Me too!!

I thought I was the only one!

I've been transported back to the fourth grade suddenly. I remember nothing about that series other than that it was an absolute banger.

I didn't even know what it's called in English. In my native language it's translated as "the gray hunter".

@@nathanides7584 In my native language it's called "The Shadow's Apprentice"

which subreddit?

r/ Worldbuilding

I love sauce of water on my fries, particularly if it is steady

Fun fact from a [former] geologist: Channels formed by glaciers are U-shaped, as compared to the V-shaped ones formed by rivers. So a valley exposed by former (or seasonal) glaciation will have broad, almost flat, bottoms as opposed to a river-valley's deep, narrow canyons.

What battles were fought with bridges?

@@tomsmith247I mean they stuck bridges on boats cuz they were so bad at naval combat 😂

@@freaky1382 you have a point there

Exactly, the whole thing about world building is we only have 1 sample to go off of. Seeing another planet with similar features to Earth would be amazing.

Untill they get nukes

Stoneworks Be careful what you wish for We might find rivers that flow uphill and the last thing I need is questioning science and earthly laws and physics😂😂😅😭

We're born too late to explore the earth but too early to explore the galaxy

I’m sure the British would like that too.

Rivers take the path of least resistance - but that can be dictated by subsurface geology as much as by what's on the surface. If there's a substantial formation of something hard-to-erode like impermeable igneous/metamorphic rock (granite, basalt), surrounded by softer/easier-to-erode substrate (anything sedimentary), then the water *could* go in more than one direction. Initially, at least, because eventually, one route will become dominant, leaving the other route dried-up or exclusively seasonal.

One thing that immediately stands out to me is Falkreath. It shouldn't be where it is, if it were to be somewhere then it should be bordering the lake up north not lost in the woods with just a little stream flowing through it. And Winterhold and Dawnstar also have no access to a river but I will be nice and say that this is because the climate is harsher than it used to be and where there used to be a river now there is only snow because the climate got too cold for it and the people can still survive by melting the ice and catching fishes or something

@@sephikong8323 In lore Skyrim was supposed to be harsher. All snow, except for the Reach. (Look at a map from es arena.)

Why are you reading this ? Why would Dawnstar need river access? It’s on the coast. There’s literally boats docked at Dawnstar. Now that I think about it, Winterhold is *also* right on the water. Neither of these towns needs river access.

yes

It has been done.

It's interesting how as tech progresses, new resources are unlocked. No one cared about oil in the middle ages. I wonder what will be the next resource unlocked. (Nuclear would seem to fit the bill, but it's controversial. :P)

For a dam rivers don't have to move fast at all. What matters is the discharge rate. The amount of water moving per day. Rather it's a narrow fast river or a wide slow one doesn't matter. They prefer narrow ones because they are usually in gorges and that makes building a dam much cheaper.

​@@shorewall That isn't strictly true. Oil was used both as a weapon and for heating when it was available. A big user of oil were the Byzantines who got theirs from Romania and the coast of the black sea. They used the oil also to make their infamous Greek fire. It's just that deep drilling and deep survey methods didn't exist yet so oil was only harvested where it came to the surface naturally.

@@MrMarinus18 A Similar thing happens with Coal. Most people assume that people didn't even look at Coal until the Industrial Revolution, when in reality it was used in much smaller amounts as a replacement for firewood in their stoves and heaters since ancient times.

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That may have been the part of the video that made me actually bust up laughing. EDIT: Also, the photo immediately following is SO not what you want to see.

Hold my beer -New Orleans

Das_Derp *lack of zoning

That bit had me giggling extensively

I love this haha. Good point! It’s fantasy, u can do whatever u want!

