Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27337536-20141231061514/@comment-27337536-20150101203459

@ChishioKurin it does feel like a lantern.

@Shadow at Morning 1) I sorry, never answered you original question. Go ahead and use them, that's why I posted them :) Just make sure to share you work, would love to see it! Just note that these are tentative and not 100% confirmed.

2) I read that blog post and a few things are bothering me. You will need to pardon me if something sounds flawed, I did not sleep well last night (New Years and all) and only on a few hours of sleep.

Things we are assuming...
 * Those are clock arrows
 * * after seeing the second hand moving I would say they are clocks
 * The team actually made time logical and did not mess it up between scenes
 * The terrain map is accurate and not an early prototype (will taking about the desert)

Something that was weird, and another user pointed it as well, is that the op in that thread assumes the time is 8:20am for Vale. In A Minor Hiccup it shows that the time for Peter Port's class is 3:59 ~ 4:00 (File:V2_03_00001.png). I find it hard to believe that the class would start at say 3:00am ~ 3:30am so it's provably 4:00pm, it would also explain why it is very bright outside like it is mid/late day. In the next episode (Painting the Town...) it shows Yang & Neptune outside the club which is now dark (File:V2 04 00046.png), this would make sense as time pasted into the later night.

Adjusting for the new time...
 * Vale (Upper left): 4:40pm
 * Atlas (Lower left): 4:40pm
 * ??? (Upper right): ??:??
 * ??? (Lower right): ??:??

BUT a few issues:
 * I'm willing to say with fair certainly that the bottom right arrow is the minute as they are the same on every clock and that can not be a coincidence. Plus the hour would have to change...
 * This blows the idea that it could be 4:40pm on the clock because that would reverse he arrows -_-


 * Vale is at least an hour behind Atlas (looking at the map) and the time on the clocks are the same, it might be the 3d perspective but still. This would be a even bigger problem since Vale is assumed to be on West coast of Vytal which is a bigger difference (at least 2 hours?).


 * This distance between Vale & Vacuo is just a little more (few mm on the map) then the distance between Vale and Mistral.
 * This however assumes the map is portraying distance correctly...
 * Flat maps can distort land size unless compensated; did they do that?

Regardless, assuming that we can say that: Vacuo time = - ( Mistral time + 1 hour )

Maybe pushing that 1 hour to 2 hours.

For example if Mistral was +6 hours ahead, Vacuo would be -8 hours behind.

Adjusting for the new time...
 * Vale (Upper left): 8:20am or 8:20pm
 * Atlas (Lower left): 8:20am or 8:20pm
 * ??? (Upper right): ??:??
 * ??? (Lower right): ??:??

Yet again... Peter Port's class is 3:59am ~ 4:00am? It seems really doubtful but 3:59pm ~ 4:00pm is already late into the day. Could there still be light out at 8:20pm when Weiss enters the tower? Did they also spend over 4 hours after the class just getting ready and making their way to their locations?

If so then the possibility of light at 8:20pm depends on...
 * What season are we in
 * Bright green trees, summer?
 * How close are we to the equator
 * Very close it would seem

Longer summer days could make the 8:20pm Vale time true... but now we are assuming they managed proper seasons and time zones in the show and they did not set certain scenes during different times of the day to fit the mood.

Not really sure were this is going but just pouring some ideas from my head. While I agree they could be clocks I don't see anything that could work... Unless the clocks are based on 24 hour instead of 12am/12pm but again... more scenario.

On another note I did clarify something from re-watching the episodes: Vale & Vacuo are 100% confirmed in Vytal (By Ruby when playing Remnant: The Game). Atlas is in Mantle (By Ruby when playing Remnant: The Game).

Yang says she gets double rewards because she has the "Mistral" trade route. Yang also says to Weiss that she can **use** Vacuo's defence against natural hazards to infiltrate her Kingdom, meaning Vacuo is not in a desert but Yangs Kingdom (Mistral) is in a desert, but both unknown locations have deserts so.... yah.

If this is so then the right most continent is the only other continent (with a major city) to have a desert, including a small one right next to the Mistral capital. We already know the locations of the cities but worth pointing it out.

Ruby also mentions that she can use the Aleason Air Fleet and the only pieces on the "Remnant: The Game" game board that have wings and could fly are at the northern most continent (File:RWBY_Remnant_World_Map_Source_Material_04.png). Mantle must be the northern continent.

Basically confirming thing things we already know.

Also new map, this one is Terrain. Used Inkscapes auto bitmap feature to generate a colored overlay from the original terrain map.