A Wizard of Earthsea | Setting

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.

The history of Earthsea reveals the world view that stands behind it. Ged explains that the shining of the stars is the repetition of a long, continuous word of which the name of every essential thing in creation is a syllable. All of creation is contained in and made by words. Out of the darkness of nonbeing comes the light of...
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