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Post by Revenant_ on Feb 25, 2022 9:45:57 GMT
As I sit, rain is pelting against the darkened windows, and has been all day. Here I sit, very cosy, with a hot mug of tea.
It got me to thinking: where are the best locations in Allansia or the Old World for excessive precipitation? Where are the villages and locales where the local farmers hunker down with their tankards as the night brings squalls of unrelenting rain?
Geographically, are any locales referred to in the books as damp, or lush with vegetation?
I think Spellbreaker opens with something of an epic rainstorm; are there any other references in the books to heavy rain?
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Post by vastariner on Feb 25, 2022 14:29:25 GMT
First thought is, where are the jungles? On Allansia, near Arantis. Which is cut off by mountains. In order for there to be lots of rainfall there, the weather has to hit the mountains and dump all the cloudwater there, before reaching the Desert of Skulls. That requires the weather to come from the south-west.
Taking that further, for the weather coming in from further south, the first serious obstacle to weather coming in will be the mountains surrounding Silur Cha. So, I would therefore assume that there is heavy rainfall there, which creates the riverine environment that leads to the whole place becoming uber-swampy. Sort of like Bangladesh, almost underwater thanks to monsoon winds hitting the Himalayas.
For the Desert of Skulls to work, that also assumes that the prevailing winds go from land to sea there, and perhaps revert further north, but more weakly, so there is less rainfall.
Khul is probably pretty hot and pretty dry, big expanses of empty land. The Old World temperate with the worst weather in the Northlands.
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Post by a moderator on Feb 25, 2022 16:30:29 GMT
As I recall, there's heavy rain during the encounter with the Haggwort in Legend of the Shadow Warriors.
Not Titan, but still FF: the planet Cliba in Starship Traveller has constant rain thanks to Bran-Sel's interference with the climate.
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Post by CharlesX on Feb 25, 2022 20:43:26 GMT
I'm reminded of the opening in House Of Hell where it's raining outside, that is Earth, not Titan, though. More relevant, the climate in Caverns Of The Show Witch, which has shared of Chronicles Of Narnia.
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Post by bloodbeasthandler on Feb 26, 2022 20:22:56 GMT
Not really answering your question but It rains quite hard just before you get to the Singing Bridge in Port Blacksand in FF5 giving you the option to take shelter in an abandoned house [and fight a load of poisonous snakes]. There's freakishly bad weather in the village of Vastarin at the start of Stormslayer. Forest of Doom sees an encounter with your own personal raincloud that zaps you with lighting before flying off... if that counts. The big thunderstorms mentioned in Robot Commando can be one route to victory.
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Post by vastariner on Feb 26, 2022 20:43:04 GMT
The rain in my village was obviously magical though.
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Post by Revenant__ on Feb 26, 2022 22:43:17 GMT
OP here. I really should register in account...
(Still raining here in South East Queensland. Three days of constant rain bringing a lot of flooding. Still, my FF collection is safe.)
Ah yes, the opening of house of hell was quite the memorable rainstorm.
Somehow I think there must be many damp and gloomy places in the haunted mountains of Mauristatia.
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Post by nathanh on Feb 27, 2022 23:12:45 GMT
Was there any context for the random lightning cloud in Forest of Doom?
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Post by a moderator on Feb 27, 2022 23:40:02 GMT
Was there any context for the random lightning cloud in Forest of Doom? None whatsoever. Crystal of Storms provides a possible explanation in the form of the Cloudkin and Stormkin, though if they're native to Altos, this one is a long way from home.
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Post by bloodbeasthandler on Mar 9, 2022 18:43:24 GMT
Was there any context for the random lightning cloud in Forest of Doom? Not in the book itself, no. But I would say that the audiodrama 'The Forest of Doom: Lost in Darkwood' does give an origin for it (remnants of an electrical storm conjured up by Evelina of Dree) as well as back-stories and origins for some of the other encounters in FF3.
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