World of Gaea
The anime series follows a teenage high school girl named Hitomi Kanzaki, who finds herself pulled from Earth to the planet Gaea when a boy named Van Fanel appears at her school during his fight with a dragon. Hitomi finds herself caught up in the middle of a war as the Zaibach Empire attempts to conquer all of Gaea, even though all she wants to do is find her way home. Hitomi befriends many Gaeans, and together they uncover the mystery of Atlantis. Her mysterious psychic powers become the key to stopping Zaibach's plans.
Setting
Gaea is the planet on which the events of The Vision of Escaflowne and Escaflowne take place. Hitomi Kanzaki is transported to Gaea in a pillar of light after her pendant reacted to Van's drag-energist following his completion of the Rite of Succession.
Gaea exists in an alternate dimension from Earth, and is a replica with oceans, continents, and even the ruins of ancient civilization. Its size, mass, atmospheric composition, temperature belts, and even seasons are essentially similar to those of Earth, though given some of the jumping and acrobatic feats of some of the show's characters, it is possible that the gravity is slightly lower than Earth's. However, although people on Earth cannot see Gaea, people on Gaea see both the Moon and Earth in their nightly expanse.
Gaea was created by the combined wish from those on the doomed Atlantis once they had realized that their ways were the end of their own civilization.
Over a hundred different countries exist on Gaea.
Statistics
- Circumference at Equator approximately 40053 km
- Circumference through North and South Poles approximately 40009 km
- Density 5.5 times water
- Surface 510,000,000 km2
- Volume 1,100,000,000 km3