Map of the continents Second and Third Garden and the various regions therein, part of the fantasy world I've been building on-and-off for some time.
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tbf most therapsids were probably pretty dim by modern mammal standards. Though protomammal groups like haramiyidians (whatever tf those turn out to be, they might not even be a unified group) managed to do some wild stuff like gliding without neocortical brain structures. And birds basically independently developed their own parallel to the neocortex, so an independent development of higher intelligence is certainly not outside the realm of possibility, though it would take a long time and probably some swingy changes in niche.
Bit surprising that Italy is allowed to keep Libya assuming that it participated to WW2 on side of Axis. And it has lost Somalia and Eritrea so probably it wasn't very victorious there.
Map of the continents Second and Third Garden and the various regions therein, part of the fantasy world I've been building on-and-off for some time.
Looks a bit like Nassau County, NY
Major Initiatives of the Society of Nations | Atlas Altera
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Here's another map Zveiner and I made to to follow the Society of Nations (SoN) map we did for Katesh. It offers wider view of the current state of global affairs from the perspective of crisis management. The map showcases the major missions and initiatives overseen by the SoN. The map is stylized as an infographic to creatively give a glimpse of some current events in the lore. By the way, if you're interested in learning more about SoN, I wrote a cursory overview of its beginnings in the foreword for the project.
Atlas Altera is a syntopian fiction project that leverages the classroom cliché map to reimagine how diversity and co-existence can take shape, all the while building from real but buried geographies. To learn more about Atlas Altera, visit AtlasAltera.com. or check out Youtube.com/@AtlasAltera.
As in… managed to not go extinct and we actually saved some?
Beautiful, very inspiring piece of art. Makes me want to create something similar. Love the style and execution. Very well made!
Yeah...intentionally hehe. The equivalent to OTL Svalbard is called Iceland in ATL, and the OTL Iceland's equivalent is called Rhimeland in ATL. We did a bit of toponym shuffling
Rhimeland comes from Hrimey or Hrimland, "land of frost," with the root word being cognate to English rime.
Names of Iceland - Wikipedia
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I've always liked "Svartland" for Iceland, for its black sand beaches.Rhimeland comes from Hrimey or Hrimland, "land of frost," with the root word being cognate to English rime.
If you like etymologies, you should really check out some of the stuff I've written about for Atlas Altera, especially in the comment threads of the major Reddit posts. My manuscript is full of etymology footnotes!Names of Iceland - Wikipedia
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@Telamon Tabulicus , it interest me to know why Ñuble became Nuble instead of like, Niuble or Nyuble in this latest map.
If they did leave writing, it's hardly likely we'd ever be able to interpret it. Even if they had a phonetic alphabet, with a language utterly unrelated to anything human, there's really no starting point for a translation process. (The usefulness of some sort of pictorial scientific primer like in Omnilingual is still questionable, and such a thing existing after all this millions of years rather stretches probability).
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Nice, but "an array of forested peninsulas inhabited by unshaven barbarians?" "The inhabitants of this land were mostly illiterate and scattered in poorly connected hamlets all over the peninsula?" This might work for a description of Christian Europe outside Byzantine territory at the time of Charlemagne, but by the Renaissance/Early modern era Europe had largely caught up to East Asia in terms of development, and Elizabethan England and Ming China probably had literacy rates roughly in the same ballpark. Either the writer is massively racist about non-East-Asians, or something horrendous happened to Christian Europe. Is this some sort of "Years of Rice and Salt" scenario? Huns/Mongols/whatever wreck things? Zombie outbreak?
I think I was just thinking it could be an honest transcription simplification...just as how English seems to do this for basically all languages written with diacritics...
In early 1920, good Russian patriots could finally breath in peace, secure their country had been saved from the Red hordes.
The Denikin march towards Moscow had successfully taken the country's biggest city, and dislodged the Bolsheviks from their power center. But the fact was: the White win came at a very high price, and, when Poland went to war with Russia to ensure the independence of Ukraine, the Russians were forced back to the Brest-Litovsk border, with Ukraine and Belarus being estabilished as independent, pro-Polish states. Russian projects to reconquer their empire would have to wait another day.
By 1942:
-With the Communist defeats in Russia and Hungary, Marxism-Leninism, while still existing, isn't the standard-bearer of Socialism, with other proposals, like the Agrarian Socialism in Belarus and Ukraine, and the Democratic Socialism in Georgia having, in fact, more spotlight time.
-Russia spent the 20's nominally as a parliamentary democracy, but political activity was heavily restricted, with any semblance of left-wing politics being promtly crushed, and the military having the final say on politics (think a mix of OLT Horthy's Hungary and Pakistan).
-Also, with the Leninist defeat, Mongolia is still under the Bogd Khan.
-With a still existing, but way smaller Red Scare, the Italian elite didn't got desperate enough to give power to the Fascists, and they kept being what they were: A noisy, but ultimately minor group on Italian politics. Along the 20's Italian politics evolved into three blocs: The traditional right, headed by the Liberals; the left, headed by the Socialists; and the Christian Dmocrats between them.
-On their FoPo front, by this point the Italian situation on Libya is more precarious than it was at the same time OTL, due to the democratic Italian government not being willing to use the heavy measures the Fascists used. They also have showed no interest in "avenging Adowa" and go out to conquer Ethiopia.
-In Spain, without Italian and German support, the right-wing insurgency against the Second Republic is defeated in a little less than a year. The PSOE government proceeds to adopt a Georgian-style Socialist project in Spain.
