> > I'd like to be cautious in making Dragaera too > similar to Europe. The Great Sea of Chaos doesn't > have anywhere to go but north and that could throw off > the relationships a bit (for example the Jenoine might > have lived in the equivalent of England or Scandinavia > and then accidentally destroyed it all). Careful there. The Great Sea of Chaos may not be attached to the primary (remaining) continent at all. We have some weak suggestion that one can walk up to it, so that it sounds like it abuts *some* land, but it may not be the "mainland". If the bulk of the action place in a magnified Europe, maybe the Jenoine Disaster took place in the equivalent of South America, on the other side of the planet. For that matter, what do we know about the size of the planet? Not a lot, though perhaps some things can be inferred. we know the year length, which gives us the orbital period, which (if we make assumptions about the sun's mass) could give us the mass of the planet. It doesn't seem to be a low-density metal-poor planet (like Silverberg's Majipoor). Gravity can't be *too* different from earth; though the relative ease of flight and levitation makes me suspect that it's either slightly lower G, or higher atmospheric density. How much of the planetary surface is covered by water? By Chaos? Is a circumnavigation (as speculated in Phoenix, IIRC) actually feasible? Is the Empire located on the local equivalent to Pangaea, or are there other continents? Inhabited? Alexx Opinions expressed are my own and not necessarily those of my employers. alexx at carolingiaSPAMBL@CK.org http://www.panix.com/~alexx Pohl's law: Nothing is so good that somebody, somewhere, will not hate it.