The World of Tairghol

Tairghol as a continent is so vast that the concept of there being anything else is a fairly new one. Despite tales of Halcyonia being widespread, they are usually dismissed as just that - old wives' tales. Only in the last century have scholars in cities such as Reme, Arpia and Tauromus begun to wonder what lies beyond the coast of the continent.
Tairghol measures roughly 18,000 km in length from east to west, and around 13,000 km from north to south - a total of around 230 million sq km. To translate that to the size of Earth, Tairghol would cover a rectangle whose vertices (clockwise from northwest) are at London (UK), Ottawa (Canada), Stanley (Falklands) and Stromness (South Georgia). The only other known continent, Halcyonia, is thought to be even bigger.
The world - dubbed Byzita by the Lastrian philosopher Urtun Galdona during the 6th Century - is known to be a planet by the presence of a sun, moon and constellations such as those on Earth. A scholar, Ristophanes of Mur, measured the circumference of the planet to be 85,000 km in the year 548, by using the same method used on Earth by Eratosthenes.
Byzita is the same as Earth in most respects - days are 24 hours long, the seasons come and go in exactly the same manner. The same species of birds, fish and livestock populate the continent. Essentially the only thing differentiating Byzita from a larger copy of the Earth is that humanity was not the first sentient species to arrive.
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