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Originally Posted by John Carroll
The world is going to be about twice as large. I have dragons and like the idea of epic battles and vast unexplored regions.
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I say at one point that it's a "large world" and that it's a "vast world" at another point. I think that's vague enough to give the reader an impression that the world is larger than Earth without having to explain how large or justify scientifically how that can be.
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Why is it necessary to say that it's a 'large world'? Even with 2/3 our planet covered with water, Earth still has about 150,000,000 sq km of land. The United States, the third largest country in the world, only covers 6% of that. If I'm not mistaken, about 90% of the earth's land surface is still undeveloped.
Anecdote: I was about 10 years old, in the car with my parents driving from Montana to Oregon. Sometime during the 11-hour drive I asked, "If this is 'a small world after all', then why does it take so long to get anywhere?"