Talk:Modron

Location of Mechanus
For the time being I've located Mechanus as Dweomerheart, since in 1e there were only two named lawful neutral deities, Mystra and Helm, and Helm is known to have dwelt in the explicitly lawful good plane of Celestia / House of the Triad. Additionally, by 2e a few more lawful neutral deities were added, many related to magic, who were also found in Mystra's home plane (still known at that point as Mechanus, instead of Dweomerheart).

I do understand there are some problems with this, however. For instance, where did the modrons disappear to after Dweomerheart collapsed? Did Amaunator once dwell in Dweomerheart or was he a resident of an alternate plane? These are some of the unfortunate problems resulting from the divergence of the Realms from the Wheel cosmology, leaving certain details unexplained. Where once, all the lawful neutral deities dwelt on the same plane, many now had their own. There's no problem with this intrinsically (and indeed, it has a certain logic to it) but it does leave modrons and other creatures that are left little detailed in FR lore in a bit of a hitch.

If someone has an alternative location they'd like to delineate as Mechanus, feel free to advance it and make the necessary edit. Niirfa-sa 19:36, February 21, 2011 (UTC)


 * Did a bit more research and the descriptions of Mechanus in old Planescape material more closely matches the implied nature of Amaunator's realm (who did indeed reside there prior to becoming Lathander). So unless there's any objection I'm just ruling Mechanus here as Eternal Sun and having modrons also dwell in Dweomerheart, Celestia, and Banehold.