Subject: world
From: Tommi Leino (namhas@majik3d.org)
Date: Mon Nov 15 1999 - 19:18:28 EET
My suggestion for the world: Majik's world is a dimension which is infinite in all the directions. If you go all the way up, you will never reach the end, you will see only the sky which doesn't come any closer no matter how far you travel. The same applies for all the other directions. At the center of this dimension is the world where the living people usually live in. Practically it is a "flat world" accompanied by a half-spherical sky and half-spherical ground that are both endless but their form can be seen, at least the sky's (for the normal folk). As the ground is endless too, it would be possible to have a hole in the ground with no bottom, magically created of course. If one walks off the landscape, there would be no edge, only endless sea. If in the future we would need more landscape, it could be added there without making the sphere larger. Around the dimension of Majik there are other dimensions. One doesn't need to go to any edge and "break the wall", instead one can just create a gate wherever applicable and step through it. So, in reality, the Majik's dimension doesn't have any physical edges, even when the dimensional shape can be distinguished as a sphere. The world is spherical just because a water drop is spherical too, a force keeping it all together. It couldn't be any other shape. If a giant hand would touch the "bubble", it would wobble and quickly restore the form, unless it would be more powerful than Namhas (who keeps the shape together), the bubble would break - the end of the world, and thus, not too wise to challenge the greater gods. The things we see in the sky are just images and reflections, not any real physical objects floating in the space. We just write a myth for them. For example, Aluna being the sun etc. Practically the world would look much like the same as the real world in all aspects, in reality it just would be similar with the medieval ideology. As we are a medieval fantasy-theme world and have the gods real and other things, then we need to have things like a flat world and dimensions reality too. This is a fantasy world, not a science fiction one. Using real world's scientific ideology wouldn't just fit the theme. There shouldn't really be any drastical problems when changing the world to adopt this world model, unless the described people doesn't use any too modern ways of for example, navigation. All things that worked in the medieval times, should work in Majik too. If one doesn't, we create a myth for it describing why it wouldn't work or how it would work. -- Tommi Leino / Majik 3D project namhas@majik3d.org https://majik3d-legacy.org
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