In the OP I used Indonesia as the largest island. Most are smaller, though there is probably a chain somewhere of “huge” mountainous islands that have a mountain rain shadow and look a bit like a drowned California Central Valley.
Cool idea, though for it to work either the islands would need to be pretty close together or that syndicate is gonna have to have an awful lot of boats.
(I'm assuming "boat-bridge" to mean the boats are rafted together such that the army or caravan walks across from one island to another)
Would be cool to have a super long bridge supported by some sort of magic (that is now starting to fail), such that the two island people have had very friendly and profitable relations over the years. Now that the bridge is failing, how will they continue to work together? (I'm thinking of the bridge between Denmark and Sweden, although there are no doubt many other bridges of similar span).
Undersea cities (like just below the surface). Or super deep cities, but populated by modified surface folk. I'm thinking of the novel Starfish by Peter Watts. It's an SF novel, but anything technological can be hand waved with Magic...
Magic rituals to switch between water and air can be routine.Undersea cities (like just below the surface). Or super deep cities, but populated by modified surface folk. I'm thinking of the novel Starfish by Peter Watts. It's an SF novel, but anything technological can be hand waved with Magic...
So New Guinea or Borneo sized? Keep in mind that New Guinea is almost twice the size of California, and Borneo is slightly bigger than Texas.
Sure. Again, we’re talking about the largest land masses in the world. I suspect that to have recognizable ocean currents and the like, you’re gonna want a couple archipelagos made up of larger islands, and having islands that big helps have room for stuff like larger stretches of desert, plains, massive jungles, etc, but you still have those peoples immediate neighbors in a coastal region.
