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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jfdlsjfd" data-source="post: 9617727" data-attributes="member: 42856">This gives more information about the geography of the mysterious land where the direct road can be a myriad of small path both crossing and avoiding a barren marshland.Since our last foray into geography, we got two key informations. First, there is a Roc nesting place nearby. Rocs are supposed to live in "warmer, moutainous areas". The book abided by the moutainous part, since we're told Rocfyl would tend to fly toward the peaks of Seagate Island. But the key part is "warmer". This directly contradicts the hypothesis that we were quite high or quite low latitude.This could be reinforced by the idea that the sequence "we land, a few hours from nighfall, which is when the most dangerous beasts come out" is followed by mid-day. Rufyl's former warning wouldn't make a lot of sense if we were in a place where day lasts only 6-8 hours. But they, we should be between Trondheim and Mo i Rana, in terms of latitude. During the winter solstice. So much for a warmer climate.Hypothesis: this world has a much higher axial tilt than ours, more like 40°. But this is not coherent with every other observations we did so far.It's "at least" 10 ft above our head. Also, a random googling revealed that:"Based on excavations at Machu Picchu, the average height of a man was 5 feet 2 inches, and women, on average, were 4 feet 11 inches."Given the hypothesis that Carr is a "native", and we are in not-South America, it makes sense to have a short Carr. Especially since he's a scrawny wizard, whose growth was even more stunted by his inappropriate eating habits. Probably didn't exercise much either.We should really stop wearing the matching "Son of Landor" and "Daughter of Perth" T-shirts. It's not cool. It's just dorky.Attacking a random, huge creature we can't see with puny darts is probably something that is more foolish than cool, but I get your point. I suppose we would survive if we just did... nothing and didn't cast a spell. Know your place, community wizard!</blockquote>

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