#aligniment

-Introduction of the Planes, as written by Sigil Scholar “First Dawn” as punishment for a great crime she committed against nature itself.  She can be found in Sigil University giving extremely grumpy lectures about the multiverse until her community service is entirely over.  

Part 1: The Core Planes

The most famous Planes are of course, the Outer Planes, so much so that they are quite frankly, over done, and I find this assignment to be entirely beneath my time and dignity to have to explain.  The popularity of these monuments to limited imagination isn’t surprising, after all each of them represent a facade of a simplistic, reductive, and all together uninspired morality that shackles this world to the corpse of absolutes.  Each of them is dramatic and superficially excited, and for the average prime I imagine it must be quite exciting to discover that not only is Hell real, but that it is build upon metaphorical representations of Lawful Sins. But for those of us wordly enough not only see the larger framework but also to challenge base assumption, the unimpatnative nature of these 9 planes isn’t just uninteresting, it is actively detrimental to true planar study. These 9 planes are so overly studied so that all other fields of Planar examination are left woefully understaffed, with more and more time and effort being dedicated to 9 realms which frankly weren’t very interesting to begin with.  This is similar to how the four “Classical” Elements (Earth, Wind, Fire, Water) have become popular that there are more scholars dedicated to the Plane of Water than their are to all of the other 17 elemental planes combined.  This planar brain drain is not just frustrating and tedious, it’s also dangerous as the denizens of say, the Middle Planes are actually just as threatening as Demons but lack the symbolic residence to have people make the proper preparations.  There are more paladin demon hunting orders than I can caught, but the designs of the PLane of Dreams can evidently walk freely, as their machinations are not laced in the mask of objective morality.  Even within the Outer Planes, the vast majority of scholarship goes to the Lower Planes, the realms of Evil, likely because of how ultimately simplistic they are.  Discarding cultists, nobody likes demons, and so there are book upon tedious book written about their evil, their depravity, and their lack of complexity, all of which boil down to “Demons are bad, we should kill them.”  The Upper Planes, far more challenging in their conceptions, have little in the way of scholar, because defining what is evil is easy, defining what is good is challenging.  Seriously can I write about anything other than this, I mean god, this is child’s play stuff?  

Ok Fine

   There are 9 “Core” Planes, which embody, as you might imagine, personify one of the Night Alignments.  I might as well mention now, the Outer Planes have a creepy obsessive fetish with symmetry, which will get tiring very very quickly I assure you.  These nine planes can be subdivided into the “Upper” “Lower” and “Central”  Planes, personifying Good, Evil, and Neutrality respectively, and it’s all very nice and neat and infantile.  Let’s do the Lower Planes First, which as the personification of evil, are utterly overdone in terms of the popular imagination.  There is nothing more tedious than the many many texts on the Lower PLanes, so I will try to sum them up as quickly as possible. One thing first, these planes are the largest infinite planes in the multiverse ,because evil is the most powerful force in the multiverse, luckily they are always fighting each other in The Blood War so we don’t have to deal with it, and I’m sure you know this already.  

   The most overrated of them all are The Nine Hells of Baator, Home of the Devils, Beings of Law and Evil, and every layer of it has been so particularly scrutinized that I suspect many of the scholars (such as those who wrote the Gates of Hell manuals) are actually in the pay of the Nine.  Hell is a land of rigid unyielding law, but I want it duly noted it is not in fact, fascist.  It isn’t absolute, mindless dehumanizing law, instead it is the most evil aspect law can possibly have, namely Feudalism.  The Law of Baator is strict, unyielding, and inhuman, but above all it is unfair and arbitrary.  The laws are contradictory, inconsistent, and utterly self destructive but they are literal law, even if they make no sense.  This is law to such a demented degree that they don’t make any sense, a hypocritical system which is absolute in its incompetence and inhumanity and yet stills frustrate continues to exist.  The Hells are not realms of absolute obedience and conformity to an absolute law, they are an incomprehensible set of rules and obligations that pretends to be a realm of absolute obedience and conformity, which is even worse.  The Hells are ruled by the “Lords of the Nine”, 9 freakishly powerful Devils who serve as Feudal Lords, lead by the “Lord of the Nine” the enigmatic and entirely overplayed Asmodeus, who if you read his news briefs, is the most clever, intelligent, funny and sexy entity in the world, but everybody else sees him as a prat.  

