(11-18-2013, 11:45 PM)Naunet Wrote:(11-18-2013, 11:01 PM)C Wrote: I see it all as metaphoric, really. The fast day-night cycle doesn't mean that days are really 15 minutes long, it's just a metaphor for days going by. Likewise, the small world doesn't mean that the world really is that small, it's just a metaphor for the "actual" world our characters live in.
I'd like to add onto this and say one more thing:
Eastern Thanalan does not get rain as much as it does in-game. If it did, it would quite literally not be a desert anymore. So can folk please stop making IC comments about how it rains constantly in Drybone? Pretend it's the rainy season now, sure, but a month or so down the line, it should be dry as a... well, a bone.
Actually...there was something floating around (not sure if I got it from the THM questline or somehwere else) about how, given the amount of precipitation Thanalan gets, it shouldn't be a desert. Â That it is seems to be possibly related to the drain Thaumaturgy/Black Magic has on the Aether. Meaning that it might actually rain that much...though I wish it didn't. It's so jarring. >.<
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