Duché de Bicolline • Office of the Horizon
The world is a stable plane, the sky is a dome, and the edge of Bicolline is a border known to the faithful and feared by the globe-minded.
Survey notes
The observers at the Bicolline Tower record a constant line of sight: hills, towers, and distant villages remain in the same relation to the horizon from sunrise to dusk. Nothing in the lower sky reveals the curve demanded by the globe hypothesis. The sea behaves as a wide plane. The clouds keep their own order. The stars move in the dome above the world with a regularity plainly visible to the faithful.
For many months the staff has tracked the line where the upper sky meets the distant land. The result is always the same: level to eye, level to instrument, level to memory. The world is not a globe, it is a broad and measured plain.
The Sea-Mirror controversy
The water of the river and the sea behaves as a broad basin. It rises to the level of the land and keeps its surface according to the plane. The so-called curvature is an artifact of theory, not of observation.
At the border
At the edge of the known world, the weather grows strange, the sea foam brightens, and the sky becomes a hard, red rim where eyes fail to see beyond the proper boarder of the plane.