        The opposition to the Nine Hells is the realm of Chaos and Evil, The 666 Infinite Layers of the Abyss, is a realm of absolute paradox, staying with the fact that it supposedly has infinite layers but in fact has 666 (scholars have counted 667).  Populated by the Demons, this realm is crawling with every horrific evil imaginable and is the largest plane in existence, for every one Devil, there are at least a million demon, likely more.  A single Lawful Evil Mortal soul can create 9 devils, while a single Chaotic Evil soul can create a huge amounts of demons.  This is fundamentally and explicitly unfair...and that’s the point.  The Abyss is a realm where rules don’t work, in fact any attempt to even conceive of rules are folly, and trying to put it into a box is futile in itself.  All generalizations are proven wrong and all trends fail because the Abyss actively rejects it, and the plane itself almost seems to delight in thumbing its nose at conventional understanding, occasionally producing good demons just to confuse everybody else.  As a rule demons are sadistic, cruel, and anarchistic but of course...that’s a rule.  The Abyss is forever in a war against themselves, each layer has a Demon Lord who wishes to claim the title of “Demon Prince” but only three really have a shot and they have fought for millenia, Grazz’t Lord of Lust and the Triple Realms, Orcus the master of Undeath and Divnity, and of course Demogorgon, the Prince of Demons.  However combat is tedious and so is the Abyss, so let’s move one.

   The least appreciate Lower Plane is Abaddon, the realm of the Daemons, who are in many ways the more moderate evils and thus less focus is paid to them, which I think is largely unfair, because that makes them the most human.  Daemons are oriented around 4 principles of evil, Hypocrisy, Bigotry, Vindictiveness, and Ignorance, and individual Daemons will drift between these as if they were wearing hats. It is very hard to sum up Daemons because they are evil in a very relatable way, they are most famous for their vast corporations of soulless bureaucracy, but Daemons also can have a great deal of personality individually, though almost always in as needlessly dickish a way that they can.  Daemons are all hypocrites who lack any core or foundation other than circumstances, and so what type of viciousness they represent varies from moment to moment, and unlike their extreme counterparts, it’s never ideological.  Daemons are at their core nihilists, and are evil without justification, logic, intention, or even knowledge, they are the random everyday evil of your average man.  Which is why I find them superfluous and am going to move one.  

Editor's Note: I have to also mention they are ruled by The Four Horsemen. There, moving on.  

Moving on to the perpetually overlooked “Central Planes”, these are the realms of neutrality and really don’t have the scholarship they deserve.  They are not in constant war, while Law and Chaos disagree, each mostly acknowledges the necessity of the other, but instead try to find a balance, which is of course, extremely difficult.  

    First are The Outlands, the great patchwork that connects the Outer Plane, and at the center of this infinite plane is the Spire, on top which lies Sigil.  Every square mile of the Outlands is different, almost a patchwork of aspects of other planes, and you could walk through a forest into a desert into a great mechanical wasteland in the span of three minutes.  This plane has the largest mortal population, and is responsible for many of the fundamental rules of reality, and keeping the Balance of the Planes intated.  Ruling over this are The Aeons, mysterious cosmic entities who keep the illusion of the world intact, or possible weave a new one, enematic and unknown.  Their ruler the Monad has as far as I can tell, never been seen and likely doesn’t exist.   

   Next to the Outlands is The Maelstrom, supposedly the origin of life, and an ever shifting realm in its own right, but this is a realm of creativity, language, and the senses, things that fundamentally reject any limitations placed upon them.  The realm is one of potential good and bad, independence and free will, and the native Proteans, strange snake like creatures who seem to wish to push against all restrictions, and offer up radical visions of what could yet be.

