Ecapeht

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## Societal information

### Continents

Number changes according to weather

The universe of Ecapeht is a an original world created by Tilan.

## About

The Ecapehtean world is a flat world that revolves around its sun Tribonucoliss, in much the same way that Saturn's rings run around their planet. The landscape is made up of drifting continents that continually split up and rejoin, making earthquakes and huge storms a common occurence. Due to the world's unique structure, Ecapeht is a constantly shifting place to live in, and the half-reflective clouds make it possible to see an unclear image of the land during a fine day.

Ecapeht sustains minor magic, on which the world's major species live on.

## Geography

The land in its shape resembles a huge broken music disk, with various gulfs (or cracks, as they are known) splitting the world into of about a dozen large continental plates, and many thousands of smaller pieces that fly at the edge of the world. The width of cracks vary from a few meters to a hundred kilometers, and to fall into one is basically equal to falling off the world. Continental plates continually crash and split, making it possible for high mountains to form in mere days, and oceans to be torn apart in a matter of hours.

The gravity is always directed downwards. Thus, when large bodies of water happen to be at the edge of a crack, it simply runs off the edge and falls down in a huge cascade, known as seafalls or oceanfalls - a magnificent sight.

The landscape varies hugely, with giantic plains and soaring spires that are more like pillars rather than peaks.

Four directions exist on Ecapeht:

- Sunwards, towards the sun and the center of the disk

- Darkwards, away from the sun, towards the rim of the disk

- Turnwise, in the same direction as the world revolves, i.e., counterclockwise

- Contrawise, in the opposite direction of how the world revolves, i.e., clockwise

Since about half of the sunlight comes directly from the sun, which always exists on the sunwards horizon, there is a significant difference of temperature between the sunwards and darkward faces of a rock. This can sometimes result in completely different biomes on the two faces of a mountain - the sunwards face being a desert, and the darkwards side a pine forest.

Ecapeht has no seasons, but there is still constant migration due to the ever-shifting cracks.

## Phenomena

### Cracks

Cracks are rips and tears that go through part or the whole of the Ecapeht disk, caused by shifting amounts of pressure that squeeze or expand the earth and crust.

While a small crack can be jumped across easily, ones that span several hundred meters can only be made accessible by flight. Even larger ones, such as the Mikopian Split, have been declared as uncrossable, already claiming several dozens of adventurous dragons, and what has been estimated to be at least sixteen minor species who thought it was a good idea to try walking on nothing.

Being pushed into a crack was a common form of execution among species without flight (especially lenixes) and is still practiced in faraway backward tribes; no one knows what happens to you after the fall, but it is considered not to be nice since there generally is a lot of screaming. This form of execution stopped in the main regions only after what is known as "The Unfortunate Incident of a Misplaced Toe", in which the sentenced lenix Sliva managed to shove the executioner, six of the guards, and thirteen of the watching crowd into the crack before slipping and falling in herself.

### Mirror-skies

The upper atmosphere of Ecapeht is made out of small reflective particles, generally known as dust motes, or motes for short. Motes reflect sunlight back onto the ground, thus serving as the major source of sunlight for the world as well as being essential for life to exist. Without motes, only a few thin rays of horizontal light would be able to make it to the surface. It has been conjectured that motes are made out of a condensed form of magic (since they somehow only refelct light back at the ground, and remain as a relatively evenly-spread layer), a substance far more powerful than anything else on the world, though so far it has been impossible to fly up to that height and check.

On a clear day with clean air, one can look up at the sky and see the reflection of the land in the sunwards direction. There will usually be only a rough outline of the sea and land on normal days, but a few times in each year there will be times when a creature can gaze up and identify specific trees on a barren land, a phenomenon known as a mirror-sky. Mirror skies have proven useful in a few wars and skirmishes, but since they cannot be predicted, they are viewed only as a lucky bonus.