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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GlassEye" data-source="post: 5821153" data-attributes="member: 40413">No, you don't sound like an idiot.  But it does sound like you want a scientific explanation for something that may not be able to be explained scientifically.  Also, some of your decisions for your world seem arbitrary.  There's nothing wrong with that but it's easier, imo, to come at it from the other direction: 'these are the events that led up to the current setting' rather than 'this is the setting, now how do I explain it'.Since your world has a steampunk base have you considered making the universe a giant clockwork?  Kinda like the orrery below but instead of sun, moons, etc. on an axis from the center have them on a track rolling along the outer edge?[sblock=Orrery]<a href="http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/845/orrery.jpg/" target="_blank"><img src="http://img845.imageshack.us/img845/5136/orrery.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></a>[/sblock]As far as the seasons go I'm having a hard time coming up with a reason it would work that way.  Maybe the Earthdisc goes through a different zone that makes the first set of seasons wetter than the second, sort of like layering our world's Rainy/Dry seasons common in some parts of the world over the four seasons.  Or maybe the sun goes through cyclical flares where it is warmer during one set of four seasons than the second set of four.</blockquote>