Strange that Aranoch should exist there too, but, oh well.
Aranoch is a desert because of the mountain ranges to the West of Lut Gohlein. As winds blow over those mountains from the west, they create an arid environment on the eastern side of the mountains. The winds and rain clouds are laden with moisture, but to get over the mountains the have to "dump" their load to be light enough to rise over them, when they come down the other side, they have little to no moisture, they are basically just wind, wind that will strip trees bare.
The map of Sanctuary gives no indication of an equator, it's entiely possible the land mass shown is a northern continent. It seems far to small to be the whole continent.
The only thing we know for sure is it snows in Sescheron, it hardly rains in Aranoch, and falls in abundance in Kehjistan.
Course it does raise a few questions. If the above map does not show the whole of Sanctuary (and if you look the the far right, it's evident it doesn't), then wouldn't some one like Meshif or other merchant sailors be away of other land masses.
But considering the time period in which Diablo is set, it is understandable. In the Dark Ages - Medieval days, few people from western society had any knowledge that the Americas or the Pacific countries even existed. They were pretty content trading within their country or continent, or neighbouring one. It wasn't really until urbanization and over population forced people to explore.
You know what's just great about all this.
I get promoted when I'm not here.
Can't say you didn't deserve it, though it probably could have happened earlier.
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-Humankind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. That is alchemy's First Law of Equivalent Exchange. In those days, we really believed that to be the world's one, and only, truth.
Ahh okay, thanks elfen for that explanation. I'm glad they thought that part out at least.
So, clearly the winds only travel east, because the Twin Seas seem to supply Kehjan with heaps of rain, but not Aranoch on the other side of it.
Hmm, if Deeha'Blothri is just south of the snowy mountains, is it possible that at certains times of the year the snow gets so intense that it extends down a little farther to Deeha'Blothri?
So, clearly the winds only travel east, because the Twin Seas seem to supply Kehjan with heaps of rain, but not Aranoch on the other side of it.
That's not entirely true. Primarily though yes. Deserts are formed by winds with little to no moisture. This is most commonly the result of winds traveling over a mountain or large hill, or from just travelling long distances over land with little to no water to remoisten itself, say coming downwards from the north or heading north east from Dun Craig.
Kehjistan is wet because the sea breezes dump their payload going over Nymyr. The mountain ranges east of Tristram are probably not quite as high as Nymyr, thus the winds don't have to drop as much moisture to rise over them, therefore Tristram is not as wet as Kurast.
Hmm, if Deeha'Blothri is just south of the snowy mountains, is it possible that at certains times of the year the snow gets so intense that it extends down a little farther to Deeha'Blothri?
Yes. Depending on how far south it is, yes it would be possible for it to snow, too far south an it will not be cold enough. It doesn't snow in Tristram. Altitude also places a part. The higher you are, the colder it is. You can usually tell if it will snow in an area by the "tree line", that is the line above which no tree will grow.
Where I live is a little whiles north of a snowy mountain (New Zealand is in the Southern Hemisphere so everything is reversed, don't believe me, ring someone in Australia (next to New Zealand) their toilet will flush in the opposite direction, it's called the corrisalis effect). Most of the winter it is just too warm to snow here, water will freeze over, but not enough to skate on, but occassionally it drops low enough for it to snow.
I would need to check the facts (lore/books/Solomir) but I think that river under the word Entsteig is pretty close to the cut off point. Any further south than that and it wouldn't snow very often.
It's always epic to have an army march through snow laden tundras. Though more often than not it leads to disaster, but that is primarily due to people not used to said conditions. Napolean's troops were not used to the snow, while the Russians he was fighting were experienced in said terrain.
If Deeha'Blothri, and thus SICK is in a snowy area, or close to one they would be well adapted to marching/living in those conditions. Though they might not do quite so well marching through the deserts of Aranoch, or the jungles of Kehjistan.
