The evident and tangible reality of Raokrá and all the Apeiron in the sphere are not the only reality there is to explore within the storm and the creation of order. Creation exists in several dimensions or planes of existence, each with their own laws on matter, energy and life.

Truly, these dimensions create the wholeness of the spheres and all creation. While the ignorant man would disbelieve the existance of other planes, it is also true that the storm is a place beyond anyone's wildest dreams, the storm itself has no energy, no Apeiron, no life and no death, it exists and that's all there is to it. Considering that the creation of order is an organized fraction of the storm, it is logical to assume that the whole absolute existence of the storm had to be broken down into several pieces to order it; These different pieces, the sages believe, are the planes of existence.

In any case, the planes do exist, and in there dwell the all powerful Deikar, concentrated physical manifestations of the Ancient Ones and minor forces. In theory, the forces of creation are nearly omnipresent, existing wherever their "element" or force exists, but the Deikar are something like avatars (far more powerful than conventional avatars, though), a conscious nucleus of the Ancient One or force's power.

Planes can be divided into several groups according to their characteristics, these groups are; the planes of reward, commonly known as heavens, places where the purposes of worthy persons are taken to a life of eternal happiness; the planes of Athosdit (punishment), or hells if you prefer; the primordial planes, filled with pure chaos and order; and the elemental planes, self explanatory.

There are other planes, dimensions that cannot be categorized in any of the above groups, among these are Kindrakarn, the realm of the dead, a stop before the planes of Reward or Athosdit. The Exnim, or limbo of the lost souls, and even the prime material plane, as well as the mysterious (which existence is only theorized) secondary material plane.

Below is a brief explanation of each of the planes.

The greatest of all the planes of Reward, the sheer magnificence of Ascakarn is told only in myth and legend. This, the true paradise, is reserved only for the purposes of the holiest men, those who fit in standards that some say are truly inhuman and unachievable.

The reward for those fortunate few to enter this spirutal plane is enormous, for it is said that those who ascend to Ascakarn nearly become one with the all powerful Deikar of Ascan the Ancient One of life that resides here. Any purpose gifted with entrance to Ascakarn finds its very essence completed and fulfilled by the force of life, and effectively becomes a part of the never ending power of life; existing forever in pure, unmitigated bliss

Exgrá, the plane of redemption, is the reward reserved for those beings who were following the path of evil and destruction but ultimately changed their evil ways and joined the forces of the righteous. While it is not nearly as magnificent as the coveted Ascakarn, it is not a reward to be easily discarded.

Exgrá is supposedly like a dreamworld, filled with visions of joy, life and light. This plane is ruled by the fullfillments of fantasies, desires and dreams that never came to be during material life; any being whose purpose trascends to Exgrá is treated to a soul fest, numbing all senses (in a spiritual way) with achievements and joyous events.

Both the Deikars of Desdrek the lady of beauty and Urdish the heavenly poet dwell here, bestowing their light and beauty upon all the inhabitants of Exgrá.

The last of the planes of reward, the Cigmar is a complex mix between form and purpose (matter and spirit), and it is not quite clear which predominates here. The Cigmar allows entrance to all those who obeyed the laws of order and life, but did not accomplish enough to be accepted into Ascakarn, not surprisingly, this plane of reward is said to be the most populated among the heavens.

The Cigmar is very much like a normal world, only said to be amazingly beautiful, lush forests and long, clear rivers cover the landscape, teeming with life; even ancient cities and castles can be found in the Cigmar. This world, however, unlike the common physical ones, exists in perfect order; there are no evil creatures, no murders, no egoism, no lies, and the hearts of all inhabitants are filled with light.

Deep within the Cigmar lies the great Library of Order, containing all knowledge from all time, and in this library lives the Deikar of Rugnar, keeper of all knowledge.

Eshnor is a horrid place, the earth is black and sterile, seeming more like foul smelling ash; the sky is eternally dark, the darkness only broken by blood red clouds at odd intervals. The landscape is covered with rivers of blood and magma, bones and melting corpses always floating in the surface. The surface is also covered with numerous geysers, but instead of steam, fire emanates from them.

