# Concerning Eliéra **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Created:** [August 29, 2021, 10:36pm UTC](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/concerning-eliera/382 "2021-08-29T22:36:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![blackbox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c2a13f/32.png) [@blackbox](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/u/blackbox)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2021, 10:36pm UTC](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/concerning-eliera/382/1 "2021-08-29T22:36:34Z")
Hello. Long-time lurker, first-time poster. Been loving the setting and how thoroughly everything has been thought out. That said, I do have a few questions about the geography and structure of Eliéra and how that affected pre-spaceflight eldrae development: 1. I understand that there are around five continents on Upperside and three on Underside, but I don’t believe any of their names have been mentioned, aside from Alténiä and Cestia. What are their sizes, from largest to smallest? What sort of terrain and climate predominate on each, and which is the most historically relevant? 2. Since the Empire was founded by nations on the Upperside, did it colonize the Underside once space travel was developed or was a way found between the sides after Nimínes Dalastel reached the Talíär? Were there already eldrae extant on Underside when this crossing between-the-sides was made, and if so, how did things pan out for them? 3. At what point did the eldrae realize that the shape of their world wasn’t the norm in the universe? Did this revelation come after telescopes were invented, or was there a kind of eldraeic Eratosthenes in the Era of Hand and Fire that did the math and realized things Weren’t Quite Right? What were the social repercussions of this discovery, if any? 4. How did the deliberately-engineered nature of Eliéra and its ecosystem affect sciences like geology and biology? Because of the three disparate sources from which Eliéran life is derived, was the theory of evolution codified in a later period relative to human history? --- _[View the full topic](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/concerning-eliera/382)._