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The general idea is nailed down, details are flexible.

The land of the Fay and Zarth, where illusion, enchantment, clockwork machines, and outlandish creatures are common.

The Fay call the world "Faierie" pronounced "fay-ee-ree". Faierie commonly refers to the upper half of TwinWorld.

The Zarth call the world "Zarthaanc" pronounced "Zar-tha-ank". Zarthaanc commonly refers to the lower half of TwinWorld.

Nature

See the creation story For various culture's myths about TwinWorld's origin.

Overall Form

The adamant is pushed up from below. Air also originates from the lower glyph, howling through the depths before finding the surface through huge breathing vents. The Adamant in the depths spauls off extraordinary metals and rocks, (and other hard rocks, ores, gems, etc). Stone rot and other life-forms of TwinWorld break down the super-rocks into granite, and eventually the rock into soil as it is pushed furthur up. The outer fire flows downward from the sky, spreading out and meeting the adamant at the horizon. With it, the Solid Clouds descend to blanket the skies. The fay live between these two funnel-shaped surfaces (the adamant below and the outer fire above). Near the core of the world is the Heart of Water, sometimes beating high in the sky, sometimes deep underground, sometimes the size of your thumb, sometimes twenty miles across.

The form is significantly identical to a "Biconic cusp" [1]

Layers

TwinWorld is layered. The lowest layer is the adamant, stone that no tool can mar. Above that is solid stone, then rock and earth, followed by the forests, Sky Vines and solid-clouds, and finally the thin free air and the outer fire.

Stability

The form of TwinWorld becomes more solid near the Adamant, and more dynamic near the Outer Fire. This includes lifeforms, matter, and gravity (see below).

Gravity

Gravity is oriented away from the Outer Fire, and perpendicular to the Adamant (down along the walls toward the axis).

Due to the shape of the gravitational field, torsion (or rotation) tends to occur. This is a form of gravitational shear which causes objects to rotate. The map to the right displays the direction of gravity at various locations, as well as the torsion fields. In general, this causes atmospheric downdrafts along the central axis, and massive atmospheric upwelling along the black zone.

Near to the outer fire the magnitude and direction of gravity begins to fluctuate, and become localized. Pockets of convergence, divergence, and both large scale and small scale coruscation occur. This causes pressure differences, and tends to shuffle the Solid Clouds around.

This causes some interesting effects. Most landmasses are beneath the level where the level surfaces become concave, so the landmasses of TwinWorld will be generally convex. Land will generally fall away into the distance, and views will be dominated by the SolidClouds and the Horizon Cliffs. Meanwhile, near the Horizon, looking away from the Adamant, the rest of TwinWorld will appear as lying sideways, down below you. In front of you will be the SolidClouds and the Outer Fire, and above, and stretching to either side is the Horizon.

Life Forms

In general, the gradient from the Adamant to the outer fire manifests in a number of gradients in life forms:

Adamant < -------- > Outer Fire

long lifespan <--> short lifespan

low energy <-------> high energy

Slow <-------------------> Fast

Pensive <-----------> Emotional

Metallic Poor

Very few conductive metals are exuded by the Adamant. They occur commonly in concentrated lodes. Because of the detrimental effect of conductive metals (iron, silver, gold, etc) on fay organisms (Zarth as well?) these deposits tend to be desolate, the deserts of TwinWorld.

Regions and locales

TwinWorld has many identifyable locations and regions. The exact locations of these regions, and their relation to eachother, appears to be rather fluid, especially those regions inhabited by many of the Fay. The regions are roughly listed in order of altitude.

Highpost

A Zarth outpost in the Solid Clouds. It is serviced by transports from the depths, and serves as a hop off point for explorers of the outer fire fronteer.

Great Tree

See the main article.

A congregation of solid-clouds tethered to a truly colossal tree. Betwixt which a huge city thrives in vines growing up and down.

Enchanted Forest

Located near the axis of TwinWorld, this is the largest congregation of sylvan Fay, the vegitation exceeding even the most prolific rainforests. Fayrie dust fills the air, and glittering motes drift from the borders into far off regions. The earth beneath breathes with tunnels and deep caverns, shot through with massive roots and colonies of fungus.

Desolate Mountain

see the main article

A spire of Adamant and huge metallic crystals out on the rim, Desolate Mountain houses the largest population of humans in TwinWorld. Though water is in good supply from the many storms which rage around its peak, food must be brought in from other regions.

Garden of life

See the main article.

A forest of mobile plants called Lindora. Deadly to enter, but fun to watch from a good distance away.

