Eastern Oerik in Relation to the
Whole Oerth & the Heavenly Bodies
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is obvious, the Oerik continent is the major center of the world, and the
eastern portion, the Flanaess, is the center of enlightened humanity.
Oerth has four great continents and countless islands, adn four great
oceans and countless seas which surround these bodies of land. Little is
known about the lands of the western portion of Oerik, less still about
the savage inhabitants of the other continents, but such knowledge is, of
course, of little use anyway and of no importance to humanity.
The heavens are far more important
and interesting. We must study the stars, those which wander and those
which are fixed, to properly understand astrology. The sum travels once
around Oerth in 364 days, visiting the 12 Lairs of the Zodiac in an
appointed round which never varies. The Great Moon (Luna) waxes and wanes
in fixed cycles of 28 days each, upon which our months are based; while
the Handmaiden (Celene, the small aquamarine satellite) follows a path
which shows Her in full beauty but four times each year, thus showing us
the time for our Festivals. When both Mistress and Handmaiden are full,
things of great portent are likely to occur, depending apon the position
of the five wandering stars in the Lairs, naturally. For complete details
of astrology, we recommend the reader to such texts as Selvor the Elder's
"Secrets of Ye Skye Recvealed" or Yestro Bilnigd's
"Astrology, Divinity, and Mankind."