Creation

This is the lay of Creation:

At the center of Creation is the Elemental Pole of Earth, a great mountain that rises nearly to Heaven itself. This is the Imperial Mountain, the axis of Creation and the heart of reality.

Around it lies the Blessed Isle, surrounded in turn by the Great Inland Sea.

Surrounding the Inland Sea is the Threshold, the ring of land and islands that stretches out to the tattered edges of Creation. The Empress ruled the Blessed Isle as her own, while she ruled the Threshold as subject states and tributaries.

At the extreme North of Creation is the Elemental Pole of Air, a precipice beyond which lies nothing but air and snow. The northern stretches of Creation are cold lands, where ice is lord and wind is master.

To the uttermost South of Creation is the Elemental Pole of Fire, a precipice beyond which exists naught but endless, smokeless flame. Deserts lie in the South of Creation, and the sands grow ever hotter the further south one travels.

In the farthest West is the Elemental Pole of Water, where the seas are endless and no more islets break their surface. The Western reaches of Creation are great archipelagoes of island nations. To the East is the Elemental Pole of Wood, and in the farthest East, a great cathedral of huge trees darkens the skies, rising up from an infinite gulf. The East is a land of forests and fields and fens. In the Far East, savage tribes dwell in the branches of trees, and a man can live his whole life and never touch the ground.

Above Creation lies Yu-Shan, the city of the gods, the home of the Celestial Court and the Games of Divinity.

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