A Wizard of Earthsea | Setting
Earthsea is a mythical world of several small island nations surrounded by a largely unexplored sea. It shares a border with the world of the dead. Earthsea's economy and politics are medieval in style, with trade and barter between nations governed mainly by kings or ruling families. Technology is also med ieval, but magic is widespread and provides many of the benefits of advanced technology in such areas as medicine and weather control. This magic, however, does not provide the advanced technologies of transportation, industry, or warfare.
At first it was shapeless, but as...[The entire page is 383 words long]
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