Orthoclase we now know is a prolate ovoid, the travel distance from lodeward to anti-lodeward points being 10 thousand leagues across the great flats and 16 thousand leagues along the rim.

The surface is a crust of earth and rock. Where this crust thins, it reveals a core of material known as 'pheobonite' or 'orthoclase'.

The orthoclase material emits white light and is warm to the touch.

There are large areas of the Great Flat Seas whose floors directly touch the core. Unlike the dark depths of other oceans, these seas glow and boil.

Patches of pheobonite dust swirl high above, emitting irregular periods of daylight. Other dust clouds may reflect light emitted from the world itself, in dim irridescent half-nights.

Beyond the pheobonite dust orbit the eleven stars, whose faint glow provides some illumination when the dust is bare. As orthoclase tumbles chaotically, their positions cannot be predicted with the exception of Iyin.

Beyond the stars is the void, into which Orthoclase plummets.

Navigators use the method of suspending needles of pheobonite, which always point towards the lodeward point of Orthoclase.

Travellers nearing the lodeward or anti-lodeward points are challenged by an increasingly uphill struggle. This is because the angle between Orthoclase's centre of mass and the tangent of the surface becomes more acute. One is also faced with falls of freshwater, spilling from the tips to the flats.
Few reputable explorers have seen what lies at Orthoclate's most extreme points.

Shon, known as Zeon by some, came into being at the instant life was created on Orthoclase. It is said that it lies in foetal position at the centre of the world.
Shon is worshipped by hob, by sheed, by fey, by buko, by cannabarna and by those animals that can invoke Shon's name.
Shon's essence is to be found in pheobonite, It's colours are black and white.
Shon appears to all newborns as they leave the womb.
Shon is invoked when a creature cries out in dread in fear for it's life.
It presides over light, darkness, birth and survival.

A great fracture cuts through orthoclase; it is said that it is possible to travel to the centre and that one hundred yuga in the past sheed explorers had done so.

Ezzanine Nex fell from the outer void twenty thousand yuga ago. Her worshippers say she fell in love with Shon's light, but the entombed god refused her. Denied this union, she wept and still weeps, her tears forming the great waterfalls that fill the oceans.
It is said that she resides at the most anti-lodeward point and that she cannot return to the void.
She is the mother of all the tribes of the world and the orchestrator of their discord.
She is worshipped by one name or another by all the tribes of the world, and by those who cannot love, and by those who are imprisoned.
Her essence can be found in water, fire, alchohol and void.
She presides over families, emotions, territory, games, prisons and bureaucracy.

The Masaru text describes a journey undertaken by a sheed explorer during the Age of Scions. He describes the structure at the anti-lodewart point in which Ezzanine Nex inhabits, the creatures she has created to serve her there, and their attempts to tunnel towards the centre of the world.

Axon Axoa came to being when the first hammer struck. He is the master of tools, puzzles, riddles and construction. He is the keeper of the keys. And thus he is in eternal conflict with Ezzanine Nex.
He is worshipped by all civilizations but particularly by the hob and the buko. For the buko were the first to construct, and the hob were the first to destroy.

The goddess of time is Cynaia, and she is mistress of the ways of passage through it.
She has three faces; one for mortals, one for immortals and one for changers of form.
For the mortal tribes, she is the goddess of sex; for it is through generations that mortals propagate through time.
She may be prayed to with matters of lust and desire, but with care for she is most fickle.

Sazaduna is the god of the sky; he lives in the layers between the highest clouds and the outer void.
He is worshipped by sheed and by fey.

Iyin, or Yn, is the god of possibilities and magic. He sees all crossroads. His methods and acolytes are strange.
He is worshipped by sheed and by fey.
It is said that he inhabits the brightest star in the sky. And each cycle of the star around the rimward edge of Orthoclase is one yuga.
His siblings are Crai Ixa, Crai Haniraxia, Sem, Iya, Ezzaxia, Racxa, Vosan, Fi Ciaana, Vubsaba, Rcaobad and Axun Xiab.
Their stars move with no known law. They are rarely invoked.

Ia Caran, an overlord of memories, reincarnation, immortality and unconsciousness.

Haxanaxiira, a name whispered here and there by the most reclusive of sheed and fey.

The oldest tribes are those of the hob. They are the first creations of Ezzanine Nex. And this was done to spite Zeon's world.
They were spawned from Ezzanine Nex's own flesh and sinew and formed into an approximation of other animals.
With the birth of Axon Axoa they learned to forge the first weapons.

The sheed are not children of Ezzanine Nex or Zeon. They claim their arrival was with the stars. They are from another place.

The fey were created by Cynaia's will from the ground, the rivers and the trees. Each lives for one yuga, then is reborn. They have knowledge of their past lives, and of their lives to come.

The cannabarna and knoll are children of Ezzanine Nex. They were formed from the corruptions of animals. The cannabarna and knoll tribes are at constant war.

The buko are children of Sazaduna. It is said that they were born from glass eggs that fell from the sky. The buko are not kin of the other tribes or animals and are strange.
They are often enslaved by the other civilizations as their constructions and machinations are most excellent.

Beyond Iyin and his siblings lies the great void. Since records began, practitioners of the esoteric arts have attempted to explore that darkness.