Plane shift

Plane Shift
5th Edition Statistics
School	Conjuration
Level	Cleric 7 Druid 7 Sorcerer 7 Warlock 7 Wizard 7
3rd Edition Statistics
School	Conjuration (Teleportation)
Level	Cleric 5 Sorcerer 7 Wizard 7
2nd Edition Statistics
School	Alteration
Spheres	Astral
Level	Astral 5 Cleric 5 Shukenja 6
1st Edition Statistics
School	Alteration
Level	Cleric 5 Shukenja 6

Plane shift was an alteration or conjuration spell that transported the caster and a few others to a different plane of existence.

Effects

By means of this spell, the caster and up to seven or eight other beings could be transported to a chosen plane or alternate dimension, including specific layers of multilayer planes. Willing subjects had to form a circle with the caster, holding hands or otherwise maintaining physical contact while the spell was being cast. The caster could also choose to send a single subject to a random location on another plane, but if the subject was unwilling, the caster had to successfully touch the target and the victim had a chance to resist the magic of this spell.

The earliest version of this spell was quite accurate, placing the travelers at a specific location if desired. Later versions had problems with accuracy, with one version having a maximum error of 500 miles (800 kilometers).

Components

In addition to verbal and somatic components, the key to casting this spell was a forked metal rod of a certain size and composition that attuned it to the desired destination plane. In some schools of thought, the size and metal type of the rod were crucial to guarantee the correct destination was reached, but there may have been other ways to attune a given rod to a specific plane. In Kara-Tur, the material component used for this spell by shugenja was an engraved coin. The engravings were characters that represented the plane and was tied around the neck with a leather thong.

Planar Forks

The following table details the forks known to access most planes. "Material" is the substance out of which the fork was made, usually metal. For example, in general, gold led to upper planes, while iron led to lower planes. Pure metals were used for inner planes, while alloys of those metals led to the respective paraelemental planes.

"Pitch" is the single note to which an individual fork was tuned. If a plane had layers, this note always led to the first layer of that plane. Quasi-elemental planes could be reached by using a fork tuned sharp for positive planes and flat for negative planes. "Chord", in the table, indicates that multiple forks were required to ring in harmony. Major chords usually took one to the second layer of a plane, while minor chords took one to the third layer. More complicated harmonies were rumored to be able to reach other layers.

Plane	Planar Fork		Color Pool	Ethereal Curtain
	Material	Pitch or Chord
The Prime	Steel	C  listen	Silver	Metallic silver or turquoise
The Feywild			Emerald green	Opalescent white
The Shadowfell			Spiraling black	Silver or dusky gray
Elemental Planes
Fire	Copper	A  listen	Fire emerald	Flickering green or red
Earth	Zinc	A  listen	Moss granite	Flickering gray or brown
Water	Lead	A  listen	Dark blue	Flickering blue or green
Air	Tin	A  listen	Pale blue	Flickering white or blue
Para-elemental Planes
Smoke	Bronze	A  listen		Pearl
Magma	Brass	A  listen		Maroon
Ooze	Zinc/lead	A  listen		Chocolate
Ice	Pewter	A  listen		Aquamarine
Quasi-Elemental Planes
Radiance	Copper	A♯  listen		Shifting rainbow
Mineral	Zinc	A♯  listen		Milky pink
Steam	Lead	A♯  listen		Ivory
Lightning	Tin	A♯  listen		Violet
Ash	Copper	A♭  listen		Dark gray
Dust	Zinc	A♭  listen		Dun
Salt	Lead	A♭  listen		Tan
Vacuum	Tin	A♭  listen		Ebony
Energy Planes
Positive	None known		Shining white	Shining white
Negative	None known		Cold ebony	Glossy black
Transitive Planes
Ethereal	Glass	B  listen	Spiraling white	—
Astral	Quartz	B  listen	—	Swirling gray
Shadow			Spiraling black	Silver or dusky gray
Outer Planes
Outlands	Platinum	C  listen	Leather brown	Brown
Cynosure	None		None	None
The Fugue	None		None	None
Mechanus	Silver	C  listen	Diamond	White
Arcadia   Abellio   Buxenus   Layer 3	Gold	C♯  listen C♯ major  listen C♯ minor  listen	Saffron — —	Pale yellow
Celestia   Lunia   Mercuria   Venya   Other layers	Gold	D  listen D major  listen D minor  listen Unknown	Gold — — —	Brilliant yellow
Bytopia   Dothion   Shurrock	Gold	E♭  listen E♭ major  listen	Amber —	Dark yellow
Elysium   Amoria   Eronia   Belierin   Thalasia	Gold	E  listen E major  listen E minor  listen Unknown	Opal — — —	Dark green
The Beastlands   Krigala   Brux   Karasuthra	Gold	F  listen F major  listen F minor  listen	Emerald — —	Emerald green
Arborea   Arvandor     Arvandor   Aquallor   Mithardir	Gold	F♯  listen F♯ major  listen F♯ minor  listen	Sapphire Dark green — —	Bright blue
Ysgard   Ysgard   Muspelheim   Nidavellir	Gold	G  listen G major  listen G minor  listen	Indigo — —	Purple
Limbo	Nickel	C  listen	Jet	Swirling black
Pandemonium   Pandesmos   Cocytus   Phlegethon   Agathion	Iron	C♯  listen C♯ major  listen C♯ minor  listen Unknown	Magenta — — —	Crimson
The Abyss   Layer 1   Other layers	Iron	D  listen Unknown	Amethyst —	Swirling red
Carceri   Orthrys   Cathrys   Minethys   Other layers	Iron	E♭  listen E♭ major  listen E♭ minor  listen Unknown	Olive or red — — —	Gray-green
Hades   Oinos   Niflheim   Pluton	Iron	E  listen E major  listen E minor  listen	Rust — Iron gray	Dark red
Gehenna   Khalas   Chamada   Mungoth   Krangath	Iron	F  listen F major  listen F minor  listen Unknown	Russet — — —	Bright red
The Nine Hells   Avernus   Dis   Minauros   Other layers	Iron	F♯  listen F♯ major  listen F♯ minor  listen Unknown	Ruby — — —	Red & black
Acheron   Avalas   Thuldanin   Tintibulus   Ocanthus	Iron	G  listen G major  listen G minor  listen Unknown	Flame — — —	Metallic red

History

In the time of ancient Netheril, divine spells were considered to come from the breath of gods and called "winds". This spell was classified as being a Transcendent wind.

Appendix

See Also

• Dimensional anchor
• Gate

Appearances

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