#help with geography

[julijbee]

girlbossing too close to the sun.

[mirthfulmoonshine]

LoZ: Ternary Ages △ World of Hyrule

⚔ Hyrule Overworld

Hyrule is broken into 9 major regions: Central Hyrule, Faron, Necluda, Lanayru, Eldin, Woodlands, Hebra, Tabantha, and Gerudo. Smaller regions such as Lost Woods, Akalla, Lurelin, Ridgelands, and the Barren Basins fill the gaps.

The colored map highlights the territories of the existing nations. The Sheikah of Necluda and Hylians os Faron/Lurelin are considered in Hyrule proper but are still unique nations.

The Rito have not unified and the Kokiri do not consider themselves a 'nation.'

❇ Central Hyrule

Leader: Hylian Royal Family (King Rhoam, Queen Zirda, Princess/Queen Zelda)

Allies: Zora, Goron, Kokiri, Sheikah, Lurelins

Adversaries: Gerudo, Hebra Rito

Neutral: Tabantha Rito

Sage of Light - Zirda | Triforce of Wisdom - Zelda

Central Hyrule is the land of Hylia, filled with sloping plains, green grass, gentle winds, and elegant mountains reaching for the heavens. The land is rich with grains, fruit, lumber, cattle, and fresh water bodies. Dotting the plains, hills, and forests are small towns, surviving on cattle and the land, harvesting and trading to stay afloat in their prosperity. On an inselberg, north of the nation, sits Hyrule Castle and its town. Bustling with trade, music, and wealth, the town and castle are architectural beauties, densely populated and only silent at night. Cathedral structures, cool cobalt stone, and glorious red banners lined with golden embroidery loudly announce abundance. Nothing beats the Temple of Time, a huge ancient structure said to protect the gate to the Sacred Realm, where Hylia rests. Gardens with archways, marble altars, and murals are scattered throughout. Castle Town is known for its grand festivals and parties, adoring their king, queen, and princess and praying for the Hero. It' people worship the primordial goddess Hylia and the Three Golden Goddesses: Farore, Din, and Nayru. Their sovereign leader is the reigning royal family, a monarchy known for their generosity to their people, divine powers, and a desire to unify the land at large.

𑁍 Lurelin/Faron

Leader: N/A

Vassal nation to Hyrule

Hero of Courage/Triforce of Courage - Link

South of Central Hyrule, Faron is a wet and coastal region, littered with some dense woodlands abundant with rain. Its people are all former pirates and seafarers, having settled in this coastal region after the Great Sea pulled away, revealing its lush, fertile soils. Trades of fishing, butchery, woven mercantile, glorious fabrics and tapestries, and ivory/shell material have earned the area a name for itself. The region is a vassal to Hyrule, serving its royal family and has no internal governmental structure. While they worship Hylia, the land is said to be Farore's birthplace so her divinity is highly respected here, thus, so is the Hero. The Hero is worshipped and all children are prayed to be the Hero. The Earth Temple is here.

𓁿 Necluda

Leader: Sheikah Elder, Diya

Vassal state to Hyrule.

Sage of Shadow - Parrane

Necluda is the mountainous valley home to the Sheikah tribe, a collection of white-haired people who have long served the Hylian royal family and institution. Often called the 'Shadow People,' the Sheikah are very secretive in their valley, keeping close, barred watch on its eastern border with Lurelin. Kakariko Village, if reached, is friendly and sacred. Legend says that dragons are born from their neighboring lake, swirling into the sky and cutting through the famous, notably Dual Peaks. The Sheikah are masters in stealth, potions and oils, balms, chicken byproducts, and metallurgy. The people are led by the Sheikah Elder, Diya. Her niece, Impa, serves as Hyrule's princess' guard. The Sheikah nobody Parrane would eventually awaken as the Sage of Shadow, the tenant of the Shadow Temple - a dense system of caves and wells all connected, eventually turned into a torture chamber for the royal family.

