Dungeons and Dragons Lore: Ysgard
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- Heroic adventures for all eternity sound like fun? Rising each morning to go to battle against terrible monsters alongside demigods and legends? Fame, wealth, beauty and wonder beyond measure? Then Ysgard is the place for you!
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This is your plane!
"... except, something like a trip to the Feywild- or New Zealand."
My God, the truth in that statement is baffling, yet undeniable.
I wouldn't be surprised to learn that Goliath view this as the paradise they go to when they die...with their own name for it, of course.
No doubt at all.
What a delightful birthday surprise. Thank you Professor! Hope you had plenty of food and naps yesterday.
Happy birthday! We don't celebrate Thanksgiving, but I certainly appreciate you Amigo 😄
@@AJPickett luckily a holiday isnt necessary for good food and naps. Cheers!
New Zealand dialed up to 11? Nice plug. Great depiction and flavor. Sounds like an ideal place for random dungeons and a place to learn humility; as you die again, and again and again.
This is the only one dimension I really needed expansion on. Thanks!
My work here is done.. or are there places you never knew you needed to know about yet to become known to you?
@@AJPickett is that not always the case for us all? But seriously, I loved this and I only hope we hear you expand more on the land of Gladsheim!
I would enjoy more info on this area as well very good video as usual
@@AJPickett Could you please do a video on the Fugue plane or the plane of Radiance?
Plane of Radiance, I 2nd that motion sir!
if you fall off the edge the legendary beast and lord of this realm, a dragon turtle called "Lakitu" comes, carrying its legendary fishing rob and fetches your soul, carrying it upwards back to land
The fact that Ysgard, a fairly chaotic and dangerous plane, has both a portal to the Abyss (albeit guarded by celestials) and the river Oceanus (which leads to the upper planes)....is worrisome to say the least.
A few demonic incursions into Ysgard could plunge the upper planes into chaos and ruin if that portal isn't well guarded.
demons break through the portal and a deafening shout of celebration rings out across the plane. finally, a decent fight for the near infinite number of dead warriors. who, remember, don't stay dead when you kill them.
Tanar'ri Scout: I have located the enemy! They are braiding their hair and singing.... they seem... _eager_ .
So New Zealand
is like the feywild you say? :D
"But a bit like the Feywild... or New Zealand."
I love your videos, please never stop.
So the elves and dwarves and giants in Alfheim, Svartalfheim, Nidavellir and Jotunheim... are they petitioners? Like is it possible my dwarf eldritch knight's gonna wake up in Nidavellir when he dies and become a Ysgardian dwarf? Or are these inhabitants just living breathing natives to Ysgard, and if so, what are they doing there?
There's both in the plane as a general locale (that can be traveled to by anyone provided they have the means), living mortals and petitioners. In the upper layers of Ysgard where the petitioners are the most warlike they CAN be a concern for the living because some of them tend not to realize (or care) that some mortals might not be as keen on dying in battle just right now.
The slain mortals might come back as petitioners, right back in Ysgard if their alignment and ethos fits, sure, but petitioners are not quite the same as the living, and not quite their past selves anymore, so not everyone is in a hurry to make the jump even if that's the sort of afterlife they look forward to.
The divine realms typically cannot be found by just anyone, and have less living mortals (and mostly transient visitors if they're allowed at all, because it's more advantageous to the gods that their living faithful remain working for them among other mortals), and many more petitioners and divine servants.
My brother once likened it Ysgard to that ending scene of Jet Li's "The One". A place where the most epic heroes battle, die, and are reborn every day. The only feature about this plane I find interesting is Olidammara palace. Oh to be a fly on the wall of one of the most lavish party zones in the multiverse. Get yourself a magical item with the ability to change shape, throw on a mask and have a blast. Maybe even get robbed, seduced or killed by the laughing rogue himself. A campaign revolving around stealing an item from his palace would make for a great rogue's tale.
I played a Bauriar character in an epic level 3.5e campaign, his name was Agnu and he carried a Lance, he was built for charging attacks, one of my favorite characters I've played.
