#the cold side

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What's the deal with the coldsiders?

Sure! The Cold Side is set on a planet wreathed in clouds. The Storm Wall separates the Warm Side from the harsh and chilly Cold Side.

The Cold Side is inhabited by these white-faced opossum chameleon things. Nobody knows who or what inhabits the Warm Side.

Overall, it's a character and narrative-focused setting starring starring a motley crew of dumb-asses on an expedition North. Happy to dump more information about the characters (this is the only setting where I have like. individual guys I'm attached to), but I'll save that for another post.

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coldsiders

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What lies beyond the cloud wall...

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i'd love to know some stuff anout the coldsider's lore and culture if you have any to share, they seem facinating

The Coiled Republics A federated democracy in a windswept western region of the cold side. It's a nation that formed by referendum, which is one indication of how much they love voting on things. Once they were relatively poor shepherds and fisherman. But these days, their economic fortunes have sharply improved. They are a maritime power with a strong navy and an oversized influence on international trade.

Greater Syma is a former queendom located in the agrarian center of the coldside. Though in the midst of a messy revolution, they remain and industrial champion and formidable land power. They're locked in an intensifying conflict with the Coilies, who busy pouring their resources into funding and supplying counter-revolutionary forces.

Agogy (or the Ottar Empire) is the nub of an ancient, theocratic empire ground down by numerous defeats. Though the height of their power has long passed, their cultural and religious influence protects their relevance in international politics.

The plot:

To Expand the Scope of Coldsider Knowledge (i.e. to one-up the Symans and make themselves rich), the Long Coast Trading Company launches a bold new expedition to the Warm side. Captained by failson and hier to the company fortune Iwin Cade, this mission will....... something something something one paragraph summaries are hard! (also thank you I'm glad you like it!)

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The Galloping Rose!

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how do they know the warm side is warm, and it's not just harsh and chilly the world over?

There's a temperature gradient as you sail north, and the cloud wall is evidence of two air masses of very different temperatures meeting.

But the truth is they don't know. Coldsiders make predictions using the "Warm Pole" model, and test these predictions against empirical evidence. If the prediction matches the data, that supports the accuracy of their model.

If assuming the pole is warm leads to accurate predictions (and it does!), then that assumption is a useful way of understanding reality.

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coldsider in wet weather gear