[A/N: Just to clear the air... Lyssandra and Shia haven't been forgotten! They will be brought back in volume 2 which is soon approaching ;) ... Let's just say they joined up together....]
Far above the highest ranked kingdom, where the sky itself seemed to stretch endlessly and the air tasted of eternity, floated the Elarian Empire.
It was not a single landmass like the Kingdoms below.... but a titanic spiral of floating continents stacked like the rings of an impossible tower, each ring larger than the last, rising in perfect, impossible geometry toward a summit that had never known cloud or storm.
The lowest ring alone dwarfed every ranked kingdom beneath it; the highest ring (the Imperial Crown) was said to be so vast that dawn arrived there seven full minutes before it touched the rest of the world.
