This thread is for the creation and discussion of the flavor changes, including Great People names, pedia entries and the like.

Fictionalization IV is meant to have its own internal continuity. While it is based on a variety of sources, a single timeline does exist (contradictions, such as various sources stating the world ended decades ago, can be chalked up to alternate realities and such). As such, all Great People and tech quotes are attributed to fictional characters.

So, I'd like all pedia entries to fit nicely, if loosely, within each other. Here's the adapted entry for England as an example:


The origins of modern Britain lie in what is now Turkey. The islands were originally named after Brutus, one of the Trojan refugees that sailed with Aeneas in the years following the Trojan War. It was Brutus who first brought a human presence to the islands, after first wiping out the native race of giants there. There, the first British society was founded.

In the classical age Britain lay on the periphery of the civilized world; Julius Caesar's visitations to the island in 55/54 BC were viewed as a daring voyage into the unknown. But in 43 AD the island was invaded by Roman soldiers under the Emperor Claudius, and it was to spend the next four centuries as a Roman province. The Romans built cities, roads, and great bathhouses, the ruins of which can still be seen today. With the collapse of Roman power under Germanic onslaught, tribal migrations into Britain began about the middle of the 5th century. The first arrivals were invited by a British chieftain to defend his kingdom against the Picts and Scots. These first mercenaries were from three tribes - the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes - which were located on the coastlands of northwestern Germany. Eventually, these peoples would themselves topple the existing order, and Britain would spend many centuries divided between various warring kingdoms such as Mercia, East Anglia, and others. Even the celebrated King Arthur could not unite the island, although he did manage to inspire countless fiefdoms that would later become modern England. The first political entity that could rightly be called "England" formed out of the efforts of the kingdom of Wessex to unite the island against the invasion of Danes and Vikings in the 9th century. But the English domination was fleeting; the subsequent Norman Conquest (1066) resulted in the subordination of England to a Frankish aristocracy, and the introduction of feudalism to the Isles.

The Norman invasion reoriented England from the Scandinavian world to the Mediterranean one, and reintroduced many elements of Latin culture that had been lost in the Germanic invasions. The English Normans would eventually give rise to a purely British line of kings, the Plantagenets. Three centuries later, the Wars of the Roses was the final struggle between the Yorkist and Lancastrian descendants of the Plantagenets for control of the throne. When Henry Tudor, earl of Richmond, seized the crown in 1485, leaving the hunchbacked Yorkist Richard III dead upon the field of battle, few Englishmen would have predicted that 118 years of Tudor rule had begun. The freewheeling Tudors also gave rise to England's only non-human monarch. Gloriana I (1558-1603) proved to be an inspiring figure and able ruler. No observer in 1558, any more than in 1485, would have predicted that despite the social discord, political floundering, and international humiliation of the past decades, the kingdom again stood on the threshold of an extraordinary age. Her reign ushered in two centuries of British exploration, colonization, and artistic and intellectual advances, as well as a renewed influx of magical arts, lost since the days of Arthur. When Gloriana, the "Faerie Queene," died childless, Parliament offered the crown to the closest blood kin, James VI of Scotland, who became James I of England (1603-1625) and founded the Stuart dynasty. The Stuarts kings did not possess the best luck; Charles I was defeated by the forces of Parliament in the English Civil War and executed, and a scant four decades later his descendent James II was also overthrown in the "Glorious Revolution" of 1688. But despite all this turbulence, by 1700 England had merged with Scotland to become "Britain" and established an identity that would be both Protestant and Parliamentry.

The British Empire was to be one based on trade and control of the seas. Using the soldiers commonly denoted "Redcoats", every major war Britain engaged in during the 18th and 19th centuries increased its colonial power. The Seven Years' War was particularly notable in this respect, and so were the Napoleonic Wars. By 1820 the total population of the British Empire was 200 million, 26%% of the world's total population. However acquired, all these acquisitions added to the crown's and the country's power and reputation. For the privileged and the rich, the Victorian era was pre-eminently one of confidence and arrogance, under the able guidance of Britain's two longtime Prime Ministers, Gladstone and Disraeli. Stretching from Australia and New Zealand through India, much of Africa, and Canada, and even parts of the Moon, the British Empire under Queen Victoria was truly one on which the "sun never set."

But the "long summer of peace" was battered first by a Martian invasion of London, then by the devastating War in the Air, and finally in the bloodbath of Flanders. Although Britain suffered far less physical damage than France and underwent no political revolution, World War I may have affected it more fundamentally than any other European power. The war was a catalyst for social and economic change. The mainstays of the early Industrial Revolution, such as coal mining, textile production, and shipbuilding, upon which British prosperity had been built, were now impoverished or redundant. Britain was slow to develop many of the newer manufacturing industries, such as those involving chemicals, electronics, and automobiles. British foreign policy for much of the postwar period aimed at rehabilitating Germany, while domestic policy focused on institutionalizing socialism to counter public concerns. In general, these movements were opposed by France and resulted in a rupture between Britain and its wartime ally, forcing France into a position of isolation that would have prodigious consequences for Europe with the rise of Hynkel in the 1930s. World War II was a British victory, but left the nation bankrupt. Postwar Britain, in its panic, elected the ruthless and feared Sir Harold Wharton to the position of Prime Minister. Wharton, known by his epithet "Big Brother", made sweeping socialist reforms taking the population into one of modern history's most repressive societies. After Wharton's death in 1952, the "Airstrip One" period came to a quick end. Weakened by war and repression, Britain was unable to prevent the onset of decolonization in the 1950s and 1960s. Although Britons maintained a high standard of living, the British economy continued to perform poorly throughout the 1960s and 1970s. As a reaction, Margaret Thatcher (1979-1990) set out to end socialism in Britain. Her most dramatic acts consisted of a continuing series of statutes to denationalize nearly every industry that IngSoc had brought into public ownership during the previous 40 years. Her successor, Jim Hacker, largely helped to seal these reforms. Promising that "we shall govern as New IngSoc," the Blair government installed in general elections in 1997 accepted some of Thatcher's foreign policies but also carried out the economic reforms it promised in its manifesto, before disaster hit again.

The Third World War hit Britain hard, and it succumbed once again to a radical party, Norsefire. Like IngSoc before it, culture was carefully dictated, albeit not as bluntly as the Big Brother days. Nationalism and xenophobia nearly wiped out all minorities on the island, until a rogue terrorist succeeded in destroying the government and plunging the state into anarchy. But in this chaotic void, the first signs of a new hope for humanity came, for in the many years that the world was wracked by infertility, it was in Britain that the first new child was born.

And here's a list of the altered tech quotes

Mysticism:"Science is a way of talking about the universe in words that bind it to a common reality. Magic is a method of talking to the universe in words that it cannot ignore." - The Phantom Stranger

Polytheism:"Not at all similar are the race of the immortal gods and the race of men who walk upon the earth." - Apollo

Monarchy:"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown." - Henry IV

Literature:"My library is dukedom large enough." - Prospero

Code of Laws:"For word of hate let word of hate be said, cries Justice. Stroke for bloody stroke must be paid. The one who acts must suffer. Three generations long this law resounds." - Strophe

Drama:"All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts. " - Jaques of Arden

Feudalism:"Chivalry!-why, maiden,... Nobility were but an empty name without her, and liberty finds the best protection in her lance and her sword. " - Ivanhoe

Theology:
"He who would valiant be,
Let him come hither;
One here will constant be,
Come wind, come weather
There’s no discouragement
Shall make him once relent
His first avow’d intent
To be a pilgrim. " - Christian the Pilgrim

Music:"If music be the food of love, play on." - Duke Orsino of Illyria

Divine Right:"It's good to be the king." - Louis XVI

Nationalism:"Remember, while you're out there risking your life and limb through shot and shell, we'll be in be in here thinking what a sucker you are." - Rufus T. Firefly

Military Tradition:"I am the very model of a modern Major-General I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral, I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical from Marathon to Waterloo, in order categoricalI'm very good at integral and differential calculus,I know the scientific names of beings animalculous. In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral, I am the very model of a modern Major-General!" - Mjr. General Henry Stanley

Constitution:"I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace, two are called a lawfirm, and three or more become a congress!" - John Adams

Democracy:"Get up there with that lady that stands for liberty. Take a look at this country through her eyes. You'll see the whole parade of what Man's carved out for himself, after centuries of fighting. That's what you'd see. There's no place out there for graft, or greed, or lies, or compromise with human liberties." - Jefferson Smith

Fascism:
WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH - IngSoc party slogans

Corporation:
"There is no America... There is only IBM, and ITT, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today." - Arthur Jensen

Mass Media:"I AM big! It's the PICTURES that got small!" - Norma Desmond

Ecology:"You think you own whatever land you land on, and the Earth is just a dead thing you can claim. But I know every rock and tree and creature has a life, has a spirit, has a name." - Pocahontas

The Wheel:"Let us ride with the clan down the street, by the courtesy of Frehdd's two feet. When you are with the sharpened rocks, have an \untranslatable\ time, an \untranslatable\ time, we will have a happy old time" - Inscription found near Mammoth Caves, ca. 12,000 BC

Agriculture:"Land doesn't mean anything to you? Why, land is the only thing in the world worth workin' for, worth fightin' for, worth dyin' for, because it's the only thing that lasts. " - Gerald O'Hara

Sailing:"There is magic in it. Let the most absent-minded of men be plunged in his deepest reveries, stand that man on his legs, set his feet a-going, and he will infallibly lead you to water, if water there be in all that region." - Ishmael

Writing:"Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry." - William of Baskerville

Mathematics:"I count slowly, slowly, slowly getting faster, 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, that's the Song of The Count!" - Graf von Kaunt, noted arithomaniac

Alphabet:"High thoughts must have high language." - Aeschylus

Currency:"If you ask me to name the proudest distinction of Americans, I would choose the fact that they were the people who created the phrase, 'to make money'." - Francisco D'Aconia

Philosophy:"I was thrown out of N.Y.U. my freshman year for cheating on my metaphysics final. I looked within the soul of the boy sitting next to me." - Alvy Singer

Banking:"What is the robbing of a bank compared with the founding of a bank?" - Macheath "The Knife" Messer

Education:"You live and learn. Or you don't live long." - Lazarus Long

Economics:"Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit." - Gordon Gekko

Scientific Method:“It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” - Sherlock Holmes

Biology:"The history of evolution is that life escapes all barriers. Life breaks free. Life expands to new territories, painfully, perhaps even dangerously. I'm simply saying that life, uh... finds a way." - Ian Malcolm

Medicine:"I take risks, sometimes patients die. But not taking risks causes more patients to die. So, I guess my biggest problem is that I've been cursed with the ability to do the math." - Gregory House

Electricity:"Look! It's moving. It's-- it's... it's alive. It's alive... It's alive, it's moving, it's alive! It's alive, it's alive, it's alive! It's ALIVE!" - Henry Frankenstein

Fission:"Deterrence is the art of producing in the mind of the enemy... the FEAR to attack. And so, because of the automated and irrevocable decision-making process which rules out human meddling, the Doomsday machine is terrifying and simple to understand... and completely credible and convincing." - Rolf Wehrner Strangelove

Flight:"You, you've got me? Who's got you?" - Lois Lane

Genetics:"It begins as a single individual born or hatched like every other member of their species. Except they're not. They carry inside them the genetic code that will take their species to the next evolutionary rung." - Mohinder Suresh

Fusion:"The power of the sun... in the palm of my hand!" - Otto Octavius

Mining:"Heigh-ho, Heigh-ho, It's home from work we go!" - trad. Dwarven miner's song

Masonry:"It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls." - Epops the Hoopoe

Bronze Working:"It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair." - Priam of Troy

Construction:"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" - inscription on the Tomb of Ozymandias

Horseback Riding:"I will not change my horse with any that treads but on four pasterns. When I bestride him, I soar!" - Louis, Dauphin of France

Optics:"Now, bring me that horizon." - Jack Sparrow

Gunpowder:"My, my, my! Such a lot of guns around town and so few brains." - Phillip Marlowe

Rifling:"This is my rifle. There are many like it but this one is mine. My rifle is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life." - U.S. Marine Corps chant

Steel:"Before that steam drill shall beat me down, I'll die with my hammer in my hand." - John Henry

Radio:"What would you do if I sang out of tune, would you stand up and walk out on me? Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song, and I'll try not to sing out of key." - Billy Shears

Computers:"Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer true. I'm half crazy over the love of you. It won't be a stylish marriage, I can't afford a carriage, but you'll look sweet upon the seat of a bicycle built for two." - HAL 9000

Rocketry:"Though I'm past one hundred thousand miles, I'm feeling very still. And I think my spaceship knows which way to go. Tell my wife I love her very much." - last transmission of Mjr. Thomas Bowie

Robotics:"A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws." - The Three Laws of Robotics

Future Tech:"The future is not set. There is no fate but what we make for ourselves" - Personal motto of John Connor

Advanced Flight:"I feel the need. The need... for speed!" - Lt. Pete Mitchell

Stealth:"The greatest trick the devil ever played was convincing the world he didn't exist." - Keyzer Soze

Military Science:"There is a great inertia about all military operations of any size. But once this inertia has been overcome and underway they are almost as hard to arrest as to initiate." - Robert Jordan

Aesthetics:"The conviction is gradually forcing itself upon me that it’s not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows freely from his soul. " - Konstantin Treplyov

Shielding:"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel." - Henry Dorsett Case

Cloning:"All in all you're just another brick in the wall." - Pink

Aquaculture:"The sea is everything. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides. The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion. " - Captain Nemo

Bionics:"We can rebuild him. We have the technology." - Oscar Goldman, on Steve Austin

Cold Fusion:"On this site, a powerful engine will be built. An engine that will someday let us travel a hundred times faster than we can today. Imagine it. Thousands of inhabited planets at our fingertips. And we'll be able to explore those strange new worlds... and seek out new life and new civilizations. This engine will let us boldly go where no man has gone before. " - Zephram Cochrane

Cybernetics:"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I've watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die." - Roy Batty

Here's the list of Great People added to the game so far


Prophets
Tiresias (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiresias), Cassandra (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassandra), Ayesha (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/She_%28novel%29), Brian of Nazareth (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_of_brian), Sarastro (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarastro), St. Urho (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Urho#Saint_Urho), Abdul Alhazred (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul_Alhazred), Morgan le Fay (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan_le_Fay), Abe no Seimei (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abe_no_Seimei), Prester John (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prester_John), Everyman (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everyman_%28play%29), St. Grobian (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grobian), Xuanzang (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xuanzang_%28fictional_character%29), Christian Pilgrim (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pilgrim%27s_Progress), Prospero (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prospero), Carnacki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnacki), Randolph Carter (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randolph_Carter), Albus Dumbledore (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albus_Dumbledore), Oliver Haddo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magician_%28Maugham_novel%29), Valentine Michael Smith (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stranger_in_a_Strange_Land), Stephen Strange (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr_Strange), Rosemary Woodhouse (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosemary%27s_baby), Howard Beale (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_%28film%29), Quinten Delius (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_of_heaven), Prior Walter (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angels_in_america), Jesse Custer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preacher_%28comics%29), Shadow Odinson (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Gods), Cole Sear (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sixth_Sense)

Artists
Orpheus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orpheus), Cangjie (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cangjie), Dilios (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilios), Eumolpos (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satyricon), Wealthow (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealh%C3%BEeow), Promethea (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promethea), Kai Lung (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kai_Lung), Don Juan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Juan), Pierre Menard (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Menard%2C_Author_of_the_Quixote), P.D.Q. Bach (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P.D.Q._Bach), Fanny Hill (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanny_Hill), Atrus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrus), David Copperfield (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Copperfield_%28character%29), Cyrano de Bergerac (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrano_de_Bergerac_%28play%29), Basil Hallward (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_Hallward), Trigorin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seagull), Eric Claudin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_of_the_Opera_%281943_film%29), Stephen Dedalus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Dedalus), Don Lockwood (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singin%27_in_the_Rain_%28film%29), Carl Denham (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Kong_%281933_film%29), Laura Chase (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blind_Assassin), Victoria Page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Red_Shoes_%28film%29), Eve Harrington (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_about_eve), Norma Desmond (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norma_Desmond), Maria Vargas (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Barefoot_Contessa), Sal Paradise (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Road), Vicki Lester (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Star_Is_Born_%281954_film%29), Conrad Birdie (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conrad_Birdie), Jubal Harshaw (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jubal_Harshaw), Kilgore Trout (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilgore_Trout), Alicia Masters (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alicia_Masters), Guido Anselmi (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8%C2%BD), James Winston Pepper (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sgt._Pepper%27s_Lonely_Hearts_Club_Band), Ziggy Stardust (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_and_Fall_of_Ziggy_Stardust_and_the_Spider s_from_Mars), Alan Smithee (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Smithee), Rabo Karabekian (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabo_Karabekian), Nathan Zuckerman (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Zuckerman), Patrice de Courcy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Colors:_Blue), Maximillion Pegasus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximillion_Pegasus), Issac Mendez (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Mendez), Kirk Lazarus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirk_Lazarus)

Engineers
Ogoun (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogoun), Daedalus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daedalus), Seppo Ilmarien (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seppo_Ilmarinen), Vulcan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulcan_(mythology)), Levsha (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levsha), Weyland Smith (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weyland_Smith), Nicolas Flamel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Flamel), Iron John (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_John), Cyrus Smith (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrus_Smith), Spalanzani (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tales_of_Hoffmann), Selwyn Cavor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_First_Men_in_the_Moon), Arnould Omega (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Omega), Barbenfouillis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Trip_to_the_Moon), Tom Swift (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Swift), Harry Domin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.U.R._%28Rossum%27s_Universal_Robots%29), C.A. Rotwang (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotwang), Clark Savage, Jr. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doc_savage), Ted Kord (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Beetle_%28Ted_Kord%29), Dagny Taggart, Hank Rearden, John Galt (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_shrugged), Q (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_%28James_Bond%29), Alfred Lanning (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Lanning), William Magnus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Magnus), Otto Octavius (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Octavius), Tony Stark (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Stark), William Wonka (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willy_Wonka), Caractacus Potts (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caractacus_Potts), Forge (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forge_%28comics%29), Egon Spengler (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egon_Spengler), Emmett Brown (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Brown), Angela Spica (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineer_%28comics%29), Eldon Tyrell (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blade_Runner), Zephram Cochrane (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zephram_Cochrane)


Merchants
Midas (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midas), Raphael Hythlodaeus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia_%28book%29), Shylock (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shylock), Volpone (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volpone), Giles Overreach (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giles_Overreach), Harpagon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harpagon), Mutter Courage (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Courage), John Blackthorne (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Blackthorne), Moll Flanders (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moll_Flanders), Lemuel Gulliver (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemuel_Gulliver), Becky Sharp (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanity_Fair), Ebenezer Scrooge (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebenezer_Scrooge), Pierre Bezukhov (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Bezukhov), Phileas Fogg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phileas_Fogg), Ebenezer Balfour (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidnapped_%28novel%29), Charles Foster Kane (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Foster_Kane), Lord John Roxton (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_John_Roxton), Daniel Plainview (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_Will_Be_Blood), Macheath "The Knife" Messer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mack_the_Knife), Antonio Camonte (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Camonte_%28character%29), Oliver Warbucks (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Warbucks), Bruce Wayne (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Wayne), Michael Corleone (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Corleone), Le Chiffre (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Chiffre), Auric Goldfinger (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auric_Goldfinger), Jed Clampett (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jed_Clampett), Gordon Gekko (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Gekko), C. Montgomery Burns (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._Montgomery_Burns), Forrest Gump (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forrest_Gump), Donald Love (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Love), Anthony Soprano (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Soprano)


Scientists
Prometheus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prometheus), Lucian of Samatosa (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucian), Beremiz Samir (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beremiz_Samir), Johanes Faust (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faust), Enoch Root (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enoch_Root), John Suttle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Alchemist_%28play%29), Arne Saknussem (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey_to_the_center_of_the_earth), Victor Frankenstein (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Frankenstein), Otto Lidenbrock (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey_to_the_center_of_the_earth), Henry Jekyll (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Jekyll), James Moriarty (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Moriarty), Alphonse Moreau (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Island_of_Doctor_Moreau), Hawley Griffen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Invisible_Man), Abraham Van Helsing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Van_Helsing), G.E. Challenger (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professor_Challenger), Craig Kennedy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Kennedy), Cuthbert Calculus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuthbert_Calculus), Herbert West (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_West), Martin Arrowsmith (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrowsmith_%28novel%29), Henry Frankenstein (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Frankenstein), Septimus Pretorius (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Septimus_Pretorius), Susan Calvin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Calvin), Bernard Quatermass (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Quatermass), Rolf Wehrner Strangelove (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Strangelove_or:_How_I_Learned_to_Stop_Worrying _and_Love_the_Bomb), Irving Joshua Matrix (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Joshua_Matrix), Reed Richards (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed_Richards), Ray Palmer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Palmer_%28comics%29), Hank McCoy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_McCoy), Benton Quest (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benton_Quest), Ellie Arroway (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contact_%28novel%29), Seth Brundle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fly_%281986_film%29), Daniel Jackson (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Jackson), Michael Holt (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mister_Terrific_%28Michael_Holt%29), Max Cohen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A0_%28film%29), David Bowman (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bowman), Glenn Crake (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oryx_and_Crake), Izumi Curtis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izumi_Curtis), Gregory House (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_House), Mohinder Suresh (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohinder_Suresh), Gordon Freeman (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Freeman)


Generals
Kane the Immortal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kane_%28fantasy%29), Hector (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hector), Menelaus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menelaus), Aeneas (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeneas), Xena (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xena), Judah Ben-Hur (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judah_Ben-Hur), Coriolanus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coriolanus), Casca (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casca_%28series%29), Titus Andronicus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titus_Andronicus), Lin Chong (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lin_Chong), Ivanhoe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivanhoe), Amadis of Gaul (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amadis_of_Gaul), Nigel Loring (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Nigel), Connor Macleod (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connor_macleod), Tamburlaine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamburlaine), Othello (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Othello_%28character%29), Hidetora Ichimonji (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ran_%28film%29), Li Mu-bai (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crouching_Tiger%2C_Hidden_Dragon), Jack Aubrey (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Aubrey), Ben Cameron (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birth_of_a_Nation), Saigo Katsumoto (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Samurai), Allan Quatermain (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Quatermain), Gunga Din (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunga_Din), Walter Kurtz (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_of_Darkness), John Carter (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carter_%28character%29), Edmund Blackadder IV (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Blackadder), William Samson, Jr. (http://www.britishcomics.20m.com/wolf.htm), Hans von Hammer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Von_Hammer), Frank Rock (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sgt._Rock_%28comics%29), Yevgrav Zhivago (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Zhivago), Daniel Dare (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Dare), Edward Blake (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comedian_%28comics%29), Thaddeus Ross (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbolt_Ross), Hong Changqing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Detachment_of_Women), Stepan Orlov (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Orlov), Orson Dreedle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Dreedle), John "Hannibal" Smith (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_%22Hannibal%22_Smith), John Rambo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rambo), John Connor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Connor), Andrew "Ender" Wiggin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ender_Wiggin)

Spies
Marcus Corvinus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Corvinus), Iago (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iago), Jack Wilton (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unfortunate_Traveller), Marguerite Blakeney, Percy Blakeney (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scarlet_Pimpernel), Christopher Syn (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Syn), Diego de la Vega (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zorro), Harry Paget Flashman, Erast Fandorin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erast_Fandorin), Mycroft Holmes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycroft_Holmes), Sebastian Moran (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebastian_Moran), Fu Manchu (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fu_Manchu), Fantomas (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantomas), A.J. Raffles (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.J._Raffles), Hercule Poirot (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercule_Poirot), Richard Hannay (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hannay), Victor Lazlo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Laszlo), Ahmad Kamal Faridi (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad_Kamal_Faridi), Gideon Fell (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gideon_Fell), Hugh Drummond (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Drummond), Harry Lime (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Lime), Miles Messervy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_Messervy#Bernard_Lee_as_M_.281962.E2.80.9319 79.29), Boris Badenov (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Badenov), Nick Fury (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Fury), Otto von Stirlitz (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_von_Stirlitz), P**** Galore (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/. .. .. .. .. ._Galore), Alexander Waverly (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Waverly), Maxwell Smart (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell_Smart), Ernst Stavro Blofeld (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blofeld), John Steed, Emma Peel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Avengers_%28TV_series%29), Tatiana Romanova (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatiana_Romanova), Jerry Cornelius (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Cornelius), John Drake (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Drake_%28Danger_Man%29), Austin Powers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin_Powers), Jack Ryan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Ryan_%28Tom_Clancy%29), Ryu Hayabusa (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryu_Hayabusa), Solid Snake (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_Snake), Sydney Bristow (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Bristow), Severus Snape (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severus_Snape), Sam Fisher (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Fisher), Amanda Waller (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda_Waller), Beatrix Kiddo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatrix_Kiddo), Jack Harkness (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Harkness)

As such, all Great People and tech quotes are attributed to fictional characters.

Well, I'll try to set a good example ;)

Artillery: "I love the smell of napalm in the morning!" - Lt. Col. Bill Kilgore (from Apokalypse Now)
Chemistry: "Oh, chemist, eh? Do we get to blow something up, then?" - Rodney Skinner (from the movie The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen)
Communism: "All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others." - Final Commandment of Animalism
Divine Right: "It's good to be king." - Louis XVI of France (from History of the World, Part I)
Economics: "I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse." - Don Vito Corleone
Electricity: "It's alive! It's alive! Now I know what it's like to be God!" - Victor Frankenstein
Fascism: "War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength." - IngSoc slogan
Fission: "Nucular. The word is nucular." - Homer Simpsons
Future Technology: "We were making the future and hardly any of us troubled to think what future we were making. And here it is!" - Graham (from The Sleeper Awakes)
Mass Media: "Well, of course it's not true. But the world only believes what the media tells them to believe, and I tell the media what to believe. It's really quite simple." - Kane (from Command & Conquer)
Military Tradition: "This is my rifle. There are many like it, but this one is mine. My rifle is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I master my life. My rifle, without me, is useless. Without my rifle, I am useless." - Rifleman's Creed of the US Marine Corps (from Full Metal Jacket)
Monarchy: "A king isn't born, Alexander, he is made. By steel and by suffering. A king must know how to hurt those he loves." - Philip of Makkedonia (from the film Alexander)
Music: Ahh...music, a magic far beyond all we do here." - Albus Dumbledore
Polytheism: "Only the gods dwell forever in sunlight. As for man, his days are numbered, whatever he may do, it is but wind.'' - Gilgamesh
Rifling: "If you can't do it with one bullet, don't do it at all." - Allan Quatermain (from the movie The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen)
Robotics: "A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm." - Isaac Asimov's First Law of Robotics

Sorry for the double posting, but I was in the right mood for writing. ;)

Hope this fits your expectations as well as your continuity:


RUSSIA:

In ancient times, the vast steppes of Southern Russia were home to disunited tribes of nomadic people like the Scythians, Bulgarians, Bosporans and Khazars as well as trading colonies established by Greek explorers in the latter part of the eighth century BC. But the ancestors of modern Russia are the Slavic tribes who settled the lands vacated by the migrating Germanic tribes in two waves and slowly but peacefully assimilated the native Finno-Ugric tribes.

The 9th century saw the establishment of Kievan Rus', a predecessor state to Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. Scandinavian Norsemen, called "Vikings" in Western Europe and "Varangians" in the East, combined piracy and trade in their roamings over much of Northern Europe. In the 10th to 11th centuries this state of Kievan Rus' became the largest and most prosperous in Europe. The reigns of Vladimir the Great (980-1015) and his son Yaroslav I the Wise (1019–1054) constitute the Golden Age of Kiev, which saw the acceptance of Orthodox Christianity and the creation of the first East Slavic written legal code, the Russkaya Pravda.
In the 11th and 12th centuries, the Kievan Rus' was, like many other parts of Eurasia overrun by the Mongolians, who formed the state of the Golden Horde which ruled over the area for over three centuries. However, the Novgorod Republic managed to retain a certain degree of autonomy and was spared the atrocities that affected the rest of the country. While Novgorod experienced a Golden Age, Kiev's dominance waned because of in-fighting between its rulers and regular raids by the Golden Horde, which conquered the Rus' in 1240.

The most powerful successor state to Kievan Rus' was the Grand Duchy of Moscow. It would annex rivals such as Tver and Novgorod, and eventually become the basis of the modern Russian state. Under the rule of Ivan III, called Ivan the Great, the Grand Duchy managed to threw off the control of the Golden Horde in the Battle of Kulikovo (1380). After the fall of Constantinople in 1453, Moscow claimed succession to the legacy of the Eastern Roman Empire. In 1547, the Tsardom of Russia was founded with the coronation of Ivan the Terrible. Despite his cruel rule, Ivan managed to strengthen the Tsardom, but only under the rule of Peter the Great the Russian Empire became a real world power. Peter secured Russia's access to the sea by conquering Sweden, Estland and Livland. His reforms brought considerable Western European cultural influences to Russia as well as a new capital: Saint Petersburg. After the long, brutal reign of the immortal tsar Koschei the Deathless, Catherine the Great continued the efforts to establish Russia as one of the great powers of Europe. During the Napoleonic Wars, Russia managed to overwhelm Napoleon's troops, who clearly where not prepared for the merciless Russian winter. At the beginning of the twentieth century, Russia joined the War in the Air, while being divided within itself, torn apart by conflicts between revolutionaries and reactionaries.