Yessss another video let's gooo
Can’t wait for a return to the planar dragons! I’ve been particularly waiting on the battle and beast dragons
The weather on Ysgard sounds very similar to what we get in Chicago. That revivifing at the end of each day sure would come in handy here though.
Ysgard is the plane of "never a dull moment".
May you live in interesting times?
Always loved Norse mythology. Even cooler (didn't think that was possible) with a D&D twist thrown into it, haha
This is another place that I imagine gives the inevitables a headache. They can't do anything about it because it is technically following it's own rules, but they still don't like the way islands just float in the air.
I just imagined a inevitable emerges on the plain and just sighing as it looks at a floating landmass
@@gavinbillings6535 It's even worse than a painting tilted to one side, it's a painting of a spirit level tilted to one side. It's just wrong.
The landscape of Ysguard sounds abit like the boarder of the elimental plane of air, but with objective gravity, and the sky-islands are constantly moving.
Two of these floating earthbergs may crash into one another causing; rocks fall everyone dies and, then wake up the next morning
I think this might be my favorite "explores" video, yet (despite how much I like the Hells). Good job, man.
It sounds ALMOST as awesome as Iceland!
We need Iceland on the other side of the planet, otherwise all the awesome in New Zealand would unbalance the whole thing.
This Plane just has so much going on at all times, you really could just stay there for a few years of role play and never get tired of it XD
On a different note about gods I wonder if perhaps as each pantheon has a all father or main god if perhaps that is a version of ioz(not sure of spelling) as he is infinite and unknowing, and then perhaps if that is so other gods aswell are basically the same as they are multidimensional aswell as inhibiting different spheres. They change depending on the races perception of them
That's exactly right.
Wow. The capacity of this place for "training montages" or power up arcs is astounding. Just fighting to your full capacity every single day only to be brought back everytime
Ysgard. The D&D Material plane... Except directed by Michael Bay.
Battle dragon, that sound like the name of a power metal band.wich i guess is fitting for ysgard
Perfect timing, AJ!
Great video AJ. I will send a link to this to a player who whined about the lore behind him choosing Frey in my Fallen Gods campaign. At every level of development, the Fallen God can customize his skills and powers in a way far more flexible to character development. The guy who chose Frey as his Fallen God template did not care about the core talents that had on average of far more capability in combat and extremely far more capability in role-playing.
So, when he finally min-max'd his character to Rainbow Bridge to Ysgard (instead of his own custom outer plane linked to it), he landed on a decaying mass of a former battleground of his entire dead pantheon, finding their looted corpses. As he explored, his decaying mass passed over a gigantic mass that Frey and other Norse gods were on. Frey lept onto it, mounted on his steed. Freya, his sister, riding along. Frey dismounted and said "Hey... I thought that aspect of me died when you died. I was right to abandon you, look at you, you are not at all me. You use the cumbersome giant sword instead of one that can be used in either or both hands, you care little for elves, you don't really care about our solar sphere except for the fury abilities, you care not for horses, you have yet to sire children. Oh? And now you raise your weapon to fight me. You are more Thor and Tyr in deserved arrogance than you can muster. All I need to do to destroy you here is leap away with my sister and horse. Thor is away but Tyr is always up for a fight, already on his way here. Why are you here? You are Fallen. You are a mortal boil that I shed. You are now proof of that. I now know why this crumbling island still exists. You refuse to die. Do you not recognize me, once you? Do you not recognize Freya, my sister, once yours? You are now a severed hand and a false god. You amuse me. I will protect you when it amuses me. Don't return here until you are at least a real power, something gods like myself won't just will out of existance.
How odd that the Bariaur would have the lore that they do and not be a playable race. This plane sounds perfect for sending pc's to who just can't get enough adventuring!
Spectacular video. Lots of great tidbits. I wonder if the fensir have a standing in the ordning or not? I feel bad that the bariaur have been almost wholly neglected compared to the much uglier and less friendly gith. Oh the injustice of it all! I would surely enjoy acheron overlaying with Ysgard, and having the floating islands colliding with the floating cubes. And the battles would be glorious. Neither side able to perish with numbers to rival the Blood War itself!
