Answer the first

[sythyry]

moosl asks: I am an off-worlder and view your world sporadically. Where can one learn of your world succintly?

IC: I must admit that I have never, myself, left the World Tree, and I am not as familiar as I might be with whatever books may appear in offworld bookstores.

For that matter, do offworlds even use proper books? On the Water-Tree, evidently, there are speaking icicles used instead of books ... though, in other stories, someone does talk about "peeling the hero's hide off and using it to bind some low-grade pornography." Perhaps speaking icicles are sold in leather sheaths, I suppose.

Still, I daresay that you live in a somewhat more real universe than the Water-Tree. What do books look like there?

OOC: You can buy the World Tree book. The first half of it is a travelogue or fictional ethnography of the World Tree. The second half is the actual RPG rules. We did intend that the first half stand on its own, as a work of fictional nonfiction, and many non-gamers have enjoyed it as that.

Comments

Re: Our ball world

[(Anonymous)]

That might be the easiest way for you to picture it.
We also have a moon, which travels around our world in a similar fashion.

Re: Our ball world

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

And, I should imagine, a sub-moon which circles the moon, and then an infra-moon which circles -- not the sub-moon -- but spirals eccentrically around the sub-moon's track. And of course the infra-moon has its own accompaniment, twirling and tweedling with it all around the sky.

You don't live in a world. You live in a whirled.

Re: Our ball world

[(Anonymous)]

Um.... No.

Might imagine up a world that does have such things though, so thanks for the idea.

Re: Our ball world

[redbird]

Not yet, but give us time to build more artificial moons, and we may.

It certainly feels as though we live in a whirled, sometimes.