ended up crossing one of the items off my to do list for Thaminga's setting and after ending up with a planet with a shocking amount of land area with perfectly reasonable (if at times perhaps weird in their execution) climates, part of me just wants to see how fucked up and alien of a place I can make that still fulfills the most basic idea of "earthlike" (y'know, has an atmosphere with oxygen in it, water, plant life or something like it).
at least some of the publicly relevant ones. could probably fudge these into a köppen classification map somehow but that's work and boy howdy is that system not prepared to deal with "technically tropical but with summer temperatures turn the place into a steam bath also there's months of total darkness when it's still warm"
rainfall maps in next post, oops
the ol' "three bands of heavy precipitation and drought inbetween" as seen on earth remains, but with some caveats. while I kinda did these in relation to local temperatures, there's generally a lot more activity at the poles than in the equatorial areas - even if the difference is tempered somewhat by the way more flocculent and fragmented landmasses down there giving the opportunity for plenty of rainfall despite a weakass tropical front that swings like 35° north and south
now mind you, this place is in a mild hothouse state, kind of comparable to eocene earth - a lower average temperature would've yielded a drier equator with tundra or even ice cap(s) as opposed to the current smattering of temperate and (mostly, but not entirely cool summer) continental climes.
now the real question is do I want my world capital in a place that experiences two summers and two winters (one likely milder than the other) a year here, or do I want to say they went for something more like Isarthaka's own capital, perhaps on the south side of that northeastern continent