After the Freedo-Moronian troops attacked their neighbouring nation of Serbia, Russia joined the First World War in aid of the Entente. The already existing public distrust of the tsar, the rising costs of war and the enormous casualties during the battles against Germany and the Freedo-Moronian Empire ignited the Russian Revolution of 1917. Under the command of Vladimir Lenin, a series of violent uprisings overthrew the Russian monarchy. The second revolution, the October Revolution, led to the creation of the first socialist state which would later be called the USSR. In 1921, Russia initiated a communications blackout with the rest of the world, and built a heavily guarded wall against its European border called the "Red Curtain". For plenty of years their was no contact to the outside world apart from rumors about a strange cold and the destruction of entire cities. Following Lenin's death in 1924, Joseph Dshugashwilli consolidated power, becoming a dictator that is comonly refered to as "the Fearless Leader". His merciless rule was marked with propaganda, espionage, public distrust and the time of the Great Terror. During the Second World War, the troops of German dictator Adenoid Hynkel invaded Russia, breaking the Russian-German non-aggression pact signed by Hynkel and the Fearless Leader. Althought the German army had considerable success early on, they suffered defeats after reaching the outskirts of Moscow and the Soviet forces managed to press the front towards Europe again and were able to capture Berlin in 1945. Installing socalist governments in the occupied parts of Eastern Europe, becoming the world's second nuclear weapons power and hiding again behind the Red Curtain, the USSR entered into a struggle for global dominance with the United States, which became known as the Cold War.

In the years to come the contact to Russia was cut of again and the European intelligence agencies who spied on Russian radio stations only heared a single message repeated over and over: "Brotherhood, Strength, and Fortitude...in the face of the angry night." In December 1949, the Red Curtain was suddenly breached by numerous forces of an extraterrestrial species known as the Chimera. These alien beings where actually Russian people who where infected by an unknown extraterrestrial virus. The Chimeran forces overrun continental Europe by February 1950 and proceed to dig underneath the English Channel, invading Britain in late 1950. Only the combined efforts of Russian, European and American forces were able to overwhelm the alien hordes and the British SRPA (Special Research Projects Agency) even found a cure for the virus.

After Russia regained its freedom from the alien conquerors, the Cold War continued to increase the tension between the East and the West. The Cold War threatened to escalate more then once, most notably during the Cuba crisis, the Strangelove Incident and the Vietnam war. During the Cold War, Russia achieved many technological improvements like the launch of the world's first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1 and a powerful satellite weapon called "GoldenEye". During its last years, the economy was afflicted by shortages of goods in grocery stores, huge budget deficits and explosive growth in money supply leading to inflation. In August 1991, an unsuccessful military coup against Gorbachev aimed at preserving the Soviet Union instead led to its collapse. In Russia, Boris Yeltsin came to power and declared the end of socialist rule. The USSR splintered into fifteen independent republics and was officially dissolved in December 1991, creating among other nations the Russian Federation. Boris Yeltsin was elected the President of Russia in June 1991, in the first direct presidential election in Russian history. After some years, the attempted assassination of Golovko, head of the SVR (formerly the KGB) turned out to be an attempt to sow confusion in the Russian government because of China's designs to annex Eastern Siberia, where geologists had recently discovered a large amount of oil and gold. The following Sino-Russian War led to the inclusion of Russia into NATO and the assistance of US forces in the battle against China, which would surrender to the USA and Russia after the raid of the Politburo in Beijing by student demonstrators, which caused a Chinese change of politics.

The Chernobyl Disaster of 1986 influenced the development of Russia at the End of the 20th century, but the second nuclear reactor accident at the Chernobyl Power Plant in 2006 had an even greater impact. After the explosion, the Russian government created "The Zone", a protected area inhabited only by mutated people and creatures. But the lost secrets of Russian government technology, the ghost city Pripyat and the artifacts found near the inexplicable anomalies attracted the attention of the S.T.A.L.K.E.R.s : "Scavengers, Trespassers, Adventurers, Loners, Killers, Explorers, Robbers". The Zone turned into a home of mutants, criminals, fanatics and other lawless groups that lived in a state of constant warfare.

The financial crisis and foot riots of 2017 led to the strengthening of the militaristic, scientific Ushi Party in Russia. Out of fear of an upcoming revolution, the Russian government banned the Ushi Party and declared its young, dissident leader Grigor Stoyanovich an enemy of the state. This harsh political act led to a violent uprising of sympathizers of the Ushi Party in the following year. This radical group led by Grigor Stoyanovich managed to seize power over the city of Voronezh, a major political power in Western Russia. But the battle took an unusual turn after the arrival of Sergei Molotov and the alleged US agent Molly Ryan, two time travellers who came to the past to stop Grigor, claiming his revolution would turn into a bloody campaign for world domination. Although Stoyanovich's future successor, the sentient cyborg Grigor II, managed to send a whole army of hightech robots in order to support the uprising, Molotov and Ryan where able to get to Grigor and executed him. Thanks to reverse engineering, Russia's technological level increased drastically. With this new power, Russia began to invade the Middle East because of the global shortage of raw materials, thus coming in conflict with the European Union and the Indian Khanate who had similar plans. In 2077, the struggle for Middle Eastern dominance led to the nuclear holocaust of the Third World War.

Sources:


*Russian folklore - Koschei the Deathless
*The War in the Air by H.G. Wells - War in the Air
*Rocky and Bullwinkle - Fearless Leader
*The Great Dictator - Adenoid Hynkel
*Resistance series - Red Curtain, Chimera
*Dr. Strangelove - Strangelove Incident
*James Bond - GoldenEye
*Jack Ryan series - Sino-Russian War
*STALKER - the Chernobyl zone
*Empire Earth's Russian campaign - Grigor Stoyanovich, Ushi Party, Grigor II



Of course you can change the text if you wish. For instance I am worried that the Chimera invasion would be to destructive and "apocalyptic" to fit into your continuity.

Which Third World War are you refering to in the English pedia? I mean, there are many WW IIIs in modern fiction (Fallout, Star Trek, Ghost in a Shell, just to name a few)
And secondly, you posted the American pedia entry sometime ago. In that text it's said, that the US joined Great Britain to form Oceania, but Oceania isn't mentioned in England's text. It would be nice if you could mention Oceania somewhere or it would look like Big Brother ruled only over Airstrip One. :rolleyes:

Sorry for the double posting, but I was in the right mood for writing. ;)

Hope this fits your expectations as well as your continuity:


RUSSIA:

In ancient times, the vast steppes of Southern Russia were home to disunited tribes of nomadic people like the Scythians, Bulgarians, Bosporans and Khazars as well as trading colonies established by Greek explorers in the latter part of the eighth century BC. But the ancestors of modern Russia are the Slavic tribes who settled the lands vacated by the migrating Germanic tribes in two waves and slowly but peacefully assimilated the native Finno-Ugric tribes.

The 9th century saw the establishment of Kievan Rus', a predecessor state to Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. Scandinavian Norsemen, called "Vikings" in Western Europe and "Varangians" in the East, combined piracy and trade in their roamings over much of Northern Europe. In the 10th to 11th centuries this state of Kievan Rus' became the largest and most prosperous in Europe. The reigns of Vladimir the Great (980-1015) and his son Yaroslav I the Wise (1019–1054) constitute the Golden Age of Kiev, which saw the acceptance of Orthodox Christianity and the creation of the first East Slavic written legal code, the Russkaya Pravda.
In the 11th and 12th centuries, the Kievan Rus' was, like many other parts of Eurasia overrun by the Mongolians, who formed the state of the Golden Horde which ruled over the area for over three centuries. However, the Novgorod Republic managed to retain a certain degree of autonomy and was spared the atrocities that affected the rest of the country. While Novgorod experienced a Golden Age, Kiev's dominance waned because of in-fighting between its rulers and regular raids by the Golden Horde, which conquered the Rus' in 1240.

The most powerful successor state to Kievan Rus' was the Grand Duchy of Moscow. It would annex rivals such as Tver and Novgorod, and eventually become the basis of the modern Russian state. Under the rule of Ivan III, called Ivan the Great, the Grand Duchy managed to threw off the control of the Golden Horde in the Battle of Kulikovo (1380). After the fall of Constantinople in 1453, Moscow claimed succession to the legacy of the Eastern Roman Empire. In 1547, the Tsardom of Russia was founded with the coronation of Ivan the Terrible. Despite his cruel rule, Ivan managed to strengthen the Tsardom, but only under the rule of Peter the Great the Russian Empire became a real world power. Peter secured Russia's access to the sea by conquering Sweden, Estland and Livland. His reforms brought considerable Western European cultural influences to Russia as well as a new capital: Saint Petersburg. After the long, brutal reign of the immortal tsar Koschei the Deathless, Catherine the Great continued the efforts to establish Russia as one of the great powers of Europe. During the Napoleonic Wars, Russia managed to overwhelm Napoleon's troops, who clearly where not prepared for the merciless Russian winter. At the beginning of the twentieth century, Russia joined the War in the Air, while being divided within itself, torn apart by conflicts between revolutionaries and reactionaries.

After the Freedo-Moronian troops attacked their neighbouring nation of Serbia, Russia joined the First World War in aid of the Entente. The already existing public distrust of the tsar, the rising costs of war and the enormous casualties during the battles against Germany and the Freedo-Moronian Empire ignited the Russian Revolution of 1917. Under the command of Vladimir Lenin, a series of violent uprisings overthrew the Russian monarchy. The second revolution, the October Revolution, led to the creation of the first socialist state which would later be called the USSR. In 1921, Russia initiated a communications blackout with the rest of the world, and built a heavily guarded wall against its European border called the "Red Curtain". For plenty of years their was no contact to the outside world apart from rumors about a strange cold and the destruction of entire cities. Following Lenin's death in 1924, Joseph Dshugashwilli consolidated power, becoming a dictator that is comonly refered to as "the Fearless Leader". His merciless rule was marked with propaganda, espionage, public distrust and the time of the Great Terror. During the Second World War, the troops of German dictator Adenoid Hynkel invaded Russia, breaking the Russian-German non-aggression pact signed by Hynkel and the Fearless Leader. Althought the German army had considerable success early on, they suffered defeats after reaching the outskirts of Moscow and the Soviet forces managed to press the front towards Europe again and were able to capture Berlin in 1945. Installing socalist governments in the occupied parts of Eastern Europe, becoming the world's second nuclear weapons power and hiding again behind the Red Curtain, the USSR entered into a struggle for global dominance with the United States, which became known as the Cold War.

In the years to come the contact to Russia was cut of again and the European intelligence agencies who spied on Russian radio stations only heared a single message repeated over and over: "Brotherhood, Strength, and Fortitude...in the face of the angry night." In December 1949, the Red Curtain was suddenly breached by numerous forces of an extraterrestrial species known as the Chimera. These alien beings where actually Russian people who where infected by an unknown extraterrestrial virus. The Chimeran forces overrun continental Europe by February 1950 and proceed to dig underneath the English Channel, invading Britain in late 1950. Only the combined efforts of Russian, European and American forces were able to overwhelm the alien hordes and the British SRPA (Special Research Projects Agency) even found a cure for the virus.

After Russia regained its freedom from the alien conquerors, the Cold War continued to increase the tension between the East and the West. The Cold War threatened to escalate more then once, most notably during the Cuba crisis and the Vietnam war. During the Cold War, Russia achieved many technological improvements like the launch of the world's first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1 and a powerful satellite weapon called "GoldenEye". During its last years, the economy was afflicted by shortages of goods in grocery stores, huge budget deficits and explosive growth in money supply leading to inflation. In August 1991, an unsuccessful military coup against Gorbachev aimed at preserving the Soviet Union instead led to its collapse. In Russia, Boris Yeltsin came to power and declared the end of socialist rule. The USSR splintered into fifteen independent republics and was officially dissolved in December 1991, creating among other nations the Russian Federation. Boris Yeltsin was elected the President of Russia in June 1991, in the first direct presidential election in Russian history. After some years, the attempted assassination of Golovko, head of the SVR (formerly the KGB) turned out to be an attempt to sow confusion in the Russian government because of China's designs to annex Eastern Siberia, where geologists had recently discovered a large amount of oil and gold. The following Sino-Russian War led to the inclusion of Russia into NATO and the assistance of US forces in the battle against China, which would surrender to the USA and Russia after the raid of the Politburo in Beijing by student demonstrators, which caused a Chinese change of politics.

The financial crisis and foot riots of 2017 led to the strengthening of the militaristic, scientific Ushi Party in Russia. Out of fear of an upcoming revolution, the Russian government banned the Ushi Party and declared its young leader Grigor Stoyanovich an enemy of the state. This harsh political act led to a violent uprising of sympathizers of the Ushi Party led by Stoyanovich in the following year. After the successfull revolution, Grigor Stoyanich turned Russia, again, into a dictatorship called Novaya Russia. In the following decades, the foreign disapproval of Novaya Russia induced Stoyanovich to lead several invasions of Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, Great Britain, the Middle East and Africa which turned Novaya Russia into the largest and one of the most prosperous and technologically advanced nations in the world. Stoyanich's successor was the sentient cyborg Grigor II, who continued his predecessor's conquest of the world by invading and subjugating China, thus gaining control over China's superior technology and Mars colonisation program. This Golden Age of Russia finally ended with the slow decline of Novaya Russia after the sudden disappearance of Grigor II and his cyberneticially enhanced general Sergei Molotov together with a relevant part of the Russian army during the conquest of Cuba and the attempted invasion of the USA. It is said, that Molotov travelled back in time in order to futilely attempt to stop Grigor's bloody conquest for world dominaton.

Sources:


*Russian history
*Russian folklore - Koschei the Deathless
*The War in the Air by H.G. Wells - War in the Air
*Rocky and Bullwinkle - Fearless Leader
*The Great Dictator - Adenoid Hynkel
*Resistance series - Red Curtain, Chimera
*James Bond - GoldenEye
*Jack Ryan series - Sino-Russian War
*Empire Earth's Russian campaign - Grigor Stoyanovich, Ushi Party, Novaya Russia, Grigor II



Of course you can change the text if you wish. For instance I am worried that the Chimera invasion would be to destructive and "apocalyptic" to fit into your continuity.

Which Third World War are you refering to in the English pedia? I mean, there are many WW IIIs in modern fiction (Fallout, Star Trek, Ghost in a Shell, just to name a few)
And secondly, you posted the American pedia entry sometime ago. In that text it's said, that the US joined Great Britain to form Oceania, but Oceania isn't mentioned in England's text. It would be nice if you could mention Oceania somewhere or it would look like Big Brother ruled only over Airstrip One. :rolleyes:

Nice job!

But I'm not sure I'll use the Empire Earth reference, mainly because that storyline pretty much cancels itself out thanks to the time travel at the end.

And I'm mainly referring to WWIII as it happened in Star Trek. You can tie a lot of different apocalyptic ideas into that one event (right now Trek, Children of Men and V for Vendetta are referenced in the English entry; the American one has glances to The Handmaid's Tale and The Road), but I'm mainly going by Trek continuity.

And the thing about 1984 is that the novel has a very unreliable narrator. Everything Winston Smith knows about the world is fed to him by IngSoc propoganda. And even that's pretty vague. In reality we can't know how much power IngSoc has, or even if Big Brother is a real person or just a mascot for the party. Look at Kim Jong-Il. He's essentially fabricated a reality where the world fears him and everyone looks to North Korea for their communist might. It's quite possible IngSoc is doing the same. So I've been using that obfuscation as a loophole. I'll expand on it once I write the pedia for Big Brother.

And just to warn you, the events of 1984 take place in 1948 in this mod. Alan Moore's The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen, which most of this mod is based on, does this because according to Moore, Orwell wanted the book to be called 1948, but was convinced to push the date further into the future by his publisher.

But in America's entry, Oceania is mentioned. I've decided that Oceania isn't so much a country as it is a league of countries pledged to mutual protection, much like NATO.

Nice job!

But I'm not sure I'll use the Empire Earth reference, mainly because that storyline pretty much cancels itself out thanks to the time travel at the end.


Thanks :D

I guess I will write some more pedias but my knowledge of fiction is limited. At the moment I could come up with plenty ideas for Germany, China and some for Japan and the Zulus, so please warn me if you are currently writing one of these. I've got some ideas we could add to the US, too.

Novaya Russia apears in another campaign (Asian campaign of Empire Earth - The Art of Conquest, if you are interested) so I guesse somebody DID fullfil Grigor's plan.

Regarding the time travel I see three possible solutions:
*Leave out Novaya Russia entirely (however, this would make Russia's modern history quite dull, IMO)
*Use the text I suggested at first and say that they travelled to a different dimension/version of Earth
*Let the revolution start, but let it be prevented by the time travelling Sergei Molotov and Molly Ryan (she is the US agent that opened Molotov's eyes about Grigor II's cruel reign)

If you choose the latter, I will write the new ending for Russia's pedia, of course.

Thanks :D

I guess I will write some more pedias but my knowledge of fiction is limited. At the moment I could come up with plenty ideas for Germany, China and some for Japan and the Zulus, so please warn me if you are currently writing one of these. I've got some ideas we could add to the US, too.

Novaya Russia apears in another campaign (Asian campaign of Empire Earth - The Art of Conquest, if you are interested) so I guesse somebody DID fullfil Grigor's plan.

Regarding the time travel I see three possible solutions:
*Leave out Novaya Russia entirely (however, this would make Russia's modern history quite dull, IMO)
*Use the text I suggested at first and say that they travelled to a different dimension/version of Earth
*Let the revolution start, but let it be prevented by the time travelling Sergei Molotov and Molly Ryan (she is the US agent that opened Molotov's eyes about Grigor II's cruel reign)

If you choose the latter, I will write the new ending for Russia's pedia, of course.

I'm gonna go with the latter. And if you want to add anything, you might get some inspiration from Tony Kushner's "Slavs! Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness", Tintin in the Land of the Soviets (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tintin_in_the_Land_of_the_Soviets), and of course there's plenty of classic Russian literature you can raid, plus I'm sure there are some Russians on this board who can help you out.

And I'm not really writing any pedia entries right now. I'm focusing on art and XML. So if you have pedia ideas, I'd love your help.

Alright, this is the new ending of Russia's pedia entry:


The financial crisis and foot riots of 2017 led to the strengthening of the militaristic, scientific Ushi Party in Russia. Out of fear of an upcoming revolution, the Russian government banned the Ushi Party and declared its young, dissident leader Grigor Stoyanovich an enemy of the state. This harsh political act led to a violent uprising of sympathizers of the Ushi Party in the following year. This radical group led by Grigor Stoyanovich managed to seize power over the city of Voronezh, a major political power in Western Russia. But the battle took an unusual turn after the arrival of Sergei Molotov and the alleged US agent Molly Ryan, two time travellers who came to the past to stop Grigor, claiming his revolution would turn into a bloody campaign for world domination. Although Stoyanovich's future successor, the sentient cyborg Grigor II, managed to send a whole army of hightech robots in order to support the uprising, Molotov and Ryan where able to get to Grigor and executed him.

Ok, I've finished China and I can only say: Well, that one got quite long :eek:


CHINA:

The recorded history of China goes back hundreds of thousends of years, coming from a time when even Hyboria and Atlantis still where primitive tribal territory. At that time, the nomadic tribes of China where controlled by an immortal god king called the Jade Emperor, who was originally the crown prince of the kingdom of Pure Felicity and Majestic Heavenly Lights and Ornaments. Although some sources claim, that the Jade Emperor ruled since the beginning of time itself, this claim seems to be a massive exaggeration. Still, the Jade Emperor's rule lasted for at least a million years. After the Jade Emperor achieved godhood and founded China's pantheon, the Celestial bureaucracy, his reign of peace was over: Out of anger of loosing the fight for the throne of Heaven, the monstrous water god Gong Gong nearly smashed the pillar holding the sky. Gong Gong was calmed down by Nüwa and her brother and companion Fu Xi who also repaired the damaged pillar of Heaven. In order to speed up the procreation of mankind, Nüwa and Fu Xi formed the first modern humen by using clay to create humanoid figures and making them to come alive using the power granted by the Jade Emperor. Soon, Fu Xi came to rule over his descendents, being China's first mortal sovereign as well as the first of the Three August Ones. During Fu Xi's 116-year government (2952 to 2836 BC), China made first contact with the Four Heavenly Kings, immortal rulers of what would later be India, Tibet and Shambhala, and the land turned into the home for plenty of powerful beings like the Eight Immortals, the wise Xi Wangmu, called Queen Mother of the West as well as the Four Symbols: the Azure Dragon of the East, the Vermillion Bird of the South, the White Tiger of the West and the Black Tortoise of the North.

The Second August One was Emperor Shennong, who was succeeded by Huang Di the Yellow Emperor in the year 2497 BC. For his numerous accomplishments like the invention of the principles of traditional Chinese medicine and for defeating the dissident tribe of Chi You, the Yellow Emperor was granted godhood after his death. The rule of the Three August Ones was followed by the Age of the Five Emperors: Shaohao, Zhuanxu, Ku, Yao and Shun. Each of these monarchs increased the power and influence of the fast growing China even further. During the time of Shun, the Yellow River erupted in a huge flood. A wise man named Yu was put in charge of flood control, and taught the people in building canals and levees. After thirteen years of toil, flooding problems were solved under Yu's command. Because of this great achievment, Shun passed the leadership to Yu, who would later been called Yu the Great, on his death bed. Upon Yu's death, his position as leader was passed not to his deputy, but was inherited by his son Qi. Qi's succession broke the previous convention of meritorious succession, and began what is traditionally regarded as the first dynasty in Chinese history. The dynasty is called "Xia" after Yu's centre of power.

Around 1600 BC, Jie, a bloodthirsty despot of the Xia Dynasty, ruled over China. During his brutal rule, the gods cursed China with a harsh climat change and with hordes of rampaging ghouls. Jie was overthrown by the tribal leader Tang of Shang, who established the Shang Dynasty. This blood line would later end nearly the same way as there predecessor: It was overthrown by the Zhou Dynasty in order to stop the brutal tyrant Zhou of Shang, the last one of the Shang Dynasty. After the uprising against Zhou of Shang, many strong, independent states continually waged war with each other in the Spring and Autumn period.

The first really unified Chinese state since the rule of Fu Xi was founded by Han the Dragon Emperor, king of the Qin state. Han united the warring states of China by force using his great army of men as well as Loong dragons. As his first act as Emperor, he orderd the construction of the Great Wall Of China, burying his former enemies beneath it and cursing them to hold it up for all eternity. The Great Wall was supposed to be an impregnable line of defense against the pastoral nomads from the steppes in the North as well as the Himalayan kingdoms like Tibet and Ling. In order to achieve immortality, the Dragon Emperor imprisoned the witch Zi Yuan from Shambala, who had the power to grant endless life. But instead of blessing Han, Zi Yuan cursed the Dragon Emperor and his warriors, transforming them into the Terracotta Army. The subsequent Han Dynasty ruled China between 206 BCE and 220 CE, and created a lasting Han cultural identity among its populace that would last to the present day. The Han Dynasty expanded the empire's territory considerably with military campaigns reaching Korea, Vietnam, Mongolia and Central Asia, and also helped establish the Silk Road in Central Asia.

After Han's collapse, another period of disunion followed, including the highly chivalric period of the Three Kingdoms. Independent Chinese states of this period also opened diplomatic relations with Japan, introducing the Chinese writing system there. In 580 CE, China was reunited under the Sui Dynasty led by the legendary lovers Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, who managed to conquer the other kingdoms using the powerful sword Glory of Ten Powers. Under the succeeding Tang and Song dynasties, Chinese technology and culture reached its zenith: The Song Dynasty was the first government in world history to issue paper money and the first Chinese polity to establish a permanent standing navy. Between the 10th and 11th centuries, the population of China doubled in size. This growth came about through expanded rice cultivation in central and southern China, and the production of abundant food surpluses. The following centuries are also very characteristic for the spread of Buddhism and Taoism in China. The adventures of people like Xuanzang, the monkey king Sun Wukong, Song Jiang, a rebel and bandit similiar to Robin Hood, and Bai SuZhan, a snake demoness who tried to achieve godhood by performing good deeds, left their marks during this Golden Age of China.

At the beginning of the 13th century, not even Chinese war legends like Hua Mulan were able to stop the invading Monoglians led by Genghis Khan. But the Chinese Empire would only be the first victim of the Mongolian hordes. In 1271, the Mongol leader and the fifth Khagan of the Mongol Empire Kublai Khan established the Yuan Dynasty and the new de-facto capital of Xanadu, with the last remnant of the Song Dynasty falling to the Yuan in 1279 after the completion of the conquest. A peasant named Zhu Yuanzhang overthrew the Mongols in 1368 and founded the Ming Dynasty. China's capital was moved from Xanadu to Beijing during the early Ming Dynasty. The Ming fell to the Manchus in 1644, who then established the Qing Dynasty. An estimated 25 million people died during the Manchu conquest of the Ming Dynasty (1616–1644). But the royal families of the Qing Dynasty, most notably the estranged houses of the Jia Clan, where fighting battles for power among themselves, thus weakening the empire.

The Qing Dynasty, which lasted until 1912, was the last dynasty in China. In the 19th century, the Qing Dynasty adopted a defensive posture towards European imperialism, even though it engaged in imperialistic expansion into Central Asia itself. At this time China awoke to the significance of the rest of the world, in particular the West. As China opened up to foreign trade and missionary activity, opium produced by British India was forced onto Qing China. Two Opium Wars with Britain weakened the Emperor's control. One result was the Taiping Civil War, which lasted from 1851 to 1862, costing 20 to 200 million lives, thus being one of the bloodiest wars in human history. Other costly rebellions following the Taiping Rebellion and the flow of British opium hastened the empire's fall. The creation of the Confederation of Eastern Asia together with Japa in 1907 and the following War in the Air weakend the empire even further. Doktor Fu Manchu, an insidious scientist and criminal mastermind, used the empire's weakness for his own sinister plans, ones even seizing the power over China for a short time.

The empire's foreseeable decline took place on 1 January 1912 with the founding of the Republic of China. Sun Yat-sen of the Kuomintang Party was proclaimed provisional president of the republic but soon he was replaces by Yuan Shikai, a former Qing general. After Yuan Shikai's death in 1916, China was politically fragmented, with an internationally recognized but virtually powerless national government seated in Beijing. Warlords in various regions exercised actual control over their respective territories. Only in the late 1920s, the Kuomintang, under Chiang Kai-shek, was able to reunify the country under its own control. During World War II, China had to defend its territory against Japan. With the surrender of Japan in 1945, China emerged victorious but financially drained. This led to the Chinese Civil War and the foundation of the People's Republic of China ruled over by the Communist Party of China led by Mao Zedong.

After the Chinese Civil War, mainland China underwent a series of disruptive socioeconomic movements starting in the late 1950s with the Great Leap Forward and continuing in the 1960s with the Cultural Revolution that left much of its education system and economy in shambles. With the death of its first generation Communist Party leaders such as Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai, the PRC began implementing a series of political and economic reforms advocated by Wu Qinghua, the first female leader of China, that eventually formed the foundation for mainland China's rapid economic development starting in the 1990s.

After some years, the PRC's regieme attempted the assassination of Golovko, head of the SVR (formerly the KGB) in order to sow confusion in the Russian government because of China's designs to annex Eastern Siberia, where geologists had redently discovered a large amount of oil and gold. The following Sino-Russian War led to the USA assisting the losing Russia in its battles against China. The PRC surrendered to its enemies after the raid of the Politburo in Beijing by student demonstrators. This uprising led to a massive change of Chinese politics, the introduction of democracy and China's convergence to the US. Together with its new American ally, China successfully crushed a radical, anarchic terrorist group with unclear goals called GLA (Global Liberation Army) of Middle Eastern, Maoist and former Soviet origins in the War against Terror. Altough China won the war, it emptied their financial reserves and it suffered from losses like the destruction of the Three Gorges Dam and a devastating attack on Beijing.

In the following years, China developed to an independent, scientific nation with a good relationship to Japan and diplomatic silence concerning America that has turned into a theocracy called the Republic of Gilead. The members of the Kwan Do familiy, owners of Kwan Do Electronics and Communications and proud descendants of Han the Dragon Emperor, were the de-facto rulers of China as their money and their technology was supposed to allow the desired colonisation of space. These ambitious plans attracted the attention of the Eye of God, a fanatical terrorist group from Gilead, that was of the oppinion, that Earth, as it is God's chosen planet, should be the only planet inhabited by the human race. In spite of several devestating terrorist attacks, the UFAR (United Federation of Asian Republics) and Japan managed to send a colonisation shuttle to Mars. The planet would be divided in the Eastern Hemisphere controlled by the Kwan Do familiy and the Western Himsphere controlled by the Wong family, who bought the planet from the native marsians, called Barsoomians.

In the year 2066 the tension between the People's Republic of China and the Republic of Gilead reached a critial stage. Because of the international shortage of resources, China launched an invasion to conquer Alaska's reserves of raw materials. In the next eleven years, a bloody war of attrition took place along the Pacific coast of Alaska, Canada and Gilead. On the 23. October 2077 (later called Judgment Day), the American leader Robert L. Booth finally launched most of Gilead's nuclear weapons in response to international opposition, aiming not only at China but at Russia too. China answered to this attack with the launch of its own weapons of mass destruction. So did all of the superpowers around the world, leading to World War III. Except for America, China suffered the biggest losses during the Atomic War: The Chinese mainland was totally destroyed and turned into the so-called Radlands of Ji. The only areas of China that where protect with anti-missle defences were the newly founded megacities Sino-City One, Sino-City Two and Hong Kong. Making use of the chaos on Earth, Khan Sun Do, a member of the Kwan Do family, united the colonies on Mars and declared them indepentend from their homeplanet, starting Earth's first interstellar war.


