Information on the Sun

[Forty-Eight]

Ok my brain was just picturing everything weird

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@anon38550704

If the magnetic poles were to move to the equator

Then it would no longer be the equator…

I think you missed out on some basic geography

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@anon38550704

The equator would still be the equator because the equator is determined by the geographic poles, not the magnetic poles

Which would make a compass not display the actual north nor south

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Also magnetic poles are still heavily dependent on geographic poles even tho it’s not a constant.

[StarForDays]

This is really just making things more complicated than it needs to be ;-;

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Fr, man can’t believe a game dev made a mistake, it’s not that deep.

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@anon38550704

A real-world compass doesn’t display the actual north or south either.

By negligible margins

You’re just delving into semantics now

@anon38550704

True, but we are talking about a world with magic and events that shatter the continents, it’s not crazy to assume that large magic events could manipulate the magnetic field of the planet.

Literally a case I provided

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Would’ve been a lot better if he just said that magic producing tons of electromagnetic energy disrupted compasses or smth

@anon38550704

I think Vetex could have entirely come to this conclusion by mistake, I’m just trying to explain how it could be possible.

Ok, it’s still much more likely he made a mistake

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@anon38550704

I wouldn’t call nearly 2000 miles negligible but I guess that’s up to personal opinions

This depends entirely on location tbf

And I think certain weight compensated compasses can point to geographic north

[Forty-Eight]

Okay, I figured it out

Since if the sun set and rose in the north and south through the rotation of the Earth solely, you can’t really do that since the north and south stay where they are, and if you made the Earth rotate north than it wouldn’t be the pole anymore and therefore not be the south/north

So I suppose that maybe the Sun rotates around the prime meridian (?) really fast, or the Earth rotates around the Sun in the same fashion?

[UnitVector]

I’m not sure on the specifics, but isn’t Atlas holding up the sky above the Earth according to Greek mythology, so it might be geocentric?
I know Aristotel was a geocentrist, but that also some others were heliocentrists.

If it is then the geocentric model is cannon in the Arcane universe, as it is based on the mythos, and it is all intentional.

[Retribution]

Thanks. Good to know.
(also Vertex did answer so yknow, I guess it is that fucked up)

[Vetex]

its pretty simple to understand, the earths normal rotation was messed up by durza’s attack

[Forty-Eight]

So it rotates to the north now???

That would mean that it’s not the north though

[Vetex]

its not a mistake, read my replies

[Forty-Eight]

Durza’s attack messed up the planet in a way that made the Sun rise and set in the south and north?

[Vetex]

@Vetex

its pretty simple to understand, the earths normal rotation was messed up by durza’s attack

read

[Forty-Eight]

So Durza’s attack changed the Earth’s rotation

I suppose that in Arcane Odyssey (Around the time that happened?) compasses hadn’t adjusted yet to change what was north and south. Interesting

I think i’m missing something here i’m probably stupid ;-;

[Waping]

big boom makes planet not spin the same as before
the north is still the north of the planet, its just that the planet might spin on a different axis now

now the magnetic north can always change i guess, not sure how that works exactly but i think its already moving in our own world, but thats not really the point here

[Forty-Eight]

Yes. Since the axis changed though, the sun doesn’t actually set/rise in the north/south

[Waping]

look the north isnt just the “top” of the planet or something