World Construction, a.k.a. How Does That Work?!?

So you probably noticed from the main page image that Ashiel is not a normal world by many senses of the term. The world of Ashiel is a broken world, held together by the wills of the Gods themselves, and on the mend. It is a world clawing itself back towards Balance through Chaos. To imagine how the world of Ashiel looks, without looking at the picture, picture an empty sphere. At the center of this place the sun, small and burning brightly, unmoving from its position at the center of the world. Now at various points surrounding the sun, some closer and some farther away, place land masses, floating in the empty space. Many of these land masses have bodies of water around them that they seem to more of less float upon. These bodies of water are connected to each other via vast "tendrils" or tubes of ocean that also stretch across the empty space. These great waterways can be sailed by ships, which can, strangely sail completely around them, gravity seeming to orient towards the ocean, at least within a certain distance.
With a few exceptions these land masses and tendrils of ocean all rotate so that the lands have a day/night cycle. When a land mass is facing the sun, it is day time, and when it is facing away, it is night. Farther out in space, orbiting all of this, are the four moons of the world. The largest moon is known as Coprena and it is a large copper/orange moon, it's surface marred by a great rift which resembles the slash from a blade. The next largest moon is Silvania and it is a silver/greyish moon, the surface of the moon pitted with craters, three of which are large and places in such a way that the face of the moon bears a resemblance to a great skull. The next smallest moon is Galdas, a golden/yellow moon whose surface is festooned with large curving ridges and deep valleys which from Ashiel look like the petals of a rose in bloom. The smallest moon is Cristas, a glittering shining moon of crystal that seems to bear deep veins of darker crystal, for some areas of the surface of Cristas shine in the light of the sun, others do not reflect as much light. The overall effect looks as if the moon is a large eye staring down at the world.

Directions on the world of Ashiel are no simple matter, at least unless you are familiar with how things work. There are four major directions on Ashiel and they are known as Dayward, Nightward, Seaward and Landward.
Dayward – the major direction in which the sun appears to rise (due to the rotation of the landmasses this direction is not always the same on each landmass.)
Nightward – the major direction in which the sun appears to set (due to the rotation of the landmasses this direction is not always the same on each landmass.)
Seaward – the major direction along the rotation axis of the landmass towards the “source” of the rotation, where the sea joins the waterway (due to the position of the landmasses this direction is not always the same on each landmass.)
Landward - the major direction along the rotation axis of the landmass away from the “source” of the rotation, where the sea joins the waterway (due to the position of the landmasses this direction is not always the same on each landmass.)
As each landmass is connected to the great waterways by its own tendril of water and these tendrils do not connect to all landmasses in the same place or from the same direction, each of the four major directions is different for each landmass.