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I've been putting this off for far too long. It's taken HOURS AND HOURS but it'll be so useful now it's done. ( The character master list! )
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New Covers!
Jan. 24th, 2014 12:26 amannarti.livejournal.comFinally started making new covers for yrae stuff :D Still waiting primarily on the yrae feathers for SH (and also Desert Sapphire, but let's be real, they're for the girls) and autumn for pretty much all the Llayan ones, but I've got half of them down :D
So I have my red sand for Raykin-based stories, yellow sand for Llayad, white for as-yet-unwritten Tsayth stories... Kazin has always been green. Green sand is not a thing that exists. WHAT DO I USE TO IDENTIFY KAZIN? Moss is a green ground covering maybe but all the moss around here is kind of fugly and I don't want to muck up my pretty parchment with actual dirt. Black sand, maybe? Gum leaves? There's just nothing to tie it in with the Raykinian, Llayan, Tsaythi sand. Damn you, Kazin.
( NEW COVERS! )
So I have my red sand for Raykin-based stories, yellow sand for Llayad, white for as-yet-unwritten Tsayth stories... Kazin has always been green. Green sand is not a thing that exists. WHAT DO I USE TO IDENTIFY KAZIN? Moss is a green ground covering maybe but all the moss around here is kind of fugly and I don't want to muck up my pretty parchment with actual dirt. Black sand, maybe? Gum leaves? There's just nothing to tie it in with the Raykinian, Llayan, Tsaythi sand. Damn you, Kazin.
( NEW COVERS! )
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So I've uncovered something of a massive plot hole. Like, huge. Part of SH:Gold will involve long distance flying, so I figured that, after eleven years, I'd work out some cruising flight speeds for the girls. Googling has found this reasonably easily, using the average cruising speeds of migratory birds and the larger birds of prey, which is anywhere between 20kph and about 80kph. So, for the twins:
Cruising speed 50kph (or 30mph)
Top speed 90kph (or 55mph)
Also, I dunno what it is that makes birds able to stay aloft for hours, days, freaking MONTHS at a time, but the twins have that because magic, so they can stay aloft for as long as the plot requires them to. Be knackered by the end of it but that's their problem. So let's bring up the map andwork some stuff out open up that gaping plot hole.
Flying for, let's be generous and say 10 hours a day. That's 500km. Even from the farthest northern reaches of Kazin, they would easily get them back to Ni-Yana in less than two days. The average large migratory bird generally covers 650-800km in a day, which is more. Even looking at the most piss-weak of migratory birds, they still manage about 160km a day, so again, they'd be home within the week.
Why the frig am I bothering with horses? =| Why all this 'OMG we must know what's happening in Ni-Yana!' stress? All the 'OMG we need to be at [place] before [thing happens] in a week!' Why has Nimay never decided 'Stuff it, I'll just fly there, back for dinner tomorrow boys'? I've always written it off as her being the general, doesn't want to leave her boys for an extended period of time. Except that two freaking days isn't an extended period of time.
Really all I can come up with to explain why she hasn't done this is that if I hadn't thought it was possible, maybe she hadn't, either. She's been able to fly for her entire remembered life, but she's never before had reason to test her long range capabilities. There's no point in reaching Kazin before the rest of the boys on a normal mission, and she wouldn't think of flying home early at the end because boooyyyyys she loves them. She knows flying is significantly faster than horses, but, like me, maybe she hasn't really considered just how much faster. Having never actually tested it before, maybe even she can't grasp that she could fly across two kingdoms in two days. Maybe, once the plot does call for it in Gold, she's just cruising along after a couple of hours and suddenly holy shit red sand why didn't I do this earlier? REGRET AND WASTED OPPORTUNITY AND SO ON.
Do you buy it? I'm not sure I do, but I can't think of another way around it. And if I can't, well, that's a shitload of take it back to the drawing board right there.
I scared.
Also Yan has the same flight speeds because I can't find squat on bat flight speeds and he's fifty times bigger than a bat anyway. So. Whatever. Damnit I was counting on him being weeks away, at least, when shit was going down in Ni-Yana. This is Not Cool.
Cruising speed 50kph (or 30mph)
Top speed 90kph (or 55mph)
Also, I dunno what it is that makes birds able to stay aloft for hours, days, freaking MONTHS at a time, but the twins have that because magic, so they can stay aloft for as long as the plot requires them to. Be knackered by the end of it but that's their problem. So let's bring up the map and
Flying for, let's be generous and say 10 hours a day. That's 500km. Even from the farthest northern reaches of Kazin, they would easily get them back to Ni-Yana in less than two days. The average large migratory bird generally covers 650-800km in a day, which is more. Even looking at the most piss-weak of migratory birds, they still manage about 160km a day, so again, they'd be home within the week.
Why the frig am I bothering with horses? =| Why all this 'OMG we must know what's happening in Ni-Yana!' stress? All the 'OMG we need to be at [place] before [thing happens] in a week!' Why has Nimay never decided 'Stuff it, I'll just fly there, back for dinner tomorrow boys'? I've always written it off as her being the general, doesn't want to leave her boys for an extended period of time. Except that two freaking days isn't an extended period of time.
Really all I can come up with to explain why she hasn't done this is that if I hadn't thought it was possible, maybe she hadn't, either. She's been able to fly for her entire remembered life, but she's never before had reason to test her long range capabilities. There's no point in reaching Kazin before the rest of the boys on a normal mission, and she wouldn't think of flying home early at the end because boooyyyyys she loves them. She knows flying is significantly faster than horses, but, like me, maybe she hasn't really considered just how much faster. Having never actually tested it before, maybe even she can't grasp that she could fly across two kingdoms in two days. Maybe, once the plot does call for it in Gold, she's just cruising along after a couple of hours and suddenly holy shit red sand why didn't I do this earlier? REGRET AND WASTED OPPORTUNITY AND SO ON.
Do you buy it? I'm not sure I do, but I can't think of another way around it. And if I can't, well, that's a shitload of take it back to the drawing board right there.
I scared.
Also Yan has the same flight speeds because I can't find squat on bat flight speeds and he's fifty times bigger than a bat anyway. So. Whatever. Damnit I was counting on him being weeks away, at least, when shit was going down in Ni-Yana. This is Not Cool.