Sources

*Chinese folklore and mythology (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese mythology) - a lot (those ancient Chinese writers must have been as hard-working as an ant colony!)
*Buddhist mythology (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhist mythology) - Four Heavenly Kings
*The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomb of the Dragon Emperor) - Han the Dragon Emperor (replacing Qin Shi Huangdi)
*Epic of King Gesar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic of King Gesar) - Ling
*Butterfly Lovers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly Lovers) - Liang Shanbo, Zhu Yingtai
*The Glory of Ten Powers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The Glory of Ten Powers) - Glory of Ten Powers
*Journey to the West (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey to the West) - Sun Wukong, Xuanzang
*Water Margin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water Margin) - Song Jiang
*The Legend of the White Snake (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legend_of_the_White_Snake) - Bai SuZhen
*Hua Mulan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hua Mulan) - Hua Mulan
*Xanadu (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xanadu) - Xanadu
*Dream of the Red Chamber (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream of the Red Chamber) - Jia Clan
*The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fu Manchu) - Fu Manchu
*The War in the Air (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The War in the Air) - War in the Air
*Red Detachment of Women (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red Detachment of Women) - Wu Qinghu
*Jack Ryan novels (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack Ryan) - Sino-Russian War
*Command & Conquer: Generals (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command & Conquer: Generals) - GLA, War against Terror
*Empire Earth: AoC's Asian campaign (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_Earth:_The_Art_of_Conquest) - Kwan Do, colonisation of Mars
*Futurama (Where the Buggalo Roam) - Wong family, native marsians
*Works of Edgar R. Burroughs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barsoom) - Barsoom
*Fallout (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallout series) - Invasion of Alaska, World War III
*Judge Dredd (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judge Dredd) - Robert L. Booth, Megacities, Radlands of Ji

Very nice. Although I'm not entirely sure that the Republic of Gilead and the Mega-Cities are the same political entity. I think America is fractured in the future, with the Dredd Mega City on the east coast, Gilead in New England, and the remnants of American liberal democracy remaining on the West Coast, where the capitol of The United Federation of Planets will be based. Good portions of the South will be the charred hellscapes of The Road.

And I think you could squeeze in a few glances at other works. Hua Mulan could be included in the Mongol Invasion part, and the Kubla Khan could use a mention of Xanadu. Maybe there could be a reference to Bertholt Brecht's The Good Person of Szechuan as well.

By the way, I'm working on a pedia entry for the Freedo-Moronikan Empire, and if I have time I'll do one for Atlantis as well.

Very nice. Although I'm not entirely sure that the Republic of Gilead and the Mega-Cities are the same political entity. I think America is fractured in the future, with the Dredd Mega City on the east coast, Gilead in New England, and the remnants of American liberal democracy remaining on the West Coast, where the capitol of The United Federation of Planets will be based. Good portions of the South will be the charred hellscapes of The Road.

And I think you could squeeze in a few glances at other works. Hua Mulan could be included in the Mongol Invasion part, and the Kubla Khan could use a mention of Xanadu. Maybe there could be a reference to Bertholt Brecht's The Good Person of Szechuan as well.

By the way, I'm working on a pedia entry for the Freedo-Moronikan Empire, and if I have time I'll do one for Atlantis as well.


Well, I think that the Mega-Cities gained independence of Gilead after World War III and that Booth was a leader of Gilead (instead of the president of America as it was in Judge Dredd).

Thanks for the suggestions! I'll look into them as soon as possibly, but I will try to avoid expending China's entry to much, it seems already quite long as it is.

EDIT: Done. I added references to Butterfly lovers, the Glory of Ten Powers, the Legend of White Snake, Mulan, Xanadu and the War in the Air.

My next project will be Germany. Any suggestions?

By the way, does the Freedo-Moronikan Empire replace the historical Austro-Hungarian Empire? If so, does Freedo-Moronia exist after World War I? Also, you might want to replace the Habsburgs with the Bombursts from Vulgaria as seen in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

Well, I think that the Mega-Cities gained independence of Gilead after World War III and that Booth was a leader of Gilead (instead of the president of America as it was in Judge Dredd).

Thanks for the suggestions! I'll look into them as soon as possibly, but I will try to avoid expending China's entry to much, it seems already quite long as it is.

EDIT: Done. I added references to Butterfly lovers, the Glory of Ten Powers, the Legend of White Snake, Mulan, Xanadu and the War in the Air.

My next project will be Germany. Any suggestions?

By the way, does the Freedo-Moronikan Empire replace the historical Austro-Hungarian Empire? If so, does Freedo-Moronia exist after World War I? Also, you might want to replace the Habsburgs with the Bombursts from Vulgaria as seen in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

I'll admit I'm not all that familiar with the Dredd series. Is there still an American state separate from the Mega-Cities that Booth controls? Because if not, it would make more sense for Booth to be leader of the Mega-Cities than Gilead.

I've only started the Freedo-Moronikan pedia, but here's what I have so far.

The Freedo-Moronikan Empire was a patchwork nation made of dozens of small pockets of ethnic groups centered in and around the Balkan peninsula. While its people consider the idea of the nation to stretch back to the reign of the Habsburgs and consider various medieval duchies such as Florin and Guilder to be their ancestors, the actual state of Freedo-Moronika only became an official entity in the mid 19th century.

Formed from the remnants of various fiefdoms and duchies of medieval Europe, the Freedo-Moronikan Pact of 1867 was an attempt to consildate power amongst the weaker nations of Eastern Europe in the face of the rising powers of a united Italy to the south and a newly nationalist Germany to the west. Its primary cosigners, Freedonia and Moronika, while not major powers themselves, believed in the rule of strength in numbers. And the many nations brought into this pact created a diverse country which played upon the strengths of many nations. Among these nations were Ruritania, which served as the seat of government thanks to a comprimise between Freedonia and Moronika. Latveria, home to one of Europe's largest population of Roma, was also included. The decadent Vulgarians, the proud Duchy of Grand Fenwick, tyrannical Meccania, and the athletic Klopstokians were also brought into the fold.

But this union was never a harmonious one. There was a brief time when the Empire was stable and prosperous, but the first signs of collapse came within the first decade of its founding. In the late 1870's and early 1880's, the monarchy of Ruritania saw a series of attempts on King Rupert V's life, which were only avoided thanks to a royal decoy. The attempted coups were mainly done out of a desire for power, but it nonetheless weakened the idea of a coherent state in the eyes of the Empire's citizens. Whispers of a new nationalism grew in the following decades.

Feelings simmered until 1914, when a young nationalist assassinated the Freedonian aristocrat Alexander Teasdale, starting a domino effect of nations coming to each other's aid and plegding the defeat of either side. Thus WWI was ignited. With the continent drowned in a bloodbath and the Empire wracked by war and strained national unity, the Freedo-Moronikan Empire would not survive the First World War.

Each of the Balkan nations that made up the Empire went its separate ways, giving rise to the term "Balkanization". Oddly enough, it was only after the Empire's glory days that its most colorful figures emerged. In the 1930's fascist parties were rising to power across Europe, and the nations of the former empire were no exception.

I'm thinking basing most of the early history of the Empire in Ruritania from The Prisoner of Zenda, since that was the novel that started the whole idea of political dramas set in fictional countries in the first place.

As for Germany, Wagner is a good bet for its early history, particularly Tannhauser and the Ring Cycle. I think there was an issue of Asterix where he met the Goths, so that could be used. There are plenty of fairy tales based in Germany as well (think the Brothers Grimm). I'd also look at Fritz Lang's Metropolis, The Great Dictator (since Hynkel is a leader), and The Tales of Hoffman. There's also plenty of outlandish stuff on the Nazi era you could use. I was thinking of making a few references to Return to Castle Wolfenstein, for example. Also, there's a pretty recent play called "Lebensraum" by Israel Horowitz that I once saw, and enjoyed very much. You could probably Google some information on that.

Hope that can get you started.

I'll admit I'm not all that familiar with the Dredd series. Is there still an American state separate from the Mega-Cities that Booth controls? Because if not, it would make more sense for Booth to be leader of the Mega-Cities than Gilead.


Booth was the president of the US (so in your continuity either Gilead or a part of America that still is a democracy) and started World War III. After the War, most of the US were turned into a devasteted nuclear wasteland called the Blacklands (if you are familar with it, I'd like to use the setting of Fallout for the Blacklands).
About one year after WWIII, Booth's cyborg troops where defeated by the Judges and the armies of the Megacities. Booth got imprisioned in Fort Knox but died soon. Years later, Booth's remains would be resurected and he would turn into the leader of the New Mutant Army. To create another Fallout reference, he will mutate himself and turn into the fanatic Master from Fallout I.


I've only started the Freedo-Moronikan pedia, but here's what I have so far.

The Freedo-Moronikan Empire was a patchwork nation made of dozens of small pockets of ethnic groups centered in and around the Balkan peninsula. While its people consider the idea of the nation to stretch back to the reign of the Habsburgs and consider various medieval duchies such as Florin and Guilder to be their ancestors, the actual state of Freedo-Moronika only became an official entity in the mid 19th century.

Formed from the remnants of various fiefdoms and duchies of medieval Europe, the Freedo-Moronikan Pact of 1867 was an attempt to consildate power amongst the weaker nations of Eastern Europe in the face of the rising powers of a united Italy to the south and a newly nationalist Germany to the west. Its primary cosigners, Freedonia and Moronika, while not major powers themselves, believed in the rule of strength in numbers. And the many nations brought into this pact created a diverse country which played upon the strengths of many nations. Among these nations were Ruritania, which served as the seat of government thanks to a comprimise between Freedonia and Moronika. Latveria, home to one of Europe's largest population of Roma, was also included. The decadent Vulgarians, the proud Duchy of Grand Fenwick, tyrannical Meccania, and the athletic Klopstokians were also brought into the fold.

But this union was never a harmonious one. There was a brief time when the Empire was stable and prosperous, but the first signs of collapse came within the first decade of its founding. In the late 1870's and early 1880's, the monarchy of Ruritania saw a series of attempts on King Rupert V's life, which were only avoided thanks to a royal decoy. The attempted coups were mainly done out of a desire for power, but it nonetheless weakened the idea of a coherent state in the eyes of the Empire's citizens. Whispers of a new nationalism grew in the following decades.

Feelings simmered until 1914, when a young nationalist assassinated the Freedonian aristocrat Alexander Teasdale, starting a domino effect of nations coming to each other's aid and plegding the defeat of either side. Thus WWI was ignited. With the continent drowned in a bloodbath and the Empire wracked by war and strained national unity, the Freedo-Moronikan Empire would not survive the First World War.

Each of the Balkan nations that made up the Empire went its separate ways, giving rise to the term "Balkanization". Oddly enough, it was only after the Empire's glory days that its most colorful figures emerged. In the 1930's fascist parties were rising to power across Europe, and the nations of the former empire were no exception.

I'm thinking basing most of the early history of the Empire in Ruritania from The Prisoner of Zenda, since that was the novel that started the whole idea of political dramas set in fictional countries in the first place.


Well, I don't know Prison of Zenda, but it sounds very nice. If you need suggestions for more material, you might want to look into some of this stuff:
The Dark Frontier (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The Dark Frontier), A Rubovian Legend (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Rubovian_Legend), Genovia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genovia), Graustark (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graustark), Molvonîa (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molvan%C3%AEa), Mendorra from One Life to Live (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mendorra) and this Tintin episode (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Ottokar%27s_Sceptre)


As for Germany, Wagner is a good bet for its early history, particularly Tannhauser and the Ring Cycle. I think there was an issue of Asterix where he met the Goths, so that could be used. There are plenty of fairy tales based in Germany as well (think the Brothers Grimm). I'd also look at Fritz Lang's Metropolis, The Great Dictator (since Hynkel is a leader), and The Tales of Hoffman. There's also plenty of outlandish stuff on the Nazi era you could use. I was thinking of making a few references to Return to Castle Wolfenstein, for example. Also, there's a pretty recent play called "Lebensraum" by Israel Horowitz that I once saw, and enjoyed very much. You could probably Google some information on that.

Hope that can get you started.

Thank you very much.
I'm from Austria, so trust me I know German fairy tales quite good. ;)
I already have plenty of ideas for early Germanic history, and some good thoughts regarding the Middle Age and modern times, but I'm still looking for something between World War II and World War III.

Well, as I said before, Israel Horowitz's Lebensraum could be an interesting thing to add. It's a play that imagines what would happen if the Chancellor of Germany started a program to invite 6 million Jews to the country as a way of healing the damage that the Holocaust created. Here's a review of the play (http://www.langhorneplayers.org/press/arch03lebensraum.html)

By the way, here's what I have on America

. .. .. .. .. .The United States is young by Civilization standards, being barely more than 200 years old. The United States did not expand to reach its current borders until the middle of the 19th century, and did not become a true world power until the middle of the 20th century. America was the first European colony to separate successfully from its motherland, and it was among the first nations to be established on the premise that sovereignty rests with its citizens and not with the government.

Prior to the 1770s, the American colonists were loyal subjects of the British Empire, but a combination of taxes and ministerial mismanagement of the situation led to the outbreak of revolution in 1776. Led by a band of intelligent men collectively known as The Founding Fathers, America managed to win the fight for independence against all odds and lay the constitutional foundation for America's future growth. In its first century and a half, the country was mainly preoccupied with its own territorial exploration, internal development, and economic growth. American politics evolved from quasi-aristocratic beginnings to become increasingly democratic during the 1820s and '30s. Westward expansion gave rise to a new breed of rugged individualism, exemplified by the brave gunslingers who brought a rudimentary sense of law to otherwise lawless territories. But despite the nation's rapid acquisition of territory and dramatic population growth, the spectre of slavery continued to divide the country between North and South. The struggle between anti- and pro-slavery advocates eventually erupted in a bloody Civil War that lasted four years and consumed hundreds of thousands of lives. In the end, the Union was preserved and the power of the central federal government greatly strengthened compared to before the conflict.[PARAGRAPH:2]Following the Civil War, the nation entered a period of unprecedented prosperity after the long conflict and reconstruction. In the ensuing two decades industrial production, the number of industrial workers, and the number of factories all more than doubled. European immigration, westward expansion, urban growth, technological advances, and a host of American inventions - including the telephone, typewriter, linotype, phonograph, electric light, cash register, air brake, refrigerator car, and the automobile - contributed to the American explosion, while widespread use of corporate organization offered new opportunities for large-scale financing of business enterprise and attracted new capital. America also spearheaded the first modern attempts at space exploration, when the Baltimore Columbiad was fired in 1867. But despite America's growth as one of the world's leading industrial powers, the nation still remained isolationist in outlook, paying little to no attention to the world outside its borders.

The Spanish-American War of 1898 marked the emergence of the United States onto the world's stage as a major power, but it was not until World War I that the country truly became invovled in world politics. Following the 1919 Versailles Peace Conference, the nation again turned its back on the rest of the world and enjoyed the prosperous decade known as the "Roaring Twenties". Unfortunately, this economic boom was not to last. Wall Street's stock market crashed in 1929 and kicked off the Great Depression of the 1930s. In the midst of constant bank failures and rampant unemployment, Franklin Roosevelt was elected president and set about to fix the country through his recovery plan called the "New Deal". The program was a mixed success economically, but helped restore hope and confidence to a people that were in serious need of both. Despite a coup by Charles Lindbergh, later revealed to be a Nazi agent, Roosevelt went on to lead the United States through the crucible of World War II, dying a few months before victory was won.

The Allied victory at the end of World War II left the United States as one of the world's two "superpowers" along with the Soviet Union. In only a few short years the two former allies had become opponents in the Cold War, a tense diplomatic standoff that would last for forty years. America would be the key player in the formation of the short-lived Oceania Pact, which would later evolve into NATO. Domestically, the nation enjoyed considerable prosperity in the 1950s, experienced a turbulent period of cultural and social change in the 1960s, and suffered through economic stagnation in the 1970s, with recovery taking place in the following decades. The Soviet Empire collapsed in 1991, but the nation faced new threats in the form of international terrorism. A devastating attack on the Capitol building left the government decapitated, with the unelected Jack Ryan taking office. It was under Ryan that the United States waged a new war with Iranian radicals bent on becoming a superpower of the Middle East. With the US under martial law, Ryan defeated the rising empire and helped restore balanced to the fractured government. His successor, the erudite Jed Bartlet, enjoyed an era of relative calm until a new covert war with Qumar broke out. In this new War on Terrorism, the US employed highly trained Navy SEALS to combat this new menace. After Bartlet, the charismatic Matthew Santos made history by becoming the nations first Latino president. Santos ushered in a new wave of liberal reform, causing the Religious Right to nominate the preacher Nehemiah Scudder to the presidency.

Under Scudder, America as it had existed collapsed. In New England, a theocracy called the Republic of Gilead sprang from America's ruins and dictated American culture for several decades. The rise of megacorporations and the founding of Mega-City One sustained American urban infastructure in the densely populated areas of the eastern seaboard. America was beginning to see its seat of power shift westward. During this time, the remnants of the nation faced not only a new World War, leaving a large part of the country ash-covered and abandoned, but also a global plague of infertility. Scudder's own plans for fertility harvesting, while callous and cruel, kept the American population afloat for the better part of the century. It wasn't until Zephram Cochrane, a backwoods engineer from Montana pulled together the greatest American invention, the warp drive, that America was back on its feet. The first test of the drive attracted the attention of Earth's closest galactic neighbors, who greeted humanity openly. While extraterrestrial life had been visiting Earth for millenia, this First Contact is widely regarded as the official date when humanity was accepted into the galactic community. By expanding humanity's horizons, the American people helped unite the world under a new banner that not only brought a new era into humanity's history, but also sealed America's place as a leader in the new world order.

Sources

Westerns (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_(genre)) - gunslingers
From the Earth to the Moon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_the_earth_to_the_moon) - the Baltimore Columbiad
The Plot Against America (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Plot_Against_America) - President Lindbergh
1984 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four) - Oceania
Executive Orders (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Orders) - Jack Ryan, the attack on the Capitol, and Iranian radicals
The West Wing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_West_Wing) - Jed Bartlet, Qumar and Matthew Santos
If This Goes On... (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_This_Goes_On) - Nehemiah Scudder
Judge Dredd (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judge_dredd) - mega cities and megacorporations
The Handmaid's Tale (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Handmaid%27s_Tale) - Gilead and the infertility plague
The Road (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road) - ash-covered middle America
Star Trek: First Contact (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_First_Contact) - Zephram Cochrane, the warp drive and First Contact



And remember, a lot of the smaller details can be fleshed out in other pedia entries like leader bios, unit info, etc.

Also, here's a unit pedia entry for The Big Bad Wolf (a barbarian hero that spawns with an event)

Angrboda was taken by Loki the Lie-smith, and from their union sprang Fenrir, the lord of wolves. The offspring of the trickster god was well known to the Norse, who prophesied that the wolf would swallow Odin whole at Ragnarok. Less well known was Fenrir's own son, a nameless bastard child conceived by the rape of a goddess of the North Wind. The child, simply called "The Big Bad" by many European cultures, had inherited his grandfather's deceitfulness, his father's bloodlust, and even some of his mother's power over the winds. The wolf had a well-known taste for goats and swine, nearly driving extinct a sapient species of pig that wouldn't regain prominence until the 1940's. In a well documented case, the wolf even was able to impersonate a human woman he had devoured in order to lure the woman's grandchild. From France to Greece to Russia, tales warning of the Big Bad Wolf are told to this day, since so many fear that the beast could still be alive.

Well, here it is: Germany. Hope it fits your expectations :bounce:


GERMANY

The history of what it now Germany begins with the Germanic tribes. From southern Scandinavia and northern Germany, the tribes began expanding south, east and west in the 1st century BC, coming into contact with the Celtic tribes of Gaul as well as Iranian, Baltic, and Slavic tribes in Eastern Europe. Little is known about early Germanic history, except through their recorded interactions with the Roman Empire, etymological research and archaeological finds, but it is confirmed, that the Germanics are descendants of the ancient Nemedians and Cimmerians. While the Roman Empire expanded its territory quite fast to Africa, Spain and Gaul, the first real Roman military campaign against Germania (a term used by the Romans to define a territory running roughly from the Rhine to the Ural Mountains) began under Emperor Augustus. While Rome's troops were able to conquer huge areas of Germania, modern Germany, as far as the Rhine and the Danube, remained outside the Roman Empire, as in 9 AD three entire Roman legions where defeated by an alliance of the Cheruscans led by Arminius and the Dwarves led by the sorcerer Alberich in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest. By AD 100, Germanic tribes settled along the Rhine and the Danube (the Limes Germanicus), occupying most of the area of modern Germany. While the conquered parts of Germania were integrated into the Roman Empire, the independent tribes maintened their tribal identity.

With the division of the Roman Empire and the beginning of the slow decline of western Rome, the Germanic tribes regained much of their strength and some of them, like the Nibelungs, gained fame and treasure by crossing the Limes and raiding the Roman border zones. One of the greatest Germanic heroes was Dietrich von Bern who is known for numerous adventures like slaying a dragon together with his fatherly friend Hildebrand and his fights against his uncle, the usurper Ermanaric. Possibly the most powerful realm of the Germanics was the Burgundian Kingdom, descendants of Gunderland, under King Gunther and his brothers Gernot and Giselher: After the defeat of Walter of Aquitaine by Gunther's men at Wasigenstei in the Wasgen Forest, Gunther offered the hand of his sister Kriemhild in marriage to the nearly invincible dragonslayer Siegfried, crown prince of Xanten and conquerer of the Hoard of the Nibelungs, thus creating an alliance between the two kingdoms. But after the marriage of Gunther and Brünhild of Iceland and the Burgundian victory against the invading Saxons, Siegfried was betrayed and murder by Gunther and his loyal follower Hagen of Tronje. However, Siegfried's widow Kriemhild hatched a plot to avenge her husbands death. She met with Etzel the Hun, whose hordes where invading Europe, near Tulln in order to marry him. For the baptism of their son, she invited her brothers, the Burgundians, to a feast at Etzel's castle in Hungary. There she provoked a fight leading to the death of all the Burgundians, Etzel's court and herself. Full of anger because of their kings death, the Huns attacked and destroyed Burgundy and its capital Worms, leading to the Great Migration. This Germanic onslaught would not only change the structure of the Germanic tribes for ever, it would also be a major factor for the collapse of Roman power.

After the decline of western Rome under Emperor Lucius Tiberius, a new order was established in Europe. On 25 December 800, Charlemagne founded the Carolingian Empire, which was divided in 843. Charlemagne was the forerunner of the Holy Roman Empire, largely because of the establishment of imperial coronation by the Pope of the Roman Catholic Church and his policy of "renovatio Romanorum imperii" (reviving the Roman Empire) which remained at least in theory as the official position of the Empire until its end in 1806. Prior to the foundation of the Holy Roman Empire, the duke of Saxony Heinrich I. the Fowler declared himself the king of the Germans in 919. Heinrich launched a massive campaign of conquest and studied the black arts becoming a highly skilled necromancer who was able to command entire armies of raised undead. In 936, Heinrich I. was banished to another plane of existence by a wizard hired by his own son Otto I. Otto inherited Heinrich's empire and expanded it even further by diplomatic means, creating the Holy Roman Empire and becoming crowned to the first Holy Roman Emperor in 962. At its peak of power, the Empire stretched from the Danish borders in the north to the northern parts of Italy in the south and from Belgium and Burgundy in the west to Prussia and what would later be Freedo-Moronika in the east, ruling over hundreds of kingdoms, duchies and other tiny nations like Graustark, Mendorra, Vulgaria, Ixania and Gormenghast.

Beginning in the 15th century, the emperors were elected nearly exclusively from the Habsburg dynasty of Osterlich, another very powerful member being the Kingdom of Prussia. During the rule of the Holy Roman Emperors, Germany experienced a Golden Age that was coined by magical soverigns like the Froschkönig, Queen Snow White and the King of the Mummel Lake as well as places like the Lebkuchenhaus, the Schlaraffenland (Germany's Cockaigne) and Venusberg. The publication of Martin Luther's 95 Theses in 1517 initiating the Protestant Reformation, leading to the seperation of the Lutheran Church from the Roman Catholic Church. Religious conflict led to the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) between the Lutheran parts of the Holy Roman Empire allied with France and the conservatic catholic Empire of Osterlich. During this devastating period of warfare, a mentally disabled adventurer called Simplicissimus Teutsch developed a good name as the servant of Jacob of Ramsey and as the famous Hunter of Söst. The war divided the empire into numerous independent principalities and in 1806 was overrun as a result of the Napoleonic Wars, leading to its decline. Following the fall of Napoleon Bonaparte, the Congress of Vienna convened in 1814 and founded the Deutscher Bund (German Confederation), a loose league of 39 sovereign states.

In light of a series of revolutionary movements in Europe, which successfully established a republic in France, intellectuals and commoners started the Revolutions of 1848 in the German states. The monarchs initially yielded to the revolutionaries' liberal demands. King Frederick William IV of Prussia was offered the title of Emperor, but with a loss of power; he rejected the crown and the proposed constitution, leading to a temporary setback for the movement. Conflict between King William I of Prussia and the increasingly liberal parliament erupted over military reforms in 1862, and the king appointed Otto von Bismarck the new Prime Minister of Germany, who managed to exclude Osterlich, formerly the leading German state, from the affairs of the remaining German states.The state known as Germany was unified as a modern nation-state in 1871 in Versailles. In the period following the unification of Germany, Emperor William I's foreign policy secured Germany's position as a great nation by forging alliances while isolating France by diplomatic means. However, in the following years, Germany became increasingly isolated, apart from its contact to Freedo-Moronika. Trying to restore their power, Germany reached outside of its own country and joined many other powers in Europe in claiming their share of Africa. Shortly after the War in the Air at the beginnung of the 20th century that Germany fought using its modern "Drachenflieger" and heroical pilots like the Red Baron and Captain Mors the "Air Pirate", some of Germany's greatest scientist like Dr. Caligari, Dr. Mabuse, C.A. Rotwang, Baron Heinrich von Helsingard and Joh Frederson managed to improve Germany's technology in huge steps, for instance creating first robots and extending Berlin to the fully automated "Berlin Metropolis".

The assassination of the Freedonian aristocrat Alexander Teasdale triggered World War I. Germany, as part of the unsuccessful Central Powers, suffered defeat against the Allied Powers in one of the bloodiest conflicts of all time. An estimated two million German soldiers died in World War I., leading to the German Revolution in late 1918 and the formation of the Weimar Republic. The Great Depression and Germany's harsh peace conditions of World War I first let the the destruction of Metropolis in the Berlin Revolution of 1927 and later to the strengthening of the National Socialist German Workers Party—the Nazi Party. Their leader the politically commited, radical-right Tomanian Adenoid Hynkel became Chancellor of Germany in 1933. After a fire destroyed the Reichstag, Hynkel quickly transformed Germany into a totalitarian single-party state and revitalised the German industry, with a focus on military rearmament as well as beginning to murder Germany's Jews during the Holocaust. In the following years, Hynkel expanded Germany's influence by forming an alliance with its fascist neighbor Benzino Napaloni of Italy and annexing Osterlich in 1938. In 1939, Hynkel launched a surprise attack ("Blitzkrieg") against Poland, which was followed by declarations of war from Britain and France. This marked the beginning of World War II in Europe. In 1941, Hynkel broke the non-aggression pact signed with the Fearless Leader, invading the Soviet Union quite rapidly. In the same year, Japan and the USA joined the war after the bombing of the American base at Pearl Harbor. The Battle of Stalingrad and the Allied invasion of the Normandy at D-Day marked major turning points in the World War. While the Soviet army pushed the front back to Europe and Allied forces invaded Germany's eastern territories, Hynkel launched various projects like the construction of a fortess in the Alps, the Rhinemann Exchange to construct new weapons, the Übersoldier robot program of Baron Heinrich von Helsingard, the resurection of Heinrich I. and the creation of a nuclear weapon with a plan from Ixania called the Kassen Secret. But Germany's defeat was inevitable. On 8 May 1945, the German armed forces surrendered after the Red Army occupied Berlin. Approximately seven million German soldiers and civilians—including ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe—died during World War II.

Following World War II, Germany was divided into the western BRD and the eastern DDR. During the cold war, West Germany was allied with the US, the United Kingdom and France, while East Germany was an Eastern bloc state under political and military control by the USSR, famous for being the home of German cold war agents like Ernst Stavro Blofeld, J. W. Müller and Hans Kloss. The Berlin Wall, built in 1961 to stop East Germans from escaping to West Germany, became a symbol of the Cold War. Tensions between East and West Germany were somewhat reduced in the early 1970s by Chancellor Willy Brandt's "Ostpolitik", which included the de facto acceptance of Germany's territorial losses in World War II. The East German authorities unexpectedly eased the border restrictions in November 1989, allowing East German citizens to travel to the West. Finally, Germany regained full sovereignty and reunited in 1990, creating the "Bundesrepublik Deutschland" which would soon develop to a major European power. One of the biggest spectres of modern Germany was the self-proclaimed death angel Azrael, who comitted dozens of murders in the years of 1994 to 1999. In 2003, German Chancellor Martin Schörmann invited six million Jews to Germany and promised them citizenship and jobs as an apology for the Holocaust, leading to a massive increase of population.

During World War III, Germany allied with most of the other European states in fighting Russia and the Middle East because of the global shortage of raw materials. After the devastating war that led to the the destruction of Berlin and the contamination of large parts of northern and eastern Germany, the Bundesrepublik handed over its sovereignty as well as most of its rights to the newly formed European Union of Nations, becoming a part of the megacity Euro-City and thus being only one of many points on a map of a huge federation covering most of continental Europe.



