for long before it became feerien , the sphere of toil , the world of the six moons was a world of great fertility , prosperity and beauty : great peaceful seas of bright blue and sprawling forests in a thousand shades of green , purple mountains , golden fields and silver rushing falls and lakes , the lot of them a splendour to behold , and , scattered among them in a seemingly inexhaustible abundancy , fruits of the earth and beasts whose flesh brought bliss to the palate .