Hello there, been a while huh? I finally did a map!
Edit 1/13/2023: Changed the name and updated some issues lmao
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Hello there, been a while huh? I finally did a map!
Edit 1/13/2023: Changed the name and updated some issues lmao
Love the idea, but "Faranzu" is a literal transliteration of "Far Lands", not a translation - unlikely to be used unless the Japanese borrowed an existing English name for the place and "Japanified" it rather than giving it their own name.
Hello there, been a while huh? I finally did a map!
Yeah, figured, I didn't have much in the terms of ideas for names? Other than Cascadia, or 'Tanukiland' lmao. Franzu was suggested by a friend.
Hello there, been a while huh? I finally did a map!
Indeed. Google translate has that issue where it goes for Katakana transcription quite often instead of actual translation.
I would suggest going for the two words you wish to combine separately. So get a translation of far, a translation of land/territory/region/country and combine them.
Can't say that would have been accurate to an actual Japanese term that would come up but that least it would be Japanese rather than the transcription of English.
@Luxembourgish Jane Excellent job! This would be a better place for a furry reservation than in Japan for some reason, wonderful
Toku no Koku might sounds more Japanese, which literaly translate of "Country of Faraway" or Faraway land. Another possible translation could be Haruka no Koku, "distant land" or "Country of Distance".
On the other hand, you could skip the concept of distance, play with the raccoon motive and call it "Tanuki no Koku", Land of Raccoons, or maybe Herajika no Koku, Land of Elks. In fact, the Japanese explorers might have been impressed by the Sequoias and call the place "Kyooku no Koku", Land of Giant Oaks. I think that sounds appealing.
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sense the area is eventually incoperated into america wile keeping most of its Japanese flavor these names will probably used but modified. Think of all the southern counties and cities with indian names.
For here I'd say Tanuk, or Kyoku; short and easy
Fixed stuff to this, also have the county map!
Hello there, been a while huh? I finally did a map!
Edit 1/13/2023: Changed the name and updated some issues lmao
Colored skies: part 1
So, me and a couple of my friends began a world building project based around 100 years in the future, the scenario being that after earth was nuked into the stone age in 2082, earths colonies in space become independent nations, metaphorically "coloring the sky" as in a map. but how does the world get to this state in the first place? well, the point of divergence is back in 1904 and 1905. during the russo japanese war, a war that went badly for russia goes in even worse, in may of 1905, vladivostok falls to japan, the culmination of a campaign witch ejected russian influence from manchuria entirely. peace is signed on october 1st 1905, with japan gaining everything they gained in OTL plus the other half of Sakhalin island and the Kamchatka peninsula as well as the ejection of any sort of russian control or influence in manchuria. this embarrassment results in an even worse 1905 revolution. Nicholas II abdicates under pressure form pretty much everyone, in favor of his brother, now Mikhail II; however, he doesn't last long, with the russian monarchy abolished in 1907. the Romanov dynasty is exiled to their cousins in germany and the new Russian Republic join the Entente. fast forward to 1914: Franz Ferdinand is assassinated on july 12th while on a state visit to Belgrade. a week later, WW1 has begun. for this next part, i'm going to have to apologize for the butterfly genocide that my friends forced on me with WW1 and WW2. having said this, WW1 proceeds pretty much as OTL until 1917, when the russian government, (still not particularly effective at conducting a war, instead of nicky being indecisive, you now have a whole cabinet being indecisive) is overthrown in a military coup by General Lavr Kornilov, who is tired of the indecisive and corrupt government hamstringing russian armies. In response, Germany as OTL, ships Lenin back to russia, where he stirs up trouble . Trouble which results in a popular uprising against Kornilov that places Alexander Kerensky in power, with Bolshevik support. under influence from Lenin, Kerensky signs an alt Brest-Litovsk treaty with germany and then is promptly deposed by Lenin who takes over and attempts to create a communist state in russia. Kerensky reappears in in Tsarytsin, now Volgograd, and starts a civil war against Lenin. however, in january of 1918, he is assassinated and the white movement fractures in two, with Admiral Alexander Kolchak taking over in the west and General Pyotr von Wrangel taking over the russian far east with japanese support. Lenin and Trotsky quickly take advantage if this division and will crush Kolchak by the end of 1918, but they are unable to dislodge Wrangel from the transamur region. in 1919, Lenin makes peace with Wrangel's white forces which become the Republic of Transamur under Japanese protection. in the west, Germany still loses on schedule and