Cosmology and Geography

Ialfa's home system has six known planets. Ialfa has four moons, (although two are quite small). The study of astrology is quite popular and there is a standard 'zodiac' of constellations, and a mythology based on these heavenly inhabitants that seemly dates back into the mists of time to when all the people of the world were one, as there are strong similarities between names, roles and certain stories. The sun is a father/king figure, and the moons the mother/queen and her two daughters and one son -- the smallest and most distant moon, which does not have an apparent diameter when seen with the naked eye.

The casting of horoscopes based on these mythologies is common in Borgim. To get a feel what these sound like check out Today's Horoscope, or look up Your Birthsigns.

Ialfa

Ialfa has only three continents. Two are located fairly close to each other, and the other, Tsorurhi, is on the opposite side of the world. Of the two close continents the smaller, Kamko is approximately the same size and in the same geographic location as Africa. This is the only continent that has had much detailing done, as it is the seat of human civilization, and the location of the equatorial Empire that forms the background for Cantata in Coral and Ivory. (See Geography.) The other continent, Midollo is much larger, about the size of Asia, but stretching north and south rather than east and west. It is peopled only with a few barbaric tribesmen, but has a variety of interesting (and large) fauna to keep things from getting too boring.