Post by Arsulon on Mar 12, 2016 17:34:14 GMT -7
Given that most of Greenland lies within the Arctic Circle, Thule should be experiencing months of nearly constant daylight balanced by months of nearly constant darkness. How might this affect the flora and fauna, or culture for that matter? Mass migrations? Vampires amok? Seasonal upswings in prayers and sacrifices to Asura or Set?
If not, why not? I seem to recall a fringe belief that the Earth underwent a cataclysmic axial shift prior to the last Ice Age; its proponents believed that the northern geographic pole was located roughly where Juneau, Alaska is today. If the setting subscribes to this theory, it certainly permits normal Thulean days and nights and definitely helps account for the tropical conditions in the central and southern portions of the continent. But what would this mean for explorers beyond these savage shores? A blistering and sand-swept, or sweltering and sodden equitorial Europe?
If not, why not? I seem to recall a fringe belief that the Earth underwent a cataclysmic axial shift prior to the last Ice Age; its proponents believed that the northern geographic pole was located roughly where Juneau, Alaska is today. If the setting subscribes to this theory, it certainly permits normal Thulean days and nights and definitely helps account for the tropical conditions in the central and southern portions of the continent. But what would this mean for explorers beyond these savage shores? A blistering and sand-swept, or sweltering and sodden equitorial Europe?