poland is able to secure its OTl eastern territories from a soviet union with much of its army freezing in siberia. However, by 1920, the Soviet Union is stable and at peace and most notably, without Stalin, who died during the brief civil war. another big change is that Lenin is never injured in is still very healthy by this time. from here to 1939, things proceed generally according to OTL, (once again, please forgive the butterflies) with some important changes being Lenin doesn't die until 1928 as is succeeded by Trotsky as Premier. Molotov-Ribbentrop still happens but no purges have happened. when WW2 goes of as OTL, the USSR invades Finland. However, the unpurged soviet army is able to succeed where the OTL one failed and Finland is overrun and replaced by the puppet Finish people's republic. The baltic states, like in our world, are also annexed by force. things begin to change in WW2 when in 1941, Germany sends General Erwin Rommel and his Afrika Korps to aid the struggling italians in egypt and Libya. However, after initial success, Rommel falls ill and has to return to Germany and his less able replacement is unable to push further and by july of 1942, the allies have completely overrun axis north africa. With this quicker victory in that theatre than in OTL, the allies are able to invade sicily and and begin liberating greece by early 1943. meanwhile on the eastern front, operation Barbarossa never got as far as it did in OTL because of this more powerful and better prepared USSR, with the german high water mark being the outskirts of Leningrad, Smolensk and in the south, Rostov-on-the-Don in late 1942. after soviet forces break the german siege of Leningrad in december of 1942, the USSR launches a massive counteroffensive across the entire front that by june of 1943 has pushed german lines back to Riga, Minsk, Kiev and Kherson. back to the south, after taking sicily, the allies conduct several landings along the southern coast in march of 1943 and by july, italy calls for an armistice as allied troops march into Naples, the grand council of fascism having already deposed Mussolini in march. unlike in OTL, Italy is able to switch sides quicker and more effectively instead of letting themselves be occupied, because of this, German troops are only able to occupy down to tuscany and romagna. by the end of 1943, the allied line has moved up to roughly from lucca to ferrara. in the balkans, german troops held the allied advance to a line roughly east to west from just south of Thessalonica to the Adriatic, and in the eastern front, soviet forces have pushed the front back to a line going approximately Riga, Vilna, Polesie and then to Odessa. At this point its becoming clear that Germany is going down and so a group of Generals and politicians begin plotting against Hitler's government and waiting for an opportunity to try to end this war before Germany is utterly destroyed. The next major event in the war is that in march of 1944, after months of preparation and planning, Polish partisans revolt and seize warsaw and the surrounding area. they are immediately supported by allied paratroopers and German forces are now being pinned between them and the soviets along the eastern front. by april, the polish rebellion has seized most of the polish heartland including cities such as Warsaw, Lodz, Plock, Kleice, Radom and they even pushed north and took Danzig, cutting off east prussia from germany proper. this event, plus allied landings in northern and southern france in april prompt the german conspirators to prepare their coup and assassination attempt on Hitler. In mid may, as allied troops are pushing into france from the northern coast and from italy and the south, Hitler is badly wounded in an assassination attempt. assuming is dead, the conspirators attempt to take over berlin and the rest of Germany, but Hitler and his supporters catch on and attempt to defeat the attempted coup. The result is that now, Germany is split in two, with occupied france, the lowlands and western Germany under the control of the may conspiracy, and the rest of germany under nazi governance. meanwhile, back in the east, after the success of the Warsaw uprising, soviet troops advanced rapidly towards this self liberated poland. However, Soviet high command demanded that this provisional polish state which was still trying to hold back a german counterattack, submit to soviet authority in the war, pretty much demanding that they surrender to an army that was supposed to be allied with them. the polish rebels obviously refused and looked for back up from the rest of the allies, but before they could do anything, soviet troops finished off the last pockets of cut of germans in eastern poland/belarus, and barreled straight in liberated poland. this new attack, much like the original invasion back in 1939, broke the back of this new polish state, with warsaw falling to the soviets in mid may. ironically, this slows down the soviets and helps the german position as german troops finally link up to east prussia again and finally meet soviet armies again just west of Warsaw. while this was happening, in the balkans, allied troops in greece broke through german lines in early 1944 and by the