Numeria climate?

[deuxhero]

Is Numeria supposed to be cold? It's as far north as Alaska, I vaguely recall (but don't know from where) mentions of smoke and dust blocking the sun, and he environment section for many stat-blocks in Land of Fallen Stars lists things like cold plains or cold desert, but I don't recall any art that showed it as cold. Everyone seems to be dressed for temperate weather at best (most barbarians less so), and never saw a hint of snow.

[vagrant-poet]

They're aping the themes of pulp Celts. So they where some but not much fur and leather, and live in very cold wild lands.

A cool in-world justification would be a Kellid heritage that worked like Arctic elf.

[NotBothered]

I'd imagine it's pretty cold too.
Maybe they've avoided art with snow and ice so as not to make seem too much like Irrisen or the Land of the Linnorm Kings.

[Adjoint]

NotBothered wrote:

I'd imagine it's pretty cold too.

Maybe they've avoided art with snow and ice so as not to make seem too much like Irrisen or the Land of the Linnorm Kings.

I'd rather say that colder Numeria would be more like the Realm of Mammoth Lords.

I imagine Numeria having rather dry, continental climate, with cold winters and warm summers. Looking through Köppen climate classification, I think that the climate classified as BSk (cold semi-arid) would describe it best. On Earth, you can find this is the type of climate for example on the Great Plains. Considering the lattitude, the best Earth equivalent would be probably eastern Montana. That fits the description of Numeria as land of large, windswept plains.

[Joe Jungers]

Gotta say - when I read the thread title, I had visions of skies full of black clouds with red lighting leaping between them. In the rare moments when there's a break in the cloud cover, you can see a shattered moon hovering on the horizon.

(Yep - totally channeled Thundarr the Barbarian).

[zimmerwald1915]

NotBothered wrote:

I'd imagine it's pretty cold too.

Maybe they've avoided art with snow and ice so as not to make seem too much like Irrisen or the Land of the Linnorm Kings.

How convenient that the entire area lies in the rain shadow of the Mindspin Mountains, and that all the snow can be dumped there.