Isn't the Dagger River awfully wide? [Archive] - Wizards Community

Isn't the Dagger River awfully wide? [Archive] - Wizards Community

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His Divine Shadow
12-16-04, 05:43 PM It may be just me - but isn't the Dagger River awfully wide? It's 35 miles wide quite near Wrote - 400 miles from the sea! It looks more like a strait than a river.

Not that I'm particularly worried about it - it's just that it seems a little geographically unusual (at it's widest, the Amazon is only 6 miles wide).

Incidentally, has anyone noticed that the large Eberron map that was made available recently has a scale of one pixel to one mile. That makes it quite easy to measure distances in Windows Paint - just use the rectangle selection tool, and it shows you the rectangle's pixel size (and hence the size in miles).

(You can check this by measuring the scale at the bottom left hand side of the map.)

The other slightly strange thing is that the scale goes from 0 to 600, but it is divided into 8 portions, so each portion is 75 miles. I wonder why they didn't do 50 or 100?

Notwithstanding all that, it's a totally great map! :)
Dex The King
12-16-04, 06:06 PM By measuring the scale, I found 1 inch to be 150 miles, so with a tape measure it is very easy for me to calculate distances acroos Khorvaire.

I suppose it could be the Dagger Strait, but that doesn' quite have the same ring to it. And I wonder how it was named so aptly (it looks just like a dagger) when the people of Eberron couldn't exactly get a good look at Khorvaire from very high up until recently.

I suppose that it was named the Dagger River because of the Hilt, and maps were drawn to make it look like a dagger . . .
mistakeagian
12-16-04, 10:33 PM Or a Dragon named it.
Sarlax
12-17-04, 01:16 AM Or people traveled on land or on ship and mapped it. That's how people on Earth knew whether they lived on peninsulas, for instance.
Just another user
12-17-04, 04:34 AM By measuring the scale, I found 1 inch to be 150 miles, so with a tape measure it is very easy for me to calculate distances acroos Khorvaire.

I suppose it could be the Dagger Strait, but that doesn' quite have the same ring to it. And I wonder how it was named so aptly (it looks just like a dagger) when the people of Eberron couldn't exactly get a good look at Khorvaire from very high up until recently.

I suppose that it was named the Dagger River because of the Hilt, and maps were drawn to make it look like a dagger . . .

I suppose flying spells were around even before Sharn was built and there are other ways to see things from an high place,I can see the use of Scrying devices to draw maps, for example, and as someone else mentioned, there are intellingent flying creature in Eberron that could have given names to more than a location.
kisama
12-17-04, 03:26 PM It may be just me - but isn't the Dagger River awfully wide? It's 35 miles wide quite near Wrote - 400 miles from the sea! It looks more like a strait than a river.

Not that I'm particularly worried about it - it's just that it seems a little geographically unusual (at it's widest, the Amazon is only 6 miles wide).

The Amazon is 6 miles wide during it's dry season.

http://www.virtualology.com/riversandlakes/THEAMAZONRIVER.COM/
http://www.extremescience.com/AmazonRiver.htm

"The Amazon is the widest river in the world. Many kilometers from its mouth it can be as wide as 11 kilometers, and 40 kilometers in the wet season; at the place where it meets the Atlantic, it is as much as 325 kilometers. It is interesting that it is widening by as much as 2 meters a year due to waves from ships breaking down the banks."

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His Divine Shadow 12-16-04, 05:43 PM	It may be just me - but isn't the Dagger River awfully wide? It's 35 miles wide quite near Wrote - 400 miles from the sea! It looks more like a strait than a river. Not that I'm particularly worried about it - it's just that it seems a little geographically unusual (at it's widest, the Amazon is only 6 miles wide). Incidentally, has anyone noticed that the large Eberron map that was made available recently has a scale of one pixel to one mile. That makes it quite easy to measure distances in Windows Paint - just use the rectangle selection tool, and it shows you the rectangle's pixel size (and hence the size in miles). (You can check this by measuring the scale at the bottom left hand side of the map.) The other slightly strange thing is that the scale goes from 0 to 600, but it is divided into 8 portions, so each portion is 75 miles. I wonder why they didn't do 50 or 100? Notwithstanding all that, it's a totally great map! :)
Dex The King 12-16-04, 06:06 PM	By measuring the scale, I found 1 inch to be 150 miles, so with a tape measure it is very easy for me to calculate distances acroos Khorvaire. I suppose it could be the Dagger Strait, but that doesn' quite have the same ring to it. And I wonder how it was named so aptly (it looks just like a dagger) when the people of Eberron couldn't exactly get a good look at Khorvaire from very high up until recently. I suppose that it was named the Dagger River because of the Hilt, and maps were drawn to make it look like a dagger . . .
mistakeagian 12-16-04, 10:33 PM	Or a Dragon named it.
Sarlax 12-17-04, 01:16 AM	Or people traveled on land or on ship and mapped it. That's how people on Earth knew whether they lived on peninsulas, for instance.
Just another user 12-17-04, 04:34 AM	By measuring the scale, I found 1 inch to be 150 miles, so with a tape measure it is very easy for me to calculate distances acroos Khorvaire. I suppose it could be the Dagger Strait, but that doesn' quite have the same ring to it. And I wonder how it was named so aptly (it looks just like a dagger) when the people of Eberron couldn't exactly get a good look at Khorvaire from very high up until recently. I suppose that it was named the Dagger River because of the Hilt, and maps were drawn to make it look like a dagger . . . I suppose flying spells were around even before Sharn was built and there are other ways to see things from an high place,I can see the use of Scrying devices to draw maps, for example, and as someone else mentioned, there are intellingent flying creature in Eberron that could have given names to more than a location.
kisama 12-17-04, 03:26 PM	It may be just me - but isn't the Dagger River awfully wide? It's 35 miles wide quite near Wrote - 400 miles from the sea! It looks more like a strait than a river. Not that I'm particularly worried about it - it's just that it seems a little geographically unusual (at it's widest, the Amazon is only 6 miles wide). The Amazon is 6 miles wide during it's dry season. http://www.virtualology.com/riversandlakes/THEAMAZONRIVER.COM/ http://www.extremescience.com/AmazonRiver.htm "The Amazon is the widest river in the world. Many kilometers from its mouth it can be as wide as 11 kilometers, and 40 kilometers in the wet season; at the place where it meets the Atlantic, it is as much as 325 kilometers. It is interesting that it is widening by as much as 2 meters a year due to waves from ships breaking down the banks."