Green Fields (Halfling Afterlife)

[Shira]

What's it like to reside in and serve Yondalla in Green Fields? Is it totally peaceful, or is there some amount of strife?

[Munroe]

Mar 7, 2014 16:26:32 GMT -5 Shira said:

What's it like to reside in and serve Yondalla in Green Fields? Is it totally peaceful, or is there some amount of strife?

Here is the Green Fields entry from the Cosmology chapter of Player's Guide to Faerûn (page 155-156):

Green Fields
In the pleasant realm of Green Fields, halfling petitioners while away their existence in peaceful meditation and hard work, enjoying the fruits of their labors and the company of their fellows. A place of safety and repose, Green Fields is basically a collection of halfling settlements among gently rolling hills.

Green Fields Traits
Green Fields has the following traits.
-- Divinely morphic.
-- Mild faith.

Green Fields Links
A portal to Tymora's domain on Brightwater lies somewhere in Green Fields, but only Brandobaris knows its location--and he's not telling. Lower branches of the World Tree also extend into Green Fields, connecting it with the rest of the celestial planes.

Green Fields Inhabitants
Besides the halfling petitioners, the only inhabitants of Green Fields are the angles that serve the halfling deities.

Green Fields Petitioners: The petitioners of Green Fields all appear as halflings, even those few who were not halflings in life. They have a vibrant, healthy look about them, as though they were bursting with life. They have the following special qualities.
Immunities: Electricity, polymorph.
Resistances: Acid 10.
Other Special Qualities: Damage reduction 10/magic, resonance field.
Resonance Field (Ex): Any creature that causes damage to a petitioner on Green Fields through any form of attack suffers wounds identical to those it inflicts and takes identical damage. If a single attack causes damage to multiple petitioners (a fireball, for instance), the attacker takes damage to the total inflicted on all petitioners--far more than the damage dice indicate. The resonance field is a property of the plane, not the petitioners, which is why it is noted as an exceptional ability.

Features of Green Fields
Fittingly for a pantheon that places such emphasis on community and racial unity, most of the halfling deities share Green Fields as a divine realm and do not carve their own realms from its planar fabric.
Arvoreen/Cyrrollalee/Sheela Peryroyl/Yondalla: These four deities hold the realm in common, dwelling where they choose. They often move among the settlements of the plane with the seasons or at their own whims. The settlements themselves are as impermanent as any halfling encampment on the Material Plane, and their residents happily wander from lakeshore to riverside, and from cultivated fields to pastoral hills.
Brandobaris: The Master of Stealth, who wanders even more than the other deities, does not limit his travels to Green Fields. He is welcome in the plane, though he really takes no part in maintaining it as a divine realm.
Urogalan: The Lord of the Earth's realm is a cavern beneath the lush grass of Green Fields. Few petitioners remain there for long, though it is the entry point to the plane for the spirits of all dead halflings. Urogalan is respected more than he is worshiped, and most petitioners are happy to leave his realm and move closer to their deities of choice.

So, yeah, it sounds like there's not really much strife at all. The celestial planes, including deity domains, are open to visitation by planar travelers though, so hostile entities could still enter Green Fields on occasion. The resonance field effect of Green Fields would pretty thoroughly discourage a lot of trouble for the faithful in their afterlives though. (It only discourages damage-dealing attacks though.)

[Shira]

Mar 7, 2014 22:20:54 GMT -5 Munroe said:

So, yeah, it sounds like there's not really much strife at all. The celestial planes, including deity domains, are open to visitation by planar travelers though, so hostile entities could still enter Green Fields on occasion. The resonance field effect of Green Fields would pretty thoroughly discourage a lot of trouble for the faithful in their afterlives though. (It only discourages damage-dealing attacks though.)

Huh, that's odd to me, because lots of halflings seek adventure and/or fighting. Do you think those ones would venture to other planes or something?

