Recent content by Cromm Crúaich

It doesn't have to be quasi-medieval conditions; a bit more like Ireland in, say, the 1910s. And it doesn't have to be by the Morgenthau plan, though that is something I had in mind - what might the Soviets do if they controlled all or most of Germany by 1945? Edit: And what if Hitler's scorched...

Challenge: Turn Germany into a poor, agricultural-pastoral country with little modern industry, ideally during or after World War Two, without involving nuclear weapons.

Does anyone know where the source map for this came from? It's gorgeous.

Exactly what i was looking for, thanks. :)

I'm more interested in things like its economy and social hierarchy than, say, swordfighting. Does anyone have any suggestions?

You may have answered this already, but will you be doing more vignettes down the line?

We have what's called a broad-slender distinction. Consonants before and after i and e palatise. Well, most of the time. seán = shawn [ʃɑːn] sí = shee [ʃi:] sé = shay [ʃe:] istigh = ishtchigh [ɪʃtʃɪɣ] I shouldn't really be littering Zyzzyva's thread with this... : /

I like it. FaT-y.

Hmm. Would the Disney administration crack down on bikers? You could have another minor exodus... Britain's subcultures are going to be interesting regardless.

Susan-Mary'll be getting very interesting, it seems... A thought. Was there any Goya analogue TTL?

Is this some sort of poem?

5652 BC. The tribes collectively known as the Bhéwlé are somewhat perturbed. Merchants are saying that the Sea of Tears has burst its bounds and is pouring into the Great Lake. Certainly it would explain the sharp rise in the water levels and the thousands of dead fish turning up in the...

The Goths wanted to settle within the Empire OTL, and did (nowhere near Constantinople), although it resulted in the Gothic War shortly after. The East Romans won, pyrrhically. This time the Goths (somehow or other) get more territory and are in a stronger position from the outset. The ATL...

Language map, 1500 AD, PoD somewhere between 100 and 400 AD. Haemuria: Haemus-ia, or the Balkans. Chrobatian: Language of the orthodox south slavs. Carpathian: Romanian analogue. Greek: Needs no explanation. Pindurian: A romance language. The Roman colonisers of the area mostly spoke archaic...

I don't know where to start. Well, here's an OTL map of 1939. Probably 1/1/39 by the looks of it. Give it some consideration.