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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Seravin" data-source="post: 891999" data-attributes="member: 6783">Other PlacesPerspective can be funny.The Elves of the Sea with their great navies had long since established that the world crafted by the gods was round.  They had perceived the horizon and tracked the movement of the stars and were satisfied with their pronouncements. Thus the first boundary was proclaimed.The halfling explorer, Porun Tanfed, had once flown his tamed iron-roc to the ‘very edge of the vault of the sky’.  He claimed that the air and the cold had rendered him nearly unconscious and would have killed him save for the magics he bore.  The dragon-sage Sarzenthelenthh acknowledged the explorer’s claim and noted that her kin had found the sky ended in a dark void.  And so the second boundary was noted.The meanings of the Two Great Boundaries were a subject of debate amongst philosophers, sages, priests, and wizards for many years; and it is still touched upon even today.  Perhaps the world is finite because the power of the gods is finite.  Perhaps it is finite because the gods want the various races to battle for their enjoyment.  Perhaps the world is a crucible to make the mortal races stronger. Perhaps the best answer on the subject was delivered by some unnamed farmer of the Dor-Herivan Empire some three thousand years ago.  Three sages were traveling to some city and to pass the time were discussing ‘The Great Boundaries’ and predictably had reached an impasse.  In frustration they approached a farmer whose field they were passing to have him render judgment on what they perceived to be the self-evidence of their respective cases.  Reportedly the farmer listened politely to all of them.  The farmer then looked out across his fields to the mountains.  He then looked out across the road to the plains beyond.  “You say that the world is small?  I have my farm and till my soil in peace.  Me and my children and their children could journey our entire lives and never see this entire world and you say it’s small?  Perhaps you ought to take a look around and stop wasting my time.”Of course time has moved on as it inevitably does and new theories have arisen to fit new observations.The Elves of the Sea now speak of a race of tritons that rule far beneath the waves.  These tritons acknowledge that in some places there is a floor to the sea, but they acknowledge no boundary, saying instead that the oceans of the world flow into The Great Sea, home of Dyanna. The dwarves, rarely asked of their opinion on weighty philosophical matters, snort when asked about the boundaries of the world.  They have known for ages that Tasa formed the world from The Deep Earth from which there is no ‘other side’.Foresters and rangers who have walked the various woodlands claim that all take longer to traverse than their size would suggest.  They talk of hidden valleys and even deserts that can be found deep within all forests.  Some even talk of vast kingdoms of Faerie.Now wizards and sages versed in multi-dimensional magics point out that a sphere is only contained in a three-dimensional space.  These learned people view The Great Sea, The Deep Earth, and the Forest Kingdoms of the Fey as part of the same world that everyone else sees.  In some cases it is even easier to reach these far realms then it would be to traverse the local kingdom.Perspective it seems is entirely subjective.</blockquote>

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