The inhabitants of Eshnor are foul demons with enormous power, the only "material" demons known to exist (the demons of the other planes of Athosdit, while able to take material form, are more spiritual in nature), both Tanar'ris and Baatezus live in Eshnor, locked in an eternal (and very much useless) war under the whims of the powerful warlike Barons of Eshnor.

These barons of Eshnor, belonging to a far more powerful breed of demons than their minions (The barons are of an unique breed, they are not bateezu nor tanar'ri), are the law of the land, if a concept such as law can be said to exist in Eshnor. The only law is power, destruction the only means to enforce it.

Above the power of the barons stands the immortal lord of Eshnor, currently being the self appointed ruler of the land: Emanon, Immortal lord of destruction. After Ordwyn abandoned Eshnor for earth, all barons fought for his place until Emanon arrived and forcefully took it for himself, and now plans to extend his dominion over Raokrá.

Eshnor is designed as the punishment for those who enjoyed inflicting pain and death unto others, the purposes of these evil beings get a taste of their methods being tortured for the dark pleasures of the demons.

Gerthal, the plane of nightmares, is basically the counterpart of Exgrá; this plane is a dreamworld, filled with pain, suffering, loss, frustation, defeat, and hatred. Being condemned to Gerthal means spending eternity within a land of nightmares, where any painful event in a being's life is experienced again and again, intensified.

Not all nightmares of Eshnor are based on reality, the evil imagination of the nightmare demons of Gerthal is extremely active, and they can come up with some pretty horrible nightmares.

Gerthal is not only reserved for purposes who were sentenced to an eternal punishment, as a matter of fact, many mortals enter Gerthal on a common basis, since whenever a mortal is having a nightmare, it means that his purpose has reached across the planes and entered Gerthal.

There is an immortal lord in Gerthal, it is Rhyger, the lord of darkness. Rhyger controls all nightmare demons, and its presence in Raokrá is a constant that would greatly worry the keeper of the earth were he not involved in a power struggle with Emanon.

Hagnar, the Athosdit of shadows, is the last of the Athosdit planes; reserved for those whose uncertainty and self doubt prevented them from acting when their action was needed.

There is no way to easily describe Hagnar, it is a place of shadows and illusions where the barriers between fantasy and reality become far too thin to be distinguished. Furthermore, there are no constants in Hagnar, everything is in constant change and nothing stays the same, except for the purposes of the damned.

The shadow demons of Hagnar are inmaterial beings, constantly taunting and messing with the minds and purposes of the unfortunate beings damned to the uncertainty of the Hagnar.

The plane of Chaos is just that, a dimension containing nothing but wild chaos, actually the residue from Mizshná's battle with Rao. After the battle, all that was the Lady of Order contained Rao, and most of Rao's mass is contained in this dimension, surrounded by the plane of Order and limited by it.

Nobody really knows what this plane is like, since nothing can survive within it, even a powerful entity would be destroyed in minutes or seconds.

There are constant rumors among sages about the existence of certain "entities" (in lack of a better name) that exist in the plane of chaos, said to be something like the immortals of the council, only from chaos. It is unknown whether these chaos lords exist, and there has been no evidence whatsoever that anything can survive in the primordial plane of chaos.

Before she died, Mizshná managed to contain Rao's power within a powerful cage made of herself, that cage is the plane of Order, which surrounds the plane of chaos, containing its fury. The plane of order could be pictured as a bubble, containing within it the plane of chaos.

This is a luminiscent place, it is filled with bright light, that even though it is very bright does not harm the eyes. The fortunate few who have entered the plane of order describe it as a wonderful place, its beauty not only being limited by the senses, for they say that the plane has a certain something to it, absolute peace and beauty within its silence.

As a matter of fact, anyone who enters the plane of Order is fascinated by it, and will do nothing but contemplate the greatness that surrounds him, all these persons would still be there were it not for the creatures that live here, who usually help these fascinated beings leave the plane.

Great creatures exist within the plane of order, the Aasimons themselves live here, most of them within the magnificent structure known as the "fortress of light", the castle of the Immortal guardian of order (at this time, the immortal guardian of order is Du Mont).