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-Humankind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. That is alchemy's First Law of Equivalent Exchange. In those days, we really believed that to be the world's one, and only, truth.
lol, I live in Australia, and that toilet flushing thing is not apparent. Technically its true, yes, but our toilets (or atleast every toilet I have been to) don't flush in any direction. its just a mass of gushing water.
and lol, I see you googled what the name of the effect was, cause its in a different font.
ah, sucks that you live in a part of NZ and it doesn't snow lol. The only place that it snows in Australia is Canberra's Snowy Mountains and Tasmania (I'm pretty sure).
Funny. Funny i say how i imagined that we lived in a desert [due to the forum color] but now the scenario seems to be looking more like the Tundras.
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''May the Gods give you the strength and power to bear the madness which flows through our minds.''
''Zubin, I've always imagined you as a crazy raver. The kinda guy that spends all night dancing to trance music while waving glow sticks and popping ecstasy.'' - Murderface
If the site changes colours, and you can do that now yourself, but I mean offically, to something more gothic and diabl-esque, that will kill your desert theory.
and lol, I see you googled what the name of the effect was, cause its in a different font.
That would be MS word. I hate mispelling words. MS Word is defaulted to Times New Roman size 8, this site uses Verdana size 10.
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Uh, will the clan be active more when the actual third installment comes out? I've gone on west occasionally, but whenever I'm on there's usually no one in the channel, and the only person I see really is Ullion (the wonderful guy that he is )
I mean, I can't really speak since I personally haven't been active enough in-game, but, well, I'm sure you understand my point of view, lol.
Of course, this also might be due to the fact that most people in the clan are on a west timezone schedule, while I'm east coast, so that might affect why I am not seeing a lot of people on when I get on late at night.
were me, ferret, winston, necro, and theres some more..
but like...
i'm done w/ d2 atm. so u wont see me on. otherwise i'd add you..
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We gotta make a change...
It's time for us as a people to start makin' some changes.
Let's change the way we eat, let's change the way we live
and let's change the way we treat each other.
You see the old way wasn't working so it's on us to do
what we gotta do, to survive. Tupac Shakur
100% Legit baal runners SICK_Bambi 93 Barb (46th barb)
SICK_Paladin 95 Necromancer (12th necro)
SICK_ferret 95 Assassin (10th sin) ~~us West Ladder~~
im on a good 15-25 hours a week depending on my work load
I play with Necro prob 4 times a week and always on sat and sunday
i think im like officially done w/ it..
i talked to ferret about it. i got a lot of r/l shit going on...
i might just leave my barb so i can make a play date w/ ferret every once in a while...but ya..
*confused* seing as i wont be active via games.. does that mean im outa SICK?
don't get me wrong. ill still be active on the forums... its just i have no time for games. r/l sucks.
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We gotta make a change...
It's time for us as a people to start makin' some changes.
Let's change the way we eat, let's change the way we live
and let's change the way we treat each other.
You see the old way wasn't working so it's on us to do
what we gotta do, to survive. Tupac Shakur
100% Legit baal runners SICK_Bambi 93 Barb (46th barb)
SICK_Paladin 95 Necromancer (12th necro)
SICK_ferret 95 Assassin (10th sin) ~~us West Ladder~~
That depends, if you were to scrap together a few hours a week on the games, you would be fine. So long as you inform people of your decreased activity.
I play WOW mostly now, so you probably won't see my much on LOD anymore, if at all. Kinda busy this week, so I don't know how much WOWing I'll get done, If you see me on WOW, I'd appreciate the company. It's lonely soloing.
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-Humankind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. That is alchemy's First Law of Equivalent Exchange. In those days, we really believed that to be the world's one, and only, truth.
Never have we stated u must put forth Guild before R/L
Hope everything works out for u so i can get back to playing
maybe upon ur return u shall give HC some more love as to spark ur interest for the game again as it did with mine years ago
EWW HC...
dude did i ever tell you how.. "idontdie" died??
i had just finished nm rush i was lvl 40. and berely going to start using gear... then i forgot i was hc... ran out with my zon ....into a group of monsters... it sucked lol.
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We gotta make a change...
It's time for us as a people to start makin' some changes.
Let's change the way we eat, let's change the way we live
and let's change the way we treat each other.
