Paul Farquhar
Legend
One would think any Canadian would be familiar with the Great Lakes.
I would just make it freshwater. I’m all for fixing anything that doesn’t make much sense.
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I would just make it freshwater. I’m all for fixing anything that doesn’t make much sense.
FitzTheRuke
Legend
Sure, but while a Canadian like myself is basically educated in geography and knows OF the Great Lakes, Canada is large enough that the nearest Great Lake is over three thousand kilometers (or around two thousand miles) from where I live!
I'm more familiar with small towns in the UK, Islands in the Caribbean, and restaurants in Tokyo than I am with the actual Great Lakes!
But yeah, it would make more sense to me that way. And heck, it's not like the definition of what a "Sea" is was really set in stone, if you go far enough back.
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Yeah that was one of my least favorite dungeons in Final Fantasy XII
Paul Farquhar
Legend
I live a lot further away than that, and one of the few things I learned about Canada in Geography was about the Great Lakes (we did a unit on Baffin island at junior level, but I don't think it was ever mentioned that it was part of Canada). The focus was on trade, but we did touch on fresh water and pollution.
Making it freshwater opens up the possibility of different kinds of encounters, and even storylines, such as a conflict between fresh water lizardfolk and salt water lizardfolk.
But I don't think it's actually been stated that Faerun's oceans have a similar salinity to our world. They could easily be more or less salty even without involving magic.
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