FOLIO II An Isometric Atlas of the Second World N 40°48' / E 15°22'
Volume Two — World-building in Section

THE SECOND WORLD

A scholarly atlas of an emergent civilisation, drawn in isometric section. Scroll to construct the world layer by layer — from bedrock to atmosphere — and read the data the world keeps about itself.

A 1 : 1 reduction of the second world.
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Strata of the Second World

Each section of the atlas treats one stratum: the bedrock that anchors, the infrastructure that connects, the surface that lives, and the atmosphere that breathes. Read them in order or out of order — the world admits both readings.

STRATUM I

Bedrock

The geological foundation, mapped as it was at the moment of survey. The rock remembers everything that walks upon it; the atlas merely transcribes a portion.

DEPTH SAMPLED 2,340 m
CORE TEMPERATURE 412 °C
Granite72%
Basalt54%
Sediment38%
STRATUM II

Infrastructure

Tunnels, conduits, and the long underground sentences in which a city writes its needs. The second world favours redundancy: each line has a sibling, each junction a witness.

NETWORK NODES 12,408
REDUNDANCY 2.3 ×
Power 70%
Water 50%
Transit 80%
STRATUM III

Surface

Where buildings rise and trees disagree about the proper hour for shade. The atlas records both the geometry of the structures and the consensus of the canopy.

BUILDINGS MAPPED 3,917
CANOPY COVER 38%
DENSITY (km²)
STRATUM IV

Atmosphere

The air remembers what the rock cannot. The atlas presents the second world's weather as a register: prevailing winds, cycle of seasons, and the small variances that make a year unlike any other.

MEAN PRESSURE 1,012 hPa
SEASONAL VARIANCE ±18 °C
N24%
E42%
S18%
W16%