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Map Thread XVIII
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After the last debacle over my ASB map (which btw, I'm), here's to hoping I start over. (WIP)
This time though, I'm going to ask the creators of the areas I want ISOTed (especially in North America) before adding them in (looking at you @LeinadB93, @Kanan, @False Dmitri, @Nazi Space Spy, et al.)
This time though, I'm going to ask the creators of the areas I want ISOTed (especially in North America) before adding them in (looking at you @LeinadB93, @Kanan, @False Dmitri, @Nazi Space Spy, et al.)
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Internally yeah, externally our government is too scared of the Chinese now.
A century after the advent of the Orcs, and the last vestiges of the Old Empire have been washed away. In its place are a dozen successor states. The slow response by the Old Empire's constituent states allowed the Orcish khans to ride roughshod over the frontier, conquering the human client kingdoms, occupying the entire Dorei Valley. Only when the dwarven princes fell to the sacking did the elven lords and the gnomish kingdom of Balendor marshal their forces to counterattack. Their resistance would hold the Orcs at bay for over a decade, but the calamitous end was signaled by the Blood King of Balendor's death in battle, and the sudden destroying of his teleportation circles. The remainder of the empire was flung into chaos. By 415, the Old Empire was gone.
The Orcs removed their warriors from much of the fallen empire, reinforcing a territorial swathe centered in the Karkuz Plateau and the lands between the Odkar and Dorei rivers. The destroyed and destabilized remnants became filled with warring states. Only the elven city-states and lordships in the western coast escaped devastation, the most powerful being Eldunari, a confederation of elven nobles. Three major dwarven kingdoms formed out of the most powerful princely states: Lithuar, Eldorei, and Lilhadorei. Balendor's kingless rump state reformed as a "republic of princes", not unlike Eldunari. The eastern human tribes, the Ripanians, Etusans, Dafrucans, and Suathans, were subjugated to Orcish control. Some to the southwest were distant enough, buffered by the states more immediately effected, to avoid disaster but still offered up tribute as a preventative against Orcish attack while they squabbled among themselves. But the greatest, and arguably the only successful, resistance took place in the northeast. In the land cradled between the West Mountains and the Skyshroud Mountains, nursed by many rivers and fed by glacial lakes, the last redoubt of the Old Empire formed. Refugee generals and soldiers joined the high-elven settlers, forming a junta purporting itself to be the last remnant of the Empire; they called their kingdom Vilyafana. Protected by high mountains and veteran warriors, they are the only remnant of the old empire to refuse to pay tribute and get away with it; their resistance does not embolden the other successor states, who are too weakened by pillage and war to not become tributaries of the Orcish Great Khan.
To the south, the mighty empire of Mocryae took advantage of the situation to seize territory. To the east, a war sparked between Gestrin and Tethar on one side, and the ancient empire of Aendrilad on the other. Gastrinian naval superiority enabled an amphibious landing at the mouth of the Kaiser River, securing a foothold. At the same time, Aendrilad also dealt with the Empire of the Morning Star's expansion into its border lands. A secondary effect of this, to have disastrous consequences in later centuries, was in the Eastern Empire's crushing of the mountain kingdoms; it drove those people out of the mountains and deep into the desert, a refugee crisis headed straight for the Great Oasis.
The year is 501 of the Imperial Calendar.
The Orcs removed their warriors from much of the fallen empire, reinforcing a territorial swathe centered in the Karkuz Plateau and the lands between the Odkar and Dorei rivers. The destroyed and destabilized remnants became filled with warring states. Only the elven city-states and lordships in the western coast escaped devastation, the most powerful being Eldunari, a confederation of elven nobles. Three major dwarven kingdoms formed out of the most powerful princely states: Lithuar, Eldorei, and Lilhadorei. Balendor's kingless rump state reformed as a "republic of princes", not unlike Eldunari. The eastern human tribes, the Ripanians, Etusans, Dafrucans, and Suathans, were subjugated to Orcish control. Some to the southwest were distant enough, buffered by the states more immediately effected, to avoid disaster but still offered up tribute as a preventative against Orcish attack while they squabbled among themselves. But the greatest, and arguably the only successful, resistance took place in the northeast. In the land cradled between the West Mountains and the Skyshroud Mountains, nursed by many rivers and fed by glacial lakes, the last redoubt of the Old Empire formed. Refugee generals and soldiers joined the high-elven settlers, forming a junta purporting itself to be the last remnant of the Empire; they called their kingdom Vilyafana. Protected by high mountains and veteran warriors, they are the only remnant of the old empire to refuse to pay tribute and get away with it; their resistance does not embolden the other successor states, who are too weakened by pillage and war to not become tributaries of the Orcish Great Khan.
To the south, the mighty empire of Mocryae took advantage of the situation to seize territory. To the east, a war sparked between Gestrin and Tethar on one side, and the ancient empire of Aendrilad on the other. Gastrinian naval superiority enabled an amphibious landing at the mouth of the Kaiser River, securing a foothold. At the same time, Aendrilad also dealt with the Empire of the Morning Star's expansion into its border lands. A secondary effect of this, to have disastrous consequences in later centuries, was in the Eastern Empire's crushing of the mountain kingdoms; it drove those people out of the mountains and deep into the desert, a refugee crisis headed straight for the Great Oasis.
