Space fantasy
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The definitive feature of the Spelljammer setting, besides the ships themselves, was the Crystal Spheres. These shells of hard, crystalline material encompassed every world and were loosely based on the Christian idea of the Firmament, a wall that held back the waters of Heaven. “The Discoverers,” which inspired him, was a medieval woodcut of a sage pushing beyond the firmament to other lands. While the portrait, and its inspirational power, were real, its story was a mistake.
