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-===Introduction===
-Æor is a world we would classify as largely medieval. It's populated by many humanoid [[peoples|races]]. The known world is a single, large continent with islands and archipelagos. It is unclear if Æor is the name of just this continent or if this should refer to the entire world. There are no known distant continents, though ancient stories tell unbelievable tales of other far-off lands.\\
-The world has evolved slowly, over the course of hundreds of thousands if not millions of years. There are ancient animals, trees, and artifacts known to have existed for hundreds of millennia.\\
-Æor is teeming with magic and creatures that wield it naturally, or through teachings. The vim of magic flows through most things living and non-living--rivers of energy that can be harvested by the adept.\\
-===Geography===
-The lands of Æor are divided into four geographic regions for the four compass directions. The borders don't follow geography, but run in straight lines right through the middle of mountains, lakes, rivers, and other geographic features. It is generally believed that the divisions are political in nature, being set by wizards in ancient ages.\\
-===The order of things===
-The kings would have you believe that the mightiest fight is between good and evil, right and wrong, one ruler against another. Others would argue there are three opposing forces--Order, Chaos, and The Balance.
-  * **Order** - Conservatism and laws create order. While some argue that it is this Order that separates us from the chaotic elements that surround us, others believe that it is this very Order that creates and maintains the stagnation that keeps us from realizing our full potential.\\
-  * **Chaos** - Chaos fuels change. Followers of Chaos point out that Chaos is the only force that drives innovation, progress, and true thought. Supporters of Order remind us that Chaos is what causes instability and lack of security. Chaos is the reason laws are needed in the first place.\\
-  * **The Balance** - The Balance has no extremes. True believers in the Balance find both Order and Chaos to be beautiful and deadly--the end of any society when left to their own devices. Everything around us seems to conform to a very delicate balance. By stopping both Order and Chaos from becoming too powerful, believers in the Balance hope to maintain what would appear to be the natural state of all things.\\
-===Religion===
-The religions of Æor vary greatly from region to region. In the Eastern Domain, for example, the dominant religion is of The Nine gods who created everything in the world according to their own special gifts. You will still find worshipers of The Nine all over the Eastern Domain who generally call worship to Belcron. It's a pagan religion based on gods for animals, land, and other items.
-===Astrology===
-Æor has two suns, one many hundreds of times larger than the other. Periodically, one can see flares from the larger sun swirling into the smaller sun. The ancient solar philosophers theorized that these are firestorms caused by the great sun gods as one fed the other. The smaller sun, Restaphar, travels around the larger sun, Zhynfar, in a complex but close and calculable orbit. Zhynfar rises in the west and sets in the east each day.\\
-There is no official counting of the moons that circle Æor. Lunar philosophers have charted the paths of twenty that cross the sky on a regular schedule, but there are many, many more which can be seen on dark nights or with the aid of glass. The moons aren't of any great general interest outside of the lunar philosophers. During the average day, two can usually be seen in the sky. At night one could see more than eight when the sky is clear.\\
-===Firestorms===
-===Calendar===
-A year on Æor lasts for 364 days. This is divided into seven-day weeks with four weeks to each month and thirteen months to a year. The new year begins on the first day of spring and the year ends on the last day of winter. Our primary continent on Æor lies in the northern hemisphere and only the very northern reaches see regular accumulation of snow.
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