Breathe In

I moved my commissions over to Ko-Fi. I'd appreciate boosts since I'd like to branch out a little more.

There was a major instance of interplanar travel from Malachar to Physicality- A tyrant king rose to power in Malachar, leading to some fleeing the plane, believing Physicality to be a paradise with as much space and resources as one could ever need. While they weren't wrong, they very much did not account for some critical factors.

First and foremost being that Malachar are not immortal outside of their home plane, and the second being the current residents of Physicality who were generally less than willing to share with 10ft tall monstrosities that just kind of appeared in large groups one day. Especially when, even if the ones you met were nice, you heard stories about other places being completely destroyed by other groups of these monsters. So, uh, better to just try to drive them off or, even better, kill them first.

There's the Night Hunts conducted by the Wild Sea's King of Nightmares, where he sets his hunting dogs loose on random villages to steal people's souls. General fey trickery and the stealing of names and/or children. Infernus' attacks on Physicality as they seek unadulterated souls to consume and generally revel in violence.

Rejia is basically impossible to breach and its denizens- Angels- Tend to view those of lower planes as, well. Lesser. Usually in a sort of pitying manner, like 'oh, those poor beings, so far from Lysial's grace'. They also have a particular disdain for Malachar and Infernians. Malachar, because of the actions of their god, which the Malachar don't really give a flying fuck about, and Infernians because they keep trying to get into Rejia. This is the equivalent of a guy who's made it his life mission to throw rocks at your window from across your fence. Only rarely does he actually manage to ping a pebble off your nice sturdy window, most of the time his rocks just land in the yard, but you do kind of worry he's going to get a good shot in one of these days and it'll actually break the glass.

Infernians are the only ones who have been at all successful in traversing the other planes, and even then they're not that successful, and it is specifically because they feed off the energy of other planes, so there isn't as much energy friction. Also, they're basically the only ones that have made a concerted effort, since the dawn of their existence.

The denizens of The Wild Sea are basically too busy partying to give a fuck about anyone else, though they do love a good shenanigan. Malachar is a bit too hot for their tastes, and while they'd absolutely love to party in Rejia, there is the aforementioned problem of it being impossible to breach.

So, they tend to make this Physicality's problem.

i do have an old map of auhaelan / part of eshiranos (since that was the setting for one of my stories) that needs to be updated 🤔

to answer your questions, basically only physicality and malachar are mappable. rejia and the wild sea are definitely too transient in nature, and so is infernus to a lesser extent. there's not really anything in the hollow to map, and the veil is basically the same as physicality

i'm not sure how i'd draw the malachar map because it's 90% cliffs and caves at different levels. trying to map out each tier/cave would drive me insane i think lmao

none of the other planes have been mapped by mortals, either- there have been successful attempts to peek into infernus, the hollow, and the wild sea by scrying, but the denizens of infernus and the wild sea tend to immediately react to any attempts to reach those planes and usually bad things happen. malachar is almost completely unreachable, but some malachar/demons have reached and settled in physicality. (specifically, eshiranos, because the continent is situated directly below malachar, and the entirety of malachar is actually smaller than eshiranos)

physicality is more like earth, it has major oceans and continents. i like having it where i can cram in completely different settings/magic systems and still have it work, so i haven't hammered out the other continents.