World-Building Week #1

So here’s the story: school got out, and then I had to present a credo and read it off at the UU church I got, meaning I’m now officially an associate member. Cool.
So now I’ve got summer vacation, and I’m semi-sick, which means I have too much spare time. I need to post something because I’m bored, so I figured, why not just go all the way? I’m hoping for this week (or however long it takes) to be an unparalelled burst of creativity: I’m going to create an entire world history in a week (or however long it takes). I’ll hopefully post once every day from now on. So let’s get started. I’m going into this with absolutely no prior ideas about what to put down. First, let’s have a world, which should appear somewhere on this post, because of Blogger’s iffy image system.

Ding! I’m done. Made in like 3 minutes in the GIMP. Next I need elevation lines.There we are. These are the areas of highest elevation on the continent. Looks like there are two tectonic plates coming together in the center, which would lead to big ol’ mountains. Maybe that little Baja California shaped peninsula in the southwest is part of another plate. Whatever. Anyway, we need rivers now.

Alright. These are the major rivers. It looks like there are two waterways across the huge mountains, and a lot of the areas on the northern half of the continent are fairly parched. Maybe a desert or a steppe. The south looks pretty fertile, except for the peninsulas. The giant Hudson-bay type bay looks like a big trade center, and controlling that center island in the straits could be crucial for war.

Next week: history and geographical areas.

~ by pieboy on June 14, 2006.