Portal

A portal or planar gate was a general term applied to any fixed, inter-dimensional gateway which allowed travel between planes of existence. It was sometimes used synonymously with a teleportation circle, although the two gateways were notably different. Portals were phenomena found in all the Inner Planes, going by different names depending on lore, plane, or language.

Opening a portal sometimes required a specific set of circumstances. Some portals were permanent openings between the worlds, and could be accessed simply by walking through them. After the 1st millennium LA, many well-known portals were heavily guarded by an organization called the Stigmata Garrison.

List of Notable Planar Gateways

On the Material Plane, major portals existed on several continents and even in the oceans of the world. Well-known examples included:

• Nenth'anrond, also simply called the Whirlpool, in the Greyflower Sea near the Seven Isles was a famous portal to the Elemental Plane of Water
• The Blister, a volcano on the Mainland, was the site of a portal to the Elemental Plane of Fire
• Yggdrasil, the World Tree, was on the Almanthan continent and was the location of several portals, including the only known one to an Outer Plane
• The Temple of Numbers on the Dawning Isle became the site of a shifting, invisible portal to each of the Inner Planes
• The Urbish Mines on Silvera was the location of a Shadowfell crossing
• Duskwood held a Shadowfell crossing that only opened on every new moon
• The tabaxi Jaguar Gate was a mortal-made planar gateway in the same vein as the Temple of Numbers
• A nameless rift to the Plane of Ice existed in the ruins of Leomund Academy after the end of the Dark Age