User:IGTN/Feral Libram/Geographology
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Contents
Geographology[edit]
Basic introductory rant about geology and geography and how they work in fantasy worlds
What Shape Is the World?[edit]
Rant offering different shapes of the world
- Round like the Earth
- Flat polar projection
- Square
- Toroidal (like a video game)
- On the back of a giant turtle
- Weirder shapes
Mommy, Where Do Worlds Come From?[edit]
A bunch of explanations for how a world might come to be
- Introductory crash course in Geology
- Spawned by magic
- Creationism is True
- Eternal
- Grown (the world itself is alive and grows)
- Maybe weirder options
What Does the Map Look Like, Anyway?[edit]
Rant about how fantasy geography doesn't make sense
- Making sense of video game geography (the snow kingdom isn't snowy because of the angle of sunlight hitting it, it's snowy because of snow magic there. The rainforest has rainforest magic there keeping it wet and warm)
- Natural vs Political magic geography (the snow kingdom is snowy because it's built on snow magic vs. the snow kingdom is snowy because the Ice Witch wills it so)
- Vaguely realistic geography
- Hybrid systems (mostly realistic but with added magic zones)
