D&D General Piecing together the official maps of the Mortal World of Nerath

Dungeonosophy said:

The "Mortal World" illustration seen in the 4e cosmological diagram. http://blogofholding.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/4eplanes.jpg

Which makes up the other side of the planet, as seen on the map in the OP.

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Cool.

In the planes map the southern hemisphere of its Mortal World sphere seems like the nortnern part of the rectangular map.

It might be a very small planet.

Yaarel said:

Cool.

In the planes map the southern hemisphere of its Mortal World sphere seems like the nortnern part of the rectangular map.

It might be a very small planet.

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The shape is similar, but then there'd be sea ice up at the equator, and blazing desert at the south pole. Would require some fantasy climatology.

Here's the "Known Regions" map sized to 20N to 70N:


And sized from the Arctic Circle to the Tropic of Cancer:


These two placements make the Known Regions very small.

Dungeonosophy said:

The shape is similar, but then there'd be sea ice up at the equator, and blazing desert at the south pole. Would require some fantasy climatology.

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The sphere in the planes map could be centered at the north pole, or centered anywhere.

Yaarel said:

Note, on Earth, the distance of 10° latitude is roughly 70 miles.

So, 70 to 20 is 50 degrees or 3500 miles.

Very roughly, the Mortal World map is about 1300 miles north to south.

This works out to be only something like only 20 degrees latitude north to south.

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Clarifying question--do you mean the whole Mortal World globe would be 1300 miles from pole to pole, or the Known Regions (boardgame map) would be 1300 miles from north edge to bottom edge?

Yaarel said:

The sphere in the planes map could be centered at the north pole, or centered anywhere.

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Ah, hypothetically (and revisionist-wise) yes. Yet "artist's intent" would presumably be north pole at top, when drawing an earthly planet.

Cannot wait to see more of these. Thanks. Keep it up.

Dungeonosophy said:

And sized from the Arctic Circle to the Tropic of Cancer:

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Dungeonosophy said:

These two placements make the Known Regions very small.

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The second map looks about right. But it seems to mean the planet is something like half the size of Earth. In this case, on planet Mortal, ten degrees of latitude is say a distance of 35 miles.

I see two more Official source maps for the geography of the Mortal World of Nerath:

1) The Shadowfell globe seen in the 4e cosmology map.
2) The Feywild globe seen in the 4e cosmology map.


Because, the Nerath wiki states: "The geography of the Feywild parallels that of the mortal realm. Various mountains, rivers, and seas that are in the Feywild are also present in the natural world."

So the shapes of the Shadowfell continents and Feywild continents "parallel" that of the Mortal contients!

There are even a few connecting points shown on the globes. So we can line them up. We see the parallel globes are thus rotated vis-a-vis the Mortal globe...revealing the shapes of the continents on the other side of the globe.

The Nerath wiki goes on to state:

"However, the distances between landmarks in the Feywild - and the landmarks themselves - are often distorted."

Clearly, the Shadowfell globe and Feywild globe are both larger than the Mortal globe...since they're bigger! That accounts for one overall factor in the distance distortion. (Not that that's the only factor in regard to any given landmark.)

I don't have a good mapmaking program which could plot and rotate globes. But between the three globes (Mortal, Shadowfell, and Feywild) we may see most or all sides of the globe. And then the Known Regions (boardgame map) could be placed.

Dungeonosophy said:

Clarifying question--do you mean the whole Mortal World globe would be 1300 miles from pole to pole, or the Known Regions (boardgame map) would be 1300 miles from north edge to bottom edge?

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One way to look at it is: planet Mortal is tiny.

If the rectangular map roughly matches Arctic to Tropic, or roughly 40 degrees latitude, and it is roughly 1300 miles, then the entire distance of 90 degrees from the north pole to the equator is only say 3000 miles! On Earth this distance would be over 6000 miles.

Mortal is a tiny planet.