Material Plane
The material plane, also called the material world, is the plane of mortal existence. It is distinct from the upper and lower planes, and there are powerful entities that belong to none of these.1
The void and the Voidborn
The nameless void gods very rarely reach out beyond the void and touch the material plane of their own will.1
True Voidborn are ill-suited to the material plane. Their unstable pseudo-existence means their presence is usually short-lived, and they are often brought into the material plane against their will. Because each mind interprets differently the gap a Voidborn makes on entering the material plane, its appearance often differs from one witness to the next. The simplest and most widely known method of bringing a true Voidborn into the material plane is the ritual called Shâ’had Ravan Gôl-goloth.2
Demons and fey
The Tomb of Anarchy is an extremely dangerous rite that can bind demon princes to a location within the material plane.3
Among the lawful folk of The Empire, ending a dangerous fey's influence within the material plane is usually considered a good deed.4
Portals and rites link the material plane with the Feywild. When the druids of the Bluelands were tricked into opening a portal to the Feywild, Karthul, a herald of the fey lord Blaspheus, entered the material plane through it; the druids of Lunara, for their part, brought the nature spirit Erdentree back into the material plane from its prison in the Feywild.5
Souls
Giving a dead soul a new body does not remove the risks of resurrection: the new body may affect the soul's connection to the material plane, and the act still invokes the wrath of Rakash.6
Lord Dagoth Levain Von’Saldor, the founder of the Morenar, envisions the company's memberships as a way for its high-ranking members to escape hell and to go on existing in the material world even after death.7
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