@@MerkhVision My guiding words are always "What fits Within the internal rules of the world?" Those words basicly does the heavy lifting of any worldbuilding. Like for example, Rule 1: In this world dragonbone powder fuels magic. All dragons are dead since long. Then those guiding words imply that mages seek to control or battle over dragon graveyards. Rule 2, Water cancels out magic: So islands should be either havens from mages, or For mages from other mages. From these two rules we can conclude thet an island with a dragon boneyard on it would be the ultimate safespace for mages, plenty of power of their own, alot of proterction from others. A good place to then buld a Mages tower on. Maybe several mages have banded together and you have a Towertown, a sprawling labyrinth of crooked abodes for equally crooked mages? And just like that your world have a new concept that fits perfectly within the world: Towertowns. Cool, where else would it be logical within the internal rules of the world to place Towertowns, and where would they be out of place? If it is out of place, but you still realy want it there, lets say a Towertown on a mountainpeak where no dragons ever threaded, thats fine. Just figure out WHY and How it breaks the internal rules, and you´ll quickly find new rules to play with. For example, maybe the mages in that Towertown found a way to call back and bind Dragon Spirits into crystals local to the mountainpeak, and thus fuel their magic. Cool, now we know that you Also can use dragonspirits, something unknown to most of the rest of the world. Where else can you fit that knowledge? Maybe as the powersource for that school of bad-ass arcane martial arts monks that you introduced a few sessions ago? Oh, and that would fit with the cool tatoo of a dragon you mentioned the lead monk-ninja-sorcerer had over his shoulder, and why Adams character though the tatoo winked at him/her (Something you said in the spur of the moment to make the player feel more involved in the encounter). This turned into a small wall of text, didnt it? From Sweden with Love - Kami

Then Varus done fucked up right?

Anakin Skywalker yup

@@SebAnders He didn't. The panomian revolt ruined that plan

Once they made it to the Elbe, the new plan would have been the Oder. Then once they made it to the Oder, the new plan would have been the Vistula. And so the cycle goes.

Not only that but their mountainous terrain makes them incredibly expensive to conquer. The Eerie is not the only fortress I would imagine. With the violent mountain clans I think they have hundreds of them all over the mountains.

marinus18 Wrong place. House Frey is the one with the really old guy with tons of children (where the Red Wedding happened).

@@adamnesico Which is weird, because Westeros is basically medieval England. The Stark-Lannister conflict was inspired by the War of the Roses. But GRRM was more interested in describing medieval banquets than building realistic geography.

@@VinceValentine What is unrealistic about the geography?

@@dragoned7685 I meant to say "original", not "unrealistic". My mistake.

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That's an interesting concept!

I saw your comment as I was recording the next one, do you mind if I put my reaction (which includes your username) in at the ending?

Go right ahead.

King LeWidget I know you PFP fellow cultured person

Where is this river?? On the early points of the Missouri??

Wow thank you for you kind words, I really appreciate them

His point is that it’s pretty rare. He even mentions that it’s not strictly impossible, just uncommon.

amen bruh

oh wait minecraft

@@Stoneworks well sure, and I love building canals and stuff there, but I was thinking Civilization 6 kind of games

​@@512TheWolf512 oh totally

@@Stoneworks Witcher 3 also had river navigation

I guessed as much but my actual question was how the rivers and land features are named (i.e., do you call a river fatbelly because of it's size or because the man who discovered it had a fatbelly). Because, if cities gain their names from natural features it would be useful to understand how the features themselves are named.

Well, some famous rivers like the Danube get their names from gods. Others, like most American rivers, have names from the native nomadic population. Some might be named for the discoverer, or the monarch that the discoverer is subject to. There are plenty of other reasons, but those are a few off the top of my head.

"I Don't See the Branches, I See the Leaves" by Chris Zabriskie

I feel you, Turkish publishers published this series under the name of Master of the Shadows

He didn't say that they don't last long, he said that they're not good renewable sources of river water. They're formed from the accumulation of snow over hundreds or thousands of years. By virtue of what they are, yes, they are OLD, but they only exist in the first place because they're NOT melting to form rivers. Once the conditions change drastically and they ARE melting into rivers, they're melting as fast as any other ice. Only difference is, once they're gone they're gone until the climate changes back to what it was before. Seasonal snow beds on the other hand form and melt regularly ergo consistent supply of snow to form a consistent river. They work because they DON'T last long.

@@hiimchrisj but they do melt, they just continue to exist because new water is deposited in the form of snow at a rate equal to or greater than how fast they melt.

Cousin!

a cutie that's what that is

it's from "the backyardigans"

@@Stoneworks Yes, very cute. I'll have to give it a look. Thanks.

you are correct, but they're the exception that proves the rule. Ijssel and Atchafalaya are small outbranches near the larger deltas, and Two Ocean's pass is a small creek on the continental divide. There are so few bifurcated rivers that they can all be listed on a single medium-sized wikipedia page, and they all tend to be minor rivers at best. It is not super useful to talk about these as a general guideline to rivers in an 8 minute world building tutorial.

@@Stoneworks fair. I personally advocate picking one or two splitting rivers and that’s it.