Cyaxares sighed. "Where to begin?" she said. After a moment, she continued. "The place we refer to as the Oikoumene is the ancestral homeland of the ancient Elleneans, but it is only a small part of our world. The Oikoumene is made up of a group of closely packed continents surrounded by vast oceans, across which exist other such inhabited places-some perhaps even more populous than our own-all part of a great globe the Ancients called Eo. Further, the Ancients believed that Eo was only one ...