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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?
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Post by egamma on Mar 12, 2016 20:14:10 GMT -7
I think of Thule as being basically at the end of a Jurassic-like age, with Europe being a big swamp. You're right about the polar nights.
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Post by citizenx on Dec 28, 2016 15:53:58 GMT -7
The phrase "Ultima Thule" often indicated sailing to a paradise beyond the north winds...a place of the Midnight Sun! I say for purposes of keeping Thule intriguing and foreshadowing the growth of the Glaciers, maybe the cycles of Night are getting longer and the cycles of long daylight getting shorter...you're essentially experiencing the shifting of the poles in slow motion.
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