: Where is the AN page?
Borg -> Myth -> Misc -> Hosted -> Asylum Night
: Do we have our own HL?
Not quite yet.
: Any new theories™?
Well, now that you ask, I was right about to post one.
GURPS tells us that the Faraway is a western continent of peace and concord and eternal spring, which basically means, if you ignore SD's "peace, concord, and eternal spring of EVIL!" theory, that it's a land of pure light.
We are also told that to the southeast are the Untamed Lands, and to the northeast are other dark lands.
We have been discussing recently how Dark forces tend to be extremists; pure chaos like the Myrkridia, pure unthinking order like the undead. Meanwhile, Light is the tendancy toward balance between chaos in order, that temperate zone in which life is possible.
So I though, if the Faraway is pure light to the west, and darkness seems to come from the east, then perhaps the Faraway is a land of pure balance, and the further east you go the more extreme things get; to the south things become too chaotic, and to the north things become too orderly. In between this perfect balance and absolute extremes, Wyrd placed his dream-world.
We can see evidence of all this in what lands we know of already; the Trow to the north and the military lands of Gower and all very orderly, as are the undead forces which seem to have come from there. The south has the wild Ghols and the appropriately named Untamed Lands. The west has the most civilized, lively Human lands.
Since SiliconDream pointed out that the far west is the far east and that supported his "Land of Perfectly Peaceful EVIL!" theory, I pointed out that the Faraway and the far east could be like good/evil poles; that when you go west past the Faraway, things get more evil until you're back at the far east. And directly opposite Wyrd's vision is a place of similar light/dark balance.
That's all old theorization. The new thing that I'm thinking of is, exactly how big is the known map, and thus how large is that in comparison to the rest of the Myth world?
Some basic things we know about the world and the known lands are that the world is around the same size as Earth (the gravitational values are the same). We know the world is a sphere; GURPS mentions Trow freezing at the poles, which a disc or ringworld wouldn't have.
The known lands seem to be in the northern hemisphere, as there are forests in the south while there are glaciers in the north. However, the known lands don't seem too far to the north, as they are on a penninsula, where there are seas to the north and south and west, but none of them are frozen over; so they're not in the arctic yet, though it's implied that the Deep does freeze over.
So, do we have any known measurements of the Myth map? Anywhere where someone says it's this far from this landmark to that? If we have just one measurement that we can apply to a straight line on the map, we can figure out how big the map is and how much space it takes up on the globe (which is Earth-sized), and by knowing that it's not quite in the arctic yet we can figure out where it is.
Also, since we know that the far east of the continent is dark lands, and we since Wyrd's vision seems to be on the equator of balance, then we can assume that the continent spans around a quarter of the globe longitudinally, but no more - 'cause if it were more, the far east would be lighter than the middle east, not darker.
: And its the year 2000, NOW WHERE ARE MY
: FUTURISTIC SPACE TWINKIES????
See the AN page update by Sbeerfg of the 25th century.
