Dungeons and Dragons Lore: Ysgard 

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.

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

What a delightful birthday surprise. Thank you Professor! Hope you had plenty of food and naps yesterday.

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.

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?

Yessss another video let's gooo

This is the only one dimension I really needed expansion on. Thanks!

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.

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

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.

So New Zealand is like the feywild you say? :D

Can’t wait for a return to the planar dragons! I’ve been particularly waiting on the battle and beast dragons

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.

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.

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.

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!

Ysgard is the plane of "never a dull moment".

Ysgard. The D&D Material plane... Except directed by Michael Bay.

To Sovengard!!!

Two of these floating earthbergs may crash into one another causing; rocks fall everyone dies and, then wake up the next morning

"But a bit like the Feywild... or New Zealand." I love your videos, please never stop.

Always loved Norse mythology. Even cooler (didn't think that was possible) with a D&D twist thrown into it, haha

It sounds ALMOST as awesome as Iceland!

Battle dragon, that sound like the name of a power metal band.wich i guess is fitting for ysgard

Ysgard and their deities are just Dnd players larping forever lost in fantasy and legend.

Another Skyrim rerelease? Todd Howard did it again!

3:28 lol are these shots of new Zealand

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!

Perfect timing, AJ!

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

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.

Awesome thank you! You answered a long-held question of mine regarding petitioners and Resurrection.

I think this might be my favorite "explores" video, yet (despite how much I like the Hells). Good job, man.

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.

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

Love this channel

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.

Thank you AJ. Another thing to be thankful for. As always a greater video, seidrmadr.

Seems to me that Ysgard would be one of my choices for an afterlife, my current living life is very dull and uneventful

Yay!

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.

It's basically an MMORPG

7:50 Oh hell no, that is not okay. The tower on the end.

My favorite video so far this month!

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.

Is New Zealand another word for the feywilde?

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.

Hello AJ, what a very deep and dramatic world. Looking forward to the 4 legged Goatfolks video. Thanks AJ & have a great day.

The Earthbergs are because Ysgard is the border between Limbo and the good planes.

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 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.

Hey @AJ Pickett keep up the good work! And can we get a vid on beastlands & elemental plane of air? Thanks 👍

Absolutely wonderful! Describing many wonderful settings. Many just wanna wonder the wide expanses of Yggdrasil or explore Gladsheim. Personally I wanna explore Nidavellir!

I love this place! I would love a campaign set in Ysgard! There are so many possibilities!

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.

Is the main entrance to the Infinite staircase, within Ysguard widely known about by its patitioners? If so, does anyone seek it?

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

Tons of info to unpack. Thanks. Love these deep research talks.

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?

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.

Not gonna lie, sounds like a fantastic place to visit.

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!

"Or New Zealand" Humble much?

11:12 is still on my mind. That's canon? Whoa.

So DnD for D&D, awesome.

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

Don’t Spelljammer’s Reigar originate from Ysgard?

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!

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.

I currently like to think that the Lands Between from elden ring is located somewhere within ysguard

I'd love to hear more about moradin and his domain on mount celestia

Well I'm hyped for a Bariaur video, might find some way to incorporate one into my campaign.

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?

This video is great, thank you! I'm starting a Planescape campaign in a few weeks, and your timing couldn't be better.

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.

This sounds like your average WoW session. So basically C/N heroic characters get sent to an MMO.

I can wait too see your video on the Bariaurs! And fantastic video as always aj! Also have you done Elysium and the Guardinal?

Gladsheim was the kingdom and home of Thor within Asgard.

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.

Good video AJ

Thank you.

Basically skyrim, svaragard

Excellent 😀.

We are so close to midgard dwarves......... Glorious. Good work, good mead.

“Thornado’s” I see what you did there 😏👍

It's a very cool place. Wouldn't mind visiting, but wouldn't want to live there.

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!

Maybe the goat centuar people will be in a 5 e planescape book lol

Can you do a video explaining the "power levels " of the divine portfolios? Strongest to weakest portfolio list & why

More on Sigil please. Also something on the Diabolus would be great 👍

wonderfully insightful, as always!

The Plane of Chad

Lol, a mage-empire in my homebrew world also named Ysgard 😄 Anyways, great vid AJ 🙂

Heh I like how real this plane feels. Not like vague eternal happiness or whatever. I do like Arboria tho

I was mining for copper, I found gold... then I found a vein... now I have a cavern then I might just turn into a castle with all my new wealth!

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

Could the Fensir survive and live on the Prime material plane? Also would they take offense being compared to trolls of the Prime material plane?