[Munroe]

Mar 8, 2014 11:37:31 GMT -5 Shira said:

Mar 7, 2014 22:20:54 GMT -5 Munroe said:

So, yeah, it sounds like there's not really much strife at all. The celestial planes, including deity domains, are open to visitation by planar travelers though, so hostile entities could still enter Green Fields on occasion. The resonance field effect of Green Fields would pretty thoroughly discourage a lot of trouble for the faithful in their afterlives though. (It only discourages damage-dealing attacks though.)

Huh, that's odd to me, because lots of halflings seek adventure and/or fighting. Do you think those ones would venture to other planes or something?

Well, once you're in the Afterlife, your days of adventure would usually be over unless you ascend beyond the petitioner status, into some kind of more powerful outsider (celestial or fiend, usually). Petitioners actually cannot leave the plane they inhabit. (It's a trait of the petitioner template.) The write-up on Green Fields says that the halflings there enjoy "peaceful meditation and hard work" so it's reasonable to assume that halflings who were guards, soldiers, or paladins in life might continue serving as guards, soldiers, or paladins in the Afterlife, even if there's little threat most of the time.

Petitioner entry from Deities and Demigods (page 55):

Petitioners
Some spirits demonstrate their devotion to their deity by traveling to the deity's home plane. Those that survive the frightening, surreal, and dangerous journey across the planes become servants of their deity. While a few may remain disembodied spirits, most become petitioners through the divine will of their patron deity. These divine petitioners are similar in many ways to petitioners found elsewhere on the Outer Planes. Depending on the deity, a petitioner may be a calm, untiring, unthinking servant who exists in bliss under the god's care. Another petitioner may be a slave burning among the hellfires for sins real and imagined, tortured and eventually made into a more powerful instrument of evil. A third petitioner is the warrior who battles throughout the day and wenches and drinks through the evening in great halls, preparing for the last battle of the universe.

In general, petitioners appear in the form that they had when they died, through they may be remade by deities to fit the nature of their particular afterlife. In a campaign in which all the gods are dragons, for example, petitioners may be remade to resemble dragons. In the D&D cosmology, most petitioners are humanoid in appearance.

In general, petitioners who become divine servants are creatures that originally had at least 1 Intelligence and 1 Wisdom. The following creature types may become petitioners depending on the deity: aberrations, animals, beasts, dragons, fey, giants, humanoids, magical beasts, monstrous humanoids, shapechangers, and plants, oozes, and vermin with sufficient ability scores (treants are in, assassin vines are out). Constructs and undead are not usually made into petitioners, though the spirits of their original forms may be. Elementals and outsiders tend to meld with their native planes, and as such do not become petitioners. Their spirits may still be called back from the dead, however.

In terms of game play, petitioners are usually not central figures. While it may be useful to have the PCs encounter familiar and now-dead individuals in the court of a deity, in most cases when a character becomes a petitioner, he or she is dead. The template presented below is for NPCs, not player characters. If dead characters who are petitioners are later restored to life (once again becoming player characters), they forget any of their experiences as petitioners.

