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The universe of Daventry is divided into many parts. How many, we may never know, for it is always reinventing itself, and today's count of the number of realms, and kingdoms, and deserts, and islands, and mountains to hold up the sky will be different tomorrow. It will be different again the day after tomorrow, and again the day after that, and again, and again. Today's fact is tomorrow's anachronism. In a world of magic and wonders, all is possible if not inevitable.

What is Magic? Pick a grain of sand from the palm-kissed beaches of Kolyma and pray that it answers the question. Then query the next grain, then the next, again the next, and when all the sand on all the beaches in all the realms of Daventry have answered you with their different answers then know that there are as many different explanations as there are "Once in a lifetime offers" in the Other World.

...it takes little more than a casual stroll through any of the realms to find odd statuary, pillars of salt, mounds of dust, or half-human half-insect abominations that were once users of the arcane arts who made a simple mistake, ones who did not follow their craft to the last letter.

Frankie of Avalon] wished to become become famous throughout all the realms of the world, and that all should sing his praises.

The the magics contained within then pages of the The Objurgation of Souls can set the stars reeling drunkenly between the realms of night, and others can melt the mind of almost anyone who might gaze on their images.

Icebella's realms stretch across the highest peaks of the highest mountains, and encompass all of the world's polar regions.

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