In the map of Weyrth, there seems to be uncharted areas; islands or part of a continent in the north-east and just barely visible land mass in the north-west corner of the (internet) map.

Couple of questions:

What is out there? Someone has gone there and mapped the area. Who and why? How much there is exploration in general?

Some brave explorer could find a new continent of "Amaric" and discover cultures that are Weyrth version of Incas, Aztecs or Indians... just a tought.

Heh, yep, it's been about a year, it was time for the Aztecs-from-off-the-coats-of-Weyrth to showe their heads again...

Sorry Egi, I'm not mocking you, this is just one of those topics that seems to come up once a year or so. Personally, I love the Aztec and Inca cultures (and travelled through South America for that reason) and would love to one day work on something along those lines for TROS.

If you do a search through the forum, you should find some prior references to stuff like this.

Brian.

Regarding the map.. where the hell does the east border of Tzaul end? is it that black line that parallels the river Na'Zigg? If so that leaves an un-named coutnry there.. which brings up this thought. I remember reading a post in here not too long ago regarding 'blank' nations.. but I thought that mean Tzaul.. Kudara, etc.
The same question for that heap of land up north bordering Odeon and Zhidara. Also.. that black line nearest to the Xanarian Empire... the one between otamarluk and svarastra.. also.. those two parts between ixliaph and cyrinthmeir..

*shrug* More creative control for seneschals I reckon.
-Ingenious

Brian Leybourne wrote:
If you do a search through the forum, you should find some prior references to stuff like this.

Egi, you seem to be looking for canon answers to these questions, but I believe that there are none. That is, the answer is that you should make it up yourself because it's left intentionally undefined.

Now, if you're looking for suggestions about what "might" be in a particular place, or what would be fun to see in a particular part of the map that's not enumerated, etc, that's different. But realize that there will be all sorts of different answers.

For example, I think it would be equally fun to say that sail technology and cartography was such that good maps just aren't to be found. I also think that the exact opposite is also very interesting. If you're looking for suggestions, then goals that you want to meet with them would be a good idea. Why do you want to know what's over there? Do you have a group that's considering exploring the west?

Mike

Mike Holmes wrote: Egi, you seem to be looking for canon answers to these questions, but I believe that there are none. That is, the answer is that you should make it up yourself because it's left intentionally undefined.

Mike Holmes wrote:
For example, I think it would be equally fun to say that sail technology and cartography was such that good maps just aren't to be found. I also think that the exact opposite is also very interesting.

Mike Holmes wrote:
If you're looking for suggestions, then goals that you want to meet with them would be a good idea. Why do you want to know what's over there? Do you have a group that's considering exploring the west?

Sailing has got to be very difficult in Weyerth, what with all those moons screwing with the tides. In fact, coastal cities probably have a hard time of it themselves... I'd imagine the tides make venturing beyond the horizon, where you can't see the coast anymore, even more perilous than it was on our planet.

Lxndr wrote: Sailing has got to be very difficult in Weyerth, what with all those moons screwing with the tides. In fact, coastal cities probably have a hard time of it themselves... I'd imagine the tides make venturing beyond the horizon, where you can't see the coast anymore, even more perilous than it was on our planet.

*Sigh* The sailing issue again.. I asked about the ship technology in Weyrth, and I made an attempt to parallel it to medieval sea-faring vessels and/or ocean-faring ones.(Typical questions of pirates too)

Regarding the tides..
Go research. Find out the exact effect that the moon has on Earth... then carry that over to Weyrth but mutilply it by 6.. so that's a cycle of 6 high tides.. and 6 low tides in a given Weyrthian day..(Assumption)
(Or multiply it by however many moons Weyrth has at a given time period for reference to the story..)

Anyways... I would like to finally put the ship technology question to an end.. and have an answer that seems feasable and realistic... though I do not remember if that was the case with my last attempt..

*shrug*
-Ingenious

Ingenious wrote: Regarding the tides..
Go research. Find out the exact effect that the moon has on Earth... then carry that over to Weyrth but mutilply it by 6.. so that's a cycle of 6 high tides.. and 6 low tides in a given Weyrthian day..(Assumption)
*shrug*
-Ingenious

Yeah. Just remember it's not "six sets of high and low tides." It's closer to "some days with really dang high tides and really dang low ones, and other days where the moons mostly cancel each other out and the waters just sort of barely churn."

Or there are no tides. I mean, the moons could just be magical lights with no effect on bodies of water at all.

Could any of the canon guys step in and quickly clarify what's canon here, and what's not?

Mike

I've got my theories on the moons--what I see them as--but it's quite intentionally not cannon. What I know is that in Thayer beliefs it's the rising tides from the increasing numbers of moons that will sink the world one day so that the Thayer God can reclaim his world.

Jake

Which assumes, then, that the tides are indeed rising.

But I suppose Thayers could be bad with math.