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[Iituem]

FINALLY POSTED FUCK YES

Lawsome.  Liked Chlorine's mask opening, thematically very nice.

Incidentally, in preparation for next turn: The eternal sleeper in the forest - would he be willing to make a promise of service in return for being freed from his confinement?  I don't need confirmation that he would actually follow through on said promise once released, just if he would say 'yes'.  The Lady is unlikely to spend an Act freeing him if he just says "No, screw you!  Oohhh the pain..." after all.

[Acanthus117]

Thanks! I personally felt it was a bit rushed, and I didn't have Chlorine do any dialogue because I don't think I could have captured his blind arrogance well

[Iituem]

So I did a map for the Godhood IV setting whilst I was on holiday, it's been lying around in my hard drive for a week whilst I meant to get around to uploading it.  Taken a few liberties with overall design (which should be Caesar's element) but I really wanted some geographical frames of reference.



The central continent is semi-deliberately a Pangaea, but the whole southern plains area is on the verge of an eventual separation into a subcontinent (see continental drift below).  Obviously the whole map could change as a result of drift or divine intervention.

Spoiler: How The Map Was Generated (click to show/hide)

I'm no geographer, but I tend to follow some fairly simple rules of thumb for coming up with quick setting maps.  This map was generated by hand according to the following rules.

1a) Draw up some continental plates.  These can essentially be random.


1b) Determine the direction in which each plate is drifting.  Plates do not have to drift in perfect straight lines, and remember that the topmost and bottommost plates are the poles, so their drifts might appear quite strange on the map.


1c) This is also a good time to determine where earthquake spots are likely to happen.  Look for any points where drift arrows are either moving in adjacent directions, or in different directions lateral to the edges of the plates.  Where the plates rub up alongside each other, earthquakes tend to happen.


1d) You can also determine areas of relative high and low elevation this way.  Where plates move towards each other, they tend to push one another up to create mountains (or one plate is subducted, typically close to the coast).  When plates move away from each other, you tend to get ocean trenches.  This is not a hard and fast rule, so variation is definitely possible.


2a) It's time to build our landmasses.  Sketch out coastlines using whatever method you prefer, paying attention to where the high and low elevation spots are.  Island chains tend to form along earthquake spots or 'high' elevation areas that are below sea.  Coastlines can follow plates, but often drift a bit beyond or behind the plate limitations.  Go with whatever works, and don't be afraid to input a spot of top-down design to get the world you want.


2b)  Let's conceal all that 'under the hood' continental generation and stick a landmass in place.  This can be a good time to put down whatever your most common terrain will be - I tend to use plains/grasslands, which is convenient because it doubles up as steppe and savannah without any graphics changes.  Keep high and low elevation markers visible for now, they're important guides.


2c) Add in prevailing winds.  Prevailing winds are tricky and I don't pretend to fully understand them, but as a general rule you should be safe if you have them generally coming in from the sea and heading towards areas of low elevation.  (If the model breaks down anywhere due to my failure of understanding, it's here.)  Have a few pass over areas of high elevation because...


2d) Prevailing winds strongly affect rainfall.  When prevailing winds go towards an area of high elevation, clouds tend to be forced up and cool, condensing to produce rain.  This creates a rain shadow on the leeward side, producing areas of low rainfall.


3a) Now we can add in real terrain.  Mountains and hills go happily into high elevation areas, though it is easy to go overboard with mountains and not have enough hills.  Just remember that there is a fair amount of natural variation in topography that you aren't showing anyway.  This is the spot where I like to get rid of the high elevation markers, but that's just a matter of personal taste.


3b) Jungles favour high rainfall areas within the tropic.  Since we knew there was only one 'Great Jungle' in Godhood IV, I engineered a ring of mountains to create a point where the conditions for a jungle would be ideal. 


3c) Marshland also especially favours high rainfall, particularly in conjunction with low elevation.  They do not have to be confined to the tropics, but for simplicity I only included two marshes to begin with, both in temperate-bordering-tropical regions.


3d) Forests tend to be temperate or arctic - equatorial and tropical forests are generally jungles.  They favour high rainfall, but will happily spread across grassland in any non-dry area unless checked by agriculture or forest fires, especially along rivers (we'll get back to those).