Root Roost

A location where a breathing shaft meets a main river flowing from the axis. It is a giant depression, riddled with tunnels, and caves, studded with waterfalls, overgrown with low lying vegitation, and home to thousands of species of birds who soar on the damp updrafts.

Cunningbrawl

A major Zarth city, delved out of the living rock, never touched by the light of the Outer Fire. The centerpoint for the regiments, and the seat of the Zarth military might.

Anglestruct

See the main article. The largest Zarth city, and the seat of their power.

Depthold

The deepest continually inhabited Zarth city, and the spearhead of their civilization. Because of its proximity to the surrounding walls of Adamant, the lithic flow is rather pronounced, resulting in the older portions of the city deteriorating and being crushed by the ever shifting rock. The city is also continually extended downward, to keep its location as far down as possible. This leads to constant rains of debris from the old edge of Depthold falling down onto the new buildings.

Also, because of its depth, it is a hub for dragon hunting, and is constantly under attack.

World Generator

"Because scripts can do lots of things!"

I've started working on a world generator script. So far it only makes the adamant ripples, but I'm hoping to do general landscape, large tunnels, solid clouds, and perhaps some simulations. Here are some spruced up pictures (All the colored stuff was made manually, but would be fairly easy to script). Note, Trees are not to scale, unless they are pretty big. This is the whole world here, so I wouldn't want to make it too small.

Gravity maps are also included now! Yay! I am way too excited about this! It is a weighted average of the surface at the nearest point on the axis, the adamant average surface, and the outer fire average surface. I've re-done the "Gravity map" near the top of the page. The plots are all RK4 (4th order Runge-Kutta) which is very accurate.

With slight modification, the script can create lakes and oceans which conform to the gravity system. It should also be able to rotate objects to vertical (for trees, waterfalls, etc). Now that the gravity vector calculations are done, the rest should be fairly straightforward.

