SWS

SWS, original acronomical expansion unknown, sometimes jokingly referred to as Saya Wula Sia, recently backformed to Selected World 'S', is one of the two major Selected Worlds. It is distinguished by its wide selection of fantastic races which absurdistly parody common fantasy tropes, its large number of constructed languages of various stages of development, and its system of constructed genetics.

Cosmology
The majority of documentation of the happenings of SWS are relevant to "the Union", a relatively small region of the one continent on a single planet. However, to some extent the cosmology beyond this planet is described; two moons are associated with the planet, one which orbits roughly in a circle around it, and can be seen taking up a respectable amount of the sky at night from the Union, and one which rotates in place about a kilometer above the ocean on the far side of the planet. Both moons have at least one moon of their own, the astrological significance of the traveling moon's moon is unknown.

This collection of heavenly bodies either orbits, or is orbited by, a sun which can be seen in the daytime from the Union; which body is central to the system is not particularly meaningful, either can be considered the center without causing any contradictions. In any case, all of these bodies float suspended in a possibly infinite sea of viscous fluid known as "outer space", but unlike water and other fluids, outer space is trivially breathable.

It is not known whether the aforementioned bodies are the only motile objects within outer space, but there are a large collection of static bodies, some much larger than the mobile ones, some much smaller, which are covered entirely in ruined cities which bear some resemblance to the architecture found within the Dungeon Worms. These assorted spheres lie roughly on a plane, suspended an immensely large distance from a cosmic, outstretched hand. It is not known what lies beyond the hand's wrist, but it seems that outer space becomes thinner at the bottom, and creates a sort of mist obscuring the arm the hand is connected to, if any.

The Planet
The main planet on which the Union is located, sometimes referred to rather misleadingly as 'Earth', appears to be a sphere from the outside, but in reality much of its land lies on spiral patterns which are projected into rings on the surface of the sphere. That is, the areas associated with these rings actually have many levels above and below them, but only one or two levels are realized as a single ring from the outside. However, if one were to travel around the ring in either direction, new territory would eventually be reached; sometimes one's presence causes the new level of the spiral to be projected onto the ring, but sometimes one may become lost and unable to return to stable areas. When traveling clockwise, you travel in a demonstrably different direction of the spiral's levels than when traveling counterclockwise, clockwise is usually called "up" and counterclockwise called "down". However, because multiple layers of the spiral are often projected onto one another, one does not always, and in fact often does not, traverse upwards or downwards exactly one level at a time, at exactly one full turn of the ring. This can cause an impression of the space as constantly being created anew, but only the realization of the space shifts, while the spiral of layers remains the same, though it is constantly shifting either upwards or downwards at various rates. There are also some meta-stable spaces within the ring that retain connectivity but not location within the ring; the Tavapa-speakers live in an area, which, unbeknownst to them, is a single giant village from which any point within the village can be reached from any other point without leaving, but since no one knows every individual connection, people often travel some distance to reach what they perceive as 'other villages'. Occasionally, one may discover a contradiction of this worldview, such as learning that the alleyway behind your neighbor's house leads to that one part of town in the faraway city you go to on holiday, but such things are usually brushed off as illusions, and occasionally deemed localized anomalies.