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I thought it’d be a lot funnier if Darko dropped us off at Cape Sorrow in a speedboat rather than anything magical lmfao
PUTTING JORVIK ON THE MAP: SIZE AND LOCATION
WHERE IS JORVIK?
Finding Jorvik’s exact location is actually pretty easy.
”Jorvik, located somewhere between Norway, Iceland, and the British Isles, of which it was once part, is a nexus of worlds.” - Jorvik Calling, Prologue.
This is still a pretty large area, but one that’s significantly narrowed down by reading Four Stories from Jorvik. Anne’s segment Midnight Sun establishes that Jorvik is at the very least partly above the arctic circle, to the point where Anne can see it while riding by Jorvik Stables in the middle of the night. This also puts Jorvik pretty close to the tectonic rift between the European and American continental plates, which handily explains why Jorvik is a volcanic Island.
HOW BIG IS JORVIK?
Jorvik’s size requires a bit more speculation, and I’m relying on two book sources.
1: Jorvik stables is a bus trip from Jorvik city.
Anne lives in Jorvik City but goes to school with the other soul riders in Jarlaheim, and has her horse at Jorvik stables. We know that she goes there by bus, so the distance between Jarlaheim and Jorvik City shouldn’t be too large; I’m capping the max length of the bus ride to about an hour.
2: Valedale is less than a day’s ride from the wineyard.
In The Legend Awakens, Elizabeth and the soul riders are heading to Pi’s Swamp and sleep over at the Wineyard. The soul riders wake up late and leave after having eaten breakfast and lunch. The sun is ”at its highest point in the sky” when they leave, so probably around 1-2PM. It’s twilight when they arrive, and the Baroness comments that they showed up in time for the evening feeding of the horses. Since the days are shorter in late October/early November, which is when this chapter takes place, we can guess that they arrived at around 5-6 PM.
Mapping out the most likely routes for these two trips, the route to the Wineyard is about a third of the bus route from Jorvik City to Jarlaheim. Additionally, the bus would drive on average ~70 km/h because of Jorvik’s smaller roads. The average walking speed of a horse is 6 km/h.
Now, the Valedale-Wineyard trip could take anywhere between 3-5 hours, but I’m inclined to believe that it’s on the lower end of that scale to keep Anne’s commute as short as possible. That leaves us with a 18 km long ride, and a 54 km long bus tour that takes 46 minutes. Pretty reasonable!
RESULTS
With these new measurements, we can figure out the actual distance between different places on Jorvik. Most importantly, we can measure the absolute width from Jorviks westernmost to easternmost point: 92 km, or ~57 miles!
Having figured out an estimate of the island’s size and location, we can now put Jorvik on the map!
Currently taking bits from a bunch of a videos I recorded of sabine's quests so even more shit of her coming :3
Since the event is backkkkkkk- SABINE
Chat I somehow made the gen3 frezzy look cute
Gonna start posting a bit more so ye :> here's my newest horsie Iron/Ironhide
I finally brought the selle and holy fck THEIR AMAZING
Addison and her loyal but silly Mustang Heavenly :3
My perfect ice haired unicorn thing-
The old winter outfits go hard ngl
For anyone wondering Yes I am alive taking care of animals just has been a bish anyways gay horses
My artwork of Mr. Sands, this time not in the Starshine Legacy art style but in my own, along with a small redesign of how I think he should have looked in SSO after surviving the portal and returning, based on his post-survival design.
They are so perfect *cries*
Some pics I took while fucking around on sso
I got nothing to post about the update since it's all boreding so uhm have reshade photos
Ydris stole all the water again
So, ummm, SSO posted some photos on their instagram and, some have interesting things on the monitors (like a sneak peek of the stable customization 👀)
Some of the photos and the link under read more ↓
Some fun glitches I did/found (?) while doing a all nighter a few days ago
I keep seeing ppl on my server buy star coins spend them and blame SSE for making them spend star coins it's kind of funny tbh but also annoying seeing ppl blame SSE for making them spend star coins