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Published: 2013-03-20 01:23:32 +0000 UTC; Views: 1025; Favourites: 10; Downloads: 27
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Again, DL for best - a partial markup of regions amid the Scarlet and Niobraran Sea. For reference, hurricane alley starts at the Cradle of Storms and runs west right up through into the Scarlet Sea. Again, no Death's Country, but should you head west from the Charnra coast, you can get there. I'll do one of those soon, too.Related content
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Even more maps? Good, good.
Which reminds me, do you have a "source book" or the like for Aesca?
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Not yet, but I am working on one. These are a symptom of that.
Timeline is giving me the most problem, considering that the way time works allows for multiple, mutually exclusive events. Case in point:
The sun and planets were formed in an accretion disk, but! The Sun arrived before they were orbiting and the animals were already present, and the Mother of All Things makes them later, and when those confluences of events converge, all those pasts are true and can be accessed at the convergence point. So mapping them on the timeline is difficult, considering the timeline map would be 3-d.
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When is this? Middle Cretaceous?
BTW: Check out these paleo-ecology and paleo-climatology papers: [link] They might help you
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Oooh, they certainly will! Thanks a lot! There are some changes - both because of below and because human action has changed the face of some things. Like the Heimdall accident and the Armaud "nuclear" bomb.
Originally, it was the middle Cretaceous, yeah. The world was gonna be one of those "secret history" type things and was originally going to be inhabited by dinosauroids. The concept eventually shifted over time (now it is humans. Hyoo-mahns everywhere, and the dinosauroids live in the wilderness as protocultures) and I'm treating it like a sort of "reflection of the past" brought on by Norwago calling up the past to cover up the future in which he lived, the Earth That Isn't Earth, and the entire world is a sort of ghost of the meaning of Earth; when I do Death's Country, I will pattern it somewhat after the Permian deserts.
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>> the Heimdall accident and the Armaud "nuclear" bomb.<<
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I agree it's a good idea to make your protagonists H. sapiens. Less headaches all around.
So this earth is a simulation (see Darwinia) or re-creation (see Missile Gap)?
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There's a short version, lemme see. Aesca had a similar geological history to Earth due to executive meddling (and metaphysical closeness to Earth - that'll have to be a piece I will do; the Sky People come back and forth sometimes); the timeline isn't too important right now, but it had dinosaurs and they went extinct. There have been four previous "ages;" humans have nearly gone extinct four previous times, but because the planet can be bargained with, they are under a pact that prevents that from happening, and if the population is too low due to disaster, the planet can be "reset" to a state that has the capacity to let humans survive. Common belief is that last time the planet was a little annoyed about getting called out of the tub again and decided they lost their mammal privileges and instead thought humans could stand to use angry mutant roadrunners around to remind them that while they have a deal going, it's best not to abuse it. The deal dropped in the prehistoric animals like they'd been there in the intervening years, though, so there's speculative evo wiggle room in there. Really it's an excuse so I can have pulpy conventions that put trilobites and sauropods together.
Heimdall was a "showroom city," a sort of showcase of new technologies and it was doing great, they were running experiments with a new kind of power generator to run with more reliable power using "teotl," a sort of raw substance used in cascade reactions with base elements to get them to transition states. It's fine when it's being used for power, but when a military coup on the country that was hosting the city decided they wanted to take it, too, there was some fighting and the system went critical and it dumped a lot of in-flux unstable creation energies into the area that had no authority behind them. Essentially a reactor went into meltdown but there was no memetic intent behind it, so it settled for just unmaking things for miles until the reaction just ran out of steam. There are some nasty things in the area, like "dead spirits" who have been torn out of the cycle of things and constantly look for ideas and purposes to which they might cling, often parasitically.
The city of Armaud, during the last major war, had a weapon used on it that stole some design aspects from that same type of power plant - rather than forcing a transition state and harvesting the energy that got knocked off, it attempted to force a transition state and then attempt to freeze it, causing the local area to try to auto correct the change, which locked everything in the area into a state of constant dissolution and reification - they intended to make a bomb that kept blowing up part of reality forever, and it worked, and since it was inhabited, it was tinged with the surprise, pain, and terror that both the citizens and witnesses felt. The whole city is basically a continuing firestorm of pain and terror, even a half a century later, and every time someone looks at it and feels a twinge of fear, regret, or sorrow, they feed it.
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when does the story take place on this timeline?
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I've written things at nearly every age at this point, be they vignettes, short stories, or novels. I like working with the fifth age, Norwago's age, but that's just a personal preference - I haven't pushed the timeline any further than that because I want to stay open on that front as far as the post-Nuhaghee era, since five is a meaningful number, so I like working with a potential five of five. I should post an actual timeline.
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Looks amazing, dude. Your level of detail is insane.
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To me, it's still not detailed ENOUGH.
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but he's insane in a really cool way....
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