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In development since 2017. march. 14.
So it took quite some time and countless reworks, but I guess it's time to reveal the full story map, not just the East side of it after so many years stuck in development. It's still a work in progress so things might change further.
The name Angalkhaal is how the locals call it.
DIN E2M8 is how it was named on the star charts. "DIN" stands for the strange prolonged radio wave noise that emits from that region of space though there are no pulsars that could explain it. Space mystery. For E2M8 do a Google search on it to find out how old I am.
This planet is a bit bigger than Earth's 1,12 earth mass to be correct. That's what I used to burp out the numbers there what you see.
Here are a few maps that describe how the world's climate operates. How the currents are flowing around the globe and where the winds are blowing to from where exactly. In both southern continents mountains block out the moist cloudy winds that's how we get a giant desert, while on the north half, we get a desert not that much of the maints but because the cold currents are not bringing enough moisture into the continent with the winds. Most of the land masses have a quite nice climate to live in. There are also giant lush plains to be found where lots of food can be grown, to support populations. All this was not quite like this thousand of years ago. The impact craters that are mostly underwater tell of a turbulent not so far distant past, eat least not far in geological terms, it is pretty far in human terms. Those craters came to be of a massive ice asteroid that disintegrated around the planet and rained down on it. Brought a lot of water to the surface as well, so before those impacts, this planet was a much more arid place with fewer oceans and much more deserts. The ancient dragons could tell stories of the great deserts and how the flood came to slow them all. But that story is for another time.
Enjoy my nerdy fantasy map, and comment or ask questions if you like. If I would just start to write down all the things I tried to dream into this from 2017 well you would need some coffee for that read and I... well I would have become a writer by now, which I'm not.
So it took quite some time and countless reworks, but I guess it's time to reveal the full story map, not just the East side of it after so many years stuck in development. It's still a work in progress so things might change further.
The name Angalkhaal is how the locals call it.
DIN E2M8 is how it was named on the star charts. "DIN" stands for the strange prolonged radio wave noise that emits from that region of space though there are no pulsars that could explain it. Space mystery. For E2M8 do a Google search on it to find out how old I am.
This planet is a bit bigger than Earth's 1,12 earth mass to be correct. That's what I used to burp out the numbers there what you see.
Here are a few maps that describe how the world's climate operates. How the currents are flowing around the globe and where the winds are blowing to from where exactly. In both southern continents mountains block out the moist cloudy winds that's how we get a giant desert, while on the north half, we get a desert not that much of the maints but because the cold currents are not bringing enough moisture into the continent with the winds. Most of the land masses have a quite nice climate to live in. There are also giant lush plains to be found where lots of food can be grown, to support populations. All this was not quite like this thousand of years ago. The impact craters that are mostly underwater tell of a turbulent not so far distant past, eat least not far in geological terms, it is pretty far in human terms. Those craters came to be of a massive ice asteroid that disintegrated around the planet and rained down on it. Brought a lot of water to the surface as well, so before those impacts, this planet was a much more arid place with fewer oceans and much more deserts. The ancient dragons could tell stories of the great deserts and how the flood came to slow them all. But that story is for another time.
Enjoy my nerdy fantasy map, and comment or ask questions if you like. If I would just start to write down all the things I tried to dream into this from 2017 well you would need some coffee for that read and I... well I would have become a writer by now, which I'm not.
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The continents there are not blocking the flow that strictly so there's no land mass that would direct the cold current down. I tough remind you that there are 2 types of currents. One that is shown here is the upper regions of the oceans that are mostly controlled by prevailing winds, but there is other deep currents that are controlled by salinity and such way more complex stuff that I didn't go into because I haven't really given that much of a tough to the ocean floors as of yet.
Love the exceptionally high number of island chains. Makes me wonder if there's a lot of volcanic activity that creates these islands, of if they're the remnants of land continents that got broken apart.
Also love the large impact craters scattered across the globe. Some serious damage must have caused those!
Also love the large impact craters scattered across the globe. Some serious damage must have caused those!
Thank you. :)
It's not that much research as I like watching documentaries about our planet I had most of what I needed in mind put together. Research was needed to do it right. Not everything is remembered in enough detail so some studies were in order, to fine-tune this to look like it could function for real.
