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Re: how big is the Isle of Mist?
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Sat, 27 Oct 2001 12:21:10 GMT
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In lugnet.castle.org.cw, Pawel Nazarewicz writes:
> In lugnet.castle.org.cw, Adrian Drake writes:
> > How long would it take to walk across one of the segments of the island? Is
> > it something that can be done in a day? Half a day? 20 minutes?
> I just got off the phone with Craig Hamilton, and here is how we measured
> the map:
> 1 Realm (segment of the isle) = 32 x 32 Acres (not REAL acres) = 128 x 128
> Baseplates = 32 x 32 Studs.
> As you can see, we have the size of the island down to the stud. So now ...
> here comes the math. Based on Ben
> Fleskes' post about Minifig Scale (1), 2.85 studs makes a metre, so each
> baseplate is approximately 11.23 meters.
> Therefore, each Acre is 128 x 11.23 = 1.44 kilometres across.
> And each Realm is 45.9 kilometres across.
> Let me know if this is clear. I can't tell how big the Isle is, because
> some of the mist covers the water, but you can do
> some math if you want and find that it's not small.
And the isle, (assuming most of the bits under fog are isle) is somewhere
around 550 km across. Which makes it compareable to New Zealand's South
island. (Except South island isn't round, more a diagonal line, tIoM has a
larger area). Or to put it another way, about half the size of Madagascar,
the island off the east coast of Africa.
Assuming tIoM is on an earth sized planet, 550km, would be enough to give
the East-West coast about an 10 minutes difference in sunrise (i.e
approximatly one-sixth of a time zone across). This assumes tIoM is at the
equator, given that N5W3 is described as tundra like, and S5W2 (3) is almost
tropical. Since the isle doesn't seem large enough to stretch between
tropical and arctic zones, the variation in temperature must be due to land
elevation. A decent mountain range (2km plus) would be around one and a bit
acres or 5000 bricks high. Of course a two acres high in a realm 32 acres
across isn't unbelievable.
The assumption that the IoM is on an earth sized planet may be challenged,
but other Sun-Planet distance arraingements would invariably create new time
divisions, a year isn't a year, a month isn't a month and so on.
James (who enjoyed geography at school)
> (1) http://news.lugnet.com/starwars/?n=2091
> (2) http://web.utk.edu/~pnazarew/cw_isle/map/
(3) I'm sure the realms will be renamed in the course of storytelling. We
really need better names for locations.
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| (...) Hmm, wow, that's quite large, but actually I thought it was bigger! Hmm. Interesting. (...) Well.... do you even know that Castle World is round? Who knows? It may be flat... in fact I think it would even be fair to assume it is, since it has (...) (23 years ago, 27-Oct-01, to lugnet.castle.org.cw)
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| (...) I just got off the phone with Craig Hamilton, and here is how we measured the map: 1 Realm (segment of the isle) = 32 x 32 Acres (not REAL acres) = 128 x 128 Baseplates = 32 x 32 Studs. As you can see, we have the size of the island down to (...) (23 years ago, 22-Oct-01, to lugnet.castle.org.cw)
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