You see the old way wasn't working so it's on us to do
what we gotta do, to survive. Tupac Shakur
100% Legit baal runners SICK_Bambi 93 Barb (46th barb)
SICK_Paladin 95 Necromancer (12th necro)
SICK_ferret 95 Assassin (10th sin) ~~us West Ladder~~
I hardly spend time playing games (the only games I play are the Diablo ones). Instead, my time is spent drawing or other similar art projects that pretty much all revolve around Sanctuary or this forum (Deeha'Blothri). Does that count as playing the game? lol. Because, if there are/will be strict rules on gameplay, then I would fail.
Though, that would obviously change when DIII comes out.
I hardly spend time playing games (the only games I play are the Diablo ones). Instead, my time is spent drawing or other similar art projects that pretty much all revolve around Sanctuary or this forum (Deeha'Blothri). Does that count as playing the game? lol. Because, if there are/will be strict rules on gameplay, then I would fail.
I am somewhat in that same boat, I tend to have some sort of project running in the background, be it an RP thread or the novel. But I do try play the games as much as I can.
Forum wise your activity cannot be denied, though you will have to increase your in game activity. Don't have to go over board or anything, but do try, there is usually, depending on time zones, someone to help you with a dungeon, rush or quest. Or to just pass on some items to you.
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-Humankind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. That is alchemy's First Law of Equivalent Exchange. In those days, we really believed that to be the world's one, and only, truth.
Aranoch is a desert because of the mountain ranges to the West of Lut Gohlein. As winds blow over those mountains from the west, they create an arid environment on the eastern side of the mountains. The winds and rain clouds are laden with moisture, but to get over the mountains the have to "dump" their load to be light enough to rise over them, when they come down the other side, they have little to no moisture, they are basically just wind, wind that will strip trees bare.
The map of Sanctuary gives no indication of an equator, it's entiely possible the land mass shown is a northern continent. It seems far to small to be the whole continent.
The only thing we know for sure is it snows in Sescheron, it hardly rains in Aranoch, and falls in abundance in Kehjistan.
Course it does raise a few questions. If the above map does not show the whole of Sanctuary (and if you look the the far right, it's evident it doesn't), then wouldn't some one like Meshif or other merchant sailors be away of other land masses.
But considering the time period in which Diablo is set, it is understandable. In the Dark Ages - Medieval days, few people from western society had any knowledge that the Americas or the Pacific countries even existed. They were pretty content trading within their country or continent, or neighbouring one. It wasn't really until urbanization and over population forced people to explore.
Can't say you didn't deserve it, though it probably could have happened earlier.
So, clearly the winds only travel east, because the Twin Seas seem to supply Kehjan with heaps of rain, but not Aranoch on the other side of it.
Hmm, if Deeha'Blothri is just south of the snowy mountains, is it possible that at certains times of the year the snow gets so intense that it extends down a little farther to Deeha'Blothri?
That's not entirely true. Primarily though yes. Deserts are formed by winds with little to no moisture. This is most commonly the result of winds traveling over a mountain or large hill, or from just travelling long distances over land with little to no water to remoisten itself, say coming downwards from the north or heading north east from Dun Craig.
Kehjistan is wet because the sea breezes dump their payload going over Nymyr. The mountain ranges east of Tristram are probably not quite as high as Nymyr, thus the winds don't have to drop as much moisture to rise over them, therefore Tristram is not as wet as Kurast.
Yes. Depending on how far south it is, yes it would be possible for it to snow, too far south an it will not be cold enough. It doesn't snow in Tristram. Altitude also places a part. The higher you are, the colder it is. You can usually tell if it will snow in an area by the "tree line", that is the line above which no tree will grow.
Where I live is a little whiles north of a snowy mountain (New Zealand is in the Southern Hemisphere so everything is reversed, don't believe me, ring someone in Australia (next to New Zealand) their toilet will flush in the opposite direction, it's called the corrisalis effect). Most of the winter it is just too warm to snow here, water will freeze over, but not enough to skate on, but occassionally it drops low enough for it to snow.
I would need to check the facts (lore/books/Solomir) but I think that river under the word Entsteig is pretty close to the cut off point. Any further south than that and it wouldn't snow very often.