3e) Finally, add in deserts in any areas of particularly low rainfall and high winds that you prefer.  Note that deserts typically are quite small and tend to evolve as a result of natural or artificial disaster stripping enough topsoil to create a desert/badlands region which can then expand.  Famines or overfarming can create desert regions.  You'll also notice I've skipped adding any glacier/tundra areas.  This is partially a feature of laziness, but also because we can infer overall climate from map position - arctic regions have tundra instead of grassland and taiga instead of forest.


3f) Time to add rivers.  You can add rivers at the start for a more logical progression, but I decided this time to add them later for the sake of top-down requirements.  Run rivers from high to low elevation, meeting at the sea.  Technically these should create lakes at points of relative low elevation, but I've simply forgotten to add these in.  We can always create lakes, right?


4) Your basic map is ready!  Just add in some landmarks and other notes of interest and you should be ripe and ready to go.  I've tried to place locations based on what was available in the gameplay notes and narrative, but they may not always fit.  Given the early nomadic nature of the Wolf Tribe, I also don't have a firm location for them either.

[Digital Hellhound]

I.... just... ghh?

You are a god, Iituem. And holy fuck an actual realistic world map what is this I mean holy fuck

[ragnarok97071]

Wow... that is awesome.

O-o I really don't know what to say.

Other than holy hell, you put a lot of work into that.

[forsaken1111]

That's amazing! Also, welcome back.

[Evergod41]

Wow, an actual factual map so that the supposed general refrences that used to be used to generally know where the general location and point of reference of other things and people are, is now obsolete...

I just dont like my position... And I cant stop staring at it and putting it into my mind and traversing it in great detail...

[Iituem]

The tribe positions really are guesswork based off the Turn 0 posts.  Caesar references positions relating to 'northwestern plains' or 'the great jungle', but nothing more definite than that, so I've had to do a bit of deduction based on what ended up being created.  There ended up being at least two potential 'tribe of the wolf' locations that were equally valid, so I put queries after both of them.  I didn't entirely intend for the south-eastern corner of the continent to be uninhabited, but maybe it just hasn't been noticed yet - not as if we have any actual city-states in existence right now.

Also, thanks for the compliments!  A map like that really only takes about 2 hours to put together, and that's because I move fairly slowly.  Someone with art skills could have done it in an hour, I reckon.  But I used to make these sorts of maps years ago when I was starting out DMing for D&D.  DF's world generator would probably have been even better if I'd had the program on the laptop at the time.

[Caesar]

That looks great.

Actually, give me a bit to look it through and compare it to the vague drawing I must have had somewhere inside my mind, and if the tribe locations match well enough (which I think they do) we'll make it the official map.

I have run into some problems with dissociation from Godhood after all the inactive time, so the turn post is taking longer than expected. Top that with teachers assigning senseless last-minute stuff and I can fill another day. But no more. I dislike procrastination, and I have vowed to combat it.

[Iituem]

I find just reading through the thread a couple of times works - can be hard to get your mind back into the grove after all our inactivity.  =B

[Caesar]

It can partly be blamed on my short attention span.

Edit: The main continent (which I named secretly named 'The Womb of Gods' in my mental notes) is indeed meant to be pretty much a Pangaea. The Gods are not able to see beyond the oceans, as eventually their divine senses are restricted to their areas of influence. (Dear Anea is an exception. She should be able to vaguely sense something in the background.)

[Iituem]

The sudden resurgence of activity here has re-activated my old compulsive habit of checking the thread repeatedly.  =B

How's the turn post going, Caesar?  Much Fun awaits the world in Turn 3. =D

[Caesar]

With good fortune, I'll be able to get it up tomorrow.

But once again- Do not trust my predictions. Especially not in this very last week of school where we are suddenly bombarded with meaningless assignments.

[Digital Hellhound]

Much Fun indeed! Unfortunately I still most likely won't have enough Acts for my next... Act. >_>

No matter, plenty of things to do with the Final Rest and such.

[Caesar]

Depending on how something develops tomorrow, I might feel either very bad OR very good.

In either case, it is good for writing.

It might influence how good it is for Kinaré's world and Gods, however.