/lit/ - Literature

No, but it goes to show that no one gives a shit about fictional geography

>>22997349
The best.

worldbuilding is the gayest shit ever

>>22997366
how come?

Martin's world is really the best in all fantasy. Prove me wrong.

>>22997349
>Austrios: Sidni, Purth
>Arctos: Igloo

>>22997349
no this is

>>22997378
Fantasy is a terrible genre, often made with the express purpose of making a shitty slave allegory or "ultimate power corrupts" bullshit. It's for children... yes, even GRRM's schlock

>>22997349
looks like a cool MMO

>>22997458
all books are for children

>>22997349
For real though why did he make it look like this

No since martin is shit

>>22997378
Not really, especially when you go into population distributions and numbers, geography autism and medieval autism it really quickly falls apart.

>>22997378
His writing is only slightly better than generic fantasy slop. Frankly that's a compliment, there are few fantasy writers that actually stand out and he's one of them.

it writes itself
Germ doesn't care but this landscape would have fucking BONKERS ocean currents/Hadley cells and 95% odds his depictions are totally unrealistic, but I could do the deep logic on it

>>22997378
His books are boring as fuck, characters and story as well.

>>22997506
the characters are all right
fantasy should respect the hero's journey but with
Germ the journey ends early, in the fucking grave

What is DeTryot's tax policy??? What do they eat???????

>>22997349
sure

>lets make reverse uk+ireland and turkey lmao

>>22997504
oh it turns out that OP looks like a troll
there's a few other "world maps" floating around

>>22997512
They're surely better than most fantasy books I'll give you that, but it doesn't mean much

>>22997481
It’s the meme version

>>22997481
cuz he just kept adding shit to an ms paint file everytime he came up with a new area idea

>>22997527
I agree
some other books lean way too hard into the heroes journey, or their original ideas just get fucking weird. Terry Goodkind's wizard's first law was about a shota wizard raped by a dominatrix lol and he has to ignore the trauma as a plot point

>>22997504
Yeah, Dorne wouldn't be dry and sandy, it would be soaking wet. Hot water would be driven north through the narrow sea into the shitty sea to circulate and that means temperate weather.
I drew a shitty thermohaline mockup. Everything around the Jade sea should be fucking steamy but I'll try and brain out how atmospheric cells might look

looking at it now, it's actually not totally fucked

>>22997349
What happens here?

>>22997477
>t. gay inbred gypsy

>placeholder city
KEK

>>22997593
I saw the 900 mile marker and was questioning it, but again this actually looks spot on. There should be about a 2200 mile gap between those 30 latitude markers and there it is.

>>22997578
If only solo writers hired you nerds to make sure ocean currents were accurate, maybe you'd have a job.

>>22997612
An expected response of a child.

>>22997630
My buddy is making this elaborate fantasy world. I love natural science so I helped him out with rain shadows and stuff. But his world is higher fantasy than cheech and chong. The world was literally created by super-mega-ultra-god who made like twelve other gods and they all have an aspect (fire, water, wind, earth, ice, light, dark, destruction, creation, i think others). They all have spots around his planet, located with towers, and they all have cults or nations but some are atheists somehow. He's spitballed like 8000 years of lore or something but wants to hyperfocus on how cool his heroes are.
>is the world tectonically active or something?
>nah, gods just made it that way
His greatest mistake was writing in time travel and "multiple timelines" - there's at least five and the original timeline was "doomed". His influences look like Elder Scrolls but I don't think he's ever played that, it's more like Homestuck and Final Fantasy. His goal is to make an MMO. I'd play his MMO because he goes balls in on character customization through machines augmentation and polymorphing.
I thought about giving him more advice, like if his planet had a weird tilt so light nation got more sunlight and dark nation got less, and logically heat and ice place should be adjacent, but it's little use. Also I doubt he would ever pay me for it "cause we're friends".

>>22997653
Eventually I do want to market myself as a "loremaster" and do consulting SOMEWHERE. Shit like this makes me up fucking set

>>22997578
Wouldn't that depend on the atmospheric CO2 levels? There could be high CO2.

>>22997688
nah
If plankton exist then CO2 just gets entombed in limestone. Minor fluctuations in CO2 won't change temperature very much. Germ as well as Sanderson with his Stormlight Archives apparently have unstable axis planets where seasons change seemingly at random.

Hope everyone likes his worldbuilding because I think that's all we're ever going to get.

>>22997709
Does he think he’s young?