Creating a Petitioner
"Petitioner" is a template that may be added to any creature as determined by the nature of the campaign (referred to hereafter as the base creature). The creature's type changes to outsider, and the creature uses all th base creature's statistics and special abilities except as noted here.
Hit Dice: Change to 2d8. Retain bonus hit points.
AC: Natural Armor Class, Dexterity, and size bonuses or penalties apply. Armor bonuses are not applicable.
Attacks: Base attack bonus is reduced to +2, subject to modifications for size and Strength.
Special Attacks: A petitioner loses all supernatural and spell-like attacks, but retains normal and exceptional attacks.
Special Qualities: A petitioner loses all supernatural and spell-like abilities, but retains exceptional abilities. In addition, it gains the following qualities.
Mental Immunity: All petitioners are immune to mind-affecting effects. This may be due to the mindless nature of their existence, devotion to their deities, or being surrounded by a similarly aligned plane.
Other Immunities: Depending on its nature, the petitioner is immune to two of the following effects: acid, cold, electricity, fire, poison, petrification, or polymorphing. These immunities are applied similarly to all petitioners of a particular plane or deity.
Resistances: Depending on the nature of the petitioner's plane, the petitioner gains resistance 20 against two of the following effects: acid, cold, electricity, or fire.
Planar Commitment: Petitioners cannot leave the plane they inhabit. They are teleported one hundred miles in a random direction if an attempt is made to force them to leave.
Additional Special Qualities: Particular planes may provide additional benefits for petitioners of those planes. Typical additional special qualities may include any one of the following.
- Damage reduction 5/silver and spell resistance 5
- Continuous magic circle against evil.
- Fast healing 1.
- Damage reduction 10/+1.
- Spell resistance 10.
- Additional 2d8 Hit Dice.
- Remove all immunities and resistances except immunity to mind-affecting effects. Add acid, cold, electricity, fire, and poison resistance 5.
Such modifications are the result of the nature of the plane or the powerful beings within it.
Saves: Base saving throw bonuses are +3.
Abilities: Same as the base creature. Some cosmologies or particularly insecure deities may set a maximum of 18 for petitioner ability scores. Abilities higher than that are reduced to the maximum.
Skills: Petitioners have no skills. Previous skills are lost.
Feats: Petitioners have no feats. Previous feats are lost.
Climate/Terrain: Any land and underground (within the same plane).
Organization: Same as the base creature.
Challenge Rating: 1.
Treasure: None.
Alignment: Same as the native plane.
Advancement: None.

Exceptional Petitioners
The deities may choose particular servants for specific tasks that may retain the knowledge of their previous selves. These exceptional petitioners retain the feats and skills they had in life, but are otherwise limited as for the petitioners of their plane.

In the places where a petitioner would normally have one of those variant abilities by plane, the petitioner effects from the planes description applies.

Note that the petitioner description says the journey is harrowing for the petitioner. In the Forgotten Realms cosmology, an agent of the god the spirit worships comes and collects it from the Fugue Plane and transports it to the realm of its patron, so that tidbit about the harrowing journey doesn't apply.

Halflings are the most "human" of the non-human humanoid races, and, as such, a fair portion may not have patrons from among the Children of Yondalla (the halfling pantheon). Those that don't would have different afterlives than halflings that do worship the halfling pantheon. Many halflings may draw patrons from among the Faerunian pantheon. Quite a few adventuring halflings worship Tymora, who isn't part of the halfling pantheon, but does have a portal to Green Fields and close (allegedly romantic) ties to Brandobaris. Her home realm is "The Quarter of the Great Wheel" in the plane of Brightwater, which is a planar metropolis.

I can type up Brightwater but it seems side information at this point. Brightwater is described as "permeated with a sense of freewheeling adventure and frolicsome activity. Brightwater is a place to take chances, to seize the day, and to live life to the fullest."

[Shira]

Mar 8, 2014 19:08:51 GMT -5 Munroe said:

Depending on the deity, a petitioner may be a calm, untiring, unthinking servant who exists in bliss under the god's care.

Not sure how common this type is, does it apply to certain gods?

[Munroe]

Mar 8, 2014 21:44:54 GMT -5 Shira said:

Mar 8, 2014 19:08:51 GMT -5 Munroe said:

Depending on the deity, a petitioner may be a calm, untiring, unthinking servant who exists in bliss under the god's care.

Not sure how common this type is, does it apply to certain gods?

That's more the norm than the exception. If you look at the petitioner template, petitioners lose all skills and feats. The "exceptional petitioner" bit at the end indicates that an exceptional petitioner may be allowed to retain knowledge of its previous life to serve some specific function in the god's realm. Worshipers have essentially no power over themselves once they turn themselves over to their gods as petitioners. Deities may have their worshipers live much as they did in life, but that isn't always the case. Petitioners generally give up their identities in the afterlife though.   

Here's a breakdown of the various petitioners from the planes of the Cosmology of Toril (World Tree Cosmology), and this is all from Player's Guide to Faerûn, page 142-165. The petitioner paragraphs are in the quote boxes, and the petitioner properties are summarized or verbatim below that. I've left off the plane of Cynosure, since it has no petitioners.