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-The land of the [[:category:Fayrie|Fay]], where illusion and enchantment are common, and nothing is exactly what it seems.  pronounced "fay-'''ee'''-ree".
+The land of the [[The_Fayrie|Fay]] and [[The_Zarth|Zarth]], where illusion, [[enchantment]], [[energines|clockwork machines]], and [[:Category:Fauna|outlandish creatures]] are common.
+The Fay call the world "Faierie" pronounced "fay-'''ee'''-ree".  Faierie commonly refers to the upper half of TwinWorld.
+The Zarth call the world "Zarthaanc" pronounced "'''Zar'''-tha-ank".  Zarthaanc commonly refers to the lower half of TwinWorld.
+[[Image:FaierieFunnel.png|300px|right]]
 ==Nature==
-===Metallic Poor?===
+See the [[TwinWorld_origin|creation story]] For various culture's myths about TwinWorld's origin.
-I was thinking since faeries are traditionally weak to iron maybe we could extend it and say they're weak to conductive metallics. That would make most all technology abhorrant to them. Most of Faerie would be metallic poor except for certain dead metallic rich zones where humans and technology thrive. Something to think about.[[User:Hugh|Hugh]]
-:Yeah, I like it.  The iron-aversion I think wee should keep at the very least.  If it has to do with all conductive materials then silver and gold would be the most potent anti-fay substances.  This would also mean that [[Durand]] would live out in the countryside (without electricity), and would explain why the brothers moved into the city to get an education.  That would also explain why the fayrie don't abduct people nearly as often as they used to, as metals are quite pervasive in most dwellings now, even in third world countries.  [[User:Ziggy|Ziggy]] 20:49, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
-===Oswlads CARZY IDEAS!===
+===Overall Form===
+The adamant is pushed up from below.  Air also originates from the lower glyph, howling through the depths before finding the surface through huge breathing vents.  The Adamant in the depths spauls off extraordinary metals and rocks, (and other hard rocks, ores, gems, etc).  [[Stone rot]] and other life-forms of TwinWorld break down the super-rocks into granite, and eventually the rock into soil as it is pushed furthur up.  The outer fire flows downward from the sky, spreading out and meeting the adamant at the horizon.  With it, the Solid Clouds descend to blanket the skies.  The fay live between these two funnel-shaped surfaces (the adamant below and the outer fire above).  Near the core of the world is the [[Heart of Water]], sometimes beating high in the sky, sometimes deep underground, sometimes the size of your thumb, sometimes twenty miles across.
-I like the idea of a vertical world.  The center could be air (or earth for the inversion).  We could also do a progression across the elements from inside to outside, or vice-versa.  On a smaller scale, this would mesh with the Porous Planet model proposed below, with the Sky Vines method providing the related inversion.  I like the idea of combining both together actually. [[User:Ziggy|Ziggy]] 18:21, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
+The form is significantly identical to a "Biconic cusp" [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biconic_cusp]
-====Sky Vines====
+[[Image:Faierie01.jpg|200px|right]]
-immagine a cloud that is large and puffy, a [[solid-clouds]] if you will.
-now immagine that ivy are growing out of it and enagnled both around and through the cloud as if the cloud was only simi-permiable
-now immagine that these vines have grown down and have caught in a collosal tree and a normal forest that surrounds it.
-now immagine a strand of ivy that is only half way down ending it a large sphere with a door in it.
-now immagine thousands of these scattered throughout the hanging forest between the land and the sky.
-That's my idea for a city
-a bad rendition
+[[Image:TwinWorldGravity.jpg|200px|right]]
-[[Image:Cloud tree city.jpg]]
+===Layers===
+TwinWorld is layered.  The lowest layer is the [[adamant]], stone that no tool can mar.  Above that is solid stone, then rock and earth, followed by the forests, [[Sky Vine]]s and [[solid-clouds]], and finally the thin free air and the [[outer fire]].
-====Porous Planet====
+===Stability===
-as you apporch the center of Faierie the gravity decreases untill the very center is Zero-G. now take the plannet and scoop out the gooey center. punch some holes all the way through from one side to the other. and throw in a bunch of caves.
-so if you were so unfortunate as to be in the very center of the plannet you could look out it maybe 10, 1000 places where you could see the sky. every where else looks like earth and rock that has been shoot at by a racoon with a shotgun. these scattered holes lead to endless (and I mean tottaly endless) caverns that stretch all the way to the serfice. just think for a second how much surfice area is on a plannet.... but now you have the entire volume to walk through. in theory you could jump down one of the long holes on the surfice and go mostly to the other side before you run out of momentum (air friction does slow you down). that is assuming you don't get caught by the giant spiders and other horbile creatures. I think the House Prime should have an outlet somehwere near the center so our heros don't have to make the horendious, 99.9% fatal drop.
+The form of TwinWorld becomes more solid near the Adamant, and more dynamic near the Outer Fire.  This includes lifeforms, matter, and gravity (see below).
-[[Image:Faierie caves.jpg]]
-===Combined System===
+====Gravity====
-Most of the above ideas are combined in this rendition.  Faierie is layered.  At the core is a the [[adamant]], a sphere of stone that no tool can mar, but that a few of the deep creatures can shape with their fay powers.  Above that is solid stone, then rock and earth, followed by the forests, [[Sky Vine]]s and [[solid-clouds]], and finally the thin free air and the [[outer fire]].
-[[Image:Faierie01.jpg]]
-==Regions==
+Gravity is oriented away from the Outer Fire, and perpendicular to the Adamant (down along the walls toward the axis).
-Faierie can be classified into several regions.   The exact locations of these regions, and their relation to eachother, appears to be rather fluid, especially those regions inhabited by many of the Fay.  Humans tend to solidify the landscape around them, though many of the changelings have grown as much innured to the fluctuating nature of Faierie as the Fay are.  The only solid locations of reference (for humans at least) are the few human cities.
