Why the hell Varannar is an island?!

stonedwolf

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According to your link:

  • North America and South America are different continents
  • Europe and Asia are the same continent
  • Greenland is part of the North American continent
  • India and Australia are the same continent
 

p4ran0id

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According to your link:

  • North America and South America are different continents
  • Europe and Asia are the same continent
  • Greenland is part of the North American continent
  • India and Australia are the same continent
Europe and Asia are not the same continent... The place where both stucked together is called Ural, both stucked together, but they are still 2 separate tectonical plates
 

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Regarding the variety of biomes over just a few hundred KM: that's videogames for you. Welcome to the show business.

Although certain plot-related event causes a raise of temperature in the southern half, that could account for part of the variety.

Indeed Varannar is way smaller than Andoria. Like Ireland vs Continental Europe.
 

stonedwolf

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Europe and Asia are not the same continent... The place where both stucked together is called Ural, both stucked together, but they are still 2 separate tectonical plates

Again, from your own link, the green-one that wraps from Portugal through to China is called the Eurasian Plate. (And a nice test of Add Images for me!)


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Responding to a message I got this topic.

First, this is a fantasy game, so some people might need to understand the importance of playful banter and chill out a little.

Per older, real-world definitions of "continent" and "island", Australia was BOTH and island and a continent. Most newer definitions of both words make Australia exclusively a "continent." Australia benefits both from physical attributes such as it's tectonic independence as well as some nation's pride based political push. (Australians seem to frown on being called an "Island.)

The line between "island" and "continent" has to be drawn somewhere, and that somewhere is Australia. (Sorry Greenland, you're just the world's largest island).

BUT ---and this is a big but-- every day, colloquial phrases are often far from technically correct. So yeah, it's neither shocking nor incorrect for a fantasy people to refer to a fantasy land mass as an "island," even when it might be better suited to call it an "continent."

(And we're not even going to get into the number of mountain ranges in EK that suggest multiple colliding tectonic plates, or if Pluto is a planet.)

Feel free to discuss the game, but don't loose sight, it's a game.
 

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Also, for our own Real World, different models place the number of continents between 4 and 7. Every time humans try to come up with neat, and easy dividing lines, the real world tends to laugh.
 

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