Originally Posted by
Mace
you're making an assumption here.. you're assuming that is the whole planet.. I can assure you it is not. In fact It is my opinion that ALL of this map above is in the northern hemisphere and is the fractured remains of what was a super continent.
how? well Northrend is at a polar cap - evident by the ice and frigid north -- but as you go south, it doesn't get hottest midway then cooler agian.. no ..it keeps getting hotter, in fact.. the hottest bits are at the tip of the continents - STV in the east - uldum/silithus/tanaris in kalimdor - they are all hottest regions with ecology like a tropical forest (un'goro/STV) unless a disaster has made the land barren (Badlands/Tanarais/Silithus/Uldum) - in Chronicles, Uldum was a lush and very beautifully exotic tropical jungle we are told... it was the efforts to stop Lei-shen that have made it so barren.
That does that mean? What you're seeing is actually just one side of the northern hemisphere of a planet. Pandera is not far from the Equator but pretty much on it -- imo, the Equator is either sitting just under Pandera, or just above it, or crosses it somewhere.. not sure which , but it's that.