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...nhabitants of each alternate Earth would consider their own Earth the true one, and others variations upon it. ...ally campy sci-fi—so "Terra" has been pressed into service to supply one, the most popular adjective to refer to Earth now being "Terran". (Despite ...

...varied terrains, especially if they are habitable, are known as "planetary worlds", or "[[mound]]s". ...]]. Their surfaces may be reshaped by [[meteor]] impacts and by collision with other bodies—the prevailing theory on the origin of the [[Earth]]'s [ ...

...eal of luck, and no reliable method has been discovered for travel to such worlds. ...n interested in colonizing the air above the planet's surface. Eolo teems with [[shee]]s, none larger than a few dozen [[meter|kilometer]]s across but the ...

...mong the sky nations, but is performed by some of them, [[Cast]] being the one that makes the most use of such slaves. ...s the [[Sepulcher]] by the [[White Channel]]. Arianiga's [[sun (Arianiga)|sun]] rises from the Alabaster Sea, spending the nighttime deep below the water ...

...n (Lothenmydhe)|constellation]]s, and may have its own [[sun (Lothenmyhde)|sun]]. Other conditions may also vary between vegari, which may have unique ma ...he time of the veigur's origin, but of powerful gods with dominion on many worlds—but this hasn't actually been proven. It may be that djili actually ...

...onnected together at [[isthmus|isthmi]], while Xurama is connected only to one other continent, and the smallest continent, [[Gemore]], is a discrete [[is ...least two large conasters, but they are both in out-of-the-way locations, one in a vale concealed in the high [[Yotek Mountains]] of [[Xurama]], and the ...

...tive materials but earlier for other materials as well, leaving it riddled with tunnels and underground chambers. In recent years, Kadis has become someth ...[isotope]]s in its crust and mantle. Kadis is somewhat farther from its [[sun]] than Earth is, but the decrease in solar warming is countered by the incr ...

...ould be anything—a rock, an apple, a book, a statue. (There is even one example of a living being becoming an abar—the [[Zian]]—, thoug ...less and barren, without any plants and animals on its surface and without sun or star in its sky. Even the veigur's [[djel]] is absorbed into the abar, ...

...e geographical features not too dissimilar from that of many other vegari, with [[ocean]]s, [[continent]]s, and [[island]]s. However, Ufmarkt's oceans com ...] is roughly like a capital L with a short stem, or like a [[square]] with one quadrant removed. Within that area, it comprises, by the most common class ...

...at, and beyond its boundaries is a [[Vortex|strange black expanse]] dotted with dancing colored lights. There is some evidence, however, that the form of ...jackals haunt its badlands, and the scattered patches of forest still teem with deer, bears, and other animals. In addition to these [[panypar]]ic creatur ...

...ain [[industry|industrial]] world, the entire devare covered on both sides with factories and machinery. ...d poor living conditions, Yudis is also a notorious hotbed of sollevation, with numerous groups of insurrectionists hatching plots against the imperial [[g ...

...ent ecosystems. In each case, however, the life is necessarily adapted to one of constant swimming, flight, or floating, as Alen has no solid surface (th ...len is the one that still receives the most light from the system's [[Bund|sun]]. Many of the [[organism]]s here are [[photosynthesis|photosynthetic]], s ...

...On some worlds, only a single god may exist, but more often where there is one god, there is a proliferation of them—though some gods may ''claim'' ...gods do indeed return their worshippers' devotion with some reward, be it one as simple as a little extra good fortune, though some distant gods may care ...

* There are many disparate varieties ([[breed]]s), often with different [[power (celemology)|power]]s ...t these creatures may qualify as theders on those worlds, but not on other worlds. Such creatures are sometimes referred to "circumstantial theders", or "ex ...

Like most gas giants, Oe is made up mainly of [[hydrogen]] and [[helium]], with traces of other [[element]]s. It has no differentiated [[core (planet)|cor ...]s that have settled on Oe but the last by . Also noteworthy is [[Iora]], one of the smaller moons, not so much for its inhabitants as for an unusual phe ...

...than a third of a million [[species]] of plant exist on Earth alone; other worlds include millions more, some of which are ambulatory or otherwise remarkably ...ngs to the [[superdivision]] [[Spermatophyta]], the [[seed]] plants, along with the much smaller divisions Pinophyta (the [[conifer]]s), Cycadophyta ([[Wik ...