Abyss petitioners: When demons steal souls from the Fugue Plane and bring them to the Abyss, those souls become petitioners called manes. A mane has pale white skin, cruel claws, sharp teeth, sparse hair, and white eyes. Often, maggots visibly squirm through its bloated flesh. Manes that survive for many years are sometimes "promoted" to lesser demon types, though they retain no memory of their former lives.

In addition to immunities and resistances, manes have a couple special traits for petitioners:
Acidic Vapor (Su) When a mane is slain, it discorporates into a cloud of noxious vapor. Every creature within 10 feet of a slain mane must make a successful DC 20 Reflex save or take 1d6 points of acid damage.
No Planar Commitment (Ex) Unlike most other petitioners, manes can leave the plane they call home.

Arvandor Petitioners: The petitioners of Arvandor--even those few who were not elves in their mortal lives--all appear as handsome elves here. These petitioners have even more of a fey look about them than elves from the Material Plane do, since their elven features are slightly exaggerated. These petitioners spend their days feasting on Arvandor's bounty and communing with its unblemished nature.

In addition to their immunities and resistances, Arvandor petitioners have DR 5/cold iron and elf racial traits (as described in the Monster Manual).

Barrens of Doom and Despair Petitioners: Each malicious mortal spirit that comes to the Barrens of Doom and Despair becomes a special form of petitioner called a larva. Larvae appear as Medium worms with heads that resemble those of their mortal bodies. Larvae serve as the currency of the fiendish planes, especially among night hags, liches, demons, devils, and yugoloths. Most are used as food as to power spells, but occasionally a larva is promoted to some kind of fiend, usually a lemure or dretch.

In addition to their immunities and resistances, larvae have a couple special traits for petitioners:
Disease (Ex) Any creature wounded by a larva must make a DC 17 Fortitude save after the battle or contract devil chills.
Infernal Wound (Ex) Every time a larva hits with a bite attack (its only attack form), it causes a persistent wound. Any creature so injured loses 1 additional hit point each round. The wound does not heal naturally and resists magical healing. The continuing hit point loss can be stopped by a Heal check (DC 11 + larva's Con modifier), a cure spell, or a heal spell. However, a character attempting to cast a cure spell or a heal spell on a creature damaged by a larva's bite must succeed a caster level check against the same DC as the Heal check, or the spell has no effect. A successful level check automatically stops the continuing hit point loss and restores hit points as normal.
No Planar Commitment (Ex) Unlike most other petitioners, larvae can be removed from the Barrens of Doom and Despair. Often, they are taken elsewhere to serve as food, barter goods, or basic "soulstuff" for fiendish projects that require an esoteric component.

Blood Rift Petitioners: The petitioners of Blood Rift are identical to those of the Barrens of Doom and Despair.

Brightwater Petitioners: The petitioners of Brightwater, like the bacchae detailed in the Fiend Folio, are eternal revelers caught midway between their humanity and a purely bestial nature. At least as chaotic as they are good, these petitioners savor their eternal life to the last drop.

In addition to their immunities and resistances, Brightwater petitioners have a special trait for petitioners:
Entice (Su) A traveler within 100 feet of a mob of Brightwater's petitioners must make a Will saving throw (DC 10+the number of petitioners within range; maximum DC 20) or join the party. While partying with the revelers, those who failed their saves drink, eat, and engage in all manner of pranks and foolery. However, such celebrants take no sustenance, so they suffer the effects of going without food and water. This condition lasts for 101 days or until the enticed character collapses from lack of sustenance. Moving an affected character more than 100 feet from the party ends the effect on him, but he does not leave the revelers willingly.

Clangor Petitioners: Almost all the petitioners of Clangor are goblinoids (including hobgoblins and bugbears as well as ordinary goblins) and kobolds.

Clangor petitioners have no unique special qualities beyond their immunities and resistances.

Deep Caverns Petitioners: The petitioners of this plane are beholders, mind flayers, and troglodytes--none of which are friendly to the others. All of these creatures appear and behave much as they did in life.

In addition to their immunities and elemental resistances, petitioners of Deep Caverns also have spell resistance 10.