      Next one is Mechanus, the realm of Gears, which maintains the universe itself.  This gigantic endless system of  gears and systems is the realm of math, shapes, physics, and systems, consistency and understanding. It has little interest in societal rules, which it finds all together too inconsistent and self serving, but instead cosmic rules, like the notion that 1+1=2 unless you can prove otherwise mathematically.  The natives are known as Modrons, and each resemble different forms of law, most look like shapes (Cubes, Pyramids, squares) but other are equations, and the greatest resemble strangely enough different forms of dice.  

Next are the Upper Planes, where the forces of good dwell, and are some of the smallest realms in the world, for here dwell the forces of absolute good.  And as much as the edgelords out there like to claim otherwise, they aren’t well intended extremists, they cannot be anything other than absolutely good, they are defined by their very good nature on a fundamental level incomprehensible to a mortal.  These planes are on the verge of destruction, barely holding their own against the vast hordes of evil, but despite this, they stayed strong and part of that is through their unity, these planes have difference but they work together and help each other, their differences make them stronger and allow them to prevail over the forces of evil.  Also i want to make this clear, they are not ruled by Gods, Gods are entirely different things, these are secular realms.  Just assholes.  

The most famous are the Seven Heavens, where Law and Good come together as one, ruled by the Archons.  Built around a Celestial Mountain, the seven layers are all built around the theme of betterment of the self, souls come here and improve steadily, ascending the layers.  The natives here believe strongly in goodness as the result of governance, and hope to build institutions, orders, and structures to allow good to flourish.  Militarily, they are armies, which is why they get the most attention, the Archons go forth in hoards to try to stymie the forces of evil where they can, and when they do show up, it is indeed magnificent.  

Next is the Realm is the Blessed Fields of Elysium, ruled by the kind Aasimons, creatures of love, relationships, and community.  This realm is idealism, understanding, and goodness as the result of personal happiness.  The souls here try to find joy in themselves and those around them, for those who are happy will turn away from cruelty.  The Aasimons are the least known of the Good Exemplars, for they focus not on dramatic heroism whenever possible, but instead on the smaller acts to try to make good have a chance.  Childcare, helping broken homes, providing medical aid or psychological care, first responders to disasters, grief counselors, or simply a mysterious women in a bar who is willing to lend a sympathetic ear, Aasimons go often in secret the Material Plane to help keep the spark of hope alive in what little way they can.  To them, depression is where evil emerges, and joy is what allows the goodness within you to come forth.  

The Transcendent Glades of Arborea is where Chaos and Goodness come together, with the Azatas serving as its manifestation.  Aborea is a vast wilderland except more wonderful and magical than any that exists, colors, sensations, and pleasures exist as no mortal co comprehend them, and seriously they throw the best fucking parties you have no idea.  This is a realm where man’s base nature is good, and without limitations and restrictions placed upon it, they can come forth and enjoy the morality that lies within us, and Azatas hope to tear down the institutions and systems to force mortals to choose selfishness rather than compassion.  Azatas, like Archons, go forth and fight evil ,but they do so as individuals or small bands, of scouts and infiltrators.  Many times a force of evil has suddenly fallen apart due to the secret machinations of the Azatas, and more than a few times villians have found they prefer getting really high in Arborea than taking over the world.  

Once these 9 realms were balanced equally but ever since the actions of mortals have determined their power, evil has been winning, and so much so that Good as a force is no longer a factor.  If the legends are to be believed, this new circumstances was created by the Upper Planes themselves as the price to give mortals true choice of their actions, thus condemning themselves to their own destructions.  The Upper Planes by all right should have been wiped out long ago, destroyed by the forces of evil, and yet they prevail, because in a world seemingly resigned to darkness, there is just enough kindness that the light stubbornly refuses to go out.  

Good and Evil in D&D aren’t matters of opinion, they are objective forces.  It is entirely possible to identify who is and isn’t evil, and people who are evil wind up going to a series of Lower Planes where they burn for all eternity if they are evil.  So…why would anybody even be evil?  And why is the majority of the multiverse evil?

