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<blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 8613227" data-attributes="member: 58172"><p>Here is a description of the Astral Sea from the 5e Players Handbook.</p><p></p><p>The Players Handbook describes what the Spelljammer setting refers to as the "astral sea".</p><p></p><p>"The <strong>astral plane</strong> is the <strong>realm of thought and dream</strong>, where visitors travel as disembodied souls to reach the planes of the divine and demonic. It is a great, <strong>silvery sea</strong>. The same above and below, with swirling wisps of white and gray streaking among motes of light resembling distant <strong>stars</strong>. Erratic whirlpools of color flicker in midair like spinning coins. Occasional bits of solid matter can be found here, but most of the Astral Plane is an endless, open domain."</p><p></p><p>Bodies are the virtual bodies of "disembodied" minds, same as the bodies that one sees in a dream.</p><p></p><p>The "occasional bits of solid matter" are probably better understood to be information constructs, that are in fact identical to the virtual matter that exists in wildspace.</p><p></p><p>The main difference between the astral sea and the wildspace, is the astral sea is dreamlike, functioning symbolically, semiotically, linguistically. By contrast, the wildspace is a virtual reality that keeps track of things like physical distances and the physical properties of mass. These "realistic" spaces of the wildspace can be imbedded within the dream worlds of the astral sea. Even so, all of it is "information".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Yaarel, post: 8613227, member: 58172"] Here is a description of the Astral Sea from the 5e Players Handbook. The Players Handbook describes what the Spelljammer setting refers to as the "astral sea". "The [B]astral plane[/B] is the [B]realm of thought and dream[/B], where visitors travel as disembodied souls to reach the planes of the divine and demonic. It is a great, [B]silvery sea[/B]. The same above and below, with swirling wisps of white and gray streaking among motes of light resembling distant [B]stars[/B]. Erratic whirlpools of color flicker in midair like spinning coins. Occasional bits of solid matter can be found here, but most of the Astral Plane is an endless, open domain." Bodies are the virtual bodies of "disembodied" minds, same as the bodies that one sees in a dream. The "occasional bits of solid matter" are probably better understood to be information constructs, that are in fact identical to the virtual matter that exists in wildspace. The main difference between the astral sea and the wildspace, is the astral sea is dreamlike, functioning symbolically, semiotically, linguistically. By contrast, the wildspace is a virtual reality that keeps track of things like physical distances and the physical properties of mass. These "realistic" spaces of the wildspace can be imbedded within the dream worlds of the astral sea. Even so, all of it is "information". [/QUOTE]
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