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<blockquote data-quote="Jfdlsjfd" data-source="post: 8426559" data-attributes="member: 42856"><p>I wouldn't mind about gravity. Things fall because they are <a href="http://www.scienceclarified.com/everyday/Real-Life-Chemistry-Vol-3-Physics-Vol-1/Gravity-and-Gravitation-How-it-works.html" target="_blank">heavy and wet, not because they have this attracting mass nonsense</a>. Once it's out of the way (and frankly, you can't have real life physics and human-like population on such a planet), let's focus on the story. Assuming you want a roughly Earth-like environment on the surface, seas would be immense. And the more sea there is, the more storms a ship is susceptible to meet. You could very well have continents totally out of reach of each others by conventional means. When you mention "cut off areas" on the surface, it's a thing to imagine cultures developping separately in isolation, but you can have that on a regular-sized planet (japan vs europe, say). It would be more varied to imagine whole ecosystems cut off for millions of years and having a totally different bestiary. And a few magically-travelling intelligent species. Perhaps reverting the usual setup of varied cultures and a largely invariant, earth-like fauna and flora, and have a few worldwide cultures (who recently managed to acquire continent-hoping magic) and confronted to adapting to extremely varied environment who evolved segregated for millions of years?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jfdlsjfd, post: 8426559, member: 42856"] I wouldn't mind about gravity. Things fall because they are [URL='http://www.scienceclarified.com/everyday/Real-Life-Chemistry-Vol-3-Physics-Vol-1/Gravity-and-Gravitation-How-it-works.html']heavy and wet, not because they have this attracting mass nonsense[/URL]. Once it's out of the way (and frankly, you can't have real life physics and human-like population on such a planet), let's focus on the story. Assuming you want a roughly Earth-like environment on the surface, seas would be immense. And the more sea there is, the more storms a ship is susceptible to meet. You could very well have continents totally out of reach of each others by conventional means. When you mention "cut off areas" on the surface, it's a thing to imagine cultures developping separately in isolation, but you can have that on a regular-sized planet (japan vs europe, say). It would be more varied to imagine whole ecosystems cut off for millions of years and having a totally different bestiary. And a few magically-travelling intelligent species. Perhaps reverting the usual setup of varied cultures and a largely invariant, earth-like fauna and flora, and have a few worldwide cultures (who recently managed to acquire continent-hoping magic) and confronted to adapting to extremely varied environment who evolved segregated for millions of years? [/QUOTE]
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