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What is Ashirion?

Ashirion is a Broken Sphere, and there is no true way to describe how one of those looks. But I will give it my best shot, take a World Globe like one of our own, made out of Ceramic and drop it on the floor. What's left are randomly created pieces of landmass, broken bits that are all mixed up.

Now link those little bits of land to a core that pulses with Magical energy, at one time Ashirion used to use Waystones as a major way of travel between places. These Waystones saved the planet when Lord Shakarovar blew it into bits.

So you have a planet that is made up of shards of land, all connected to a central core of energy.

What is a Shard?

Think of them as tiny pocket dimensions, some of them need not be so tiny of course, Kelbarden is a massive Shard with continents and so forth placed upon it. Kaldoniel, the High Elf Kingdom, is no more than just a City adrift on a chunk of rock in the middle of nowhere. There is some base landmass and a few outlying farms, but nothing too expansive.

What is a Waygate?

Waygates are smaller versions of the Waystones, they can link one place to another and allow for vast travel in the blink of an eye.

What is a Waystone?

Waystones, the Waystones are a massive ring of stones akin to the British Location: Stonehenge, these lead to other places in the blink of an eye and are a lot older than Waygates.

What's a Skygate?

The Skygates are like massive Waystones that are held aloft in the sky by magical means, they appear as giant circles of stone inlaid with gilted metals and so forth, floating above the clouds, hundred of miles above. They allow Windships to travel from Shard to Shard.

How do I travel around?

Horse, Carriage, Windship and Riverboat are the main forms of travel, people can also travel on foot, but on foot has its share of dangers - and Ashirion is full of them.

Windship?

Flying ships, either using Steam Punk style science and magic, magic or just a variant of helium, some big Baloons and a lot of prayer.