Letina

**Letina** is a space-wandering realm created and subsequently modified multiple times by a couple of higher beings known as the Good Hat and the Bad Hat. The exact age of it is unknown, but has been estimated to be at least 110 million years by Developed East scientists. It is an irregularly shaped flat world. It is about 1000 km thick and has a total surface area slightly larger than the real world Earth's. Atmosphere and thus life only exists on one of its sides. It has three natural satellites: the Sun, the Red Moon and the Silver Moon. There also used to be a White Moon, but it was thrust into the surface of the world by the Good Hat at one point, creating an enormous crater called the Great Hole which spans over one-sixth of the total surface area. The world is encompassed all around it by a gigantic mountain range, which prevents the ocean water from leaking into the vacuum. It has seven continents and is home to eight native sapient races.

### Day and night cycle

Because of the flatness of the world, no time zones are observed. Differences between the time of observed sunrise and sunset remain minimal between any two locations in the world.

### Geography

Despite being a flat world, Letina still has four conventionally designed directions depending on where you are looking in relation to the center: north, east, west and south. Letina has nine major land masses, of which seven are traditionally considered continents and the other two large islands. With the world featuring no tectonic movements, the layout of the oceans and land masses has remained unchanged since the fall of the White Moon 7 million years ago. The nine land masses listed clockwise are:

* Pentoy
* Wagara
* Penilea (island)
* Amaruzja
* Landio Venera
* Hatridis
* Agatej (island)
* Southern Shantox
* Northern Shantox

The connected world ocean surrounding the land masses is conventionally divided into four sections:

* Ocean of the Forgotten (north)
* Central Ocean (middle)
* Southern Ocean (southeast)
* Western Ocean (southwest)

### History

See separate article: *History of Letina*.

### Behind-the-scenes

I started to craft Letina around February 2014 at the age of 9 and that is when the name of the world was also created. Many elements were carried over from a previous 2013 idea about a dimension with magic, which was the setting for a series of a few short and straightfoward fantasy stories. Some of Letina's elements go back several more years, especially the fauna, a testament to my childhood tendency to come up with fictional animals based off of regular household items. Letina was originally a world I built around a large group of characters (talking animals), who were embarking on a travel around it. At the time Letina was a regular globe-shaped planet and only had a single thin and very long continent.

Since then the general idea of it has gone through several refurbishments. The two major groups of characters which eventually phased out the original one - Miles Spring's friend pack and Nelson Polycarp's friend pack - came about as a result of stories me and my sister made when playing with our toys in late 2014 and mid-2016, respectively. In June 2018, I created yet another group of characters, the first one to be based outside the Developed East, to be featured in a book. Since then I've put the book idea on hold and for the near future do not plan on writing, let alone publishing any stories happening in the world. Meanwhile, the base world lore is growing quite slowly but ever regularly. Someday something might actually come of it :)