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<blockquote data-quote="Andrew Moreton" data-source="post: 8077120" data-attributes="member: 6920268"><p>I am very tempted that before the Axis Island ritual the world was flat, and a purely mythological world with none of this pretence of a real sun, planets , moons etc (If you are familiar with it Glorantha would be a nice model) and the threats came via planar gates not travelling across the world. When the ancients completed their ritual they wrenched the nameless world from it's mythical existance and exposed it to a new reality with real gravity , a sun and other worlds in it's system and at the same time wrenched it out of the classic D+D cosmology with only weak links remaining. Which explains the general lack of extraplanar beings except those trapped there at the time of the ritual. This is why the lack of a sun is a problem now but not before the ritual, now it is the world without name's nature to have a sun, before it was not, perhaps if People has spent more time studying the ritual and gone back to first principles they could have changed the nature of the world system and perhaps created Mobius worlds, or Kepler Rossettes or gone back to a flat Lozenge world with or without turtles.</p><p>In the D+D Cosmology I would place the world which shall not be named (yet) and all the planes/planets it is linked to inside one alternate Prime material plane , one which is generally seperated from the standard cosmos with a few worlds within it having those links portals to Hell and the Heavens etc which is where the Legion launches it's attacks from. Within this world the properties of each world system is set by it's nature and the worlds within it so there are as Bhior reveals worlds carried on the back of turtles (and optional elephants). The Gyre would be a feature of this plane a natural or unnatural cleaner which removes broken or dead worlds and systems and recycles them back as primal energy , matter and souls to be the building material of new worlds.</p><p></p><p>Edit- Toteth could be the Sun God of the Clergy , or a Sun God worshipped by the tribes of Ber before the coming of the Dragon Tyrants , who could make a return in the new world, or perhaps lands beyond the edge of the maps feature Orcish Stepped Pyramid building Sun worshiping Oztec's who ritually sacrifice foreigners to the Sun</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Andrew Moreton, post: 8077120, member: 6920268"] I am very tempted that before the Axis Island ritual the world was flat, and a purely mythological world with none of this pretence of a real sun, planets , moons etc (If you are familiar with it Glorantha would be a nice model) and the threats came via planar gates not travelling across the world. When the ancients completed their ritual they wrenched the nameless world from it's mythical existance and exposed it to a new reality with real gravity , a sun and other worlds in it's system and at the same time wrenched it out of the classic D+D cosmology with only weak links remaining. Which explains the general lack of extraplanar beings except those trapped there at the time of the ritual. This is why the lack of a sun is a problem now but not before the ritual, now it is the world without name's nature to have a sun, before it was not, perhaps if People has spent more time studying the ritual and gone back to first principles they could have changed the nature of the world system and perhaps created Mobius worlds, or Kepler Rossettes or gone back to a flat Lozenge world with or without turtles. In the D+D Cosmology I would place the world which shall not be named (yet) and all the planes/planets it is linked to inside one alternate Prime material plane , one which is generally seperated from the standard cosmos with a few worlds within it having those links portals to Hell and the Heavens etc which is where the Legion launches it's attacks from. Within this world the properties of each world system is set by it's nature and the worlds within it so there are as Bhior reveals worlds carried on the back of turtles (and optional elephants). The Gyre would be a feature of this plane a natural or unnatural cleaner which removes broken or dead worlds and systems and recycles them back as primal energy , matter and souls to be the building material of new worlds. Edit- Toteth could be the Sun God of the Clergy , or a Sun God worshipped by the tribes of Ber before the coming of the Dragon Tyrants , who could make a return in the new world, or perhaps lands beyond the edge of the maps feature Orcish Stepped Pyramid building Sun worshiping Oztec's who ritually sacrifice foreigners to the Sun [/QUOTE]
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