A Guide Book to an Imaginary Land.
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Author: Patrick Stuart
Artist: Tom K Kemp
Graphic Design & Development: Tom K Kemp and Emile Frankel
Gacklng Moon is Black and White. Its dimensions are 234 x 156mm. (The shape and size of a standard novel). 216 content pages + cover. There are 50 black and white illustrations, maps and diagrams throughout.
The book is a gazetteer with no rules or numbers, giving descriptions of the places, peoples and ways of the Moonlands, with varied tables of encounters and situations.
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The Moonlands;
A place at the edge of the imagined world riven with cracked realities and unified by the presence of the crazed and loon Gackling Moon, an orb riven with splinters, each one of which reflects strange light from an imagined sun. As the Gackling Moon waxes and wanes the exact combination of impossible shards revealed by its face changes in proportion so that, for each shape of that moon, a certain kind of magic is bestowed upon those touched by its light.
From the shape-changing nature of the light of a Fine Full Gackling Moon, to the silver-white light of a Ruinous Moon, under which the ghosts of those slain by mortal hands rise and stalk their killers, to the horrors of a Wasp Moon, this wild irregularity forms one of few unifying elements between the cultures of the Moonlands.
The book described the Asbestos Pilgrims of the Plains of Anaesthetic Fire, the super-real Painted Plain and its Painted People, the Blurred Tribes of the impossibly recursive Incoherent Isles, the AntiGoblin Empire, arch foes of Goblin Kind who seethe around the experimental Large Goblin Collidor, which occupies a juncture point between the Whetstone Ridge, the Sea of Vermillion, from whence the Wasps Rise from their Red World, the Umber Woods where the PenumBeetles dwell among their strange reality-sustaining magics, and Owl City, fallen once-capital of the Moonlands, as well as Narcissolis, the devouring city of glass walls.
