After hearing the talk with THarsis, I got to wondering exactly HOW big Myth is. I found a few numbers in GURPS and I may be reading them wrong, but they seem a little off.
1. From the Stair of Grief to Muerthemne, a traveler must walk 200 miles.
2. Yet it says that the Stair of Grief is 125 miles of traveleing! That doesn't make sense.
3. It also says that the other two passes would be about 175 miles.
4. I'm not sure what a league amounts to in miles so if someone could tell me. It says that the Ermine is 70 leagues by 40 leagues. I'll hold judgement untill I know how much a league is.
5. Forest Heart is about 40 leagues square.
The following are from Myth. I don't remember any from M2 but Im sure I missed them
1. It took two days to travel from Covenant to SHoel under the secret tunnels. THey must have been running or something considering they must have paused every hour while The Watcher walked about above them.
2. In Silvermines the narrator says they were about 100 miles from Bagrada.
3. From the edge of Forest Heart to the edge of the Dire Marsh is 250 miles. That sounds consistent with #2.
4. In "SHadow of the Mountain" the narrator is about 30 miles from the volcano and hes just north of Silvermines. Obviously, the volcano is exagerated on the map.
So based on the Myth measurements, the Myth World is roughly 1250 miles from Ox Head to the edge of Gower. THat is roughly the length of America from its northern border to the Gulf of Mexico.
But assuming that the GURPS measurent of the distance between the Stair of Grief and Meurthemne is correct then the Myth world is about 700 miles across which makes it a little bigger then twice the length of Pennsylvania.
The measurements of the passes must be wrong or Im interpreting them wrong (probably the second one) since it says the GURPS world is around half the size of the US.
Its obvoius that the map in the Myth games are not drawn to scale and that the map in Myth and the Map in Gurps are probably two different sizes, but I wanted to see how big of a world this is because I still don't see how Tharsis could be THAT important.