That would be ragna rocking!
Awesome thank you! You answered a long-held question of mine regarding petitioners and Resurrection.
Thank you AJ. Another thing to be thankful for. As always a greater video, seidrmadr.
To Sovengard!!!
Alduin is a Battle Dragon.
Dine on anything remotely edible, as my lizard folk barbarian was once quoted as saying "dwarf is edible." the rest of the adventuring party was horrified with his eating habits after a hard fought battle with dwarven thieves.
I played a goblin would-be warlord named Two-Coin that used to pay a bounty of 2 gold for any orc corpse. You’ve never tasted leaner bacon than orc bacon…
Love this channel
love you too Robomonkey. :)
3:28 lol are these shots of new Zealand
Of course!
7:50 Oh hell no, that is not okay. The tower on the end.
Hello AJ, what a very deep and dramatic world. Looking forward to the 4 legged Goatfolks video.
Thanks AJ & have a great day.
My favorite video so far this month!
I think Ysgard or Bitopia are where I'd like to wait out eternity. At least until I get a case of the bound-to's and decide to see what's up at the top of Mt. Celestia.
The post-kick-the-bucket bucket list?
@@EdricLysharae Yes. Eternity's a long time, gotta fill it with something.
It's great that you gave so much background on the fensir. The fensir musicians Morvun and Phineas from Uncaged: Faces of Sigil are some of my favourite NPCs.
Another Skyrim rerelease? Todd Howard did it again!
I love this place! I would love a campaign set in Ysgard! There are so many possibilities!
Hey @AJ Pickett keep up the good work! And can we get a vid on beastlands & elemental plane of air? Thanks 👍
My mom just mailed me a box of my old d&d stuff for christmas.I hadnt looked at these things in over 20 years..just flipped through the original manual of planes by jeff grubb..I'm good have weird, sweet dreams tonight
A rich treasure indeed!
Thank you for reminding us that this is the D&D version - was just about to make a fool of myself by going on a long rant about Norse Mythology, how there is two tribes of gods, (the Æsir and the Vanir, and while they both live in Ásgarður. the Vanir originateded in Vannaheimum).
While most people know the stories about Valhöll/Valhalla where Óðinn lives, and how warriors ussualy by dying glorious deaths in battle might win a seat there as part of the Einherjar, it is a widely missed fact that according to the old mythology, it’s only those who don’t get the even higher honor and get picked by Freyja and go to live in Fólkvangr.
But as you mentioned, we can add parts we miss from the mythology ourselves….
As usual a great video!
Cool Video. Two questions. 1 - do petitioners arrive in Ysgard with the equipment(Magical and Mundane) they had in life? 2 - Who run the inn/taverns/blacksmiths ect? Thanks keep the fun coming.
Petitioners come in different varieties, some appear in the halls of Asgard, ready to serve their god or enjoy their warriors rest, others appear naked and alone. There are beings native to Ysgard, and petitioners there can do what they like, so, some 'retire' for a while to run a small business.
Yay!
Absolutely wonderful! Describing many wonderful settings. Many just wanna wonder the wide expanses of Yggdrasil or explore Gladsheim. Personally I wanna explore Nidavellir!
"Or New Zealand" Humble much?
Looking at your playlists on your channel I noticed there’s no “other planes” playlist.
They make up some of my favorite videos of yours, especially as my party gets to a high level and starts plane hopping. Iv heard so little about this plane before and seems like the perfect place for an adventure or even a campaign! Where encounter balance is written into physics and death is a setback for a while
One of these days, I have to set a weekend aside to really sort out my video playlists.
AJ, there is a swedish tabletop rpg, Trudvang, that might tickle your fancy. its based on norse myth,celtic myth and the finnish Kalevala epic.
They did a Kickstarter earlier this year to make a 5e conversion for their ttrpg.
I use a neutral goblinoid race based on the metsan vaki in my games as natural allies of the wild elves.
Is New Zealand another word for the feywilde?
yes
Tons of info to unpack. Thanks. Love these deep research talks.
