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Eikasia: World Lore

Welcome to my lore repository. Here you will find the details of my fantasy setting. This world was originally started when I was just a teenager for a novel series project titled, Eikasia. I've since changed and added to the setting in preparation for a "reboot" of my work that I hope to release soon. What does "eikasia" stand for? It comes from Plato, and it means "conjecture" in Greek. It was used by the philosopher "to refer to a human way of dealing with appearances." There are different interpretations, but the one that led me to name my fantasy novel series this term was "the inability to perceive whether a perception is an image of something else. It therefore prevents us from perceiving that a dream or memory or a reflection in a mirror is not reality as such."1

I've started this world-building section of my site to motivate me to keep at it. I don't hate world-building, but I dislike doing it outside of my stories. I'm hoping that making my lore more visual and somewhat interactive will spur me to fill in the gaps that need filling. I am tentatively adding to this as I rewrite my first novel. Details may change as I go, and I would like to add artwork and maps in the future. For now, it's a whole lot of text.

Just to let you know, some of the work listed here is heavy spoilers. Also some of the information found here is in fact registered under copyright. While I'm open to letting others use my setting for tabletop campaigns, artwork and comics, and their own written stories, I do ask that you seek my permission first before proceeding with your projects. For the moment, I'll only be providing permission for works that are free and shareable. If you have any questions, please contact me.

Located in the sidebar is the directory of information for my setting: Kélyfos. Each page is interlinked with one another in an order I thought was logical. Feel free to hop around as you see fit!

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Footnotes:

1 I'm not smart enough for this stuff. Credit to the Wikipedia page covering the Analogy of the Divided Line. Read more here.

 

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