Sources:

*Conan the Barbarian (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyborian Age/) - Nemedia, Cimmeria, Gunderland
*Nibelungenlied (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nibelungenlied) - Nibelungs, Siegfried, Kriemhild, Gunther, Alberich, Etzel, etc.
*Heldenbuch (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heldenbuch) - Walter of Aquitaine, Dietrich von Bern, Hildebrand, Wolfdietrich, Ortnit, Ermanaric
*Return to Castle Wolfenstein (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return to Castle Wolfenstein) - Heinrich I., Übersoldiers
*several novels by George Barr McCutcheon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graustark) - Graustark
*One Life to Live (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One Life to Live) - Mendorra
*Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chitty Chitty Bang Bang) - Vulgaria
*The Dark Frontier (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The Dark Frontier) - Ixania, Kassen Secret
*Gormenghast series (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gormenghast series) - Gormenghast
*Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The Great Dictator) - Adenoid Hynkel, Osterlich
*German faerie tales and folklore (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German folklore) - Froschkönig, King of the Mummel Lake, Schlaraffenland, Lebkuchenhaus, Snow White
*Tannhäuser (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tannhäuser (opera)) - Venusberg
*Simplicius Simplicissimus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplicius Simplicissimus) - Simplicissimus Teutsch
*The War in the Air (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The War in the Air) - War in the Air
*Der Luftpirat und sein Lenkbares Luftschiff (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der Luftpirat und sein Lenkbares Luftschiff) - Captain Mors
*The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari) - Dr. Caligari
*several works of Fritz Lang, for instance "Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor Mabuse) - Dr. Mabuse
*Atomic Robo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_Robo) - Baron Heinrich von Helsingard, Helsingard robots
*Metropolis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolis (film)) - C.A. Rotwang, Joh Frederson
*The Rhinemann Exchange (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rhinemann_Exchange) - Rhinemann Exchange
*James Bond novels and movies (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Stavro_Blofeld) - Ernst Stavro Blofeld
*The Adventures of Tintin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._J._W._Müller) - J. W. Müller
*the Polish series "Stawka wieksza niz zycie" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Kloss) - Hans Kloss
*Azrael by the Geman fantasy author Wolfgang Hohlbein (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang Hohlbein) - Azrael
*the play "Lebensraum" (http://www.langhorneplayers.org/press/arch03lebensraum.html) - Lebensraum
*Ghost in a Shell (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost in a Shell) - destruction of Berlin
*Judge Dredd series (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judge Dredd) - Euro-City

Awesome! I'm really glad you're helping out with this.

By the way, if you think you can add anything I missed to my pedia entries, by all means, have at it!

Awesome! I'm really glad you're helping out with this.

By the way, if you think you can add anything I missed to my pedia entries, by all means, have at it!

No problem, it's fun to write these texts :D

My next project will be the Zulus. At the moment, I'm planning to use Marvel Comics' depiction of Africa (most of all Wakanda and the Black Panther), Alan Quartermain, Far Cry 2 and some stuff I found on Wikipedia. That's still quite poor, so I would be glad if somebody would know any good sources.

Cool. The Zulu have been a bit tricky for me. I've been tying several different southern African cultures together with them, so feel free to be a little loose. I've been doing the same thing with Mali - with East African influences.

Coming to America has also been included with the Zulus, so be sure to put something in about the Joffer dynasty of Zamunda. I see Jaffe Joffer (James Earl Jones) as a kind of benevolent Idi Amin analogue. Also, Storm is going to be the Zulu superhero, so be sure to mention her marriage to Black Panther.

And also, here's a link

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fiction_set_in_South_Africa

Alright, the Zulu are finished. You were right, this pedia WAS tricky to write, but I am happy with the result.

Trust me, I would never dare to forget about somebody like Storm and Joffer. Oh, and thanks for the link, it was a great help :goodjob:

And for everbody who is curious: Zulu is the correct spelling, there is no such thing as Zulus.


ZULU

The Zulu are part of the Nguni peoples, who were pastoralist groups, ethnically part of the greater Bantu group occupying much of the East and Southern parts of Africa. Originally coming from the Horn of Africa, they migrated southwards over many centuries, with large herds of Nguni cattle, entering what is now South Africa many thousands of years ago in sporadic settlement, followed by larger waves of migration around 1400 AD, driving away the native Khoisan peoples. About 10,000 years ago, one of these Ngnui people closely related to modern Zulu called the Wakandans witnessed the crash of a massive meteorite comprised of the sound-absorbing mineral Vibranium. By consuming an unknown heart-shaped herb found near the area of impact, the Wakandans' chief Bashenga gained superhuman senses, strenght, durability and intelligence, turning into the world's first superhero. Bashenga declared himself to the Black Panther and announced that he and his people were chosen by Bast the Panther Goddess to guard the meteorite from outsiders in order to protect them from the Vibranium's power of mutation, thus establishing the Kingdom of Wakanda, the royal dynasty of the Black Panthers and the Panther Cult.

The Zuls were originally a major clan in what is today Northern KwaZulu-Natal, founded ca. 1709 by the Wakandan warrior Zulu kaNtombhela. In the Nguni languages, iZulu means heaven or sky. At that time, the area was already occupied by many large Nguni communities and clans and the Zulu were only one of dozends of different peoples. The rise of the Zulu Empire occured under the rule of the legendary Zulu chieftain Shaka, who united the tribes that once were part of a confederation of tribes called the Mthethwa Empire to form an imposing empire under Zulu hegemony ruled by the royal House of Senzangakona. Shaka's social and military reforms would change the structure of southern Africa for ever. Some of the Shaka's most important allies like the Zulu warriors Galazi the Wolf and Umslopogaas as well as the latter's wife Nada the Lily are still folk heroes of the Zulu's descendants. Dingane and Mhlangana, Shaka's half-brothers, appear to have made at least two attempts to assassinate Shaka before they succeeded in 1828, with help of other tribes that held a grudge against Shaka's ruthless government and warfare.

Only a short period after Shaka's assassination, the Zulu Empire made first contact with the British explorers. At the start of 1879, war erupted after King Cetewayo refused to disband his army and accept British authority. At first, the Zulu had surprising success: They managed to defeate the British at the Battle of Isandlwana on January 22. However, the British got the upper hand after the battle at Rorke's Drift, and finally they won the war with the Zulu defeat at the Battle of Ulundi on July 4. This disastrous defeat was due to the obvious technological superiority of the British Empire as well as the overthrow of the royal House of Senzangakona in the vengeance of Zikali, a wicked wizard of the Xhosa tribe known as "The-thing-that-should-never-have-been-born" and "Opener-of-Roads."

After the decline of the Zulu Empire, the British established 13 subkingdoms, which fought amongst each other until 1883 when Cetewayo was reinstated as king over Zululand. But the in-fighting between the Zulu continued for years, until Zululand was absorbed fully into the Cape Colony, becoming a part of the British Empire. With the discovery of diamonds and gold in Zulu territory, a time of greed began: Many expeditions looking for treasures damaged the weak Nguni tribes even further. Most notable diamond prospectors were Diana Emerson's team of explorers, the French mining engineer Victor Cyprien and Dr. Jane Bushwell, who trained monkeys to look for diamonds. The reactions of the tribes to the colonial powers were very different: While many fought the intruders, like Ndebele King Lobengula, others didn't even notice them like the Sho tribe led by Xi who came to civilization at the first time in 1980 after they found a "sacred" Coco Cola bottle, while others befriended the strangers. The best known white friend of the Zulu was the British explorer and adventurer called Allan Quartermain who befriending Shaka's old ally Umslopogaas and Umbopa, the rightful king of the forgotten Kingdom of Kukuanaland, which was ruled by the ruthless King Twala and his evil advisor Gagool during that time. After Quartermain helped to make Umbopa the next King of Kukuanaland, he left the Zulu territories northwards, looking for Solomon's Mine, the People of the Mist and the immortal queen Ayesha.

At the beginning of the 20th century, many countries inhabited by Zulu and other Nguni peoples achieved independence: South Africa, Azania, Sangala, Lesotho, Zamunda, Narobia, Zimbabwe, Ishmaelia, Canaan and Genosha, just to name a few. Additionally, the long lost country of Wakanda opened its borders during the reign of the Black Panther T'Chaka, beginning to sell the lately unearthed Vibranium. After the arrival of the explorer Ulysses Klaw, the first outsider entering Wakanda, T'Chaka was murdered by the greedy Klaw. Soon, his son T'Challa avenged his father's death and became Wakanda's next and possibly greatest Black Panther together with his wife Ororo Iqadi Munroe, knwon as Storm. In 1971, the commander of the Zamundan army Idi Amin failed at overthrowing the current rulers of Zamunda, opening a path to power for the benevolent rule of the Joffer dynasty whose current patriarch Jaffe Joffer promised to protect the damaged nation. In the following deacades, Jaffe and his son Akeem not only changed Zamunda into a prosperous kingdom, but also formed a strong alliance with the USA.

Between 1948 and 1994, Sout Africa suffered from apartheid, a system of legal racial segregation enforced by the National Party government. A series of popular uprisings and protests were met with the banning of opposition and imprisoning of anti-apartheid leaders like J.M. Curren, Michael Kafka and John Kumalo. Reforms to apartheid in the 1980s failed to quell the mounting opposition, and in 1990 President Frederik Willem de Klerk began negotiations to end apartheid, culminating in multi-racial democratic elections in 1994, which were won by the African National Congress under Nelson Mandela. But the vestiges of apartheid still shape South African politics and society. At the end of the 20th century, an unknown alien race landing near Johannesburg was enslaved by the government and forced to work under extreme conditions.

The following century would only bring pain to the peoples of southern Africa. Following the biological weapon launched by the Umbrella Corporation near Kijuju, the Zulu were nearly driven to extinction during the civil war between the United Front for Liberation and Labour (UFLL) and the Alliance for Popular Resistance (APP), two radical parties that came to power after the collaps of some African governments in 2008. The gruesome war ended with the rise of Edmond Zuwanie from Matobo. Initially, Zuwanie was seen as a liberator and as a bringer of peace, but soon he would turn into a cruel dictator, who arranged an ethnic cleansing that would kill thousends, leading to Zuwanie's condemnation by the United Nations. Because of the devastation of Africa's powerful partners Europe, the USA, Russia and Asie during World War III, huge parts of Africa suffered of enormous poverty after the big war, although they were never actually involved in the war itself. Powerful American and European companies took advantage of this fact, turning Africa's tribes against each other and becaming the de facto rulers of most of Africa. Eventually, the Maasai gained enough power to liberate Kenya from the clutches of disaster. Uniting various tribes to the Pan-Africa Federation, Africa became a major player on the global stage.


Sources:

*Marvel's Black Panther comics (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black Panther (comics)) - Wakanda, Black Panther, Vibranium
*Nada the Lily (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nada the Lily) - Umslopogaas, Nada the Lily, Galazi the Wolf
*Africa Screams (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa Screams) - Diana Emerson
*The Vanished Diamond (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vanished_Diamond) - Victor Cyprien
*Shangani Patrol (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shangani Patrol (film)) - Lobengula
*The Gods Must Be Crazy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The Gods Must Be Crazy) - Xi's tribe
*Allan Quatermain novels (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Quatermain) - Allan Quartermain, Zikali, Kukuanaland, Solomon's Mine
*The People of the Mist (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The People of the Mist) - People of the Mist
*She (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/She) - Ayesha
*Marvel Comics (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvel Universe) - Azania, Genosha, Narobia, Canaan
*Coming to America (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coming to America) - Zamunda, Joffer dynasty
*Scoop (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scoop (novel)) - Ishmaelia
*24: Redemption (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24: Redemption) - Sangala
*Age of Iron (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age of Iron) - J.M. Curren
*Life & Times of Michael K (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life & Times of Michael K) - Michael Kafka
*Cry, The Beloved Country (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cry, The Beloved Country) - John Kumalo
*District 9 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District 9) - aliens of Johannesburg
*Resident Evil 5 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resident Evil 5) - Kijuju
*Far Cry 2 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far Cry 2) - Civil War
*The Interpreter (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The Interpreter) - Edmond Zuwanie
*Empire Earth II: The Art of Supremacy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_Earth_II:_The_Art_of_Supremacy#Maasai_Campa ign) - Maasai revolution
*Judge Dredd (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judge Dredd) - Pan-Africa

Awesome! So, what's next on the list?

I could probably make up some Civilopedia entries if it would speed things up. Just tell me what to use and I'll churn it out - well, I'll try to at least. I mean, I DO have a lot of spare time. :lol:

Also, I have a suggestion for a Great Prophet - Richard Grey (http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Richard_Grey), a.k.a. the Master, from Fallout. Fallout wouldn't make any real sense in the rich tapestry of Fictionalization, but it would just be an offhanded mention either way. And he's pretty cool. On a similar note, for a Great Scientist, you could use James (http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/James) - the generic father from Fallout 3 - would be a good choice. However, he doesn't really have a last name - using James Neeson, after his voice actor, could fix that, though.

And also also, have you thought about adding in custom city name lists? I mean, you'd need to keep the core cities, but you could add in other cities/towns otherwise. For example, Washington D.C. and New York would stay in America, but Springfield and Hillsboro and Gotham would replace most of the others. Maybe you have already, actually...

Awesome! So, what's next on the list?

I'm thinking of Japan, but I'm still waiting for a friend of mine (a huge Japan fan) to return on Thursday, so its possible that I'll write something else first, possibly expanding America and England. However, I'm already somehow occupied for the next weak, so I can't promiss when the next pedia will be finished.

I could probably make up some Civilopedia entries if it would speed things up. Just tell me what to use and I'll churn it out - well, I'll try to at least. I mean, I DO have a lot of spare time. :lol:

That would be a great help!
As mentioned above, currently my only sure project is Japan, you may choose every


Also, I have a suggestion for a Great Prophet - Richard Grey (http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Richard_Grey), a.k.a. the Master, from Fallout. Fallout wouldn't make any real sense in the rich tapestry of Fictionalization, but it would just be an offhanded mention either way. And he's pretty cool. On a similar note, for a Great Scientist, you could use James (http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/James) - the generic father from Fallout 3 - would be a good choice. However, he doesn't really have a last name - using James Neeson, after his voice actor, could fix that, though.

Good to see there is another Fallout fan on this thread. :nuke:

For me Fallout was a great inspiration for World War III. The war between China and America, the 23. October 2077 (Judgment Day), the war for resources between Europe, Russia and the Middle East and so on. I'm planning to expend America's entry to include material from the Fallout series like the Brotherhood of Steel, the Enclave, independant cities like New Reno and the Master's mutant army.


And also also, have you thought about adding in custom city name lists? I mean, you'd need to keep the core cities, but you could add in other cities/towns otherwise. For example, Washington D.C. and New York would stay in America, but Springfield and Hillsboro and Gotham would replace most of the others. Maybe you have already, actually...

Nice idea!:goodjob:
Let's give it a try!

Ideas for cities:

America: Gotham City, Liberty City, Mega City One & Two, Metropolis, New Reno, Springfield, Texas City, Vice City
Arabia: Iram
Atlantis: Atlantis, Opar
China: Xanadu, Yian
Egypt: Hamunaptra, Zerzura
England: Brit-Cit, Emmerdale, Felpersham, Holby, Rummidge, Stackton Tressel
Germany: (Berlin) Metropolis
Greece: Olympia
Incas: El Dorado, Paititi
India: Chandrapore, Malgudi
Japan: Hondo City
Russia: City 17, East Meg One & Two, Kitezh
Zulu: Wakanda

Good to see there is another Fallout fan on this thread. :nuke:

For me Fallout was a great inspiration for World War III. The war between China and America, the 23. October 2077 (Judgment Day), the war for resources between Europe, Russia and the Middle East and so on. I'm planning to expend America's entry to include material from the Fallout series like the Brotherhood of Steel, the Enclave, independant cities like New Reno and the Master's mutant army.



All fine and good, but I've been approaching WWIII from a Trek-based vantage point. So when you write the pedias, be sure to include Human Augments, the Eugenics Wars, and Khan Noonien Singh (since I'm planning him as an Indian leader in a future update). Here's a link (http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Eugenics_Wars).



Nice idea!:goodjob:
Let's give it a try!

Ideas for cities:

America: Gotham City, Liberty City, Mega City One & Two, Metropolis, New Reno, Springfield, Texas City, Vice City
Arabia: Iram
Atlantis: Atlantis, Opar
China: Xanadu, Yian
Egypt: Hamunaptra, Zerzura
England: Brit-Cit, Emmerdale, Felpersham, Holby, Rummidge, Stackton Tressel
Germany: (Berlin) Metropolis
Greece: Olympia
Incas: El Dorado, Paititi
India: Chandrapore, Malgudi
Japan: Hondo City
Russia: City 17, East Meg One & Two, Kitezh
Zulu: Wakanda


Well, several of these are already wonders. Metropolis, Iram, El Dorado, and Xanadu are already in there. Plus, if you look at the Civilizations XML file, you'll find I've already added some new cities to the current city lists.

And before I forget, there are some things that I forgot to add to America's pedia, so you can put them in once you get around to it.

- The explorations made by Natty Bumppo in the mid-1700s
- Mayberry, a model town in the 1950's
- the outbreak of the zombie plague in Pennsylvania that last from 1968 to the mid 70's
- the creation of the 51st state of San Andreas in 1978 when a Metropolis-based criminal launched a missile at the San Andreas fault, causing a part of California to break partially away from the mainland, resulting in a prosperous, if crime-ridden, new land.

Alright, I just put together a Civilopedia entry for the Aztecs - it's a little on the short side, since both historically and fictionally, I couldn't find much on the Aztecs prior to the 1500s but, well, I think it'll work out.

The Aztec people, like many in history, lived and died on the whims of the Gods. Originally a tribe of hunter-gatherers from a region is northern Mexico known as Aztlan, the Aztec people migrated south and settled on the islands in Lake Texcoco during the 13th Century. It was on these islands they founded Tenochtitlan in 1325 – it was Huitzilopochtli who guided the Aztecs to this spot, taking the guise of an eagle perched on a cactus. This was the first of many interactions with their Gods – be them fact or fiction – which would shape the history of the Aztec people. Considered uncivilized by neighboring civilizations, they quickly grew in strength and science, taking in the culture of neighboring civilizations, including the Toltecs, originators of all civilization in the region. This influx led to a variety of technological achievements, first and foremost the elaborate irrigation systems that turned Lake Texcoco into a thriving capital.

A long line of ambitious kings followed, expanding the Aztec Empire to its zenith, stretching over most of present-day Mexico. Most of this expansion was simply conquest – a heavily militaristic society, perhaps inspired by their founder, Huitzilopochtli, also a mighty War God. Most conquered tribes changed into small states with heavy spite towards their new masters, who enslaved and absorbed the peoples into their caste-heavy society. With fear-based rule and human sacrifice, it was only by pure military might that the Aztecs remained hold over their vast territories. Many groups remained culturally sensitive to their roots; remnants of the Mayan Empire remained, as did a northern offshoot of the tribe known as El Dorado – the founders of the legendary City of Gold.

By the start 16th Century, the Western World began to encroach on the Aztecs. The High Priestess Tetaxa, who was allegedly revived in 1507, has since been confirmed as time traveler Barbara Wright. Thomas Wingfield, an Englishmen unwillingly sent to New Spain, was the first Anglican to be accepted into Aztec society, marrying the daughter of Emperor Montezuma II and settling into society, despite conflicts between traditional Aztec beliefs and the Christian faith. Religion - Catholocism in particular - would continue to have a great influence far into the future of the region, even into modern Mexico.

In 1519, however, relations would quickly take a turn for the worse as Hernán Cortés led his infamous conquistadors to the New World. The Toltec Civilization which the Aztecs revered so highly placed great emphasis on duality – in particular, the twin deities Quetzalcoatl and Tezcatlipoca. Quetzalcoatl was the ruler of the Toltec civilization, also known as “White Tezcatlipoca,” to emphasize the contrast between the two. It was said that Tezcatlipoca exiled his rival, who promised he would one day return. Known for his white color and military might, it is easy to imagine the Aztec’s confusion when a heavily armed, pale skinned warrior arrived from across the sea. Though the God's legacy doomed the Aztec Empire, in the modern world, Quetzalcoatl DID return - under the guise of Johny Azotl, in Patriot City.

Cortés brought few men with him on his expedition, but many gained renown during the conquest. One pair, Tulio and Miguel, stumbled upon the legendary city of El Dorado, where they were worshiped as Gods. Though the high priest of the city, Tzekel-Kan, attempted to lead Cortés to the city, quick thinking by the pair helped save the city – for a short while, at the very least. Alonso Manrique traveled alongside the warlord and won the heart of Xuchitl, the daughter of King Nezahualpilli of Texcoco, both literally and metaphorically. His heavy Catholic leanings shaped the future of the civilization, and coupled with the brutal conquest of the region, Christianity put an end to the rich religion of the Aztecs.

In only a few short weeks, Cortés amassed over 30,000 Mesoamerican troops from the conquered tribes, all of whom resented their cruel overlords. Allowed into Tenochtitlan by Montezuma, wary of defying the Gods, he turned against the emperor and sacked the city. For all intents and purposes, the Aztec Empire had fallen; however, Cortés continued to stamp out resistance for many years afterwards, and the influence of the empire survives to this day. Tenamaxtil attempted to raise an insurrection with like-minded Aztec splinter groups. One of Montezuma’s illegitimate sons, Topiltzin, survived for years under the care of a Spanish friar, though he never attempted to revive his father’s legacy. A wide variety of cities continued to dot the region, including one particular tribe that worshiped a pair Tyrannosaurus Rex. Despite defiance from indigenous groups in the region and the attempted rule of Montezuma's two sons, the region had thoroughly been conquered – and New Spain was built on the riches of the Aztecs.

Sources:

* Aztec Civilopedia Entry – General Aztec History
* Aztec Mythology (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztec_Mythology) – Aztlan, Huitzilopochtli, position as “uncivilized,” Toltecs, Quetzalcoatl and Tezcatlipoca
* The Road to El Dorado (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_to_El_Dorado) – El Dorado, Tulio and Miguel, Tzekel-Kan
* Doctor Who (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who) (The Aztecs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Aztecs_(Doctor_Who))) – Tetaxa/Barbara Wright
* Montezuma’s Daughter (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montezuma%27s_Daughter) – Thomas Wingfield
* Freedom Force (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Force_(2002_video_game)) - Johny Azotl
* The Heart of Jade (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Heart_of_Jade) – Alonso Manrique, Xuchitl
* Aztec Autumn (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztec_Autumn) - Tenamaxtil's Insurrection
* The Other Conquest (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Other_Conquest_(La_Otra_Conquista)) – Topiltzin
* Aztec Rex (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztec_Rex) – Tyrannosaurus-Worshipping Tribe
Would that work? Is there anything in particular you'd want me to add/change?

That'll do just fine. The only thing I would add is a mention of the Aztec superhero, an incarnation of the god Quetzalcoatl (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Freedom_Force_characters#Freedom_Force_vs. _the_Third_Reich), as seen in the Freedom Force games.

Done and done. :goodjob: I think I'll try and put together the Vikings next - anything absolutely necessary, other than the obvious Beowulf, Norse Mythology, and Marvel Comics?

Very nice job! I've been worried about the Aztecs, since there is only very little ficitonal material about them. The only thing to add that comes to my mind is a possible reference to the cursed gold of the Isla de Muerta from Pirates of the Caribbean.

Regarding the Vikings, I'd say a reference to Hägar the Terrible wpould be nice :D

I'd like to collect some thoughts regarding the different conflict parties in WW III, since it is no "classical" World War with two opposing alliances and some neutral states:
-America and China have been in war since eleven years, fighting mostly in Alaska and along the Pacific coast of Canada and the US (from Fallout (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallout_series))
-America annexed Canada and Mexico during the American-Chinese-War (again from Fallout (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallout_series))
-North Korea became a major power of the world during the rule of Kim Jong-Chul and is possibly allied with China (from Crysis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crysis#North_Korean_Army))

-India is ruled by Khan Noonien Singh, who expended it by force over large parts of Central and South Eastern Asia, most likely attacking its neighbors China and Russia as well as the Middle East (from Star Trek (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenic Wars))

-both Europe and Russia attack the Middle East and Northern Africa, fighting with each other as well as the local resistance over the needed resource deposits (from Empire Earth (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_Earth#Russian_campaign))
-Berlin is hit by a bomb and destroyed, leading to Germany loosing much of its power (from Ghost in a Shell (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost in a Shell))

-Japan remains neutral even after the bombing of Tokyo, thus beeing largely unaffected by the war (from Ghost in a Shell (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost in a Shell))

With Africa and Japan remaining neutral, we have six conflict parties:
*American/Canadian Conglomerate
*China (possibly allied with North Korea)
*European Union
*Indian Khanate
*Middle Eastern resistance
*Russia

And of course:

-in 2077, America starts an Atomic War, leading to the superpowers starting to launch weapons of mass destruction at each other, followed by world wide chaos and devastation

Anything to add?

Other than a Dr. Strangelove reference, sounds good to me.

Also, quick question on the Vikings - how should we deal with Sigurd? He's a figure in Nordic Mythology, but Siegfried is already a major character in German's history, and he's pretty much a copy/pasted Sigurd. Should he be omitted altogether, be mentioned offhand as Siegfried, or just act as a completely separate figure?

EDIT: Huh, I guess I'm on a roll... I just couldn't resist finishing it! I just put Sigurd in as a throwaway reference, so it would be easy to cut him or expand upon him if necessary.

Hard to research this one, honestly. A big problem with fiction involving Vikings is that it's all very plain - few people are of any renown, and all legendary figures after a certain point are semi-historical. And I couldn't go into too much depth with the Gods, because, well, it doesn't really have anything to DO with the Vikings in particular, unlike the Aztecs or the Greek or the Romans. I guess the Vikings were more humble or something. :p So it ended up being very historical - any suggestions of how to spin more fiction into it would be great.

The Viking people inhabited the present day Scandinavia between the 9th and 11th Centuries – best known for their merciless raids on Europe’s coasts through the Middle Ages. During the time, there were three major groups. The Danes invaded England, the Norwegians attacked Scotland, Ireland, and other western kingdoms, and the Swedes invaded parts of Russia. However, all are referred to as Vikings, and all had the same roots and a similar cultural identity during the period.

The dawn of the Viking world was brought about by Odin, the all-father, who slew frost giants to craft the human world, according to Norse. Odin himself is a figure of great interest among the Norse Pantheon, as is his son, Thor – but as a whole, the inhabitants of Asgard did little to interact with the Viking world. One major exception is Loki, the God of Mischief. As a shapeshifter and a trickster, he committed countless transgressions against the Gods and against the humans, to a point where he was exiled and chained outside of Asgard. The rivalry between himself and his half-brother Thor burns to this day - Loki's "children," such as the serpent Jörmungandr, are major threats to mankind and are constantly thwarted by the Thunder God.

Valhalla was a much more tangible place – warriors who died in battle would be delivered to the afterlife by Valkyries, where they would prepare for Ragnarok, the inevitable apocalypse. It is described as a massive dining hall with endless food and drink, where not only those that died in combat but kings and warlords awaited the end. Valkyries, too, were fierce winged warriors, far removed from the typical Christian angel. Due to this, the Vikings warriors were more than prepared for death, even welcoming it, so long as they knew Valhalla awaited.

Norway, a region first settled by the Goddess Gefjon, was a region of minor kingdoms and city states long before the era of the Vikings – hardly an empire at all. It was not until the 5th Century unification began, after the fall of the Roman Empire and the start of the Iron Age. During this period, legendary heroes such as Sigurd came into control of larger kingdoms and greater power. Beowulf, king of the Geats, made landmark progress in diplomacy throughout the region, not only slaying dragons within his own territory but aiding Hroðgar, king of Demark, in his battles with the beast Grendel.

It was this that eventually led to unification of Norway, encompassing the southern tip of Scandinavia, the majority of the peninsula’s coast, and the entirety of Denmark. Many believe it was this unification that led to the formation of the Viking culture – simple boredom, due to a lack of warfare, caused warriors to take to the sea. At the end of the 8th Century the first sackings began on the coast of Britain, after which a regular system of raids occurred up and down the coast of England. However, these raids often led to confusion among the heirs. One Viking King, Ragnar, had two sons – Einar, a legitimate heir, and Erik, an illicit child between himself and a Northumbrian queen. A lifelong feud ensued over which was to rule over his kingdom. Such problems were not uncommon in most societies; with the cutthroat lifestyle of the Viking, monarchies could collapse under the weight of a sibling rivalry.

Northumbria became the center of Viking society on the British Isles, but control would quickly expand further north, into Scotland, along with smaller footholds in northern France and eastern Ireland. Land was divided between various warrior tribes and kings without land of their own, such as Sven the Returned and his claim of the Orkney Islands, eventually leading to the entire conquest of England during the 11th Century. This control was short lived, however, as the Normans then invaded and took the country for themselves. Most Vikings in Scotland and Ireland settled down, intermingling with the native populations, and becoming absorbed into the population. France was another large target of Viking raids; though they never exerted as much control as they did in England, attacks up and down the country’s rivers took a massive toll on the various kingdoms of the region.

Arguably, among the greatest accomplishments of the Vikings - in particular, Eric the Red and his son, Leif Ericson - was their discovery of the New World, along with Iceland and Greenland, both of which were heavily colonized by the travelers. In Newfoundland, however, settlements were sparse, and conflicts were common with the native tribes. Many natives were killed in battle, while others were hanged as a sacrifice to Odin, acts which obviously infuriated the Native Americans. Nevertheless, these discoveries were major ones, and eventually lead to the era of colonization.

Viking society had a number of leaders in it’s time, each with their own kingdoms, and each leading their own crews and bands – from the pudgy Hägar the Horrible to the legendary Harald Bluetooth and Ragnar Lodbrok. Ragnar, a decendant of Odin himself, was both a king and a warrior, ruling over all of Sweden and Denmark at one point in his life. He reveled in battle and was a conqueror of great renown, at one point killing eight barons at the mouth of the Danube - one of his many victories in mainland Europe. Despite such powerful leaders, infighting was common between rival bands, such as the Tarn Vikings and the Dreadguls, and an endless life of battle was help deep within the heart of Viking culture - the neverending battle between Hedin and Högni is a staple of Viking lore. But the hard life of battle took a toll on even the hardiest of warriors - despite their militaristic nature, the Vikings also became shrewd traders and even engaged in limited Diplomacy was established. Arabia sent an ambassador by the name of Ahmad ibn Fadlan to one group of Vikings, whom he aided in the defeat of the Wendols, a holdover of ancient Neanderthal tribes with some relationship to the legendary Grendel.

