It is generally said that Battlefailed and Failcannon are relatively close to one another. They share the same biomes thus must be really close. I was curious about what the world of Aluonra. First I decided to take a general look at the in-game historical map and find the famous forts.
The forts were easy enough to find. The giant ocean of puke in the center of the map is the Blueness or parts of it is anyway. From there were needed to find some Evil land and there's some right on the northern area. They stick out like a sore thumbs because its not often you see two dwarven forts one the ocean in such close proximity.
Here's a crop of the northern area of the Blueness. Forts Battlefailed and Failcannon are in the bottom right-hand side of the image. The purple area they are in are the Plains of Ooze. The south fort is Battlefailed and the north fort is Failcannon.
They area to be quite close, but this is actually a rather inaccurate map. So now I go and look at the detailed graphical map of biomes and sites. Now I couldn't upload the full graphical map. It's huge. You see, on these detailed maps the game exports one embark square per pixel. Thus the map supplies the same level of detail as the embark map and the current travel map. I have got a cropped portion though. This is roughly the same area as the above cropped map.
If you look for the forts, I've recolored them red. To make them stand out.
Here's a 400% blown-up crop more centered on the forts:
The two forts are apparently 3x3 embarks. And there is quite a distance between them. Remember that each square you see (which is one pixel on the true sized map, but a 4x4 pixel square here) is equal to one embark square or travel square and if I recal correctly each one of these squares is 48x48 fort mode tiles.
I was just interested in how close they were to each other. As I was looking at the maps, I decided to share that for other who might be curious.
I also ran these maps through Isoworld. It gave me a heck of a lot of trouble. Aluonra has a lot of data on just its maps alone. In fact, I couldn't even use all the maps I had to scale back and just use the necessary ones.
The forts are fully displayed as they intersect the ocean and beach. I'm pretty sure the fort on the left is Battlefailed.
I wanted to go through and look at some of the other interesting terrain with Isoworld, but Aluonra is pretty flat. Not a whole lot to look at. I did run across one interesting feature of the world map I thought I should point out.
There this odd star-shaped mountain range in the south-west corner of the world map far from the forts. It's kind of interesting to me because of the big lake (or small sea) imbedded in the mountains. On top of that there is a rather big piece of land in the lake/sea. I haven't seen an odd formation like that in any of the worlds I've generated so far.
The island is called: The Obeisant Island
For those of you who don't know what that means (like me) dictionary.com says:
noun
1. a movement of the body expressing deep respect or deferential courtesy, as before a superior; a bow, curtsy, or other similar gesture.
2. deference or homage: The nobles gave obeisance to the new king.
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The Lake (it is a lake) is called: The Waters of Love.
The mountains are called: The Responsible Point.
It sounds to me like a the kind of place people in history would expect to find gods on earth. Like Mt. Olympus. I find this funny, because it is more than half a the world away from the forts.
Well, that's my research for the day. I though it would be an interesting distraction for a bit.
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