The year is 501 of the Imperial Calendar.
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Well I imagined that some of the colonies I drew on the map (all Scottish colonies other than Nova Scotia and Delmarva, Dutch Guyana, most of the African colonies) could be temporary ones that only exist during the timeframe of the map and could fail later. So let's call it 6/10 or something.
Ooh, Ottoman American. You don't see that much. What's the ethnic mix?
One of the world's great forgotten colonial projects.
Thanks! My Idea was that instead of a secular Prussia that was some kind of a revitalized Teutonic Order. I actually called it Teutonic Confederation in my head because it isn't limited to Baltic Coast (thought that is it's most important region as it replaces the Hansa as the German/non-Scandinavian Baltic power) it also has some lands in Central Germany and few African Colonies.
Never really thought about that actually. More Native American than most colonies (as can be seen with Ottoman use of local vassals [Mexico/Aztec and Arizona/Utah/New Mexico (which people are likely to be on top there by the way? Navajos, Pueblos, Apaches etc. not well informed about Native Americans.)]). Other than that I would think mostly Turkish, Arabic and Greek (dominant ethnitichy in homeland, widespread and [through Morocco] closest ethnic group and the ethnic group most accustomed to/associated with sailing). Florida and West Cuba are also likely to have Spanish minorities. Plus with all the Hungarians in the Empire there should probably be a decent number who went to Americas.
The issue with that name is that German doesn't have any direct variant of Teutonic as Teutonic already means German in Latin. I believe we had the same issue before with a timeline that used the name Teutonia.
The region in general is bad for traditional names outside of Borussia/Prussia/Pruthenia, personally, I prefer keeping references to the Order State if I can manage,
But that's just my two cents though, love the map!
Oh right, in German Teutonic Order is "Deutschen Orden" so German Order. I should have remembered that having been learning German 5 years. Problems with thinking fully in English and not caring about local languages. Calling that state German would also be inaccrute as while its mostly German its not the most of Germany. Prussia would really be the only name that makes sense. Unless I use Baltic but then again in German that would be Ostsee and "Union of the Eastern Sea" seems like its out of some generic fantasy story with names like "the Empire" and "the Imperial City", "the Great Forest" etc. I guess Prussia really is the only reasonable way to call such a nation.
I mean, Austria literally translates to "Eastern Realm", German itself is the language of generic fantasy story names if I can be honest. Ostseebund (hopefully I got that right, been an age and a half since I studied German) sounds correct in German, and the translation into English shouldn't matter much from a German perspective. Besides, odds are the state would end up being called the UBS (Union of the Baltic Sea) in English like we did with the HRE or USSR. Other languages would find their way to refer to the state.
Personally, I think Ostseebund just sounds badass
I think Baltic Federation/Confederation would be more correct (or at least more likely) translation for Ostseebund. In my experience, Bund is usually translated to Confederation or Federation in English.I mean, Austria literally translates to "Eastern Realm", German itself is the language of generic fantasy story names if I can be honest. Ostseebund (hopefully I got that right, been an age and a half since I studied German) sounds correct in German, and the translation into English shouldn't matter much from a German perspective. Besides, odds are the state would end up being called the UBS (Union of the Baltic Sea) in English like we did with the HRE or USSR. Other languages would find their way to refer to the state.
Personally, I think Ostseebund just sounds badass
Once I checked, yea, I thought bund worked for all three concepts, seems as if the Deutsch word for union is simply union.
Ostsee Union also doesn't sound that bad either
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These little equal-area graphics are common for American elections, but are usually no match for Canada's extreme variations in population density. I set out to make my own:
- Seat counts are correct by province.
- Regional seat distributions are kind of accurate, but are mostly just artistic impressions. Northern Ontario does lean further left than the province's rural south, but the vast majority of those northern red squares are urban Toronto-area ridings, shuffled around in a desperate attempt to best visually reflect the political makeup of 40% of the national population.
- Election maps are notorious for being impossible for colourblind people to interpret, so I've done my little part for accessibility here.
German do in fact have a version of the name Teutonic; Teutonen, but that's completely disconnected with German as it's simply the name of the specific Germanic tribe.
I am honesty surprise how much the Ottomans has Colonized the New World. If anything, they'd be limited to small colonies in Europe, or even just limited to Europe. And they be far more focus on expeditions to the Indian Ocean, East Africa, and Arabia as in OTL. (To try and hold down the spice routes and to help Muslims in India, the Mughals.)
Give the Danes more of the New World. But the French dominating North America is pretty easy to achieve, if they allow Huguenots* and other French Protestants* to settle the New World (as well as promoting other European settlement in their colonies; like the Irish, Italians, Spanish, Portuguese, German Catholics, Scandinavians, and British).
(*It would be far better then getting all murder in the OTL French Wars of Religion.)
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