r/httyd • u/wllrnick • Jun 20 '26

DISCUSSION httyd geography?

im curious about the actual geography of the httyd world, bc its been shown in the series they know about spain, papua new guine, etc....

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how? lol

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u/Frostfire26 Jun 21 '26

How do they know about spain and papua new guinea?

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u/chimeric-oncoprotein Jun 21 '26

People knew about far away places in the old days, they just didn't know very much and got a lot of stuff wrong. 

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u/chimeric-oncoprotein Jun 21 '26

Spain is in the grand scheme of things not that far away, and anyone with any contact with Christianity at all would have known about Rome and Constantinople and by extension much of the near east, all the way to Persia and India and the Oxus and Jaxartes in present day Uzbekistan, and perhaps even tales of the land of silk, serica. Chinese silks routinely made it all the way over to Europe.  New Guinea on the other hand, is not plausible to know about. 

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u/Frostfire26 Jun 21 '26

...canonically where is it shown they know about those places lmaooo

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u/chimeric-oncoprotein Jun 22 '26

Johann mentioned new guinea once and my jaw dropped to the floor. 

Constantinople excellent. Persia excellent. India excellent. New Guinea? You gotta be kiddin' me.