Demonweb Pits Petitioners: The petitioners of the Demonweb Pits spend their afterlives just as they did their mortal ones--slavishly obeying Lolth's whims while engaging in endless treachery and deception. As petitioners, they take on a decidedly fiendish yet wretched appearance, though they are still clearly drow--even those few who were not drow as mortals.

In addition to their immunities and resistances, petitioners in the Demonweb Pits receive a +10 competence bonus on Bluff checks.

Dragon Eyrie Petitioners: The petitioners of this plane are the spirits of dragons, half-dragons, dragonkin, and all other forms of dragonkind. For dragons, the afterlife represents an opportunity to strive toward a perfection that was unattainable in life. Such perfection, however, is best pursued in silence and solitude. Though they are no longer great hoarders of treasure, dragon petitioners are still hostile to intruders who would invade their privacy, and they remain among the most arrogant creatures on any plane.

Dragon Eyrie petitioners have no unique special qualities beyond their immunities and resistances.

Dwarfhome Petitioners: The petitioners of this plane--even those few who were not dwarves in their mortal lives--appear as sturdy dwarves here.

In addition to their immunities and resistances, petitioners in Dwarfhome receive a +10 competence bonus on all Craft checks. They also have the dwarf racial traits (as described in the Monster Manual).

Dweomerheart Petitioners: Almost all the petitioners of this plane were wizards or sorcerers in life, and they retain the merest glimmer of their old aptitude for magic.

In addition to their immunities and elemental resistances, Dweomerheart petitioners have DR 5/magic and spell resistance 10.

Fated Depths Petitioners: Sahuagin and kuo-toa petitioners are the primary inhabitants of Fated Depths. Both types of petitioners appear unchanged from their living forms.

Fated Depths petitioners have no unique special qualities beyond their immunities and resistances.

Like Cynosure, the Fugue Plane exists outside the normal cosmology of Toril. Souls naturally travel from the Material Plane to the Fugue Plane at death, but they cannot leave of their own volition. Divine servants can travel here from the realms of their deities and bring souls back with them, as long as those souls properly belong to the deities they serve. Portals from the Nine Hells open into the Fugue Plane because of the devils' agreement with Kelemvor, and demon lords sometimes create portals leading here from the Abyss. In both cases, the fiends can carry souls back to their home planes through these portals. Any other travel to or from the Fugue Plane is impossible. Mortals cannot travel to the Fugue Plane while their bodies live, and no color pools leading here exist on the Astral Plane.
Fugue Plane Petitioners:The False are the petitioners of the Fugue Plane, since they are its only permanent residents (except the Faithless, who are doomed to be dissolved into the substance of the plane). The False have no immunities, resistances, or other special qualities, but they are protected to some extent by the unchanging nature of the plane.

The Fugue Plane has the following notable planar property:
Static. The static nature of the plane allows devils to torment the petitioners without ever ending their suffering.

Fury's Heart Petitioners: The petitioners of Fury's Heart are cruel, callous, and wrathful spirits. Some take on an almost elemental form, such as the cold spirits of Winter's Hall and the sentient lightning of the Towers of Ruin. Others, such as the weresharks that swim with Umberlee in the Blood Sea, appear just as they did in life. Malar's petitioners, and some of Umberlee's as well, are transformed into animal forms, appearing as particularly fierce and primitive versions of normal animals.

In addition to their immunities and resistances, Fury's Heart petitioners have the following properties:
Special Attacks Any petitioner of Auril or Talos deals an extra 1d6 points of damage (cold or lightning, respectively) on a successful melee attack. A petitioner of Malar or Umberlee gains the ability to rage once per day as a 1st-level barbarian.
Other Special Qualities A petitioner of Auril or Talos gains certain elemental traits, while a petitioner of Umberlee or Malar has damage reduction 10/silver.

Gates of the Moon Petitioners: The petitioners of the Gates of the Moon include the spirits of good lycanthropes, female spellcasters, sailors, and mystics--all worshipers of Selûne--as well as travelers, explorers, bards, and other followers of Shaundakul and Finder Wyvernspur. All these petitioners appear as they did in life, though they are often paler, and their moods tend to swing dramatically with the phase of the moon.

