07-28-2010, 02:18 AM
On that note, we have been saying that Sidh Ohn occupies the area directly south of Bears Armed. However, that has presented several issues, both with existing regional history and with my own "mythology" of the Ohn, none of which have been resolved satisfactorily to my mind.
However, the position was chosen from the original map, which did not include the ice coast to the north of Bears Armed. If it had, I would have chosen it, as it makes alot more sense overall. If Sidh Ohn could be placed there, it would have to be some sort of landmass attached to a more northern ice shelf, rather like Greenland in RL. As far as geography goes, it should have a single accessible if rocky and treacherous coast/fiord/bay area (the Muircine Coast) just to its south-west, high steppes leading to shear cliffs on the western boarder, a shear mountain range leading to more inaccesible cliffs on the eastern boarder, and low steppes leading into the glacial ice fields in the north. The interior should basically be filled with a taiga made up of heavy forests and low jagged mountains dominated by a single massive mountain peak in the rough center of the nation that towers over all and upon which the capital of Sleibh Cathaird is built.
However, the position was chosen from the original map, which did not include the ice coast to the north of Bears Armed. If it had, I would have chosen it, as it makes alot more sense overall. If Sidh Ohn could be placed there, it would have to be some sort of landmass attached to a more northern ice shelf, rather like Greenland in RL. As far as geography goes, it should have a single accessible if rocky and treacherous coast/fiord/bay area (the Muircine Coast) just to its south-west, high steppes leading to shear cliffs on the western boarder, a shear mountain range leading to more inaccesible cliffs on the eastern boarder, and low steppes leading into the glacial ice fields in the north. The interior should basically be filled with a taiga made up of heavy forests and low jagged mountains dominated by a single massive mountain peak in the rough center of the nation that towers over all and upon which the capital of Sleibh Cathaird is built.