[Werthead]

It's about the size of Britain, according to my extremly unscientific method of drawing it (i.e. guessing). Though big, it's still far too small to be called anything other than 'an island'.

[henk]

and how many people live in britian? i thought of seguluh iland like a tiny island how many segeuluh are there? lol suddenly a army of 1.000.000 segeluh comes and slaughters the entire world
and quen tali is WAY to small given how many cities appear on thge map in hoc or tbh(cant remember) and execpt the wickan plains and that mountain area north I think its completly populated unlike 7c with many odhans genebackis with plains and lether with its northlands

[Werthead]

Actually, one thing that is definite about the world map is the size of Quon Tali, northern Genabackis, Seven Cities and north-western Lether in relation to one another and the size of the world (assuming it is Earth-sized). That all scales together nicely based on the map scales given in the books. But certainly Quon Tali has the appearance of being by far more densely populated than the other landmasses.

Not every single citizen of Seguleh is an insanely good warrior. I imagine that they have a civilian caste and the warrior caste is merely on top of that. Otherwise these super kick-ass soldiers are dividing their time between being ridiculously badass and baking bread, putting up street buildings and cleaning out the sewers, which seems a bit surreal. It's also possible that Seguleh is a reasonably-sized island but not very heavily populated, like say Britain two thousand years ago when you could travel tens of miles between settlements and not see another living soul.

[Izingad]

For some reason I always pictured this planet smaller than that of Earth....more Mars sized....hummmm? Thus the choppy seas...Wu has like tens moons pulling every which way.

Take an island the size of Hawaii....lots of peeps, not a lot of usable space b/c of the volcanoes...of course the Segulah could live underground substained by glowing mushrooms, etc.

[Aptorian]

Izingad;129054 said:

For some reason I always pictured this planet smaller than that of Earth....more Mars sized....hummmm? Thus the choppy seas...Wu has like tens moons pulling every which way.

Take an island the size of Hawaii....lots of peeps, not a lot of usable space b/c of the volcanoes...of course the Segulah could live underground substained by glowing mushrooms, etc.

Wu only has one moon, if it has more they are now too far away to see or they were destroyed.

I must admit I also have problems understanding the size of the continents, especially 7C.

[GardenGnome]

Indeed, Wu only has one moon, or at least they never mention any other than one. It could be because the others do not reflect light, and therefore do not really affect the goings-on. In DG they very often refer to moonlight and the moon not having risen yet.

In HoC there are talk of three moons (and two suns) in the Nascent, you might have it confused with that...

[Illuyankas]

Just because they are too dark to be visible doesn't mean they don't affect the planet, you know.

[GardenGnome]

Yes, I was arguing that because they are too dark to be visible they aren't mentioned. That does in no way exclude the potential for existing moons out there. I seem to recall something about a shattered moon, but I can't put my finger on it... Not certain where I read it.

[Illuyankas]

Wu had more at the time of MT, but whether they, like the main one, were damaged or destroyed by the incoming Jade Giants is still a mystery. And the shattered one you mentioned is the main normal moon, being pummeled by the JGs.

[The Rope]

I think i remember the Ceda in MT talking about the possibility of Wu having several moons at one time, and that he was trying to figure out if that was true, and if so, if thhey were no longer there, destroyed, or hidden for some reason...

[Raymond Luxury Yacht]

The Rope;129227 said:

I think i remember the Ceda in MT talking about the possibility of Wu having several moons at one time, and that he was trying to figure out if that was true, and if so, if thhey were no longer there, destroyed, or hidden for some reason...

I'm rereading MT at the moment, but haven't gotten that far yet. I'll post the quote when I come across it.

[Ikeda]

After reading BH P. 154, I was wondering if seven cities and Lether could be the same continent? Maybe connected by some "north pole" type artic land mass (possible full of Jugat), but I'm just extrapolating that last part.

[Dolorous Menhir]

Don't think so. Lether was a distant outpost of the First Empire, which arose on Seven Cities. So it's unlikely Lether is on the same continent as its founding Empire.

[polishgenius]

On the coninents problem, it not possible that the First Empire simply missed a continent? Europe was unaware of America for the majority of the existence of civilisation here so far, after all.
They could have missed Assail or Genebackis, is there any proof that they were on either?
Or they counted Korelri and Stratem together, or didn't count Quon Tali (it's pretty small compared to the continent it's next to, after all).
Edit, missed Werthead's post covering all this ¬_¬. Ah well.

[Izingad]

I guess what got me confused was pg 689, " a string of suns, a dozen in all..."

I took this to mean that there were in fact new moons lit by the sun and that all but two where in fact new moons....but I am dumb and more importantly wrong....they are all jg metors.

But now I must question...in a solar system with odd jg floating around , and Hood knows what else, these extra planetary bodies would change gravity as would a hidden moon......a la the Black moon in Dragonlance.



Man, I'm a dick. First I reference x-men in one string and now dragonlance!

[Izingad]

Oh ya...same area of BH, around pg689, is a good description of Koreli.

[Aptorian]

Izingad;130247 said:

Man, I'm a dick. First I reference x-men in one string and now dragonlance!

I've only ever read one dragonlance book and it was crap, from that I deduced that all dragonlance books are crap, so yes... you're a dick

[Atrate61]

Hetan;78094 said:

Werthead's map

I don't know if I'm just dumber than usual this morning or not....where is this map? I'd love to have a look at it.

Cheers all,

AT61

[The Rope]

umm... its right there. look now.