User blog comment:Vometia/Mapping Bitterblack Isle/@comment-33780977-20200119123255/@comment-1471916-20200120045001


 * ''Fun fact about the Shrine placement in the whole isle perspective.
 * Entrance to the Shrine of Futile Truths is on the top while the way to it goes always down.''

Yeah, I can't help but notice the way you start apparently at sea level and then everything just keeps going down, even though you start at what is apparently sea-level. The constant water-flow in a downward direction sort of goes along with it but that can't be the sea at the harbour in that case, unless Bitterblack Isle really is some pan-dimensional anomaly but I'm always a bit reluctant to use a "space magic!" type explanation as it usually introduces more inconsistencies than it solves.

Hence my conclusion that the Harbour looks out onto a large inland lake: maybe BBI is a gigantic dormant volcano. It would go along with its general vibe, I suppose. Either way, those routes back to the Harbour will be quite a trek. Pity the pawns never got all those opportunities to go on about being able to scale the slopes etc.

I was also surprised to find the Midnight Helix turning up right underneath the Fallen City, which isn't what I'd expected and I certainly hadn't contrived it to be that way. Seems very reminiscent of the Everfall under Gran Soren.