Continents and Oceans.
Also known as areas you can see from space. Earth has seven seas and seven continents. So probably does Golarion. Unless the planet in question is Dune or Hoth, each area is different, with their own interlocking climate, usually.
1: Dessert, usually surrounded by high mountains stopping ‘normal’ rainclouds.
2: Salt sea, water flows in but never flows out. Usually mountains or other highlands on one side.
3: Deep, blue, sea. May be some islands. Possibly underwater volcanos, some reaching the surface.
4: Much Grander canyon. Divides most of the continent. So deep it gives access to dungeons and the underdark. At the bottom could be a river of water, river of lava, portal to lower planes, or all of the above.
5: Lost continent. Edged by high mountains if next to land, and storms if bodies of water. Has dinosaurs and other ancient, supposedly extinct species. Also other Kaiju like giant apes. May have neanderthals, human natives, or walled cities full of lizard people.
So, one s? Desert?
Continents and Oceans.
Also known as areas you can see from space. Earth has seven seas and seven continents. So probably does Golarion. Unless the planet in question is Dune or Hoth, each area is different, with their own interlocking climate, usually.1: Desert, usually surrounded by high mountains stopping ‘normal’ rainclouds.
2: Salt sea, water flows in but never flows out. Usually mountains or other highlands on one side.
3: Deep, blue, sea. May be some islands. Possibly underwater volcanos, some reaching the surface.
4: Much Grander canyon. Divides most of the continent. So deep it gives access to dungeons and the underdark. At the bottom could be a river of water, river of lava, portal to lower planes, or all of the above.
5: Lost continent. Edged by high mountains if next to land, and storms if bodies of water. Has dinosaurs and other ancient, supposedly extinct species. Also other Kaiju like giant apes. May have neanderthals, human natives, or walled cities full of lizard people.
6: Sunken continent. Now it's an ocean, with a few cities now populated by fish people. Deep ones live in a city at the bottom of a trench.
I will try to remember that trick. Back on topic...
7: Sea of islands. There are an unusual number of islands. Some are the tops of undersea mountain ranges, some are volcanic, some are on the backs of giant turtles, some are made of pillow lava and thus float, ect. All the fictional islands are represented, Lilliputian, Skull, Treasure island, Moreo, ect.
For "Sea of islands," are you thinking of an "archipelago"?
Also, what are you trying to achieve with this thread? Is there an underlying question or task with which you're looking for help? Just curious.
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I can't answer for this Thread but an older (similar???) Thread of mine can always use some more input from The Boards.
a group of islands:
"the Indonesian archipelago"
So I'm thinking of lots of them, and some isolated islands too.
As for why, whether it's an unexplored planet in Star Finder, an elf gate to the other side of the planet, or an ocean voyage to create a new trade route, there are times when you need to know fast. How do you create a backstory for your monk when Japan and China are out of the question?
Need to know what, though? Are you looking for common terms and definitions? The actual locations in Golarion that fall under those categories?
What I want is continents and oceans. When you see a planet, from space or another planet, you next notice major land and sea masses. An ocean of dust might be a bad place to teleport to or land. Send a probe and see if it sinks.
8: Sea of dust. Not only will anything sink, but there are strange monsters lurking below the surface. There are a few oasis's sticking up above the dust. Any intelligent life uses ships called dust schooners to travel from oasis to oasis. Best place to land, ports on the edge of the area. It has a raised edge which you can build out and down to the dusty tides. Dust storms are usually small but everyone is always preparing for the next big one.
9: Continental Breakfast. Everything is made of eggs, cereal, toast, ect. There are great lakes of milk, various juices, coffee, ect. The powdered sugar beach on a waffle continental shelf is particularly lovely. There is a legendary artifact at the center of this that keeps renewing this.
What Pizza Lord said works.
To shoe horn in what W E Ray said...
12: An ocean made of Charm Monster potion. This is mainly credited to the unusually numerous number and variety of dolphins living there. They are very charming.
13: A moon made of green cheese crashed into the planet very long ago. While life has mostly recovered, the cheese has become very hard and even more fragrant.
If you want to find every monster and treasure filled room in a dungeon there, try an arrow of direction and ask for the exit. :)
15: Mountain of Babble. Somehow this mountain takes up almost all the continent space and sticks up above the atmosphere. While the peak is a great place to build a spaceport, it may make the orbit a bit erratic.
16: The pit. This valley is like a deep crack in the continent. It's so deep that there is a river of magma at the bottom. It almost reaches the mantal. With all the fire and noxious gasses it very much resembles Heck.
20: BFG as in Big Freaking Glacier. While normally these things are at the poles or on the far side of the planet from the central star, this thing is being created by an artifact, huge portal to the plane of ice, or something. It's being created at one end of the continent and melting at the other. Artic creatures such as polar bears, seals, and penguins live on the edges and on icebergs. It ties up a lot of water so disrupting it would flood the planet.