⏾ Lanayru

Leaders: Zora Royal Family (King Inogo, Queen Lala, Princess Ruti)

Allies: Hyrule, Gorons

Adversaries: Gerudo

Neutral: Ritos

Sage of Water - Malan

The Zora live in the rainy, dark, mountainous, and luminescent Lanayru. A watery paradise filled with glowing stones, ancient ruins half-buried in lakes, and dense evergreens, Lanayru is a heavenly place. Soaked, the land thrives in an industry of trading metals, crabs, fish, flora such as honeysuckles, nightshades, and evergreen saps. With a rich history in monument building, the Zora's have impeccable craftsmanship with stone, metal, and ice, trading statues and polished stone and gem talismans. King Inogo and Queen Lala run the Zora with a benevolent but iron fist, being pompous and pretentious much of the time. Jabu-Jabu is the god of the Zora, a turbulent and finicky water creature that lives in Lake Ruta, believed to bring floods, rains, droughts, and ice storms with a simple bellow. To keep Jabu-Jabu pleased, the Zora employ a royal musician to soothe the god.

��� Eldin

Leader: Goron Chief Amato

Allies: Hyrule, Zora

Adversaries: Gerudo

Neutral: Hebra Rito

Sage of Fire - Dobras

At the mercy of Death Mountain, the Gorons populate the region of Eldin. Eldin is mountainous, jagged, hot, and overflowing with lava and hidden hot springs. Abundant in the mountain is ores and metals, making fine armor, weapons, and armaments/artillery. With the lava of the mountain, Gorons make ointments, religious and brotherly souvenirs, towering monuments/statues, and deadly catapults. Death Mountain is seen as the Golden Goddess Din's throne, where she sits and bestows either blessing or destruction on the denizens of Hyrule - earning the mountain a godlike reverence from the Gorons. Born from the stone, Gorons are a peaceful but powerful race, led by a chief Amato. The Gorons are expert blacksmiths, strategists, and musicians - being friendly above all else. Their rock roast and spring-boiled eggs are to die for!

𖤓 Gerudo

Leader: King/Lord Ganondorf Dragmire

Allies: Tabantha Rito

Adversaries: Hyrule, Zora, Goron, Kokiri

Neutral: Hebra Rito

Triforce of Power/Vessel of Malice - Ganondorf | Sage of Spirit - Riar'svah

Locked in by towering mountains, the Gerudo desert is a harsh, near unlivable area. Despite this, a rich array of creatures, flora, and people dwell in the desert. Amidst Molduga, saffina, juicy melons, oases, and tangy fruits, the Gerudo people have amassed an empire. The Gerudo Fortress is a feat: built jutting out of the mountain at the foot of the Desert Colossus, with windcatchers using the winds from the Highlands to cool the fortress, the underground reservoir waters are pumped upwards to flow through the fortress. Mosaics, walls of glass and gems, and tapestries ordain the fortress with beauty. Their matrilineal and matriarchal society worship the Sand Goddess and spiritually venerate their ancestors through colossal statues, colosseums, and underground sanctuaries. Trading fabrics, gems, dyes, Molduga parts, and gold, the Gerudo are wealthy and sovereign. A male is born once every 100 years, the current one on the throne, overseeing their three part government: king/chief, spiritual priestess, and magic elders.

𐦍 Rito

Tabantha:

Leader: Komilli & Needeema

Allies: Gerudo

Adversaries: Hebra Rito

Neutral: Hyrule

Sage of Wind | Komilli

Tabantha is a rich area of sloping plains, tall grass, and a gradual fade into cold, windy mountains, dense with snow. The Tabantha Rito tribe live in the northwest pocket of the region, specifically on the bird-shaped island in Medhoh Lake. There, they thrive in the towering ivory and stone structure, creating expert bows, arrows, wheat and grain products, and woven/braided material. They trade little with Hyrule, usually in exchange for foodstuffs. These Rito are tactical archers and woodwind musicians, famous for their lullabies and melodies heard echoing across Tabantha's frontier. In the Rito divide, the Tabantha coveted the Wind Temple, a towering structure nestled away in the mountains where the wind howls relentlessly, buffeting all who come near. This temple is their sacred place, challenging young Rito to brave the tormenting winds to reach it and leave offerings to the mysterious half-Rito, half-Hylian there, simply named Wind Player. The Sage of Wind, Komilli, turns his back on Hyrule when the war starts and his fellow leader, Needeema agrees, making the Tabantha Rito a neutral party...mostly. Komilli receives a vision and flies into the Gerudo Highlands where he meets with the Gerudo Sage... a deal was struck, that's all many know.

