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Azeroth and its 5 continents
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ArgentSun
Please sketch something in paint and upload it...
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HiVolt
Well by definition a sea is division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land. So that leads me to wonder whats dividing the Veiled Sea and the Forbidden Sea? Whats dividing the Great Sea and the South Seas? Whats keeping the North Sea from being part of the Veiled and Forbidden seas and the same with the South Seas?
They can be classified by salinity, current divisions, seabed composition, flora, fauna, all sorts of different things. Also, the slashes make your mock maps very tough to read. An MSPaint drawing would work... you could use ovals and lines to illustrate continents and land divisions.
Post by
TheChilliGod
The seas could also be called different names due to the separation of cultures that live next to them. For example, the Forbidden Sea and the Veiled Sea could be exactly the same sea in a geographical sense, just that one name is from the Night Elf's perspective (who live in Kalimdor) and one is from the Human's perspective (who live in Eastern Kingdoms). The South Sea may as well have had its name given to it by the goblins.
Also, the Forbidden Ocean doesn't roll off the tongue as well as the Forbidden Sea does.
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KaptainKrunk
Well to start off if you look at the in game map it currently shows 5 seas: the Veiled Sea, the Forbidden Sea, the Great Sea, the North Sea, and South Seas. Well by definition a sea is division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land. So that leads me to wonder whats dividing the Veiled Sea and the Forbidden Sea? Whats dividing the Great Sea and the South Seas? Whats keeping the North Sea from being part of the Veiled and Forbidden seas and the same with the South Seas? Well to I think there are 5 landmasses to divide these seas.
Key: VS: Veiled Sea, FS: Forbidden Sea, GS: Great Sea, NS: North Sea, SS: South Sea, EK: Eastren Kingdoms, K: Kalimdor, N: Northrend, LD1: Land Divide 1, LD2: See LD1, /:Spaces
//////////Our Azeroth///////////////////////////////I/////////Eastern Azeroth////////////////I//////////////Western Azeroth///////////////////////
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/////////////////////N///////////////////////////////////I///////////EK//FS////LD1////VS//K/////I////////VS//K//////////GS///////////EK////FS////////////////
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VS/K////////////GS//////////EK/FS//////////////I//////////////////////////SS///////////////////I//////////////////////////LD2///////////////////////////
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So you're implying that they are enclosed by land, or are otherwise oceans?
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA THAT WOULD REQUIRE LOGIC IN THIS GAME!
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Post by
sasexw
Heres the links
East Azeroth
and
West Azeroth
I still dont get.. your ..point..
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KaptainKrunk
Uhh...
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Gnub
Uhh...
OH SHI-
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Post by
Aldun
Nop, I still don't get your point. You mean how it comes all the seas are connected but dont have the same name? Dude, look to the RL map, seas dont HAVE to be divided.
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sasexw
Uhh...
What the f..?
I still don't get your point daz..there are seas ,there are continents too , you wanna show what?Where is the maelstorm on your last link?Please explain (without maps like on the first post :p)
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Arkham
So that leads me to wonder whats dividing the Veiled Sea and the Forbidden Sea? Maybe it's nothing. Maybe the fact that they have separate names is a holdover from the fact that the inhabitants of the two continents only discovered/rediscovered the other continent a measly few years ago, and each gave their own name to the body of water on the "other" side (non-Great-Sea-side) of their own continent.
Also consider that the distinction between "sea" and "ocean" is not always consistent. The fact that the names use "sea" instead of "ocean" could just be due to a more colloquial usage of the word sea--it needn't necessarily be anything more complicated than that.
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