Brandon Sanderson Lecture 9: World Building Geography Part 1 (3/7)

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[RainbowDevourer]

With several Moons the tides would have several components which may weaken or enhance each other: If the two moons pull the tides in the same direction at a given time they will double, of they pull in opposite directions the tide will cancel out. So seafarers will have charts which maps the movements of both moons in order to predict the combined tides... It makes for a culture which puts slightly more emphasis on understanding math maybe?

[Aethuviel]

You can have mountain ranges in the middle of a continent if they are two continents that collided. Look at Asia for example, with a huge mountain range just where India crashed into it.

[melchiorvulpius]

For one of my Dungeons & Dragons campaigns, I used a map of Saturn's moon TItan. It has lakes, rivers, islands, and even river deltas that look just like those of Earth. I did have to scale it up a bit since Titan is quite a bit smaller than Earth.

[korgy_]

For coastlines in my map drawings, I typically just forcefully give my hand a tremble to give a more jagged, natural look. Hope that helps people!

[xCaseylakes]

I learnt more about geography in this 15 minutes that my entire high school education. 

[privid]

In regards to Tolkien's world-building, you have to bear in mind that his world wasn't shaped by natural, physical processes, but by god-like figures and later wars amongst those. Consequently, they don't look 'natural, ' but artificially placed.

[legobrickology]

By the way, he is right with regards to making a city act as the whole world kind of thing. What I mean to say is, if you simply cut out a piece of earth (on a map) and then make it larger until it becomes roughly the same size as the full earth map itself, then you have your fantasy world as big as earth which, in fact, is merely a small part of our earth, yet it feels very natural (since it is) and since it's so huge it doesn't really feel like you are simply robbing America, etc. (although, I would suggest trying to find an older map, don't use this time period, you don't want it 100% the same as earth, also note that this really only works if you are creating a new earth, if you want a completely alien world, I don't think you will get away with using really any of earth (although you could try some parts which are strange looking/unknown, you won't get away with using UK, say, even at 50 times scale or whatever, even if this is your whole; it's still the UK and not your fantasy world).

[stevenzheng]

World-building teaches geography better than geography class.

[rebelbeammasterx]

Finally got to reading J.R.R Tolkien's books, and I'm loving the world building.

[ixuvia]

Even just adding in subtitles for those would be really useful.

[PilgrimofMatter]

Yes, Brandon, I did spend 20+ years doing this.  I'm okay with that.

[PrimarchRoboleonFrenchyman]

I'd love to be present in a class like that, must be so cool

[Katrinika]

I went to my physics teacher to ask her once help for some world building I was doing and she just laughed and mocked me. :(
I left not knowing anything that could help me and feeling embarrassed.
=.= I'll show her.

[ryushogun]

I want more vídeos like this, what types of geological formations should I priorize when starting from scratch?

[satanlover]

14:06 the earths atmosphere is split up between exchanges of air, theres 3 rings of heat eaxchange up to the poles

[maxipad]

Great sound quality! Thanks for sharing.

[devinreese]

Cool world map brandon. Why not use that instead of the one you have in stormlight?

[therealdrag]

If you can find a way to get audience questions better in the audio, that'd be great.

[improvementTime..]

0:47 a few months max
9:15 rule of cool

[ethancoster]

Braided rivers do on the occasion split or change course.