Concepts and Miscellany

The sun rises in the west from the Interior, and sets in the east, into the Aster Sea.

Residuum: it’s literally the residue from the torn-apart World Before. The inhabitants of the port use it to forge magic items. Some items that originate from the Interior and Across-the-Sea can’t be broken down into Residuum, but they can be used as a part of item creation Rituals to impart special properties.

Language has a strange power and existence in the World After, which manifests in myriad and only rarely consistent ways. One of the few, for example, is that everyone ‘knows’ the true name of the Port as well as they know their own name. But nobody can remember where or when they first learned that name, let alone who from, and no two people know it by the same one. For convenience, it’s usually referred to as “Here”, or “There”, or simply as “The Port”.