Hello,
I'm new to the Pathfinder Setting and I could use advice. Where is the equator located on the inner sea region? What about the arctic circle equivalents?
Is there any information about the general yearly weather patterns of the inner sea region? I was thinking of using the demographics of the northern Africa and European regions to create a rough yearly weather template.
Is there any information on the world's moon? Like a name? It seems that the calendar is based on Gregorian themes of Earth as opposed to Golarian uniqueness. Therefore I assume that the Golarian moon is roughly like Earth's moon. Any thoughts?
Please and thank you in advance.
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I would guess the Artic circle lies somewhere on the top of the map, around the Lands of the Linorm Kings, Irrisien, The Realms of the mammoth Lords.
There are however some major climatic anomalies. Irrisen is locked in a permanent winter from Baba Yaga's powerful enchangments. The world wound is a permanent rift into the Abyss...who knows what is going on there.
Another anomaly is the eye of abendego. It is a permanet hurricane off of the west coast of Garund.
If Garund is some what analogous to Africa, I would slide the equatorial band south to the Mwangi Expanse/ Sargava.
I remember there was an aritcle on the rest of the solar system the Pathfinder adventure path magazines but i have forgotten which issue.
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Hello,
I'm new to the Pathfinder Setting and I could use advice. Where is the equator located on the inner sea region? What about the arctic circle equivalents?
Is there any information about the general yearly weather patterns of the inner sea region? I was thinking of using the demographics of the northern Africa and European regions to create a rough yearly weather template.
Is there any information on the world's moon? Like a name? It seems that the calendar is based on Gregorian themes of Earth as opposed to Golarian uniqueness. Therefore I assume that the Golarian moon is roughly like Earth's moon. Any thoughts?
Please and thank you in advance.
The arctic circle and the equator both lie off the edge of the map of the Inner Sea region—the tropics run about through Nex or the Mana Wastes, but the equator's still a bit south of the bottom edge of the map. Likewise, the arctic circle is several hundred miles north of the top edge of the map.
Using Europe and northern Africa as a foundation for weather is about right on, in any event.
The moon itself doesn't really have a name yet—if we DO give it a name, it'll probably be Somal, which is the name of the moon in my homebrew (that way I get confused less often!). Golarion's moon is more or less the same size as our moon, but it's a pretty different place than our moon in that it has a breathable atmosphere...
The arctic circle and the equator both lie off the edge of the map of the Inner Sea region—the tropics run about through Nex or the Mana Wastes, but the equator's still a bit south of the bottom edge of the map. Likewise, the arctic circle is several hundred miles north of the top edge of the map.
Using Europe and northern Africa as a foundation for weather is about right on, in any event.
The moon itself doesn't really have a name yet—if we DO give it a name, it'll probably be Somal, which is the name of the moon in my homebrew (that way I get confused less often!). Golarion's moon is more or less the same size as our moon, but it's a pretty different place than our moon in that it has a breathable atmosphere...
I want to play in your homebrew! *puppy dog eyes*
The moon itself doesn't really have a name yet—if we DO give it a name, it'll probably be Somal, which is the name of the moon in my homebrew (that way I get confused less often!). Golarion's moon is more or less the same size as our moon, but it's a pretty different place than our moon in that it has a breathable atmosphere...
Sweet!
Does it have the same general appearance as our moon, or is it Earthlike, or something entirely different? (With atmosphere, at the very least it should have weather patterns visible from Golarion...)
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The moon itself doesn't really have a name yet—if we DO give it a name, it'll probably be Somal, which is the name of the moon in my homebrew (that way I get confused less often!). Golarion's moon is more or less the same size as our moon, but it's a pretty different place than our moon in that it has a breathable atmosphere...Sweet!
Does it have the same general appearance as our moon, or is it Earthlike, or something entirely different? (With atmosphere, at the very least it should have weather patterns visible from Golarion...)
It looks pretty much like Earth's moon when observed from Golarion, although now and then there are things like dust storms or the like, I guess. There'll be more information (and said info will be more reliable) in the upcoming book "Distant Worlds."
It looks pretty much like Earth's moon when observed from Golarion, although now and then there are things like dust storms or the like, I guess. There'll be more information (and said info will be more reliable) in the upcoming book "Distant Worlds."
Looking forward to it. :)
I'd guess that the "edge" of the moon would look a bit blurrier than does ours, but I'm no astronomer...
but, our moon has water on it.... yes water.
Frozen water, in comparatively teensy amounts at the South Pole.
Our moon does NOT have an atmosphere, never mind an oxy-nitro one. (And how does that work for Golarion's? Is the silvery stuff actually plant life, like Discworld's moon, or is it just plain magic?)
Is it even a safe assumption that Golarion has equators or poles? Or that it's even round?
Well since Jacobs says it is, I suppose it is, I agree with you though, in a D&D campaign setting the world doesn't even necessarily need to be round. Heck the thing could be held up by a string, or match old greek mythology having a big guy holding it up, or old Japanese mythology and be on a jumping spiders back.