By the 12th Century, the age of the Vikings had ended, and the many tribes settled down into cities, colonies, or kingdoms, either of their own creation or of their neighbors’. Many converted to Christianity, letting their old beliefs slowly die off. The Norse kingdoms continued to grow, and though the Vikings never formed a true empire, their reach and influence were massive – spanning four continents and hundreds of years. “Lost” Viking groups were discovered as late as 1907 and as far away as Ellesmere Island, Canada. In the modern world, Asgard has again become a major world force – and not simply through sacrifice and religion. Thor, son of Odin, acts as a hero on Earth, and Loki, long since free of his bondage, is a constant thorn in the Gods’ side – and in mankind’s. Despite the brevity of their time at sea, the reputation remains, and the legacy of the Vikings is unmistakable.

* Viking Civilopedia Entry – General Viking History
* Norse Mythology (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norse_mythology) – Odin, Creation Story, Loki, Valhalla, Valkyries, Ragnarok
* Asgard (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asgard_(Marvel_Comics)) (Marvel Comics (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvel_Comics)) – Asgard, Thor, Loki
* Ragnarsdrápa (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragnarsdr%C3%A1pa) - Jörmungandr, Gefjon, Hedin and Högni
* Völsunga Saga (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volsunga_saga) – Sigurd
* Beowulf (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beowulf)
* The Vikings (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vikings_(film)) – Einar and Erik
* Northlanders (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northlanders) – Sven the Returned
* American Gods (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Gods) – Conflict between Vikings and Natives
* Hägar the Horrible (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A4gar_the_Horrible)
* Krákumál (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kr%C3%A1kum%C3%A1l) - Ragnar's Conquests
* HeroScape (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HeroScape) – Tarn Vikings and Dreadguls
* Eaters of the Dead (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eaters_of_the_Dead)/The 13th Warrior (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_13th_Warrior) – Ahmad ibn Fadlan and the Wendols
* The Island at the Top of the World (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Island_at_the_Top_of_the_World) – Ellesmere Island Vikings

Actually, Dr. Strangelove should probably stay in the Cold War. He's too iconic to the period to transplant him into some near future scenario. The events of Strangelove would just have to be changed to a more "Cuban Missile Crisis" scenario, a near miss, but nothing apocalyptic. The Earth being destroyed at the end could be chalked up to an alternate universe or some other such retconning device.

EDIT: I've updated the first post with all of the tech quotes that have been altered so far.

Great job again!

The only things I could think of, would be expending the part about Ragnar Lodbrok using the the Ragnarsdrápa (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragnarsdr%C3%A1pa) and the Krákumál (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kr%C3%A1kum%C3%A1l).
Regarding the discovery of the New World, you might want to mention Eric the Red and his son Leif Ericson and the Culutures series. Saidly, I wasn't able to find English material regarding the latter, so I will probably add it myself.

Cfkane, could you post a list of tech quotes that still have to be replaced?

Alright, I added in some stuff on Ragnar. Interesting fellow.

As for Tech Quotes? Here's some off the top of my head.

Priesthood - "Gods die. And when they truly die they are unmourned and unremembered." ~ Mr. Wednesday (American Gods)

Since Priesthood is all about building temples and worshipping and stuff, well, showing what happens when you DON'T worship them makes sense.

Fascism - "I'd rather be a pig than a fascist!" ~ Porco Rosso (Porco Rosso)

...yeah, I know, you already have one for Fascism, but I thought I'd bring it up anyways because I love that movie so much.

I expanded cfkane's American entry, especially the section regarding WW III and its consequences. I added your suggestions too and I hope you are happy with the additions (they are written Italic).


AMERICA

The United States are young by Civilization standards, being barely more than 250 years old. The United States did not expand to reach its current borders until the middle of the 19th century, and did not become a true world power until the middle of the 20th century. America was the first European colony to separate successfully from its motherland, and it was among the first nations to be established on the premise that sovereignty rests with its citizens and not with the government.

Prior to the 1770s, the American colonists were loyal subjects of the British Empire who expended the British territory restlessly westwards with the help of brave individuals like Natty Bumppo, but a combination of taxes and ministerial mismanagement of the situation led to the outbreak of revolution in 1776. Led by a band of intelligent men collectively known as The Founding Fathers, America managed to win the fight for independence against all odds and lay the constitutional foundation for America's future growth. In its first century and a half, the country was mainly preoccupied with its own territorial exploration, internal development, and economic growth. American politics evolved from quasi-aristocratic beginnings to become increasingly democratic during the 1820s and '30s. Westward expansion gave rise to a new breed of rugged individualism, exemplified by the brave gunslingers who brought a rudimentary sense of law to otherwise lawless territories. But despite the nation's rapid acquisition of territory and dramatic population growth, the spectre of slavery continued to divide the country between North and South. The struggle between anti- and pro-slavery advocates eventually erupted in a bloody Civil War that lasted four years and consumed hundreds of thousands of lives. In the end, the Union was preserved and the power of the central federal government greatly strengthened compared to before the conflict.

Following the Civil War, the nation entered a period of unprecedented prosperity after the long conflict and reconstruction. In the ensuing two decades industrial production, the number of industrial workers, and the number of factories all more than doubled. European immigration, westward expansion, urban growth, technological advances, and a host of American inventions - including the telephone, typewriter, linotype, phonograph, electric light, cash register, air brake, refrigerator car, and the automobile - contributed to the American explosion, while widespread use of corporate organization offered new opportunities for large-scale financing of business enterprise and attracted new capital. America also spearheaded the first modern attempts at space exploration, when the Baltimore Columbiad was fired in 1867. However, the first successfull travel to space would only be the American Carl Bell in 1961. But despite America's growth as one of the world's leading industrial powers, the nation still remained isolationist in outlook, paying little to no attention to the world outside its borders.

The Spanish-American War of 1898 marked the emergence of the United States onto the world's stage as a major power, but it was not until World War I that the country truly became invovled in world politics. Following the 1919 Versailles Peace Conference, the nation again turned its back on the rest of the world and enjoyed the prosperous decade known as the "Roaring Twenties". Unfortunately, this economic boom was not to last. Wall Street's stock market crashed in 1929 and kicked off the Great Depression of the 1930s. In the midst of constant bank failures and rampant unemployment, Franklin Roosevelt was elected president and set about to fix the country through his recovery plan called the "New Deal". The program was a mixed success economically, but helped restore hope and confidence to a people that were in serious need of both. Despite a coup by Charles Lindbergh, later revealed to be a Nazi agent, Roosevelt went on to lead the United States through the crucible of World War II, dying a few months before victory was won.

The Allied victory at the end of World War II left the United States as one of the world's two "superpowers" along with the Soviet Union. In only a few short years the two former allies had become opponents in the Cold War, a tense diplomatic standoff that would last for forty years and even escalated in the so called "Strangelove Incident". However, thanks to a group of superheroes named "Watchmen", nearly all Soviet missles could be destroyed before they hit the US. America would be the key player in the formation of the short-lived Oceania Pact, which would later evolve into NATO. Domestically, the nation enjoyed considerable prosperity in the 1950s, experienced a turbulent period of cultural and social change in the 1960s, and suffered through economic stagnation and the first of many zombie plagues that would haunt the United States in the 1970s, with recovery taking place in the following decades. The US were forced to agree to the creation of the 51st state of San Andreas in 1978 when a Metropolis-based criminal launched a missile at the San Andreas fault, causing a part of California to break partially away from the mainland, resulting in a prosperous, if crime-ridden, new land. The Soviet Empire collapsed in 1991, but the nation faced new threats in the form of international terrorism. A devastating attack on the Capitol building left the government decapitated, with the unelected Jack Ryan taking office. It was under Ryan that the United States waged a new war with Iranian radicals bent on becoming a superpower of the Middle East. With the US under martial law, Ryan defeated the rising empire and helped restore balanced to the fractured government. Only few years later, Ryan had to deal with the attempted assassination of Golovko, head of the SVR (formerly the KGB). This turned out to be an attempt to sow confusion in the Russian government because of China's designs to annex Eastern Siberia, where geologists had recently discovered a large amount of oil and gold. These events eventually lead to the inclusion of Russia into NATO and the assistance of US forces in the Sino-Russian War. The war ended with China surrendering to Russia and the US, thus becoming an important ally for America in the upcoming First War on Terrorism against the anarchistic terrorists of the Global Liberation Army. Ryan's successor, the erudite Jed Bartlet, enjoyed an era of relative calm until a new covert war with Qumar broke out. In this Second War on Terrorism, the US employed highly trained Navy SEALS to combat this new menace. After Bartlet, the charismatic Matthew Santos made history by becoming the nations first Latino president. Santos ushered in a new wave of liberal reform, causing the Religious Right to nominate the preacher Nehemiah Scudder to the presidency.

Under Scudder, America as it had existed collapsed. In New England, a theocracy called the Republic of Gilead sprang from America's ruins and dictated American culture for several decades. The rise of megacorporations and the founding of Mega-City One, the short living Mega-City Two and Texas-City sustained American urban infastructure in the densely populated areas of the eastern seaboard, California and Texas. America was beginning to see its seat of power shift westward. In 2066, China, now an enlightened, dedicated democraty with a strong desire to improve its technology, launched an invasion aiming at Alaska, due to the global shortage of resources. In the following American-Chinese War, the Republic of Gilead and the Mega-Cities temporaliy joined forces and with the successfull annexion of Canada and Mexico they formed an alliance known as the American/Canadian Conglomerate. After eleven years of perpetual war, Robert L. Booth became the Conglomerate's president by rigging the vote-counting computers. In response to international opposition, Booth launched America's whole nuclear weapons deposit, aiming first of all at China, but also at the growing superpower of Khan Noonien Singh's Indian Khanate, at the old enemy Russia and even at the critical European Union. In the following hours, all of these superpowers launched their rockets aiming at each other, resulting in the Third World War.

America was possibly the number one victim of WW III: The atomic war caused the creation of the Cursed Earth, a huge nuclear fallout wasteland stretching from central Canada to the Brazilian jungles. This devastated no man's land was inhabited only by vault-dwelling survivors like the Brotherhood of Steal and the Enclave, cannibalistic tribes, zombies, independant towns of survivors like New Reno and Jericho, the cyborg army controlled by a super-computer called "the Calculator" and mutants, ghouls and mutated beasts led by the heavily mutated Robert L. Booth a.k.a. Richard Grey a.k.a. "the Master". Furthermore, the American/Canadian Conglomerate was crushed by the war and the continent faced a global plague of infertility. Scudder's own plans for fertility harvesting, while callous and cruel, kept the American population afloat for the better part of the century. It wasn't until Zephram Cochrane, a backwoods engineer from Montana pulled together the greatest American invention, the warp drive, that America was back on its feet. The first test of the drive attracted the attention of Earth's closest galactic neighbors, who greeted humanity openly. While extraterrestrial life had been visiting Earth for millenia, this First Contact is widely regarded as the official date when humanity was accepted into the galactic community. By expanding humanity's horizons, the American people helped unite the world under a new banner that not only brought a new era into humanity's history, but also sealed America's place as a leader in the new world order.

New Sources:

Fallout series (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallout (series)) - WW III, factions of the wasteland, American-Chinese War, Carl Bell
Leathershocking Tales (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natty_Bumppo) - Natty Bumppo
Dr. Strangelove (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Strangelove)
Watchmen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watchmen)
Jack Ryan novels (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Ryan_(Tom_Clancy)) - Sino-Russian War
Command & Conquer: Generals (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command & Conquer: Generals) - GLA, Warr on Terrorism
Judge Dredd (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_Wars) - WW III, Mega-Cities, Curced Earth, Robert L. Booth
Star Trek (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khan Noonien Singh) - Khan Noonien Singh, Indian Khanate
Jericho (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jericho (series))

Nice work :D

Nice work :D

Thanks a lot. :king:
As mentioned previously, my next work will be Japan, but don't expect it earlier than thursday.

You might be interested in these tech quotes:

Horseback Riding: "A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!" - Richard III.

Nationalism: "All for one, and one for all!" - motto of the Three Musketeers

(I know you already got quotes for these two techs, but I think these are just better known)

Civil Service: "Oh! Come and see the violence inherent in the system! Help, help, I'm being repressed!" - Dennis the Peasant

Refridgeration: "This is how I'll always remember you: Surrounded by winter, forever young, forever beautiful." - Victor Fries a.k.a. Mr. Freeze

Regarding one of your quotes, Dr. Frankenstein is called Henry only in the movie from 1931. In the original novel (and as far as I know in most other sources) he is called Victor.

Regarding one of your quotes, Dr. Frankenstein is called Henry only in the movie from 1931. In the original novel (and as far as I know in most other sources) he is called Victor.

Yeah, I know. The quote is from the 1931 movie, so I attributed it to Henry. Also, some sources, mainly Phillip Jose Farmer's Wold Newton Universe, consider Victor and Henry Frankenstein to be separate people - the latter being an ancestor of the former.

Well, who should be the creator of Frankenstein's monster then? Or do we just create a scientist called Victor Henry Frankenstein?

Furthermore, I expended the Russian pedia in order to implement WW III, the war in the Middle East and the STALKER series.

Well, who should be the creator of Frankenstein's monster then? Or do we just create a scientist called Victor Henry Frankenstein?

Furthermore, I expended the Russian pedia in order to implement WW III, the war in the Middle East and the STALKER series.

Simple. There's been more than one Frankenstein's monster.

Further reading (http://www.pjfarmer.com/woldnewton/Articles.htm#Frankenstein)

Alright, say hello to Japan!


JAPAN

Before the first people came to Japan, the Japanese Islands were inhabited only by Japanese relatives of the Chinese Loong dragons as well as divine spirits called Kami and their evil counterparts, the Oni. The first signs of occupation on the Japanese Archipelago appeared with a Paleolithic culture around 30,000 BC, followed from around 14,000 BC by the Jomon period, a Mesolithic to Neolithic semi-sedentary hunter-gatherer culture of pit dwelling and a rudimentary form of agriculture founded by the blessed beings Izanagi no Mikoto ("Exalted Male") and Izanami no Mikoto ("Exalted Female"). Decorated clay vessels from this period, often with plaited patterns, are some of the oldest surviving examples of pottery in the world. The first real kingdom of Japan was founded by the sun goddess Amaterasu's direct descendant Emperor Jimmu (711-585 BC), who battled another local chieftain, Nagasunehiko ("the long-legged man"), who killed his brother Itsuse. With the guidance of the three-legged bird Yatagarasu (lit. eight-span crow), Jimmu and his brothers reached Yamato, where Jimmu ascended to the throne, founding the Yamato dynasty. Emperor Jimmu was followed by the Eight Undocumented Monarchs, beginning with Emperor Suizei and ending with Emperor Kaika. About two thousand years ago, Emperor Suinin made himself a name as the forerunner of Sumo wrestling and the founder of the Ise Shrine dedicated to his ancestor, the goddess Amaterasu.

Suinin's successor was Emperor Keiko, the 12th Tenno (Emperor of Japan). Keiko managed to spread his reign by conquering eastern tribes who disobeyed the imperial court like the Emishi and their war heroin, the wolf girl San, better known as Princess Mononoke. Keiko fought together with his first born son Prince Ousu, who would later be known as Yamato Takeru. While Yamato was one of the most glorious persons of the Yamato dynasty, he is also known for his brutality. Emperor Keiko, fearing Yamato's brutal temperament, attempted to kill him with his own hands. However, Yamato Takeru's aunt Princess Yamato, the highest priestess of Amaterasu, showed Keiko compassion and lent him a holy sword named "Kusanagi no tsurugi" which Susanoo, the brother god of Amaterasu, found in the body of the great serpent Yamata no Orochi. Sending himself to exil, Yamato Takeru wandered the eastern provinces for decades, defeating many enemies of the Emperor and, as an old man, composed the first renga, which is an important form of Japanese poetry. He died somewhere in Ise Province due to the curse of an angry local god of Mount Ibuki. One of his sons, Chuai, later became the 14th Tenno. Chuai was succeeded by his widow Empress Jingu (169-269), the first female Regent of Japan. She led an army in an invasion of Korea and returned to Japan victorious after three years, thus establishing contact with the ancient Korean kingdoms as well as China, which called Japan Wa or Yamato until the 8th century. During the reign of Empress Jingu, an obscure shaman queen called Himiko founded the independant magical kingdom of Yamataikoku.

The 15th Tenno was Emperor Ojin, son of Chuai and Jingu, who was conceived but unborn when Chuai died. Ojin was born three years after his fathers death as Prince Hondawake. He was crowned in 270 at the age of 70 and reigned for 40 years until he achieved godhood in 310, becoming Hachiman, the Shinto god of war and divine protector of Japan and the Japanese people. Buddhism was first introduced to Japan from Baekje of the Korean Peninsula, but the subsequent development of Japanese Buddhism and Buddhist sculptures were primarily influenced by China. Despite early resistance and increasing tension, during the reign of Emperor Yomei, a strong supporter of Buddhism, Buddhism was promoted by the ruling class and eventually gained growing acceptance since the Asuka period. The Nara period of the eighth century marked the first emergence of a strong central Japanese state, centered on an imperial court in the city of Heijo-kyo, or modern day Nara. During this time, a fisher called Urashimo Taro became the first mortal allowed to enter Ryugu-jo, the Palace of the Dragon God under the sea.

In 794, Emperor Kammu moved the capital from Nagaoka-kyo to modern day Kyoto, where it would remain for more than a millennium. This marked the beginning of the Heian period, during which a distinctly indigenous Japanese culture emerged, noted for its art, poetry and literature, as well as beeing the age of extraordinary beings like the tiny warrior Momotaro, the hero Kintaro, blessed with superhuman strength, the shapeshifting tankui (Japanese raccoon) of Kachi-Kachi Yama, Kiyo, the daughter of a wealthy landlord who turned out of anger into a giant snake, the conceited Prince Genji and Taketori no Okina's daughter Kaguya-hime, the most beautiful woman of Asia, blessed with a divine appeareance that even drew the attention of Emperor Mikado, who would later be granted immortality. However, Kaguya-hime was forced to go back to Tsuki-no-Miyako, the magical Capital of the Moon. The Heian period marked also a Golden Age for the returning Japanese spirits like Kami and Oni and several vengeful ghosts haunted Japan, most notably the ghostly remains of the beautiful woman Tamamo-no-Mae and the spirit of Oiwa, who was murdered by her ronin husband. Japan's feudal era was characterized by the emergence of a ruling class of warriors, the samurai of the Dragon clan. In 1185, following the defeat of the rival Lotus clan, Minamoto no Yoritomo was appointed Shogun and established a base of power in Kamakura, where he established the Serpent's Throne, creating the Serpent Empire ruled by the Dragon clan. After Yoritomo's death, the ancient Dragon clan was divided during a civil war: While one part remained loyal to the samurai priniciple of honor, the other half resorted to thievery, greed and deceit, thus founding the Serpent clan, which came to rule as regents for the shoguns.

The Serpent Empire managed to repel Mongol invasions in 1274 and 1281, aided by a storm that the Japanese interpreted as a kamikaze, or Divine Wind. The Serpent Empire was eventually overthrown by Emperor Go-Daigo, who was soon himself defeated by Ashikaga Takauji in 1336. The succeeding Ashikaga shogunate failed to control the clans' feudal warlords (daimyo), and the Onin Civil War erupted in 1467 which opened a century-long Sengoku period. During this period, Japan was divided between four powerful clans: the traditional, honorable samurais of the Dragon clan led by Otomo, the mercyless, cunning ronin of the Serpent clan led by Warlord Shinja, the wicked warlocks and undead of the recovered Lotus clan led by Lord warlock Zymeth and the wild barbarians and shamans of the Wolf clan led by Pack lords Grayback and Longtooth, who recently regained their freedom from the Lotus slavers during the Winter of the Wolf.

During the sixteenth century, traders and Jesuit missionaries from Portugal reached Japan for the first time, initiating active commercial and cultural exchange between Japan and the West called the Nanban trade. Around that time, Kenji Nobunage, last heir of the Serpent Empire, united the Dragon and the Serpent clan again using force, claiming the succession of the Serpent's Throne for himself. Kenji managed to defeat the enemy Wolf and Lotus clan by using European technology and firearms and almost unified the nation when he was assassinated in 1582. Toyotomi Hideyoshi succeeded Kenji and united the former Serpent Empire in 1590. After Hideyoshi's death, Tokugawa Ieyasu utilized his position as regent for Hideyoshi's son Toyotomi Hideyori to gain political and military support. When open war broke out, he defeated the four clans in the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600. Ieyasu was appointed shogun in 1603 and established the Tokugawa shogunate at Edo, modern Tokyo. In 1639, the shogunate began the isolationist sakoku ("closed country") policy that spanned the two and a half centuries of tenuous political unity known as the Edo period. During this age, Japan was inhabited by heroes such as Zaitochi, Takezo Kensei and Kambei's Seven Samurai. The Edo period also gave rise to "kokugaku", or literally "national studies", the study of Japan by the Japanese themselves.

In 1854, the USA forced the opening of Japan to the outside world with the Convention of Kanagawa. Subsequent similar treaties with the Western countries in the Bakumatsu period brought Japan into economic and political crises. The abundance of the prerogative and the resignation of the shogunate led to the Boshin War, the establishment of a centralized state unified under the name of the Emperor and the adoption of Western political, judicial and military institutions. The Meiji Restoration transformed the Empire of Japan into an industrialized world power that embarked on a number of military conflicts like the invasion of Korea to expand the nation's sphere of influence. The early twentieth century saw a brief period of "Taisho democracy" and the short-lived "Confederation of Eastern Asia" overshadowed by the rise of expansionism and militarization during the War in the Air. World War I enabled Japan, which joined the side of the victorious Allies, to expand its influence and territorial holdings. Japan continued its expansionist policy by occupying Manchuria in 1931. As a result of international condemnation for this occupation, Japan resigned from the League of Nations two years later. In 1936, Japan signed the Anti-Comintern Pact with Nazi Germany, joining the Axis powers in 1941. On December 7, 1941, Japan attacked the United States naval base in Pearl Harbor and declared war on the United States, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. This act brought the United States into World War II. After the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, along with the Soviet Union joining the war against it, Japan agreed to an unconditional surrender on August 15. The war costed Japan and countries part of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere millions of lives and left much of the country's industry and infrastructure destroyed.

In 1947, Japan adopted a new pacifist constitution emphasizing liberal democratic practices, which was the first step to Japan becoming a modern, technologically advanced nation of the 20th and 21st century. In the following century, Japan developed to one of the strongest and most prosperous powers of Asia, while remaining neutral concering the military sector except for interventions by obstinate superheroes like Son Goku. Working together with the newly formed United Federation of Asian Republics, Japan and its ally managed to send a colonisation shuttle to Mars during the Second Vietnam War (2015-2024). In 2024, Japan supported the North Korean rebellion against Kim Jong-Chul, which led to the Second Korea War, Kim's execution and the unifiction of Korea. However, the Chinese invasion of the American Republic of Gilead (usually called "American Empire" or "Imperial America" in Japan), the increasing militarization of India, Europe's and Russia's struggle over the Middle East and other signs of the upcoming Third World War led Japan again into politically isolation. On the 23. October 2077 (later called Judgment Day), the American/Canadian Conglomerate provoked a nuclear holocaust which ravaged most of the world, damaging Europe, America, Russia, India and the UFAR heavily, leading to Japan beeing the only major power nearly uneffected by the atomic war, except for the destruction and contermination of Tokyo and Okinawa, which were rebuilt and named Neo-Tokyo and Hondo City. While the rest of the world was nearly driven to complet destruction, Japan experienced another Golden Age thanks to its rapidly increasing level of population and technology: While radiation created mutants with extraordinary psychic powers like the nearly godlike Akira, the invention of battle suits, mechas and cyborgs known as Shells or GUNDAMs (General Utility Non-Discontinuity Augmented Maneuvering (System)) increased Japan's military power even further. Besides other Japanese technologies like cold fusion, energy weapons and Mars colonisation, Japan invented the "Japanese Miracle". These radiation-scrubber nanomachines which can negate the effects of nuclear fallout not only manage to clean Japan's territory from fallout radiaton, but the arrival of the Japanese Miracle also is said to have contributed to America's waning power; since nuclear fallout could now be mitigated, American nuclear weapons were no longer as powerful as before.


Japanese mythology and folklore (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese mythology) - about the first half of the text, for instance Emperor Jimmu, the Exalted Ones, Yamato Takeru,...
Princess Mononoke (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Mononoke)
Urashima Taro (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urashima_Taro)
Momotaro (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momotaro)
Kintaro (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kintaro)
Kachi-Kachi Yama (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kachi-kachi Yama) - the Tankui
Genji Monogatari (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genji Monogatari) - Genji
The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter) - Kaguya-hime, Taketori no Okina, Emperor Mikado
Battle Realms (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle Realms) - the four clans, Kenji Nobunage (last name derives from his historical counterpart Oda Nobunaga)
Zaitochi (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaitochi)
Heroes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroes (series)) - Takezo Kensei
Seven Samurai (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven Samurai) - Kambei's Seven Samurai
The War in the Air (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The War in the Air)
Godzilla (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godzilla)
Dragonball (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonball) - Son Goku
Empire Earth: AoC's Asian campaign (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire Earth: The Art of Conquest) - UFAR
Crysis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crysis) - Kim Jong-Chul
Ghost in a Shell (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost in a Shell) - WW III, Japanese Miracle, Second Korea & Vietnam War, American Empire, Shells
Judge Dredd (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judge Dredd) - Hondo City
Akira (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira_(manga))
GUNDAM (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUNDAM)

Excellent work, as always, but I'm a bit confused. I always thought Dragonball and the Godzilla series took place in the 20th century. The former featured a lot of modern technology and the plot of the latter is pretty much fueled by nuclear radiation.

Also, I'm planning on incorporating bits of the Gundam series into the Japanese civ. Could you include a reference to Mecha? Also, I'm surprised I didn't see Neo Tokyo and the events of Akira mentioned, or Titipu from Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado for that matter.

Dragon Ball's a WEIRD series, technologically. They have flying cars, but dinosaurs still walk the Earth. Speaking of which, it doesn't really take place on OUR Earth - it's an alternate reality or something strange like that. And the tone makes a shift from fun adventure in the original Dragon Ball[/URL] to a more action, sci-fi story in Dragon Ball Z.

However, the central character - Son Goku - takes his name from the Japanese version of Journey to the West, the old Chinese story which most certainly does NOT take place in the future; in that, he's Sun Wukong, the Monkey King. Assuming, in DBZ terms, we're talking about the SUPER TOUGH WARRIOR GOKU (http://www.androids.us/wp-content/images/goku1.jpg) and not the FUN-LOVING KID GOKU (http://shonenwallpapers.com/images/wallpapers/Dragonball_kid_and_goku_wallpaper-510348.jpeg) it's probably a good idea to have them as two separate individuals.

Again, the base story of Dragon Ball takes place on an alternate Earth, but it's easy to transplant it if we don't go into TOO much detail. Goku crashes to Earth, a Saiyan warrior from the planet Vegeta, and is adopted by a nice old man in the countryside. His real name is Kakarot, but the old man names him Son Goku, after the legendary hero. He grows up to become the famous defender of the planet and such.

Godzilla should also be moved forward - postwar Japan at the earliest, turn of the century at the latest, depending on which continuity you want to go with, Showa (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sh%C5%8Dwa_era_(daikaiju_eiga)), Heisei (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heisei_era_(daikaiju_eiga)), or Millennium (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mireniamu_era_(daikaiju_eiga)). It's REALLY confusing, though, so I'd recommend we just take the original and leave it at that.

Gundam - assuming we're going with the original Mobile Suit Gundam (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Suit_Gundam) - really diverges from our timeline in 1999, when the world unites as the Earth Federation. They begin to colonize little satellites floating around Earth in 2045; at this point, with a population of like 10 billion, people start to migrate to outer space, and the Universal Century (UC) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Century) dates begin. The first Mobile Suits (Gundams) appear around 80 UC; not until the 22nd Century, as far as we're concerned. Not sure how that figures into World War III and such, but, well, there you go.

Of course, there's a BUNCH of other timelines. Gundam SEED (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Suit_Gundam_SEED) transports things into the Cosmic Era (CE) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_Era), where World War III ends in 9 CE, colonies form in 44 CE, and the first Mobile Suit is built in 65 CE. This timeline has a lot to do with conflict between humans and Coordinators - genetically modified humans. Which would work with the whole Khan thing, with the first genetically enhanced human appearing 25 years before the end of World War III. You could probably fit that in pretty well, but it's not the most iconic Gundam series. There are a handful of others, too - it's interesting either way. Mecha in general could probably use some more focus, really... I'd love to see some references to Neon Genesis Evangelion (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neon_Genesis_Evangelion_(TV)) or The Big O (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_O). Though, to be honest, I'm not quite sure what either are actually about. :lol:

Also, for Japan in general, there are two things I'd like to see mentioned - first of all, the indigineous people of Japan, such as the Ainu, and media that mention them -Princess Mononoke (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Mononoke) comes to mind. Secondly, some references to the Meiji Restoration and instability following it; Rurouni Kenshin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rurouni_Kenshin) is a great, mainstreamish look at that, with fictional figures like Makoto Shishio nearly overthrowing the new government and some actual historical figures mixed in.

