Thread:Swordsofwrathadmin/@comment-31955138-20200601151509

First I would like to start with a great big caveat. This only applies if the Twilight Kingdoms adheres to standard climatic rules for a earth like planet. Which is a big if given that we don’t actually know that it is a sphere.

One of the most important but most often forgotten things when looking at fantasy worlds is climate. And while it is perfectly fine just to use make up regional climates, an understandable and consistent system can add a lot to a world. And by far the most common is the one found on earth.

Earth’s climatic system is largely based upon air temperature and pressure. The equator is the warmest part of earth and as anyone in a hot air balloon can tell you, hot air rises. As it rises it cools and precipitation forms causing the area around the equator (between the tropics) to see lots of rain which forms tropical rainforests. As we go further from the equator the air cools and falls causing areas with little precipitation that we call deserts. The process repeats twice which is why it doesn’t snow a lot in the poles.

So how does this apply to the Twilight Kingdoms? Well the Plains of Haraan are almost certainly a hot desert (cold deserts are found a long way inland at all latitudes - places like Khrond). It doesn’t take much to see Ungaliath as a tropical swamp where trees have simply, for some reason, failed to take root (pun sort of intended).

If we drive the 30 degree line through the middle of the Plains of Haraan and the equator straight through the Ghastly Mire and assume that Blackwald used a Equirectangular projection not one of those projections that actually attempts to do things then the line of 60 degrees latitude is in Dhalarina just north of Valardal and Winterreach is on the polar circle (assuming also the same level of orbital tilt as the earth).

We can also use it to calculate a scale. Assuming that the world of the Seven Kingdoms (which I am calling Planet Twilight) is the same size as earth, 1 degree of latitude is about 69 miles. Therefore the distance between the southernmost point of the emerald island (pretty much on the equator) and the peninsular to the south of Night Spire (almost bang on 30 degrees north) is 2,070 miles.

Now again I will suffix this with the warning that there is so much that can be wrong here you should take it with a lot of salt. Possible problems range from the placement of the equator and 30 degree line (which could be a long way from their true positions) to my assumption the world isn’t a flat disk sitting on top of a giant turtle. 