Where is Guild City, and what's the set up - geography... geology... climate?
The original Challenge idea that gave rise to this project happened to coincide in basic form and description with a city that Robbie (our Webmaster) had already included in a map he drew as part of the Gulidworld project that was started in early 2016 as the Guild's tenth anniversary celebrations, so a decision was made to go with the existing placement of the city in the Guildworld map, and this has dictated most of the natural and human geography, the geology, and the climate - as well as the main roads that are required to connect Guild City with its sister cities to the east and north east.
This is Guild City as it appears on the Guildworld map, in the Kingdom of the Cartographer:
The city is located approximately 12 degrees south of the equator in an inland position. As you can see it is not a particularly large city by any means, and is decidedly isolated from rivers and oceans. Furthermore it is close to a border with a country inhabited by Orcs and at risk of invasion from the west.
Things were looking bad for having very much in the way of an exciting location, but it was J.Edward who came up with a brilliant solution - make the area one of limestone karst.
Without going into all the details of how limestone karst country is formed, the structure is deep horizontal beds of limestone that have been eroded by water percolating down through the layers and creating sink holes and underground rivers, some of which collapse to form lakes that are sunken down into the land.
Here is a sketch of the geological formations you might expect around the area of the lakes - contributed by J.Edward.
J.Edward has drawn us the most beautiful and very exciting master plan of the city location according to this type of geology Please note - this map is out of date where area allocation is concerned! If you want the most up to date map for allocations you can find it here:
(this is one of the draft stages where you will see from the names on the map the districts were already being parcelled out to the cartographers taking part in the project)
The climate was researched most thoroughly by Azelor, from who's post I have collected these examples of similarly positioned cities in the real world:
Climate wise, some cities at a similar latitude include:
Bangalore: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangalore
Gondar (not Gondor): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gondar
Bamako: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamako
Brasilia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bras%C3%ADlia
According to Azelor's post there are no climatic extremes and plenty of rain in the slightly warmer season, leading to a potentially green and plentiful landscape, despite the lack of surface water beyond the lakes within the city.
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