Gates of the Moon petitioners have no unique special qualities beyond their immunities and resistances.

Golden Hills Petitioners: All the petitioners of Golden Hills--even those few who were not gnomes in their mortal lives--appear as healthy, happy gnomes here.

In addition to their immunities and resistances, Golden Hills petitioners have gnome racial traits (as described in the Monster Manual).

Green Fields Petitioners: The petitioners of Green Fields all appear as halflings, even those few who were not halflings in life. They have a vibrant, healthy look about them, as though they were bursting with life.

In addition to their immunities and resistances, Green Fields petitioners have DR 10/magic and resonance field.
Resonance Field (Ex) Any creature that causes damage to a petitioner on Green Fields through any form of attack suffers wounds identical to those it inflicts and takes identical damage. If a single attack causes damage to multiple petitioners (a fireball, for instance), the attacker takes damage equal to the total inflicted on all petitioners--far more than the damage dice indicate. The resonance field is a property of the plane, not the petitioners, which is why it is noted as an exceptional ability.

Hammergrim Petitioners: The gray dwarf petitioners of Hammergrim have come through Laduguer's forge of adversity and become stronger than steel. They retain their earthly forms, except that their skin is steely gray and hard, though still supple enough to allow free movement.

In addition to their immunities and resistances, Hammergrim petitioners have DR 5/adamantine.

Heliopolis Petitioners: Almost all the petitioners of Heliopolis are Mulhorandi in origin. They appear as they did in life, at their healthiest and most robust.

Heliopolis petitioners have no unique special qualities beyond their immunities and resistances.

House of Knowledge Petitioners: The petitioners of the House of Knowledge include former sages, bards, artisans, and loremasters. They appear as they did in life[.]

In addition to immunities and resistances, petitioners of the House of Knowledge have the following attribute:
Other Special Qualities As a special property of the plane, these petitioners retain all of their Craft, Knowledge, and Perform skills, though they do not retain other memories of their lives. Thus, many of them possess knowledge without context.

House of Nature Petitioners: Most of the petitioners of the House of Nature are humanoids, who live in small communities in utter harmony with nature. They never build, cut stone or wood, or otherwise alter the natural beauty of the plane. Though they appear as they did in life upon arrival, they gradually take on animal traits--their hair grows long in lustrous pelts, short horns sprout from their foreheads, and some develop cat's eyes or fox's ears. Over the course of centuries, they become celestial animals.

In addition to their immunities and resistances, House of Nature petitioners have fast healing 2.

House of the Triad Petitioners: Most of the petitioners of the House of the Triad are lantern archons, which are fully detail in the Monster Manual. These petitioners have no planar commitment and can leave the House of the Triad at will. Those who serve Helm or Siamorphe, or otherwise lean more toward neutrality than good, retain the forms they wore in life[.]

Those petitioners in the House of the Triad that are not lantern archons have DR 10/chaotic in addition to their immunities. They have no resistances.

Jotunheim Petitioners: The petitioners of Jotunheim were all giants in life, and they retain their mortal forms here.

In addition to their immunities and resistances, Jotunheim petitioners retain more Hit Dice than most petitioners. Large giant petitioners have 4 HD and huge giant petitioners have 8 HD.

Nine Hells Petitioners: The only petitioners found on the Nine Hells are those stolen or lured there by devils doing their work on the Fugue Plane. Souls brought to the Nine Hells become lemures, which appear as revolting blobs of molten flesh with vaguely humanoid torsos and heads. Lemures are despised by all other devils, through a few might be destined for promotion into some other form of devil. Lemures are mindless, though they are sensitive to telepathic messages from other devils. They obey the mental commands of the strongest devil in closest proximity to them.

In addition to their immunities and resistances, lemures have the following traits:
Other Special Qualities Mindless, DR 5/silver or good, spell resistance 5, no planar commitment.
Mindless (Ex) Lemures are immune to all mind-influencing effects. Unless commanded, they behave as if under the influence of a feeblemind spell.
No Planar Commitment (Ex) Unlike most other petitioners, lemures can leave their home plane.

