The Allosphere

dhok notes

IIRC, the Allosphere is slightly smaller than Earth. ]The Allosphere is bigger than Earth, with a radius of about 7100 km. Its atmosphere at sea level is about 95-96% that of Earth's (about as much as at 2000 feet/600 meters of elevation—think Madrid, Sofia, Canberra)

Axial tilt will be determined based on the needs of continent and climate positioning. How do I calculate tropics and circles from the axial tilt? Axial tilt subtracted from 90 and added to 0 gives you the tropics and circles, so on Earth the tilt is about 23.5 degrees and the Arctic Circle is at 90-23.5 degrees N = 66.5 N. The axial tilt is equal to the degree of the tropics.

Higher axial tilt -> less tropical rainforest, maritime, hot desert, icecap. So probably the axial tilt is smaller than Earth's? Bricka's climate cookbook doesn't sound right here - how the hell is Cfa "subject to the same influences throughout the year"?! what I imagine is probably true is that lower axial tilt should generally lead to less continentality of seasons, so where Omaha or Almaty is IRL subjected to 90-degree summers and 5-degree winters, its Allospherian equivalent (with an axial tilt of, say, 15 degrees) would get, like, 85-degree summers and 25-degree winters. I think we can probably assume precipitation should be about the same, but also probably fewer crazy-ass weather events because those tend to require wildly different air masses to collide, like warm air from the Gulf of Mexico hitting freezing air from Canada and condensing into tornadoes.

this is probably going to be a boon for the farmers, because oceanic/subtropical/mediterranean weather should maybe stretch further inland, with less steppe. probably about the same amount of desert however

https://web.archive.org/web/20130619132254/http://jc.tech-galaxy.com/bricka/climate_cookbook.html

It might be nice to find a suitable IRL exoplanet to locate the thing on, but Earth-like exoplanet search is hard as hell so there's plenty of room to handwave.

The Dog Continent

Putting this first because it has to be in the subtropical dry zone. Something about Hadley cells.

The Swamp Continent

On the east coast of the Supercontinent. A little like the US, but maybe wider and shorter. But it's south of the equator. This doesn't really affect much but it's how I've been thinking of it so I'll stick with it.

Bordered on the west by mountains.

Kaam-Yerte was originally a mainland family that got pushed out and colonized some islands before Hathic-Tsiic expanded over it. (But Hathic was originally in the mountains. Hathic is probably not part of O'on on the grounds of typological differences, so maybe the Kaam-Yerte pushed the Hathics out... ah, but then you'd expect their languages to have clicks. What the hell is the deal with the Hathic expansion anyway?)

Known locations:
- Shit Cornwall (Ziwanic urheimat; Vynyi is somewhere, possibly in Cornwall's Cornwall but I don't know that it needs to be that far out)
- Gejaehl, Bor, Ketas (Hluic islands; Ketas is outlying Tsalaysian)
- Big Yeet (Narng-speaking trade city)
- Undetermined Zot, What, etc. locations
- Where's Hathenai? Probably to the southeast.

Tsalaysia

Some islands.

O'on entered from the mainland, right? Probably around Narngic territory. Unless... unless it came from the Dog Continent? But probably not. The question, then, is why there's no O'on mainland presence; also why there's a Hathic one, since the Hathic urheimat is in the islands.

Half of the Tsi Empire lives on one large island, which is neither Msaaxo (Long Island) nor Risha.

Msaaxo and Risha are adjacent.

Known locations:

Long Island (Msaaxo)

Long but not as populous; pretty mountainous. Further out, maybe.

Big Island

Main Tsiic island. Who the fuck knows. Probably closer to shore (fake Java).

Risha

Biggest Cuhbi-speaking island. Volcanic but not terribly mountainous. Shield volcanoes? What forms shield volcanoes? Hawai'i Island is pretty mountainous, but the inland isn't settled, so that could work too.

The Inner Lands

Dude, who even knows. The Rau are somewhere past the Zhjumna along the coast and want to expand east.

There is something called the Nta River but it hasn't been mentioned in ages.

Harue

I have a pretty good handle on Harue I think