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Prester (sometimes called "Prestale") is the name of the floating world in which the story of '' Last Exile '' takes place. The world of Prester is divided up into two lands - Anatoray and Disith - and the only way of reaching one from the other is to cross the Grand Stream , the endless and torrential storm that forever rages high in the skies. It is strange at the beginning of the series to understand how the two lands of Anatoray and Disith can only be traveled between by flying high into the sky, entering the Grand Stream , and flying through a bottle-like hurricane out to the other side. In the last episode, when the great vessel Exile is finally found and used to dissipate the Grand Stream, we see that these two lands are actually two separate worlds that literally face one another. Once the skies are clear, a person above the permanent cloud cover on Anatoray can look up and faintly see the landscape of Disith facing back at them. This is what the phrase written on the book at the beginning of every episode means:
The phrase is written in Greek Letters , like all other text in the series, and refers to the fact that Prester is a world shaped like a Bottle , or an Hourglass . It has a narrow portion in the very middle, which is filled with the Grand Stream until the last episode, and it widens out at either end, and these ends contain the miniature planets that come to be called Anatoray and Disith. In the series, the character Alister uses a Sextant to plot her position according to the stars. This is when she utters the phrase, ''"The stars have become unreliable."'' She is referring to the slow, spinning motion that the enormous hourglass-shaped world of Prester is making in the heavens, giving the stars an erratic pattern across the sky when viewed from Anatoray, which roates on its own within its half of the hourglass. Exile carried the first colonists from Earth to Prester hundreds of years ago. Upon arrival and disembarking its passengers, it holed up in the bottleneck and created the Grand Stream . Once it was reactivated, it began its preprogrammed behavior by continually travelling back and forth between the Earth and Prester. The only time Prester is truly shown in this form is on the last episode when the cast looks out from the deck of Exile . Up until that point, the author / art director of the series had been playfully toying with revealing that fact by spreading the Hourglass shape all over the series in the form of maps, icons, artwork, and royal emblems. |
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