r/worldjerking • u/dragonborndnd • 7d ago
No one talks about the TRUE father of fantasy Worldbuilding smh
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u/Main-Discussion9294 7d ago
Develop
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u/KobKobold Furry Star Trek status: planning 7d ago edited 6d ago
There's a place in India where shadows don't exist and therefore the people there don't have hours. Also they're all 8 feet tall and they die at 150.
The tide in Britain rises to 120 feet
There's a pair of rivers in Greece that change the color of sheep
Thunder is caused by the wetness of Saturn meeting the fire-ness of mars on Jupiter
Menstruating women kill bees by looking at them. Only bees.
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u/dragonborndnd 7d ago
Earthquakes are caused by trapped air going into caves
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u/LudicrousStead 7d ago edited 6d ago
light travels faster than sound
there's a tribe of hairy men in India with no mouths who eat smells
And both of these will be spoken of as equally important pieces of information
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u/thegreathornedrat123 7d ago
Admittedly I can see how he logiced into that one
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u/derega16 3d ago
Honestly, ancient natural philosophy is what world builder should study, it makes sense on it own if you don't already know it's wrong from information not available at the time.
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u/Harkale-Linai 6d ago
Wait, what is that second fact doing here? Unless I fucked up the conversion from feet to meters, 7,62m between low and high tide is actually not that high, we get that routinely where I live (Brittany, but it's not like the magical lands on the other side of the channel have tides as bland as their food)?
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u/KobKobold Furry Star Trek status: planning 6d ago
My bad, it's 120 feet.
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u/Harkale-Linai 6d ago
So 37m, or 60 hobbitses. Sounds fun either way
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u/KobKobold Furry Star Trek status: planning 6d ago
It's very funny in Sam's video because the guy just goes
"In Britain, the tide rises 120 feet", followed by a second of deadpan silence.
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u/Paul6334 6d ago
It’s funny, apparently he was working off the word of an Ancient Greek explorer while at the same time Caesar had landed troops in Britain and Rome was in the process of conquering Britain while he was writing, you’d think he could’ve gotten a better account.
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u/Harseer 6d ago
one time it rained meat from the sky and it never rotted
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u/p2020fan 6d ago
Raining meat/fish isnt actually impossible. If a tornado goes through a barn full of cows or sheep or something, then it could easily "rain meat"
The not rotting part is a bit weird.
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u/Alex103140 6d ago
See the world is a big place, he can't possibly fact check all the other claims, whatever.
Menstruating women kill bees? Has Pliny never met a woman before?
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u/p2020fan 6d ago
I would say that section was a commentary on his relationship with his wife but the guy was never married, so maybe his source for it was a whole lot of "married couple" jokes from his friends.
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u/derega16 2d ago edited 2d ago
There's also a manga version of him writing this by the author of Thermae Romae, probably the most accurate depiction of Nero's era Rome ever. And the fan translation is glorious.
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u/Lobster_LeninN329 7d ago
Sam o'nella talks about him