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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jackelope King" data-source="post: 4035513" data-attributes="member: 31454">Short version: nobody knows for sure.Long version: depends on who you ask.The priesthood holds that mankind existed like beasts out on islands in the Endless Sea until the Seven Saints appeared and lead humanity to enlightenment and salvation on the large island of Mideros. The Endless Sea has always been and always will be, but humanity can achieve peace and happiness if they follow the teachings of the Seven Saints.The nobles most accept the priesthood's version, only adding that the Seven Saints gave their blessing to a dynasty of kings before they ascended to the heavens. After the death of the Last King, the various noble lineages split off from one another. Some nobles also hold that their bloodlines extend back past the founding of Mideros, and that the Last King's Dynasty stretches back to before the arrival of the Seven Saints. The nobles also believe that there may be a vast continent of dry land somewhere far across the Endless Sea, at a place they say is Where Horizons End. The exiles claim that the priesthood and their worship of false gods caused the world to be flooded with the Endless Sea. Alternatively, they believe that the priesthood knows that the Endless Sea is not, in fact, eternal, and that once there were many smaller seas.The Guild of Iron ventures dangerous close to the exiles' blaspheme and claims that the sea may indeed be a recent creation, and that a proper application of Guild technology could allow Mideros to pump out the sea and build a series of dikes to expand the size of their island and claim what they believe to be fertile soil beneath the waves.The gypsies believe that the world is endlessly in flux between ocean and dry, and that one day, their homeland on the hill will again be on dry land. According to the gypsies, every thousand years, the world rises and falls above and below a thick sheet of water. When it falls, the world floods and the Endless Sea emerges. When it rises, the sea vanishes back underground, leaving behind only smaller seas.The Maltisians tell a story about how the spirits who guard their people saw the Maltisian Ogres enslave their people and wept for a hundred years, flooding the world with the Endless Sea to trap the cruel Maltisian Ogres forever on their islands. The Maltisians also believe that some day the waters will part "wide enough for a man but too narrow for an ogre to pass" and that the Maltisians will escape to freedom.Meta-Version: It allows me to run the equivalent of planar adventures of journeying into increasingly weird and otherworldly islands (such as Bloodmoon Island, where the moon seems to weep blood at night, or the Cliffs of Insanity, whose obsidian-black surfaces are said to devour the souls of airship mariners who see their reflections in them) without needing to rely upon planes-hopping spells. Just climb aboard and airship and sail. The monsters get stranger and more terrible the farther out you go, and you never need to leave the Endless Sea to do it.</blockquote>

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