Creating An OGC Setting

[Jürgen Hubert]

I added a few more country summaries together with proposed map locations.


Next question: What's the general climate? The main countries should be temperate, or not too far from it, but are the continents on the northern or the southern hemisphere?

EDIT: And how many miles should the sides of the map represent in each direction?

 

[Turanil]

And how many miles should the sides of the map represent in each direction?

Nellisir suggests that Gerin be the size of Australia.

Personally, I would have Brennan being of the same width as the USA from western coast to eastern coast. I think that Gerin being the size of Australia is probably too much (I would rather see it approximately the size of India).

I suggest that anybody participating into this project gives his opinion on the matter.

 

[Jürgen Hubert]

Personally, I would have Brennan being of the same width as the USA from western coast to eastern coast. I think that Gerin being the size of Australia is probably too much (I would rather see it approximately the size of India).

That sounds about right. The USA is already mindboggingly huge, at least to us European folks. Anything larger, and human characters might die of old age before crossing it from one direction to another...

Sooner or later, we will probably have to redraw parts of the map - the cities, political boundaries and so on. But for now, they can give us some rough indicators for positions...

 

[Jürgen Hubert]

I've written up short summaries of all twelve nations involved in one alliance or another, in addition to two "neutral" countries. You can access them from the "Geography" section of the Wiki.

Comments very much welcome.

 

[Yair]

About Continents' Sizes. My own suggestion is this: From western coast to eastern coast, Brennan is of the same width as the USA from western coast to eastern coast. I think that Gerin being the size of Australia is probably too much (I would rather see it approximately the size of India).

It seems we agree then. I'm also in favor of roughly this size scale.

 

[Yair]

Next question: What's the general climate? The main countries should be temperate, or not too far from it, but are the continents on the northern or the southern hemisphere?

I assumed it was cold at the north and warm at the bottom, but I don't really have a preference.

I added a few more country summaries together with proposed map locations.

The names worry me a bit after Turnail's last comment, but I suppose we must come up with Fantasy Names.
Not sure why Roushode guards against monsters, not before the fall of Zutul at any rate.
THeldar is placed at the south, which is either the tropics or the arctic; I thought of it as a nearly desert kingdom personally, a arabian like Sultan or something like that.
I really liked the lost gnomish empire.

Can't think of anything else right now, too tired.

Yair

 

[RSKennan]

Edit: Nevermind

 

[Nellisir]

That sounds about right. The USA is already mindboggingly huge, at least to us European folks. Anything larger, and human characters might die of old age before crossing it from one direction to another...

Right...'cause Eurasia is just so dinky, compared to the USA.

 

[Nellisir]

I was going to suggest Titiana, but on second thought the more obscure Seid is a better idea.

One trick for names is to spell them backwards. Titania becomes Ainatit, Oberon becomes Norebo (the OTHER god of chance in Greyhawk). I did a writeup years ago of Ainatet as a GH goddess, actually.

 

[Nellisir]

Nellisir suggests that Gerin be the size of Australia.

Personally, I would have Brennan being of the same width as the USA from western coast to eastern coast. I think that Gerin being the size of Australia is probably too much (I would rather see it approximately the size of India).

I suggest that anybody participating into this project gives his opinion on the matter.

That makes Brennan approximately 2400 miles across at the Hodgedom Mnts area, and Gerin 1600 miles, which matches India.

Gerin looks primarily temperate/subartic (extensive boreal forest, IMO), while Brennan runs the gamut from subartic in the north to tropical or subtropical in the far south.

A traditional N-S orientation is easier; shouldn't switch without a good reason.