It was renamed " Mechanus " in the Planescape Campaign Setting ( 1994 ).

In Second Edition Outer Planes Monstrous Compendium, under the description of the Mediators of Nirvana ( Mechanus ), it states that this plane was originally intended for Neutral Powers ( deities ) and created by the Powers ( deities ) of creation, but each Neutral Deity asserted their individual influence causing it to become unbalanced, then were cast out by the powers of creation.

In the 2nd edition of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, the Plane of Law was renamed Mechanus ( instead of Nirvana ) and the depiction of Modrons introduced clockwork features ( expanding on the description of Nirvana as a plane of cogwheels in the 1st edition Manual of the Planes ).

The Doctor and Vicki find Steven Taylor aboard the TARDIS after He stumbled in in a disorientated state on Mechanus. When the TARDIS lands on a rocky beach and they all step outside Steven takes some convincing that the TARDIS has really been able to travel in space and time.

* Mechanus, also known as Nirvana, an alternate name for the Lawful Neutral spiritually aligned outer plane in Dungeons & Dragons

* Terrain: Clockwork Nirvana of Mechanus

In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game, Mechanus, also known as The Clockwork Nirvana of Mechanus ( or simply Nirvana in AD & D 1st Edition ) is a purely lawful aligned plane of existence.

it: Nirvana meccanico di Mechanus

Pholtus is said to reside in The Path of Law, a domain in the Clockwork Nirvana of Mechanus.

In the third edition version of the Manual of the Planes, formians are implicitly described as being the primary inhabitants of both Arcadia and the Lawful Neutral Outer Plane of Mechanus, which is in contrast to the earlier Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Second Edition, where the Modrons were the exemplar Lawful Neutral race and the primary inhabitants of Mechanus.

Mechanus operates on a strict schedule where every action is planned, measured and controlled perfectly.

Mechanus shares its borders with the neighbouring planes of the Peaceable Kingdoms of Arcadia and the Infernal Battlefield of Acheron ; travel is possible between Mechanus and these planes at certain locations.

Midnight / Mystra retained her home among the clockwork planes of Mechanus.

After the TARDIS is chased through time and space by the Daleks to the planet Mechanus, where a conflict destroys the pursuing faction of Daleks, Barbara suggests to Ian they use the abandoned Dalek time machine to get home.

Mechanus consists of a single infinite plane ; there are no constituent layers.

Throughout Mechanus exists a series of interlocking cogs that float in space, intersecting at all angles and directions.

The central cog supposedly imparts the movement to all other cogs in Mechanus.

The plane of Mechanus is the location of a number of godly realms, including the god Pholtus ' realm of The Path of Law, Helm's realm of Everwatch, the myconid deity Psilofyr's realm of Mycelia, Nai No Kami's realm of The Shaking Land, Yama's realm of Yamasadena, Rudra's realm of Focus of Energy, and Varuna's realm of The Vigilant Eye.

( Mechanus ) There is also no mention whatsoever of Sigil before Planescape being at the Center of this Plane.

In the fictional multiverse of the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, Modrons are mechanical looking creatures native to the outer plane of Mechanus.

Planescape also introduced rogue modrons: modrons who have left Mechanus and broken their connections to the other modrons.

: who relocated to the plane of Mechanus, where they already had several strongholds.

In the standard cosmology, they are from Mechanus, the Lawful Neutral aligned Outer Plane.

Eventually, they are called back to Mechanus, where their personalities and knowledge are erased so they can begin anew.

* The Fraternity of Order relocated to the plane of Mechanus, where they already had several strongholds.

While convalescing in his Virginia home he wrote a book recording his prison experiences and escape, entitled: They Shall Not Have Me Published originally in ( Helion's ) English by Dutton & Co. of New York, in 1943, the book was received by the press as a work of astonishing literary power and one of the most realistic accounts of World War 2, from the French side.

Even so apparently impartial a critic as W. H. Frohock has taken for granted that the book was originally intended as a piece of Loyalist propaganda ; ;

The solution reached in the agreement was more acceptable to the railroad than that originally included in a series of union demands.

First of all there was the parsonage, an utterly impossible place for civilized people to live in, originally poorly conceived, apparently not repaired for years, with no plumbing or sewage, with rat-holes and rot.

The work program, as it was originally proposed, was to take five years to complete.

The word marina was coined by NAEBM originally to describe a waterfront facility where recreational boats could find protection and basic needs to lay over in relative comfort.

A long book heavily weighted with military technicalities, in this edition it is neither so long nor so technical as it was originally.

The AMPAS was originally conceived by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio boss Louis B. Mayer as a professional honorary organization to help improve the film industry ’ s image and help mediate labor disputes.

The term was originally coined in the 19th century by the founding sociologist and philosopher of science, Auguste Comte, and has become a major topic for psychologists ( especially evolutionary psychology researchers ), evolutionary biologists, and ethologists.

In Europe, the discipline originated as ethnology and was originally defined as the study of social organization in non-state societies, later redefined as social anthropology.

TWX originally used the earlier five-bit Baudot code, which was also used by the competing Telex teleprinter system.

The " elf-shot " originally indicated disease or death attributed to the elves, but it was later attested denoting arrow-heads which were used by witches to harm people, and also for healing rituals.

Here we have an apotropaic situation, where a god originally bringing the plague was invoked to end it.

The Afroasiatic language family was originally referred to as " Hamito-Semitic ", a term introduced in the 1860s by the German scholar Karl Richard Lepsius.

In law, an answer was originally a solemn assertion in opposition to someone or something, and thus generally any counter-statement or defense, a reply to a question or response, or objection, or a correct solution of a problem.

Ward had originally written the music, Materna, for the hymn O Mother dear, Jerusalem in 1882, though it was not first published until 1892.

In Cyrillic originally the letters were given names based on Slavic words ; this was later abandoned as well in favor of a system similar to that used in Latin.

The ampere was originally defined as one tenth of the CGS system electromagnetic unit of current ( now known as the abampere ), the amount of current that generates a force of two dynes per centimetre of length between two wires one centimetre apart.

The word archipelago was originally applied specifically to the Aegean Sea and its islands.

One of van Vogt's best-known novels of this period is Slan, which was originally serialised in Astounding Science Fiction ( September-December 1940 ).

Christopher Robin Milne's stuffed bear, originally named " Edward ", was renamed " Winnie-the-Pooh " after a Canadian black bear named Winnie ( after Winnipeg ), which was used as a military mascot in World War I, and left to London Zoo during the war.

The club was originally founded as a football team in 1891, with the name Buenos Aires English High School although it was obliged to change its name to Alumni Athletic Club ( the name was proposed by a former student of the English High School ) in 1901.