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This discussion is interesting.
I just want to add a few points to try to make more sense that Cantha is now also in the "north hemisphere" (if there is any)
1. I suggested that Luxon's area used to be a sea, just like a bigger dead sea in the middle sea.
2. The Kurzick area used to be a forest, just like the jungle climate, with river and very complex biomass. I guess that's part of Maguuma.
Why do Maguuma and Cantha apart?
Plate tectonics theory has the answer.
Two plates, Kytra plate and Cantha plate, moves apart. It produces lines of weakness in the Ocean (what's the name of the ocean, btw...). After repeated vocanic eruptions, melting, cooling, and eruption. There is the ring of Fire in the middle between Tyria and Cantha.
The second wild guess is that Kytra plate and collide towards Ascalon plate. The mountain movement starts and there is the snow mountain area, so does the area east to the crystal desert.
You may also want to ask why the ruin of Ascalon looks like a desert with almost no biomass. The reason is simple: it's destroyed.
The puzzle almost solved.
I hope you may find my guess interesting.
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The Ring of Fire used to be the kingdom of Orr. Before someone blew it up trying to save the capital city of Arah from the Charr...
Oh... That's a "what-a-poor-Japan" story then...Originally Posted by The Pointless
(But the theory still goes)
LOL
Actually, the Kingdom of Orr was not the Ring of Fire, but the shattered islands to the East of there, from the best people have been able to guess. Our best sources say it was on a peninsula west of the Cyrstal Desert, too far for it to be the Fire Islands. Beyond that, the Fire Islands have been around for at least a thousand years as it was the place the gods placed the Bloodstones (inside the large volcano), while Orr surrounded the ancient city of the gods. They can't be the same place. Orr was destroyed during the Charr invasion not too long ago.Originally Posted by The Pointless
Also, just because Ascalon and Echovald have forests, does not mean they are in anyway related.
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I dont know if this goes here; but since its a finding on the GW map, i thought i'd put it here...
Also, I havent tried pressing "M" while in the underworld, so i donot know if it has the same effect; however this effect is NOT seen when in sorrow's furnace.
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It make sence as that area is a gateway to hell (The Mists.)
There is also a problem with the Maguuma-Echovald theroy. The structure of plants is completely different. They have totally diferent species of life.
I'll take Tuor son of Huor's theory in account on the next version of the map.
I like this map much better... I tried playing around with the colors to make it somewhat match the Crystal Dessert ones.
It is too big for to show on the forums, but here is the link.
http://img182.imageshack.us/img182/2346/gwmapbigzf7.jpg
Quintus, if you could edit my original post, I would be glad.
Also you could add this link:
http://www.yourfilehost.com/media.ph...file=GWMAp.psd
or simply click here
This is for anyone who has photoshop. If you want to play around and maybe add some of your own ideas then here is the .psd file.
Next version we could maybe add ship routes, timezones, streams etc.
Talking about streams, I was wondering if it was possible that there was a stream leading from elona up to tyria?
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The Abaddon's Mouth description comes to mind...Originally Posted by Tuor Son Of Huor
"The largest volcano in the Ring of Fire Island Chain, Abaddon's Mouth is rumored to be the gateway into the Underworld. But only demons and devils would dare enter the fiery chasm. All other risk being burned to cinders before even getting to magma's edge."
On another note, the route that goes behind it is called Hell's Precipice for a reason...
While a bit crude at best it's what I think may be the Canthan and Tyrian ship routes. If it's hard to read I'll tell you what it says,"Green Elonian trade routes,Red Canthan trade routes,and Black Tyrian trade routes.".
There would probably be more green lines if I knew where some more port cities of Elona were,but for the time being I think this will have to do.