Oceanic Shift
An unusual(?) timeline in a familiar(?) world
An unusual(?) timeline in a familiar(?) world
Hello and welcome to Oceanic Shift, a graphic-focused project of mine that is half "alternate history" and half worldbuilding exercise. I've not planned any form of "narrative" (or at least not yet) so updates will likely come from all sorts of in-world time periods and formats. With that said, i hope my content will be half as fun reading it as i have writing it!
"Testing, testing. This interview is conducted by Ernholt Müller and is recorded for use within the bureau only. Subject is Talèse de Sarro, previously a second generation Nogrecan immigrant in the Brythonic isles. This interview was recorded on the third of Brachmonat, 1109.”
“Miss de Sarro, if it is not too painful to recall, would you mind giving a brief explanation of life under regime rule?”
“Well… I’ll give them credit, it was all very rational and orderly in a day-to-day sense. Your scheduled dictates most of what you do every day, the public transport runs on time, your rations are never too small, that sort of thing.”
“Thank you. Do you have any idea of the political situation at large? Any dissident groups, internal struggles, that sort of thing?”
“Apart from the strikes i’m sure you’ve all heard of, no.”
“Yes, those did reach international attention. Now, i do not expect you to possess this sort of information, but do you have any knowledge of regime military assets?”
“Ah, I am afraid not. The most i saw of any sort of military was the occasional RSEF patrol.”
“RSEF?”
“Rationalist Security Force.”
“Ah, thank you. Now, how did you arrive in regime territory in the first place?”
“I didn’t really ‘arrive’, my parents moved there before i was born, back when it was still called the Union.”
“Why?”
“Oh, they were just looking for work, their farm back in Nogrec wasn’t making enough money. Then me and them got during both the war and the revolution.”
“Thank you. One last question: why did you escape? Or to put it more bluntly, what made you unable to simply try and fit in as a ‘model citizen’?”
“My faith, i suppose. My parents belonged to the faith of The One of Many Forms and I continued to worship in secret. It was only when they started the raids against those still following ‘superstitious forms of worship’ that i seriously began considering fleeing.”
“Thank you. That will be all for now.”
“Miss de Sarro, if it is not too painful to recall, would you mind giving a brief explanation of life under regime rule?”
“Well… I’ll give them credit, it was all very rational and orderly in a day-to-day sense. Your scheduled dictates most of what you do every day, the public transport runs on time, your rations are never too small, that sort of thing.”
“Thank you. Do you have any idea of the political situation at large? Any dissident groups, internal struggles, that sort of thing?”
“Apart from the strikes i’m sure you’ve all heard of, no.”
“Yes, those did reach international attention. Now, i do not expect you to possess this sort of information, but do you have any knowledge of regime military assets?”
“Ah, I am afraid not. The most i saw of any sort of military was the occasional RSEF patrol.”
“RSEF?”
“Rationalist Security Force.”
“Ah, thank you. Now, how did you arrive in regime territory in the first place?”
“I didn’t really ‘arrive’, my parents moved there before i was born, back when it was still called the Union.”
“Why?”
“Oh, they were just looking for work, their farm back in Nogrec wasn’t making enough money. Then me and them got during both the war and the revolution.”
“Thank you. One last question: why did you escape? Or to put it more bluntly, what made you unable to simply try and fit in as a ‘model citizen’?”
“My faith, i suppose. My parents belonged to the faith of The One of Many Forms and I continued to worship in secret. It was only when they started the raids against those still following ‘superstitious forms of worship’ that i seriously began considering fleeing.”
“Thank you. That will be all for now.”
Map of the world around the middle of the Post-Hellenic Period.
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