Hi there, one and all! I'm WhiteDragon25, and I'm a recent new addition to the forum, and one of my first contributions was showcasing this map I made in the
Map Thread XVII:
In that same post, I also mentioned wanting to flesh out an alt-history timeline that would justify all the wacky changes I made to the world map, hence why this thread here exists - to do exactly that!
I've got a
huge number of zany ideas to explain almost each and every country on the map and how they got the way they did, but what I'm having trouble with is hammering them together into a cohesive narrative that makes sense and doesn't blatantly contradict itself... that said, I also want it so you can plop down any average person (or at least, average American) into the world and not notice any difference... on the broad strokes of things...
Yeah, that's probably asking for too much, and are probably contradictory goals, but I might as well give a crack at it.
So... onto the show! I'll try a Q&A format here where you can ask about any country on the map and I'll explain the best I can what I had in mind for it; eventually it'll coalesce into something resembling coherent.