"Somewhere within a nigh-infinite crystal sphere, the green-blue world of Aber-Toril spins about itself and its sun. Upon and under ts continents and seas, lifetimes blossom and are reaped back again. Toril's largest continent stretches almost halfway around the sphere, from the lands of Faerun in the west to Kara-Tur in the east, and still other mysterious lands whirl by in arcs."<br/><br/>"True enough Ao was the creator of this crystal sphere which holds the world of Aber-Toril, but pray to him not if ye'd have spells or a merry afterlife; the crystal also spawned the twin goddesses Selûne and Shar, the first of many deities. The world is reflected by many Planes, among which these gods reside, and other beings and wonders still."<br/><br/>"What is the shape of it all, much less the meaning? A great wheel, a great tree opposed to a river of blood, a world axis? Some faction will tell ye it depends on the angle from which ye look or travel. Mind ye bother not with the Hells, once was quite enough even for thine truly."<br/><br/>"But mark ye one thing well: it sounds like Lhaeo's finished the soup. Boar, by the smell of it. And mind ye now, no puns."<br/><br/>(http://lh4.ggpht.com/_CRE5WIuAKUo/TIiWPYEWBYI/AAAAAAAABVU/Ya80YIi2HW0/s720/untitled2.jpg)