Elyden's dying Seas
Added 2021-11-10 05:40:25 +0000 UTCWe have more new art today! And this time it's showing no particular place or city, but rather a phenomenon that is being experienced across Elyden over the past centuries - the waning of Elyden's Seas. This post goes through some of the more commonly-accepted hypotheses behind the lowering of Elyden's sea levels. It mentions the Prison Carceri, and the White Sheet, both of which have been featured in previous maps. Finally, all the years of posting are starting to pay off - I can link back to old maps and posts, linking different aspects of the world together. also of interest to this might be the map detailing the currents of the Inner Sea, and the Strait of Narthel.
This one includes some more great art commissioned specifically for the project by the great Dominique Van Velsen, who's fast becoming my favourite artist to work with. I just love his work and it brings out the gritty feel of Elyden out perfectly.
This is available to use as per the CC licence on the image itself.
Comments
No problem! If once in a while my opnion could be useful it's only my pleasure
Impesio
2021-11-10 19:57:31 +0000 UTCwow very in depth reply! though probably a bit beyond this setting!
Nate Mangion
2021-11-10 19:34:05 +0000 UTCAh! As a persone who know something about fluid-dynamics, I think that the drainage hypotheses could be proven with some international effort. One of the main argument pro/against the drainage hypotheses could, and should, be done looking at convergence patterns in marine currents, which should display some kind of slow "exhaust" currents which has less mass leaving some zone of circulations than the mass entering them. At experimental level, it should be possibile in your world deploy a large number of buoy(-es?) that (like in the real world) could measure current while, at the same time, being transported by them. Over the course of several years, these buoy should give some kind of information about the hypothesis. What it's probable is that over the course of time these bouy should start disappearing from the sonar ecolocators, and thus give plausible indications of the plausible drainage zone.
Impesio
2021-11-10 12:38:26 +0000 UTC
