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Hey look, snowballs! I decided to write up a bunch of the stuff I've got in various parts of the oven instead of anything like a short, reasonable response.

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Lately I've been working out how currents should form, and wind patterns as well (for the record, Šaol has a retrograde spin with regards to Earth). This has involved delineating the exact size and location of the various areas I focus on most exist, climatically, so I can line them/their continents/ up right latitudinally. Actual continent sizes will soon follow (I've got rough land areas for most of the states of the Kanašu already, based off of all things various Turkish province and/or European country combinations).

Kortuğ


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I recently began drawing up a map/story semi-combo with more geologic and geopolitical details for Kortuğ (the rightmost continent on the map above); the northern reaches are covered by the aftermath of a flood basalt event 34-25mya, presaging the rifting of Rašau and Kortuğ. Got a story in a Sanafwe state of Southwestern Kortuğ started as well; if I'm ever happy with it I'll try to post it.

Htelui


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Far across the equatorial seaway from the Kanašu and the Xatsan Peninsula lies the continent of Htelui. the strong West to East pull of the circumplanetary Equatorial Current means travel there is somewhat risky, but possible to complete safely once the Kanaši develop hulls able to handle open ocean travel versus coastline-hugging. The northern shores are mostly populated by the Tyətrei family, which had a fair amount of development at one time but that got gutted in one of my major purges several years back. Cusren shall rise again…
Htelui's eastern coasts are subtropical (I hope), from its position straddling the equator (the continent is nearly bisected by it), and the gyrations of the split in the Equatorial Current once it pours into the mostly land-ringed sea which washes Htelui's shores. I really want to get back here once I've got the currents and climates worked out better.

Far Isles


The *Far Isles are a large chain of 9 primary islands and assorted smaller ones, being the peaks of a mostly-submerged continental mass which rises in the world-ocean facing the west of Rašau. It was settled by seafaring groups which rode the Equatorial Current east from the Littoral reaching from Nuoral up towards Kortuğ, first by Kanǰe (here known as the Kančel) speakers who make up the fairly primitive groups in the archipelago's remote reaches, then by Sanafwe speakers ancestral to the bulk of the population, and finally a Central Vuafane people originating from Nuoral, who installed themselves as the ruling class of most of the islands' societies. Then approximately 300 years before the present, the Čal (a highly industrious merchant people of the western Regil coasts, who rose to nearly equal the catalysts of their culture, the Kanaši) made landfall on the more easterly islands and, having a rather lopsided technological advantage (think Byzantium meets Polynesia for a rough approximation), almost inadvertently ended up taking control of large portions of the archipelago; expect Interesting Times.

To the ends of the earth


Along with the continents' permanent affixation mentioned above, I'm planning on pulling the few etheric strokes I have about the *Southron continent (placeholder name until I create actual details for it) into concreteness and at least roughly sketch out the continent and some geographic/geopolitical/climatic info (I really want there to be an entirely landlocked ice cap, if I end up finalizing the planetary temperature ranges to be such that ice caps are possible).

…and Beyond!

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I've actually got a nice chunk of orbital, planetary, and star data laying around (Šaol's star is a K3V-class, for example, which of course requires adjusting the Goldilocks Zone, stellar ages and coloration), but it needs a lot of work to be presentable, I worked it out years ago and can't exactly recall how I arrived at some of it (there's enough sourcing though to mollify any doubts about the veracity overall). I also really, really want Šaol to have two moons, and that is horrifyingly complex to make happen. It will happen.

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1. I'm aware this isn't the world formation stuff you were talking about. That's…it'll come. Someday soon, hopefully.