Dungeons and Dragons Lore: Elysium

🎶 Top the vast planar highway 🎶 🎶 Warm breeze on the air 🎶 🎶 A place for pure happiness 🎶 🎶 That everyone can share 🎶 🎶 Not far off in the distance 🎶 🎶 See great flora and birds 🎶 🎶 Richly green filled grasslands 🎶 🎶 Which taste like superb herbs 🎶 🎶 Standing in the portal doorway 🎶 🎶 Hear inviting ringing of bells 🎶 🎶 Then you start to think to yourself, 🎶 🎶 'That this heaven and all else is hell' 🎶 🎶 Lightin up a candle of courage 🎶 🎶 As your mind slowly sways, 🎶 🎶 Whispers coming from the portal door... 🎶 🎶 Thought you heard them say: 🎶 "Welcome to the great plane of Elysium" "Anytime of year, (anytime of year)" "You can find it here" "Living it up in the great plane of Elysium" "What a nice surprise, (What a nice surprise) "Now come on inside" 🎶 Mirror waters lakeside 🎶 🎶 Mountains with glacial ice 🎶 🎶 And you think: 🎶 🎶 'We are all just prisoners here,' 🎶 🎶 'In what is true paradise' 🎶 🎶 "Relax" say the locals, 🎶 🎶 "We are Elysium you see?" 🎶 🎶 "You can check in anytime you like... 🎶 🎶 "BUT YOU WON'T WANT TO LEAVE!" 🎶

If you find yourself alone, riding in green fields with the sun on your face, do not be troubled for you are in Elysium and you are already dead. - Maximus Decimus Meridius

Evil thief: That retirement home is an easy mark! All those old folks do is lounge around and stroll in the garden. C'mon, let's go get some loot!" Home is filled entirely with retired Seals, Rangers and Spec Ops

That mental image of Pelor fishing out an Astral Dreadnaught, and then throwing it back while laughing cracked me up. It's also kinda revelatory. Not too many people characterize the D&D gods like that, and it adds another dimension to what these beings would be like.

Lost in paradise... Amazing and terrifying at the same time...

The thought of running into a deity sunbathing or fishing with a sun hat and sunglasses telling some petitioner to leave them alone now they're harshing their buzz/chill, hilarious. Great video, you are the best.

The idea of staying too long and dying in Elysium as a deadly trap is hilarious, and I doubt the victims mind too much. Hope we get to see the other Upper Planes soon, Arborea in particular for me. Last thought: major props for the perfect pronunciation here, there are some legit tongue twisters here, I doubt I'd have done half as well as you managed, AJ.

I am doing an Elysium campaign right now and am incredibly happy you did a video on this amazing plane. The good planes just never get the attention they deserve. I took my campaign in a different direction where I made this catastrophic event that killed some and moved many gods out of Elysium (some do still remain). The guardinals feel great guilt for not protecting their land and in turn, now hold dominion over the plane; examining all who wind up there. Basically, they are paranoid to the extreme and by their own design become the antagonists of the campaign as the players want to leave the plane.

AJ Picket returns to the outer planes, oh happy day!

My favorite is bytopia and Ysgard. But elysium is just the perfect place in all of existence. You simply could not go wrong as a soul being there in the afterlife. I love the guardianals. And my favorite faction the Cyphers call it home. Don't think, do. Go and see the beauty of goodness, just make sure you have a good contingency spell to pull you butt out when you want to overstay.

what I find weird is that the world of the dead seems to be even more interesting than the world of the living in D&D, it's surely more complicated

You know we've been waiting for this one. Lion people rise up!!!

Ah Elysium. The plane so nice you'll never want to leave.

I love hearing about realms and planes of existence

Use the opening to describe where a fallen PC has gone. Then ask if their spirit is really willing to come back when the party cleric casts Raise Dead. "A willing spirit"

really great breakdown, makes me want to do a quest to elysium

as a paladin of Tamara all I can say is FINALLY! more lore please

In the event it has not already been mentioned; if you find yourself alone, riding in green fields, with the sun on your face, do not be troubled, for you are in Elysium and you are already dead.

I actually had developed an Artifact for a campaign eventually I plan on running in the future. It can only be destroyed by being tossed into the ocean in Thalasia. This video reminded me to get back to work lol

I have been waiting so long for another one of your outer planes videos! And I was not disappointed!