1) I often wonder what Ed was thinking, myself. ;} However, in this case, I can impart this much: there’s a crystal sphere now called Hulthoonar by its inhabitants. At its heart is a darker-than-flame-orange star called “Ambereye,” and its solar system had two earth-like...

2) ...planets: one named Ambereye after the home star, and another named Hulthoon. They were home to rival civilizations of sentient, human-like upright bipeds that made war on each other, using magic. After a long struggle (actually, a series of skirmishes with rebuilding and...

3) ...magic-experimentation time between them), the Amberites lost and their world was devastated; it’s now “dead,” in an eternal twilight of particle-laded dust clouds that block sunlight, so nothing grows. Hulthoon was much humbled in the strife and has reverted to...

4) ...medieval-era “small warring baronies with much mistrust of magic and those who wield it.” The hidden stronghold of Thurdle is on Hulthoon’s wilder, monster-roamed continent. So are many dragons, but the monster hunters never hunt so close to home, and park their ship...