World Trajectories and Locations

Are Stormgates Depicted on the Map?

When you look at the concept map, you'll notice that there are many straight and circular lines cutting through and around the worlds. At first, I thought that these straight lines could be the routes that the stormgates take between worlds, so this diagram below shows all of the known stormgates and their windstone colors (note that the transparent white lines are stormgate routes whose required windstones are currently unknown).

Evidently, there are two routes that both utilize the yellow windstone. I thought it was interesting that these two routes intersect at such an angle, but I'm not too sure what to make of this.

As you can see from this diagram, only a few of the stormgate routes actually align with some of the straight lines on the map that cut through the worlds, like the indigo and red paths. Additionally, I do not think that the circular map lines are stormgate routes either.

So, I do not believe that any of the straight or circular lines found on the concept map are stormgate routes. Why did I include this section, though? Well I think that finding out what things aren't is just as important as finding out what things are. Even though the diagram above is not accurate, it allows us to get rid of the argument for stormgates and focus on other hypotheses.

So, What are these Lines, Then?

Let's take a look at the circular lines first.

In any 3D depiction of the spiral, such as in the spiral gate in Wizard101, the worlds always seem to be floating around in movement. As I mentioned before with the stormgate spreadsheet, between each stormgate in Pirate101 you will see worlds revolving around one another just as the Earth does around the sun.

If the spiral worlds are in constant, revolving motion, that means that the map of Marco Pollo is only able to show one particular instant in time; the worlds are not fixed in place. However, in order to show that the worlds move in a circular motion, Pollo had to draw their paths around one another, and to us, they seem to be fixed or static on the map. For instance, it seems that Wizard City, Polaris, and El Dorado share the same rotational path around Marleybone.

So if the circular lines are the world's rotational patterns around one another, what about the straight, intersecting lines that I previously thought were stormgate routes?

As I just explained, this concept map only shows an instant (like a snapshot) of the spiral. But why this particular instant? Is it something about the particular positions of these worlds that helps us find the hidden stormgate to El Dorado?

I believe that these straight lines depict important planetary alignments that only occur when the stormgate to El Dorado is accessible to sail through. These lines thus indicate the proper locations/coordinates of the worlds needed to find the stormgate to El Dorado, and these lines also tell us what order specific worlds should be aligned in.

So, just to reiterate, the circular lines are the trajectories/rotational paths that worlds move around in, and the straight lines show specific world alignments that occur when the stormgate to El Dorado is open.

Certain World Positions

I think that the alignment and positions of two specific worlds are very important in finding El Dorado's stormgate. On the left side of the map is a list of worlds and what seems to be repeated messages and coordinates. Two world symbols are circled in red and thus must be important in finding El Dorado.

The first world circled in red, as shown above, is Krokotopia. I know that it is Krokotopia because the symbol matches up with the world labeled "Krokotopia" on "The Path" map. Interestingly, as shown in the left image, Krokotopia is not depicted on any revolutionary path around another world- it looks like it just floats by itself on the outskirts of the spiral. However, when the stormgate to El Dorado is accessible, Krokotopia will be in alignment with Mooshu, Valencia, and Aquila as they are all depicted long the same straight line.

The second world circled in red is the world that I personally think is Darkmoor, but we'll just called it World #22 based on the list on the previous page. I think that this world is important not just because it is circled by Marco Pollo, but also because it is located at the intersection of 2 different rotational paths (as seen in the left image). World #22 is the only world depicted on the concept map to be located on 2 different paths, aside from El Dorado.