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Postapocalyptic Turnpikes
Jun. 21st, 2023 07:31 amI'm still thinking about the geography of The Demon King.
New York is destroyed, and Whitespire is somewhere in the vicinity of Elizabeth in New Jersey. The tower where Ananth is hanging out at the beginning of the story is east of Trenton. The "king's highway" that runs south of Whitespire and through the desert is, of course, the NJ Turnpike.
I'm not sure what happened to Philadelphia, btw. It's probably just a hole in the earth.
The Temple of Everlasting Autumn is way out in western Pennsylvania, probably somewhere around State College. I know it's about a three-hour drive from Princeton (which is a suburb of Trenton) to State College, so I'm assuming it would take a week to walk. What Ananth would do is follow the remains of the I-76 to Harrisburg, and then start heading north into the mountains on state highways when he hits the Susquehanna River.
In the original version of the story, I had him going through a tunnel in the mountains via the PA Turnpike, but I decided to cut that bit for the sake of simplification. Also, if Ananth is going to be traveling that far on foot, he's going to need to be younger than I originally imagined him.
Like personally, I like to believe that I'm fairly fit in my late thirties, but if you told me that I needed to walk to Harrisburg to save the world I think I'd probably just make my peace with the inevitable doom of humankind.
New York is destroyed, and Whitespire is somewhere in the vicinity of Elizabeth in New Jersey. The tower where Ananth is hanging out at the beginning of the story is east of Trenton. The "king's highway" that runs south of Whitespire and through the desert is, of course, the NJ Turnpike.
I'm not sure what happened to Philadelphia, btw. It's probably just a hole in the earth.
The Temple of Everlasting Autumn is way out in western Pennsylvania, probably somewhere around State College. I know it's about a three-hour drive from Princeton (which is a suburb of Trenton) to State College, so I'm assuming it would take a week to walk. What Ananth would do is follow the remains of the I-76 to Harrisburg, and then start heading north into the mountains on state highways when he hits the Susquehanna River.
In the original version of the story, I had him going through a tunnel in the mountains via the PA Turnpike, but I decided to cut that bit for the sake of simplification. Also, if Ananth is going to be traveling that far on foot, he's going to need to be younger than I originally imagined him.
Like personally, I like to believe that I'm fairly fit in my late thirties, but if you told me that I needed to walk to Harrisburg to save the world I think I'd probably just make my peace with the inevitable doom of humankind.
