may have to do. With the exception of an old 3.0 DragonLance book, the only world settings books I own are Eberron. Besides, I kind of wanted to create something of my own, from the ground up, even if they only last for a few game sessions. It'll give me some practice in case I decide to home-brew my next game. Hoth, Tattoine and Mon Calamar? <sees lawyers...> Thanks to ETACTO, online translation (so it may be a flawed) Frozen World: Donma (Turkish for Freezing) Desert World: Kaynama (Turkish for Boiling or Boiling point, not sure) Ocean World: Islak (Turkish for wet, I believe) Great, these are the kinds of names I was thinking. Any others?
Esgay 03-08-06, 10:36 AM	How about having them all called eberron just to add mystery and intrigue. It'll leave the PCs guessing as to what's going on, are they in the same eberron? the past? the future? or somewhere else...
The Wilgar 03-08-06, 08:33 PM	What do you guys think of these? Ocean Material Plain - Aeram Desert Material Plain - Odira Arctic Material Plain - Chsitkra I came up with the in the following manner: Step 1: Look up the word (Ocean/Desert/Arctic) in a thesaurus, and pick a synonym you like. Step 2: Translate the synonyn into another lanuage (I used Spanish for Ocean and Desert, and German for Arctic). Step 3: Write the word backwards, swaping letters as nessicary for pronouncibility.
ArcTan 03-09-06, 05:02 PM	I actually really like the idea of them not really being sure whether or not they're still in Eberron or actually on an entirely different plane, and possibly hinting that, if these are alternate material planes, they're "close" to Eberron and similar in certain ways (i.e. the races and creatures that populate them will still be analogues of Eberron's, etc.) So possibly something like this: Frozen World: Eihvron Desert World: I'branzha Ocean World: Ay-Por'poron (All variants of "Eberron", pronounced in a vaguely Nordic, vaguely Arabic and vaguely Hawaiian way, respectively.) There could be variants of the Three Dragons in each one -- they could picture the Dragons instead as being ice wyrms or sea serpents or something -- with names for those, too. (Shivahrk, Sibherel and Cy'bolara, and Cheibron, Quboras and K!b'ler'a, perhaps?)