History Main / NorthIsColdSouthIsHot

** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemEngage'' takes place on the ring-shaped continent of Elyos, which is divided into four kingdoms. The Kingdom of Elusia, which is in Elyos' northeast, is a land covered in snow, while the southwestern Queendom of Solm is a desert. To a lesser extent, the southwestern Kingdom of Firene is warm and has good farmland, while the northwestern Kingdom of Brodia is rocky and barren.

* ''Literature/Earthsea'' has the very cold northern lands of the archipelago and the tropical islands in the south. Given the scale given on the map, the entire archipelago fits between the equator and pole of an Earth-sized planet. But nobody has been able to travel around the entire planet or to the other hemisphere to see if there is any land there.

** Due to its eccentric orbit and slow rotation, Mercury has two "cold poles" (which always face the Sun when it's at its maximum distance) and two "hot poles" (which always face the Sun directly at its minimum distance) at 90 degree increments on the equator. In these cases, both "East is Cold, West is Hot" and vice versa can be true depending on where you're at.

* Hyrule in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild''. The southwest of the map is the Gerudo Desert, with the rest of the south being a long, tropical beach. The northwest has the Hebra region, which is the coldest area in the game. The sun and moon are always to the north, though, which would place Hyrule in the ''southern'' hemisphere.

* Inverted in ''LightNovel/{{Maoyu}}'', where the far south of the human world is depicted as a freezing polar region, and although the far north could be assumed to be a polar region as well, the northern-most lands depicted in the series seem to be primarily hot and arid.

* In ''VideoGame/MightAndMagicVI'', most of the northern third of Enroth is covered in snow, while the deserts are to the southwest.

** ''Series/HouseOfTheDragon'', being set in the same world a few hundred years prior, has no scene set in the North in Season 1 but it does get mentioned along with the Wall, and the one Stark seen in the series, Lord Rickon, is obviously clothed for winter.

* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' inverted this trope in ''Dragonflight'' with the Dragon Isles. In the north is the volcanic, tropical Waking Shores, the two central zones are temperatre, and the southern Azure Span is a boreal forest with several areas snowy regions.

* Played straight in ''Manga/DragonBall'', the north has the barren Yunzabit (not snowy, but quite cold) and the Muscle Tower area (''that'' has the snow) and in the south there's the tropical Papaya Island where the [[TournamentArc Tenkaichi Budokai]] takes place.

* Played straight in ''Manga/DragonBall'', the north has the barren Yunzapit (not snowy, but quite cold) and the Muscle Tower area (''that'' has the snow) and in the south there's the tropical Papaya Island where the [[TournamentArc Tenkaichi Budokai]] takes place.

* The SNES game ''VideoGame/ActRaiser'' literally lets you play as God, and you have to save the the world you created from the demon Tanzra by defeating his minions. It's safe to say therefore that the map represents the entire known world. And it consists of [[DeathMountain Aitos]] and [[SlippySlideyIceWorld Northwall]] in the north, [[TheLostWoods Fillmore]] and [[BubblegloopSwamp Bloodpool]] around the center, and [[ShiftingSandLand Kasandora]] and [[JungleJapes Maranha]] in the south.

** Both Uranus and Pluto have unusually large axial tilts (98 and 120 degrees, respectively), so the trope is averted when the planet's north pole is pointed toward from the Sun, and played straight when it's pointed away from it.

In reality, it doesn't quite work this way. You have a cold north... and a cold south. The only "hot" part is in the middle. This representation probably comes from the fact that a majority of the world's population lives in the Northern Hemisphere (where most of the ''land'' is), where this trope seems true.

In reality, it doesn't quite work this way. You have a cold north... and a cold south. The only "hot" part is in the middle. This representation probably comes from the fact that a majority of the world's population lives in the Northern Hemisphere, where this trope seems true.

* Played straight in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'': in the south, you will find [[ShiftingSandLand Tanaris]], [[JungleJapes Stranglethorn Vale]] and the [[BubblegloopSwamp Swamp of Sorrows]]. In the north, you have [[GrimUpNorth Northrend]]

* While the Pokémon games based on colder real-life regions play this straight, as noted above[[note]]Sinnoh is based on Kyushu, the northernmost major island of Japan; Unova is based on the greater UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity area; Kalos is based on France, and Galar is based on Great Britain[[/note]], the regions based in warmer regions largely avert this, instead using deep coastal caves (Seafoam Islands in Kanto, Ice Path in Johto, Shoal Cave in Hoenn) or tall mountains (Mt. Silver in Johto in the remakes and Mt. Lanakila in Alola) to house their ice-types. Galar also ends up zigzagging this, as while the base game's coldest region is in the north, the ''Crown Tundra'' {{DLC}} area is mostly covered in ice and snow and is located south of the area explored in the main game.

* PlayedStraight for certain regions of the ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' world where the cold, snowy areas are to the north. These include [[VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl Sinnoh]], [[VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite Unova]], [[VideoGame/PokemonXAndY Kalos]], and [[VideoGame/PokemonSwordAndShield Galar]].

* In {{Franchise/Dishonored}} the northernmost known country is the eternally frozen Tyvia. The London-esque Dunwall is further south. Even further south is Serkonos which is portrayed as rather warm and temperate. Pandyssia is portrayed as existing somewhere to the south-east of the Empire and is covered in tropical jungles.

* UrExample is probably Myth/NorseMythology. From Wiki/TheOtherWiki: "In the beginning, there were two regions: Muspellsheimr in the south, full of fire, light and heat; and Niflheimr in the north, full of arctic waters, mists, and cold." Between these two was Ginnungagap, into which the world was brought into existence.

* Inverted in ''Franchise/DragonAge'', which (so far) takes place in the southern hemisphere of [[ConstructedWorld Thedas]]. The fact that "frozen wastes" are located on the southern edge of the map has reportedly confused many a fantasy fan, though.

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* The ''Literature/CiaphasCain'' novel ''The Traitor's Hand" takes place on a TidallyLockedPlanet, whose "hot" pole has been designated as north pole.
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