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	Someone has the mentionings of how far Pseu is from AM? From the Mapp I gather it's about 500 miles and a bit, CoM states something similar if I remember correctly but recently I continuously find it being 'half a day's ride' away (which is about 20-40 miles). Which books states which distance and which is broadly correct (correct in average value for all books a distance is given)--[[User:LilMaibe\|LilMaibe]] 18:28, 25 July 2011 (CEST)		Someone has the mentionings of how far Pseu is from AM? From the Mapp I gather it's about 500 miles and a bit, CoM states something similar if I remember correctly but recently I continuously find it being 'half a day's ride' away (which is about 20-40 miles). Which books states which distance and which is broadly correct (correct in average value for all books a distance is given)--[[User:LilMaibe\|LilMaibe]] 18:28, 25 July 2011 (CEST)

	I wouldn't trust the Mapp. Reasons '''[[Book ~~Discussion~~:The Discworld Mapp\|here]]'''. Most of the references to Pseudopolis, outside of {{UA}}, are in the earliest books in the series, at which point no bright obsessive had come forward to even try and compile a Map;: so it all gets a bit vague, really. I'm trying to re-draft the Mappe as time allows (presumptuous, me) as I'm sure it's woefully out of scale. Howondaland should be a lot bigger, for one thing, if only to accomodate all the things the Canon explicitly says are in there! (like Africa, deserts, sub-sahaharan areas, wild tropical jungles, then plains and veldts. Populated by Arab-like people, African-like people.... and, after {{RM}}, also by Red Indians......		I wouldn't trust the Mapp. Reasons '''[[Talk:Book:The Discworld Mapp\|here]]'''. Most of the references to Pseudopolis, outside of {{UA}}, are in the earliest books in the series, at which point no bright obsessive had come forward to even try and compile a Map;: so it all gets a bit vague, really. I'm trying to re-draft the Mappe as time allows (presumptuous, me) as I'm sure it's woefully out of scale. Howondaland should be a lot bigger, for one thing, if only to accomodate all the things the Canon explicitly says are in there! (like Africa, deserts, sub-sahaharan areas, wild tropical jungles, then plains and veldts. Populated by Arab-like people, African-like people.... and, after {{RM}}, also by Red Indians......
	And that's even ''before'' the tantalising possibility that the books hint at, of the survival of a forgotten colony of white-skinned colonists on the Rim of the continent...--[[User:AgProv\|AgProv]] 22:25, 25 July 2011 (CEST)		And that's even ''before'' the tantalising possibility that the books hint at, of the survival of a forgotten colony of white-skinned colonists on the Rim of the continent...--[[User:AgProv\|AgProv]] 22:25, 25 July 2011 (CEST)
	:I believe Quirm is described canonically as sixty miles from A-M, and Pseudopolis shouldn't be a whole lot farther. The Mapp indicates absurd distances to both of them. --[[User:Old Dickens\|Old Dickens]] 00:29, 26 July 2011 (CEST)		:I believe Quirm is described canonically as sixty miles from A-M, and Pseudopolis shouldn't be a whole lot farther. The Mapp indicates absurd distances to both of them. --[[User:Old Dickens\|Old Dickens]] 00:29, 26 July 2011 (CEST)

	:: Thanks you two :) Guess, as I also need it for my recent fanfiction aside from satisfying my curiousity (I'm a horrible person, I know), I'll go for something I wanted to avoid actually and put Pseu about a day worth travelling away, for the sake of it. It's a different Trouserleg to begin with anyway --[[User:LilMaibe\|LilMaibe]] 00:34, 26 July 2011 (CEST)		:: Thanks you two :) Guess, as I also need it for my recent fanfiction aside from satisfying my curiousity (I'm a horrible person, I know), I'll go for something I wanted to avoid actually and put Pseu about a day worth travelling away, for the sake of it. It's a different Trouserleg to begin with anyway --[[User:LilMaibe\|LilMaibe]] 00:34, 26 July 2011 (CEST)

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==Distance to AM?==

Someone has the mentionings of how far Pseu is from AM? From the Mapp I gather it's about 500 miles and a bit, CoM states something similar if I remember correctly but recently I continuously find it being 'half a day's ride' away (which is about 20-40 miles). Which books states which distance and which is broadly correct (correct in average value for all books a distance is given)--[[User:LilMaibe|LilMaibe]] 18:28, 25 July 2011 (CEST)

I wouldn't trust the Mapp. Reasons '''[[Book Discussion:The Discworld Mapp|here]]'''. Most of the references to Pseudopolis, outside of {{UA}}, are in the earliest books in the series, at which point no bright obsessive had come forward to even try and compile a Map;: so it all gets a bit vague, really. I'm trying to re-draft the Mappe as time allows (presumptuous, me) as I'm sure it's woefully out of scale. Howondaland should be a lot bigger, for one thing, if only to accomodate all the things the Canon explicitly says are in there! (like Africa, deserts, sub-sahaharan areas, wild tropical jungles, then plains and veldts. Populated by Arab-like people, African-like people.... and, after {{RM}}, also by Red Indians......
And that's even ''before'' the tantalising possibility that the books hint at, of the survival of a forgotten colony of white-skinned colonists on the Rim of the continent...--[[User:AgProv|AgProv]] 22:25, 25 July 2011 (CEST)
:I believe Quirm is described canonically as sixty miles from A-M, and Pseudopolis shouldn't be a whole lot farther. The Mapp indicates absurd distances to both of them. --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] 00:29, 26 July 2011 (CEST)

:: Thanks you two :) Guess, as I also need it for my recent fanfiction aside from satisfying my curiousity (I'm a horrible person, I know), I'll go for something I wanted to avoid actually and put Pseu about a day worth travelling away, for the sake of it. It's a different Trouserleg to begin with anyway --[[User:LilMaibe|LilMaibe]] 00:34, 26 July 2011 (CEST)

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