Wordlbuilding: The trip

[aldersprig]

So, I played around a bit with the map of Reiassan.

Assuming an average travel of about 16 miles a day (the terrain is hella rocky, and they don't have remounts), I blocked out 4-day legs of the trip (conveniently, 1 longitudinal minute(for this planet; Earth's is 69mi)

It's a really messy map, and I have to figure out what to to with the one coastal drabble that now doesn't fit. But. It says that the base length of the trip is 92 days.

This doesn't include things such as the layover in Ossulund, of course, or the two nights in the cave, but even with that, we're talking ~ 100 days, or 1 season.

Well, now I have to a) figure out the length of the Reiassani year/season, and b) edit the trip for seasons.

Comments

[clare_dragonfly]

Yay!

[aldersprig]

*laugh* You and Eseme... I'm like "i need to know all these things," and you're like "Yay! You figured out part of one thing!"

[clare_dragonfly]

Well, you're getting there! :-P

[aldersprig]

True enough :-D

[meeks]

Reiassan looks like a happy dolphin! Or maybe I just need sleep...

[lilfluff]

Oh good, it wasn't just me. :) Although I was thinking it looked a little like a ferret with head curling down towards the forepaws.

(So, earthquakes occur when Reiassan poings?)

[aldersprig]

I've gotten fetus, comma, and now dolphin and ferret. :-) I'm okay with it.

This is like the worst of the three maps of Reiassan, because I laid two maps atop each other. The better maps are here - http://pics.livejournal.com/aldersprig/gallery/0000y9zs

[meridian_rose]

I get myself tied in knots trying to figure out things like distances, so well done for actually mapping it out. Also agreeing with the above, it does look like a happy dolphin :D

[aldersprig]

It does, I agree.

Spousal unit helped a lot, helping me figure out the terrain and the travel speeds, etc.