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'''The Edge Chronicles''' are a series of young adult fantasy novels written and illustrated by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell, set in the magical world known simply as "The Edge", as it is located on the edge of either a massive plateau or a floating continent, nobody is sure which. The series consists of five sagas spanning a period of 600 years, which covers the Three Ages of Flight, and centers around five members from a single long-sprawling dynasty of heroic flyers. The Quint, Twig and Rook sagas span a period of one hundred years, and take place during the First and Second Ages of Flight. Then, following the discovery of how to safely harness the power of stormphrax, and the beginning of the Third Age of Flight, the series moves on five hundred years to the Nate and Cade sagas.

==The Edge==
The titular setting takes place on the known expanse of what could be either a massively huge escarpment or a floating continent; the series is never clear which (although the official website describes it as the edge of a collossal cliff). The known world juts out into Open Sky like the prow of a ship, and is divided into several distinct areas, including forests, swamps, fertile plains and barren rocklands. What lies beyond the Known World is a mystery; dense clouds and the natural cover of the Deepwoods prevents exploration inland, more clouds inhibit efforts to fly straight down from the Edge, and all efforts to explore Open Sky have turned up nothing.

===The Deepwoods===
Make up most of the known world of the Edge. A fucking [[Death World]] tier forest full of animals and plants that will kill you horribly.

===The Twilight Woods==
A cursed place of dark magic. Those who venture here risk being trapped in an endless loop of memory, devolving into [[undead]] [[zombie]]s who roam the Woods in pursuit of dream-goals they can never catch.

==Folk of the Edge==
The Edge is inhabited by a ridiculously vast and sprawling array of humanoids, most of which are gathered into the loose family groupings of ''Goblins'', ''Trolls'', ''Trogs'' and ''Waifs''. Even then, there's a stupidly huge internal variety and multiple races that don't fit into these groupings.

'''Fourthlings:''' The [[human]]s of the setting, mutts born from multi-generational crossbreeding between different groups of goblins, trolls and/or trogs.

'''Slaughterers:''' A red-haired, crimson-skinned tribe of humanoids who make their living as the Deepwoods' premier butchers and tanners. Despite the name, they're peaceful, friendly folk.

'''Banderbears:''' Giant, tusk-sporting bear-like creatures native to the Deepwoods. Fearsomely powerful, but incredibly loyal.

'''Shrikes:''' [[Amazon]] birdfolk, consisting of small, meek, docile males and their larger, stronger, fiercer, more warlike and cannibalistic females.o

==The Ages of Flight==
The Edge relies heavily on sky-travel due to the sheer lethality of the Deepwoods, but flight technology changes over the 600 year period.

In the First Age of Flight, which began long before the start of the series, flying ships are built around "flight rocks"; naturally buoyant stones that grow in a region of the Edge known as "The Stone Gardens", which ascend as they heat and descend as they cool. Further bolstered by the naturally buoyant nature of certain tree-woods from the Deepwood, large ships are constructed around flight rocks by using a combination of fire and water to manipulate the rise and fall of the stones, and sails to catch the wind.

The First Age ends when a strange phenomena called "stone sickness" mysteriously arrives in the Edge, causing flight rocks to universally lose their buoyancy and crash.

The Second Age of Flight begins when people learn to construct small 1-person and 2-person flying vessels using the old sumpwood and treated with a new varnish that enhances its natural buoyancy. However, these small vessels can only be used for personal craft, and the need to reconstruct the flight-base trade network ultimately leads to the Third Age of Flight, which centers around the harnessing of stormphrax. This proves so successful that whereas it took only a century for the First Age to end and the Third Age to begin, the Third Age is still uncontested five centuries after its beginning.

==/tg/ Relevance==
Whilst there isn't an official RPG for the setting, /tg/ has been getting shit done by attempting to build one itself.

[[Category: Literature]]