Sort of an esoteric piece here, so I will give context into how it came about.
At first I was idly drawing a world map, simply making a squiggly line to separate ocean and continent. As I went, I became interested in drawing a planet with more land than water, and where most of the water flowed in almost more of a series of big canals than full-on oceans. I thought it would be fun if the ocean were named after the meteor which had carved it out, and I also wanted to imagine another way a huge body of water might be referred to other than an ocean.
This was when I had the idea to present the world from the perspective of a culture which considers the existence of ocean more so as the existence of “negative land" - where the meteors were seen as having taken land instead of as having granted oceans. Thus, I chose the almost sexually violent terminology of “tear.” I then thought that each impact crater large enough to create water on this planet would be seen as similarly traumatic, thus the other is called an “impact" and collectively they are known as “craters.”
In order to contextualize the existence of this super-simplified world map and present the ideas I wanted to communicate about this specific cultural outlook on the world's layout, I decided to frame it as something used to teach kindergarteners about the “Lands and Craters" of a fictional world, in a country called the Western Great lands. Based on the arrogant-seeming attitude of this country, I figured they would be dismissive of other continents, simply thinking of them as “the hot one” and “the cold one” whereas they are “the great one.”
I also thought it would be fun if, because the lands between the two oceans were eroded into a central passage, erosion would be seen as this evil force noteworthy even to children. I want to know more about these labd-obsessed people!! But this is all I have so far!
Long time fan and yet I never knew you had an interest in worldbuilding! It's probably my most artistically fulfilling hobby and I love to see your work in it.
I wonder how these people view agriculture and droughts given their antipathy to water/
-Lots