The Sky

[Blymurkla]

If you take flight while in Golarion and fly upwards, where do you end up?

The/a vaccum of space? The elemental plane of air? Somewhere else?

[Goldmyr]

The vacuum of space. The Inner Sea Guide mentions that Golarion is part of a solar system with 10 other planets.

[Blymurkla]

Goldmyr wrote:

The vacuum of space. The Inner Sea Guide mentions that Golarion is part of a solar system with 10 other planets.

Yeah, I figured.

However, isn't the elemental planes nested around the material plane with the plane of air being the innermost? 'Cause the elemental planes seem to rather physically touch each-other, creating boundaries where you can fairly easily cross from one plane to the next.

Maybe when you go upwards from Golarion, you first encounter vacuum and then, eventually, reach the plane of air?

[thejeff]

Blymurkla wrote:

Goldmyr wrote:

The vacuum of space. The Inner Sea Guide mentions that Golarion is part of a solar system with 10 other planets.

Yeah, I figured.

However, isn't the elemental planes nested around the material plane with the plane of air being the innermost? 'Cause the elemental planes seem to rather physically touch each-other, creating boundaries where you can fairly easily cross from one plane to the next.

Maybe when you go upwards from Golarion, you first encounter vacuum and then, eventually, reach the plane of air?

I think that's more dimensionally nested.

You can fly directly from Golarion into space and to other planets. You can't fly directly to other planes.

I can't remember if there's actually vacuum in space or not. I know it's possible to fly from Golarion to the Moon, even for creatures that apparently use wings to fly. It just takes a long time.
Edit: Looking at the Moonscar module: There is vacuum, so you'd need some kind of protection from it, but succubi do make the trip.

[Cussune]

Yeah, you don't usually pierce another plane, you just keep on truckin' to other planets, systems, etc.

I think of it as the elemental planes subtly influencing the material plane, mystically, like fluctuating gravity wells. You can't go directly from plane to plane without spells, magic items, or portals (which I feel could form from time to time naturally, allowing one to accidentally fall into another realm - putting earth elementals deep within a cavern, water elementals out far in the ocean, a seagull popping into the elemental plane of air, etc.).

Thor: the Dark Wold, you know?

[Wolfsnap]

Are we sur that the space around Golarion's Solar System is a vacuum? Maybe there's Phlogiston or something. :)

[Kalindlara]

Wolfsnap wrote:

Are we sur that the space around Golarion's Solar System is a vacuum? Maybe there's Phlogiston or something. :)

Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Distant Worlds confirms it, yes. No phlogiston/aether/etc. here. ^_^

(And yet the wings of elder things and mi-go still function...)