The Earthbergs are because Ysgard is the border between Limbo and the good planes.
Seems to me that Ysgard would be one of my choices for an afterlife, my current living life is very dull and uneventful
Same
Well I'm hyped for a Bariaur video, might find some way to incorporate one into my campaign.
So DnD for D&D, awesome.
hey AJ I absolutely love your videos! Two suggestions for future vids- Psionics and obscure places in Toril (Osse, Anachrome, Etc)... keep up the awesomeness!
Not gonna lie, sounds like a fantastic place to visit.
Sounds like an cool place to visit, but a terable place to live, in my humble opinion.
One of my favorite scenes in all the Forgotten Realms novels involved half the protagonists (the evil ones) exploring a town of dryads and nature spirits that existed on one of Yggdrasil’s branches. Then they had to flee the town as the spellplague burned the entire tree down. I read of the elemental chaos and Astral sea consuming and filling the gaps left by the tree and rearranging the entire cosmology. Which gave Asmodeus, newly empowered by the divine spark of Azuth, the opportunity to throw the abyss into the elemental chaos. Just 100 years for the start of the 5th edition novels. Druids live longer that, so I think about how that must have felt. But, now I’m wondering what damage that caused to Ysgard.
Oh it would have been catastrophic.
@@AJPickett so here’s a question. The spellplague creates spellchanged and spellscarred aberrations out of those it touches. So picturing a spellplague zombie apocalypse.... would those spellchanged resurrect each day as well? If so, I’d love to explore it
This video is great, thank you! I'm starting a Planescape campaign in a few weeks, and your timing couldn't be better.
Please, fellow DM's.. take heed.
Don't bring your players here without flight, infinite rope, feather fall, or similar. My game stalled for several hours when the objective lay several hundred feet below in Muspelheim and the player characters were reasonably opposed to testing out the resurrection feature of the plain and ended up catching a ride from an airship after much pained waiting.
On a brighter note, does anyone want to see my google spreadsheet used to track a party bumping their way past an army charging past them at the start of a daily conflict?
It has.. good lycanthropes, dinosaurs, a huge celestial, adventurers, petitioners, sprites, massive beasts- and a lovely earth tremor save starting off the scene.
Also if anyone wants to adopt my planar portals, here are a few.
There is a stone dias on Selune's realm out behind Argentum that leads to a similar platform on an earthberg that is tended to be a half-elf who has a crush on the Lilendi attending the base of the Infinite Staircase. He knows of a portal to Limbo nestled deep within Nidhvalier and offers the key, a Xaos coin, printed with the symbol of a fish. The portal is an empty and ancient stone sacrophagus at the dead end of a deep tunnel and is the hideout of that one badass female drow npc from Planes of Conflict.
The portal leads to a tended garden island in limbo where an adept Githzerai sits in watch as a forward outpost to the Spawning Stone. He is constantly harassed by a certain Dao in a Bathysphere.
@@PattPlays Who's sacrophagus was it originaly? Is there an old and powerful undead in this picture? Would a speak with dead spell at the sacrophagus tell the players anything?
@@PattPlays Hell yes I want to see that spreadsheet!
@@Zasek2112 I have no friken clue but it just seemed to fit the environment. I'd imagine legendary rogues like her (Majarenna the Dancing Priestess- turns out it was planes of Chaos, not Conflict) would have found little nothing parts of Svartvalheim/Nidv to be her rest places between raids. The aloof CG Dark Elves in my mind would be liable to having their lunch right next to some forgotten magical altar without ever investigating it, as their entire environment is filled with mystery they wouldn't dare learn too much about when they could be headed off to the next thing or reminiscing about their many conflicts and pranks. The players when they get there (huge hiatus after said annoying session is still ongoing) have a Horizon Walker Ranger in their group so sussing out that this box is somehow the portal to limbo that the Half-Elf gave them the Xaos Coin for (researching portal keys is crazy, go visit the Mimir website!) and the news would be pleasantly entertaining to the Dark Elf Priestess. She would know the portal to be useless without a like key for it so it's not likely to shake anything up in Ysgard. I think the tomb would be marked up with Limbo symbology and likely originating with the Githzerai and their strange mummy-esque religion of Zerthimon's way of immortality. It may have once been adrift in the Astral Sea or perhaps secreted away here intentionally. Regardless, I imagine it's a harmless and untraceable structure unless compared side-by-side with Githzerai architecture.
