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<blockquote data-quote="Estlor" data-source="post: 2127085" data-attributes="member: 7261">First, the planetary name of the Mystara (or Known World, if you prefer) setting IS Mystara. It is a sphere, slightly smaller than our own Earth, with openings at either magnetic pole to permit travel into the hollow inside. The planet is surrounded by a &quot;Sky Shield&quot; that keeps the atmosphere inside. I believe the Sky Shield only extends above the inner crust of the Hollow World a few thousand miles, meaning the planet is like a hollow globe with the void of space around and in it.&nbsp; (Of course, there is also a World Shield that runs down the middle of the planet to give it gravity.&nbsp; This results in some funky gravity feats if you walk right in the area of the World Shield) If you could look down at Mystara from above the north pole, and if the large clouds of fog and mist that cover the poles were not present, you could see clear through to the other opening with a tiny red sun that never moves or sets in the middle.&nbsp;Mystara has two moons, known to Mystarans proper as Patera and Matera. Patera is like our own moon; a desert-like wasteland save for the pocket plane anchored to it that contains Pandius, the city of the Immortals. Matera cannot be seen by the naked eye outside its atmosphere, rendering it invisible. The inhabitants of the moon - oriental rakasata - call it Myoshima.&nbsp; And yes, unlike the poster above said, Patera is visible, Matera is not.&nbsp; You can't see Pandius, however, because its in a different planar space.&nbsp;As for the rest of Mystara's planetary cosmology, it isn't really defined. The old gold box Immortal Rules used standard Earth planets (minus, IIRC, Mercury and Pluto, plus Damocles, a doomed planet that exists in the location of the current astroid belt near Mars, and Charon, a far distant, cold world further away than Pluto will be when Damocles explodes and portions of it become Pluto and Mercury). Since &quot;Earth&quot; was present and not Mystara, its unlikely that planetary cosmology was carried over into the final revision of OD&amp;D or AD&amp;D. What IS known, however, is in 2e sense Mystara was part of a different dimension separate from all other AD&amp;D worlds because 1) it had Immortals instead of gods and 2) it did not support the Great Wheel planar cosmology of the multiverse.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Estlor, post: 2127085, member: 7261"] First, the planetary name of the Mystara (or Known World, if you prefer) setting IS Mystara. It is a sphere, slightly smaller than our own Earth, with openings at either magnetic pole to permit travel into the hollow inside. The planet is surrounded by a "Sky Shield" that keeps the atmosphere inside. I believe the Sky Shield only extends above the inner crust of the Hollow World a few thousand miles, meaning the planet is like a hollow globe with the void of space around and in it. (Of course, there is also a World Shield that runs down the middle of the planet to give it gravity. This results in some funky gravity feats if you walk right in the area of the World Shield) If you could look down at Mystara from above the north pole, and if the large clouds of fog and mist that cover the poles were not present, you could see clear through to the other opening with a tiny red sun that never moves or sets in the middle. Mystara has two moons, known to Mystarans proper as Patera and Matera. Patera is like our own moon; a desert-like wasteland save for the pocket plane anchored to it that contains Pandius, the city of the Immortals. Matera cannot be seen by the naked eye outside its atmosphere, rendering it invisible. The inhabitants of the moon - oriental rakasata - call it Myoshima. And yes, unlike the poster above said, Patera is visible, Matera is not. You can't see Pandius, however, because its in a different planar space. As for the rest of Mystara's planetary cosmology, it isn't really defined. The old gold box Immortal Rules used standard Earth planets (minus, IIRC, Mercury and Pluto, plus Damocles, a doomed planet that exists in the location of the current astroid belt near Mars, and Charon, a far distant, cold world further away than Pluto will be when Damocles explodes and portions of it become Pluto and Mercury). Since "Earth" was present and not Mystara, its unlikely that planetary cosmology was carried over into the final revision of OD&D or AD&D. What IS known, however, is in 2e sense Mystara was part of a different dimension separate from all other AD&D worlds because 1) it had Immortals instead of gods and 2) it did not support the Great Wheel planar cosmology of the multiverse. [/QUOTE]

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