Mushroom Geography
Author's Note: The reasonI am writing this fanfiction is thatI have a weekly newsletter online thatI submit each chapter for. Because of this,I normally have a chapter every week. However, due to preparations for July 4th, I am unable to give a full chapter. I am in my spare time able to come up with this piece on the geography of Mario. This amount of explanation adds to the story, but would severely slow it down. Chapter 3 will be in next week, and trust me, it will be worth it!
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The Mushroom Kingdom and all associated places are on a different planet. This eliminates the possibility of Mario and Luigi stumbling upon it by exiting from a pipe, a popular story among the Mushroom Kingdom's youth. It is thus still unknown how Mario and Luigi got to the Mushroom Kingdom; if it was known, the key to superluminal travel would have been found in the process, and thus, infinite energy, but that's beside the point.
The Mushroom Planet is smaller than Earth (about the size of Earth's moon), and thus has less gravity. However, Mario's muscles are built for Earth gravity. This is how Mario can jump as high as he does without effort.
The Mushroom Planet has only one continent. It covers the Northern Hemisphere.
The Mushroom Planed orbits a red dwarf star. This is of interest because it locks the planet in its place; it has no orbit or rotation. Because it has no rotation, the night side of the planet never gets warmed by the sun, and is thus covered in ice. The exception to this is a small patch of land north of the Mushroom north pole. The Planet's crust is extremely thin here. Because of the intense pressure in the Planet's molten core, there are many volcanoes in this land. Though this environment is inhospitable to most, it is nonetheless Bowser's Northern Domain.