time of the may 15th coup in germany and the crushing of the warsaw uprising by the soviets, alles troops had liberated all of greece and were preparing to invade Bulgaria, while further west, german troops once again stalled the allied advance in northern albania and Macedonia. at the same time, soviet troops invaded romania, which quickly tried to switch sides but was still crushed and occupied by the soviets. by june, soviet troops have reached the danube in the south and have begun pushing through transylvania against Hungary and German forces in western Banat. After the Bulgarian king, Boris III died in mid 1943, Bulgaria had been dominated by Hristo Lukov, a fascist leader and a fanatic follower of Hitler. in may of1944, even as allied and soviet troops approaching bulgaria from north and south, Lukov refused to consider betraying the reich for survival. so, some more reasonable and pragmatic Generals and politicians kidnapped the infant king, Simeon II and fled to the British to the south and surrendered/switched sides to allies in exchange for a guarantee of survival and protection against the soviets. At this point, the western allies are beginning to get nervous and suspicious about the soviet juggernaut, especially after the crushing of poland, so the local British commander in the area accepts the terms of the Bulgarians and launches a liberation campaign against the government of Lukov. I the end, soviet and allied troops meet roughly in the middle of the country, and Bulgaria will remain divided along that wartime border until the 1990's. a similar situation will occur later in the fall of 1944 as soviet and allied troops meet in the middle of yugoslavia. Once again, the country will remain divided along this line, north to south, communist to capitalist, but unlike in the case of Bulgaria, will never be reunited, unless you count the weeks north yugoslavia was occupied by NATO forces before the flash destroyed civilization on earth as we knew it. The may 15th polt german government in western germany would negotiate a similar deal to Bulgaria mere weeks after their failed coup, and after a token unconditional surrender to the allies, their weapons were promptly returned and their troops reinstated as they now turned east to finish off Hitler's crumbling empire. WW2 would effectively end on October 28th 1944, when Berlin fell to a combined assault from the east and west by soviet and allied troops. Hitler would be killed in the fighting by, ironically enough, by West German troops while he attempted to flee his bunker. After this, the the allied leaders, met in Potsdam Germany to delineate the new borders of Europe. the resulting borders mostly followed the lines were soviets troops met allied troops, the one notable exception being in germany where soviet leader Trotsky was able to secure a border further west to compensate for loss of soviet influence in the balkans. behind this division between east and west, both sides were free to reshuffle border however they wanted. in the east, the soviets gave bits of pomeranian, silesia and prussia to poland to compensate for the loss of their eastern territory as well as their effective subjugation by the soviets. in the aftermath of the war, the former polish exiles and resistance became very bitter towards the west due to what their perceived as them being sold out to the soviets. the same kind of attitude was also formed by the Czechoslovaks, as in late 1945, the previously neutral country became communist in a coup and fell under soviet influence. the pacific war also went around the same as in our world except the soviets attacked japan earlier since remember, an independant transamur backed by japan had existed since the russian revolution. in addition to a divided korea and a soviet occupation of Manchuria and annexation of transamur, soviet troops managed to invade Hokkaido and they would eventually establish a puppet state up there. as for japan itself, it surrendered to the US after the US nuked Hiroshima and Kyoto and was placed under US occupation, along with the southern half of korea. everywhere else is pretty much the same as OTL, once again, pardon the butterfly genocide, but my other two friends aren't nearly as well versed in alt history as me and they wanted a recognizable WW2 and cold war in the past of our world. part two of this series, the world of colored skies up to 2040 coming soon.
and here's the map, feel free to ask any questions:
also, the year is is january 1st 1946
I still haven't fleshed out the scenario, but the gist of it is that Bagration's and Barclay de Tolly's armies manage to join up in the early stages of the Russian campaign (which they intended to do, and what Napoleon, to his own demise, tried to prevent) and fight a decisive battle in the summer of 1812. This leads to a spectacular victory of the Grand Armée, and Alexander is forced to concede the lands taken during the partitions of Poland. Out of them the Grand Duchy of Lithuania is recreated, in personal union with Saxony and Duchy of Warsaw, which changes its name and status to Kingdom of Poland after Galicia is handed over to it from Austria in exchange for the return of Illyrian provinces to the latter.
