[Wilshire]

How big is Earwa actually supposed to be?
I'm thinking the distance from Invishi to Golgotterath might be roughly the distance from the South Africa to the Mediterranean.

I'm asking because I'm also interested in how cold the "North" might actually be. Is Kian close to the Earwan equator? It looks like Agongorea is a desert based on the maps, but I'm wondering if it might actually be rather cold up there. I know rainfal, rather than temperature, identifies an area as a desert, but it seems strange to me that the land around Golgotterath should bare the same "desert" markings as the Carathay desert.

I guess the size of Earwa itself won't really answer that question, since we don't know how large the world is, and if its substantially larger than Earth, the distances North/South of the equator wouldn't really be meaningful if trying to discern the climate of the far north, since thousands of miles from the equator could still be rather tropical if the planet was big enough.

Answer (from below):
Distance from Golgotterath to Invishi (southernmost city on the map, in Nilnamesh, near mouth of Sea on Onkis and) is about 10,000 kilometers

explanation, though buried in some spoilers, is below.

[Garet Jax]

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There are glaciers near Ishual.  Not sure how high the mountains are around there, or if it means anything at all, but I would presume that it means it is decently far away from the equatorial region?

[Somnambulist]

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I think it was discussed somewhere that the strip of land around the Yimaleti mountains (north of Agongorea) was roughly equivalent to the Norwegian peninsula.  With that in mind (roughly), Eamnor, Kuniuir and Akksersia would be about the size of greater Europe; Zeum, Kian and High Ainon would occupy the climate of North Africa/Near East (which would make the Carathay the Sahara); the Meneanor would be roughly the Mediterranean; and Kut Narmu the Congo.  Armchair geography, woo hoo!

[Wilshire]

Spoilers?. Cu'jara Cinmoi is Bakker's username from an old forum. Information below if from outside of the text, and so are the conclusions drawn from it. No story spoilers.

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Earwa is actually some four or five times the size of Europe. I put that allusory analogue of
the Norwegian coast along the top as a sneaky way to gauge the land masses involved.

Does that mean that that allusory analogue, which is the cost west of the Demua Mountains, 5x the size of its Norway counterpart, or the same size?

That equivalent Norwegian coastline is roughly 400 kilometers. So the short nearly vertical North/South edge of the Demua is either 400 km or 1600 to 2000 km.

This either makes the north/south length of earwa either 2000 km (roughly the north/south length of the USA), or 8,000 to 10,000 km (roughly the distance of the southern tip of South America to the Northern most point of Main, USA.

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If it is really 10,000km, then Earwa is either a Pangea-like supercontinent, or the planet is just massive.

[Garet Jax]

meta-spoilers. Cu'jara Cinmoi is Bakker's username from an old forum. Information below if from outside of the text, and so are the conclusions drawn from it. No story spoilers.

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Earwa is actually some four or five times the size of Europe. I put that allusory analogue of
the Norwegian coast along the top as a sneaky way to gauge the land masses involved.

Does that mean that that allusory analogue, which is the cost west of the Demua Mountains, 5x the size of its Norway counterpart, or the same size?


That equivalent Norwegian coastline is roughly 400 kilometers. So the short nearly vertical North/South edge of the Demua is either 400 km or 1600 to 2000 km.


This either makes the north/south length of earwa either 2000 km (roughly the north/south length of the USA), or 8,000 to 10,000 km (roughly the distance of the southern tip of South America to the Northern most point of Main, USA.

I would say the latter. 

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If Earwa is 4-5 times larger than Europe, then the "coast" he refers to should be 4-5 times larger than it's counterpart as well?

[Wilshire]

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Makes sense. If it was the same size, I guess that would make Earwa the same size of Europe lol.

[Cüréthañ]

GJ and Somna, all answers in this sub should be spoiler tagged plz.

[Somnambulist]

Sorry, leapt before I looked to see what sub-forum it was.

[Alia]

As far as climate goes, it's much more complicated than just geographical location. Things like ocean currents are also involved - Great Britain and Ireland have a very mild climate, whereas places located on the same latitude in the US have much harsher winters (remember the Plymouth colony disaster?). In addition, location of mountains is a factor that influences rainfall. And what about the planet's axial tilt? This would also influence Earwa's climate.

[mrganondorf]

What about tides and such?  Just one moon like Earth?

[Garet Jax]

It looks like Agongorea is a desert based on the maps, but I'm wondering if it might actually be rather cold up there. I know rainfal, rather than temperature, identifies an area as a desert, but it seems strange to me that the land around Golgotterath should bare the same "desert" markings as the Carathay desert.

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Interesting to note that the coloring of the Agongorea area is a different shade of "desert" than the Carathay is on the colored map on Bakker's website.

[Somnambulist]

I think the reason for that is:

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Agongorea is called the Black Furnace Plain (or something like that), and it was created by the Ark-fall.  The whole place burned up and melted the rock/ground/sand to create an uninhabitable 'desert' of sorts, iirc

[Wilshire]

Both bits of info are very enlightening GJ and Somna, thanks.

[SilentRoamer]

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I think any direct impact by something the size of the Ark would have caused a nuclear winter and killed everything inside so I always assumed it was a badly failed landing rather than an out and out crash, unless thats how the Inchies land. I always assumed the area around the Ark was all turned to glass from being superheated, Ark is pretty damn big.

Do the Inchies refer to the crash from their PoV can anyone recall? IIRC the Ark so far is completely indestructable - the barricades were Emilidis answer to the Ark.

Ok back on topic. I think 4-5 times the size of Europe is about right. Explains all the climates and associates peoples, the grasslands, the deserts, the swamps, the forests etc. Supercontinent size, with a whole chunk missing over the mountains. Very suspicious.

[mrganondorf]

I think the reason for that is:

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Agongorea is called the Black Furnace Plain (or something like that), and it was created by the Ark-fall.  The whole place burned up and melted the rock/ground/sand to create an uninhabitable 'desert' of sorts, iirc

Talk about a nod to Tolkien!

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Thangorodrim and its blasted wastes!