Hebra:

Leader: Edeeri

Perilous drops, slick ice, and thick snow loom over the dry, windy tundras of Hebra. Isolated, adversarial, and unwelcome, the Hebra Rito tribe are hostile to all who cross their lands, flying high above to spot and dive bomb intruders. Their hostility is unknown in origin but their callousness is not out of a violent inclination rather a desire to be left alone, safe, and separate from the divine back and forth in Hyrule proper. Since they engage in no trade or official communications, not much is known about the Hebra Rito save for a few stories and ideas. Their arrows are crafted of stone and lumber, with feathers plucked from the tail feathers of their user. They worship no god or goddess and their leader, seen in glimpses so brief many wonder is she is real, is Edeeri, an all-black Rito near twice the size of her companions.

𖧧 Woodlands / Lost Woods

The Kokiri and the Lost Woods inhabitants are non affiliated, choosing to remain in their shrouded depths of gnarled roots, misty meadows, endless lakes, and the shade of the Great Deku Tree. Tatu, the keeper of the Master Sword, is the only Kokiri who graces Hyrule, citing a divine calling to reach out and aid in the incoming rise of the Demon King.

[andyrandyx]

Sigh….mkay bye 😕

[quixoticanarchy]

because my most intense interests throughout my life have tended to seem a little strange to most people, i did - reasonably - conclude that if i started going on tangents or getting excited or knowing too much about odd subjects, whoever i'm talking to would be taken aback or unnerved or unhappy. but i typically wanted to talk about slaughterhouses or free trade agreements or silmarillion rock operas or chemical weapons more than i cared how people reacted, and so i'd do it anyway. which was in its way good, because i've also been able to observe that even if people think you're strange, enough of them will also be interested or at least bemused by you, and sometimes they'll even turn out to also be very keen on the subject and gladly go down the rabbit hole with you. twice in the last two weeks i have let myself start talking with great excitement about supply chains and the people i was talking to also got very excited and revealed they too were obsessed with this to some degree. like yes some people are not going to want to hear what you have to say and tbh some people are going to prefer if you say nothing ever. but i do find that taking the chance and just letting yourself be sincere and not holding back all the time is worth the risk

[yellow-faerie]

Stewjon, Stewjenic and the Stewj

Right, so, as per my last three shitposts, I am actually attempting to create my own conlang and worldbuilding for Stewjon! This is off the back of a lot of discussion about conlanging and worldbuilding on the Cheliik'ta discord (thank you very much @looseleafteeaves and @daedjaybird for helping me, the decision making goes a lot quicker with help lol), and is still very much in it's infancy, but I like to think that I have enough that I can start talking about it here!

(Full disclaimer: all thoughts here as susceptible to being changed if a better idea comes to be, or is posited by someone else lol)

First off - the planet name itself!

Stewjon is made up of two (well, sort of three) parts - the first syllable (stew), the j that it was attached to, and the suffix (-on).

Stew is effectively the demonym for the people of Stewjon, with Stewj being the adjective that describes a group of them. I'm still not sure whether to go the route of making the Stewj a near-human race (I do really love that headcanon) but even if they are human, the Stewj would never call anyone other than someone born and bred on the planet a Stew.

Is Stew an objectively cursed way to describe someone's race? Yes, yes it is. I might change it in the future (perhaps with a suffix of some sort of the added to Stewj, instead of removing the j to make it singular - the -j on the end is one way that plurals are formed in Stewjenic)

The -on suffix is effectively a thing to signify a place that belongs to someone. A lot of cities on Stewjon have the -on endings, and so do any planet names that have names within the Stewjon language that aren't loanwords - a notable exception is Colstev, the moon of Stewjon, as it's not naturally habitable by oxygen-breathing species and was thus considered a neutral zone that was unowned by any particular place or organisation for a long time.

This makes Stewjon means 'Land owned by the Stewj' which is a fairly rebellious thing that they declared: for a long time, they were a vassal planet of Corellia, used for their exceptionally arable world and left fairly destitute by overfarming, and it took a fairly violent revolution to become an independent nation and have their native name for their planet used officially.

Stewjenic is the name for the language spoken on Stewjon. It is a very old language, believed to be descended from the original settlers on the planet, although there is debate as to who they were and when they appeared. It was, however, before Corellia discovered the planet and colonised it for the natural resources.

