In my childhood, I would look out over the pastoral landscape and think to myself 'There can be nothing in this world so beautiful as this.' Years later, seeds of doubt began to sprout as travelers of all kinds regaled me with stores of strange and far-off lands. I was enraptured.
I made it my life mission to travel the world and see everything. It took many years, but I finally did so. I saw the world, experienced the cultures contained therein. But with a lifetime still ahead of me, what was I to do now? As I contemplated this conundrum, I did the only thing I could think of - return home and start a family.
My answer came, unexpectedly, from my own children, whose faces brightened and grins spread past the borders of their chubby visage when I regaled them with tales of what I had seen, as did the bards of my own youth. The twinkle in their eyes, that spark of adventure, inspired me so to set a new life mission.
I would travel the world once more and record everything I came across. I would bring these far-off lands to life and deliver these visions to people the world over.
I invite you to join me on this journey. See what I saw, hear what I heard, and experience the wonder that Terrania has to offer. And should these words of ink upon mere paper spark your wanderlust, I say unto you, dear reader - go!
-Prologue from Geographica Terrania and The Complete Anthropology of Terrania
Terrania is the name said to have been given to the land on the Prime Material Plane by Lathander and Selûne, and has been adapted into almost every language to mean "world".
Terrania is a disc about 3,500 miles across. Scholars believe that the disc is suspended, neutrally buoyant, in the Astral Sea, which stretches infinitely in all directions. The sun is to the south, and the moon is to the north. The rise and set of the sun and moon is due to the periodic tilting of the disc from oscillations in the astral sea. These oscillations create a day/night cycle with the sun traveling across the southern horizon from east to west, and the moon traveling across the northern horizon from west to east.