Dawn of titans islands12/28/2023 ![]() The result is called a Plate Carree projection and works on a square grid, which is the main thing. The reason the draft map looks strange is that a strip has been removed from the equator, the continents have been moved slightly, and some of the islands have been moved quite a lot. The Wastes of Chaos and other "localised micro-climates" could be explained as geological/magical anomalies. It would probably be warmer generally than earth and have less extremes of climate. Titan is shown as a small planet with an equatorial circumference of 6000 miles. Temporary loss of control with the virtual eraser, sorry. The tiny island to the west of Allansia is the site of Atlantis City taken from the Before Its Destruction map.Īrrowhead and Tura. Moving the Isles of the Dawn further north also works. Warren's ideas about Khul and Allansia's distance from the equator sound about right, so maybe we start there. That's the first thing we need to decide on. Now it's getting an update.Īs Andy says, the proportions, sizes, and positions of the continents need to be adjusted. The original map was deliberately vague so game books writers could invent their own locations. Some things contradict, and some are obviously wrong. Getting the material to consistently link together is probably impossible. Gundobad? Is that N.West Khul, or N.East Khul? I've seen suggestions for both.īut we want your opinion. I think this is the problem we have to solve first.ĥ. The proportion of the map is wrong because otherwise it has to be a double-square format which looked terrible. We need a square grid to plot the continental maps. This is a little bit like a transverse Mercator cylindrical projection, but because it has a square grid, it's more like a Plate Carree projection. Your earlier comments on this subject got me thinking and reading up. The continents, Should they be repositioned? Should they be larger? Should we alter their proportions?Ģ. The Wastes of Chaos might be explained by the residue effects of an ancient battleground.ġ. Ocean temps by hydrothermal vents and cold seeps. Surface temperatures can be explained by prevailing wind direction, land temperature, and sub-surface volcanic activity. Have to make up something about the polar regions. This map gives an equatorial circumference of 6000 miles, so the molten core of Titan will be close to the surface and keeping global temperature warm. The tiny island to the west of Allansia is the site of Atlantis City, measured from the Atlantis before its destruction map.ģ. ![]() The continents should be larger I think, and their relative positions altered a litle to get the right proportions with the oceans.Ģ. I'm starting to think of it looking like a sea chart for a board game.ġ. In my e-mail to Andy I said there were problems with this draft map and that I wanted to find out what they were. And if Gundobad is to be in northern Khul, the tropical zone should probably be reduced even further in that part of the continent. Also, in Khul itself, I'm not sure that Kazan should be tropical, although eastern Zamarra is desert, probably because it is closer to the Scythera region. On Andy's climate maps, I can't help thinking that the tropical zone extends too far south to the east and west of Khul (presumably to make the Isles of the Dawn tropical, although might they not be warm temperate?). Also, if the map was to be converted to a globe, would the northern lands be reduced in size, or would the seas between them be reduced instead?ģ) I still think that the Isles of the Dawn could be further north than either map indicates they are, but maybe that's just me. The shuffling northwards also means that the relative positions of Khul and the Arrowhead Islands are somewhat different.Ģ) I'm not sure what kind of projection is intended, but shouldn't the length of the equator be twice the distance from north pole to south pole, assuming that the planet is roughly a globe? Getting rid of the top and bottom rows of squares would even things up a little. This means that it is quite a bit nearer the Isles of Refuge and the equator than I feel it should be considering that southern Allansia is definitely tropical, it seems wrong that it is relatively far from the equator, whereas the warm temperate Arion is now relatively close to it. There are some issues with the new sketch map though:ġ) Khul and some of the southern islands have shuffled north somewhat relative to everything else. ![]() Excellent! Nice to have a scale and an equator.
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