The World of Senniastrill

Come on, lad. Don’t ya worry; the captain only threatens to kill those he likes. The others he dumps at the next port we visit. My name is Legs: not my real name, you mind, but ya can call me Legs. Everybody else does… So ya feel lost and lonely, do ya? Well, that’s the reason I’m the first mate. I’m here to explain everything to you. Don’t stare boy, I’m the first mate, not a troll who’s gonna eat ya…

 I might as well start at the beginning eh? Well, the Unnamed made the stars and the world and the lands and the seas that are bigger than the lands, do ya understand? He said one word and that word was Senniastrill (for that is the true name of the world - or so the wise men have said since the beginning of time) and then the Unnamed fell silent and said no more. The other Gods, the smaller ones, they started playing with the world and made the first creatures in it. Some time later they made the creatures that can think and use magic. Us. The First Elves say that they were the first, but others say different and I reckon that the Dwarfs and the Orcs might have come first. But what do I know, right?! Well us, the men, we were the last. Everybody says so… So that’s a good reason to believe it. Some men are ashamed of being the last to be created. Well I tell ya, there is no shame for we are the best: perfection was needed and it wasn’t achieved before us, eh?!… But I’m straying, boy. I do stray a lot, so remind me of what I was saying when I start to ramble, right? Ah yes. Senniastrill, our world, is made of two great continents and a lot of islands, boy! I’ve been to a great many of them in my life and I haven’t seen a tenth of it all. Been a Merchant sailor all my life and I met many a man who has traveled at least as much as I have and they still tell me of islands that I have never heard of before.  

You are from Salidar, right? The biggest land we know of, where men made their biggest Empire together with the First Elves and the Dwarves. But there are others, boy, which I will speak of later… So let’s make a tour of our ship for you to get all cozy with her. First of all you have to know about the wind… The wind isn’t everything, but without it, or with it against us, we’re nothing, ya hear me?!