Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-27713488-20180114010136/@comment-31763506-20180314203426

New topic completely. Where is Thenours and how is it laid out?

All we know for sure is that Rodak is on Thenours and is quite close to one of the poles. I think it's the South Pole, and that furthermore the continent is mostly due South of Arclent, with Erosia in the West facing Zirantia across the Pithu Ocean and Ghenalon in the East mostly facing Darghelon and Gheldaron. Tatseni and Stenai are between Erosia and Ghenalon mostly opposite to Ardoheim. The continent may be a bit further east and rotated so that Ghenalon is a bit to the North of Erosia, but I think that's all the wiggle room there is.

There's a systematic assumption here leading me to that conclusion, and it is that everyone who has been described as traveling from Thenours to Arclent and vice-versa has done so using the shortest possible sea route (or shortest distance teleportation, the spells seem to have a range.)

The list of such travelers is:


 * Simon, went from Ardoheim to Thenours and spent several years there including a brief stay in Ghenalon. His conversation seems to indicate that he mostly stayed around the minor countries, since he apparently didn't know that the bunny-ear costume was not really a customary Erosian thing, but had been invented by the Fucklord.  He should have known this if he traveled in Erosia before the Fucklord took over.  (This could be characterization marches on, obviously, and it also assumes that Simon's wandering in Thenours took place before his adoption of Robin and the Fucklord taking over the place, but I think these are both reasonable assumptions.)
 * Varia was born in the Westernmost province of Ghenalon, was a bandit there and elsewhere in Ghenalon and then crossed the sea to the Delgar Forest region.
 * Dari was born in a small country overrun by the Fucklord and took ship to Ardford.
 * The Fucklord went from Erosia to Zirantia.
 * The trade route from the Orgasmic Empire through Yhilin goes over Darghelon and Gheldaron to Ghenalon.
 * The Tatseni prostitute in the Stineford brothel wound up in Stineford. (And generally speaking most refugees from Thenours end up in Ardoheim, see above.)

The only oddball I can think of is the Erosian orc who wound up at the Bloody Spire, but he has a crazy long journey with any other layout and position of Thenours.

The only objection I can find to this layout is the blocked teleport points going outside of Arclent in the HQ projection are directly west and east of the abstraction of Arclent. But we already know Renthnor is a bit more north than west of Arclent, so that isn't intended to be a perfect geographic representation.

The other oddity is that depending on the number of degrees of latitude there are from the southern coast of Arclent to the North of Philon (Zirantia is near the Equator, I asked), then assuming a roughly spherical planet, it looks like the planet is significantly smaller than the Earth (and proportionally denser), and has a far side consisting almost entirely of ocean.

Thoughts?