A Word on the Natural Order

As you may have read in my foreword, Nalan is a singularly peculiar planet. Firstly, although I will continue throughout this text to refer to this place as a 'planet', in truth it is significantly too small to be considered such, and is closer to a small moon than a full fledged planet - and it is in this small size from which Nalan draws its particular strangeness.
The simplest way I can put this, reader, is that the entire planet is an elaborate lie, constructed for an elaborate reason which, if there even is one, is far beyond my comprehension. Firstly, their is the problem of gravity. The more astute of you may be wondering exactly what life is like for a people who live their entire life almost weightless, what it must be like to leap several times your height with no effort. Yet this is where the lie begins; the gravity on Nalan is almost exactly standard to what one would come to expect from a habitable planet, in fact my instruments place it at only ever so slightly different to the gravity you yourself are likely experiencing now.
The next of the great lies that make up life on this planet is the sun. Or more accurately, the absence of one. Observing the planet from the outside, either through a telescope or magical means, reveals that there is no sun - the planet has no orbit, and drifts aimlessly through space. However, to those living on the planet, the sun is once again as visible to them as it is to you or I. Not only is it visible, it provides light and heat, and is capable of growing a significant number of crops in the Central Dominance. During the yearly event known colloquially as The Darkening however, the sun simply dissappaears for a month, leaving the planet to be seen in its natural state.
Finally, we come to the weather. Clearly, the weather here is also a fabrication. A planet with no orbit or stable spin, or more importantly no sun, should not have any real weather patterns - or oxygen for that matter - yet similar types of weather can be observed on Nalan as can be seen on other planets I have visited, albeit in a much more random fashion. The weather here appears to have a mind of its own, raining one moment, snowing the next, and ending the day with sunshine. All of this should be completely impossible, and I come come up short on an explanation as to why things such as the gravity and oxygen supply of the world should be so consistent, and yet the most visible parts of Nalan are so obviously false.
What is somehow even more peculiar than these facts is the way the people of Nalan respond to the obvious lie on which they live. That is to say, they don't respond in the slightest. For people who live here, that's simply how things are, and the way they have been. The lie is blindingly obvious - the most basic ritual for the detection of magic immediately reveals it: the air is transmuted, the sun and the heat are intensely evocation, and if you can get high enough even the blue of the sky can be detected as just an elaborate illusion. When I quizzed a local mage about exactly why parts of the world gave off such auras, he shrugged me off, claiming it was completely normal.
As I mentioned, I have so far come up with no explanation as to why this planet exists, however I will detail later in this text some of the specifics which I have mentioned here, along with the way in which magic manifests itself in this world, and from that perhaps you can draw your own conclusions.