I am wondering how big is the Earth actually?
1. How many contentants, races and people groups are there actually?
2. Is the Land the center of the Earth? or is it just one corner?
3. Are there other planets? Stars a Moon?
IS the Arch of time covering a Universe?
Is the Earth a Planet? or is it a construct of an unknown shape? is it Flat? is it Square? What other heavenly beings were with the Creator before he created the Earth? Are they still there? do they interact?
These are the kind of questions i am wondering if there are any answers to.
How big is the creation in this series?
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The NeverEnding story could give you some interesting answers to your questions. I think they both have some fundamental basic similarities that translate into equivalences.
We have the real world and we have the other reality. People from our reality are translated into that one. And in that one inner feelings and inner imaginations are externalized into manifesting in that reality (which make them both magical unlike our reality)
The Creator / (the empress) only appear once to the people from our world. Their choices (and freedom to make them on their own ) are vital in the story.
And the world is of course infinite (and therefore flat). As endless as our imaginations and capacities to love and to hate.
We have Findail's story about Kenestessen. His affair with the mortal woman occurs in an unknown land far far away and long long ago. Obviously our heroes only covered a minuscule fraction of this world and no one ever talked about going so long in one direction he returned to the place from which he started (A non-flat world that converges on itself like ours)
We have the real world and we have the other reality. People from our reality are translated into that one. And in that one inner feelings and inner imaginations are externalized into manifesting in that reality (which make them both magical unlike our reality)
The Creator / (the empress) only appear once to the people from our world. Their choices (and freedom to make them on their own ) are vital in the story.
And the world is of course infinite (and therefore flat). As endless as our imaginations and capacities to love and to hate.
We have Findail's story about Kenestessen. His affair with the mortal woman occurs in an unknown land far far away and long long ago. Obviously our heroes only covered a minuscule fraction of this world and no one ever talked about going so long in one direction he returned to the place from which he started (A non-flat world that converges on itself like ours)
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Well there is a Moon as both Drool Rockworm & Elena (under Foul's influence) manage to change its colour.......
According to Saltheart Foamfollower when explaining to TC how the Unhomed became the Unhomed is that their ships were blown off course and ended up in the part of the Earth that was unfamiliar to them. They spent the next few centuries trying to find a way back and in WGW apparently they had but unfortunately Foul ruined their homecoming...
I believe that SRD himself has commented that the world was as big as he wanted or needed it to be!
There are places mentioned in the books (i.e. Haurachi homelands, where the Ramen & Ranyhyn fled to during the ritual of desecration etc).
According to Saltheart Foamfollower when explaining to TC how the Unhomed became the Unhomed is that their ships were blown off course and ended up in the part of the Earth that was unfamiliar to them. They spent the next few centuries trying to find a way back and in WGW apparently they had but unfortunately Foul ruined their homecoming...
I believe that SRD himself has commented that the world was as big as he wanted or needed it to be!
There are places mentioned in the books (i.e. Haurachi homelands, where the Ramen & Ranyhyn fled to during the ritual of desecration etc).
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The Unhomed also had the problem of building ships that could take them into the deep seas. I think they lost their ships on reaching the Land's shores and couldn't get rocks of the same quality as those used in their homelands. Without those traveling long distances became practically impossible so they had big problems refinding their route.
The solution in the first chronicles was to give them wood from gilden trees. This must have been inconceivable to the early giants. Sail in wooden ships??? That's preposterous!!!
We can assume that by the time of the Searech giants ~5000 years later their ship-making and navigational techniques have improved, making the voyage easier.
The solution in the first chronicles was to give them wood from gilden trees. This must have been inconceivable to the early giants. Sail in wooden ships??? That's preposterous!!!
We can assume that by the time of the Searech giants ~5000 years later their ship-making and navigational techniques have improved, making the voyage easier.
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