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Codex Alera Spoilers / Re: A Map (cont'd) Spoilers Spoilers Spoilers
« on: November 20, 2009, 06:46:49 PM »
Quoting a Few Good men with Tom Cruise when he was grilling Jack Nicholson.  "Did you order the code red?"

Problem is, Alera is running out of a few good men....
Of course the ones with Aquitaine are being squished toward Calderon.
The ones with Tavi are squished in an LZ on the northwest coast.
Time for the breakout!

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Codex Alera Spoilers / Re: A Map (cont'd) Spoilers Spoilers Spoilers
« on: November 20, 2009, 02:20:14 PM »
Does peppermint help against seasickness? And if Tavi knows about this, what possible reason could he have for not packing some himself during Princep's Fury?

His bags were lost at the baggage check-in counter?

Or no peppermint was available :~)

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Codex Alera Spoilers / Re: A Map (cont'd) Spoilers Spoilers Spoilers
« on: November 20, 2009, 02:01:30 PM »
It's more a matter of terrain than pure proximity.  Much of Aquitaine is heavily mountained.  The area surrounding the Feverthorn Jungle is more typical of Rhodes, which is comparatively flatter.  It's notable for its orchards and fruit production, and so also for its wines.

And "green-black hardwood from a Rhodesian tree found near the Feverthorn Jungle". (PF) :~)

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Codex Alera Spoilers / Re: A Map (cont'd) Spoilers Spoilers Spoilers
« on: November 19, 2009, 06:52:35 PM »
Well, Jim DID say that FLF was going to be all about bunnies. Not his fault if we can't see them. :D

Wight! Takes out a bunny wabbit gun! Where are dem wabbits?

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Codex Alera Spoilers / Re: A Map (cont'd) Spoilers Spoilers Spoilers
« on: November 19, 2009, 05:30:15 PM »
I'm convinced they're up there, we just can't see them in all the snow.

Either that, or they're chillin with those bunnies...

Oh geez, the bunnies have made it to the map thread! I thought we had avoided the bunnies attention.
All that water crafting is making the ice people (gotta be politically correct) invisible. Or it's the tears in my eyes.

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Codex Alera Spoilers / Re: A Map (cont'd) Spoilers Spoilers Spoilers
« on: November 19, 2009, 04:09:15 PM »
Snort! Casual Perfectionist?!!!!  :o  *Cleans coffee off the laptop keyboard*
Right. I guess us perfectionists have to have percentages attached to our names now. I'm at 95%, you're at 70%.  ;D
Koko is somewhere closer to 95 than 70. Of course, we haven't heard from him yet.

The only other steadholt that fits that theory would be Warnerholt, since it's across the road, it's closer to Garados, and would not be easily viewed by Garrison, except for overflights.

But it is a great map!

That's logical, and makes a lot of sense.

So here comes my however. (i was gonna write "my but" first, but rejected it as... aehm ok, where was i...)
They way it is now, it's not the most isolated. In fact of all the stedholts it's closest to Garrison... not an ideal target for a silent infiltration.

Ok now... Self! Stop nitpicking!
Self: No, i don't want to !!
Yes!! No Yes No Yes

In case i can't control myself in the future, let me repeat it once more.
The Map is great.
I'm a Casual-Perfectionist... sometimes... and the map has me hooked in that regard.

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Codex Alera Spoilers / Re: A Map (cont'd) Spoilers Spoilers Spoilers
« on: November 19, 2009, 03:45:11 PM »
FRAK.  Aricholt should be Aldoholt on my map.

As for why the vord chose to attack Aricholt in the first place, simple.  It's the most isolated.  The Queen is nothing if not opportunistic.  Perhaps she considered it a test run.  Then, with her forces swollen with a new army of Taken, she picked a more central location as her base of power, from which she could be poised to attack any other steadholt with ease.

Make sense.

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Codex Alera Spoilers / Re: A Map (cont'd) Spoilers Spoilers Spoilers
« on: November 19, 2009, 03:00:37 AM »
Sorta why I said "most". ;D

1 cubit = 45.72 centimeters

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubit

Old Bill Cosby comedy routine called "Noah"

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Codex Alera Spoilers / Re: A Map (cont'd) Spoilers Spoilers Spoilers
« on: November 19, 2009, 01:56:51 AM »
I put Appia on a river because a proto-Aleran city would have needed a water source.  Just because there's no mention of a nearby water source in the text doesn't mean there isn't one. :D

oh right! What's a cubit?

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Codex Alera Spoilers / Re: A Map (cont'd) Spoilers Spoilers Spoilers
« on: November 19, 2009, 01:32:30 AM »
Most cities of the appropriate Earth era are either coastal or on a major navigable river that has uninterrupted access to the sea.

Excepting Appia. There is no mention of it being on a major river or water source. I'm still searching the text for this.
Might be why it was eventually abandoned or possibly it wasn't defensible.

Mikey

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Codex Alera Spoilers / Re: A Map (cont'd) Spoilers Spoilers Spoilers
« on: November 18, 2009, 02:09:12 AM »
Thanks. It was interesting to say the least. Gave me a whole nother interpretation of reading comprehension. :~)
Details were/are everything.

Mikey

Awesome Map!!!! ;D
Great Job, Priscellie!!! ;D
Excellent Work, to all the fan mappers!!!  I have enjoyed watching the maps mature in this thread!!
I wish I had that much artistic talent.
Siincerely,
Bryan

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Codex Alera Spoilers / Re: A Map (cont'd) Spoilers Spoilers Spoilers
« on: November 17, 2009, 07:10:58 PM »
Well, Bernardholt is the westernmost steadholt in the Calderon Valley.  He could have grown up in Kordholt or Garrison!

Twu :~). Cept, then he would have been viewed by the Garrison twups. And Isana was twying to keep him hidden. Avoid the possibility that he would have been wecognized. :~)

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Codex Alera Spoilers / Re: A Map (cont'd) Spoilers Spoilers Spoilers
« on: November 17, 2009, 06:37:27 PM »
Man, did Tavi grow up in the ass-end of nowhere.

Yep he pretty much did. As far as nowhere that you could get in Alera.

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Codex Alera Spoilers / Re: A Map (cont'd) Spoilers Spoilers Spoilers
« on: November 17, 2009, 05:56:05 PM »
:o Whoa... totally missed that over the download frenzy I was in.

High Five indeed !!

*swells with pride*   :)

Where's our partner in crime? 

Mikey

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Codex Alera Spoilers / Re: A Map (cont'd) Spoilers Spoilers Spoilers
« on: November 17, 2009, 03:11:41 PM »
Whoa! There are two Marsfords'. eeek.

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