After talking some more about mountains, rivers, and other features of the East, he proceeds to drone about Middle Equiya which is the middle part of the ''small dog bone.'' I don't really see it, though. Anyway, although a vast region in its own right, Middle Equiya, also known as Arcadia, is a few times narrower than the ndmasses conjoining its sides.

  Western Equiya or more commonly: Dontium, is roughly simir in shape and size to the eastern part—it appears so empty when compared to the regions of the East.

  His stick moves around the entire Equiya, basically everywhere where nd isn't. ''The unrelenting ocean Alldora,'' the stick then slides north of Arcadia. ''Gives birth to two seas. North Sea,'' even I'm better with names than that. The pointer rod jumps south of Arcadia. ''And of course the South Sea.''

  Grandmaster Decius Hadrianus returns the narrow stick back, somewhere behind the greenish-brown board, and spreads his arms. ''As, a thousand most detailed maps can't show you the true splendor of the world. Nevertheless, during your ter years you will expand upon the whole we learn here and see beyond the Valley.'' Jealousy? He sounded and looked a little envious as he said that. Well if it's to his liking he can go and live in the Wastes for all I care, but me...I'm not going.