| Kata #432045 10 months ago |
I saw this in the background of one of the S2 picks (I dont know if this has already been pointed out)
Presumably its a map of the known world. |
| Anonymous #432051 10 months ago |
If you have seen the openings of each episode more closely you would have noticed this map before. |
| Epicplatypus #432079 10 months ago |
NB4 somebrony over analyzes this map and finds out the exact location of canterlot and ponyville. |
| Anonymous #432085 10 months ago |
Wait, which color is land and which color is sea? |
| Turin_Aramaia #432087 10 months ago |
no, that's where Discord is located. It's the chimera shape. |
| nsko #432150 10 months ago |
Saw this a while back when I was making my Equestria & beyond map. It lines up reasonably well too, but...
*over analyzing commencing in...* |
| Anonymous #432361 10 months ago |
As anon1 says this has been in the show the whole time also in call of cutie in the classroom you can see globes |
| Rasrap_Smurf #432449 10 months ago |
At least we know their world also isn't flat now |
| Some_Anon #432514 10 months ago |
So their world is still round, but they still have a geocentric belief that the Sun rotates around the Earth? But if they have astronomy then that means they must have accepted the heliocentric system! (Granted, "astronomy" could simply be the in-universe name for "astrology", because not everyone heard of astrology, especially kids, but still) |
| nemryn #432526 10 months ago |
So, if their world isn't flat, how does that fit with the whole 'raising the sun' thing? Presumably Nightmare Moon was trying to make it eternal night everywhere, right? |
| Drasvin #432588 10 months ago |
That is cool. I wonder what the whole stained window there means though.
@Some_Anon Their world is not necisarrily heliocentric. There are plenty of other things that works differently in Equestria than in our world, namely that nature of Equestria is maintained by the ponies. If we assume that there are some basic physics that remain the same, then we can infer that the planet does not rotate, because the clouds outside of the Everfree Forest do not move on their own, pointing to the fact that even the wind has to be generated by ponies. And if the planet does not rotate the only way to have a heliocentric system would be to have the planet fly around the sun at absurd speeds, but that would also cause the entire seasonal cycle to be condensed into a single day cycle, not too mention all the problems interia would have caused from Nightmare Moon making it eternal night all of a sudden. The simpler explaination is that the Equestrian Sun and Moon are objects that are magically moved around the planet. @nemryn Well as I mentioned above, Equestria is probably geocentric, so the raising and setting of the sun and moon is probably by the Sisters manually moving them around the planet with their magic. As for the eternal night, I'm not sure. It seems like she wanted eternal night everywhere, though maybe she only cared about making it eternal night in Equestria. Equestria has been used by many (me included, and I think the show might too at points) to represent the entire would of MLP:FiM, but it has also been used in the show to denote a region or country. Equestria might technically be the area that the Sisters rule over. Given that they're the sun and moon goddess's of that world, such territory is probably going to be vast, but doesn't necisarrily include the whole planet (the Zebra homelands strike me as a possiblity) If NMM was only concerned with eternal night in Equestria, then the opposite side of the globe probably had eternal day. Or NMM could have just eclipsed the sun. (Had most of this reply typed before I thought of that >.>;; ) |
| elementofchaos7 #434688 10 months ago |
^ Eclipsing the sun makes the most sense, imo. It took me quite a while to think of that myself. |