#melini

[dunmeshistash]

Adventurer's Bible - The king and his merry men

[meelkiewee]

At the beach with my bestie and her brother (the king)☀️☀️☀️ #wokeuplikethis #summer #melinibeach

Melini Beach!

New opening soon!

opening hours:

mon, tue, wed, thu, fri, 8am-8pm

sat, sun 8am-1pm

[loriache]

Notes on the World Map: Melini

I'm kind of annoyed the complete World Bible doesn't have a version of the World Map with Melini filled in... unless it does and I missed it, but I literally bought it and looked at the relevant pages for this post! Anyway, I think this is the closest we have. I'm looking at this and -- Kahka Brud literally doesn't have a coast anymore. No wonder they're pissed!! Any industry involving the sea, trade, fishing, etc. is basically impossible now - you'd have to get to the coastline on the west side of the continent. That's probably miles!

Speaking of miles... how big is Melini?

This is where I got... really unwell. So first off, let's assume the official Dunmeshi World Map is a Mercator projection. I think the stage cartography in the Dunmeshi universe is at, it's going to be most important that maps are useful for marine navigation. So we can't just drop an approximate scale onto the grid and leave it at that; we have to work out where the equator is.

The way I've done that is via two places that seem like they have a close(ish) real world equivalent - in terms of climate and culture - Utaya and the Island of Wa (Toshiro's home). The Island of Wa is obviously Japan, and I've seen plausible arguments that Utaya is probably a climate/location similar to Nepal.

So, here's the (approximate) location and latitude of those places on a Mercator map of Earth:

If we arbitarily superimpose the two maps, asssuming they're the same size, we can draw a theoretical equator line that puts the two places at the same latitude, though on a different side of the equator. Putting them on the same side as Earth made the equator really low. I feel like that's ... unlikely, so we're going with this.

That puts Melini at a rough latitude of .. ~55? which would, using the same scale as the previous map, make two squares (at that latitude) about 600 miles. Very roughly calculating the size as given on the map based on that, that gives a width of (approximately) 250 miles and a length of 400, coming in at a bit less than 100,000 miles² due to the shape. Probably it's between the sizes of the UK and Aotearoa.

That really helps me visualise what Laios is working with here when I think about post-canon. Though I reckon what I've done here is "Just enough research to really annoy an expert". Sorry if you're that expert. I really don't know much about cartography <3 It's like that xkcd comic:

On distances, as someone who lives in the UK; with a car, you can get almost anywhere in a day if you're prepared to drive until late. But they don't have cars, so getting from one end to the other would take multiple days of travel. It'd take about 7 days to walk the approx "length", 400~ miles (from the top of Scotland to Liverpool) (according to Google Maps) and 2 days cycling, so probably 3-5 days with horses, depending on how you pushed them. That'd vary a bit depending on terrain, of course.

[farmingbeans]

Gabriel's Free Lunch - Part 2

I think this portion size is larger than extra-large, Mina...

These two screenshots feel like perfect reaction images haha

Goddess, he actually ate it all o_o

Derek's the sane man in this cafe.

He looks so unsure here lol

Oof indeed.

She broke me with this line lmao

...Probably?

[dunmeshistash]

Wait- Have we seen the poop forest ability?? I didn't even notice, where was it shown? lmao

Adventurer's Bible - Melini Forestation Project

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Adventurer's Bible - Melini Forestation Project

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Adventurer's Bible Character Extra - Thistle

[dunmeshistash]

Has anyone made an attempt to estimate how large Melini approximately is after it resurfaces? When they discuss it you can see a tiny bit of the coastline indicated behind Senshi (Ch. 96), but it doesn't reveal much. The only explicit info is that it fills out the bay next to Kahka Brud. I assume that when it's mentioned to be "a continent" they don't mean it's literally the size of the other continents, as Melini did not exactly seem like a massive nation...

Nobody has, as far as I know. I've been asked if we have an updated map with Melini a few times but we really don't, here's what Laios says in chapter 96

The word used is 大陸 which does translate as continent (and is the same word used in the AB for the other continents as far as I can tell) but I doubt Laios means it's as big as the other continents, cause they're pretty massive and there was no way he could guess that just from some of it surfacing, this is what he sees before saying that

Internet tells me 大陸 could translate as "land mass" but I don't know enough japanese to confirm, I think that would make more sense tho, he probably just means in the sense of "it's not a tiny island but a huge land?" his shock is more understandable when we compare the size of the island he expected to rule to what Kui shows to be where Melini fits on this panel of chapter 96

I tried to overlay the image with the map we have and this is my assumption of where Melini fits (red lines is from the panel orange lines is my guesses)

It would still be pretty big if it's really all that section, way bigger than Kahka Brud (which is just a city) and MANY MANY times bigger than the island (that's why Laios was so shocked)

I think any bigger than that would be a bit of stretch but who knows maybe it fills the whole side of the eastern continent?