> 1)Sunrise/Sunset: To an observer in the East Isles, the rising and setting
> of the sun must appear very different than it does in Prax, Sartar and
> certainly the far west. Right?
Very Possibly. This is the dread "solar [or anything else] parallax question", and is, even as we speak, Not Settled. Even supposing that such places do show clearly distinct views of the sun, then as we don't know how (apparently) "big" the Sky Dome is, we don't know much different they're going to be. "Estimates" of same vary from 40,000km across
> 2)Noon: [would be] totally dependent on where you are...
Very Possibly. This comes down to the same issues as the above, in essence.
> 3)Shadows: Bendy light or no, if you live in Dragon Pass or any of a
> number of other places hard by some of the tall mountain ranges of
> Glorantha (or even not so hard) you aren't going to have nearly as much
> direct sunlight to grow your crops in and work under as you would in the
> RW. Heck, I could see that there might be some places north of the Big
> Giants or other really high places where the sun never actually shines at
> all. Or am I quite mad?
Very Possibly. ;-) This effect exists, I think, but isn't, for the most part, much more of a factor than it is for Really Mountainous places in the RW. I recall that the Rough Guide to Boldhome goes into some detail about these effects there, but I imagine that it's not so very different from living due west of a dirty great big Alp (or Rocky, or whatever).
Slainte,
Alex.
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