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Nickeris86:
I had an idea to try and mix up my world a little bit and was wondering if it was actually a good idea or if its dumb.

In my story I have cultures and landscapes some what reversed. The colder climates and more barbaric lands are in the southern part of the contentment and the hot desserts and tropical areas are in the north.

I had never seen this done in a story before so I thought it would be interesting to try it out, what do you think?

Shecky:
Mmm, hot desserts. Hot fudge sundae? *ducks* ;D

Seriously, you've touched on one unspoken assumption that's ALL through F/SF: the location of the story in the northern hemisphere of the world. Put one in the southern hemisphere and there's your story location.

Nickeris86:
Oh derp I hate when I misspell that. lol

That was my plan that it would take place in the southern hemisphere of my world. My concern is that my readers would find it irritating cause I have never read nor heard of any book that took place in the southern part of any world and been anything but warm or hot.

Gruud:
I'm sure there's room for two of us to do it.  ;D

Although TBH, I have not flipped my climates, as that requires a change in the axis tilt and/or differences in the orbit, and I didn't want to get called out on getting it wrong.

Just be sure and put in early and often pointers that show your geographic change. You have no idea how fiirmly ingrained the "everything happens in the Norrth" mindest really is within Western/European thought.

But you'll soon find out once you get into writing it.  ;)

Paynesgrey:
A handy lantern might be reference to the world's equivalent of Aurora Australis.  "And if you go far enough south, onto the Deep Ice, you can see rippling curtains of lights dance and shimmer in the night sky..."

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