*wipes brow*

Sorry, I didn't intend to go on and on like that. Great stuff, by the way.. :goodjob: Now I'm in the mood to write a page up...

First of all, thanks for all the great ideas and helpful suggestions. I'll gladly include/change them sometimes tomorrow. :thanx:

Dragonball was actually a last minute thought. I have to admit I never actually watched the series. I wanted to mention Son Goku somewhere as he is the Japanese superhero in this mod, but I wasn't sure about the time so I just put him in where I thought he would fit in nicely.

You are right, Godzilla is mentioned about hundred years to early, my bad.

I didn't know Princess Mononoke, Rurouni Kenshin and The Mikado. However, they are great suggestions and I'm sure I'll be able to work them in somehow.

Ok, a quick Wikipedia search tells me all about the Gundam I need to know: There's damn much stuff about them! I'll look into it and I'll try to combine as many timelines as possible with the Shells from Ghost in a Shell, my main source of inspiration for 21th century Japan.

I'm pretty sure I'll be able to finish that stuff until tomorrow (UTC+1 in your face :lol:).

As for future projects, I think I'll fix my attention to Greece and Egypt. Are you currently working on something, Johnny139? How's Freedo-Moronika doing, cfkane?

I've just started Native America, and after that I'll work on the Inca - since I've already looked into South/Central American fiction and culture for the Aztecs, and North America, too. The Inca shouldn't take TOO long, so after that I'm thinking about Arabia.

...so I'd love to get some recommendations on what to use for those.

Good stuff, guys.

I actually haven't touched the Freedo-Moronika pedia entry for a while. I've been busy trying to finish my next batch of leaderheads and finding new wonders for the next update. So I haven't made much progress on it, I'm afraid.

And about DBZ being chronologically weird, keep in mind the kind of world we're dealing with. This is a world where the first lunar expeditions were in the 1860's, and there are still pockets of prehistoric life in places like Caspak, the Savage Land and Maple White Land. The people in this world have invented time travel and still have gods walking among them. It's a very weird universe, like DC or Marvel comics that can have aliens, gods, magicians and robots fighting alongside each other. But given that weirdness, DBZ would fit in fine.

I've just started Native America, and after that I'll work on the Inca - since I've already looked into South/Central American fiction and culture for the Aztecs, and North America, too. The Inca shouldn't take TOO long, so after that I'm thinking about Arabia.

...so I'd love to get some recommendations on what to use for those.

Native America consists of thousands of diferent peoples, from Toltecs, Anasazi and Caribs in the South to the Inuit peoples in the North, so I'm sure you should be able to find lots of mythological stuff. It's going to be hard to look that much up, though. Don't forget to tie in Hiawatha, Coyote, Anansi and Winnetou somehow!

The Inca are going to be a tough one. Check out Inca mythology, mention Paititi and I think there even is a Tintin episode with lost Inca, but I can't find it right now.

Anansi is a West African god. I think you're confusing him with the Anasazi Pueblo people.

Anansi is a West African god. I think you're confusing him with the Anasazi Pueblo people.

Right, my bad. I'm a bit confused lately :crazyeye:

Alright, the Japan update is finished. Any other ideas? Did I forget anything?

Well, it's been a while but now that I'm back from vacation (Viva Barcelona!) I'll start to write the pedias for Egypt and Greece, followed by Atlantis. I'd love to get some suggestions what to add, especially regarding Atlantis.

Greece has a lot of options, but barring the obvious - mythology and Homer's Epics and such - I'd recommend Disney's Hercules (complete bastardization of the actual mythology but not without merit) and Saint Seiya, for the modern era.

Egypt, again, should be pretty obvious, but a throwaway reference or two to Yu-Gi-Oh! would fit fairly well, methinks. Maybe some mention to American Gods - if you've read it - would be nice, too. Actually, American Gods would fit well into the Fictionalization mythos. *rubs chin*

Atlantis is hard, too, but shouldn't be too much of a stretch. Obviously, the traditional Atlantis legend should be a base, but DC and Marvel Comics should be a good source. The Little Mermaid has Atlantica, which is related, I would think, and Yu-Gi-Oh! has an Arc about Atlantis, too, I think... not entirely sure what it's ABOUT, though, since it wasn't in the comic books.

Greece has a lot of options, but barring the obvious - mythology and Homer's Epics and such - I'd recommend Disney's Hercules (complete bastardization of the actual mythology but not without merit) and Saint Seiya, for the modern era.

Egypt, again, should be pretty obvious, but a throwaway reference or two to Yu-Gi-Oh! would fit fairly well, methinks. Maybe some mention to American Gods - if you've read it - would be nice, too. Actually, American Gods would fit well into the Fictionalization mythos. *rubs chin*

Atlantis is hard, too, but shouldn't be too much of a stretch. Obviously, the traditional Atlantis legend should be a base, but DC and Marvel Comics should be a good source. The Little Mermaid has Atlantica, which is related, I would think, and Yu-Gi-Oh! has an Arc about Atlantis, too, I think... not entirely sure what it's ABOUT, though, since it wasn't in the comic books.

I'd actually keep Disney's Hercules out of it. Greek mythology is pretty self contained. There have been enough crossovers between the major figures that the fictional history pretty much writes itself. But the major works should all be touched: The Iliad, The Odyssey, The Oresteia, The Seven Against Thebes, The Oedipus Trilogy, Antigone, The Aeneid, etc. Aristophanes' Lysistrata in particular would be an interesting addition to Ancient Greek politics. Summaries of the major works of Greek poetry and theatre should all be available on wikipedia. As for non-Greek sources, Frank Millar's 300 has already been referenced in the mod, as have the Amazons according to DC comics.

For Egypt, Stargate and Shelley's Ozymandias will be in there of course, but there are plenty of classical and early modern sources to use as well. Verdi's Aida is set in Egypt, as is Mozart's The Magic Flute. Hollywood, of course, has played fast and loose with Egyptian burial rites (I think there have been more mummies portrayed on screen than there have been mummies actually buried:rolleyes:). Just please don't mention Transformers 2 and that stupid thing involving the Pyramids.

As for Atlantis, there's Kull, Opar, orichalcum and a possible reference to Melnibone as a Hyborian counterpart to Atlantis as Plato documented. Plus, there are plenty of other underwater humanoid species that could be made into vassals of the Atlantean Empire. Not just the mermaid kingdom from the Hans Christian Andersen tale, but also the Water-Babies. Lovecraft's Deep Ones could be mentioned, and it would have to be pointed out that Atlanteans aren't all necessarily of the same species (Marvel's Atlantis being different from DC's Atlantis, and so on) link (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantis_in_art,_literature_and_popular_culture)

As for American Gods, it seems like a good overarching template for how gods are treated in this mod, mainly since it allows for multiple aspects of deities. That way we can explain why the Norse pantheon can be simultaneously criminal con-men (in American Gods), superheroes (in Marvel Comics), and aliens posing as divinities (in Stargate).

Egypt's finished, I'll start to write Greece as soon as find some time.

I think I've replaced more people with fictional counterparts then in my previous pedias, and that's why I started thinking, a list of all historical/fictional counterparts might be useful. Well, anyway, I'll make a start, using my works and whatever else comes to my mind:

Adolf Hitler - Adenoid Hynkel
Angela Merkel - Martin Schörmann
Attila the Hun - Etzel the Hun
Austria - Osterlich
Austria-Hungaria - Freedo-Moronika
Benito Mussolini - Benzino Napaloni
Deng Xiaoping - Wu Qinghua
Hitlerdeutschland/Third Reich - Tomania
Hollywood - Vinewood
Joseph W. Stalin - Joseph W. Besstrashniy the Fearless Leader
Oda Nobunaga - Kenji Nobunaga
Pharaoh Hatshepsut - Aneh-Tet
Pharaoh Narmer/Menes - Mathayus the Scorpion King
Pharaoh Ramesses II the Great - Ozymandias (II.) the Great
Qin Dynasty - Han Dynasty (united with the historical Han dynasty)
Qin Shi Huangdi - Han the Dragon Emperor
Theoderich the Great - Dietrich von Bern
Vlad III Ţepeş the Impaler - Count Dracula
War in Iraq - War in Qumar


EGYPT

During the Hyborian Age, in a time when the Mediterranean Sea still was dry, the arid climate of Northern Africa became increasingly hot and dry, forcing the populations of the area to concentrate along the fertile Nile valley, thus slowly constructing the first early settlements. With the rise of the Hyborian Empire in the north, the Nile cultures formed an ancient high culture named Khemri but more often referred to as Stygia, the name given to it by its Hyborian neighbors. Sometime around 9,500 BC, the Hyborian Age ended with the fall of Hyboria caused by a massive onslaught of the Picts. Supernatural beings which should later develope to the gods of Sumeria and the God of Christianity, Judaism and Islam unleashed a Great Flood, which destroyed even the rests of Hyboria as well as Stygia, knocking the world back into the Stone Age. Using the flood and the decline of all ancient powers (except for Atlantis), the Titans, supernatural beings with god-like powers, seized power over most of continental Europe, stretching their rule from Scandinavia to the area around the slowly growing Mediterrean Sea and from the Atlantic coast to the vast steppes of Eastern Europe. The Titans' dominance over Stygia lasted until the Titanic War during witch the Olympians, the Titans' descendants who would later become the gods of Greece, overthrew the despotic rule of their ancestors and banned them to another plane of existance for many thousand years. But while the Olympians claimed the peninsual around their center of power, Mount Olympos, as their new territory, North Africa and Mesopotamia remained uncontrolled. This was the perfect chance for the rise of a new breed of gods: The falcon-headed sun god Ra declared him and his brethren to the new gods of the people of the Nile valley.

The reign of Ra as the first pharaoh of Egypt would last for hundreds of years. Being busy fighting off the monstrous serpent Apophis, which wanted to consume the sun itself, Ra's rule was quite benevolent, which led the people to become rebellious and unfaithful. When Ra was informed of his people's intolerable behaviour and attitude, the god sent his wife Hathor in the form of Sekhmet, the lion goddess of war and pestilence, to punish and devour all the rebells and infidels. After weeks of constant bloodbath, Ra had to trick Sekmet, because he had lost control over her bloodlust. After this bloody incident, Ra abdicated, leaving the throne of the pharaoh to Osiris. Osiris was a wise, ambitious and patient sovereign, but his coronation waked the jealousy and the greed of his vicious brother Set, the god of the desert, the darkness and chaos. Set murdered his brother and chopped him to pieces, thus claiming the throne for himself. But Osiris' wife and sister Isis resurrected her husband with help from their son Anubis. Before becoming the god of the afterlife and the judge of the dead, Osiris impregnated Isis, who would give birth to the eagle-headed Horus. After years of Set's reign of chaos and madness, the grown-up Horus challenged his uncle Set and became the new and last godly pharaoh of Egypt.

About 10,000 years ago, the people of Egypt had become strong and independent and the gods decided to leave the fate of Egypt in the hand of its people. But after only some months of mortal rule, an extraterrestrial race of alien parasites called the Goa'uld arrived at Earth using an ancient Stargate. Needing other lifeforms as their hosts, the Goa'uld posed as the old gods. Using the population's superstition as well as their superiour technology, the aliens, led by their Supreme System Lord who posed as Ra, enslaved the Egyptians, forcing them to be their servents, warriors as well as constructors of secret alien technology, hidden inside the Pyramids. The Goa'uld's reign lasted for nearly 7,000 years, until human rebells overthrew the alien regiem and buried the Stargate to prevent them from coming back. With both the gods and the Goa'uld gone, the Egyptians had no pharaoh, leading to civil war and the divison of the Ancient Kingdom. In 3,067 BC, during the time of the struggle for dominiance, the warlord Mathayus, called "the Scorpion King" by his followers, sold his soul to the gods in order to be granted control over the Army of Anubis, an endless legion of jackal-headed warriors called "Anubites". The Army of Anubis swept across Egypt, destroying all in their path and thus allowing the Scorpion King to unite the waring states of Upper and Lower Egypt. The Scorpion King declared himself to history's first mortal pharaoh and founded the First Dynasty of Egypt. After seizing power, Mathayus gave himself the throne name Narmer and established first contact with the Greeks, who called him Menes in their chronicles.

In 2950 BC, Nathanial Richards later known as Kang the Conquerer, a time traveller from the 30th century, arrived in Egypt. Thanks to his superiour technology, he declared himself to Pharaoh Rama-Tut. Without caring about politics, Rama-Tut wanted to educate the young mutant En Sabah Nur, but Nur declined the pharaoh's offer and drove Rama-Tut away in rage, using his own mutant abilities. After scaring off the time traveller back to his own century, Nur used his unique powers and Nathanial Richards' futuristic weapons to become a supervillain later known as Apocalypse. After millenia of Egypt being ruled by supernatural beings like gods, aliens, time travellers and mutants, Egypt finally came to the hands of mortals during the 29th century BC: Stunning advances in architecture, art, and technology like the Pyrmadis of Pharaoh Djoser and Pharaoh Khufu were made, fueled by the increased agricultural productivity made possible by a well developed central administration, along with witch a new class of educated scribes and officials would arise, who would be granted estates by the pharaoh in payment for their services. By the end of the Old Kingdom, five centuries of these feudal practices had slowly eroded the economic power of the pharaoh, who could no longer afford to support a large centralized administration and whose supremacy would be challenged by local governors. Free from their loyalties to the pharaoh, local rulers began competing with each other for territorial control and political power during the First Intermediate Period.

During the age of the Middle Kingdom, mighty pharaohs restored Egypt's unity, power, art, science and army. Moreover, the military reconquered territory in Nubia rich in quarries and gold mines, while laborers built a defensive structure in the Eastern Delta, called the "Walls-of-the-Ruler", to defend against foreign attack. The abduction and hostage of the Ethiopian princess Aida, daughter of King Amonasro, led to an Egyptian-Ethiopian War, won by the pharaoh's troops thanks to the warlord Radames, who would find a tragic end because of his love to Aida. The last great ruler of the Middle Kingdom, Amenemhat III, allowed Asiatic settlers into the delta region to provide a sufficient labor force for his especially active mining and building campaigns. However, these ambitious building and mining activities strained the economy and precipitated the slow decline into the Second Intermediate Period during the later 13th and 14th dynasties. During this decline, the foreign Asiatic settlers began to seize control of the delta region, eventually coming to power in Egypt as the Hyksos.

The New Kingdom's pharaohs established a period of unprecedented prosperity by securing their borders and strengthening diplomatic ties with their neighbors. Military campaigns extended the influence of the pharaohs into Syria and Nubia, reaching Egypt's largest extend. With the growing influence of the cult of Amun, the pharaohs also constructed monuments to glorify their own achievements, both real and imagined. The female pharaoh Aneh-Tet (1508-1458 BC, also known by her throne name Hatshepsut) used such propaganda to legitimize her claim to the throne, which would result in a reign of terror, but a successful one as it was marked by trading expeditions to Punt. Around 1350 BC, the stability of the New Kingdom was threatened when Amenhotep IV ascended the throne and instituted a series of radical and chaotic reforms. Changing his name to Akhenaten, he touted the previously obscure sun god Aten as the supreme deity, suppressed the worship of other deities, and attacked the power of the priestly establishment. Akhenaten turned a deaf ear to foreign affairs and absorbed himself in his new religion and artistic style. After his death, the cult of the Aten was quickly abandoned and most of the records about him were erased. In 1323, Egypt once more made contact with a strange alien species, but out of fear of being enlaved once more, the alien was buried in the grave of Tutankhamon. In 1290, the powerful sorcerer and high priest Imhotep fell in love with Anck-su-Namun, the mistress of Pharaoh Seti I. The outraged pharaoh executed the woman and mummified Imhotep, cursing him with eternal life and thus eternal pain. Around 1279, Ozymandias II (1312-1213 BC) also known as Ozymandias the Great, ascended the throne, following Seti I, and went on to build more temples, erect more statues, obelisks and monuments, most notably his glorious tomb near the Valley of the Kings, which would sadly be destroyed in the following centuries, and sire more children than any other pharaoh in history. One of these childen was Teth-Adam, a powerful sorcerer who aquired the power of Shazam, becoming a superhero and Egypt's champion until he was corrupted by his sister Blaze, who made him murder his father, leading to him being burried alive in his father's monumental tumb until he managed to destroy it, turning into Khem-Adam - Black Adam.

Beginning around 1220 BC, Egypt had to defend itself against the invading Atlanteans (called the "Sea Peoples" by Egyptian sources) who desired to annex the pharaoh's kingdom into their huge sea empire. While Greece was fighting the Trojan War, chaos and war spread also in Egypt: Allied with Kronos and the other imprisoned Titans, Set murdered Osiris once again, triggering an uprising of Set worshippers and a brutal civil war. Set aided the cyclops Gargarensis in his plot to free the Titans, but they were stopped by Osiris who had been put together and reanimated by the Nubian priestress of Isis Amanra, helped by the Atlantean warhero Arkantos. In 1177 BC, survivers of the recently sunken city of Atlantis invaded the cost of Egypt, now worshipping the Titans. Queen Amanra, now the pharaoh of Egypt, led the Egyptian forces during the battle against the Atlantean invaders as well as the recently freed beast Cerberus. After the defeat of New Atlantis, Pharaoh Atem ascended to the throne. His greatest acomplishments where the creation of the Millium Items as well as stone tablets showing Obelisk the Tormentor, Slifer the Sky Dragon and the Winged Dragon of Ra, which would be the basic for the Egyptian God Cards. But due to Egypt's wealth, it soon would attract greedy enemies, leading to the Third Intermediate Period. The Assyrians captured Egypt, but with no permanent plans for conquest, they left control of Egypt to a series of vassals who became known as the Saite kings of the Twenty-Sixth Dynasty. Later, Egypt would be annexed by Persia, followed by the rule of the Thirtieth Dynasty and later the vassals of Alexander the Great, known as the Ptolemaic Dynasty. During this time lived Pharaoh Kallikrates, who ran away with his wife Amenartes (later known as Ayesha) in 229 BC. The last ruler of the Ptolemaic Dynasty was Clepatra VII (69-30 BC), who wasn't able to defend Egypt's territory even with the help of Gaellic heros like Asterix and Obelix. Egypt became a province of the Roman Empire in 30 BC, following the defeat and the tragic death of Marc Antony and Cleopatra by Octavian (later Emperor Augustus) in the Battle of Actium. This would be the end of Egypt's golden Age. But even after the rule of the Mamluks, the Ottomans and the British Empire, the creating of the Arab Republic of Egypt, the Curse of King Tut's Tomb, and the awakening of dozends of mummies like Imhotep, Mathayus, Kharis, Kara, Aneh-Tet and Tutankhensetamun, the glory of its ancient heritage would never been forgotten and retains a strong place in history.


*Conan stories (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stygia) - Hyboria, Stygia
*Greek Mythology (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek Mythology) - Titans, Titanic War, Greek Gods
*Egyptian Mythology (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian Mythology) - rule of the Egyptian gods
*Stargate (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goa'uld) - Goa'uld, Stargate
*The Mummy franchise (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The Mummy (franchise)) - Imhotep, Anck-su-Namun, Scorpion King, Army of Anubis, Kharis
*Marvel Comics (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvel Comics) - Rama-Tut, En Sabah Nur
*Aida (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aida)
*Legion of the Dead (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legion of the Dead (film)) - Aneh-Tet
*Akhnaten (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akhnaten (opera))
*Age of Mythology (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age of Mythology) - Amanra, Arkantos, Gargarensis, Kastor, New Atlantis, Trojan War
*Yu-Gi-Oh! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yu-Gi-Oh!) - Atem, Millenium Items
*Ozymandias (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozymandias)
*DC Comics (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DC Comics) - Teth Adam
*Asterix (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asterix)
*The Awakening (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The Awakening) - Kara
*The Curse of King Tut's Tomb (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The Curse of King Tut's Tomb)
*Tutenstein (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutenstein) - Tutankhensetamun

Good stuff - I can't think of any real problems with it, but man, Egypt is ANCIENT.

I've started Native America... but so far, it's pretty much just creation myth and such. Hard to find specific examples that aren't just, y'know, silly, but I think I've got a good balance. Just the start, though - there's a LOT more in way of sources once the white man arrives.

The indigenous people of North America never founded a singular civilization; instead, the continent consisted of countless distinct tribes, cultures, and peoples. “Native America” generally refers to the original inhabitants of land owned by the United States and Canada.

There is little in the way of recorded history for most of these peoples, and most knowledge comes from spoken tradition. As the various groups were different, so were their interpretations of their origins – though many have similar roots, dating from shortly after the Great Flood, caused in the Americas by Wisakedjak. The native Californians were made from the Earth-Maker’s clay, as were the Creek people, formed by Esaugetuh Emissee. Many groups were created by the Great Spirit, known by many names - Wakan Tanka in Lakota, Yowa in Cherokee, Gitche Manitou in Algonquian, who also believed in "Little Spirits," simply called Manitou. Some, like the Navajo, simply sprouted from ears of corn.

During the early years of Native American history, humans co-existed with several intelligent animals. Badger, Great Rabbit, and Crow were vital figures in the formative years of the region. Spider-Woman is credited with the “creation” of mankind by many groups. The most prolific, however, were the tricksters. One of the best known is Raven, who helped feed the first humans, but also stole from native tribes, in one case, even stealing the sun. Coyote, a rival of Ravens, is still spoken of today for his many (alleged) achievements – from the creation of man to the discovery of fire. Kokopelli, while not an animal, was a musical trickster, but also the master of childbirth and fertility. Some creatures were purely antagonistic – such as the wendego and the apotamkin, man-eating demons that stalked the countryside. On the whole, however, the Native Americans lived in harmony with nature, not at war with it.

...

Sources:
* Native America Civilopedia Entry – General Native American History
* Wisakedjak (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisakedjak) - Wisakedjak, The Great Flood
* Californian Mythology (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth-maker_myth) – Earth-Maker
* Creek Mythology (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creek_mythology) – Esaugetuh Emissee
* Lakota Mythology (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakota_mythology) – Wakan Tanka
* Cherokee Mythology (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherokee_mythology) – Yowa
* Gitche Manitou (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gitche_Manitou)
* Manitou (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manitou)
* Navajo Mythology (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navajo_mythology) – people born from ears of corn
* Native American Gods (http://www.godchecker.com/pantheon/native_american-mythology.php?deity=RAVEN) – Badger, Great Rabbit, Crow, Spider-Woman, Raven, Coyote, wendego, apotamkin
* Kokopelli (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kokopelli)

Good stuff - I can't think of any real problems with it, but man, Egypt is ANCIENT.

I thought so, too. But hey, we have Hyboria as a civ, I guess that one is gonna be ancient²!

I've started Native America... but so far, it's pretty much just creation myth and such. Hard to find specific examples that aren't just, y'know, silly, but I think I've got a good balance. Just the start, though - there's a LOT more in way of sources once the white man arrives.

Good stuff! You're mentioning a lot of gods, that reminds me of two deities that really should be in somehow: Kokopelli (well known fertility god) and Manitou (he is referenced quite often in modern stories even though he only was a god of only the Anishinabe, actually)
Maybe you could implement some specifial myths about Raven, there is e.g. something about him stealing the sun as well as the story of The Regretfull Chief.
And don't forget Hiawatha (see The Song of Hiawatha (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Song_of_Hiawatha)) as he is Native America's leader in this mod.

Oh, and just in order to remind myself: I should expnd the Norse pedia a little bit to fit in nicely into the rule of the Titans (=Giants) and implement some stuff about the exploration of America (Cultures, I'll mention that one in Native America, too). I guess I'll do that after I've finished Greece and Atlantis.

Egypt's finished, I'll start to write Greece as soon as find some time.

I think I've replaced more people with fictional counterparts then in my previous pedias, and that's why I started thinking, a list of all historical/fictional counterparts might be useful. Well, anyway, I'll make a start, using my works and whatever else comes to my mind:

Adolf Hitler - Adenoid Hynkel
Angela Merkel - Martin Schörmann
Attila the Hun - Etzel the Hun
Austria - Osterlich
Austria-Hungaria - Freedo-Moronika
Benito Mussolini - Benzino Napaloni
Deng Xiaoping - Wu Qinghua
Hitlerdeutschland/Third Reich - Tomania
Hollywood - Vinewood
Joseph W. Stalin - Joseph W. Besstrashniy the Fearless Leader
Oda Nobunaga - Kenji Nobunaga
Pharaoh Hatshepsut - Aneh-Tet
Pharaoh Narmer/Menes - Mathayus the Scorpion King
Pharaoh Ramesses II the Great - Ozymandias (II.) the Great
Qin Dynasty - Han Dynasty (united with the historical Han dynasty)
Qin Shi Huangdi - Han the Dragon Emperor
Theoderich the Great - Dietrich von Bern
Vlad III Ţepeş the Impaler - Count Dracula
War in Iraq - War in Qumar


EGYPT

During the Hyborian Age, in a time when the Mediterranean Sea still was dry, the arid climate of Northern Africa became increasingly hot and dry, forcing the populations of the area to concentrate along the fertile Nile valley, thus slowly constructing the first early settlements. With the rise of the Hyborian Empire in the north, the Nile cultures formed an ancient high culture named Khemri but more often referred to as Stygia, the name given to it by its Hyborian neighbors. Sometime around 9,500 BC, the Hyborian Age ended with the fall of Hyboria caused by a massive onslaught of the Picts. Following the empire's decline, the Titans, supernatural beings with god-like powers, seized power over most of continental Europe, stretching their rule from Scandinavia to the area around the slowly growing Mediterrean Sea and from the Atlantic coast to the vast steppes of Eastern Europe. The Titans' dominance over Stygia lasted until the Titanic War during witch the Olympians, the Titans' descendants who would later become the gods of Greece, overthrew the despotic rule of their ancestors and banned them to another plane of existance for many thousand years. But while the Olympians claimed the peninsual around their center of power, Mount Olympos, as their new territory, North Africa and Mesopotamia remained uncontrolled. This was the perfect chance for the rise of a new breed of gods: The falcon-headed sun god Ra declared him and his brethren to the new gods of the people of the Nile valley.

The reign of Ra as the first pharaoh of Egypt would last for hundreds of years. Being busy fighting off the monstrous serpent Apophis, which wanted to consume the sun itself, Ra's rule was quite benevolent, which led the people to become rebellious and unfaithful. When Ra was informed of his people's intolerable behaviour and attitude, the god sent his wife Hathor in the form of Sekhmet, the lion goddess of war and pestilence, to punish and devour all the rebells and infidels. After weeks of constant bloodbath, Ra had to trick Sekmet, because he had lost control over her bloodlust. After this bloody incident, Ra abdicated, leaving the throne of the pharaoh to Osiris. Osiris was a wise, ambitious and patient sovereign, but his coronation waked the jealousy and the greed of his vicious brother Set, the god of the desert, the darkness and chaos. Set murdered his brother and chopped him to pieces, thus claiming the throne for himself. But Osiris' wife and sister Isis resurrected her husband with help from their son Anubis. Before becoming the god of the afterlife and the judge of the dead, Osiris impregnated Isis, who would give birth to the eagle-headed Horus. After years of Set's reign of chaos and madness, the grown-up Horus challenged his uncle Set and became the new and last godly pharaoh of Egypt.

About 10,000 years ago, the people of Egypt had become strong and independent and the gods decided to leave the fate of Egypt in the hand of its people. But after only some months of mortal rule, an extraterrestrial race of alien parasites called the Goa'uld arrived at Earth using an ancient Stargate. Needing other lifeforms as their hosts, the Goa'uld posed as the old gods. Using the population's superstition as well as their superiour technology, the aliens, led by their Supreme System Lord who posed as Ra, enslaved the Egyptians, forcing them to be their servents, warriors as well as constructors of secret alien technology, hidden inside the Pyramids. The Goa'uld's reign lasted for nearly 7,000 years, until human rebells overthrew the alien regiem and buried the Stargate to prevent them from coming back. With both the gods and the Goa'uld gone, the Egyptians had no pharaoh, leading to civil war and the divison of the Ancient Kingdom. In 3,067 BC, during the time of the struggle for dominiance, the warlord Mathayus, called "the Scorpion King" by his followers, sold his soul to the gods in order to be granted control over the Army of Anubis, an endless legion of jackal-headed warriors called "Anubites". The Army of Anubis swept across Egypt, destroying all in their path and thus allowing the Scorpion King to unite the waring states of Upper and Lower Egypt. The Scorpion King declared himself to history's first mortal pharaoh and founded the First Dynasty of Egypt. After seizing power, Mathayus gave himself the throne name Narmer and established first contact with the Greeks, who called him Menes in their chronicles.

In 2950 BC, Nathanial Richards later known as Kang the Conquerer, a time traveller from the 30th century, arrived in Egypt. Thanks to his superiour technology, he declared himself to Pharaoh Rama-Tut. Without caring about politics, Rama-Tut wanted to educate the young mutant En Sabah Nur, but Nur declined the pharaoh's offer and drove Rama-Tut away in rage, using his own mutant abilities. After scaring off the time traveller back to his own century, Nur used his unique powers and Nathanial Richards' futuristic weapons to become a supervillain later known as Apocalypse. After millenia of Egypt being ruled by supernatural beings like gods, aliens, time travellers and mutants, Egypt finally came to the hands of mortals during the 29th century BC: Stunning advances in architecture, art, and technology like the Pyrmadis of Pharaoh Djoser and Pharaoh Khufu were made, fueled by the increased agricultural productivity made possible by a well developed central administration, along with witch a new class of educated scribes and officials would arise, who would be granted estates by the pharaoh in payment for their services. By the end of the Old Kingdom, five centuries of these feudal practices had slowly eroded the economic power of the pharaoh, who could no longer afford to support a large centralized administration and whose supremacy would be challenged by local governors. Free from their loyalties to the pharaoh, local rulers began competing with each other for territorial control and political power during the First Intermediate Period.