NiceI still haven't fleshed out the scenario, but the gist of it is that Bagration's and Barclay de Tolly's armies manage to join up in the early stages of the Russian campaign (which they intended to do, and what Napoleon, to his own demise, tried to prevent) and fight a decisive battle in the summer of 1812. This leads to a spectacular victory of the Grand Armée, and Alexander is forced to concede the lands taken during the partitions of Poland. Out of them the Grand Duchy of Lithuania is recreated, in personal union with Saxony and Duchy of Warsaw, which changes its name and status to Kingdom of Poland after Galicia is handed over to it from Austria in exchange for the return of Illyrian provinces to the latter.
So what are the official languages of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, exactly?
Nice idea, beautiful map!I still haven't fleshed out the scenario, but the gist of it is that Bagration's and Barclay de Tolly's armies manage to join up in the early stages of the Russian campaign (which they intended to do, and what Napoleon, to his own demise, tried to prevent) and fight a decisive battle in the summer of 1812. This leads to a spectacular victory of the Grand Armée, and Alexander is forced to concede the lands taken during the partitions of Poland. Out of them the Grand Duchy of Lithuania is recreated, in personal union with Saxony and Duchy of Warsaw, which changes its name and status to Kingdom of Poland after Galicia is handed over to it from Austria in exchange for the return of Illyrian provinces to the latter.
Only one nitpick - shouldn´t be that Suwalki area Lithuanian? Yeah, OTL it was part of Warsaw duchy and Congress Poland but that was at the time when there was no Lithuania, before 1790s it was part of grandduchy. On the other hand, I think that Podolia could be part of Poland - it was historically part of it till 14th century and there was some polish minority (ok, I see it was for at least few decades part of Lithuania...)
That could be a territorial exchange later realized during the XIXth century - Sudovia for Podolia.
A larger version of the map in this post. Long story short, the Russian revolutionaries follow Lenin's advice, and accept the OTL first set of demands from the Central Powers during the Brest Litovsk Treaty negotiations, rather than continuing to refuse to give up any territory and then having to additionally lose Ukraine, Belarus, and the rest of the Baltics
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I'm going to touch on that more in some later posts (hopefully, eventually - I plan on doing more with this but also have a lot less free time these days) but in general, Germany has less land and people to occupy in the east, and thus can shift some or maybe even most (though not all) of the million or so troops they kept stationed in the east IOTL after the OTL Brest-Litovsk Treaty. This could make some difference on the western front, though still probably wouldn't be enough to actually win the war for Germany. Additionally, without the Reds being pushed out of various territories in Russia's west in fighting against the Central Powers, they are in a stronger position, able to maintain more of a grip on their territories (by early 1918 they held most of European Russia) and be more able to focus against the Whites, with less of a White resurgence - this might allow the Reds to end the power vacuum in the Caucasus earlier and thus result in the Ottomans directing forces from that front down to fighting the British in the Levant and Mesopotamia, though things in that regard may not move fast enough to make much difference at all there
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Just a quick doodle to justify not working on school projects.
The Commonwealth of All Nations is the result of the merger of two pre-existing power blocks, the Lublin Union and the Danish-Novgorodite Commonwealth.
The serious upset of power balance prompted European leaders to take action, and the League of Göttingen was formed. Fighting alongside its minor allies against the Archduchy of Austria, Kingdom of France, the Kingdom of Hungary, the Kingdom of Scotland and minor German states the War of the Imperial Proclamation in 1590-1598 resulted in a narrow Dano-Polish victory and established the legitimacy of the Emperor Jan I Augustus of house Jagiellon-Oldenburg.
