The Wakeling's Pocket Guide to WIZARDscape

Direction and Alignment on and of the Wheel

Direction and alignment are wound up together in the metaverse. On the wheel, there are radial and angular directions and their matching alignments.

Portal Calendar

 The calendar upon which the passage of time is marked is called the Portal calendar. It's namesake is an ancient portal discovered at Eoshi Ruin in Armor year. How to work the portal and knowledge of its destination is still a mystery to researchers, but the portal's face was quickly identified as a calendar.

Wheel of Greater Turns

"The Wheel of Greater Turns is presumably a large circular disc of stone, though no one in the present time has seen it nor possesses any proof of its existence. According to Top Potter's Prophecy, it is a piece of the base of the Obelisphere. This device records the whole story of WIZARDscape in oneiriscrit upon its stone surface."

Time

Time in WIZARDscape is measured in signs as they turn around the Wheel. 

The base unit of time is the gargarmath. It is named for the philospher-mathemetician, E. G. Gargarmath, who derived what has become known as the base unit through a corollary of Turning Theory. 

 

The Wheel and Other Planes of Existence

There are many expressions of the metaverse. In WIZARDscape, it takes the form of a wheel that turns on an axis. The following text describes the Wheel-Axis cosmology in broad terms, and it expands on the descriptions of the cosmic planes from the D&D 4th Edition Dungeon Master's Guide (Wyatt, p. 160).

The Game Metaverse

"The rules and story elements in the D&D game are built around a set core assumptions about the world." -- James Wyatt, D&D 4th Edition Dungeon Master's Guide (p. 150)

In the text of a single page of the DMG, Mr. Wyatt outlines certain assumptions about the game world of the latest edition of Dungeons & Dragons. On the next page, he gives the world to the DM. Among other suggestions for customizing one's own setting, he gives examples of how each of the core assumptions might be modified.

In WIZARDscape, the core assumptions are not so much altered as they are augmented or atuned to the environment and to the story of the metaverse. Below, I take each of the core assumptions and add certain embellishments. These apply to the metaverse of WIZARDscape, in addition to what is described in the DMG.