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>Why the fuck would you make an alternate world when you could use our own?
This is a way to write off my subpar knowledge of history, especially Cold War history, and a way to insert some corrections to our timeline that will provide for a more interesting world (in my opinion).
>Are there fantasy races / dnd magic / etc?
No, it is essentially the same world structure as we know it (occultism is not widely known to be successful).
>Ok, what are the differences?
I will try to make it short. (looking back from the end, I couldn't) The world is not that well thought-out but here they are:
The main ones are that the Roman Empire (Regia) never fell fully, retaining power on the island that was its homeland. It still degenerated a bit and fell into decline due to the loss of many territories on the continent.
Also generally speaking, naval power is more important in Arqan-Euno (Middle East-Europe) conflicts due to the sea separating them harshly. Aldasim (Anatolia) was as much a naval empire as it was a land one. Same for many of the empires of ages past. Also there was no islam analogue, the local nations like Uran and Katrakzan still retain Fire and Water (Zoroastrian) faith.
Another difference is that Morzets (Russians) are invader peoples from beyond the mountains, they were not always here. Their appearance is essentially what caused the Great Migration triggering the collapse of Regia. There are mostly no migratory steppe hordes as there were in our timeline. Also there never was a communist revolution so it is still a monarchy there.
The land between Xia and Bharma - Osta, is somewhat an odd thing, being a place where for most of history there were some dirt-poor rice farmers that should have been invaded for their spices and metals, but somehow retained their independence through periodically banding together in coalitions to defend themselves. They are still nationalists in this age though, not united, and fairly backwards.
Tremona and Latica are additions without a particular inspiration from our history. They squabbled for a good amount of time between themselves and are somewhat of a white crow among Euno countries due to their retention of old faith (not the same ones that the Lond have).
Gris is Occitania with an infusion of remnant Regian culture.
The rest are basically the same, you can mostly guess what they are by their placement.
Also the world is generally warmer and closer to tropics, schizo climate is due to QM fiat (and some oceanic streams I guess).
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