3) Many different cultures on the tower share legends that once the world was far more than the tower and that some great disaster shattered it leaving just the tower. One notable example are Artelianists so called because they follow the teaching of the legendary sage Arterlian, a figure who is revered in some form or another in many religions. The Artelianists believe that in ancient times some great act of hubris by a human empire caused the world that was to be split asunder. Curiously, most of the Artelianists are themselves humans. The most notable religious group that does not believe that in any such catastrophe and believe that the world always was as it is and was created this way are the Disciples of the Flare. The Disciples worship the Flare itself; they are sometimes known as Flarists which is considered sometimes but not always as slightly pejorative.