Revision: if Imperial528 wants West Virginia he can have it, or most of it, because damn sorcerous hillbillies.
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Yeah. Though Massachusetts is rather swampy, the winters ensure that large disease-carrying insect populations are rare.Simon_Jester wrote:Yeah. There's a reason the English colonies planted in and around Massachusetts Bay thrived so well; it was relatively similar to the kind of ecosystem the English already knew how to live in back home. By contrast, the Deep South is so hot and pestilential that traditional English architecture is overbuilt for the conditions and tropical diseases are a major problem; one of the big drivers of slave plantation agriculture was that West Africans are immune or highly resistant to strains of malaria that devastated populations of white indentured servants in the region.
I'm thinking of being up in the northern Appalachians e.g. the Adirondacs, parts of the Green Mountains and the Taconics, if Eternal_Freedom doesn't mind.Simon_Jester wrote:GHETTO EDIT
Revision: if Imperial528 wants West Virginia he can have it, or most of it, because damn sorcerous hillbillies.
It's a more or less united collection of states, with two or three major kingdoms and several smaller polities, along with a handful of mage-dominated city-states. The vast majority of the population are peasants. The "government" consists primarily of various treaties binding the nations together and setting trade laws, though the mages cities are a unified polity that has persisted despite territorial separation.Simon_Jester wrote:If your polity is of significant size it might well control much of OTL Pennsylvania and upstate New York, in which case there would be interesting interactions between us. What are your people like?
Possibly, it would definitely run the shore of Lake Ontario. The larger mundane kingdoms would have significant farmland in Upstate New York, with the Catskills as outlying territory.Simon_Jester wrote:Interesting. The Empire would automatically distrust the magocrats to a grim, occasionally violent extent. No wonder there's a substantial fortress at Duquesne (OTL Pittsburgh), and a respectable fleet on Lake Erie.
Do you think your border would run as far as Lake Erie? That could get interesting.
Simon_Jester wrote:From your described territory you'd definitely have ports on Lake Ontario, but there may be Niagara Falls in the way between the two lakes, so unless someone's dug the Welland Canal, there's no way to get from one lake to the other without a portage.
Okay, we'll add that to the list of territorial claims.Shinn Langley Soryu wrote:After giving it some thought, I'll be setting up my base of operations in California, like so:
Haven't decided on a name yet, and I only have a vague idea of cultural composition (currently leaning towards a mix of Chinese and Spanish influences, though).
In the absence of PC states directly bordering my nation, the territories surrounding it would be occupied by the following barriers to its further expansion:
1) The Emerald Triangle is occupied by sorcerous drug cartels.
2) The OTL Reno-Sparks and San Diego-Tijuana metropolitan areas are home to two separate and unusually powerful confederations of city-states.
3) An actual empire of hostile nomads controls the Inland Empire.
4) The far north (OTL Del Norte, Siskiyou, and Modoc Counties) and the mid-east (OTL Mono and Inyo Counties) frontiers are home to hostile terrain and even more hostile natives.
My people would have been cautious, but they would have helped guide you through our lands. After all, as much trouble as guiding refugees through their lands would have been, it would have been far more trouble to appease all the spirits you would have angered crossing our lands without knowing the correct rituals.The Romulan Republic wrote:Another point to address:
Jub, if I go with my "migrant people fleeing the destruction of their homeland" plot, the likeliest route for my people to have gone to reach their new home, geographically, would be through your territory. How would you feel about that, and would it interfere with any backstory you have planned? Their are other options if necessary.
I feel the same way. I just wanted to throw the option out there so nobody felt compelled to change their plans too much.Simon_Jester wrote:Jub, I'd rather recruit another player or two than physically compress the map of the North American continent.