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I feel like I read too much into it when I see the word 'anxiety,' however. I have a counsellor in my family and the definition of the anxiety is certainly broadened when you talk to such people enough. In a scholarly way, anyway. If you're just doing phobias or unease with alien stuff, though, I'd say horror speaks for itself as a word.
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Rest assured, it has nothing to do with social anxiety or anxiety-related disorders. Horror is very much what I'm going for- A sense for the alien and unnatural, fear of the unknown as opposed to fear of incoming harm.

[quote=@Muttonhawk]
To whomever decides to.make the next pretty iteration of the Galbar map, please consider [b]shrinking down[/b] many of the geographical features. Things are beginning to get crowded and we are still meant to be working on a huge, Earth-like planet.

I would also suggest moving the map edges more westward, closer to the changing plains. Mesathelassa is better developed at this point.

And hey, an idea for a cataclysmic event? Sea level rise. We could actually have separated continents to work with if that happens :D
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I... Don't think we should do another major change to landmasses. The prettiness of the latest map did do some unnecessary shuffling and resizing of features, but even so, we've been kicking around this planet for a while now and if we try to force in more empty space either things are gonna go bump again or there's going to be a conspicuous stretch of empty forest.

Although, if some god wants to cut open Galbar like a grapefruit and adds in an extra slice because they've run out of space, be my guest, because that would be hilarious.

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Anyway, the one main thing I want to emphasize is that I really, [i]really[/i] don't think we want or need those land bridges. Land bridges don't make the world more accessible. Seas and rivers make the world more accessible the minute you invent the sail. Once you start thinking of oceans as a way to get around, land bridges are actually just giant walls that block you from sailing where you want to go. There's a reason people dug canals through Panama and Suez- Just a thin stretch of land in the way can add massive amounts of time to a voyage.

Other features that were lost or altered in this map-

-What happened to Jvan's peninsula? She's somehow ended up at a channel between the southern ocean and the fractal sea? She's always been at the northernmost point of an isthmus stretching up from land, specifically so that you can reach her on foot or horseback from both east and west; Somehow that got turned completely inside out.
-The Mangrove shrunk substantially and the Forgotten Craglands inside it went AWOL. 
-The Shimmering Sea changed shape, deleting a section of land to the south of it (which promptly got resurrected as a land bridge enclosing an inland sea?) as well as making Vetros almost coastal.
-The Venomweald grew quite a bit, so the Valley of Peace is kind of fusing with the Ironhearts- That's not much of a problem by itself, but the connection between the Steppe and the Valley is growing thinner, which makes Angelblood Ridge hard to place since it took place in the foothills.
-The north of the Fractal Sea is growing bigger and lumpier over time, as well as marching steadily west. That vaguely phallic top bit should be a long, narrow inlet directly above Jvan, at least at the very top.
-Rivers, people! Where did those Mesathalassan rivers go?

Details added-
-Volcano squashing the northwest Metatic acalya outbreak. I should've put it more inland, whoops. Also, Acalya forests have containment zones guarded by Jvan's conglomeration of intelligent species.
-The Metera Valley civilisation has probably fused with the Rovaick settlement that was closest to Bormahven.
-Forgotten Craglands reappeared- A nest of cliffs and highland weirdforests pierced by the Mahd, in which lies the grave of Slough.
-Angelblood Ridge somewhere-or-other.