Rojo
Queen's Rider
There once was a girl who was told she could, and so she did.
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Post by Rojo on Mar 31, 2009 6:02:18 GMT 10
My chemistry teacher a new lesson today on hydration (at least, I believe that is what she called it). According to her, some chemical compounds can only be formed when there is a body of water, most commonly an ocean, around it (as in, the reactants for the compound are inside of the water). Her two examples were salt and opals.
It made me start thinking about Wolf-Speaker. When I got home, I opened up to the map in front of my copy of the book. Apparently, Fief Dunlath is within 500 miles from the City of the Gods, although I believe it is quite closer.
What do you think? Was Tortall at one point under water? Do the contents shift around on tectonic plates the way they do in real life? Was perhaps Long Lake once vastly larger, so large it covered the entire area?
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Post by Lisa on Mar 31, 2009 7:36:02 GMT 10
I think that's a fascinating concept. I also wonder how many years existed in the human record BEFORE we reached "Human Era".
They have dinosaurs, too....
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Post by iridescentdaisies on Mar 31, 2009 15:51:44 GMT 10
Ooh. That could make sense.
I wonder how the Copper Isles and Yamani Isles were founded. Did they break away or were there volcanoes or...?
And are Tortall and Carthak moving closer or farther?
Hmmm...
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Post by pineappleyness on Mar 31, 2009 20:27:11 GMT 10
Ooh, this is really interesing. Dunlath is right up in the mountains, and it's right by the tributaries to the major rivers - Olorun and Drell. It's possible that it was once underwater, but the whole of Tortall would've had to be underwater too. Perhaps the whole continent was uplifted by tectonic plates submerging under each other to form the mountains in Scanra/Galla/northern Tortall and the Roof of the World.
In Lioness Rampant, doesn't Chitral say that they were there before the gods? So maybe the Roof of the World was formed first, and then as that continued to be uplifted, the rest of the continent slowly followed.
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