Elemental vortex

Elemental vortices were permanent pathways that existed between the four elemental planes or an elemental plane and the Prime Material Plane.

On the Prime Material plane these vortices were only found at the heart of great concentrations of their particular element. For example, elemental vortices to the Plane of Fire and Plane of Water could sometimes be found within volcanos and the deep ocean respectively. Elemental vortices to the Elemental Plane of Earth could sometimes be found deep within the Underdark. And vortices to the Elemental Plane of Air could sometimes be found within the highest and windiest mountaintops.

No elemental vortices existed for the Positive Energy plane and Negative Energy plane. There were believed to be vortices to the various para-elemental and quasi-elemental planes, though unlike vortices to the four primary elements these were believed to only be temporary. For example, a raging thunderstorm might have an elemental vortex to the Quasi-Elemental Plane of Lightning at its center.

Description
Elemental vortices resembled shimmering pools or walls of their respective element, such as a pool of water rippling with deep cerulean colors.

History
Genies used these passageways to travel between the courts of other genies located on the elemental planes.

Elemental vortices did not exist between directly opposing elemental planes. For instance, there was no elemental vortex between the Elemental Plane of Fire and the Elemental Plane of Water.

Notable Locations

 * Pale River
 * Iron Crucible
 * Bubble Net/Waterspout
 * Jabal Turab