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>>51860

Who made this horrible map? Lakes dont drain into multiple rivers. Rivers converge and sometimes form lakes if ground is low enough and then it fills and starts a new river in the lowest spot of the lake. There arent two lowest spots. Trees dont grow on both sides of mountains. The wind blows one way and lots of rain falls as the moisture rises, causing lots of green on the wind side of the mountain. The opposite side will receive next to no moisture due to it being deposited on the wind side and little greenery. If you have a massive forest on one side of a mountain, there needs to be significant distance on the opposite side before a new forest begins. You have a river leave mountains and then enter the only major hills on the map. It's very close to the coast, so that coast must be extremely high to prevent it from going to the ocean. It must be massively high to prevent it from going to the forest in Peakbeck and join the other oceans. There must be massive rapids and canyon-like terrain in these hills for a river to be flowing through them and to loop up and through the middle is very, very odd. I would also make the rivers physically wider if you converge multiple rivers into each other. Random terrain is fine if you want to just larp, but if you are going to design it yourself and run a world, just look up some basic information. It doesnt need tectonics and perfect tributaries and other shit, but these are blatant mistakes that are next to impossible to happen. Another problem is settlements on the coast. What you think of coastal towns in the real world have large, deep harbors. Many will follow rivers inland to the major port. It is extremely rare for a settlement to be on the coast at mouth of rivers. Driftcoast, for example, would likely be up near the bend or the treeline and have access to forests for ships, building and be sheltered from major storms and other weather that would wash out harbors where you placed the settlement. Same for Dockmouth, Pinedock, etc. Castle Mann is a good placement where they would enter the shelter between the two islands, dock in the part that juts inward by the castle and have access to both exits. The inside of the strait between it and the mainland is another good placement - that is perfect for placement. Pretty much every other seaside settlement is horribly placed and make no sense.

>>51861

It's a game dude. Don't reee out about geological improbabilities

>>51861

> Lakes dont drain into multiple rivers.

Not true at all. lakes have multiple outlets depending on their size. The rivers formed from their ourpour are usually small though with one two or at most three primary outlets and many many smaller outlets more stream like than river like.

>Trees dont grow on both sides of mountains

Again objectively wrong. Trees can grow anywhere on a mountain though they tend to be far less abundant on the leeward side of the mountain and the base can become so arid that depending on the size of the mountain can become a small desert usually surrounded by forest particularly as you climb the leeward side of the mountain.

> It's very close to the coast, so that coast must be extremely high to prevent it from going to the ocean. It must be massively high to prevent it from going to the forest in Peakbeck and join the other oceans.

I assume you mean rivers and once again you are extremely wrong. a river follows the easiest route flowing down and sometimes noteven the easiest just the one that happened to form (could be just because the soil was slightly looser and carried away easier forming an otherwise illogical route. And rivers don't sense oh hey ocean lets go east/west they follow the trail formed. there are a thousand cases of rivers being less than a mile from an ocean and running parallel to it because thats just how it formed. It doesnt need a massive incline and height difference less than a foot in height difference can keep it from going there.

>There must be massive rapids and canyon-like terrain in these hills for a river to be flowing through them and to loop up and through the middle is very, very odd

Nope just has to remain relatively flat where the river runs, like a gap between hills…..which guess what exist all over in hilly areas.

> It is extremely rare for a settlement to be on the coast at mouth of rivers

Jesus it isn't physically possible to be more wrong than this one. The vast majority or coastal settlements are at the mouth of a river it makes shipping goods down the river to the coastal town easy and from there it is loaded onto ocean vessels to be transported elsewhere. Its like 70% of the reason those coastal towns existed.

In short you are an absolute moron and know almost nothing about geography or how natural formations work. While many of his map points are unlikely or rare it doesn't in any way, shape or form make the map unrealistic. And in fact just shows how fucking stupid you are.

>>51861

>>51892

You both are stupid, you didn't even point out the most obvious fault in the map. That Red Snow or Dirt or whatever just randomly not covered in snow.