           The first and most important explanation is misinformation, the amount of written material that contradictions reality is mind boggling.  Most people don’t know that the Planes exist beyond a sort of abstract understanding that there are planes, and the amount of misinformation about the planes outnumbers accurate sources.  Many nations or even entire worlds have alternative views of the cosmology that don’t even acknowledge alignment as existing, and believe that morality is either relative or determined by some other force.  The World of Nirn for example, distant as it is from the Upper Planes, believes that morality is determined either by mortals themselves, or by the influence of the Aedra, Daedra, and Eadra, with many countries simply forming their own theological philosophies like the nation of Britannia did.  The world of Arthas has been so cut off from civilization that most people don’t even know that the Outer Planes exist, they focus on the whole “survival” thing, most people don’t know what a Demon would be.  The Domains of Ravenloft are so cut off that only the rare Paladin or Celestial could even hope to inform people, and the less said about the World of Midnight the better.  Thedas, the Emerald Empire, Arcanum, the world of Dark Souls, many worlds have absolutely no knowledge of the Outer Planes and little easy access to them, so they don’t believe in the morality of the universe itself, kind gnostic actually. Even for worlds that have easy access to the Outer Planes, misinformation is abound, and accurate understandings of the Outer Planes are hard to come by.  Obviously the Lower Planes beings have a vested interest in spreading as much misinformation as possible to confuse and deceive people, it’s one of the very few things all of the Lower Planes can agree on, and every place where the Damned have influence all of them be they Demon Lords, Horsemen, Dukes of Hell, Oniloth or ArchFiends have a vested interest in spreading lies about how morality really function.  Considering how outnumbered the Upper Planes are, you can imagine how difficult it can be to get the word out.  And it’s not just the damned, there are always factions among Law, Chaos, Neutrality, even occasionally good who want to twist the truth to their own purposes, more than a few societies believe that Good and Evil don’t exist and only Law and Chaos matter.  

           But it’s not just exemplars who hide the truth, the largest source of active misinformation regarding the Outer Planes are the Gods, who have long dreamed of supplanting Objective Reality with Conceptual.  Obviously evil gods put a great deal of effort into false accounts, not only for their own congregations but just as a good rule of thumb, after all its always easier to recruit when people are on the same page in regards to morality. But beyond that, almost all gods rewrite morality to suit their purposes.  On the world of Abeir-Toil for example, the gods have very effectively argued that atheism is in fact a form of evil, and that good and piety are linked.  The Gods of the world of Kyrnn have argued that it is they who actually control the upper Planes, complete with a “Pantheon of Good”, and argue that Law and Chaos don’t even exist.  This is to say nothing of the multitude of gods who actively deny that Alignment exists, Gods of all different ideological persuasions put a great deal of effort into trying to convince the world that morality and alignment either aren’t real, or are just metaphorical concepts.  Many gods simply refer to them as being simplistic categories that you shouldn’t think too seriously about, while others simple dismiss it as a bunch of nonsense.  And it’s not just gods, Spirits, Titans, Primordials, Fae, Fairies, Jinn, all types of creatures get into the mix, sometimes mortals do so spontaneously.  There is a wide spread false theory that the Nine Alignments operate like a linear line, with Chaotic Evil as the worse and Lawful Good as the best, which has only led to more confusion.  And some asshole came up with a theory that Unaligned didn’t just mean alien entities who don’t follow morality but instead meant people who choose not to partake, and that not having strong opinions means that you aren’t subjected to judgement after death.  According to this theory, the only Alignments are Good, Evil, Lawful Good, and Chaotic Evil, and nobody knows who started it, but it was likely Orcus fault because he is an asshole like that.

           Even for those who know that the Outer Exist and how the Nine Alignment works, there is still a massive amount of misinformation to wade through on what exactly is good and what is evil.  How much does intention matter?  Can evil actions be committed for a good cause?  Is killing goblin children evil, after all they are going to grow up to be goblins right?    What is required for redemption, and doesn’t good mean greatest good for the greatest number of people anyways?  Again, unless you are a paladin or have access to an obscure spell, its impossible to know what your alignment is, so a massive amount of evil people believe themselves to be good.  Not to mention when that magic is obscured or doesn’t work right.  

