Re: Cidri

[Peter von Kleinsmid <pvk@oz.net>]

There's nothing that Metagaming or Steve has written that says Cidri 
is a ringworld or any other peculiar shape.

There have been various player discussions of various theories, of course.

I have problems with ringworld or "inside of a sphere" theories 
because I'd want some good explanation about how the sky looks and 
how/why that is. The natural appearance of a ring-shaped world where 
centripetal force is used for gravity, would be that you'd see the 
ring in the sky above. And many other practical issues that all have 
me say nope. Some GM's have come up with ideas that satisfy them, though.

My own theory is that, since there have been so many Cidri campaigns 
where GM's have made various different choices about astronomy, 
number of moons, stars, etc, and many of which even have various 
somewhat different versions of Elyntia and/or Ardoniraine and 
surrounding lands, and so on, and are invited by ITL to do whatever 
they want ad infinitum (and also because I think being one gigantic 
ball planet would also have many practical issues I don't want to 
rationalize), is:

I theorize Cidri as a collection of a large (and possibly growing) 
number of worlds, many of which are somewhat connected by gates or 
other M'noren devices. So they can naturally have different numbers 
of moons, different other properties, have some similar areas which 
are otherwise different, and so on. Some of them might even be 
magical or imaginary planes, or who knows what.

And for every actual world, there could be countless cosmological 
theories, many of them held as truth by various people. Hyberius 
Plork may be convinced he's proved Cidri is an 8-dimensional Dyson 
Moebius Strip... ok... Vebb The Brilliant is equally certain he knows 
it's a Turtle World.