The Great Box (Cosmology of the Planes lol)

[Black Elk]

So this was my attempt to explain the Great Wheel to somebody without using the wheel, instead just keeping it to the simplified tic tac toe arrangement more familiar from the way the Alignment system is usually presented...

I thought it was pretty solid hehe

Main points being to use the lines which the divide the boxes for the intermediate Outer Planes, and to include the Outlands at the center of the visualization. You know to highlight how Sigil is in the middle and neutrality the default, and also how Concordant opposition passes through the middle square to get to whatever it's opposing plane would be.

To me this just makes more sense than trying to slam the elemental planes and all the rest into the mix. I think it just works better. To describe the Inner Planes, the Astral, the Prime material etc I think a second overlay would make more sense, since this one was more about what happens when we peace out TPK, in the before times at any rate lol. Good old fashioned chicken scratches heheh

 

[Black Elk]

ps. I think it was the Archmage Rubikus, who first proposed mapping the planes in this way, as a box within a box, folding back in on itself...