The multiverse tends to form endless rings - whether physical or philosophical. Sigil, the Outlands, the Outer Planes, and even the Elemental Planes from rings without beginning or end.
The multiverse, at its birth, was little more than swirling chaos. A primordial soup of infinite possibilities, the cosmos was both everything and nothing. Through some unknown process, forms coalesced out of the chaos, including the planes themselves and those beings later known as gods. Some of these newborn powers reveled in the chaos, while others abhorred it.
The conflict between these two groups, between Law and Chaos, definied the planes and the laws that they would obey.
The mightiest of Law's champions were the Twin Serpents. These Cosmic Serpents expressed the duality of Law, and were unstoppable when the worked together. Jazirian, winged and feathered, dedicated herself to the cause of good, while Ahriman, scaled and forked of tongue, embraced the darker path of evil. Despite their differences, they were first and formost agents of Law.
Sending teir coils out into the endless chaos, Jazirian and Ahriman created the first ring, so establishing a fundamental principle of the planes. When Ahriman toook Jazirian's tail in his mouth and shw did the same with his, they demarcated the plan now known as the Outlands. Since this plane was created by the interaction of Law and Chaos, and was bordered by both, Good and Evil, it became the plane of true neutrality. With the Outlands defined, the other planes fell in around it, creating what became known als the Great Ring. This construction - a central plane of neutrality with sixteen other planes of all alignments arrayed around it - is popularly known as the Outher Planes.
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