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World travel on Kishar, defined as travel between major landmasses like the Three Great Seas, Stormlands, or Spine, is not widely undertaken, and as a result most knowledge of far-distant parts of the planet filter through multiple sources.
Means of travel
Long distance travel can be through many methods, though practically speaking is largely by ship or other sea-going vessel. Most landmasses on Kishar are separated by vast oceans, and more complicated or magical means of travel like flight or teleportation is out of the reach of almost all. Even the tempest hall network, while theoretically allowing easy teleportation across incredible distances, is nonetheless greatly limited by requiring detailed knowledge of one's destination.
Degree of connection
Different landmasses on Kishar are connected to varying degrees. While it has slowed in recent centuries, travel between Abanir in the Three Great Seas and the territory of the Utnin in the Land of the Sun and Moon has historically brought people, knowledge, and goods between the two disparate regions. Likewise, the Ganeta-Meru of the Stormlands have cultivated close connections to the Wounds through their trading voyages. But other links are less frequent and more tenuous. Ships sailing directly between the Three Great Seas and the Stormlands are rare, for example, and only somewhat less frequent are those from the same two landmasses and the Spine. The tireless work of the Order of the Ever-Wandering has brought these regions into closer contact, yet there is only so much one small religious organization can do.
Consequences
As a result of this infrequent travel, even the most scholarly figure may have an comprehension of a distant place that is incomplete, misleading, inaccurate, or entirely missing. Tomes, scrolls, and tablets concerning faraway lands may be written using nothing more than hearsay, the information having passed through many intermediaries before being delivered to the author, at each step picking up exaggeration, becoming altered by misunderstanding, or losing detail along the way.