Re: North Pent

From: Simon Phipp <soltakss_at_HlIfsiF-xJatIqQV0G2e1ufqZqB04PnUmaxvx6AaLdv7F4yYdXhdmEKtkbhZjC6SUn4>
Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 22:02:05 -0000

Joerg Baumgartner:
> Bryan Thexton
> > Is it just tundra that keeps going until you stumble into
Somewhere
> > Else (hero plane? edge of the sky world?) Or do you come to ice
> > eventually? (be it glacier or frozen sea) Or something else? If
you
> > just wander in that Something Else, is there a recognizable
divide?
>
> North Pent is tundra farther up than you can travel - and then
permanently
> frozen waste. I guess it is not glaciated mainly because most
humidity
> will stop on the Glacier or the Altinelan mountain range.
>
> Beyond the Glacier (which sort of curves northeast from the Ice
Sea) there
> is a ice-covered mountain range, and to the far northeast there is
a sea
> which will have shelf ice where the current of Sramak's River and
the wave
> action from the typhoon area of the world storm is not too strong.

How far does Valind's Glacier go across Pent?

I was always under the impression that the North was cold because of Valind and his Glacier, nit because it is in the North. If you go northwards but don't go to Valind's Glacier, is there any reason why it has to be cold there?

>From the maps I've seen, Valind's Glacier covers the North West of
Genertela and probably a lot of the North, but not necessarily the North East. What happens if you go from kralorela and travel North though the Kingdom of Ignorance and Pent? You eventually reach Altinela, which I've always thought was warm. Is there anything in between?

> The outer northern shore will be a raging current, probably with
crushed
> ice aheaving on the waves. There is likely to be sea-life, and
likely also
> intelligent sea-life. Probably niiads rather than lesser triolini,
along
> with types of whales, seals, fish and crustaceans unknown in other
seas,
> characteristic to the north face of the cube swimming in Sramak's
Ocean.

Along Valind's Glacier there will be ice, but what about when Valind's Glacier ends?

> There might be remnants of pre-darkness "civilizations". Antigod
> strongholds from the Darkness, too. It wasn't always cold in the
north.
> Before the Sky Dome was pushed into rocking, and then spilling heat
in the
> far south while Walind collected cold in the north west, the Ratite
Empire
> roamed North Pent, a Greater Rinliddi. Bird folk, maybe like keets,
maybe
> like humans or nar sylla, or maybe just sentient birds. Apart from
> antigods, I don't expect any of the hypothetical old dwellers to be
alive,
> but they might manifest as wraiths or similar.

I hadn't heard of the Ratites before. Sounds interesting.

See Ya

Simon