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On the geography of the Avid Horizon
Anchovies
Posts: 421
5/2/2017
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In Sunless Sea, the Avid Horizon is flanked by impassible ice-locked seas stretching to the east and west without end. However, assorted stories in Sunless Sea and Fallen London seem to imply that going north will always eventually get you to the Avid Horizon no matter where you started. Is the Horizon, then, a sort of Neathy north pole, with the expanse of ice in Sunless Sea only existing to satisfy the constraints of a rectangular game-world? It would make sense for a space-gate to be located at a pole, because passing through it would always spit you out in the same direction (at lower latitudes the exact heading would vary based on the time of day).
Follow-up: if the Avid Horizon is a geographic north pole, is Stone perhaps its southern counterpart? The two locations are already thematic opposites of sorts: Stone is a place of light, warmth, and stability; the Horizon, one of darkness, cold, and mystery. Stone even seems to have a call of its own (e.g. the pilgrimage from Varchas in Sunless Sea), to match the strange allure of the Horizon felt by seekers of forgiveness and Seekers of... other things.
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Perhaps our role on this planet is not to worship God — but to create Him.
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Lionel Anchovies. Character on indefinite hiatus.
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GoingFTL
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5/6/2017
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Wait a second. Aestival is exposed to the sun, and what makes the cavern move is the absence of light and law. So, would that mean Aestival is static, and the rest of the cavern is moving around it?
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Anchovies
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5/7/2017
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Where there's Aestival, there's sunlight. The Red Science passed straight from the High Wilderness to the Neath without ever being present on Earth's Surface, which is how there's a hole in the Neath-roof at Aestival but still only one path to the Neath from the Surface, at the Cumaean Canal. The Red Science can not only go from point A to point B without traveling along the intervening path, bit it can travel along that path without ever existing at any discrete point on the path. The Red Science doesn't give a flaming s__t about the Judgements' laws.
As for commodity pricing differences, it's because zee-captains are constantly ripped off by London's merchants and vice-versa. Some of them (like Moon-Pearls) are also probably differences in quantity.
edited by Anchovies on 5/7/2017
edited by Anchovies on 5/7/2017
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Perhaps our role on this planet is not to worship God — but to create Him.
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