It's not that much research as I like watching documentaries about our planet I had most of what I needed in mind put together. Research was needed to do it right. Not everything is remembered in enough detail so some studies were in order, to fine-tune this to look like it could function for real.
Very, very nicely done! Having done a very similar thing myself for my fantasy uni I know how much work goes into these serious studies RL geography emulation.
You got a lot of interesting continental shapes going on which gives you very varied biomes which is always a big bonus for creating interesting worlds! I do very much like the little helix/conchell like inlet into that moutain range, I imagine some very unique and interesting cultures might have arisen from there!
I'm also thoroughly impressed you mapped the arctic continent reaching around over the top of coming down, I tried that but gave up and the one I got now just sits there covering the whole thing xD
My only 2 "concerns" is that I feel you might have too few currents? While not an expert I'm fairly sure even our planet has at least 1 more band of currents between the equator and the circumpolar currents. Feel free to correct me though if I'm wrong on that one. What I'm more confident saying is that winds will be warmer around the equator and spread out towards the poles, if your arrows in the wind diagram indicates warm winds it seems to be inverted from what I'd expect it to be :)
Could you perhaps share your sources and I'll share mine and we can compare?
On another note, I've had ideas where I'd take a fantasy universe and map them out like this to see what the environments would *actually* be like instead of the BS that exists there now. Take the Warcraft universe for instance, those deserts *probably* aren't going to be where they are if we take sea currents into account.
You got a lot of interesting continental shapes going on which gives you very varied biomes which is always a big bonus for creating interesting worlds! I do very much like the little helix/conchell like inlet into that moutain range, I imagine some very unique and interesting cultures might have arisen from there!
I'm also thoroughly impressed you mapped the arctic continent reaching around over the top of coming down, I tried that but gave up and the one I got now just sits there covering the whole thing xD
My only 2 "concerns" is that I feel you might have too few currents? While not an expert I'm fairly sure even our planet has at least 1 more band of currents between the equator and the circumpolar currents. Feel free to correct me though if I'm wrong on that one. What I'm more confident saying is that winds will be warmer around the equator and spread out towards the poles, if your arrows in the wind diagram indicates warm winds it seems to be inverted from what I'd expect it to be :)
Could you perhaps share your sources and I'll share mine and we can compare?
On another note, I've had ideas where I'd take a fantasy universe and map them out like this to see what the environments would *actually* be like instead of the BS that exists there now. Take the Warcraft universe for instance, those deserts *probably* aren't going to be where they are if we take sea currents into account.
Thanks for all the insight.
For the 2 concerns: I deleted a lot of arrows for the current map because it made it too crowded, and visually got the point of too confusing to look at. It was mostly done for the east continents but with all the islands and such this type of arrow's didn't work well. It was a lot of work too as you said so I scaled back the details a lot, or you won't be seeing this version done at all because I would be still just drawing it.
For the wind well I forgot to color the arrows it just stayed on one color. A thing to change for the future.
For the 2 concerns: I deleted a lot of arrows for the current map because it made it too crowded, and visually got the point of too confusing to look at. It was mostly done for the east continents but with all the islands and such this type of arrow's didn't work well. It was a lot of work too as you said so I scaled back the details a lot, or you won't be seeing this version done at all because I would be still just drawing it.
For the wind well I forgot to color the arrows it just stayed on one color. A thing to change for the future.
Don't worry, my dream is to create a game in the style of gta in zootopia style world with furry foxes :), that's why I set myself the task: watch as many furry artists as possible, buy profesional studio equipment like camera, 3d scaner, synth e.t.c. my dream is also build my dream car with no lcd dashboard, rocket bunny body kit, and audi matrix ligts. Greatings :).
While by no means an expert in such, I have to wonder if the asteroid impacts were actual asteroids or KKVs - Kinetic Kill Vehicles. Or, if asteroids, ones purposely aimed for specific targets.
"I'm not afraid of people who throw rocks, mommy!"
"Oh, I'm very afraid of people who throw rocks. Very afraid."
"I'm not afraid of people who throw rocks, mommy!"
"Oh, I'm very afraid of people who throw rocks. Very afraid."
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