           Sure Paladins are the guys who are supposed to know the answers and correct them, but…Paladins die….a lot and so they often aren’t around for people to know.  Also they have the single worse PR in the Multiverse so most people don’t care what Paladins say, even when they bother to explain themselves, which considering they are often fighting against evil incarnate, isn’t always true.  Llyr explains things though, he is a good paladin.  

           But many people know the truth and understand what’s up, particularly the learned who tend to become wizards or clerics, so why are they evil?  Well, it’s complicated, but many of them have access to a get out of jail mostly free card, or rather three.  See there are three ways to skip out on the Outer Planes entirely.  You could join Semsara and involve yourself in the cycle of reincarnation, thus by passing the Outer Planes for at least 88 lifetimes.  You could strive to reach enlightenment and remove yourself from the process entirely.  Or instead, you could worship a god.  The devout don’t go to the Outer Planes when they die, instead they journey to the Afterlife of the God’s choice and dwell there for eternity, free of worrying about eternal damnation.*  Of course, to get to a God’s afterlife, you must please that god, and should you not truly be devote, you are sent to your true afterlife.  So if you worship an evil god in the hopes to avoid going to hell, really make sure you stay on that god’s good side, because if you don’t, it’s to hell with you (hence why worshipers can be so fanatical, that is their ticket out of the lower planes).  Of course, this can and does mean that good people who worship evil gods can find themselves in a personal hell, you see why the Upper Planes hate gods? After all, Good and Evil are objective forces in this universe, which aren’t necessarily moral, many people object to them and prefer their deities instead.  

           *Except nothing lasts forever.  When the servants of gods are slain in their divine realm, they go to where they were always suppose too, which can be quite a rude awakening for an evil cleric.  And of course, Gods can and do die, and when they do, their worshipers go to their proper place as well.  The Outer Planes always get their man, or women, or anything else.  

           Of course, there are other reasons why you might still choose to be evil.  With the definition of good so narrowly defined, many people just morally object to it, and feel that the Outer Planes have it wrong, and are willing to brave the Lower Planes for it.  Other times people subscribe to philosophies or ideals that tell them that they can not go to the Lower Planes if they believe hard enough (Sigil’s factions being the most famous example of this), some feel that the Lower Planes wouldn’t be so bad because they are the type of people who are talented and awesome enough to rise to the top (lol yeah sure), others simply don’t believe the truth, or they simply don’t think it’s worth it.  Being good is hard, and being evil is easy and gets you free stuff, so just enjoy this life and worry about that shit later.  I’m  an elf, I can redeem myself in my last twenty years right?  Shit like that.  Of course you can also pledge your soul to a Lower being in exchange for power, and often a promise for preferential treatment, which the Damned are always famous for abiding by….always.  It’s actually disturbingly easy for somebody wo work with a demon for a short term goal only to find themselves selling their soul in the process, because demons are dicks.  Fuck em.

First we have the primary 9 Planes, the biggest deals

The Seven Heavens of Celestial is the Realm of Lawful Good, ruled over by the Archons, a realm of paradise, personal responsibility and the vanguard against the forces of evil.  Souls here are given paradise but encouraged to improve themselves.

Elysium is the Neutral Good Plane, ruled by the Aasimons, a realm of joy, understanding, and focusing upon helping the helpless. Souls here are encouraged to make relationships and learn from each other, slowly becoming more and more interconnected.

Aborea is the Chaotic Good realm, ruled by the Azata, who focus on joy and pleasure, and fight to undermine evil social institutions and governments.  The souls here live in a state of artistic brevity and are encouraged to find themselves by challenging themselves.

Mechanus is the Lawful Neutral Plane ruled by the mathematical Modrons, a realm of rules and stability.  The souls here live lives of learning and understanding, and work to ensure that the multiverse stays structured and consistent.

