WIP Map Thread
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That's a really cool idea. I'd like to know more about this scenario.
Ditto. It's always great when people focus on Africa and Asia, Alternate History is a fairly Eurocentric fandom, and while there's nothing wrong with that, variety is the spice of life!
Was this done on a -BAM map or a basemap of your own making? I like the scale of it!
Just to make it extra complicated, a variant of Hakka becomes the dominant Chinese language.
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Oh snap. That would make it extra difficult.
The main problem I'm currently facing is substitution of Chinese sounds as well as the phonological rules, so it'll be quite some time before this bad boy is complete
For the last year I've been working on 3 maps of Britain and Ireland c. 1280. It's been utterly painful to get the topography and stuff okay, plus finding contemporary names and cities and roads and lordships and everything else that existed in the Isles at this point has been hell. BUT, after a year, I've finally combined the 3 maps into one composite map that is still not finished (apart from Scotland) but hopefully will be done soon enough!
I've kept the basemaps to show how I merged them. I wish I had discovered what QGIS was BEFORE I started drawing 9 layers of topography...
I've kept the basemaps to show how I merged them. I wish I had discovered what QGIS was BEFORE I started drawing 9 layers of topography...
SINA BOREĀLIS
in annō
973 A.U.C.
Capita
Urbēs Māiōrēs
Foederātiō Populōrum Concordium
Urbēs Minōrēs
Mīllia Rōmāna
Marae Sinicae*
*There are a variety of ways this could be translated, actually! It could just be Li Sinica, but I chose to do the nerd thing and make it a borrowing from [the Baxter–Sagart reconstruction of] Old Chinese, which was /*(mə.)rəʔ/. This is Latinized to mara, a first declension feminine noun, and then pluralized appropriately. If you wanted a sort of middle ground, you could make the borrowing from modern Mandarin instead (anachronistic as that is), and have it be lium, a second-declension neuter noun, pluralized as liī and fully as Liī Sinica. You could also be really boring and translate it simply as Mīlia Sinica ("Chinese miles"), but there's no fun in that
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Thank you very much! I appreciate it deeply. If I need any more translations, I'll PM you on these matters. But once again, thank you very much for these. This will provide more depth/realism to my map
hey gamers i am straight-up not having a good time right now because, while working on a map in PDN last night, i forgot to take note of what fonts i was using. now that im working on it again today, i realize that i have no idea what the font was, and i swear to god this font doesn't exist.
it was most likely set at 8-pixel size, if anyone could help identify this font it's be greatly appreciated. Thank you
it was most likely set at 8-pixel size, if anyone could help identify this font it's be greatly appreciated. Thank you
Hey, do you have the basemap you've used for this project ? I have been looking for a Worlda with national subdivisions for some timeProgress marches on! And in fact, we're closing in on the end of the map (not counting writeup and annotations), unless someone is willing to posit interesting ideas for Central and South America!
West Africa has been a land in flux, with all kinds of nationalist and separatist movements breaking down the old colonial relics. We have Mandinke, Hausa, Taureg and more ethnic groups going free. But the most interesting development is that of Nigeria after the Yoruba, Hausa-Fulani, and Kanuri broke free, and the land that had formerly been Biafra now spearheaded the creation of a cosmopolitan, multiethnic African polity.
KapiTod
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I decided to do a cover for Bruce's Opposite World https://www.deviantart.com/quantumbranching/art/Opposites-World-273555516
Since it's like eight years old and no one's done it before, despite being a rather neat sounding world.
Blanks will be filled in, and of course a lot of stuff will be adapted to 2019.
Since it's like eight years old and no one's done it before, despite being a rather neat sounding world.
Blanks will be filled in, and of course a lot of stuff will be adapted to 2019.
Isaac Beach
Banned
A map I may well not finish. This is a speculation as to the possibility of Protestantism effectively going extinct as a major subdivision of Christianity, as Protestants are the most likely of Christians to lose their faith, statistically speaking. I could go into a long soliloquy about the intricacies of religious demographics, post-Protestantism, and why this map isn't grayer; but it's nearly 1:00 AM so... no.
