Between darkness and light...


Subject: Between darkness and light...
From: Kim Kunnas (beregar@majik.netti.fi)
Date: Thu Jul 01 1999 - 16:42:05 EEST


Following text is based on my questions to Namhas, english in it sucks
but who cares?

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Is Majik's current map only another side of the world (for example like
america is in another side and europe in another side)?

 - I don't know

Do the both continents reach all the way either to the north or to the
south?

 - No

How far is it to the most northern or southern part of majik?

 - The distance is immense, but people don't know it, they just
   think that world ends there (when the map ends).

Is Majik a globe

  - I think it is

Does majik rotate like earth?

 - Why should majik rotate? Though, sun rotates around majik be
   cause of balance between Sinister and Aluna.

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I asked these questions because I'm making weather descs and it would be
nice to make them realistic (well, as realistic as I can make with my meager knowledge of weather).

Those were just part of the questions which I was going to ask but then
I got a idea which I presented to Namhas. It's nothing unique but I sug
gested that instead of normal days and seasons, we could have one large
"day". Because sun would circle majik once in a year, this would mean we
had about 6 month darkness in whole majik and 6 month light (well not ac
tually, since there would be completely dark only in midwinter and vise
versa) which would mean 2rl months darkness and 2rl months daylight. (re
member 1 rl month is 3 months in majik..if I just remembered right by
myself :P ).

I think it would be cool to have those dark periods. Mages could create
artificial suns to light towns. It could be also time when evil creatures would
walk around the Majik and people stay inside their cities shuddering in fear.

This also would somewhat ease my weather work and as far as I know there
is no such system in any other game, right? So give me your opinion about
this subject.

- Beregar (Beregar@majik.netti.fi)



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