There have been several attempts over the millennia to suppress the local language and writing system with first Corellisi (the language historically spoken on Corellia) and then Basic and the Aurebesh writing system. Despite this, the language persisted and is now the major language of the system and almost every child's first language.

Anyway, that's my introduction - watch this space for some more worldbuilding in the future!

[cherrycola098]

HEY KIDDOS

Are you somehow both a pikmin fan and a student taking AP Human Geography? Or just wanna learn something? No? TOO BAD

There's an amazing trend on tiktok with cute educational slideshows so have the Koppaites teach you about population and food crises

[doloneia]

how much evidence do we have for making the ahhiyawa-mycenaean connection?

Great question!

The answer is a bit complicated - it’s less a matter of “quantity” and moreso likelihood.

The question of whether or not Hittite references to Ahhiyawa are references to Mycenaean Greek palatial states is still a somewhat ongoing debate, and has been for about a century. For the purposes of this post I’m going to be referring back to two books I’ve read that give a pretty good rundown of the issue - The Ahhiyawa Texts (written by Beckman, Bryce, and Cline - three eminent scholars in studies around the Aegean & the Hittites) and The Cambridge Companion to the Aegean Bronze Age. These two books make use of a lot of previous scholarship that I recommend you check out as well, I’m just using them out of convenience here. In short, it’s a combination of both Hittite textual sources and ample archaeological evidence of Mycenaean interactions with Anatolia at this time.

On the matter of Hittite textual evidence, the connection is made based on linguistic grounds (Emil Forrer, as early as 1924, made a very hesitant suggestion that Ahhiyawa and Achaea sound incredibly similar) and deduction based on the limited geographic evidence provided by Hittite documents mentioning Ahhiyawa. Hawkins (1998) observed that the Hittites describe Ahhiyawa as “across the sea” from Assuwan territories (western Anatolia), a detail that simply cannot work if Ahhiyawa is located in Anatolia. Considering that Ahhiyawa is regularly discussed in conjunction with Hittite activities in the region, there is very little room for Ahhiyawa outside of Mycenaean Greek states (which are - barring the identification with Ahhiyawa - strikingly absent from Hittite sources). One Hittite king - Hattusili III - refers to an unnamed king of Ahhiyawa with the phrase “My Brother, the Great King, My Equal” - which is (in Late Bronze Age correspondence terms) putting this guy on the level of Egypt or Assyria, so it’s clear that the Hittites viewed Ahhiyawa as somewhat significant on the world stage.

The total absence of Mycenaeans from Hittite sources makes even less sense when considering archaeological evidence from the Late Bronze Age. Shipwrecks from this period (most notably, the Uluburun wreck which was most likely going west from Anatolia) point to ongoing trade between the Aegean, Anatolia, Egypt, and the Levant during the Late Bronze Age. Mycenaean pottery is also found frequently in western Anatolia (especially Miletus and Müskebi, which indicate the presence of Mycenaean cultural influence & burial practices). Mycenaean remains in Hittite territory itself are relatively sparse, but Tudhaliya IV also told the ruler of Amurru (another LBA state) to “let no ship of Ahhiyawa go to [Assyria],” and the Ahhiyawa regularly sheltered Anatolians fighting against the Hittites like Uhha-ziti during the reign of Mursili II, so it’s likely that the two regions weren’t exactly on great terms.

Personally, I think that the introduction to The Ahhiyawa Texts sums the issue up pretty well - “If the Mycenaeans are not the Ahhiyawans, then they are never mentioned by the Hittites. This, though, seems unlikely…. otherwise, we would have, on the one hand, an important Late Bronze Age culture not mentioned elsewhere in the Hittite texts (the Mycenaeans) and, on the other hand, an important textually attested Late Bronze Age “state” without archaeological remains (Ahhiyawa).” Alternative theories regarding Ahhiyawa's identification can't really account for this discrepancy, and there's been a gradual lack of dissent to the identification because it's simply the most likely option.

What Ahhiyawa constituted politically speaking, however, is an entirely separate can of worms that I will not touch with a ten-foot pole.

[scclangen]

moon 16 1/2 Cliffrun can't, in fact, rest

You now have (partially) cliffrun lore + the fact that 2 of the clans are called Caribouclan and Mynaclan so do with your thinking what you will (or ask him)

[thegoodduckfan]

Something about this map I found online feels wrong.

