Building Regions

## Cardinal Directions On A Flat World

I had thought about building sample regional almanacs for ADW but I changed my mind.  I took  those pages down there and established some here instead, recycling the artwork.  The most time-consuming parts of the Almanacs were gathering regional creatures, a mix of IRL, standard fantasy tropes and a quick scan through the Codex. I got over halfway done though before mentally pondering the Frozen North and what the cardinal directions are really like on a flat world.I immediately came  across this conversation which provided this page of nautical terms that may or may not be useful later.  The Flat Earth Society was even more helpful though and I'm borrowing their diagram here for notes.

North = Hubwards

South = Rimwards

West = Turnwise (If the sun moves westward or at least appears to)

East = Widdershins

I'm eyeing that and I'm eyeing the dragons on my cosmology map.  But I'm going to hold off  on designing it.  What this does is repeat something I'd seen on some flat earth real maps which is point out that the Frozen "North" ala Antartical would be in the center of the map if it was north.  Unless the world is more frozen along the edges.   Okay, I am going to tweak the name of Frozen North to the Frozen Frost.  I'm skipping the word Artic for reasons of origin .

## The Mire

I got all the way down to the Stinking Mire (only 3 more to go!) when I needed to rope in the story-making.  But I can't overcome the urge to just say of all the terrestrial regions?  The Mire is the most EVIL and BAD.  This is where lots of ghosts, undead and blighted/toxic things are.  The Blasted Wasteland became that way because of some kind of mage war taking place there.  The Mire is just corrupt in its own right.  Lots of seepage from the Underworld and I won't let myself know why.  **Play To Find Out Why**, Laurel.

## The Mountains & World Shaping

I'm caught with a mental image now of Frozen Frost in the map, surrounded by the Towering Mountains and things going outwards, region by region from there.   It that was the case or somewhat the case?  From center to outwards, the regions would spread like thus:

Frozen Frost
Towering Mountains-Towering Mountains
Great Forest-Great Forest-Great Forest
River Delta-River Delta-River Delta-River Delta
Whispering Plains-Whispering Plains-Blasted Wastes-Blasted Wastes
Vast Desert-Vast Desert-Vast Desert-Vast Desert-Vast Desert-Blasted Wastes
Coastal City State-Stinking Mire-Coastal City State-Stinking Mire-Coastal City State
Sapphire Islands-Open Sea-Sapphire Islands-Open Sea-Sapphire Islands-Open Sea-Saphire Islands
Open Sea-Open Sea-Open Sea-Open Sea-Open Sea-Open Sea-Open Sea-Open Sea-Open Sea-Open Sea-Sea

I am going to finish up the desert and plains and then mess with sort of a representation of that.

My new friend John is going to make an actual map for me and  which I'm excited about.  I took the original idea and showed him the cosmology map with breaking things up so only the Frozen-Mountains-Forest were actually rings and then things divide between the Whispering Plains-Blasted Wastes-Desert-Coast on one wise and the River Delta- Stinking Mire-Coast on the other.