Eiru

Although information remains fragmentary it appears this world once occupied an orbit in the Alusian aether between those of Thunor and Wotan.

Evidence collected by adventurers during the events of Celestial Mechanics and the follow-up Celestial Pioneers indicates that this world, known in earliest elven writings as Elbereth and by the time of the War of Tears as Eiru was cast out of the Alusian plane during that war, along with its moon Bres, and lost to the Deep Void or Outer Dark.

The mechanism behind this dimensional shift is not known but it appears to have also involved an effect similar to cases where individuals have been written out of fate; memory of Eiru was significantly reduced, with many sources failing to record its disappearance and most relegating the entire world to myth and legend as though it had never existed.

Travel to Eiru

There are no known portals or Elven Ways connecting to Eiru at the current time and the method used by the Celestial Pioneers group to reach Eiru involved unusual powers. The same group were extracted through the assistance of the ancient dragons Dumuzi and Nin-gizhida, who it is thought may be able to return there.

Anyone seeking to travel to Eiru is encouraged to read the Celestial Pioneers report made to Serraine at the conclusion of their investigations and to take appropriate precautions against with the mutagenic environment and potential hostilities with the local population. The report should be treated as limited and preliminary observations only.

Bres

Small Calamar nautiloid.

The only known moon of Eiru, Bres suffered a catastrophe some time after it was cast into the void, throwing it into something resembling a cometary orbit.

In recent years, Bres has been observed from Alusia as a comet. First sighted some 300 years ago, the small wandering body was named Lelyar, by Astromancers in Alfheim.

The comet, whose name translates as “the Traveller” appears once every 60 years or so, only becoming visible inside the orbit of Thunor, and disappearing again as it crosses that orbit on its journey outwards, leading to speculation that outside Thunor's orbit it is translating back into whatever planar space Eiru occupies.

Bres is believed to be host to a Calamar base, and the Celestial Mechanics group encountered denizens of Bres who has crash-landed in Jotunheim.

The small craft that crashed appeared similar in form to previously encountered Calmar vessels though smaller in size and perhaps capable of only short-range travel.

The crew consisted of Calamar ceremorphs, creatures that had once been gnomes and halflings but who had been converted into Calamar-like creatures. The two gnomes strongly resembled typical Calamar although only half the height and with personalities that still partially reflected their origins, but the halflings were significantly distorted.

The gnomes stated that the Calamar of Bres were only able to replenish their numbers by converting beings abducted from Alusia, with humans and elves being preferred. This unusual reproduction method may indicate that the Calamar of Bres have deviated significantly from typical Calamar physiology.