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| − | + | Founded in -183 {{EC}}, the Cranee Historical Society is now so old that it spends much of its time researching itself. | |
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| + | @@ hmm... one nanit is "small" according to Bindlet, and 18 nanits seems quite large. sugro-nanit is really quite an irritating term, but I suppose I'll use it and give it some substance. Cranee is to be between the Evesque Valley and Folktown, eighteen miles from Folktown and twenty five from the Evesque Valley. I'd say that a nanit could well be 20cm; that'd make the boxes 3.6m across, which seems about right for huge magnetic whatsits. A mile [http://www.google.com/search?q=one+mile+in+centimetres&oe=UTF-8 is 160934.4cm] according to Google, so that means that there are 8046.72 nanits to a mile. Okay! That means that there are 144840.96 nanits between Cranee and Folktown, and 201168 nanits between Cranee and the Evesque Valley. To tie it back into earthly distances, I can say that Cranee -> Folktown is 18 * 5280 "paces", and then hope that Ghyllians are roughly the same size as humans--and I think that they should be, but I guess there's no way of knowing. Everything in the Ghyll universe could be different, so it's a case of making all the relative distances work. This section should go in the Talk page. | ||
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| + | The ancient hamlet of Cranee plays host to the society, and is situated directly between the Evesque Valley and Folktown: 25 [[sugro-nanit]]s from the former (201,168 [[nanit]]s or 132k paces), and 18 [[sugro-nanit]]s from the latter (144841 [[nanit]]s or 95k paces). | ||
Revision as of 02:35, 18 September 2004
Founded in -183 EC, the Cranee Historical Society is now so old that it spends much of its time researching itself.
@@ hmm... one nanit is "small" according to Bindlet, and 18 nanits seems quite large. sugro-nanit is really quite an irritating term, but I suppose I'll use it and give it some substance. Cranee is to be between the Evesque Valley and Folktown, eighteen miles from Folktown and twenty five from the Evesque Valley. I'd say that a nanit could well be 20cm; that'd make the boxes 3.6m across, which seems about right for huge magnetic whatsits. A mile is 160934.4cm according to Google, so that means that there are 8046.72 nanits to a mile. Okay! That means that there are 144840.96 nanits between Cranee and Folktown, and 201168 nanits between Cranee and the Evesque Valley. To tie it back into earthly distances, I can say that Cranee -> Folktown is 18 * 5280 "paces", and then hope that Ghyllians are roughly the same size as humans--and I think that they should be, but I guess there's no way of knowing. Everything in the Ghyll universe could be different, so it's a case of making all the relative distances work. This section should go in the Talk page.
The ancient hamlet of Cranee plays host to the society, and is situated directly between the Evesque Valley and Folktown: 25 sugro-nanits from the former (201,168 nanits or 132k paces), and 18 sugro-nanits from the latter (144841 nanits or 95k paces).
