I'd second House Longclaw for a name, but I'm not sure which sort of symbol would be best. A dragon would carry water with Targaryan supporters but not many otherwise while an inverted Stark direwolf would honor at least implicitly the cries of bastardry that tormented Jon for his entire life. It's a puzzle 🤔 maybe a stylized weirwood face to honor the Old Gods?
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Interesting scenario. How’d Cuba manage to become a German colony in the first place?
Spain was pretty much bankrupt by the turn of the century IIRC so it's not too implausible for them to sell to the Germans (US reaction is a whole other thing though).
CP victory scenario, in which Germany attacks the US mainland. Cuba, as an American puppet, was treated like a colony rather than an independent nation.
You could have a white raven on a black background, to represent Jon's service with the Night's Watch and his status as the "outsider," not fully belonging among the Starks or the Watch.
From an RPG setting - the United Republics of Earth, 318 years after the Morning War with Mars and the Fenrir Impact that ended the old world.
Ah yes, Dogeland is a thing now.
From an RPG setting - the United Republics of Earth, 318 years after the Morning War with Mars and the Fenrir Impact that ended the old world.
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Great Spring Sickness
The Great Spring Sickness was a plague epidemic which took place in 209 AC and 210 AC, killing tens of thousands in the Seven Kingdoms. Victims are said to have "died in the spring".[1]
Hmmmmm... 🤔
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I currently don't have the time to make a full description but in short: China become a superpower and the US and Russia fall. Europe is pretty meh. the Nanjing Pact is close to Japan's Co-Prosperity Zone and the EBEA is an EU like trade organisation. I made the color scheme on my own. I'll...
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Basic elements:
This Pokémon region has banned Pokéballs and industrial breeding after some truly awful history, Batisques/Kiloude City is shown on this map as part of Agathos but is occupied with no obvious intent to hand it back by Kalos, this is sort of a de jure map if you will.
Réserve Naturelle is roughly between a National Park and a military-protected conservation program, Châteauchêne is the seat of the Rangers.
Electric blue is for National Routes, night blue is for other roads of importance, the small mauve-ish tracks are relevant pathways.
The gray area from Port-en-Saphir to Royalaise is one big metropolis called the Sapphire Shores.
I'm conflicted between having the de facto capital be Gasquande or Metrociutat, I feel like it'd be either to give Metrociutat a distinct vibe without having it be the Capital but also it would make more sense geographically (it's closer to the big population center and right at the meeting point between the big Canal and the river).
I was too lazy to add markers for the areas of interest but they include a geothermical power plant South of Puylimagne, a burnt down thermal station that was the seat of the Junta, representing the Vichy bath station, a huge mine in the mountains near Flussates, and the Coral reef near Curaglia.
In general this region has heavier themes than the anime and game, but it's probably not gonna go in the same path as the manga in terms of how to treat violence I guess?
Separation of Kalos to avoid participation in war, hastily formed unstable government.
Coup d'etat by a group of industrialists and merchants, they use Pokémon as resources and are generally authoritarian (poaching, smuggling, ...) (~ 2 generations)
Revolt and civil war, Kalos invades Batisques in chaos in exchange for aid against the dictatorship The dictatorship is overthrown, the government proclaims the release of the Pokémon and bans all forms of captivity (including intensive farms that do not have a conservation objective and Pokéballs)
A process of cooperation is launched with Kalos to rebuild the region (~ one generation), an organization against cooperation with Kalos is being set up (underground)
Among the cooperative projects set up after the reconstruction, a student exchange leads a student from Kalos to participate in the Pokemon Encyclopedia project in the region, in order to establish which species are extinct, which species have persisted, where they live, how their behaviors have changed.
Coup d'etat by a group of industrialists and merchants, they use Pokémon as resources and are generally authoritarian (poaching, smuggling, ...) (~ 2 generations)
Revolt and civil war, Kalos invades Batisques in chaos in exchange for aid against the dictatorship The dictatorship is overthrown, the government proclaims the release of the Pokémon and bans all forms of captivity (including intensive farms that do not have a conservation objective and Pokéballs)
A process of cooperation is launched with Kalos to rebuild the region (~ one generation), an organization against cooperation with Kalos is being set up (underground)
Among the cooperative projects set up after the reconstruction, a student exchange leads a student from Kalos to participate in the Pokemon Encyclopedia project in the region, in order to establish which species are extinct, which species have persisted, where they live, how their behaviors have changed.
So I'm not gonna develop a video game anytime soon it's just like, I've had a few ideas. First the protagonist would be an exchange student from Kalos, thus explaining why they are so unfamiliar with the way this society works. The introduction scene would be the protagonist getting off the High Speed Train to Kiloude/Batisques and getting searched by the checkpoint person to make sure they don't have Pokéballs and other forbidden stuff, and getting in the car with on her of research partners.
Maybe at some point when the player has proven they're trustworthy they could be awarded by the Rangers the honor and priviledge of receiving a Capture Styler and being allowed unsupervised into the Réserve. That'd be probably be made a huuuuuuuuuge deal of, and would allow the player to use the equivalent of the Poké Ride.
One thing I'd find interesting is having the Kalos cooperation manifest in the presence of advanced renewables (as displayed in X&Y) when the rest of the region is rather ... backwards, and having a bunch of Kalos brands in big cities to make the two regions feel connected by other things than lore.
To tame Pokémons, you'd have to interact with them in a way that corresponds to the Nature and species of your encounter (for example for Fight type Pokémons and Brave Pokémons it'd make sense to earn their respect by defeating them and then healing them, proving yourself a worthy and honorable opponent)
Maybe at some point when the player has proven they're trustworthy they could be awarded by the Rangers the honor and priviledge of receiving a Capture Styler and being allowed unsupervised into the Réserve. That'd be probably be made a huuuuuuuuuge deal of, and would allow the player to use the equivalent of the Poké Ride.
One thing I'd find interesting is having the Kalos cooperation manifest in the presence of advanced renewables (as displayed in X&Y) when the rest of the region is rather ... backwards, and having a bunch of Kalos brands in big cities to make the two regions feel connected by other things than lore.
To tame Pokémons, you'd have to interact with them in a way that corresponds to the Nature and species of your encounter (for example for Fight type Pokémons and Brave Pokémons it'd make sense to earn their respect by defeating them and then healing them, proving yourself a worthy and honorable opponent)
Feel free to ask any questions of course. I'm sorry all the names are in French but I was soooooo eager to share this map I couldn't be bothered to wait two more hours to find a good translation with etymological sense for all the locations.
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Metrociutat would be a more logical captal, as it is not literally right across a river from a not-exactly-friendly foreign power. Also, as a fan of the Pokémon Adventures manga, it is not anything close to being “grimdark”, outside of maybe the X and Y arc.
Same name, different languageNo, that would be metro city
Yeah I agree, I just gotta make an actual effort to make Gasquande hold on its own.
And, yes, grimdark is not the right term. I just have the tendency to have unwanted gore images stick in my head so that's the first things that came back to my head. Corrected the original post.
I wanted to emphasize just how big it is and insist on the Occitania part, plus it's a condensed version of several towns. I couldn't remember where "Metrocity" came from as a name, so I guess you better watch out or Megapensar could attack you and everyone you love.
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