Crumbling,
Portalskippers! (That's a Dust greeting, if you hadn't
guessed). Voila! just jinkled me to tell you some of the
whispers on the plane of Dead Stones, the place legend
has it that rocks and boulders go to when they're just
too tired to carry on being so solid. It's hard work
being hard, you know...
Ah,
Dust and Sand. Silt and Grit. Glorious fragments of the
most solid stuff. You know, some primes reckon that
creatures from Dust slip into their reality at night and
sprinkle dust into their eyes. What a lot of barkle,
portalskippers! What self-respecting elemental creature
would journey to another plane and willingly leave
elemental material from its home behind? No, skippers,
the real reason for sleeping dust is that the borders
between the Negative Quasiplane and the Prime are
decaying as the plane itself crumbles.
If
you leave a room without cleaning it, dust builds up,
right? That's because tiny holes between the planes let
through the smallest fragments of dust and grit, see...to
keep a place free of dust is a constant battle against
the insidious element. Some wisebeards reckon that your
prime deserts are places where the barriers grew so weak
that they split asunder, allowing miles and miles of the
elemental material through before they reformed again.
Some say that at the heart of great deserts still lie
vortices to Dust, activated by sandstorms and the like.
In any case, many's the mother who's obsessively cleaned
her house hoping that this would prevent a similar
fate!
So
what is there in the plane of Dust? Apart from the
obvious (and frankly dull) endless expanses of
quasielemental material, the plane has more than its
share of ruins. Some chivs theorise a building that's
given up the ghost and decided it's time to pass away can
eventually end up here; as the bricks and mortar crumble
away on the prime and the wind blows away the dust, the
particles somehow end up here and continue the dying
process. Only ruins that ended that way through neglect
and natural wastage can make the trip, and it's certainly
one way...buildings razed to the ground likewise can
appear in Ash.

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