Happy Up Here

“Once we thought the world was a flat disc, and then that we were alone in an endless sea. But now we know that our home, the place we call the Continent, is but an island of many, drifting aimlessly in a bottomless void we call the Depth, remnants left behind by the destruction of the planet we call Ur.”
– How the world came to be and the story of everything else by Issa Solveig.

Not much is known about the planet Ur before its destruction. Besides its chemical and mineral composition and what was left behind in its demise, it is not known whether life originated on Ur or on any of its isles, and one can only guess as to what it looked like. Some geologists and archeologists even purpose that Ur was never destructed, but has always been like it is today.

Indeed, before the advent of the airship it was commonly believed that