The Obverse

The Obverse is the opposite side of the globe to the Civilised World. It is largely unknown to the peoples of the Civilised Worldplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigCivilised World

The Civilised World refers to the known regions of human civilisation, notably the continent of Anásthias, the Natorn Archipelago and surrounding islands.

Gastrinimer's 3rd century BME Map of the World, showing Anásthias and the Natorn Isles. Note: old maps place north to the right.AnásthiasAnásthiasAnásthiasAnásthias, and consequently subject to folkloreplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigFolklore

Folklore

This is in a series of articles about oral traditions, tales, folk practices, and folklore.

topics cult1, myth and speculative theories.

The most prominent of these is the Duospherical theory. It proposes that the Obverse is the physical inverse of the Civilised World. The Civilised World is mainly water, with one large island continent at its centre, home to greenplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigGreen

The Green Kingdom of flora and fauna includes humans, mammals, birds, whales, greenfish, and most green plants and crops cultivated by humankind. life and human cultivation. The Obverse is its opposite, a hemisphere of dry land with one large sea at its centre, infested with viridplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigVirid

Referring to the Virid Kingdom of flora and fauna, toxic to human life. life making it impossibly hostile to humanity. This is still the leading belief in the modern world, which has restricted human exploration of the Obverse as a dangerous and pointless endeavour.

Very little is known about the Obverse, the only accounts being from ancient Miyarrain texts. However in the past century the Great Powers have made new efforts to explore the so-called Edge Lands, the nearest coastline of the great Obverse continent. Within recent decades, Hartheraplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigHarthera

The Hartheran Union, commonly named Harthera, is an imperialist maritime nation state dominating the northeast of Anásthias. It is one of the two great powers of the modern epoch, arguably the most technologically and militarily powerful nation in the world, only matched by the vast size and wealth of its neighbour, viridviridOrorrMEOrorrOrorrOrorrOrorr has established a small colony, New Hartrah, on the the eastern continent of Retzayk.