(urth) Geography of the Whorl

[James Wynn]

I'm pretty sure that Viron's culture is South American--presumably that 
of the Commonwealth. The "ball game" is based on the Nahuatl game. It's 
an analogous Catholic culture.

Still, that doesn't mean that Viron couldn't be based on Jerusalem of 
course.


On 4/21/2011 6:15 PM, David Stockhoff wrote:
> Very roughly, yes. Not that it would mean much anyway. But Silk seems 
> to be the closest thing to an overtly Christian character anywhere in 
> Wolfe. His world seems more than vaguely Mediterranean in climate and 
> culture as well. If the Commonwealth is patterned in part after South 
> America, then surely the Whorl could have had another model that we 
> can identify.
>
> I could be wrong about the shape of the lake anyway. But I recall the 
> town is at one end of it.
>
> On 4/21/2011 12:42 PM, Lane Haygood wrote:
>> Judea?
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Apr 21, 2011, at 11:28 AM, James Wynn<crushtv at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>
>>> Perhaps if this were Orson Scott Card, I would think you were on to 
>>> something.
>>> J.
>>>
>>> On 4/20/2011 6:07 PM, David Stockhoff wrote:
>>>> Viron has a desert to the south, cities to the north, and a long 
>>>> lake nearby. Which may or may not be a salt lake, depending on 
>>>> whether Typhon wanted to send any Urth saltwater species along (it 
>>>> seems to be large for the Whorl, although Wolfe doesn't say whether 
>>>> there are other lakes like it). Is anyone else reminded of a 
>>>> certain place on Earth?
>>>>
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