During the age of the Middle Kingdom, mighty pharaohs restored Egypt's unity, power, art, science and army. Moreover, the military reconquered territory in Nubia rich in quarries and gold mines, while laborers built a defensive structure in the Eastern Delta, called the "Walls-of-the-Ruler", to defend against foreign attack. The abduction and hostage of the Ethiopian princess Aida, daughter of King Amonasro, led to an Egyptian-Ethiopian War, won by the pharaoh's troops thanks to the warlord Radames, who would find a tragic end because of his love to Aida. The last great ruler of the Middle Kingdom, Amenemhat III, allowed Asiatic settlers into the delta region to provide a sufficient labor force for his especially active mining and building campaigns. However, these ambitious building and mining activities strained the economy and precipitated the slow decline into the Second Intermediate Period during the later 13th and 14th dynasties. During this decline, the foreign Asiatic settlers began to seize control of the delta region, eventually coming to power in Egypt as the Hyksos.

The New Kingdom's pharaohs established a period of unprecedented prosperity by securing their borders and strengthening diplomatic ties with their neighbors. Military campaigns extended the influence of the pharaohs into Syria and Nubia, reaching Egypt's largest extend. With the growing influence of the cult of Amun, the pharaohs also constructed monuments to glorify their own achievements, both real and imagined. The female pharaoh Aneh-Tet (1508-1458 BC, also known by her throne name Hatshepsut) used such propaganda to legitimize her claim to the throne, which would result in a reign of terror, but a successful one as it was marked by trading expeditions to Punt. Around 1350 BC, the stability of the New Kingdom was threatened when Amenhotep IV ascended the throne and instituted a series of radical and chaotic reforms. Changing his name to Akhenaten, he touted the previously obscure sun god Aten as the supreme deity, suppressed the worship of other deities, and attacked the power of the priestly establishment. Akhenaten turned a deaf ear to foreign affairs and absorbed himself in his new religion and artistic style. After his death, the cult of the Aten was quickly abandoned and most of the records about him were erased. In 1323, Egypt once more made contact with a strange alien species, but out of fear of being enlaved once more, the alien was buried in the grave of Tutankhamon. In 1290, the powerful sorcerer and high priest Imhotep fell in love with Anck-su-Namun, the mistress of Pharaoh Seti I. The outraged pharaoh executed the woman and mummified Imhotep, cursing him with eternal life and thus eternal pain. Around 1279, Ozymandias II (1312-1213 BC) also known as Ozymandias the Great, ascended the throne, following Seti I, and went on to build more temples, erect more statues, obelisks and monuments, most notably his glorious tomb near the Valley of the Kings, which would sadly be destroyed in the following centuries, and sire more children than any other pharaoh in history. One of these childen was Teth-Adam, a powerful sorcerer who aquired the power of Shazam, becoming a superhero and Egypt's champion until he was corrupted by his sister Blaze, who made him murder his father, leading to him being burried alive in his father's monumental tumb until he managed to destroy it, turning into Khem-Adam - Black Adam.

While Greece was fighting the Trojan War, chaos and war spread also in Egypt: Allied with Kronos and the other imprisoned Titans, Set murdered Osiris once again, triggering an uprising of Set worshippers and a brutal civil war. Set aided the cyclops Gargarensis in his plot to free the Titans, but they were stopped by Osiris who had been put together and reanimated by the Nubian priestress of Isis Amanra, helped by the Atlantean warhero Arkantos. Ten years after Gargarensis' and Kronos' plans had been foiled, survivers of the recently sunken city of Atlantis invaded the cost of Egypt, now worshipping the Titans. Queen Amanra, now the pharaoh of Egypt, led the Egyptian forces during the battle against the Atlantean invaders as well as the recently freed beast Cerberus. After the defeat of New Atlantis, Pharaoh Atem ascended to the throne. His greatest acomplishments where the creation of the Millium Items as well as stone tablets showing Obelisk the Tormentor, Slifer the Sky Dragon and the Winged Dragon of Ra, which would be the basic for the Egyptian God Cards. But due to Egypt's wealth, it soon would attract greedy enemies, leading to the Third Intermediate Period. The Assyrians captured Egypt, but with no permanent plans for conquest, they left control of Egypt to a series of vassals who became known as the Saite kings of the Twenty-Sixth Dynasty. Later, Egypt would be annexed by Persia, followed by the rule of the Thirtieth Dynasty and later the vassals of Alexander the Great, known as the Ptolemaic Dynasty. During this time lived Pharaoh Kallikrates, who ran away with his wife Amenartes (later known as Ayesha) in 229 BC. The last ruler of the Ptolemaic Dynasty was Clepatra VII (69-30 BC), who wasn't able to defend Egypt's territory even with the help of Gaellic heros like Asterix and Obelix. Egypt became a province of the Roman Empire in 30 BC, following the defeat and the tragic death of Marc Antony and Cleopatra by Octavian (later Emperor Augustus) in the Battle of Actium. This would be the end of Egypt's golden Age. But even after the rule of the Mamluks, the Ottomans and the British Empire, the creating of the Arab Republic of Egypt, the Curse of King Tut's Tomb, and the awakening of dozends of mummies like Imhotep, Mathayus, Kharis, Kara, Aneh-Tet and Tutankhensetamun, the glory of its ancient heritage would never been forgotten and retains a strong place in history.


*Conan stories (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stygia) - Hyboria, Stygia
*Greek Mythology (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek Mythology) - Titans, Titanic War, Greek Gods
*Egyptian Mythology (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian Mythology) - rule of the Egyptian gods
*Stargate (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goa'uld) - Goa'uld, Stargate
*The Mummy franchise (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The Mummy (franchise)) - Imhotep, Anck-su-Namun, Scorpion King, Army of Anubis, Kharis
*Marvel Comics (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvel Comics) - Rama-Tut, En Sabah Nur, Teth-Adam
*Aida (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aida)
*Legion of the Dead (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legion of the Dead (film)) - Aneh-Tet
*Akhnaten (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akhnaten (opera))
*Age of Mythology (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age of Mythology) - Amanra, Arkantos, Gargarensis, Kastor, New Atlantis, Trojan War
*Yu-Gi-Oh! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yu-Gi-Oh!) - Atem, Millenium Items
*Ozymandias (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozymandias)
*Asterix (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asterix)
*The Awakening (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The Awakening) - Kara
*The Curse of King Tut's Tomb (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The Curse of King Tut's Tomb)
*Tutenstein (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutenstein) - Tutankhensetamun



Again, well done. Although Teth Adam is actually a DC comics character.

And as to the relation between Hyboria and our own history, I was thinking that the Great Flood from Sumerian/Judaic/Christian/Islamic mythology would be the cut-off point, with Atlantis being the only civilization that remained afloat, so to speak, with the rest of the world changed geographically and sent into a new brief Stone Age.

And the counterparts idea is pretty much what I've been going for. Alan Moore's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, on which this mod is partially based, does the same thing. Here are some more analogues to consider. I don't know how useful some of them will be, but they'll be there for your consideration.

Al Capone/Tony Camonte
Barack Obama/Matthew Santos
The Beatles/Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Clement Atlee/Harold "Big Brother" Wharton
Elizabeth I/Gloriana I
Elizabeth II/Gloriana II
Elvis Presley/Conrad Birdie
Federico Fellini/Guido Anselmi
Frank Sinatra/Johnny Fontaine
G. Gordon Liddy/Felix Leiter
Gloria Swanson/Norma Desmond
Horatio Nelson/Horatio Hornblower
James Joyce/Stephen Daedalus
John Dee/Prospero
John McCain/Arnold Vinick
Oswald Mosley/Roderick Spode
Rudy Guiliani/Randall Winston
Tina Fey/Liz Lemon
William Randolph Hearst/Charles Foster Kane
Woody Allen/Alvy Singer

Again, well done. Although Teth Adam is actually a DC comics character.

And as to the relation between Hyboria and our own history, I was thinking that the Great Flood from Sumerian/Judaic/Christian/Islamic mythology would be the cut-off point, with Atlantis being the only civilization that remained afloat, so to speak, with the rest of the world changed geographically and sent into a new brief Stone Age.

Changing reference of Teth Adam right now.

I didn't read any of the Conan stories so I check just to be sure: Hyboria was destroyed because of a the Pictish onslaught, wasn't it? Anyway, I'll put the Great Flood in ASAP.

EDIT: Done and done. :)

And the counterparts idea is pretty much what I've been going for. Alan Moore's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, on which this mod is partially based, does the same thing. Here are some more analogues to consider. I don't know how useful some of them will be, but they'll be there for your consideration.

I know, that's why I started the list. In my opinon, such a list could be useful in order to maintain the continuity. For instance, it wouldn't be very good if somebody would mention Hitler instead of Hynkel in one of the future pedias.

And as to the relation between Hyboria and our own history, I was thinking that the Great Flood from Sumerian/Judaic/Christian/Islamic mythology would be the cut-off point, with Atlantis being the only civilization that remained afloat, so to speak, with the rest of the world changed geographically and sent into a new brief Stone Age.

Aha - I was wondering what to do with the Great Flood, since it's such a staple in mythology. A good chunk of the Native American creations myths I read took place in a world of water before there was land.

Also, I updated it a bit with some more examples and such. I'll continue it later today, if I get the chance.

I've been not very active lately, because I had some problems with my computer and internet connection. Luckily, that was after I finished research for my newest project, so now I love to present you: Atlantis!


ATLANTIS

No empire changed the fate of humanity similar to Atlantis, the eight continent. Although scientists claimed for hundreds of years, that Africa would be the cradle of humankind, but with the help of Atlantean chronologists it was confirmed, that the Atlantean coninent was the place where humans first appeared. In these ancient days, the continent was called Mu. About 20,000 BC, during the Upper Paleolithic, Mu was the the home of the world's first civilisations, like the kingdom of Kn'aa located near Mount Yaddith-Gho, as well as kingdoms like Commoria, Valusia, Thule and the island empires of Lemuria. All of these kingdoms were worshipping (and sometimes even were directly ruled by) a triad of three powerful, godlike beings: Zoth-Ommog, Ghatanothoa, and Ythogtha, the sons of Cthulhu. Outside these civilized monarchies lay a harsh wilderness inhabited by brutal barbarian warriors like Kull of Atlantis, who would later be the last king of Valusia. In the following centuries, the ancient Yuggoth-worshipping kingdoms were suppressed by the florishing empire of Melniboné, which had been founded by Shadow-walkers coming from the parallel world Amber, the one true world of Order. The callous and eternally beautiful Melnibonéans established a powerful empire stretching over most of the continent of Mu, using their armies of dragons and sorcerers. Making use if their dragon mounts, powerful magic and ocean-going ships, Melniboné led first explorations and raids eastwards, reaching and attacking the coast area of what would later be North Africa as well as the early Hyborian empire. During the time of Elric VIII, 428th Emperor of Melniboné and facet of the Eternal Champion, the capital Imrryr was the only surviving city of Mu, while the other territories were turning into wilderness once more due to unknown reasons. At the same time, remains of the cult of Cthulhu left the continent, founding the city of R'lyeh in the Pacific Ocean near the South Pole.

Sometime around 9,500 BC, the Hyborian Age ended with the fall of Hyboria caused by a massive onslaught of the Picts. Supernatural beings which should later develope to the gods of Sumeria and the God of Christianity, Judaism and Islam unleashed a Great Flood, which destroyed even the rests of Hyboria as well as many other empires around the globe, knocking the world back into another Stone Age. But Mu survived the deluge without significant losses, thus being the world's only major power left. But the power vacuum created by the world wide chaos and destruction opened a path to power for the Titans, supernatural beings with god-like powers. Led by Cronos, the Titans seized power over most of continental Europe, stretching their rule from Scandinavia to the area around the slowly growing Mediterrean Sea and from the Atlantic coast to the vast steppes of Eastern Europe. With the desire to extend their realm even further, the Titans initiated the invasion of Mu. The Titanic forces had considerable success early on with the destruction of Imrryr, thus ending Mu's age of sorcerers and killing most of the remaining dragons, causing the last surviving wyrms to fly away reaching Europa, Mesopotamia, America and even Asia and becoming known under various names like Loong, Rainbow Serpent and Feathered Snake. In the face of the threatening defeat, Mu's soldiers joined forces with the Olympians, the children of the Titans who would later become the gods of Greece, leading to a rebellion throughout the Titans' empire called the Titanic War. After the war, the Olympians' leader Zeus rewarded his brother Poseidon with the rule over the sea as well as over Mu. But Poseidon prefered to be a nomad roaming over the ocean and thus he crowned his son Atlas as the first king of the newly founded Empire of Atlantis.

Ruling from the capital of Poseidonis, the Atlantean Empire quickly seized power over most of the land that borders the Atlantic Ocean as well as the Mediterrean Sea. Atlantis established hundreds of colonies and outposts all over the world: In Italy, there was the Atlantean colony Poseidonia, Phoenician traders made contact with Atlantean cities in Mesopotamia calling Atlantis "Antilia" and in Scandinavia existed various trading and scouting outposts with established first contact and trade between the Norse, Atlantis and soon even Greece. The origins of Greece go back to ancient, initially Atlantean cities like Knossos and Mycenae, which spread civilisation all over the Greek Peninsual and which would later be claimed by the Olympians, forming the first poleis. The jungles and coasts of Africa were marked by wealthy city-states like Opar, while the natives of these regions refered to Atlantis as "Atlantioi" and "Atarantes". After the Egyptian gods made first contact with the Olympians, the mighty god Thoth himself studied at the universities of Atlantis, bringing knowledge, wisdom and, most importantly, a system of writing to Egypt. Even Mesoamerica was colonized by Atlantis, which founded outposts where later would be the realms of the Mayas and the city of Aztlan.

This type of imperialism was extremly expensive, but the government of Atlantis was able to afford it thanks to trade with the native population living in the area around their colonies as well as the mining of orichalcum, a copper-colored metal considered second only to gold in value. But Atlantis' power wasn't only thanks to its colonies and trade, the powerful Atlantean army and, especially, fleet were a major factor for its rise, too. Atlantis led numerous wars against dozens of foes. Maybe the first and the longest lasting of these wars was the battle against the surviving worshippers of Cthulhu with finally led to the sinking of their capital city R'lyeh. After the Greek city-states were claimed by the Olympians and thus became independant from the Atlantean Empire, Atlantis attempted to invade and recapture Athens. But the Atlanteans did underestimate the power of the young Greek polis and the naval invasion ended in a disaster and the defeat of the fleet sent by Atlantis. But Atlantis had more luck in other encounters, like the invasion of Egypt witch started around 1220 BC. Simply called the "Sea Peoples" by the Egyptians, the Atlantean fleets managed to overwhelm the pharaoh's navy, leading to the invasion of Ugarit in 1192 BC during an eclipse, thus pushing the battle from the sea to Egyptian territory. At the same time, Atlantis attempted to conquer Britannia, but the native Celts, who called the invaders the "Firbolgs", proved to be decent warriors.

In 1194, the Trojan War erupted after the abduction of Helen, the future wife of Menelaus, king of Sparta. Atlantis agreed to aid the Achaean forces in the siege of Troy and sent their own mighty fleet, led by the most skilled warlord of Atlantis: Arkantos. After ten years of warfare, the city of Troy fell to the united troops led by Agamemnon and Arkantos who managed to trick the defenders using the famous Trojan Horse. After the fall of Troy, the Achaeans slaughtered the Trojans savagely and raided the temples, thus provoking the wrath of the gods. Arkantos and his friend, the Greek hero Ajax, were on their way home, when they encovered a plot of the cyclops Gargarensis, who attempted to free the very Titans themselves by opening one of the four gates leading to Tartarus. In the following weeks, Arkantos and his allies defended the gates located in Greek, Egypt and even Scandinavia, leading to Gargarensis' assault on Atlantis, where the last remaining gate existed, shortly after Odysseus visited the continent which he called "Sheria". Arkantos and the other defenders had considerable success early on, until the golden statue of Poseidon came to live and ran havok in the harbor of Atlantis, leaving only one conclusion: Outraged because of the desecration of the Trojan temples, Poseidon allied himself with Gargarensis and the Titans. Not able to withstand the wrath of a god, the Atlanteans had to withdraw, leaving Atlantis to its fate: Destruction and sinking, caused by its very own deity.

With the death of most of the Atlantean nobles, Arkantos' son Kastor seized power over the surviving Atlanteans, although many of the survivers had already sailed away to the west, founding the Maya civilization.
Manipulated by the Titan Cronos, Kastor led the remaining survivors to the south, founding a city called New Atlantis somewhere at the Antarctic coast and established a cult worshipping the Titans. The Greeks were angered with the Atlanteans' new choice of gods, and attacked them. After the destrucion of Sikyos by Atlantean troops, the Egyptian and Norse armies came to aid their Greek allies, triggering a naval war taking place in the Mediterrean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. Manipulated by the Titans, Kastor led an assault against Mount Olympus, thus freeing the Titans from Tartarus. Realising he was only a tool of the Titans, Kastor deserted and allied himself with his father Arkantos' friends. The allied forces of Greece, Egypt and the Norse managed to destroy the Titans Cerberus, Ymir and Prometheus and closed the gate to Tartarus located inside the sunken Old Atlantis, thus ending the Titans attack and banishing them once again. Kastor returned to New Atlantis and decided to cut off contact with the northern realms. In the following centuries, the people of New Atlantis followed ancient rituals of Poseidon, slowly transforming into mermen and mermaids. During the rule of Triton, Poseidon's last living son and father of Ariel the Little Mermaid, the mermankind revived the Atlantean Empire, but this time the empire ruled over the world under the sea: The creatures of the oceans became the new population of Atlantis and many intelligent sea peoples joined the empire as vassals, most notably the Kelpies, Kappas, Sirens, Naiads, Klabautermänner, Finfolk and Water-Babies. Many well known beasts of the sea were tamed by the Atlantean mages and sea hunters as well, like Jörmungandr, the Kraken, the sea dragons, Scylla and Charybdis, the Rainbow Fish, the white whale Mobby Dick, the crew of the "Flying Dutchman" and even Calypso, goddess of the sea.

During the 20th century, the half-Atlantean Namor the Sub-Mariner became the new heir to the throne of Atlantis. At the start of his rule, the Atlanteans returned to their ancient city of origin and resurrected Atlantis, raising it once again to the surface of the sea. Namor restored contact with the "surface dwellers", but not in a dipolmatic way. Instead, his troops began to raid the Atlantic coast areas, intending to claim back the territory of their old empire. Nevertheless, the Atlantean troops joined the Allied Powers against the Axis Powers during World War II. With the increasing technological level of the surface, the sea began to suffer because of pollution, encouraging Namor to establish an Atlantean common line of environmentalism. Despite Atlantis' fight against environmental damage, itself suffered great loss: The city was damaged heavily by nuclear testing. Outraged, Namor led a vendetta against the surface, attacking even New York. After the desastrous war against Lemuria, Namor deposed from his throne and was driven away from Atlantis, joining the Avengers and founding the environmentalistic Oracle Inc. After Namor's disappearance, rogue Atlantean elements declared once more war on the surface, opening the fight with the Battle at the Panama Canal. The war encouraged Arthur Curry, another half-Atlantean half-human, to become a superhero known as Aquaman. Aquaman claimed the throne of Atlantis for himself and became Atlantis' new emperor, thus also triggering an age of cooperation with the surface. This age would last until the mid of the 21st century. While the world's most powerful nations and alliances were preparing for the upcoming Third World War, Atlantis intended to toss its hat into the world wide struggle for global dominance. Namor's son Kamar initiated the invasion of America, torn apart by revolutions, religious fanatism and the on going war against China. But the city of Atlantis was destroyed by the overcharged super-villain Nitro. Namor, who tried to evacuate the city, led the only survivors eastwards to Europe. Forming an alliance with his old ally Victor von Doom, sovereign of Latveria, the Atlanteans settled down in Eastern Europe. With the oceans being turned into a radiated, black sludge, the era of Atlantis finally ended - an era that stretched over many thousands of years and changed the fate of the whole world.



*Cthulhu Mythos (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu_(Cthulhu_Mythos)) - Mu, Cthulhu, R'lyeh, Lemuria, Mount Yaddith-Gho, Kn'aa
*Kull of Atlantis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kull of Atlantis) - Kull of Atlantis, Commoria, Valusia, Thule, Lemuria
*The Elric Saga (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melniboné) - Melniboné, Elric
*The Chronicles of Amber (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The Chronicles of Amber) - Amber, Shadow-walkers
*Conan stories (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyborian Age) - Hyboria
*Greek mythology (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek mythology) - Olympians, Titans, Sirens, Naiads
*African mythology (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African mythology) - Atlantioi, Atarantes
*Egyptian mythology (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoth) - Thoth
*Critias (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critias_(dialogue)) - invasion of Athens
*Irish mythology (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fir Bolg) - Firbolgs, Kelpies, Finfolk
*Iliad (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan War) - Trojan War, Agamemnon, Menelaus, Helen of Troy, Ajax
*Age of Mythology (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age of Mythology) - Arkantos, Gargarensis, sinking of Atlantis, Kastor, New Atlantis
*Odyssey (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/) - Odysseus visiting Atlantis (island of Sheria), Scylla and Charybdis
*theory of Augustus Le Plongeon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus Le Plongeon) - Mayas actually being Atlanteans
*Norse mythology (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norse mythology) - Ymir, Jörmungandr, Kraken
*The Little Mermaid (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King Triton) - Triton
*Japanese folklore (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kappa_(folklore)) - Kappas
*The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Water-Babies,_A_Fairy_Tale_for_a_Land_Baby) - Water-Babies
*The Rainbow Fish (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The Rainbow Fish)
*Mobby Dick (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobby Dick)
*Pirates of the Caribbean (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirates of the Caribbean) - Flying Dutchman, Calypso
*Marvel Comics (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namor) - Namor, Nitro, Von Doom
*DC Comics (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquaman) - Aquaman



I've already started writing the Greek pedia and now I'm stumbling over some problems regarding the timeline of the different myths and legends. Any helpful links or suggestions?
Until now I've figured out the following facts:

Trojan War: 1194-1184 BC (date given by Eratosthenes)
Odyssey: 1184-1174 BC (simple math, takes place during the ten years following the Trojan War)
Oedipus: Sophocles' tragedy was first performed 429 BC so I use that date
Theseus and the Minotaur: during the time of Minos (historical)
Perseus and Medusa: takes place before Hercules (because of the birth of Pegasus)
Hercules: ?
Jason: ?


Oh, and as a last thought: If we use the material from Watchmen, Richard Nixon won the presidental elections 1974, leading to a third term as president and thus replacing Gerald Ford. That would make Ford's successor Jimmy Carter the 38th instead of the 39th president. Following that, Reagan was the 39th and so on. So Matthew Santos (=Barack Obama) is the 43th president and Scudder is the 44th and last president
Sorry to be such a nitpicker, but it just came over me ;)

Cool! One thing I might rephrase is the relation between Atlantis and the various sea monsters you mentioned. Some of them seem more like wild animals, like Moby Dick and Jormungandr, so I can't really see them "joining" an empire. Perhaps we could say that Atlantean mages or sea hunters tamed them, or even bred them? And if I'm not mistaken, that episode of Futurama you're referring to had the city of Atlanta willingly go out to sea to boost tourism, rather than having an Atlantean army take it over?

And as for the Greek entry, I might be able to help. Oedipus and all the stories that tie into him (The Seven Against Thebes, The Oedipus Trilogy, and Antigone) likely took place before the events of The Odyssey. Tiresias, the blind prophet who advises Oedipus, appears in The Odyssey as a shade in the Underworld - i.e. he was dead before The Odyssey took place. Heracles and Jason were contemporaries, since Heracles was one of the Argonauts. Also, one myth describes Heracles sacking Troy when Priam (King of Troy during the Trojan War) was still a baby. And Perseus' story doesn't have to take place before Heracles'. Pegasus was the steed of Bellerophon and later Zeus - his connection to Heracles was an invention of Disney.

Cool! One thing I might rephrase is the relation between Atlantis and the various sea monsters you mentioned. Some of them seem more like wild animals, like Moby Dick and Jormungandr, so I can't really see them "joining" an empire. Perhaps we could say that Atlantean mages or sea hunters tamed them, or even bred them? And if I'm not mistaken, that episode of Futurama you're referring to had the city of Atlanta willingly go out to sea to boost tourism, rather than having an Atlantean army take it over?

Alright, rephrasing sea monster part right now.

To be honest, I just wanted to mention Atlanta somehow, but now I'm having some douts myself so I'll simply leave it out.


And as for the Greek entry, I might be able to help. Oedipus and all the stories that tie into him (The Seven Against Thebes, The Oedipus Trilogy, and Antigone) likely took place before the events of The Odyssey. Tiresias, the blind prophet who advises Oedipus, appears in The Odyssey as a shade in the Underworld - i.e. he was dead before The Odyssey took place. Heracles and Jason were contemporaries, since Heracles was one of the Argonauts. Also, one myth describes Heracles sacking Troy when Priam (King of Troy during the Trojan War) was still a baby. And Perseus' story doesn't have to take place before Heracles'. Pegasus was the steed of Bellerophon and later Zeus - his connection to Heracles was an invention of Disney.

Thanks a lot, that's great help! :thanx:
Don't worry, I know about Pegasus and Heracles, but I think I'll use it nevertheless, simply because else I wouldn't know were I should mention Perseus.

EDIT: Alright, I found some more infos about the Greek timeline: Hercules met Minos before the Minotaur was born, which means that his labours take place before the myth of Theseus. Additionally, Hercules was a member of the house of Perseus, meaning he's probably of descendant of him. This leads to the following timeline:

-Perseus
-Jason, the Argonauts and the Golden Fleece
-Twelve Labours of Hercules
-Theseus and the Minotaur
-Oedipus, three against Thebes and Antigone
-Trojan War (1194-1184 BC)
-Odyssey (1184-1174 BC)

Gah, sorry - I've been too busy to even play Civilization, nevermind write about it, as of late. But Atlantis sounds great and Greece is looking good, too.

I'll try and finish Native America sometime this week.

First of all, Greece is finally finished :)
Secondly, my computer is broken :sad:
I've got my hands on a laptop and my personal god of computer repairing will visit me at the weekend, so I'm pretty sure to be able to post the pedia around sunday.

Until then, I'm gonna work on another pedia. The list of possible choices is getting shorter:
France, Spain, Celts, Rome, Sumeria, Arabia, Persia, India, Incas, Shambhala, Freedo-Moronika, Hyborea, Transylvania and Utopia

I'm inclined to do France but there are just so few sources I can think of and there's nothing big like the Trojan War, the Sino-Russian War, the Goa'uld or something like that.

Here's would I can think of so far, more ideas would be highly appreciated:

-works of Alexandre Dumas: Monte-Christo, D'Artagnan, the Musketeers, the man with the iron mask, Mémoires d’un médecin and Queen Margot

-from fairy tales: the Beauty and the Beast, Bluebeard, Cockaigne, Cinderella (fr. Cendrillon), Puss in Boots, Sleeping Beauty, Little Red Riding Hood and, of course, Prince Charming (I'll try to find a historical counterpart for him)

-historical: emphasis on Joan of Arc

-from different sources: Auguste Dupin, Robur le Conquérant, Le Nyctalope, The Panthom of the Opera, Arsène Lupin, Inspector Clouseau and the Pink Panther, Fantômas and Monsieur Zenith the Albino

@cfkane: I've made minor changes in the Chinese (Wong family from Futurama) and German pedia (Snow White, Schlaraffenland instead of Cockaigne), please update them in the next version

Will do.

As for France, try The Matter of France, the medieval work that covers the reign of Charlemagne and the exploits of Roland. This same Roland is a hero in the mod, and is the subject of Orlando Innamorato and Orlando Furioso. Plus, in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen he's implied to be the same Orlando that's the subject of Virginia Woolf's Orlando: A Biography.

Other than that, look into Diderot, Proust and Victor Hugo (Les Miserables should give an interesting spin on early industrial French society). Gargantua and Pantragruel also should play a big part. In fact, there's a story in there about how Paris was named. Melies' A Voyage to the Moon would also be a nice addition to the mix. And have you heard of the Fattipuffs and Thinifers?

As for modern France, I have no idea. The Three Colors Trilogy?

Here's a list of some other things that might help. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_of_The_League_of_Extraordinary_Gentlemen#Fra nce

Some other things to include on future entries

Spain: Don Quixote of course, and Don Giovanni could be mentioned in passing, as can Figaro and Carmen

Celts: Asterix would be the obvious choice, also The Mabinogion, Bran Mak Morn, Cu Chullain, and maybe some of the conspiracy theorist lore surrounding Stonehenge

Rome: I know HBO's Rome takes some liberties with Roman history, so those changes should be taken into account. The Aeneid would of course provide the early history. Plautus' comedies and Satyricon (Petronius' of Fellini's would work fine) could flesh out Roman social history, and of course we would need a Gladiator reference in there somewhere. Lucius Tiberius is from Arthurian legend, so late-empire battles with early Britons would have to be acknowledged. There's also a book called Land Under England about a Roman state under Britain founded by Legionnaires that never left the island. And I don't know how far you want to detail the history of the area, but if you want to cover post-Roman Italy, then you could cover The Decameron, Invisible Cities, The Name of the Rose and other works by Umberto Eco, The Castle of Otranto, and the films of the Neo-Realist movement, Federico Fellini in particular

Sumeria: Aside from the Gilgamesh story, you would need a Ghostbusters reference (because of Gozer). Other than that, I'll need to do a bit of digging.