Stretching from sea to sea to sea to shining sea, this territorial behemoth is a land of plenty and poverty, of dense cities and untouched wilderness, of enlightened burghers and fervent religiosity, of tight central control and independent marcher lords, of wind-blown islands and neverending steppes. The Baltic sea as their bathwater, the Commonwealth controls inbound and outgoing trade in the region.
Norway is a mountainous land of narrow valleys and long fjords. It primarily exports vast quantities of dried and salted fish.
Sweden has been a source of trouble for Danish central authority throughout history, with threatening rebellions breaking out once a generation. The lands of the independent-minded Svea have been inch by inch absorbed into the Norwegian and Danish jurisdictions to limit the local nobles' influence.
Nowadays a land enriched by its mineral wealth. Large amounts of raw copper and iron are exported, along with timber and tar for shipbuilding. Metallurgy comes naturally to the Swedes, and their engineers have devised mechanisms to use abundant hydropower to mass-produce raw metals, which are shipped accross the empire and even overseas to workshops in England and Germany.
Finland is an impoverished country with its coastal Swedish minority being replaced by Danish influence. Despite best efforts, deep in its forests pagan customs survive among semi-civilized tribal conglomerations. Sami people still inhabit its northern reaches, hunting and gathering for their livelihood. It pays its taxes in furs, timber and tar.
Denmark is, compared to its northern neighbours, the land of milk and honey. The Sound Toll and flat, fertile ground have created ample surplus wealth, and its burghers employ themselves with jobs in the secundary and tertiary sectors. Denmark exports cheese, beer, and salted fish; all that is needed to have a good time. Specialty workshops in market towns produce luxury goods such as glass, paper, leather, clocks, fine clothes and toys.
Mecklenborg and Pomerania are a major source of international conflict belonging nominally still to the Holy Roman Empire. These sandy and marshy regions primarily live on trade and fishing, with Stettin at the mouth of the Oder serving as an important port city.
Prussia fell into Dano-Polish arms out of dwindling Catholic support for the once-crusader state. With poor soils and few natural resources (with the exception of baltic amber, which constitutes a vital trade good), the Prussians found it expedient to ally themselves with the largest trading power in the region and secure profits for their merchantile cities at the mouths of the crucial rivers Vistula and Neman.
Poland hosts a large Jewish population who from the backbone of the merchantile and artisan classes in several cities. Poland is a large country with plentiful arable land, and it exports cattle and grain through its extensive river network and by land to trade fairs in Leipzig. Salt mining and textile working are important especially in Lesser Poland and Galicia. Honey and wax are produced in every village.
Lithuania is more rural than its twin Poland. With a large east slavic orthodox population, its religious and ethnic policy is one of extreme tolerance, simply out of necessity. Lithuania produces amongst other things flax and good quality linen cloth, as well as beeswax for Orthodox candlemaking. Kiev, Vitebsk and Polotsk are vibrant trading centers for goods transported from Crimea and further south and east.
Livonia is similar in its economic structure to Prussia, with the German landowning elite working large plantations and selling their goods to burghers in small but thriving port cities.
Pskov is a small merchantile republic overseen by alternating Dano-Polish governor generals. Forced by dwindling trade to specialize in icon-carving and woodwork.
Novgorod is a noble republic and has developed a distinct identity from the Russian Confederation. Characterized by fortified wooden trading outposts, the only significant farmland is near the lake Ilmen. Due to Polish gerrymandering, the province of Ingria was added to Finnish administration allowing them to tax the Neva river traffic.
Although primarily a trading nation, Novgorod produces furs and salt, as well as caviar, salmon, walrus and narwhal tusks and freshwater pearls from the White Sea region. Some exotic Asian good trickle from Turkestan to Perm and further to the Dvina basin and to the entrepots at Kalmoborg and Kem.
The Commonwealth of All Nations is the result of the merger of two pre-existing power blocks, the Lublin Union and the Danish-Novgorodite Commonwealth.
