: Yep, though I imagine there is a whole lot more than just
: the continent we see, at least to the north and south
: - otherwise the land would be extremely, noticably
: curved, which it obviously isn't.
I hate to say it, but this vaguely makes sense. There seems to be a clear lack of north-south climate shifts on the Mythworld, and that would be explained if the world was not a sphere but rather a ring. You've still got to explain the seasons though, smart guy. :) Far as I know, neither of the two mechanisms suggested on the Halo forums for seasons (changing angle of ring surface to sun, ring shadowing itself) would produce an Earthlike progression, as the Mythworld seems to possess.
: I originally thought this theory up trying to explain why
: the Devoid exploded when Balor's head was thrown in.
: I'm thinking that there's a force-field or some such
: at the bottom, which creates a shockwave when things
: collide with it, to let the thing through without
: letting all the air out - the shockwave pushes all the
: air away while the force-field momentarily
: deactivates.
An H-bomb-sized blast is their equivalent of an airlock?! Why not create a second forcefield on the interior side of the object to block the air while the outer forcefield opens up? Or open a very small hole in the forcefield right around the object? Or just not let any objects out, if the only alternative is blowing up half the continent?
: We don't see many landscapes, do we? And the ones we do
: are usually in pregame pics, which are sketches that
: don't detail much of the background. In the movies, we
: could always just be looking east or west; the arch
: would only be visible when looking north or south.
Okay, if I really had nothing better to do (and a working TFL CD) I'd go watch all the movies and figure which way we were facing from the angle of the sun, just to prove you wrong. But I'm not going to. So you have to do it instead, and inform us all of your findings. Ha!
: It's about 1/4 of the map width from the eastern border;
: in the north-middle of the eastern half. I'd call that
: the east, though not the far east.
If I argue about the definition of "east" vs. "middle" anymore, I'll lose all respect for myself. So fine, call it east if you want to. Hmph.
--SiliconDream
