#sso mistfall

[feliciawolfpaw]

SSO Promptober 2024 ↪ day twenty-nine, landscape

[northberg]

southhoof peninsula from the road to dundull, gouache on a5

[fagstableonline]

[pandoriasmostwanted]

sso really can't decide if wolves are good or bad can they

[gladewood]

the dilemma of not knowing where your ssoc should live

[inkdollie]

I WAS JUST RIDING AROUND THE SKELETON IN DINO VALLEY AND TAKINF PICTURES, BECAUSE I WANTED TO SHOW SOME FRIENDS MY FAVOURITE AREA IN THE GAME

AND THEN MY GAME DECIDED TO BUG.

[ald3r-wolfcak3]

Some of the npc horses

(sadly Mardy got no update, but I hope she will get in a future update)

[horsegamergirl]

You know what I forgot to do? Share the latest photos

[sparkles-and-trash]

Mistfall has quite the pretty views 🌊🌳

[horseslur]

missed it by a day but uh.

Happy one month of calamity plays sso! Time flies, or is fake, depending on which church you subscribe to.

I got here just in time to be haunted, haunt myself, and wave goodbye to hollow woods. imagine what I could get done in a year.

[feliciawolfpaw]

SSO Promptober 2024 ↪ day four, spark

[northberg]

I think sso needs more wildlife. imagine starling murmurations over silverglade village every evening, deer grazing in greendale, hares on the forgotten fields, geese on silversong river that honk at certain times of day and hiss if you get too close. I want to see rabbit holes in the forgotten fields, fish in the river, mice in moorland, trees with woodpecker damage, animal tracks all over the map!! Jorvik is supposed to be this incredible wild island where humans & nature live in harmony but we never see it!! idec if theyre interactive npcs, i just think it'd make such a rich environment to see them go by

[katjadarkrider]

Runestone

StarStable edit from 7th May 2022

Time: 1h 6m

[foggy-milk]

Level 16 is the max you can go without doing main story quests

mistfall, golden hills valley, dinosaur valley and repairing the baronesses race track cannot be unlocked without doing the main story. 

[fagstableonline]

[a-m-w-worlds]

The SSO fanfiction writers love you, OP! And fear you, but mostly love you!/pos

PUTTING JORVIK ON THE MAP: SIZE AND LOCATION

WHERE IS JORVIK?

Finding Jorvik’s exact location is actually pretty easy.

”Jorvik, located somewhere between Norway, Iceland, and the British Isles, of which it was once part, is a nexus of worlds.” - Jorvik Calling, Prologue.

This is still a pretty large area, but one that’s significantly narrowed down by reading Four Stories from Jorvik. Anne’s segment Midnight Sun establishes that Jorvik is at the very least partly above the arctic circle, to the point where Anne can see it while riding by Jorvik Stables in the middle of the night. This also puts Jorvik pretty close to the tectonic rift between the European and American continental plates, which handily explains why Jorvik is a volcanic Island.

HOW BIG IS JORVIK?

Jorvik’s size requires a bit more speculation, and I’m relying on two book sources.

1: Jorvik stables is a bus trip from Jorvik city.

Anne lives in Jorvik City but goes to school with the other soul riders in Jarlaheim, and has her horse at Jorvik stables. We know that she goes there by bus, so the distance between Jarlaheim and Jorvik City shouldn’t be too large; I’m capping the max length of the bus ride to about an hour.

2: Valedale is less than a day’s ride from the wineyard.

In The Legend Awakens, Elizabeth and the soul riders are heading to Pi’s Swamp and sleep over at the Wineyard. The soul riders wake up late and leave after having eaten breakfast and lunch. The sun is ”at its highest point in the sky” when they leave, so probably around 1-2PM. It’s twilight when they arrive, and the Baroness comments that they showed up in time for the evening feeding of the horses. Since the days are shorter in late October/early November, which is when this chapter takes place, we can guess that they arrived at around 5-6 PM.

Mapping out the most likely routes for these two trips, the route to the Wineyard is about a third of the bus route from Jorvik City to Jarlaheim. Additionally, the bus would drive on average ~70 km/h because of Jorvik’s smaller roads. The average walking speed of a horse is 6 km/h.

Now, the Valedale-Wineyard trip could take anywhere between 3-5 hours, but I’m inclined to believe that it’s on the lower end of that scale to keep Anne’s commute as short as possible. That leaves us with a 18 km long ride, and a 54 km long bus tour that takes 46 minutes. Pretty reasonable!

RESULTS

With these new measurements, we can figure out the actual distance between different places on Jorvik. Most importantly, we can measure the absolute width from Jorviks westernmost to easternmost point: 92 km, or ~57 miles!

Having figured out an estimate of the island’s size and location, we can now put Jorvik on the map!