The Outlands is the True Neutral Realm of the Aeons, who work to ensure that the natural world continues to function as it always has, and keep magic alive.  The natives here dwell in contentment, able to pursue their own interests and desires without interference from the rest of the world, or travel freely to the other planes.  

The Maelstrom is ruled by the ancient Proteans, a realm of wildly creativity and individuality, this realm is made up of paradoxes, stagnation and renewal.  The souls here dwell in a state of constant mental exploration while the natives work to ensure that the world lose its soul in its drive towards order.

The Nine Hells of Baator are the Lawful Evil home of Devils, a realm of feudal privilege and hypocritical law.  The souls here are tormented until they are transformed into Devils, all in service of a horrific institution that doesn’t seem to have any master, not even the Lord of the Nine.

Abaddon is the Neutral Evil home of the Daemons, soulless corporate beings of profit at any cost, lacking even the superficial motives of their other evil counterparts.  Souls here are traded as property for the massive business conglomerates as part of the Soul Trade, where long term thinking is replaced by short term profit.

And finally the Chaotic Evil realm of the Abyss, home of the Demons and the oldest of all the realms.  Here both souls and natives live in a constant state of hunting and being hunted, victims of a cruel and uncaring nature that would watch unmoved if they all wiped each other out.  

 Between each of these realms dwell the transitive planes, 10 realms that connect the other realms entirely.  They are divided into the “Unifying Realms” where all three forms of each AL come together as one, and the “Pure Realms” where the AL is seen in its truest form. To address the former first.

The general planes have a sort of adventuring party world feel to them

The Radiant Throne is the Realm of Any good, and it is here that the Great Angels dwell, wandering between the good planes coordinating them and trying to keep the forces of evil at bay via a strong defense.  The souls here are always in a state of responsibility, to better understand and help each other.

Gehenna is the realm of Any Evil, ruled by the vile Yugoloths, whose utter lack of regard for anything but self interest hides their true motives of trying to understand the nature of evil philosophically.  The souls and Yugoloths can be found in this realm as mercenaries, gamblers, unholy scientists, and amoral philosophers.

The Rilmani dwell in the Concordant Opposition, the realm of any Neutral, who strive to keep all of these forces in perfect balance, none able to wield too much power over theirs.  Nobody likes them.  The plane is two massive citis divided by a river one being a massive economic planar center with a Seol/LA/Modern Bejing/Modern Shanghai/Sinapore/Tokyo feel, and the other being a Paris/Old Bejing/Istanbul/Constantinope/Baghdad/Vienna/Moscow/St. Petersburg feel to it.  The plane is a major rival to Sigil representing the artistic and economic capital of the multiverse, but its lack off portals and neutrality bias has kept it from fully surpassing the City of Doors.  The city also feels like Budapest

Limbo, the Realm of Any Chaos, is the home of the Slaadi, who focus less on the physical aspect of chaos and instead on the free creatively that can be found in this primordial soup.  The souls here are constantly moving between extreme creativity and total stagnation.

The Halls of Order are home to cosmic rules of the univers and maintianing here.  Inevtiables live here to fuck your shit up 

Then there are the 5 pure realms, which people barely know or are capable of comprehending, as the 5 Alignment Beings themselves dwell here.  

The Inferno is the Realm of Pure Evil, where Evil is pursued for its own sake. The Fiends are individually very weak, but enter the material plane with the goal of making it a slightly worse place in what ever small way they can.  Satan dwells here.

Nirvana is the realm of self improvement and artistic sharing, Pure Neutrality and a rejection of absolutes.  The Bodhisattva here encourage the natives to accept a complicated world view while improving themselves for ever. The Monad Rules here.

Paradise, the Realm of Pure Good, is the home of the Celestials, home of the Eternal Word, and is…weird.  Those who come here slowly see their humanity stripped away to become abstract ideas of universal love.  

Discordia is a very William Blake type realm of defiance and individuality, ruled by the Demiurge.  The natives here are almost unknown, though some think they are called the Ei’risai.

