#Lore24 – Entry #61 – Fantasy Month #1 – Andyllion
From the journal of Angeliqua “Goldeneyes” Cartacustos:
Felaria continues to insist upon testing my knowledge, and so I will write, once more, upon the topic she has chosen for this day. I am not entirely certain as to why she insists upon me keeping such a personal record recalled from my own mind when we have access to the entirety of the Imperial Archives, but so be it; I am but the apprentice and she the wizened Head Archivist, after all. Mother knows best, as they say.
For today she has chosen…Andyllion, the world upon which we all live. I’m not exactly sure where to start with the topic, considering it’s literally a world of possibility. The entirety of it surely hasn’t been explored, and more of it has been lost to time and calamity than we can possibly know. As far as known facts…the world hosts a pair of moons, Mika and Elara, a yearly length of three-hundred-seventy-five days, and a daily length of twenty-five hours. There are at least seven known continents, Ashun, Emoris, Mizunko, Saenaphia, and Yastryka, plus the frozen north and south polar regions that have been almost entirely unexplored. Dozens of smaller island groups serve as a loose connecting tissue between them, and vast uncharted seas lie beyond those.
Should I begin detailing the flora and fauna found amongst the various continents? Or perhaps some details of the kingdoms as well as their people? Shall I describe the civilized races, or perhaps the more savage ones inhabiting the wildlands? Or perhaps the civilizations we know to be long collapsed and their ruins left to crumble, forgotten and inhabited by monsters and abominations? Or perhaps I should detail the cataclysm that nearly destroyed it some two-thousand years ago? Simply naming the world as a topic! Surely, she could have made it something more specific! One could literally write volumes on Andyllion; volumes have been written on Andyllion in fact, and I’ve read most of them!
Oh, praise the gods and the Great Dragon Emperor himself! An arcanist seeks knowledge, and the other archivists are otherwise occupied! Felaria’s pages will have to wait until they have been served; I shall hope that they are particularly unskilled at performing their own research and require the rest of the day digging through the archives, for I must serve the people, after all!