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The clue to the Redeemer, were it a secret, would be Kapotis' title of Nymphegetian Phylakes, and I think the Redeemer was also referred to in the chapter focusing on Syracuse. It's Apollo, so the answer to deity or prophet is effectively both. Kapotis was effectively a member of something we...

Firstly, I find it very cool you referenced something from earlier in the thread in order to ask about a thing, that's amazing. Then to what you asked about. You're on the right lines here, there's a distinction being drawn between the taking up of a legacy, sharing cultural and linguistic...

The confectionary related update was not really attached to any chapter per se, and was not meant to show anything evil besides maybe the danger of cavities from excessive sugar consumption! If it had been intended to have an ethical message, it wouldn't have involved so many descriptions of...

Μηδίζω! THE WORLD OF ACHAEMENID HELLAS CHAPTER 8: KAKIA or ZURA PALEOHESPERIAN, the Paleohesperian languages: An extinct array of dialects once spoken by numerous connatural peoples across Hesperia, later displaced by the increased dominance of Varvarine and Hellenic speakers and last...

To pre-emptively give poor Gokbay acronym context, I figured I'd get that out the way early here! The FVU is the Free Visionary Union, a two-planet defensive pact/alliance between Shaja and Novgoroth crafted during the instability of the Interregnum. The flag incorporates colours from both of...

Culturally it's almost never the case of having One Culture One Planet, very few planets have anything approaching a monoculture, and most of them are explicitly multicultural states. There are more languages spoken on Kahlo alone in the 28th century than in any one of the 21st century's most...

I have, but not on the flag thread I think- you can find the first two here https://www.deviantart.com/daeres/art/Flags-of-the-Crumpleverse-819619668 and here https://www.deviantart.com/daeres/art/Flags-of-the-Crumpleverse-2-820602171. As for the acronyms on this one, Ubon SP is the Ubon Space...

And I got some more Crumpleverse flags again, with the first one I've included that was... meant to be reflective of the lesser aesthetically pleasing flags of the world shall we say.

These were both organisational branches of UNSA, the United Nations Space Agency, itself created from the merger of UNOOSA (United Nations Office of Outer Space Affairs) and COPUOS(United Nations Commision on the Peaceful Use of Outer Space) in the late 21st century. UNSASE was United Nations...

This is a compilation of some more Crumpleverse flags I put together.

Back to some experimenting with isometric maps. Went for something a little bit more eerie/psychedelic this time. Maybe ended up with album cover vibes?

The Hamgatids are from Pars proper but that means something different in a cultural context by the *3rd century AD by comparison with OTL, and by comparison with the Achaemenid era, and they are still Achaemenid-glory chasers (which is not to say they can't back that ambition up). The Tinian...

Μηδίζω! THE WORLD OF ACHAEMENID HELLAS CHAPTER 8: KAKIA or ZURA On the Constitution of a Just War by Kitas Kampanikos *1659 CE The Great Revolt Chapter 1 We first must be candid about what is to be reconciled. On the one hand the Hellenes, or those of Hellas originale and Anatolia, were a...

Bringing up the OTL Hellenistic era is super relevant here. If there's anything that I specialise in historically it's arguably the Hellenistic era in the Near East and Iranian Plateau (which is sometimes called the Hellenistic Far East in some recent scholarship). Green's work was just on the...

The twin titles of the chapter in Greek and Old Persian mean 'evil/treacherousness'. This chapter is the look at the darker elements of this history. I'm not planning on anything unreadably harrowing, but this is somewhat of a reminder as to what casual-through-to-extraordinary cruelties this...

I wrote Alabalther's perspective as sincere, but absolutely intended as a swipe to contemporaries more so than random whimsy. His main criticism of Xerxes is that he diverges from his personal model of the relationship between king and governed, and I intended this to be based on a somewhat...

Worry not, I was just finishing eating before I shared the map here. For those who haven't read the TL in a while, the map in question is in the time of Gothic (and pals) intrusion into the Balkans around the late *3rd century AD which has been mentioned on a couple of occasions. I made it for...