You're telling me they're that big but only have five kitchen sinks?! Also where's the Soviet Union? I feel like it should still be there considering the very nature of what Brutopia is. If it's meant to represent what Brutopia is in modern times what's even the point? A good Burtopia map should be set in in the 1950s to 1960s range, maps from other periods should be supplementary.

Someone more qualified than I should make a Brutopia map, I feel like it'd be cool.

[pinkpastels113]

Can you do like a poll of countries to see where your followers are from? It’s just something that interests me 😂😂

tbf i failed geography/maps (to quote chloe beale) so this poll prob sucks in how it does not encapsulate all the countries that everyone’s from lmao. i only did the ones that popped into my mind and that i know some of my mutuals are from:

[deconstructthesoup]

Does anybody know if the Dead Boy Detective Agency has a canonical address

Asking for fic reasons

[fluffypotatey]

Being a writer is so insane sometimes.

I'm writing a fanfic about apocalypse gays mutated by a brain-eating sickness in a future world half-fried by solar flares, fighting a eugenics-based pseudo-military-science organization that puts children through horrific, brain-breaking, deeply traumatizing experiments......

....and I'm studying Colorado/Denver in a road atlas so I can describe the city accurately.

it do be like that sometimes

i had to study the scientific method and it’s critiques just so i could write a prologue to establish the themes of insanity and stubbornness and human will to hope and confirmation bias that take place in a time loop one created while another is trapped in unable ti get the perfect result of their ideals

[emilyelizabethfowl]

no but seriously if any (or worst case scenario, all) of the ASL actually joined the Marines, Garp would be begging them to go and do anything else, even if that meant becoming pirates, within a week flat

[quixoticanarchy]

man I love maps I love geography even spatial analysis and shit I think it's neat and can be valuable but sometimes I have sort of a master's tools crisis about it bc like. I'm in this GIS program and oh turns out that classmate's a cop. that other classmate works in national security. that classmate works for the air force. I look for GIS jobs and it's like "would you like to work for the CIA? would you like to work for Homeland Security? how about Consulting Companies A-Z who are also, incidentally, CIA or DHS contractors??" and no, I really would not like that. that's the last thing I would like. is there anyone out there who would pay me to use these skills to not be evil

[songsandsnakes]

I rewatched b99 and it hit me.

Peraltiago is essentially the same as percabeth.

Amy and Annabeth are both classically book smart, independent, confident people. Jake and Percy are both (for lack of a better expression) dumber than their respective partners, love blue drinks (think Florida for Jake) and care deeply for their friends.

[weirdly-specific-but-ok]

Hey Asmi,

I saw the whole geographic revelations post and I just have to ask: What are your thoughts on Bielefeld?

It doesn’t matter if you’ve never heard of it. Just purely based on reading the name, do you think it exists?

Btw this question is for… science… kinda

H-hello maggot *trembles at seeing the word geographic* Um. Um. Well.

On one hand, Transylvania apparently exists (I'm so sorry to my Romanian maggots for thinking you were a mythical and/or extinct, albeit beautiful, land. At least you were all nice about it. My knowledge of India is even worse than my global knowledge, so when I go outside here, which I rarely do, my strategy is to keep my mouth shut.)

So given that Transylvania exists, I'm inclined to say yes to everything ever. On the other hand, that name looks suspiciously innocent. Now I have geographical trust issues. Thanks, maggots.

I'm gonna say... uh. Uh. Yes?

I'm beginning to question everything. I have been reliably informed that Wakanda is not real. Mongolia is real. I'm going to assume SoHo from good omens is real. Loch Ness is apparently an actual place. Is Birmingham in London, I couldn't make out from the Staged episode. Oceania is not an underwater kingdom that Barbie: A Mermaid's Tale made up.

Life is a lie.

And to those who asked why I don't google these things: I am afraid of the bloody internet and all the political can of worms that X throws at my face whenever I google anything related remotely to politics, which countries fall under. I do not want to know about the mayor of some city's affair with the undersecretary's second-cousin and the resultant wave of transphobia. I am afraid.

Now I rely on you all and the nice and accurate education that tumblr is, hopefully, giving me.