Guild Wars World Map, 2nd edition.

[Avoc]

Here is the officially unofficial Guild Wars fanmade map! Yay!

Its a giant one, so I'll have to link it:
http://img182.imageshack.us/img182/2346/gwmapbigzf7.jpg

Anyways, what I'd like to discuss is possible streams (like the gulf stream etc.) and possible time zones.

Here is the .psd file for anyone interrested.
http://www.yourfilehost.com/media.ph...file=GWMAp.psd

Talking about streams, I was wondering if it was possible that there was a stream leading from elona up to tyria?

[Quintus Antonius]

I'm sticking this. It's a great resource.

[Pei Wei]

Great find Avoc!

Sidenote: I just posted a similar map in Elona lore, hadn't realized you'd just posted this (sorry for duplicate).

[Drec Sutal]

Hrm... we can't really say anything on time zones, as we are missing two key elements. One is time.... how can we compare relitive time when we don't have any change of time. The second is a way to detect the angle of the sun... from relitive sun angles we could calculate the radius of the earth and from that break it up into time zones.

As for a current, there are two ways to detect one. The first is obviously a direct detetion, put something in the water and see what happens. Failing that we observe relitive climates. For example, if you look at England, you see that it is at the same lattitude as the middle of Canada... and yet England isn't a frozen wasteland. This is because of the gulf stream, which moderates the climate of western Europe.

Fortunatly, we *do* see some climate differences. Kryta is at the same elevation and latitude as port sledge, and yet obviously the latter is much colder. This could well indicate a gulf-like current from the shore of elona around the fire islands past kryta. The one major flaw in this is tyria, and north kryta. Both of these (think of tyria pre-searing) fail to be frozen solid. I can think of three ways to explain this. The most simple is that there is something else warming kryta and tyria. Way more confusing is something cooling port sledge. A bit more... non-lore-ish would be that *it is winter in the shiverpeaks.* Perhaps pre-searing is in the summer, post-searing ascalon is in the fall, and by the time we get to the south shiverpeaks it is deep in winter, explaining a too-cool climate at sea level (port sledge).

Oh, and as for an actual stream between tyria and elonia, I don't think so, at least not on the part of the map we can see. There is evidence that there once were rivers or streams, but the crystal desert today is totally dry, and is the boundry between tryia and elonia. Since there is no water in the crystal desert (excluding the oasis) I'd say no stream.

[Avoc]

Great find Avoc!

Sidenote: I just posted a similar map in Elona lore, hadn't realized you'd just posted this (sorry for duplicate).

YEah I saw that one ^^'
Anyways this isent a find per se, its more the GW members comming with their input and then I just copy/pasted the different maps on different places.

[Pei Wei]

Avoc, still - nice work (and greatly appreciated).

As for streams, I'm leaning towards what Drec had to say somewhat. Crystal Desert was as perceivedly dry as melba toast.

[halfthought]

wow, just looking at that map well, well, I just thought, one day, well look a that map and realize, gw is no longer just a collection of maps, its become a world, and that day, gw might just achieve that level or roleplaying that has engulfed many ofther mmorpg

[ShadowSword]

Awesome...make the black more stylish though. Maybe grey mists or something? I want decoration godamit!

[Avoc]

lol! What do you think?? I'm a hungry student with no money, using my free sparetime to take screenshots and playing around in photoshop while I could've used that time to farm and prepare for Nightfall?? :D
Next edition maybe.

[Seyfert]

I like it, good job