Divine Refuges

Accessible through the Astral Sea, the Divine Refuges are the realms of the Gods. Bolstered against the Maelstrom by the Devotion of their followers a Divinity creates a pocket Plane around themselves. This plane takes on aspects of the God that created the plane, first from the Domains they command and then from the personality of the God, then the personalities of their followers. Like all creations within the Astral Sea it is shaped by the intellect and the will.

Beyond being a Refuge for a Divinity, it is also the resting place for the souls of their followers. Protected from the ravages of the Maelstrom, souls within a Divine Refuge slowly become one with their God. This tends to be a gradual process as the soul becomes more and more aligned with the God, leading to the barriers between the two to blur and eventually disappear. This rarely can lead the God to be changed by the new personality joining them, but their Religion and their Judging of the soul before it enters the Divine Refuge typically prevent that.