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One of the most important things I ever figured out when I started writing was this. Its your world, therefore your rules. If up is down, and down is up that is perfectly fine because you say so.
If this is a fantasy, set in the traditional fantasy setting then really your characters wouldn't even notice how large their world is, or how long the days are. It is perfectly normal to them, also many of your characters world view would be limited to their geography... Say 50 miles or two/three days travel.
Think about this, Discworld. An amazing fantasy world created by Terry Pratchett is a giant disc supported by four large elephants standing on the back of a turtle flying through space. Not once has Terry tried to explain the how's and why's this works. You just can't, even if you try to figure out the physics it would never make sense. Fantasy can tell every law of nature to get knotted, and no one will notice if the story is good.
The best sci-fi stories I've ever read have been character driven, where the use of FTL drives, spaceships, laser guns etc is just an every day thing. Battlestar Galactica is a very godo example of this. To them this technology is just common place, like us using a cell phone. The worst sci-fi stories I've ever read are hardware driven and try to explain everything.
Ahem...
Characters... Its all about the Characters...
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