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Neophyte World Builder: World Shape Reference
🕑 Added 2025-10-20 03:34:42 +0000 UTCThis is basically pulled right from my notes, with a little cleanup for ease of reading. If any of it is confusing I can clarify it with edits, and hopefully make it easier to understand the structure.
The universe and the world are basically the same in this case, because the Administrator filled up the entire ‘universe’ with a single world. The actual side effects of this do not currently come into play, and are very complex.
The world can be thought of as a large donut, circling completely around, but because the Administrator put a sheet of magicite in one place, and the curvature of the donut is gradual, the inhabitants view it as a cylinder. Well, to be technical, they usually view it as flat just like we view our spherical Earth as flat, but just like it is relatively easy to find the curvature of the Earth, they can determine they are in a cylinder pretty easily. Figuring out it’s actually a donut is harder.
The world itself is on the inside of this donut/cylinder, and gravity pulls them toward the walls. Specifically, it pulls them toward any magicite walls, so they largely walk on the inside of the cylinder, on the lateral walls. It is also possible to walk along the end ‘caps’ of the cylinder, but the corners where the caps meet the lateral walls have some weird gravity effects going on.
So, to summarize, they live on the inside walls of a tube.
The center of the tube is a vacuum, and is their ‘space’ complete with structures that serve as their stars. Their ‘sun’ is not a physical object, but is instead a ball of magic energy. So it travels from one end of the tube to the other, getting absorbed into the end cap of the magicite shell at the end of its journey, and spit out the opposite wall to start a new day.
So despite it being a donut you can effectively think of it as a very long cylinder, with a vacuum in the middle and atmosphere clinging to the inner walls, where people live.
Dividing this cylinder in two is a massive mountain range, running the full circle around the inner walls, that reaches high enough to pierce the atmosphere. It does not fully close off the cylinder, but the only opening is in vacuum. This is the hole that the sun goes through during its path. Effectively this makes it two cylinders, attached end to end, with a hole in the ends to travel from one to the other.
The side of the mountain range where the sun emerges from the shell is called Upside, and on the other side of the mountain range, the Administrator calls it Downside.
Here’s a view of just a segment of the cylinder. It doesn’t cover the barrier mountains or the end caps, but it’s the general idea of what a small section of the world looks like.
Comments
Andrew Williams
I probably could have explained it better. Even if I did, some people are just more visual, I get that. If I ever publish this as a novel I should probably commission some real art that clearly explains it.
Artemis
Thank u for this i thought I was an idiot for not getting it, the Pic helped a lot😅
Andrew Williams
Yeah, I’m working on it but I haven’t seriously drawn in 20 years(and mostly did figure drawing even then), I don’t have a real artist on tap, and AI really struggles with this sort of thing. I’ll figure something out though, I think it’d be helpful.
TheFoud3er12
Can we get art ?