-In Germany, with the smaller Red Scare, and without the Italian precedent, the local Fascists keep being a minor faction.
After the 1930 NYSE crash, the world is taken by economic depression. By 1932, time of the first German elections after the crash, there was the distinct possibility a government would be formed by hardline SocDems and Communists, and to stop that, the military coups the government. On the next year, the same happens in Russia, in face of growing renewed left-wing activism.
The Russian and German juntas actually proceed to increase public spending and works, while painting this in Conservative tones. Both also advance military strenghtening proects. By late 30's there was an undeclared, but very clear collaboration between the two governments, both seeking to unmake their humilliation after the Great war.
In 1942, these countries, together with minor allies they have taken to their side (Hungary, Yugoslavia, Lithuania, Greece, Turkey, Armenia, Ethiopia, Afghanistan, Thailand, and Japan) launch Operation Bellingshausen, starting the Revanche War.
The world in 1945, one year after the end of the Revanche War:
Germany finally feels at peace, at least for now, having acheived what most of what their nationalists always claimed, both on the European arena, and in the overseas having now a larger colonial empire than they had before the Great War. Support fot the regime is right now, but their opponents (mostly left-wingers) are bidding their time to eventually claim for the restoration of democracy.
While the imediate pressures on the Russian regime have been taken off, it is still on a more bitter mode than the Germans. While they have recovered a good deal of their lost lands, a good part of their planned reclaiming was blocked by their Revanche War allies, with the Germans opposing the Russians retaking the Baltic, and the Turks opposing they fully retaking Georgia and Armenia. Also, Ukraine and Belarus, having a sizeable population that has developed quite clear different national identities by this point, and had been governed by very different governments than the one in power in Russia right now (democratic Agrarian Socialists vs a right-wing military junta), are showing to be quite tough to digest.
The Denikin march towards Moscow had successfully taken the country's biggest city, and dislodged the Bolsheviks from their power center. But the fact was: the White win came at a very high price, and, when Poland went to war with Russia to ensure the independence of Ukraine, the Russians were forced back to the Brest-Litovsk border, with Ukraine and Belarus being estabilished as independent, pro-Polish states. Russian projects to reconquer their empire would have to wait another day.
By 1942:
-With the Communist defeats in Russia and Hungary, Marxism-Leninism, while still existing, isn't the standard-bearer of Socialism, with other proposals, like the Agrarian Socialism in Belarus and Ukraine, and the Democratic Socialism in Georgia having, in fact, more spotlight time.
-Russia spent the 20's nominally as a parliamentary democracy, but political activity was heavily restricted, with any semblance of left-wing politics being promtly crushed, and the military having the final say on politics (think a mix of OLT Horthy's Hungary and Pakistan).
-Also, with the Leninist defeat, Mongolia is still under the Bogd Khan.
-With a still existing, but way smaller Red Scare, the Italian elite didn't got desperate enough to give power to the Fascists, and they kept being what they were: A noisy, but ultimately minor group on Italian politics. Along the 20's Italian politics evolved into three blocs: The traditional right, headed by the Liberals; the left, headed by the Socialists; and the Christian Dmocrats between them.
-On their FoPo front, by this point the Italian situation on Libya is more precarious than it was at the same time OTL, due to the democratic Italian government not being willing to use the heavy measures the Fascists used. They also have showed no interest in "avenging Adowa" and go out to conquer Ethiopia.
-In Spain, without Italian and German support, the right-wing insurgency against the Second Republic is defeated in a little less than a year. The PSOE government proceeds to adopt a Georgian-style Socialist project in Spain.
-In Germany, with the smaller Red Scare, and without the Italian precedent, the local Fascists keep being a minor faction.
After the 1930 NYSE crash, the world is taken by economic depression. By 1932, time of the first German elections after the crash, there was the distinct possibility a government would be formed by hardline SocDems and Communists, and to stop that, the military coups the government. On the next year, the same happens in Russia, in face of growing renewed left-wing activism.
The Russian and German juntas actually proceed to increase public spending and works, while painting this in Conservative tones. Both also advance military strenghtening proects. By late 30's there was an undeclared, but very clear collaboration between the two governments, both seeking to unmake their humilliation after the Great war.
In 1942, these countries, together with minor allies they have taken to their side (Hungary, Yugoslavia, Lithuania, Greece, Turkey, Armenia, Ethiopia, Afghanistan, Thailand, and Japan) launch Operation Bellingshausen, starting the Revanche War.
The world in 1945, one year after the end of the Revanche War:
Germany finally feels at peace, at least for now, having acheived what most of what their nationalists always claimed, both on the European arena, and in the overseas having now a larger colonial empire than they had before the Great War. Support fot the regime is right now, but their opponents (mostly left-wingers) are bidding their time to eventually claim for the restoration of democracy.
While the imediate pressures on the Russian regime have been taken off, it is still on a more bitter mode than the Germans. While they have recovered a good deal of their lost lands, a good part of their planned reclaiming was blocked by their Revanche War allies, with the Germans opposing the Russians retaking the Baltic, and the Turks opposing they fully retaking Georgia and Armenia. Also, Ukraine and Belarus, having a sizeable population that has developed quite clear different national identities by this point, and had been governed by very different governments than the one in power in Russia right now (democratic Agrarian Socialists vs a right-wing military junta), are showing to be quite tough to digest.
