Re: Subterranea

On Apr 5, 2005 10:49 PM, Geoff Horswood <geoffhorswood@...> wrote:
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> And what about longer time periods?  The "year" is presumably more or less
> irrelevant if you're down deep enough- would their longer time units be
> just arbitrary, and probably varying widely by tribe?
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What about this: Think of the environment outside of their
subterranean home. If the caves have rivers and lakes running through
them, perhaps the rivers go through a seasonal wet/dry climate. So,
any rivers and streams running underground from the surface might slow
down in flow during a dry period, and then increase during a wet
period.  Of course if your orcs live below the surface of a
permanently verdant and wet world, water flow through underground
streams would probably be more or less stable.


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