The Olympian Glades of Arborea

Material produced below is from the "Manual of the Planes"

It is a plane of passion and peace.

It is adundant nature in its patchwork glory.

It is the domain of the Elven Lords.

The Olympian Glades of Arborea are a crazy quilt of climates and environments, all of which thrive. Arborea contains great woods of towering maples, birch and oak. These great deciduous trees strain skyward, leaving a forest floor relatively free of undergrowth and brush. The ground beneath the canopy itself is a rolling landscape of velvet moss and ferns. But the forestscape sometimes retreats before open glades of wildflowers, fields of swaying wheat and barley, and neat rows of fruit trees untended by human hand. Here are tress that have never seen the woodsman's axe, fields rich with grain and orchards heavy with fruit.

The very air of Arborea seems charged with anticipation and excitement. Sudden squalls brew up out of nowhere, beating the tree-lined paths with heavy winds. They pass within minutes and leave behind warm, sunny arcs of ligh filtering through the forest canopy. In the distance there always seems to be music, sometimes the elves and the fey are playing, but just as often the faint tune is merely the wind curling through the boles of the great trees.

Arborea is a place with flowers in bloom and trees bearing fruit simultaneously. There are uplands covered with snow, but even the snow shines beneath a crystal-blue sky. Arborea is almost overwhelming in its beauty, and the land embodies both wilderness and loveliness in one package.

Yet only the top layer of Arborea has the great forest implied in the name of the plane. Arborea's second layer is an endless ocean, and its third layer a borderless desert of white dust. All three layers are places of mercurial weather, sudden attacks, and strong passions. Arborea is a place of joy and sorrow.

--Posted 28 Jan 04 by OrchestralDarkness

Intended Sites

First Layer (Arvandor)
The Seldarine
Corellon's Court
Forests of Arvandor
Brightwater

--Posted 28 Jan 04 by OrchestralDarkness