Post by The Dungeon Master on Oct 19, 2012 8:44:18 GMT -5
This page contains information about the World of Greyhawk which all characters would know. Beyond this information, your character would only have knowledge about his or her particular home area, their past, and what ever knowledge skills your character may have. Obviously an exceptionally stupid character may know less, while an exceptionally brilliant character may know more. It is up to you to roleplay that out, but bear in mind that if information is not on this page, you must confer with the DM to work out additional information you may know.
Things everybody knows
Eastern Oerik in relation to the whole Oerth & the heavenly bodies.
As is obvious, the Oerik continent is the major center of the world, and the eastern portion, the Flanaess, is the center of enlightened humanity. Oerth has four great continents and countless islands, and four great oceans and countless seas, which surround these bodies of land. Little is known about the lands of the western portion of Oerik, less still about the savage inhabitants of the other continents, but such knowledge is, of course, of little use anyway and of no importance to humanity. The heavens are far more important and interesting. We must study the stars, those which wander and those which are fixed, to properly understand Astrology. The sun travels once around Oerth in 364 days, visiting the 12 lairs of the zodiac in an appointed round which never varies. The Great Moon (Luna) waxes and wanes in fixed cycles of 28 days each, upon which our months are based; while the Handmaiden (Celene, the small aquamarine satellite) follows a path which shows Her in full beauty but four times each year, thus showing us the time for our festivals. When both Mistress and Handmaiden are full, things of great portent are likely to occur, depending on the positions of the five wandering stars in the Lairs, naturally.
Things everybody knows
Eastern Oerik in relation to the whole Oerth & the heavenly bodies.
As is obvious, the Oerik continent is the major center of the world, and the eastern portion, the Flanaess, is the center of enlightened humanity. Oerth has four great continents and countless islands, and four great oceans and countless seas, which surround these bodies of land. Little is known about the lands of the western portion of Oerik, less still about the savage inhabitants of the other continents, but such knowledge is, of course, of little use anyway and of no importance to humanity. The heavens are far more important and interesting. We must study the stars, those which wander and those which are fixed, to properly understand Astrology. The sun travels once around Oerth in 364 days, visiting the 12 lairs of the zodiac in an appointed round which never varies. The Great Moon (Luna) waxes and wanes in fixed cycles of 28 days each, upon which our months are based; while the Handmaiden (Celene, the small aquamarine satellite) follows a path which shows Her in full beauty but four times each year, thus showing us the time for our festivals. When both Mistress and Handmaiden are full, things of great portent are likely to occur, depending on the positions of the five wandering stars in the Lairs, naturally.