"So vast is this sea, that the shorebound observer would see only the faint silhouette of the surrounding lands on the horizon."
so if we can figure out how far away sornieth's horizon is, we can determine the size of the sea being looked across!
WotW 9 established the approximate size of sornieth as an astrological body:
earth's radius is 3,958.8 miles, making sornieth's about 5938.2 miles.
to calculate how far away the horizon is, we need to know the observer's height above sea level. since they're observing from the shoreline you might assume zero, but we still need to factor in the height of that observer.
let's assume the observer is as tall as possible just to give the sea the best possible chance at being reasonably sized- a 30 meter long dragon standing up on their hind legs. their tail isn't contributing to their height in this case, so we'll say their tail is 1/6th of their body length (a very low estimate but again, i'm being generous), so the dragon's eyes are thusly about 25 meters (= ~82 feet, = ~0.016 miles) above sea level.
now just some quick Triangle Math gives us a distance to the horizon of 13.785 miles, which is... absurdly tiny, given the context. for comparison, lake ontario is over 50 miles across at its smallest point.
(if we assume the observer is a more average sized dragon with their eyes only about 10m above sea level, the distance drops to below 9 miles! i'm gonna go ahead with the higher measurement, but this one might be more reasonable.)
if we assume the sea is roughly as long as it is wide, we have a surface area of about 190 square miles, which about the size of lake tahoe on earth. not a tiny lake by any means, but an absurdly small sea! for comparison, the smallest sea on earth is the 4,380 square mile sea of marmara located in turkey.
best of all.. we can conclusively state that the sea of a thousand currents would then have about 5.26 currents per square mile. which honestly sounds pretty stressful to me.
not to mention that there's 43,250 clans in water flight. a perfect population count would be Difficult to say the least, but we'll do our best: about 700,000 clans and 19,096,482 non-exalted dragons onsite gives us an average of 27 dragons per clan, 27 dragons times 43,250 clans gives us about 1,167,750 dragons living in water territory.
so 227 clans or 6,146 dragons per square mile. 2.8 acres per clan, 0.1 acres per dragon (4356 square feet). the best comparison i can think to draw here is that depending on the quality of pasture, one cow requires about 1-3 acres of land. alternatively, it's about the same population density as milwaukee, wisconsin!(although most dragons are a good bit bigger than humans, so it'd feel a good bit more crowded.)
i considered getting into depth here but i got tired :'D if anyone else likes silly math feel free to investigate that angle (or correct anything i got wrong here). for now i leave you with this: water flight is crowded as hell
(also, as a note, while it would be extremely funny to extrapolate these numbers to the rest of the map based on territory sizes compared to water, the map is drawn so obviously not to scale that i didn't feel like it was reliable enough to bother with. in my heart sornieth is like the size of rhode island though </3)
so if we can figure out how far away sornieth's horizon is, we can determine the size of the sea being looked across!
WotW 9 established the approximate size of sornieth as an astrological body:
Aequorin wrote on 2014-11-13 11:25:26:
The size of Sornieth is larger than Earth (roughly one and a half times the radius).
earth's radius is 3,958.8 miles, making sornieth's about 5938.2 miles.
to calculate how far away the horizon is, we need to know the observer's height above sea level. since they're observing from the shoreline you might assume zero, but we still need to factor in the height of that observer.
let's assume the observer is as tall as possible just to give the sea the best possible chance at being reasonably sized- a 30 meter long dragon standing up on their hind legs. their tail isn't contributing to their height in this case, so we'll say their tail is 1/6th of their body length (a very low estimate but again, i'm being generous), so the dragon's eyes are thusly about 25 meters (= ~82 feet, = ~0.016 miles) above sea level.
now just some quick Triangle Math gives us a distance to the horizon of 13.785 miles, which is... absurdly tiny, given the context. for comparison, lake ontario is over 50 miles across at its smallest point.
(if we assume the observer is a more average sized dragon with their eyes only about 10m above sea level, the distance drops to below 9 miles! i'm gonna go ahead with the higher measurement, but this one might be more reasonable.)
if we assume the sea is roughly as long as it is wide, we have a surface area of about 190 square miles, which about the size of lake tahoe on earth. not a tiny lake by any means, but an absurdly small sea! for comparison, the smallest sea on earth is the 4,380 square mile sea of marmara located in turkey.
best of all.. we can conclusively state that the sea of a thousand currents would then have about 5.26 currents per square mile. which honestly sounds pretty stressful to me.
not to mention that there's 43,250 clans in water flight. a perfect population count would be Difficult to say the least, but we'll do our best: about 700,000 clans and 19,096,482 non-exalted dragons onsite gives us an average of 27 dragons per clan, 27 dragons times 43,250 clans gives us about 1,167,750 dragons living in water territory.
so 227 clans or 6,146 dragons per square mile. 2.8 acres per clan, 0.1 acres per dragon (4356 square feet). the best comparison i can think to draw here is that depending on the quality of pasture, one cow requires about 1-3 acres of land. alternatively, it's about the same population density as milwaukee, wisconsin!(although most dragons are a good bit bigger than humans, so it'd feel a good bit more crowded.)
i considered getting into depth here but i got tired :'D if anyone else likes silly math feel free to investigate that angle (or correct anything i got wrong here). for now i leave you with this: water flight is crowded as hell
(also, as a note, while it would be extremely funny to extrapolate these numbers to the rest of the map based on territory sizes compared to water, the map is drawn so obviously not to scale that i didn't feel like it was reliable enough to bother with. in my heart sornieth is like the size of rhode island though </3)
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