WIP: The Islands

[Lukc]

Thanks Lukc.

I'll do some reworking and move the jungle south west. It could start in that big chunk on the bottom center of the map instead of forest, and then dry as it goes north east, if that works.

As for the massive delta, I was considering a large mountain range with an eternal (or very frequent) storm at it's peak that drains primarily north into the region where the delta would be. It would then spill of the northern tip of that western island over some cliffs and form a waterfall that spans that northern coast. The big question I have about that is what the winds and such would have to be like to drop that much rain on a mountain or mountain range that consistently. Like the other aspects of the islands, it can be a very improbable explanation, but not impossible.

Thanks for your awesome feedback. I'm glad you like how they look!

An eternal storm would definitely cover it. You could say it's a bowl like range, maybe the caldera of a massive eruption or some such, with a steam volcano at the center. The surrounding caldera rim would then funnel most of the rain towards a break in the northwest and hey-presto - massive amounts of water, sufficient for a huge delta ... probably with a lot of black, grey and red sands from the igneous rocks being worn down. As soon as you have deities in the mix, making things "believable" within the context of a world is much easier, so long as the explanation "works".

[mozltovcoktail]

Great suggestion about the steam caldera. I could definitely see going that route. The only thing is that I was thinking the east island would contain the volcanic zone, so I'd prefer an eternal storm on the west island.

Could moist winds coming from the north west (as well as the south west), and then hitting a large mountain range in the north west of the western island create such a thing? If so, would that leave the eastern part of the western island too dry?

If the eternal storm gets too hard to justify, I'll go for a caldera. The idea of the eternal storm is just too rad for me to abandon quite yet

[Lukc]

Great suggestion about the steam caldera. I could definitely see going that route. The only thing is that I was thinking the east island would contain the volcanic zone, so I'd prefer an eternal storm on the west island.

Could moist winds coming from the north west (as well as the south west), and then hitting a large mountain range in the north west of the western island create such a thing? If so, would that leave the eastern part of the western island too dry?

If the eternal storm gets too hard to justify, I'll go for a caldera. The idea of the eternal storm is just too rad for me to abandon quite yet

I'm no meteorology expert! Some other guys are much more in depth regarding this stuff ... personally, I think if you get that much moist wind, most of the island is going to end up pretty steamy, like Borneo. Anyway, an eternal storm would definitely work. Even if the land was just sloping to north west, say from the event that broke the western island off from the rest, you would end up with most of the water diverting that way.