Map - Northern Wilderness - World of Kesumi

[bartmoss]

Hmm. I don't think it's possible for either of the northern rivers to flow into the southern river that drains to the east. He's got a lot of hills and highlands dividing the two drainage systems, so short of water flowing uphill after it's made it to lower lands, there'd be no way for the two systems to connect.

Hence my proposal of the lake, which would then overflow to the south.

Good point about the rainfall, though, I think. Thus ringed by mountains, this place likely would be relatively dry. On the other hand, I think it would be possible to come up with a plausible reason for increased rainfall in this system. If we did have some of those rivers pooling up into a great lake or an inland sea, the additional water becomes part a semi-closed system, with the rivers being replenished by water evaporated from the inland sea and, say, a few ancient glaciers slowly melting.

Yeah the lake would help. I honestly am not sure it would be enough, but I am also thinking it depends on the prevailing weather in the area. After all, the east is kind of open, and could allow a lot of water-bearing air to move in, especially if the local water to the east is relatively cold.

[Karro]

Hence my proposal of the lake, which would then overflow to the south.



Yeah the lake would help. I honestly am not sure it would be enough, but I am also thinking it depends on the prevailing weather in the area. After all, the east is kind of open, and could allow a lot of water-bearing air to move in, especially if the local water to the east is relatively cold.

Hmm. That would be a very large lake. And I'm not entirely sure it would easily drain to the south - that's a massive amount of water to accumulate over time.

Landorl, I see the problem, now. The north-east river drainage looks odd because it appears the river is going through the mountains to reach the large bay (same with the river oulet on the west side of the bay).

If that area where the two rivers are draining is legitimately lower ground, and drainage can occur there, then that's fine, but it does look a little odd. If the geological features of this are were caused by an earthquake, and at one point the entire area was highlands, then at some point in the past much of the norther area might possibly have been underwater as rivers coming down from the various mountain accumulated in the bowl of lowlands. Over time, I'm not sure where this would have drained to.

[Ascension]

You said that the bay was formed by an earthquake that forced up the crescent shaped mountains in the middle there. This would imply that the bay was not there before the earthquake, right? As such the rivers would have been flowing south (probably southwest IMO) before said quake. In order to get the rivers to flow into the newly created bay and still be plausible, the whole middle section of the continent would have to have been raised in order to force them there OR they'd have to be flowing into the fault zone cracks OR said area would have to have been lowered while leaving the mountains in place. I'm just a river deputy so my 2 cents would be to either flatten that crescent mountain shape into hills, cut back some of the crescent mountains to form some drainage lanes, or move that section further south with some lowlands emptying into the bay. This is more of a question for the geologists, though, so I could be way off.

[landorl]

I kind of like the idea of a lake in that area. I have added one, and am posting the results.

The bay that was formed was by an unnatural (magically induced) earthquake. It was during the age that the gods still walked the land, and during a war, a star from the heavens was called down (meteor), and it struck in the mountains here, which cracked the earth and shook the world.

The area between the north and southern mountains is very much like a high plateau similar to what could be found in the western U.S. between the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Nevadas. It slowly rises from the east to the west.

The mountains that are in the east are only about 2-5,000 feet tall, where as the mountains on the west (just off of the map) are about 10 - 25,000 feet tall.

The northern mountains are in the 8-14,000 range, while the southern ones are in the 6-10,000 range.

The area where the two rivers drain from quickly drop from an average height of 1,000 feet to feed through two canyons (fracture lines) into the bay. The mountains on the south side of the bay were thrust there by the impact of the meteor, and they are fairly steep, but only run from about 2-7,000 feet in height.

Without doing a height scale map, it is hard to show how the land drops along the two gaps, but I am not very good at doing the height maps, and am too impatient to work at it! I will try to do that after I get the first set of maps done.

[landorl]

Another new update.

I have made many of the waterways in the west more intermittent streams to indicate that the west is drier than the east.

I have also tried something a little different for the woodlands. I don't have all of the woodlands drawn in yet, but I am getting closer. Still not sure if I like it though because it obscures the highlands so much. I may have to show both maps so that the differences will be seen.