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Hello all. I certainly hope I didn't miss a topic that already covered this...
I'm interested in intergrating Golarion into Planescape. As Planescape is the ''dominant'' setting(and also bigger), it's nearly exclusively a matter adapting of Golarion to Planescape. This entitles that Golarion uses the Great Wheel. Obviously, this means that the realms of all Golarion gods need to move into planes part of the Great Wheel.
So far, I've come up with the following...
Abadar - Mechanus
Asmodeus- Baator, Nessus
Calistria- Arborea, Arvandor
Cayden Cailean- Ysgard, Ysgard
Desna- Ethereal
Erastil- Beastlands, Kriagala
Gorum- Limbo?
Gozreh- Elemental Plane of Water
Iomedae- Celestia, Mertion
Irori- Arcadia, Abellio
Lamashtu- The Abyss(her own layer?)
Nethys- Outlands?
Norgorber- Shadow Plane or Carceri, Colothys?
Pharasma- Ethreal Plane
Rovagug- Pandemonium, Coctyus?
Sarenrae- Elysium, Amoria?
Shelyn- Arborea?
Torag- Celestial, Solania?
Urgathoa- Negative Energy Plane?
Zon-Kuthon- Shadow Plane
''Other Gods''
Achaekek - Krangath
Alseta - Arborea, Buxenus
Brigh- ?
Besmara - Limbo?
Ghlaunder - The Gray Wastes, Oinos?
Groetus- Pandemonium, Pandesmos?
Gyronna (The Angry Hag): The Gray Waste, Niflheim?
Hanspur - Elemental Plane of Water?
Kurgess - Ysgard
Naderi - ?
Sivanah - Shadow Plane?
Zyphus - Abyss, Layer 13
As for my reasoning for each god...
Generally speaking, I looked at the flavour of the god in question, the locations of somewhat similiar gods and also the flavour of the planes and layers in question. I'll only explain the ones with question marks in detail(for now).
Gorum: I placed Gorum in Limbo because....well, mostly due that Tempus also has his realm there. Intititally wanted to go with Ysgard before I noticed that though.
Lamashtu: Placing her in the Abyss seems fairly obvious to me. I'm inclined to say that she should have her own layer, as she's a god and even has ''Queen of Demons'' as one of her titles.
Nethys: Outlands for a lack of better place. Any alternatives don't spring to mind, due his dual nature.
Norgorber: Both places seem fairly appropiate thematically and also have gods that are somewhat similiar(Mask and Nerull). If I'd place him in Carceri, I'd go with Colothys for...again, no particular reason short of there being an other god of thievery (Vhaeraun).
Rovagug: Pandemonium seems thematically speaking the appropiat, Cocytus in particular due that he is imprisoned and his association with weather.
Sarenrae: Simply thematically appropaite. Pelor's Realm is also here.
Shelyn: Perhaps on Arvandor due relatively high concentration of godesses of beauty?
Torag: Fits conceptually and also because it's where Moradin resides.
Urgathoa: Lack of better. Isn't too shabby though, considering the tendency of the negative energy plane to''devour'' nearly everything anything that is alive.
Brigh: Mechanus seems to fit, although her alignment is TN, not LN. Any other possibilties? Outlands for lack of a better?
Besmara: For lack of a better, mostly. Also not too inclined to throw her into the Elemental Plane of Water, just because she's a pirate.
Ghlaunder: Oinos appears to fit due the rampant diseases on it. However, his Chaotic Evil alignment makes me somewhat unsure.
Groetus: Pandemonium might fit because of his insane nature, although looking at his actual portfolios; there might be something more fitting.
Gyronna: Nilfheim might fit or some layer in the Abyss with...forests. Because, you know, the whole dark forest theme related to witches? Anyway... It also kind of depends on her relation with Cegilune. If decent, she could also be placed in Pluton.
Hanspur: Lack of better.
Naderi:I have no clue. At all. Can't think of anything that seems even remotely appropiate(..well, there's always the Outlands...).
Sivanah: Lack of better.
The racial deities don't have much of priority for me, so I didn't list them.
In due time, I also plan to more or less would like to set up a brief overview of the relations between the gods of Golarion and others.
I also can't help but feel that I'm missing something...is there anything else part of Golarion Campaign Setting that needs to be altered to fit with Planescape?
Comments and suggestions are welcome!
It should be noted that I also posted this topic on the Planewalker forums.
Golarion is no longer in the traditional Prime material plane location.
It is sliding toward the Abyss in the wake of the Death of Aroden. (Per the hardcover campaign setting)
It's still the material plane. The Abyss is just encroaching on its terrain.
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Golarion is no longer in the traditional Prime material plane location.
It is sliding toward the Abyss in the wake of the Death of Aroden. (Per the hardcover campaign setting)
Yeah; that's more of a bit of flavor and metaphor in action than it is actual physical movement toward the Abyss.
While the multiverse of Golarion is its own, it's very much been designed to allow the Great Wheel of Planescape to function with very minimal changes, as the OP's post shows.
Re: Rovagug, he's actually imprisoned deep within Golarion itself, not on ANY outer plane.
Crossposted from Planewalker:
Without saying anything of too much substance before The Great Beyond is out in print, I'll say that first of all, I'm flattered, absolutely flattered that you'd take something I worked on and bring it into a Planescape framework. The material is intentionally written in a way that much of it can easily be incorporated into a Planescape game, and there are lots of thematic nods to it, given my respect for the setting, and its influence on me.
Secondly, for most of the gods you have in your list above, I specifically mention what plane they reside upon in Golarion's cosmology, and many of those have their domains specificly described. Golarion's outer planes line up with the cardinal alignments, but lack the mixed alignment planes of Planescape, and so there'll be some wiggle room for placing say, Saranrae's domain into either Planescape's Elysium, Bytopia, or the Beastlands. She's not the best example perhaps, given her very solid attachment to Golarion's NG celestials (hint: she started out as one), but there's plenty of room to play with them.