The serious upset of power balance prompted European leaders to take action, and the League of Göttingen was formed. Fighting alongside its minor allies against the Archduchy of Austria, Kingdom of France, the Kingdom of Hungary, the Kingdom of Scotland and minor German states the War of the Imperial Proclamation in 1590-1598 resulted in a narrow Dano-Polish victory and established the legitimacy of the Emperor Jan I Augustus of house Jagiellon-Oldenburg.
Stretching from sea to sea to sea to shining sea, this territorial behemoth is a land of plenty and poverty, of dense cities and untouched wilderness, of enlightened burghers and fervent religiosity, of tight central control and independent marcher lords, of wind-blown islands and neverending steppes. The Baltic sea as their bathwater, the Commonwealth controls inbound and outgoing trade in the region.
Norway is a mountainous land of narrow valleys and long fjords. It primarily exports vast quantities of dried and salted fish.
Sweden has been a source of trouble for Danish central authority throughout history, with threatening rebellions breaking out once a generation. The lands of the independent-minded Svea have been inch by inch absorbed into the Norwegian and Danish jurisdictions to limit the local nobles' influence.
Nowadays a land enriched by its mineral wealth. Large amounts of raw copper and iron are exported, along with timber and tar for shipbuilding. Metallurgy comes naturally to the Swedes, and their engineers have devised mechanisms to use abundant hydropower to mass-produce raw metals, which are shipped accross the empire and even overseas to workshops in England and Germany.
Finland is an impoverished country with its coastal Swedish minority being replaced by Danish influence. Despite best efforts, deep in its forests pagan customs survive among semi-civilized tribal conglomerations. Sami people still inhabit its northern reaches, hunting and gathering for their livelihood. It pays its taxes in furs, timber and tar.
Denmark is, compared to its northern neighbours, the land of milk and honey. The Sound Toll and flat, fertile ground have created ample surplus wealth, and its burghers employ themselves with jobs in the secundary and tertiary sectors. Denmark exports cheese, beer, and salted fish; all that is needed to have a good time. Specialty workshops in market towns produce luxury goods such as glass, paper, leather, clocks, fine clothes and toys.
Mecklenborg and Pomerania are a major source of international conflict belonging nominally still to the Holy Roman Empire. These sandy and marshy regions primarily live on trade and fishing, with Stettin at the mouth of the Oder serving as an important port city.
Prussia fell into Dano-Polish arms out of dwindling Catholic support for the once-crusader state. With poor soils and few natural resources (with the exception of baltic amber, which constitutes a vital trade good), the Prussians found it expedient to ally themselves with the largest trading power in the region and secure profits for their merchantile cities at the mouths of the crucial rivers Vistula and Neman.
Poland hosts a large Jewish population who from the backbone of the merchantile and artisan classes in several cities. Poland is a large country with plentiful arable land, and it exports cattle and grain through its extensive river network and by land to trade fairs in Leipzig. Salt mining and textile working are important especially in Lesser Poland and Galicia. Honey and wax are produced in every village.
Lithuania is more rural than its twin Poland. With a large east slavic orthodox population, its religious and ethnic policy is one of extreme tolerance, simply out of necessity. Lithuania produces amongst other things flax and good quality linen cloth, as well as beeswax for Orthodox candlemaking. Kiev, Vitebsk and Polotsk are vibrant trading centers for goods transported from Crimea and further south and east.
Livonia is similar in its economic structure to Prussia, with the German landowning elite working large plantations and selling their goods to burghers in small but thriving port cities.
Pskov is a small merchantile republic overseen by alternating Dano-Polish governor generals. Forced by dwindling trade to specialize in icon-carving and woodwork.
Novgorod is a noble republic and has developed a distinct identity from the Russian Confederation. Characterized by fortified wooden trading outposts, the only significant farmland is near the lake Ilmen. Due to Polish gerrymandering, the province of Ingria was added to Finnish administration allowing them to tax the Neva river traffic.
Although primarily a trading nation, Novgorod produces furs and salt, as well as caviar, salmon, walrus and narwhal tusks and freshwater pearls from the White Sea region. Some exotic Asian good trickle from Turkestan to Perm and further to the Dvina basin and to the entrepots at Kalmoborg and Kem.
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