Limbo

Limbo, the fundamental plane of chaos, is a plane defined by constant, unceasing transformation, a place of disorder where few dare tread and reliable reports are few and far between. Scattered fragments of lost poems and confused ramblings, as recorded by Gaius Devarro in his treatise On Minds and Chaos, speak of a place of churning chaos where nothing holds its shape for long: stone melts to water, which freezes to fire at a whim, before bursting into diamond that blows away as snow. Marcion of Iridel, quoting a fragment of a lost work known as The Unstable Sphere, called it “the endless unmaking,” suggesting a domain of constant, unceasing, chaotic transformation.

The fundamentally shifting and chaotic nature of Limbo make travel and exploration of this plane particularly difficult. Marcion recorded that ancient scholars considered Limbo impossible to map in any meaningful way, though this does not mean it is featureless. Gaius Devarro collected many tales of seemingly impossible stable spaces: sanctuaries, of a kind, held solid by acts of impossible concentration by intellects of iron. He describes massive rocks floating like icebergs in empty space, never changing, hollowed out into laboratories of transmutation, and impossible towers that twist in space, stretching to pinnacles of elemental power. No tale collected by Gaius speaks with authority on the content of these sanctuaries, however.

More recently, Arryn of Tollen complied a series of inferred principles of the nature of Limbo in Experiments upon the Planar Substance.

Origins

The origins of Limbo defy any explanation, although Yendalo speculated that Limbo may in fact be a shifting wound in reality itself, where the fundamental essences of existence refuse to take any permanent shape.