North Is Cold, South Is Hot: Difference between revisions

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* Played straight in ''[[Dragon Ball]]'', the north has the barren Yunzapit (Not snow, but it's quite cold) and the Muscle Tower area (THAT has the snow) and in the south there's the tropical (And aptly-named) Papaya Island where the [[Tournament Arc|Tenkaichi Budokai]] takes place.

* Monkey D. Luffy in ''[[One Piece]]'' seems to believe this, as which direction feels warmest/coldest is how he determines north and south.

* ''[[The Year Without a Santa Claus]]'' has Snow Miser in charge of the North and Heat Miser the South. Much of the story revolves around reconciling the two so that they can allow a Southern town to have snow for Christmas. Essentially, the Southern Hemisphere is ignored.

* ''[[Exalted]]'' does this to the ''entire planet'' - the areas around the north pole are cold tundra, while the south pole is made up of deserts, wastelands, and volcanoes.

* Played straight in ''[[World of Warcraft]]'': in the south, you will find [[Shifting Sand Land|Tanaris]], [[Jungle Japes|Stranglethorn Vale]] and the [[Bubblegloop Swamp|Swamp of Sorrows]]. In the north, you have [[Grim Up North|Northrend]]

** Although the [[Grim Oop North]] with all the [[Our Dwarves Are All the Same|Dwarves]] in it is... roughly equatorial. Sure, equatorial mountains are cold, but that doesn't change the fact that the middle of the world consists of frigid valleys, frigider peaks, and the Scottish—err, Twilight Highlands. (Well, and [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Searing Gorge]].)

* ''[[RuneScape]]''

* In ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'', The southernmost land that plays a major role in the story, Haradwaith, is a hot desert, and the wastes at the northern edge of the map are the coolest.

* ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia]]'' - temperate Narnia is north, and desert [[Shifting Sand Land|Calormen]] is south. Then the map stops, with no equator getting involved.

* In ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'', the south is warmer than the north. In the continent of Westeros, the North is freezing, while the southernmost kingdom, Dorne, is Mediterranean. The southernmost continent is described as jungly, though the known world does not extend far from its northern coast.

* ''[[Game of Thrones]]'', being based on the book ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'', plays this straight.

* ''[[Kingdom of Loathing]]'': Seal Clubbers, barbarians who "hail from [[Grim Up North|the frigid Northlands]], because [[Lampshade Hanging|one character class always hails from the frigid Northlands]]" and who can summon seals so they can club them.

* Averted in ''[[Dragonlance]]'', where the bulk of the stories take place in a Southern Hemisphere continent.

* Averted in ''[[The Stormlight Archive]]'', where the map indicates that the continent the story takes place on is in the southern hemisphere.

* Averted in the ''[[Chalion|The Curse of Chalion]]'' and its sequels; the titular medieval-Iberia analogue is somewhere in the southern hemisphere; the [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture|Roknari]], whose role in history parallels the Arabs, come from a desert archipelago to the north.

* Subverted by ''[[Dragon Age]]: Origins'' and ''[[Dragon Age II]]'', which both take place in the southern hemisphere of [[Constructed World|Thedas]]. The fact that "frozen wastes" are located on the southern edge of the map has reportedly confused many a fantasy fan, though.

* Averted in ''[[Civilization IV]]'', the player can choose how the map is arranged and what temperatures go in which direction.

* ''[[Dwarf Fortress]]'' works on the same system as Civilization IV, expect it is randomly chosen. With full maps though, there will be two cold poles and a hot equator.

* Averted in ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'', there is a north pole and a south pole. In fact, most of the first season is spent traveling from the south pole to the north.