2.1.4 More about geography

Olympian provinces are arranged in a square grid. Travel is possible in the four main compass points. Thus, to move diagonally, two move orders are required. To move northwest, for instance, one would first need to ‘move n’, then ‘move w’.

The map coordinates for a province may be read from the province’s entity number. The row is represented by the leading two letters, the column by the two digits. The northwest corner is [aa00], with rows increasing to the south, and columns increasing to the east.

For example, a world 100 by 100 provinces would be numbered:

    00   01   02  ... 99
  +----------------------
aa|
ab|         ab02
ac|    ac01 ac02     ac99
...
...
dv|         dv02

Entity numbers for sublocations do not correspond to any coordinate system.

The map wraps at all edges. Traveling west from ac00 will lead to ac99, for instance.