Aiaos is the mortal world, the world of flesh and matter that forms the axis of the larger
World . It is a low dome, built by the
Old Gods on nine pillars of virtue. A number of celestial bodies light up the skies around the world, including a single
sun and a single
moon which circle the dome of Aiaos. Aiaos lies beneath the dome of
The Firmament, in which the lights of the
Stars shine at night, and above the roiling underworld known as
The Abyss.
In this day and age, it is fairly common knowledge that there are three continents on Aiaos:
Yethera in the north-east,
Caino in the west and
Suto in the south. The sprawling archipelago of
Ladonia lies in the Pyraean Ocean between Caino and Yethera.
The sun, Soraes, rises from the Aurora in the north, rising higher as it circles the world, until at last it reaches its zenith over the southern extreme and sinks back to set into the Aurora once more. The zenith is higher in summer than in winter, and the seasons are universal; when one land is in summer, all are in summer. The north is typically warmer than the south, and the lands around the
Crown are cooler.
The dome of the world means that lands lying close to the Crown may be in shadow for almost half the day.
Aiaos has a single moon, Doraes, which rises and sets from one side of the world to the other. Its point of rising and setting precesses around the circumference, making a complete circuit in the course of a year, three hundred and sixty-four days. The moon generates its own light, which grows and shrinks across its face, creating the phases of the moon; a complete cycle takes twenty-eight days to complete.
The stars move slowly around the Firmament, completing a full rotation every two hundred and forty years.
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