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Delbareth,

No, you're not too fussy. On the contrary, I love the fact that you are very detailed. You catch a lot of stuff and, in the process of fixing all of the little glitches that you find, Khoras becomes a better world. So, definitely keep it up.

I didn't answer this one because I didn't see it. Sometimes I don't catch them all.

Now, as for the terrain types on and near the equator, I didn't use a scientific method. But it seems to me that the equator, on Earth, runs through a couple of desert areas and also a lot of tropical jungle. All along the equator you have one common factor - lots of light and lots of heat. The only difference, from region to region, is the flow of air and water currents and the amount of moisture in any one particular region.

On Khoras, I've got pretty much the same thing. On and near the equator you'll find deserts and jungle. Both hot... but it varies from region to region based on air and water currents. Sometimes you'll have desert on one side of a mountain and jungle on the other. It's called a rain shadow. The clouds flow against the mountain and drop all their moisture on one side. The air on the other side is very dry. The Barakose Swamp and Baen Desert is an example of a rain shadow.

Anyway, meterology is pretty complex when you take into consideration the flow of air currents, water currents, terrain, latitude and a hundred other things. It was more math and science than I wanted to deal with. So, the short answer is... I just distributed jungle and arid regions in a pattern that approximates the randomness of the real world while taking into account relative position and topology. Not a perfect solution, but it gets us close. For the purposes of gaming and fiction writing, we can just assume that wherever you find a desert, there is a complex arrangement of atmospheric patterns that PUT that desert there. Same goes for jungles, swamps, etc.

It's probably possible to feed data into a computer program concerning terrain, axial tilt, etc and have it run a simulation of a few billion years and then show you exactly where the deserts and jungles would end up. But I'm not that extreme.

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Understood!

I thought that tropic were always the place for desert and equator alwyas the palce for jungle and deep forest. But after a second look at google Earth, it is not an absolute rule. Without going deep into mathematical simulations, the sun light hits the ground more violently on tropic than on equator, but the influence of climate is also strong. The north tropic goes through north India and Birmania, and nobody can say that these countries are desertic. In the same way, equator goes through Kenya and south Somalia, which are not very dense jungles.
So ok, these few exceptions make the khorasian geography more credible. I'm now ok with that.