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SETTING ''The Edge Chronicles'' is set on the Edge, which appears to be either a huge cliff jutting out of the clouds, or an island floating in the sky. The Edge is made up of many different environments, the first of which is the Edgelands, the very eastern and western frontiers of the cliff. It is a barren rocky place forever clouded in mist. There, people may stumble into the Twilight Woods, or fall over the edge of the Edge itself. The second is the Deepwoods, the forest to which many woodlands creatures, both peaceful and deadly, call home - including the hero of the first three books of the Chronicles. It is the largest area of the Edge, a seemingly endless panorama of teeming life in so many diverse forms. Third comes the Twilight Woods, a place of decay and immortality which gives off a strange force that makes anyone who enters forget themselves and be lost forever in daydreams and nightmares. It is a place that robs you of your senses and all your faculties, but never grants you the peace of death. Great storms are attracted to the place to release great bolts of lightning that hit the earth in solid form, as the revered substance "Stormphrax", and despite the risks many venture there in seach of the powerful crystals. Next is the Mire, a bubbling brownish-white land of endless ooze that resulted from the dumping of waste and sludge by nearby Undertown. It is a place of hidden blow holes and sinking quick-mud, and seems perfectly uninhabitable - except for the creeping monsters that hide in the waste. Undertown is next door to the Mire, the capital of the Edge. Holding a diverse population, the city is still less than prosperous in many areas, and shanties are pressed tight to its outskirts. Undertown is also built on the banks of the large Edgewater River which splits the city in two. This is the centre of commerce on the Edge, a place of merchants and pirates - each trying to undercut the other. An enormous buoyant rock that floats in the air is the site of the scholarly city of Sanctaphrax, which teaches students a variety of subjects - mainly concerning the weather and how to predict it. There are Colleges of Raintasters, Cloudwatchers, Mistsifters, and so on. Other scholars also come here to pore over the many texts here for study. Sanctaphrax is attached to Undertown by a huge metal chain to prevent its floating away. In ''Midnight Over Sanctaphrax'', the chain holding down Sanctaphrax is cut, and the city floats away. It is replaced by New Sanctaphrax. The final part of the Edge is the Stone Gardens, at the very western area of the Edge. The Gardens are where buoyant rocks slowly "grow" from the surface, and eventually float away into the sky. The Garden is guarded by the White Ravens, which keep an eye on the cultivation of the strange stones. These stones are used to build great flying boats known as Sky-ships, and without the stones transport on the Edge would be a very limited affair. Later in the series, the Stone Gardens are infected with "Stone Sickness" - a degenerative disease that brought to an end the "First Age of Flight", which in turn brought about many other changes to the Edge. The Edge finally ends here, and the Edgewater River slips into the void past the western edge, at the very tip of the cliff, to endlessly tumble into the void below. ANIMALS AND PLANTS OF THE EDGE One of the elements the series is known for is its interesting array of plant and animal life, described in such detail (and accompanied by beautiful line drawings) that it feels like the story is taking place in an actual living, breathing Fantasy World . See Also: Animals of the Edge Chronicles Plants of the Edge Chronicles WORKS IN THE SERIES Here is a list of all of ''The Edge Chronicles'' so far in the Chronological Storyline order, with original date of publication. There will be ten books in all. The tenth is rumored to be about Sanctaphrax after it is cut away. The Quint Saga
The Twig Saga
The Rook Barkwater Saga
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(There is some debate over where '' The Stone Pilot '' is placed in the chronology, as although the story is set in a certain time period, the narration of the story is told from the persective of a later time period in the canon.) SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS
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