I'd have the thing be harmless but I love the idea of them placing the coin in a slot, and each laying down one by one in this menacing coffin as they slide the lid on and off each vanishing once within. One-Way portal, leaving the coin behind for Majarenna to take and keep for herself as a keepsake of the strange planeswalkers she so briefly befriended.
Ysgard and their deities are just Dnd players larping forever lost in fantasy and legend.
Lol, yes!
We are so close to midgard dwarves......... Glorious. Good work, good mead.
6 likes now 7 because of me, 2 comments now 3 also because of me and still no views?......................................................alright
now this sounds interesting, i always saw ysgard as the main reason why the forces of evil never attacked the planes of good, what with everything on ysgard being invincible and having fought wars for the last eon or so.
I can wait too see your video on the Bariaurs! And fantastic video as always aj!
Also have you done Elysium and the Guardinal?
Elysium is the next outer plane I am exploring.
Lol, a mage-empire in my homebrew world also named Ysgard 😄
Anyways, great vid AJ 🙂
Ah, cool! I really appreciate these to help jog my creativity for these settings to make them less straightforward and more nuanced. I hate the whole "this is the definition of X alignment" plane, because alignments in general don't make sense. I'd much rather have the alignments be a biased mortal conception, but if you learn more you learn that these planes have a unique vibe and story that came before the alignment label, which leads naturally to how each plane has their own, potentially true, conception for the beginnings of the multiverse.
Hearing non-Nordics try to pronounce the names and words from the Nordic pantheon always brings a smile to my face.
Except sometimes when it sounds just awful. I won't name any names but a certain top 10 channel comes to mind.
You should hear him massacre native American names...
What channel
Thank you.
I'd love to hear more about moradin and his domain on mount celestia
Hello there!
Great video to watch as a new player and DM :) very informative for someone whom has players chomping at the bit to visit Ysgard!
It's a very cool place. Wouldn't mind visiting, but wouldn't want to live there.
Gladsheim was the kingdom and home of Thor within Asgard.
More on Sigil please. Also something on the Diabolus would be great 👍
Good video AJ
Chaotic Good character being revived: @12:24
Chaotic Evil character being revived: RETURN TO ME, YOU PITIFUL WORM, SO PATHETIC AS TO FALL IN BATTLE
this plane needs to be visited by planeswalkers in mtg's near future, or at least when they have much better riders on board
It's basically an MMORPG
pretty much, except the mods are playing their own game.
Excellent 😀.
Can you do a video explaining the "power levels " of the divine portfolios? Strongest to weakest portfolio list & why
wonderfully insightful, as always!
This sounds like your average WoW session. So basically C/N heroic characters get sent to an MMO.
I once tried to run an entire adventure in the plan of Ysgard and failed due to my lack of knowledge/experience. This makes me want to return to that campaign and see if I can't rewrite it to be better.
Grab a copy of Planes of Chaos as well as The Deva Spark for a good dose of inspiration. Encourage your players to read a Planeswalker's Handbook if they can grab one. And decide early on if you want to honor the wacky magic restrictions from 2e while on the plane.
@@PattPlays Thank you for the advice. If I decide to revive and rework the campaign, I'll definitely take a look at the material you mentioned. Sadly, my players are not ones to do much research or reading on their own unless I really push for it, but I'll try to get them to look at the PWHB. I also definitely want to honor the weird stuff from 2e as I think it would be more interesting for both myself and the players.
@@aviongris4233 then I recommend doubling down on not including second edition stuff if it complicates anything. Show a fourth edition considerate version of the plane. Take out the world tree and reduce the relevancy of the Gods in most Endeavors and play in a window where most of the stuff is not able to really apply. Use the astral sea cosmology and have used guard being isolated realm floating without any strings tying it to complicated narratives and mythologies. Anything to add AJ?
