/lit/ - Literature

>>23340654
>The Dying Earth exists alongside several Overworlds and Underworlds. These help add a sense of profound longing and entrapment to the series. While humans can, with relative ease, physically travel to the horrific Underworlds (as Cugel does on several occasions, to his dismay) the vast majority of the population are only capable of mentally visiting the wondrous Overworlds through rare artifacts (e.g. through the "Eyes of the Overworld") or dangerous magic phenomena (such as the ship Cugel encounters in the deserts). Though they can look at the wonders and pretend they are really there, humans can never truly inhabit or escape to these utopias as their physical bodies remain stuck on the Dying Earth and will die with the sun regardless.

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>>23341144
But in marvelous they literally fly to that planet at the end of the universe physically. Even bring back a guy that was stuck there for hundreds of years. This is all in the same universe

>>23340654
Billions of years have passed between now and the dying earth. It's plausible for some group of humans to have colonized another planet. The protagonists are (compared to their predecessors) illiterate retards, there's probably a lot they don't know

>>23341309
Oh, just remembered Embelyon. That's not really clear whether it's on earth or another planet but it might outlive old earth

The earth has entered a technological dark age. In one story in the first book there is a bunch of ancient tech revealed like flying cars. No one has the knowledge anymore, after magic was discovered everyone just focused on that. It can be used to traverse planets but most magicians like weird dimensions and give zero fucks about humanity as a whole

>>23341144
Cugel goes to that weird box dimension with psychic speak but never and underworld. That schizo demon who wanted to rape him to death existed in the regular earth.