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oh wow you think man cutting edge insight glad you posted this

notably, the seminal 50s horror film (and the even better 80s remake), "The Blob," was set/filmed in a town right outside of Philly. so it's fitting in that sense.

not really into the whole fan fiction angle, and that aside I think it's way too on the nose and silly to so expressly tie part of it to a pun based on the city's name (how often in history do religious groups spring up motivated by a pun). but hey man you do you

someone's gotta stand up to these guys this can't keep going on

shut up who cares

Iygonia? Where's that name come from?

Understand the view re:Horses although I vociferously disagree.

And I just wanted to note, w/r/t my donkey suggestion: I was actually forwarding, given my view on horses, that you should have officers on donkey back. After all, if it was good enough for Jesus Christ, no reason it shouldn't be good enough NCR commissioned officers.

But I understand your view. Again, great work.

Beautiful composition. Would love to see it in oil. Did you base it off of any particular 19th century painting?

Only two substantive complaints: First, I'd like to see more of the Jackals themselves. I see the one fellow in the center, but he doesn't quite 'sell' it. To do that justice it might take a whole other panel (or half), which is a tall order. And second, obviously your mileage may vary, but I don't like horses in Fallout. Put them on donkeys or something (and I see you do have one deceased donkey here).

idk dawg seems more parsimonious that they'll just announce raven rock before fallout day and they'll announce other stuff on fallout day

although I didn't use such words as "peaceful," that characterization only applies to the second half of my binary: 'civilized' populations, those who are not categorically enslaved, as opposed to 'tribals' in the first half of my binary, who are universally enslaved or exterminated

Really beautiful stuff, you've gained at least one new devotee, I'll be following your blog to see how this project develops

Really beautiful. Feel a little jealous, I've been working on a similar map (though in more of a late 18th/early 19th century oeuvre, whereas this seems more like early-to-mid 18th.

Tryin g to work some of the analogues -

-Summer Isles = British West Indies. Here the seat of a colonial viceroy given those were the most valuable parts of the British empire overseas, and which remained loyal after the Resolution.

-Hurricane Islands and that distinctive coast running north, obviously the Carolinas

-Isquentaga as the Iroquois stand in (lovely name)

-Cedar Coast as New England

-Okayen as the St. Lawrence? this is based purely on the fact that it's the outlet for the Great Lakes system.

-Turucaya, essentially Florida (the name looks like a deformed "Turks and Caicos," maybe with "Lucayan" thrown in)

-Potaket Island, obviously Long Island (great Algonquinesque naming)

-Perhaps the Golden Coast is meant to be the *Virginia stand-in

-'Giants mine for copper' is probably transposed from the Northwest and the legends of giants, mound builders, and association with Lake Superior copper. It's placement at the coast, so close to *European society, is curious

There's copper deposits in South Jersey?

I think our strongest in-universe indications come from that one trader at the Fort, Cass, and in terms of out-of-universe sources, the copious FormSpring posts by Josh Sawyer where he answered questions about the game at the time of release and through the DLC release. (I'm not sure if the "Bright Lights and Big City" says anything specific on the matter).

The impression I have is that (1) Tribals get fucked, assimilated or massacred, (2) Compliant 'civilized' populations are largely left alone: Maybe the Legion asks them to give some quota of agricultural goods every now and then, or even asks them to upright and put their village somewhere else, but these requests are rare and people are usually left to their own devices. There's no such thing as a citizen of the Legion, and perhaps not even such a thing as a subject: There is the Legion itself, a corporate body of slaves, and then there's just townsfolk.

It's never been incorporated into official canon, but perhaps the Unamerican Activities Force from Van Buren could fit the bill. Perhaps that was mostly meant to be a paramilitary/gestapo style outfit, but they would surely be doing some intelligence work.

I'd note it's questionable to identify 'Fort Abandon' with some outpost on the east bank of the Colorado for two reasons:

First, in Ulysses's dialogue where he mentions it, he associate it with three or four other locations: Circle Junction, Vault City, New Reno, and 'further west' the Big Circle. Of these four places, three of them are decidedly in Nevada (or partly in California, in the case of the Big Circle). We have no idea where the Fallout New Vegas version of Circle Junction, but given its of the west I think it's a fair bet that it's not out by Denver as it was in Van Buren.

Second, more weakly, in Ulysses's dialogue he attributes it as being of the 'west,' and with the Colorado being something of a dividing line between the western bear and eastern bull, seems questionable that a settlement east of the Colorado would be characterized as of the west.

because it's quite far away from mariposa, and separated by at least 2 mountain ranges. the Mojave and Los Angeles are comparatively more accessible

Reminds me of the biomechanical horror art of illustrator Keith Thompson

I wasn't aware of Beothuk burial sites being so disproportionately coastal. Is this thought to be an artifact of a practice by the Beothuk, or is it more likely reflective of different environmental conditions on the coasts that are more likely to preserve bodies (e.g., perhaps the soils of the interior are too acidic to regularly preserve human remains, as is the case in much of the interior Maritime peninsula)

why would human beings evolve and establish the various modern states shown in this map if there were a point of divergence ca. a hundred and fifty million years ago

Whatever the case, both the Congo and the Niger are doubtless even more monstrously huge than in our world with their greater catchments. 

Given Lake Titicaca is still there I imagine the Andes are

Presumably the Mega-Congo turns south and flows into the Congo Sea, with the Lago dos Patos as its delta

A little frightening to think about the size of the Mega-Congo-Amazon River

Back In fallout 1 they didn’t like the ghouls very much given that they would also scavenge areas for tech and be in direct competition with them.

are you able to cite to any line of text from fallout 1 supporting this proposition? specifically the notion that they didn't like ghouls *because* "they would also scavenge areas for tech and be in direct competition with them"

some of what I'm going to say you no doubt know already, but I just want to lay it all out together to emphasize the point:

in English every continent is designated in the feminine. Africa, America, Asia. Europe appears exceptional at first glance, but this is actually an exception that proves the rule: "Europe," with an "E" at the end, is the French feminine form (whereas the other continents have the Latin suffix in English). This was the old Roman scheme of naming, and the Europeans have kept it going ever since, extending it to continents unknown to the Romans (America, Antarctica, and Australia). And the same pattern holds true for the nomenclature of a lot of non-continental locales.

"Terra Australis" that you see on old maps isn't really the 'proper name' of a continent. It's a description. Literally it means "Southern land." It's an adjective modifying a non-proper noun.

There was a southern continent that was hypothesized about. That hypothesis was based partly on observations, partly on questionable fourth-hand information, partly on well meaning speculative guesswork. But everyone agreed if there was such a southern land we didn't know much about it, and few if any Europeans had seen it. Some thought maybe Magellan had, hence one of the more popular proper names suggested - Magellanica (you'll note that "-a" suffix). A few other sightings were claimed, but most cartographers stuck to just describing it rather than deigning to name a still largely unknown continent. For the same reason it was often referred to as "Terra Australis Incognita" - "The unknown southern land." Its name is not "Australis" anymore than it's "Incognita."

If Terra Australis or something like it were a reality, there's very little doubt that cartographers would slot it in the naming scheme of all other continents, and most other geographic subjects: A feminine suffix. "Australia." Or maybe "Magellanica." Or "Antarctica." Or something else entirely.

But to me, it seems very unlikely that a continent would ever get the name "Australis." I get the desire to distinguish it from *our* Australia, but the name you settled on is quite unlikely

Anyway, sorry for such negativity/nitpicking. it's obviously a very neat map (I also liked your last one showing human migrations)