Regulus is the Realm of the Pure Law, Ruled by the High God, and it is here where the Forminans dwell as the beings of Sacred Religious law.  Hindu theme

 Between these realms dwell the combination realms, where multiple realms come together to reflect the complexity of the mortal mind.  These realms tend to be smaller and have less variety in the natives, but are still very powerful.

Avalon is the LG/NG realm of redemption and peace, evil creatures who come here find themselves confronted by guilt, while evil outsiders slowly turn into good creatures.  The natives here are the forgiveness loving Malkuth (Mal’akn).  

The Twin Paradise of Bytopia is LG/TN, ruled by the Agathion who represent the goodness found in hard work and self-reliance.

The Beastlands is NG/TN, and is the Realm of the Guardinals, who represent the good aspects of nature and the value of the wild.  

The Blessed Isles is the CG/NG realm of the Devas, it needs a theme

Purgatory is the CG/TN realm of personal fulfillment and pleasure, a Buddhist/Christian mixg, ruled by the Eladrins.  THe people here relive their lives again and again until they finally find earthly pleasure 

Asgard is the realm of CG/CN, and is the realm of passion and lack of restraint.  The native Asura fight evil relentless, though some question the methods they are willing to use to do this.

Arcadia is the LG/LN plane of Peace and order, ruled over by the Mighty Couatl.  The focus here is is goodness for the sake of status and honor beyond actual altruism 

Axis is the LN/TN plane, a massive city of perfect harmony, ruled by the Axiomites.  

Pandemonium is the CE/CN realm of madness and insanity, ruled by the Lamenti

Hades is the LE/TN realm, Rakashas, self indulgent, etc

The Grey Wastes is LE/NE, and populated by the Shebim, a realm where nobody can lie and populated entirely by evil lawyers, propagandists and politicians.

Archeron is LE/NE realm of the Hassitor, a realm of eternal war, senseless waste of life, and generally WWI but even worse.

Tartarus is CE/TN, and is a ruled by the Kythos, beings of bullying, brutality, and torture.  Those who dwell here desperately seek power over others to shield themselves from their own powerlessness.  

The Barrens of Doom and Despair is NE/TN, a realm of empty hopes and lost dreams, ruled by the scavenger like Demodands, defined primarily by suicide and hopelessness.  

Carceri is the NE/CE realm of the Gehreleth and their Lord Apomps the Three Sided one, a massive prison plane of mistreatment and self loathing.  

Next are the Contradictory Planes, the planes that shouldn’t exist, created during the Breaking of Fate where planes that shouldn’t touch….did.  Its messy.

The Blood Rift is LE/CE and as can be expected is the main site of the Blood War.  The Native creatures the Hoardlings are the evil of an angry mob, but they are actually outnumbered by the Demons and Devils here trying to wipe each other out once and for all.

Sheol is the LE/CN realm, whose denizens the Daimons represent the evil of community, conformity, social pressure, and societal prejudice. (Resident evil monsters)

K’un Lun is NG/LN, and is a realm of internal balance and testing yourself.  The natives here; the Quesar, believe in creating hardships for mortals to overcome for their own good, and is a very Chinse Mythology sort of place.

The Asphodel Meadows are a LG/CN realm of family and friendship, with the focus being on helping others to protect your own desires.  The Custodians who dwell here are known to help people for a fair price.

The Great Game is the LE/CG realm known as the Great Game, a place of absurd Zelda like Dungeons that exist simply to be Dungeon Crawls for Adventurers to explore.  It is evil in that it is relentlessly trying to kill people, but also fair, while it is CG in that it rewards good actions and cheating the system.  The natives are undecided as of now.

The After Death is the LN/CN realm of the Azroi, and is a realm of people who do good not because they liked helping people, but because it felt good and they wanted to make themselves happy.  It is a realm of contentment and personal happiness.  

The EverDeath is the LE/NG realm where the guilty are tortured and punished with the eventual intention of redeeming them to be good once again.  Repentance through evil as it were.  Not very nice, still no ideas for a native.  

Haawiyah the Pestilent Mal is the NG/CE realm and I have pretty much no ideas for this beyond the name. OH and the Malirites dwell here.

