Mount Celestia
| Outer Plane | |
|---|---|
| Layers: | Lunia Mercuria Venya Solania Mertion Jovar Chronias |
| Primary Faction: | None |
| Sect: | None |
Mount Celestia, also referred to as just Celestia, or more fully, the Seven Mounting Heavens of Celestia or even the Seven Heavens, is a lawful good-aligned astral dominion that is currently ruled over by Torm as it drifts through the Astral Sea.
Mount Celestia is the ultimate in law and good. All aspects of Mount Celestia are beautiful and perfect; it is where the souls of many creatures of lawful good alignment go to after death, particularly humans.
As an outer plane, Mount Celestia is spatially infinite, further consisting of seven infinite layers (or sub-planes). The seven individual layers form a colossal (perhaps infinite) mountain that rises from an infinite sea of holy water on the bottommost layer, to the summit on the topmost layer. Ascending the mountain is analogous to travelling through subsequently higher or 'deeper' layers to the top. Each of the different layers consists of various beautiful mountainous environments becoming more breathtaking the higher the mountain is ascended. Celestia's first (bottommost) layer shares borders with the neighboring planes of the Peaceable Kingdoms of Arcadia and the Twin Paradises of Bytopia; travel is possible between Mount Celestia and these planes at certain locations.
While Mount Celestia is home to all manner of goodly and lawful beings including solars, dragons, phoenix, asuras and hollyphants, as well as the souls of the good petitioners of the planes, its native inhabitants are the varied race of archons. The archons and all of Celestia are ruled over by the members of the Celestial Hebdomad; the ruling council of heaven. The Hebdomad deal with all matters relating to their plane, including dealing with the archons below, the souls of petitioners, goodly and lawful inhabitants of other planes and the defense of the weak and good and all of Celestia itself. The Hebdomad is ruled over by Zaphkiel from the illuminated plane of Chronias, the only remaining member of the seven original martyrs whose souls created the Hebdomad eons ago.