The Intermountain West region (shaded red) of the Western continental United States.
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Fantasy Worldbuilding Questions (Geography)
Geographical Worldbuilding Questions:
What is the terrain like for key setting regions – which regions are coastal, mountainous, arid, or have dense vegetation?
What effect does geography have on other aspects of world, such as transportation, trade and industry, environmental challenges, clothing, food and drink?
Who lives in each geographical region and how have they adapted to it?
Who prefers which regions or biomes, and why?
Where are the world's borders and boundaries? Are there separate nations or kingdoms? What distinguishes the geography of each?
Where are the largest metropolises or wilds? Or is everything undeveloped (e.g., if your story features extra-terrestrial exploration)?
When was this world first mapped? Are there regions people know little about or tell legends about ('There be dragons')?
When has landscape changed, due to natural causes or development? What effects did this change have?
Why is this world's geography interesting or unusual?
Why is any region in this world habitable or uninhabitable? What are its dangers, threats, or quirks?
❯ ❯ ❯ Read other writing masterposts in this series: Worldbuilding Questions for Deeper Settings
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On a bright morning, Tajik children in the Xinjiang region of China review their tattered notes while waiting for school to start. Their traditional, embroidered skullcaps help protect against the cold. photography: Michael S. Yamashita
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Merry Christmas to everyone who celebrates! 🎄🎅🏻
Barred spiral galaxy NGC 1365 is truly a majestic island universe. 200,000 light-years across and located 60 million light-years away toward the constellation Fornax, NGC 1365 is a dominant member of the well-studied Fornax Cluster of galaxies. This impressively sharp color image shows the intense, reddish star forming regions near the ends of the galaxy's central bar and along its spiral arms. Seen in fine detail, obscuring dust lanes cut across the galaxy's bright core. At the core lies a supermassive black hole. Astronomers think NGC 1365's prominent bar plays a crucial role in the galaxy's evolution, drawing gas and dust into a star-forming maelstrom and ultimately feeding material into the central black hole.
Image Credit & Copyright: Martin Pugh
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The 27 Sub-Regions of the World according to the Country Similarity Index
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How to Play a Region in LOTRO If It's Not Unlocked? aka How to Unlock It?
Reach the desired level of the region
See: https://lotro-wiki.com/wiki/Quest_Levels
a) Play higher-level regions get levelled up faster.
b) It's possible to receive quests 5 levels before the desired level, eg. Beacon Hills requires at least level 103, thus the character should be at at least level 103 - 5 -> 98
Go to the wiki to find the list of quests of region
See, eg.: https://lotro-wiki.com/wiki/Category:Far_Anórien:_Beacon_Hills_Quests
a) Click the quest to see the table with "Starts with" on the right of region page.
b) Click the person name and see "Map Ref" to see the exact location on map to interact with.
c) Note that the starting NPC may not give quest even if having enough levels, some quests/regions needs completion of certain Epic quests or previous quests in chain
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