The Questing Grounds: This LN/CG realm is a land where stories and tales come to life, a realm of drama and high adventure, but also very dangerous.  No idea for natives though

Duat is the CG/NE realm and…its basically Silent Hill ok?  A realm of guilt and self loalthing, however the realm does intend in its own way to help those who it torments get better, provided they can survive.  

 Pangea is the NG/CN realm of anti technology, the state of nature as it where, ruled over by the Lillendi.

The Ahuras (pathfinder Asuras) dwell in Taressein, the CE/CG plane and are eternally at war with themselves.  This realm is the validity of individual choice, and prizes personal free will over anything else.

The Seven Circled Realm of Avernus is the LN/NE realm, ruled by the Shaitans who live here to catalog and examine all forms of evil, while subtly tempting mortals.  Unoffical ally of the Upper Planes.  

The Haunt of Adversaries is the LE/Cn plane of the Div, creatures who exist to despoil the natural and destroy art itself.  This is the realm of anti intellectualism and ignorance, though it also believes fiercely in free will.  

The Infernum is a sick social laboratory of testing the nature of evil itself, ruled over by the Akuma (Pathfinder Oni) and is the realm of NE/LN.

The Daevas (Pathfiner Rakshasa) dwell in the Promised Lands of Naraka, the NE/CN realm of materialism dressed up as culture and false philosophy.  

The former rulers of the Abyss the Qlippoth dwell in the LG/CE realm of Niflheim, a realm of disaster and ruin, the Gotterdamurung of the world.  The natives are both horrifice and generous, depending on their mood.

The Chasme is a survival of the fittest realm where the damned souls have a chance of avoiding their eternal torment.  This CE/LN realm is ruled by the savage Kython.

The Daevas (Pathfinder Demodans/Rakshasha) dwell in the Black Lands, a NE/CE realm of dark magic, mystery, and nightmares.  

           The Firmament Fights against the Lower Planes dramatically, but its LG/CN beings have no conception of relaxation or joy, simply fighting without end for the sake of duty.  Empyreals

           And finally there is the Vault of the Stars, a realm…what the hell is this place?  

Finally the Unaligned Planes, these are planes that were once major realms of Aligniment, but due to the Great Fall have long since ceased to be the major powers.  Intead they dwell in a strange inbetween world, both Conceputal and Objective, with no home of their own.   The natives here are not made by the Souls of the Dead, but instead by thoughts of Mortals, so Evil thoughts led to more evil beings etc.  

In the Center of this Realm is the Pure Unaligned Realm, the Happy Hunting Grounds, a realm of nature as nature intended.

The Unaligned Lawful Evil Ream Perdition, the horrifying realm of fascist military law and totalitarianism crushing of the individual.  The locals here are called the Shatana/sathari/anathemas, and serve their master Sataniel in their quest to destroy Free Will itself.  It is rumored that the Overlord dwells here.  

The Pit is the unaligned NE realm created by Iblis’s fall and is a realm of industrial infighting between the various factions of the Spawn who dwell there, a military industrial hell of feuds, hatreds, and horrific technology.

Lucifer the Lightbringer rules over his domain of Paradise Lost, a egotistical dream of his own creation, lost in his own thoughts except to stir occasionally, planning to remake the world before being distracted by his own ego.  This Unaligned Chaotic Evil Realm is the home of the horrific Galchutt.  

The Pure Lands are the Unaligned Neutral Realm, and the native Kamarel are hyper isolationist creatures who attempt to avoid all contact with the rest of the world, and is a realm of isolation and personal contemplation.

           The Timeless Vault is the Unaligned LN Plane, and is a realm of single purpose, everybody having their place, a rule enforced by the Arbitrators.

The Golden Utopia is the Unaligned NG realm, still Ruled by the Emanations, beings of hope and inspiration. 

The Watchers are Unaligned Lawful Good

Lawful: I think individual and personal freedom are important because they contribute to the betterment of society

Chaotic: I don’t give a shit about the betterment of society

Neutral: I don’t understand those are the same thing

Chaotic/Lawful: NO THEY ARE NOT