It's always epic to have an army march through snow laden tundras. Though more often than not it leads to disaster, but that is primarily due to people not used to said conditions. Napolean's troops were not used to the snow, while the Russians he was fighting were experienced in said terrain.
If Deeha'Blothri, and thus SICK is in a snowy area, or close to one they would be well adapted to marching/living in those conditions. Though they might not do quite so well marching through the deserts of Aranoch, or the jungles of Kehjistan.
and lol, I see you googled what the name of the effect was, cause its in a different font.
ah, sucks that you live in a part of NZ and it doesn't snow lol. The only place that it snows in Australia is Canberra's Snowy Mountains and Tasmania (I'm pretty sure).
''Zubin, I've always imagined you as a crazy raver. The kinda guy that spends all night dancing to trance music while waving glow sticks and popping ecstasy.'' - Murderface
That would be MS word. I hate mispelling words. MS Word is defaulted to Times New Roman size 8, this site uses Verdana size 10.
I mean, I can't really speak since I personally haven't been active enough in-game, but, well, I'm sure you understand my point of view, lol.
Of course, this also might be due to the fact that most people in the clan are on a west timezone schedule, while I'm east coast, so that might affect why I am not seeing a lot of people on when I get on late at night.
were me, ferret, winston, necro, and theres some more..
but like...
i'm done w/ d2 atm. so u wont see me on. otherwise i'd add you..
It's time for us as a people to start makin' some changes.
Let's change the way we eat, let's change the way we live
and let's change the way we treat each other.
You see the old way wasn't working so it's on us to do
what we gotta do, to survive.
Tupac Shakur
100% Legit baal runners
SICK_Bambi 93 Barb (46th barb)
SICK_Paladin 95 Necromancer (12th necro)
SICK_ferret 95 Assassin (10th sin)
~~us West Ladder~~
im on a good 15-25 hours a week depending on my work load
I play with Necro prob 4 times a week and always on sat and sunday
i think im like officially done w/ it..
i talked to ferret about it. i got a lot of r/l shit going on...
i might just leave my barb so i can make a play date w/ ferret every once in a while...but ya..
*confused* seing as i wont be active via games.. does that mean im outa SICK?
don't get me wrong. ill still be active on the forums... its just i have no time for games. r/l sucks.
It's time for us as a people to start makin' some changes.
Let's change the way we eat, let's change the way we live
and let's change the way we treat each other.
You see the old way wasn't working so it's on us to do
what we gotta do, to survive.
Tupac Shakur
100% Legit baal runners
SICK_Bambi 93 Barb (46th barb)
SICK_Paladin 95 Necromancer (12th necro)
SICK_ferret 95 Assassin (10th sin)
~~us West Ladder~~
Never have we stated u must put forth Guild before R/L
Hope everything works out for u so i can get back to playing
maybe upon ur return u shall give HC some more love as to spark ur interest for the game again as it did with mine years ago
I play WOW mostly now, so you probably won't see my much on LOD anymore, if at all. Kinda busy this week, so I don't know how much WOWing I'll get done, If you see me on WOW, I'd appreciate the company. It's lonely soloing.
EWW HC...
dude did i ever tell you how.. "idontdie" died??
i had just finished nm rush i was lvl 40. and berely going to start using gear... then i forgot i was hc... ran out with my zon ....into a group of monsters... it sucked lol.
It's time for us as a people to start makin' some changes.
Let's change the way we eat, let's change the way we live
and let's change the way we treat each other.
You see the old way wasn't working so it's on us to do
what we gotta do, to survive.
Tupac Shakur
100% Legit baal runners
SICK_Bambi 93 Barb (46th barb)
SICK_Paladin 95 Necromancer (12th necro)
SICK_ferret 95 Assassin (10th sin)
~~us West Ladder~~
Though, that would obviously change when DIII comes out.
I am somewhat in that same boat, I tend to have some sort of project running in the background, be it an RP thread or the novel. But I do try play the games as much as I can.
Forum wise your activity cannot be denied, though you will have to increase your in game activity. Don't have to go over board or anything, but do try, there is usually, depending on time zones, someone to help you with a dungeon, rush or quest. Or to just pass on some items to you.
Fuck you, I'm a dragon.