The Third World

The Third World is not so much a world in the sense you may expect it to be. Consider the DC Universe definition of an "Earth", and you’ve basically got the definition of the world "World" when applied to the Third World.
Few people living on The Third World have any idea why it’s called that, and all of those who do are in exile and generally avoided by the rest of the population, for a variety of reasons. These people often come from The First and Second Worlds. These Three Worlds-along with Two Other Worlds-have a tendency to be much easier to access from each other than the Other Worlds. The reason for this is also a mystery. The First and Second Worlds were once practically the Same World, but for a few names, and had their major divergence and a specified point in time. The Third World diverged from the other Two very long ago, in an event that may in fact be part of the reason for the careless binding of these Five Worlds. The Final Two Worlds are, as of now, of a fairly unknown nature, though that’s sure to change soon enough.
In The Third World, Magic is a very real thing, and has no need for a silly k as it does in The First and Second Worlds. This is because no version of it ever stopped existing openly, as it did in The First and Second Worlds. The nature of Magic(k) in The Other Two Worlds is currently mysterious.
The Third World is absolutely unmappable, despite the best efforts of some, because The Gods (or whoever or whatever else created it) never got around to setting down a solid geography for their product. Neither did they ever manage to set down a solid Geology, Geometry, Astronomy, or, in fact, any of the Laws of Physics. Thanks to this, the shape of the world never got solidly established either. At times, it seems to act as a globe, while at other times, it feels rather like living inside of a burrito. Thankfully for the residents of The Third World, many of the Laws of Physics got tired of running around, and settled down, though occasionally they’ll have mid-life crises and cause a whole lot of trouble.
There are very few creatures, or, in fact, things, in The Third World who are not sentient. From time to time, even The Third World itself displays signs of intelligence. One of the few non-sentient sorts of things are strange little things that hop up and down across the landscape, frightening everything else in the world (except for the Exceedingly Brave Nagas of North Haber, who would proudly confront the strange little things that hop up and down across the landscape, and if they returned, which many didn’t, they were declared adults and allowed to take part in the political and mating rituals. Other races of Nagas were not proud to be related to these ones) and generally confusing those who weren’t familiar with them.
A select few residents of The Third World have been highly instrumental in causing The Third World to get to its current position, and thus are highly instrumental in stories of The Third World. There are also a number of sung unheroes, who are just ordinary people who tend to get involved where they didn’t realize there was anything to get involved with. Numbered amongst the former are Merlin the Wizard (the same one in all of The Five Worlds that he appears in), and the King of the Continent of Farber (upon which North Haber was the only free region, due to no one wanting to deal with the carelessness and surprising weakness of the natives) named Bernard. Amongst the latter group are Summer and Seth, two of the rare "humans" dwelling in The Third World. They were transported to The Third World during the crisis that caused the split between The First and Second Worlds; the slightly differing versions of themselves from The Two Worlds were incidentally combined during the transportation. Also, there is the peasant boy, Slas, in the village of Lume in the south of the Unified Society of Ablide, around whom many catastrophes seemed to happen. They were, honestly, for no reason besides sympathetic vibrations with The First World.
That is The Third World. In the stories that follow, we shall learn about particular species, regions, wars, and characters, until it is a fully crafted World.