Northern Britain... That's one hell of a cursed image you got hereAlternate UK. Apologies if it has been done before.
EDIT: Result of an alternate timeline, where the London based Palace & Parliament moves to Dublin following the 1916 Proclamation of the British Republic.
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Good ideasMaybe a traditionalist White Russia facing off against a nightmarish Nazi Empire, with futurist Italy being forced to hold it's nose and ally Moscow?
It's mostly a struggle to be the dominant force. There are some ideological conflicts between both sides (given how Europe is much more tolerant of left-leaning ideologies), but it's mostly Europe trying to hold their position in a world where America is clearly the dominant nation. Think less of an ideological cold war and more like the Belle Époque.Question though: what exactly is the ideological conflict between Europe and America? My first though was a colonialist Europe vs aneo colonialistanti colonialist America, but that doesn't seem to be the case, what with Eurosocialism.
Maybe a traditionalist White Russia facing off against a nightmarish Nazi Empire, with futurist Italy being forced to hold it's nose and ally Moscow?
map of the world of New Athens, it's Alliances, and the big bad blue bonepartist (Fascist) blob in most of Europe.
Well, without/with weaker "red scare" there maybe wont be nazi Germany...I think that, absent a communist takeover of Russia and the fear that they would launch a worldwide red revolution, there would not be much political will in Germany for a conquest of that country, and a radical right-wing Russia might be seen as a natural ally. The Nazis certainly thought that Slavs were inferior, but they were still willing to work with Slavic countries, such as Bulgaria and Croatia, whose political goals broadly aligned with their own.
it's like the late 1900s, also, it's because each side doesn't want the other to get more land, so west africa remains uncolonized (mostly)Interesting... what's the year? Why is west/central Africa entirely uncolonized?
Taiga Country (Epithet Erased)
Nothing big, just a simple map I decided to make of Taiga Country from Epithet Erased after binge-watching the entire show at four in the morning, because insomnia. (If you've never seen Epithet Erased, the general idea is that every one in five people have powers based around a single word, which are usually things like "dumb," "soup," or "coupon." The show's creator has described it as if you combined Home Alone with My Hero Academia and made it more stupid.) There weren't any in-universe maps (at least, none that I noticed), so everything is based off of my headcanons. Since, according to the creator of the show, the EE world speaks a kind of magical Esperanto-esque language, I tossed in some gratuitous slightly-corrupted Esperanto here and there. All of the province/capital city names are either references to something from OTL, puns, inside jokes, or all of the above.
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My guesses:I finished the riding map for Columbia for my TL, so here’s the blank map. I’ll take bets for what party will win what seats. There are the nationalists, the conservatives, the greens, the liberals, and the socialists, from right to left.
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Looks like an AH Canada.
How do you guys keep up with the enormous amounts of lore and history that world has?Heres another map from the HM universe, with the Land of Great Nam pictured a few years before the Confucian coup.
You dont,How do you guys keep up with the enormous amounts of lore and history that world has?
Oh hey, someone else watches that show, cool. Nice map!Taiga Country (Epithet Erased)View attachment 512709
Oh hey, someone else watches that show, cool. Nice map!
You dont,
For me (Fred may differ), when I make a map in the HM universe I find a country I like and look at all the turns it existed to see any mention of cities, leaders, lore of the nation to add. I also look at any previous made maps of the region to try to keep "canon" cities existing. This usually gets a feel for the general direction a country went and what the "perspective" of the nation looked like for the style of the map.
11/10 I love it.One last map for 2019! (or one first map for 2020, depending on your timezone)
The PoD is that agriculture independently develops in California thousands of years ago (based on the domestication of the wapato, chia, chufa, amaranth), leading to California becoming a cradle of civilization. The Preclassic or Formative era started with the birth of the Utian civilization around the Sacramento Delta c. 2000 BCE and saw the development of urbanism, writing, monumental agriculture, and longstanding cultural hallmarks of Californian civilization like extensive irrigation, intricate basketry in place of ceramics, culture hero worship, and secret societies. The Classic era began c. 500 CE with the introduction of maize, ceramics, and the bow and arrow (the former two by trade with Mesoamerica and the Southwest, the latter by foreign invasion from the north by the Wintun people), was dominated by the Wintun Empire in the north and the Yokuts Empire in the south, along with the independent Ohlone city-states along the coast, and saw the cult societies reach their height of power as a sort of priestly caste, subjecting their nominal kings to yearly sacrifice, before eventually being bloodily purged by a rebellion of the aristocratic-warrior castes, an event which may have been either a cause or a result of the Classic collapse c. 1000 CE.
The Postclassic era was initially defined by a welter of warring states; the Mihuac Empire rose first gradually, with a slow unification of the scattered Miwok states over course of the 1300s, and then suddenly, with the Great Conqueror using that base to take over most of the Central Valley (and therefore most of the remnants of the Wintun and Yokuts Empires), followed by his son subjugating the Ohlone cities. For the next century and a half the Mihuac Empire's borders mostly stayed stable and it instead focused on internal fairs, building up an ambitious infrastructure system - rebuilding the previous empires' irrigation systems as well as building an extensive new road network - and co-opting the cult societies while also steadily marginalizing them and instead promoting and identifying the emperor with the worship of Coyote, assisted by imposing temples and impressive gold relics. Apart from the Empire, the most powerful part of Postclassic California was the Chumash city-states, who grew rich off of their monopoly on maritime trade networks and the dentalium shells widely used as currency.
In the first half of the 16th century California was both a thriving self-contained system and the nexus of a wider commercial and cultural network of cities and states reaching far up the Pacific Northwest coast and east to Oasisamerica. This would all change with the arrival of the Spanish conquistador Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo in 1542...