The mysterious residence of Acron's deikar, the plane of the Apeiron is an enigma, nobody has ever been there, and most likely no one will ever be. This plane is closed to all others, probably because Acron doesn't like to be disturbed, or maybe because of deeper, more intrincate reasons, but who knows?

There is something that needs to be said though; it was said earlier that the Apeiron was the cummulum of all the elements, and this plane is made of pure Apeiron. This does not mean there is fire, earth, water or air in this plane, the apeiron is a whole, not a sum of independent parts. In other words, apeiron is not the sum of elements, it is the common root from which all elements were created.

These planes truly have no greater implications, and they have been described extensively in other TSR's products, and as such I see no need to explain them.

Basically, each of the elemental planes is composed purely of its element, with some chunks of other elements lying around here and there. The inhabitants are, well, elementals, genies and other well known creatures of the proper element.

As it is to be expected, the Deikars of the four forces of the elements reside in the corresponding plane.

This plane is reality as we know it; the lands, the planets, the stars, everything is contained within this plane.

It should be noted that the world of Raokrá is considered to be the most important of creation, not only because the Walker of the Storm was trapped here, but also because the sphere that contains it is said to have been the very first (sages in Raokrá are not aware of spelljamming, but they do theorize the existence of other spheres).

Also called the limbo of the lost souls, the exnim is a plane where form and purpose converge, but not in the same way as in the prime material plane. The exnim is mostly non tangible, and reality exists only in the eyes of the beholder, for it is said that two different persons can see the exnim differently.

As a rule, most people who have visited it describe it as a land perpetually covered by the thickest fog, submerged in an eerie bluish white glow with no nearby source. There is no floor or sky, and so up and down are relative to the person. There are rock formations and even structures within the Exnim, apparently floating in place (they may appear to be upside down, remember, there's no up or down).

Even though this plane has forms (it is material, in a way), senses are not to be trusted, there are textures, noises and smells within the Exnim, but every person senses them differently.

The Exnim is also a destiny for the purposes of the dead, a reason why any traveller in Exnim is bound to find many spirits. These spirits are completely inmaterial, and cannot influence anything in anyway (they cannot talk, unless someone casts a Speak to dead spell), they are damned to an existence in oblivion, sentenced to silently travel through the exnim for all time. People who never achieve anything worthwhile during their entire lives are sentenced to such a fate.

No living mortal has ever travelled to this dreary place of darkness and death, and it is not clear if it can be entered through any means other than dying.

Ancient legends and folkrore usually depict Kindrakarn as a barren land, forever covered in the darkness of the night, a wasteland with only one feature; an enormous tower of black rock, so tall it is lost among the clouds. Outside the tower, long lines of rotting corpses are awaiting entrance to the tower to be judged bthe Ancient One of death.

This is the place of judgement, where all the purposes of the dead arrive to be judged by Kindramar, who decides where each purpose will be sent, either to the planes of reward, the planes of athosdit, or even to the oblivion of the exnim. Obviously, the Deikar of Kindramar inhabits this place.

The existence of this plane (also called the Dark World) is nothing but a theory, and one that has been heavily questioned at that. This theory is based vaguely on an old legend of Raokrá, that states that there is a side of the planet, devoid of all light and inhabited by beasts and monsters, living in a dark and foul version of the common world; nobody believes in these legends anymore.

But many sages point to certain events, people sighting strange humanlike lifeforms that later disappear, the appearance of strange travellers who wield strange never before seen magic that apparently know nothing of life and society, even questioning what are trees or elves, admiring grass, etc. In other ocasions, people say that they were walking through a road or forest, just to see everything around them to suddenly change into a twisted version, only to later awake far from where they were, remembering little of their experience.

The secondary material plane is supposed to be a parallel dimension of the normal world, and yet not. People may have similar looks and demeanor, but races are different, plants, rocks, and all things are different, something like a twisted parody of reality. Every single thing (including persons) that exists in the prime material is supposed to have a counterpart in the secondary material.