+Due to the shape of the gravitational field, torsion (or rotation) tends to occur.  This is a form of gravitational shear which causes objects to rotate.  The map to the right displays the direction of gravity at various locations, as well as the torsion fields.  In general, this causes atmospheric downdrafts along the central axis, and massive atmospheric upwelling along the black zone.
+Near to the outer fire the magnitude and direction of gravity begins to fluctuate, and become localized.  Pockets of convergence, divergence, and both large scale and small scale coruscation occur.  This causes pressure differences, and tends to shuffle the Solid Clouds around.
+This causes some interesting effects.  Most landmasses are beneath the level where the level surfaces become concave, so the landmasses of TwinWorld will be generally convex.  Land will generally fall away into the distance, and views will be dominated by the SolidClouds and the Horizon Cliffs.  Meanwhile, near the Horizon, looking away from the Adamant, the rest of TwinWorld will appear as lying sideways, down below you.  In front of you will be the SolidClouds and the Outer Fire, and above, and stretching to either side is the [[Horizon]].
+====Life Forms====
+In general, the gradient from the Adamant to the outer fire manifests in a number of gradients in life forms:
+Adamant  < -------- >  Outer Fire
+long lifespan <--> short lifespan
+low energy  <-------> high energy
+Slow  <------------------->  Fast
+Pensive  <----------->  Emotional
+===Metallic Poor===
+Very few conductive metals are exuded by the Adamant.  They occur commonly in concentrated lodes.  Because of the detrimental effect of conductive metals (iron, silver, gold, etc) on fay organisms (Zarth as well?) these deposits tend to be desolate, the deserts of TwinWorld.
+==Regions and locales==
+TwinWorld has many identifyable locations and  regions.   The exact locations of these regions, and their relation to eachother, appears to be rather fluid, especially those regions inhabited by many of the Fay.  The regions are roughly listed in order of altitude.
+===Highpost===
+A Zarth outpost in the Solid Clouds.  It is serviced by transports from the depths, and serves as a hop off point for explorers of the outer fire fronteer.
+===Great Tree===
+''See the [[Great_Tree|main article]]''.
+A congregation of [[solid-clouds]] tethered to a truly colossal tree. Betwixt which a huge city thrives in vines growing up and down.
 ===Enchanted Forest===
-The largest congregation of Fay, the vegitation exceeds even the most prolific rainforests.  Fayrie dust fills the air, and glittering motes drift from the borders into far off regions.  The earth beneath breathes with tunnels and deep caverns, shot through with massive roots and colonies of fungus.
+[[File:Forest.jpg|300px|right]]
+Located near the axis of TwinWorld, this is the largest congregation of sylvan Fay, the vegitation exceeding even the most prolific rainforests.  Fayrie dust fills the air, and glittering motes drift from the borders into far off regions.  The earth beneath breathes with tunnels and deep caverns, shot through with massive roots and colonies of fungus.
 ===Desolate Mountain===
-The largest population of humans, it has never been inhabited by the Fay.  Though water is in good supply from the many storms which rage around its peak, food must be brought in from other regions.
-===Three Seas===
+''see the [[Desolate_Mountain|main article]]''
-A set of three large bodies of water, all flowing into eachother.  The directions of the flows change from time to time as their locations drift across the land.  [[The House]] Prime is located on a tributary of one of these seas.
+A spire of Adamant and huge metallic crystals out on the rim, Desolate Mountain houses the largest population of humans in TwinWorld.  Though water is in good supply from the many storms which rage around its peak, food must be brought in from other regions.
 ===Garden of life===
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 A forest of mobile plants called [[Lindora]].  Deadly to enter, but fun to watch from a good distance away.
+===Root Roost===
+A location where a breathing shaft meets a main river flowing from the axis.  It is a giant depression, riddled with tunnels, and caves, studded with waterfalls, overgrown with low lying vegitation, and home to thousands of species of birds who soar on the damp updrafts.
+===Cunningbrawl===
+A major Zarth city, delved out of the living rock, never touched by the light of the Outer Fire.  The centerpoint for the [[regiments]], and the seat of the Zarth military might.
+===Anglestruct===
+''See the [[Anglestruct|main article]].''
+The largest Zarth city, and the seat of their power.
+===Depthold===
+The deepest continually inhabited Zarth city, and the spearhead of their civilization.  Because of its proximity to the surrounding walls of Adamant, the lithic flow is rather pronounced, resulting in the older portions of the city deteriorating and being crushed by the ever shifting rock.  The city is also continually extended downward, to keep its location as far down as possible.  This leads to constant rains of debris from the old edge of Depthold falling down onto the new buildings.
+Also, because of its depth, it is a hub for [[dragon]] hunting, and is constantly under attack.
+[[Image:AdamantRipples1.jpg|200px|right]]
+[[Image:AdamantRipples2.jpg|200px|right]]
+==World Generator==
+"Because scripts can do lots of things!"
+I've started working on a world generator script.  So far it only makes the adamant ripples, but I'm hoping to do general landscape, large tunnels, solid clouds, and perhaps some simulations.  Here are some spruced up pictures (All the colored stuff was made manually, but would be fairly easy to script).  Note, Trees are not to scale, unless they are pretty big.  This is the whole world here, so I wouldn't want to make it too small.
+Gravity maps are also included now!  Yay!  I am way too excited about this!  It is a weighted average of the surface at the nearest point on the axis, the adamant average surface, and the outer fire average surface.  I've re-done the "Gravity map" near the top of the page.  The plots are all RK4 (4th order Runge-Kutta) which is very accurate.
+With slight modification, the script can create lakes and oceans which conform to the gravity system.  It should also be able to rotate objects to vertical (for trees, waterfalls, etc).  Now that the gravity vector calculations are done, the rest should be fairly straightforward.
 [[category:Locations]]
+[[Category:TwinWorld]]