Long Earth

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The Worlds

The year is 6379, six thousand three hundred and seventy-nine years since the creation of the world.

Wildlife Aggression

Low is wildlife that may occasionally lead to deaths but by and large humans and their relatives are the undisputed masters of the world. Real Earth.
Moderate features fauna (and sometimes flora) that is often dangerous and aggressive but not uncontrollably so. Often featuring creatures of abnormal size or tenacity, such as dinosaurs a la Jurassic Park or Pandora. Mankind continues to control nature, but it requires work and fundamental coexistence remains possible.
High is a truly dangerous world,

The Nine

Okeanos

  • Dominant Race: N/A
  • Theme: The World-Ocean
  • Cardinal Direction: Centre, the Axis Mundi
  • Wildlife Aggression: Low

Okeanos is a vast world, with an equatorial diameter half again as large as the norm and consequently giving it a surface area somewhat more than twice normal. Less than 5% of its surface is dry ground and with the exception of a few small continents, this takes the form of uncontable numbers of islands in roughly a dozen distinct major archipelagos. These are in fact the tops of underwater mountain ranges, as more than a third of Okeanos' vast world-ocean is actually sunken continents rarely more than several hundred meters deep.

Midgar

  • Dominant Race(s): Elves, Dwarves
  • Theme: Techno-fantasy
  • Cardinal Direction: North
  • Wildlife Aggression: Low


Elysium

  • Dominant Race: Gigantes, Centaurs
  • Theme:
  • Cardinal Direction: South
  • Wildlife Aggression: Moderate

Tian

  • Dominant Race(s): Four Totems; Azure Dragons, Vermillion Birds, White Tigers, Black Tortoises
  • Theme:
  • Cardinal Direction: East
  • Wildlife Aggression: High

Gaia

  • Dominant Race: Human
  • Theme: Modern
  • Cardinal Direction: West
  • Wildlife Aggression: Low

Niflheim

  • Cardinal Direction: North
  • Wildlife Aggression: Moderate

Cold, misty world. Home of the Jotunn

Hesperia

  • Cardinal Direction: South
  • Wildlife Aggression: Extreme

Kunlun

  • Cardinal Direction: East
  • Wildlife Aggression: Moderate

Dominated by a supercontinent consisting mostly of the Plateau of Leng and the Desert of Lomar. Habitable land is generally just a coastal ring.

Arcadia

  • Cardinal Direction: West
  • Wildlife Aggression: Low

The Four Borders

Ginnungagap

  • Cardinal Direction: North
  • Wildlife Aggression: Low

Icebox world

Tartarus

  • Cardinal Direction: South
  • Wildlife Aggression: High

Hydrocarbon swamp world

Tamag

  • Cardinal Direction: East
  • Wildlife Aggression: N/A (algae has no Thac0)

Unbreathable young volcanic world

Zothique

  • Cardinal Direction: West
  • Wildlife Aggression: Low

Tidally locked Dying Marspunk world with a one-sided hypergate (only leads to/from Arcadia). The gate is on the terminator sea and thus in perpetual sundown (or dawn).