Nishrek Petitioners: Most petitioners of Nishrek are orcs and half-orcs, which retain their earthly appearances.

Nishrek petitioners have no unique special qualities beyond their immunities and resistances.

Shadow Petitioners: Petitioners of Shar and Mask that come to the Plane of Shadow look much as they did in life, though their coloration is darker.

Shadow Plane Petitioners have no immunities, cold resist 10, darkvision 120 ft., low-light vision, and shadow blend.
Shadow Blend (Su In any conditions other than full daylight, the petitioner can disapear into the shadows, gaining a high degree of concealment (40% miss chance and a +10 circumstance bonus on Hide checks). Artificial illumination, even a light or continual flame spell, does not negate this ability, though a daylight spell does.

Supreme Throne Petitioners: The petitioners of the Supreme Throne appear much as they did in life, though they are bonier and generally appear more drawn. Their madness is generally plain to see in their eyes.

Supreme Throne petitioners have no unique special qualities beyond their immunities and resistances.

Warrior's Rest Petitioners: The petitioners of Warrior's Rest are common soldiers, generals, strategists, barbarian raiders, and other combat-oriented individuals. They appear as they did in the prime of their lives, in the peak of physical shape and glowing with health. They seek union with their deities by participating in endless battles.

In addition to their immunities and resistances, Warrior's Rest petitioners have Regeneration 5.
Regeneration The petitioners take normal damage from lawful weapons. The will of Tempus can negate any petitioner's regeneration ability, and such a punishment is usually the immediate precursor of a quick and final death. This fate is reserved for those who show cowardice in battle.

Other Planes
The cosmology detailed in this chapter (and originally presented in the Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting) accounts for the homes of the deities of the Faerunian pantheon, various nonhuman pantheons (dragon, giant, goblinoid, orc, drow, dwarven, elven, gnome, and halfling), and the Mulhorandi pantheon. Toril is also home to a number of additional faiths, and the gods of those faiths live in additional planes connected to Toril. Little is known in Faerun about most of these planes, and the exact nature of their connection to Faerun is rather mysterious.
Toril actually connects to several different Astral Planes, each one linking Toril's Material Plane to the outer planar homes of a different group of deities. These Astral Planes are based on the geographical areas of control held by the different pantheons. The Astral Plane known to characters in Faerun leads to the planes of the Faerunian pantheon, as well as the nonhuman panehtons (whose geographical area of control overlaps that of the Faerunian deities) and the Mulhorandi pantheon. Characters in other areas can enter different Astral Planes with links to the Outer Planes inhabited by their own deities. Ao is thought to supervise the separate Astral Planes just as he adjudicates conflicts between the pantheons.

Several sets of other planes include the Zakharan Planes (attacked to the Zakharan Astral Plane) and The Spirit World (which replaces the Astral Plane in Kara-Tur).

There are also demiplanes, which do not have petitioners and can vary significantly.

Then there are Lost Planes.

Lost Planes
When deities or entire pantheons die, the planes they called home apparently cease to exist. One theory holds that they simply implode without any divine power to sustain them. Another theory maintains that the Astral Plane expels them, and they drift somehow outside it, severed from their connections to other planes.
The largest of these lost planes is Zigguraxus, former home of the Untheric pantheon. With its demise or disappearance, Tiamat has relocated to Dragon Eyrie. The planes and realms of the dead gods have also vanished from Toril's cosmology. These include Amaunator's Keep of the Eternal Sun, Bhaal's Throne of Blood, Ibrandul's Ibrandyllaran, Leira's Courts of Illusion, and Moander's Offalmound. Occasionally a slain deity's realm is taken over by another deity before it can vanish. This was the case with Myrkul's Bone Castle on the Fugue Plane, which is now inhabited by Kelemvor, who transformed it into the Crystal Spire.

[Shira]

Alright, thanks, I suppose unthinking bliss is acceptable, means I don't have to worry overmuch about a given god's afterlife, and can just focus on what it's like living with them.