I currently like to think that the Lands Between from elden ring is located somewhere within ysguard
Sanm here. It's one of my favorite headcannons
11:12 is still on my mind. That's canon? Whoa.
Now you know why infinite real estate is a feature of many of the outer planes.
Alright, so, there are people native here who are still alive, I'm with you so far. The petitioners here dont take a super special form, just like what they were when they died kind of. As long as they die in battle on this plane they will reform the next day. What is the path to higher harmony with the plane, like, what form do they take? Or does their original form just keep getting better?
Not all planes follow the same rules. Petitioners adventure here for eternity or until something eventually kills them. There are many ways to die on ysgard still.
Heh I like how real this plane feels. Not like vague eternal happiness or whatever. I do like Arboria
tho
Yes, the chaotic alignment of this plane is the reason why many folks in the comments here are like "Uh, no, that would not be a place I'd want to spend my eternity", so they would gravitate more to the lawful planes, but not too lawful.. in a similar but opposite way, the plane of Arcadia is somewhere many people would not feel comfortable.
@@AJPickett yeah i feel like from the description of arcadia "Perfectly symmetrical trees" (Or something I'm paraphrasing), I feel like that would get old *really* quick.
Don’t Spelljammer’s Reigar originate from Ysgard?
One question , if giants have a link here guessing the dragons do as wyrms are prominent in asgard lore, so do any of the dragon gods dwell here?
Hlal.
I don't know yet, that's something for me to investigate for the battle dragon video
Asgard. to live and fight each day anew until ragnarok comes.
One could easily make a norse based cosmology. it already has the nine realms, Manheim(Midgard) for the material plane, then Asaheim(asgard) Vanaheim,Alfheim, then Svarthalfheim,jotunnheim,helheim,nifelheim,muspelheim.
Make? Asatru is a cosmology itself already.
Germanic mythology litteraly is fantasy, dwarves, elves, gods, multiple world's, giant trees, magic and heroes
“Thornado’s” I see what you did there 😏👍
Eh! You caught that! I am impressed :D
Thanks 😁 My only excuse is I’m well versed in “Dad Joke” level humour 🙄😄
Will we ever get a video on Elysium?
I think he did one ?
The plane of swords and sorcery. Got ya
I heard the name of Bastet. Interested to find out she lives here. Where was the exact spot again?
Bast's Realm, Merratet, is located on Ysgard. Merratet can be found on the far side of the great ocean that borders Vanaheim. Bast's palace is a huge vine-covered acropolis on the edge of a wasting desert. There, she influences her realm only through her dreams, which echo throughout her realm. Bast's realm has served as a hiding place for various Norse powers from time to time, including Bragi and Loki. Several Portals are thought to connect Merretet with the Gilded Hall of the Sensates. Towns in Merretet include Eowr, with its healers, and Bresiris, the town of Dreaming Death.
Remember, gods have a heavy influence over their chosen domain within an outer plane so terrain features like stable deserts and a certain dominant weather condition are due to the gods power (which breaks the general rule of chaos prevalent on the rest of the plane)
In Faerun, she is often known as Sharess, and in that guise, she rules a realm called Rapture in Brightwater. When she is in Rapture, she leaves Merratet in the hands of Skullbury, an enormous talking panther known best for... well, for burying skulls throughout the palace.
Sources:
Deities & Demigods (First Edition)
Deities & Demigods (Third Edition)
Dragon magazine #283
Gods, Demi-Gods & Heroes
Legends & Lore (Second Edition)
On Hallowed Ground
Sandstorm
Warriors of Heaven
Manual of the Planes (1st edition)
Planes of Chaos
Dennis Reynolds’ apartment.
Thank you!😸
cool video. one nitpick. just one. it is a common misconception that yggdrasil is an ash. it is actually a yew. the misconception became common with a mistranslation involving the bard (real life bard lol) snorri if i remember correctly.
Maybe the goat centuar people will be in a 5 e planescape book lol