Arabia: 1001 Nights obviously, as well as Vathek. Also, you would have to go into detail on the Iran-Iraq war as portrayed in the Jack Ryan series. The head of Iraq is assassinated by Iranian agents (which could be why Saddam Hussein is in Hell, as per his portrayal in South Park) and the two countries are merged into the United Islamic Republic. Once it's destroyed, I was thinking that a breakaway nation would be formed during the dissolution, which would become The West Wing's Qumar.

Persia: See above. Rostam is a pretty big figure in Persian lore, so he'll need to be in there, and the king in 1001 Nights is Persian.

India: The Vedas, The Ramayana, and The Mahabhrata should fill out the ancient history well enough. Rudyard Kipling should be able to cover British India, and I'm sure Bollywood has plenty of material to cover modern India. That and the works of Salman Rushdie. Maybe you could throw in a reference to Slumdog Millionaire.

Incas: Other than Incan mythology, I don't know where you can take this. Maybe you could go into modern South American history and delve into the Magical Realists.

Shambhala: Buddhist lore and The Lost Horizon should cover this well enough. I think Shangri-La was often featured in the old pulp novels as well. In fact, I think The Shadow studied there.

Freedo-Moronika: I think the basics of this country has been well covered in the other pedias, so I don't have much to ask for this one.

Hyborea: Conan stories all around. I'm sure there are other antediluvian empires that can be mixed in, like Melnibone, but other than those two, I'm not sure what can be worked in.

Transylvania: I think this entry can cover vampires as a whole, from the mythological wampyr, to Bram Stoker to Anne Rice to Buffy, and yes, even to Twilight. Differences in vampire biology (e.g. not all are hurt by garlic) could be explained by differences between strains of the virus that causes vampirism. I've heard theories that Dracula created "soul-clones" of himself which explains away his ubiquitousness (see his Wold Newton entry for more). There's a series called Anno Dracula by Kim Newman built on the same premise as Fictionalization where Dracula marries Queen Victoria and "outs" all the world's vampires. I don't want to use that premise specifically - it breaks up the entire plot of the original novel - but in the series Transylvania becomes a haven for all the world's vampires; much like what Israel is to the Jews. I think that could provide a nice setup for how the civ is treated in the mod.

Utopia: I got it in my mind that the founder, Utopos, was of Atlantean descent. That could explain why Utopia, which according to Thomas More is located off the coast of South America, has a ruler with a Greek-sounding name. I would just stick to the original Utopia for the most part, since I have yet to decide how else it can be used.

Hope this all helps :D

It sure does :)

Some more stuff that comes to my mind:

Spain: Not to forget El Cid.

Celts: I've got a smart little book about apart from other stuff Celtic mythology, so that one shouldn't be a problem. Oh, and I will try to work something about the depiction of Picts in modern fiction in.

Rome: At the moment I'm thinking about how to combine the Aeneid with the story of Romulus and Remus, but that shouldn't be a big problem.

Arabia: Aladdin should be in somehow and there are several Middle Eastern people in Tintin, e.g. Bab El Ehr.

Persia: I'm sure Xerxes and the 300 as well as the Prince of Persia would fit into the pedia, too.

Incas: As a more modern source, we could use The Emperor's New Groove

I was looking over the updated American entry. I'm not sure about using Watchmen in the source material, though I do love the novel. Still, having an America with Superman, Captain America and Dr. Manhattan fighting a Russia with their Rocket Red Brigade, Crimson Dynamo and so on could create a nice balance between the superpowers in a similar fashion to our Col War, rather than the lopsided version shown in Watchmen.

Also, I was thinking that Tomania would be the country of Adenoid Hynkel's birth rather than a poetic name for Germany. After all, Hitler was born in Austria-Hungary and later moved to Germany.

Nice idea regarding Tomania, I'll change it right know.

I have to admit I have only seen the Watchmen movie, so I possibly don't know the details of the setting, but it didn't look like the US were much more powerful than the Soviets. Ok, America has Dr. Manhattan but he doesn't seem to care about the Cold War at all so I guess it's kinda even.
Technically, America has far more superheroes than the whole of Europe together, but don't forget that with each superhero comes at least one more supervillain, so it's even again. Additionally, I think that only some heroes like Dr. Manhattan and Captain America directly work for the government. I guess heroes like Batman, Spiderman and Rorschach might stay "only" law enforcers.

Sorry it took so long, but there were unexpected problems. I started to write France but I'll be busy for about a weak now, so don't expect it to be finished soon.



GREECE

During the Hyborian Age, the earliest civilizations to appear around Greece were the ancient city-state of Corinthia, which ruled over a small territory in what would later be the Greek peninsual. During that time, the Mediterrean Sea still was dry and Corinthia was a prosperous but otherwise weak area. After the decline of Hyboria caused by the onslaught of the Picts, supernatural beings which would later develope to the gods of Sumeria and the God of Christianity, Judaism and Islam unleashed a Great Flood, which destroyed even the rests of Hyboria as well as many other empires around the globe, including Corinthia, knocking the world back into another Stone Age while at the same time creating the Mediterranean Sea. Taking advantage of the following power vacuum, beings with god-like power known as the Titans seized power over most of continental Europe as well as the Mediterranean Region. But the Titans' mercyless rule would be of limited duration: The Olympians, the Titans' very own children who would later become the gods of Greece, led a rebellion against their ancestors with the help of the cyclopes, the centaurs and the armies of Mu, an island empire witch would soon be called Atlantis. Following the end the Titanic War, the Titans were banished into the underworld realm of Tartarus while the Olympians settled down at Mount Olympus, stretching their rule over the Greek peninsual. In the following decades, Greece still was only a prehistoric society of nomadic hunter-gatherers until the Atlanteans began to colonize Greece, thus founding several Bronze Age civilizations generally known as the Aegean civilization. Soon, many originally Atlantean colonies like Argos, Mycenae and Knossos were claimed by the Olympians, gaining independence from their founders. Thus, the first poleis came to existance.

In order to benefit the progress of his people, a man named Prometheus stole the secrets of fire from the Olympians and gave it to the mortals. But for his good deed, Prometheus had to pay: Outraged, Zeus himself banished Prometheus to Tartarus, where he would be torted by an eagle eating his liver every day. In the following centuries, many others were imprisoned in Tartarus, too, like Tantalus who stole nectar and ambrosia from the Olympians and Sisyphus who is cursed to roll a huge boulder up a hill, only to watch it roll back down, and to repeat this throughout eternity. Nevertheless, thanks to Prometheus' sacrifice a Golden Age began. At the Greek mainland, the founding of the city of Thebes by Kadmos and the beheading of the wicked gorgo Medusa by Zeus' son Perseus who would later found the Pereid dynasty of Mycenae established the first powerful city-states of Greece. After the Phoenician princess Europa discovered Crete, the Minoan Empire began to establish the first Thalassocracy, the "rule of the sea". The Minoan influence reached its peak during the long lasting rule of King Minos, Europa's son, around 1.600 BC. Apart from notably extending the Minoans' power, Minos constructed various monuments in Knossos, most notably its famous palace as well as the Labyrinth in which he imprisoned the Minotaur, a wicked creature part man and part bull, born by Minos' wife as a curse of Zeus himself. The Labyrinth was constructed by Daedalus, a famous scientist and engineer who would achieve notoriety because of the tragic death of his son Icarus during their escape from Crete.

The following century marked the Greek Golden Age of Heroism, known as the Mythical Age. Various heroes wandered through the lands, fulfilling acts of heroism wherever they came. Arguably the greatest of these heroes was Hercules who mastered the Twelve Labours in order to redeem the murder of his wife and children. These tasks included, for instance, slaying the Hydra, obtaining the Apples of the Hesperides and capturing the three-headed guardian dog of the Underworld, Cerberus. After fulfilling his missions as well as other adventures like his travel with the Argonauts and the first siege of Troy, Hercules burned himself to end the pain caused by the Tunic of Nessus and after his death he had been granted godhood. Another important hero was Theseus, the cousin of Hercules. Theseus, the heir to the thrown of Athens, slew the dreadful Minotaur in order to break the Minoans power over Athens. After his return, Theseus became king and fell in love with the Amazon queen Hippolyta, whose love was blessed by Oberon and Titania, the king and queen of Greek fairies. Soon, he started a war against the Amazons of Themyscira triggered by the abduction of the Amazon queen Antiope and later Theseus had to defend his city against the invading Atlanteans. During that time, the Greek city of Thebes experienced an age of prosperity thanks to the benevolent rule of King Oedipus. Last but not least, there was also Jason who led a group of warriors called the Argonauts to obtain the Golden Fleece.

But in 1194 BC, not even two years after the death of Hercules, Greece would enter a decade of brutal warfare and seemingly never ending bloodbath, which was triggered by Eris, the goddess of strife and Discordianism: Eris initiated a quarrel between the goddesses Hera, Athena and Aphrodite using the Golden Apple of Discord. This quarrel led to the Judgment of Paris which encouraged Paris, the prince of Troy, to abduct Helen, the wife of Menelaus of Sparta. Menelaus' brother Agamemnon of Mycenae gathered the troops and heroes of united Greece, known as the Achaeans, and convinced them to invade Troy, leading to a bloody conflict known as the Trojan War. But even with their superiority in numbers, the Greeks besieged the city for ten years not beeing able to overwhelm the Trojan walls. During the war, both sides lost most of their greatest heroes, including Achilles and Ajax the Great as well as Hector and Paris, both princes of Troy and sons of King Priam. Finally and thanks to the cunningness of Odysseus and the warcraft of Arkantos of Atlantis, the Achaeans managed to storm the city using the Trojan Horse. The Greek troops slaughtered the Trojans without mercy and even dared to raid the temples, thus angering the gods who cursed those who were responsible for Troy's defeat: Agamemnon was murdered by his wife shortly after he returned home and Odysseus had to wander the sea for ten years until he found his way back to his wife. But the most outraged god was Poseidon, god of the sea, who betrayed his people in favour of the cyclops Gargarensis and aided him in his plot to free the Titans using ancient gates leading to Tartarus. Arkantos the Atlantean and his followers defended the first three portals located in Hades, Egypt and Scandinavia until Gargarensis' hordes invaded Atlantis to open the last remaining gate, leading to Atlantis' destruction by the angered Poseidon himself. But even though Gargarensis was dead, his plans wouldn't die with him. The Titans' ruler Cronos contacted and corrupted the surviving Atlanteans led by Arkantos' son Kastor some years after Atlantis' sinking. Manipulated by Cronos, the people of the newly founded city of New Atlantis liberated the Titans. They caused havoc all over Greece, Egypt and the Norse realm and only the united troops of Greece, Egypt and the Vikings were able to ban the Titans once again.

There are no fixed or universally agreed dates for the beginning or the end of the Classical Greek period which followed the Mythical Age. In common usage it refers to all Greek history before the Roman Empire, but historians use the term more precisely. Traditionally, the Ancient Greek period was taken to begin with the date of the first Olympic Games in 776 BC. Ancient Greece is considered by most historians to be the foundational culture of Western Civilization. Greek culture was a powerful influence in the Roman Empire, which carried a version of it to many parts of Europe. Ancient Greek civilization has been immensely influential on the language, politics, educational systems, philosophy, art and architecture of the modern world, particularly during the Renaissance in Western Europe which also revived the history of Orpheus and Eurydice, two star-crossed lovers who lived during 530 BC. The competing city-states Athens and Sparta would soon have to become allies in the face of the largest external threat ancient Greece would see until the Roman conquest. After suppressing a revolut of conquered Greek poleis, Darius I of Persia decided to subjugate Greece. His invasion in 490 BC was ended by the heroic Athenian victory at the Battle of Marathon under Kratos, the most powerful warrior in Greek history. But the Persian invasion would only mark the beginning of another age of war. After his victory at Marathon, Kratos set out to challenge and finally kill Ares using Pandora's box, thus becoming the next Olympian god of war. But Kratos used his newly aquired powers to aid Sparta's conquests in Greece, thus making the other Olympians his enemies. Cursed by the gods, Kratos freed the Titans once more and led an assault against Mount Olympus triggering the Third Titanic War. Even tough the Titans could be stopped once more by a warrior known only as the "Hero of Helos" who slew their minnions, the mighty Telichines, the Olympians decided to lose contact with the mortals as they were able to protect themselves.

With the Olympians as well as all the mythical creatures like Centaurs and Cyclopes gone, the Persian god-king Xerxes I gained advantage of the situation by invading Greece once more. Leading an overwhelmingly large army, Xerxes triggered the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC. Despite the defenders consisted mainly of 300 Spartiats led by King Leonidas and the Persians ultimatly managed to defeat them, they suffered from extrem losses, slowing down there conquest significantly. One year later, the united army of most of Greece's city-states led by Dilios of Spartafinally defeated the remains of Xerxes' army in the Battle of Plataea. The Greco-Persian Wars continued until 449 BC, led by the Athenians and their Delian League, during which time the Macedon, Thrace, the Aegean Islands and Ionia were all liberated from Persian influence. The dominant position of the maritime Athenian 'Empire' threatened Sparta and the Peloponnesian League of mainland Greek cities. Inevitably, this led to conflict, resulting in the Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC). Though effectively a stalemate for much of the war, Athens suffered a number of setbacks. The Plague of Athens in 430 BC followed by a disastrous military campaign known as the Sicilian Expedition severely weakened Athens. An estimated one-third of Athenians died, including the mighty Pericles, one of Athens' greatest leaders and reformaters. In 404 BC, a woman named Lysistrata organized the women of Sparta and Athens and forced a collective sexual strike until the men of Athens and Sparta end the war. Finally, Athens sued for peace, and Sparta dictated a predictably stern settlement.

Greece thus entered the 4th century under a Spartan hegemony, but it was clear from the start that this was weak. The weakened state of the heartland of Greece coincided with the rising power of Macedon, led by Philip II. In twenty years, Philip had unified his kingdom, expanded it north and west at the expense of Illyrian tribes, and then conquered Thessaly and Thrace. His success stemmed from his innovative reforms to the Macedon army. Alexander, son and successor of Philip, continued the war. Alexander defeated Darius III of Persia and completely destroyed the Achaemenid Empire, annexing it to Macedon and earning himself the epithet 'the Great'. When Alexander died due to a sickness released from Pandora's box in 323 BC, Greek power and influence was at its zenith. However, there had been a fundamental shift away from the fierce independence and classical culture of the poleis—and instead towards the developing Hellenistic culture. During the Hellenistic period, the importance of "Greece proper" (that is, the territory of modern Greece) within the Greek-speaking world declined sharply. The great centers of Hellenistic culture were Alexandria and Antioch, capitals of Ptolemaic Egypt and Seleucid Syria respectively. Most of the Greek peninsula came under Roman rule in 146 BC, Macedonia becoming a Roman province, while southern Greece came under the surveillance of Macedonia's praefect. However, some Greek poleis led fierce opposition against the Romans, most notably Sparta. During this time of resistance, Greece once more witnessed the rise and fall of a great hero: Xena, known as the warrior princess who was famous for numerous adventures like meeting Julius Caesar and defending Greece against the invading steppe peoples led by Borias. More and more resisting city-states fell under Roman control, until Sparta was the last independant polis. Emperor Tiberius (42 BC-37 AD) led an invasion against Sparta which was stopped by King Leonidas III and his champion "The Spartiat" using an invention of Archimedes, known as "the Eye of Apollon". Nevertheless, Sparta was destroyed during the Spartiats abscence, thus ending the ancient history of Greece.



ATTENTION: Most of this text is based either on history or on Greek mythology, so I decided to mention only the sources that are NOT directly part of Greek mythology.

*Conan stories (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyborian Age) - Hyborian Age, Corinthia
*A Midsummer Night's Dream (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A Midsummer Night's Dream) - Oberon, Titania, Greek fairies
*[/URL] - Discordianism
*[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age of Mythology"]Age of Mythology (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discordianism) - Arkantos, Gargarensis, Kastor
*God of War (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God of War) - Kratos
*Titan Quest (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan Quest) - Hero of Helos
*300 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/300 (comics)) - the 300 Spartiats, Leonidas, Xerxes, Dilios
*Lysistrata (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysistrata)
*Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lara_Croft_Tomb_Raider:_The_Cradle_of_Life) - Pandora's box kills Alexander the Great
*Xena: Warrior Princess (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xena: Warrior Princess) - Xena, Borias
*Spartan: Total Warrior (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spartan: Total Warrior) - Sparta's resistance, The Spartiat, Leonidas III, Eye of Apollon

Nicely done. There are several spelling errors, but I can take care of that in a final edit.

One thing I'm surprised you didn't add was the familial connection between the Titans and the Gods. Also, Xena wasn't the first female Greek heroine. Atalanta comes to mind, as well as Hippolyta. Come to think of it, Hippolyta and Theseus are major players in A Midsummer Night's Dream, so you could make a glancing reference to fairy activity in that time.

The only other thing I really want added is Lysistrata (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysistrata). Lysistrata organizes the women of Sparta and Athens and forces a collective sexual strike; no sex will be had until the men of Athens and Sparta end the Peloponessian War.

Nicely done. There are several spelling errors, but I can take care of that in a final edit.

Sorry, I'm no native speaker and as far as I remember I wrote that quite late in the evening. ;)

One thing I'm surprised you didn't add was the familial connection between the Titans and the Gods.

Don't worry, I did. See for yourself: "The Olympians, the Titans' very own children who would later become the gods of Greece, led a rebellion against their ancestors..."

Also, Xena wasn't the first female Greek heroine. Atalanta comes to mind, as well as Hippolyta.

Shame on me, how could I forget the Amazons. Will be changed ASAP.

The only other thing I really want added is Lysistrata (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysistrata). Lysistrata organizes the women of Sparta and Athens and forces a collective sexual strike; no sex will be had until the men of Athens and Sparta end the Peloponessian War.

Nice idea, will be changed ASAP.

Some other things to include on future entries

Spain: Don Quixote of course, and Don Giovanni could be mentioned in passing, as can Figaro and Carmen

You could transplant Zorro from Mexico to Spain. Also, the Spanish Inqusition => The Pit and The Pendulum.

Celts: Asterix would be the obvious choice, also The Mabinogion, Bran Mak Morn, Cu Chullain, and maybe some of the conspiracy theorist lore surrounding Stonehenge

And if you're up in Scotland / Caledonia, you might also stumble across Hogwarts.

Rome: I know HBO's Rome takes some liberties with Roman history, so those changes should be taken into account. The Aeneid would of course provide the early history. Plautus' comedies and Satyricon (Petronius' of Fellini's would work fine) could flesh out Roman social history, and of course we would need a Gladiator reference in there somewhere. Lucius Tiberius is from Arthurian legend, so late-empire battles with early Britons would have to be acknowledged. There's also a book called Land Under England about a Roman state under Britain founded by Legionnaires that never left the island. And I don't know how far you want to detail the history of the area, but if you want to cover post-Roman Italy, then you could cover The Decameron, Invisible Cities, The Name of the Rose and other works by Umberto Eco, The Castle of Otranto, and the films of the Neo-Realist movement, Federico Fellini in particular

Post-roman Italy implies the influence of the Vatican => Opus Dei and The Da Vinci Code.

Incas: Other than Incan mythology, I don't know where you can take this. Maybe you could go into modern South American history and delve into the Magical Realists.

Or, as you're in South America, what about Brazil by Terry Gilliam.

I've been watching the development of this mod avidly for the past several months and have wanted to contribute somehow (indeed, this is what got my interested in crossover fiction, something that has made up a sizable portion of my reading material since January), despite not having BTS or having any modding experience. I was wondering, do you have (or want) anyone to read the tech quotes in the fashion that Leonard Nimoy does in the original game? If you do, I'll gladly volunteer. If so, just send me the final list of quotes you want to use and an address to email the recorded files to. If you accept, I'll PM you to let you know what my address is, so you won't delete the finished files as spam.

Also, do you have any preferences on how you want them to sound? Do you want a Nimoy-style monotone, or shall I ham things up a bit?

I've been watching the development of this mod avidly for the past several months and have wanted to contribute somehow (indeed, this is what got my interested in crossover fiction, something that has made up a sizable portion of my reading material since January), despite not having BTS or having any modding experience.

That's pretty much how I got to the mod. :lol:
Trust me, you don't need to be a designer or a modder to contribute to a mod. There are still plenty of pedias, texts and quotes which need to be written.

I was wondering, do you have (or want) anyone to read the tech quotes in the fashion that Leonard Nimoy does in the original game? If you do, I'll gladly volunteer. If so, just send me the final list of quotes you want to use and an address to email the recorded files to. If you accept, I'll PM you to let you know what my address is, so you won't delete the finished files as spam.

IMO, that's an awesome idea! We still don't have all the quotes finished yet, but it would be great if you could think of some more or you could recite those who are already set.
Well, let's wait what cfkane says.

That's pretty much how I got to the mod. :lol:
Trust me, you don't need to be a designer or a modder to contribute to a mod. There are still plenty of pedias, texts and quotes which need to be written.



IMO, that's an awesome idea! We still don't have all the quotes finished yet, but it would be great if you could think of some more or you could recite those who are already set.
Well, let's wait what cfkane says.

I would love to help with the pedias and stuff, but I'm not as well-read as I would like to be, so I don't think I'll be able to get in as many good references. I can certainly try, though. I think I'll write rough drafts for some pedia entries, and then some better-read people can touch them up. That said, I'd love to have some creative input on this project!

I thought I could just record myself straight to my computer, but I can't seem to find the program that allows me to do that (I can record videos, but not stand-alone audio, oddly enough), so I'll need to dig out my old recorder. I just saw it the other day, so it shouldn't be too hard to find.

Also, I had an interesting idea. I love what I've seen from the setting that has been created so far for this mod. Perhaps, after more of the background has been finalized, we can open up a site for us (i.e., the people working on the mod, and any interested writers) to write stories taking place within the world of the mod. 'Tales of Fictionalization IV', or something like that. I'm trying to improve my writing (because if I get good enough at it, I won't need a real job :D ), and I think this would give me and others a fun opportunity to practice their craft.

I appreciate the offer, and having full audio tech quotes sounds like fun, but I really don't know how much it would add to the modding experience. I mean, Fall from Heaven has its own custom tech quotes and I think it's fine that they don't have audio.

Still, I could use a sound-wrangler. Not all of the leaders have appropriate music yet, and I'm sure the soundtrack could be supplemented with new music for different eras.

Though I do like the idea of Fictionalization fan-fic :D

I appreciate the offer, and having full audio tech quotes sounds like fun, but I really don't know how much it would add to the modding experience. I mean, Fall from Heaven has its own custom tech quotes and I think it's fine that they don't have audio.

Still, I could use an sound-wrangler. Not all of the leaders have appropriate music yet, and I'm sure the soundtrack could be supplemented with new music for different eras. Atmosphere is important, but we have to remember that gameplay comes first.

Though I do like the idea of Fictionalization fan-fic :D

Sound-wrangling sounds fun. I don't know how to program music into the game, but I can certainly find some tracks to fit in online. I'm geeky enough that most of the music I listen to comes from film/video games anyway, so I'm sure I can find some good atmospheric pieces or themes from either my own library or elsewhere online.

My main problem is that I have no actual programming or modding ability whatsoever, so my assistance is restricted mainly to peripheral tasks, such as writing and sound. Still, I'll do a little musical searching and see what I can find, and at some point in the next few days, I'll write up a rough draft for a pedia entry or two.

I thought I could just record myself straight to my computer, but I can't seem to find the program that allows me to do that (I can record videos, but not stand-alone audio, oddly enough)

Audacity (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/) is the program you need ;).

I would love to help with the pedias and stuff, but I'm not as well-read as I would like to be, so I don't think I'll be able to get in as many good references. I can certainly try, though. I think I'll write rough drafts for some pedia entries, and then some better-read people can touch them up. That said, I'd love to have some creative input on this project!

I couldn't help but grin when reading this. Trust me, I'm far less well-read than you might think. Honestly, most of the stuff I use is either researched using Wikipedia (also known as brain-extension), with the help of a friend or it was suggested in this thread. For instance, look at my Zulu pedia. Exept for the Empire Earth reference at the end I don't know any source first-hand. It's all a question of knowing where to find information.

Come to think of it, if you want to contribute to the pedias but don't know enough sources you could check my previous pedias for spelling errors and such, if you want.

Alright, my holidays are offically over. Well, back to work!

I'm currently finishing France, the text should be up in one or two days.

I expanded Germany's and England's pedia a bit, mostly because I realised the Chimera invasion (which took place all over Europe) is mentioned only in the Russian pedia. Cfkane, please change the following pedias for the next version.


GERMANY

The history of what it now Germany begins with the Germanic tribes. From southern Scandinavia and northern Germany, the tribes began expanding south, east and west in the 1st century BC, coming into contact with the Celtic tribes of Gaul as well as Iranian, Baltic, and Slavic tribes in Eastern Europe. Little is known about early Germanic history, except through their recorded interactions with the Roman Empire, etymological research and archaeological finds, but it is confirmed, that the Germanics are descendants of the ancient Nemedians and Cimmerians. While the Roman Empire expanded its territory quite fast to Africa, Spain and Gaul, the first real Roman military campaign against Germania (a term used by the Romans to define a territory running roughly from the Rhine to the Ural Mountains) began under Emperor Augustus. While Rome's troops were able to conquer huge areas of Germania, modern Germany, as far as the Rhine and the Danube, remained outside the Roman Empire, as in 9 AD three entire Roman legions where defeated by an alliance of the Cheruscans led by Arminius and the Dwarves led by the sorcerer Alberich in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest. By AD 100, Germanic tribes settled along the Rhine and the Danube (the Limes Germanicus), occupying most of the area of modern Germany. While the conquered parts of Germania were integrated into the Roman Empire, the independent tribes maintained their tribal identity.

With the division of the Roman Empire and the beginning of the slow decline of western Rome, the Germanic tribes regained much of their strength and some of them, like the Nibelungs, gained fame and treasure by crossing the Limes and raiding the Roman border zones. One of the greatest Germanic heroes was Dietrich von Bern who is known for numerous adventures like slaying a dragon together with his fatherly friend Hildebrand and his fights against his uncle, the usurper Ermanaric. Possibly the most powerful realm of the Germanics was the Burgundian Kingdom, descendants of Gunderland, under King Gunther and his brothers Gernot and Giselher: After the defeat of Walter of Aquitaine by Gunther's men at Wasigenstei in the Wasgen Forest, Gunther offered the hand of his sister Kriemhild in marriage to the nearly invincible dragonslayer Siegfried, crown prince of Xanten and conquerer of the Hoard of the Nibelungs, thus creating an alliance between the two kingdoms. But after the marriage of Gunther and Brünhild of Iceland and the Burgundian victory against the invading Saxons, Siegfried was betrayed and murder by Gunther and his loyal follower Hagen of Tronje. However, Siegfried's widow Kriemhild hatched a plot to avenge her husbands death. She met with Etzel the Hun, whose hordes where invading Europe, near Tulln in order to marry him. For the baptism of their son, she invited her brothers, the Burgundians, to a feast at Etzel's castle in Hungary. There she provoked a fight leading to the death of all the Burgundians, Etzel's court and herself. Full of anger because of their kings death, the Huns attacked and destroyed Burgundy and its capital Worms, leading to the Great Migration. This Germanic onslaught would not only change the structure of the Germanic tribes for ever, it would also be a major factor for the collapse of Roman power.

After the decline of western Rome under Emperor Lucius Tiberius, a new order was established in Europe. On 25 December 800, Charlemagne founded the Carolingian Empire, which was divided in 843. Charlemagne was the forerunner of the Holy Roman Empire, largely because of the establishment of imperial coronation by the Pope of the Roman Catholic Church and his policy of "renovatio Romanorum imperii" (reviving the Roman Empire) which remained at least in theory as the official position of the Empire until its end in 1806. Prior to the foundation of the Holy Roman Empire, the duke of Saxony Heinrich I. the Fowler declared himself the king of the Germans in 919. Heinrich launched a massive campaign of conquest and studied the black arts becoming a highly skilled necromancer who was able to command entire armies of raised undead. In 936, Heinrich I. was banished to another plane of existence by a wizard hired by his own son Otto I. Otto inherited Heinrich's empire and expanded it even further by diplomatic means, creating the Holy Roman Empire and becoming crowned to the first Holy Roman Emperor in 962. At its peak of power, the Empire stretched from the Danish borders in the north to the northern parts of Italy in the south and from Belgium and Burgundy in the west to Prussia and what would later be Freedo-Moronika in the east, ruling over hundreds of kingdoms, duchies and other tiny nations like Graustark, Mendorra, Vulgaria, Ixania and Gormenghast.

Beginning in the 15th century, the emperors were elected nearly exclusively from the Habsburg dynasty of Osterlich, another very powerful member being the Kingdom of Prussia. During the rule of the Holy Roman Emperors, Germany experienced a Golden Age that was coined by magical soverigns like the Froschkönig, Queen Snow White and the King of the Mummel Lake as well as places like the Lebkuchenhaus, the Schlaraffenland (Germany's Cockaigne) and Venusberg. The publication of Martin Luther's 95 Theses in 1517 initiating the Protestant Reformation, leading to the seperation of the Lutheran Church from the Roman Catholic Church. Religious conflict led to the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) between the Lutheran parts of the Holy Roman Empire allied with France and the conservative catholic Empire of Osterlich. During this devastating period of warfare, a mentally disabled adventurer called Simplicissimus Teutsch developed a good name as the servant of Jacob of Ramsey and as the famous Hunter of Söst. The war divided the empire into numerous independent principalities and in 1806 was overrun as a result of the Napoleonic Wars, leading to its decline. Following the fall of Napoleon Bonaparte, the Congress of Vienna convened in 1814 and founded the German Confederation, a loose league of 39 sovereign states.

In light of a series of revolutionary movements in Europe, which successfully established a republic in France, intellectuals and commoners started the Revolutions of 1848 in the German states. The monarchs initially yielded to the revolutionaries' liberal demands. King Frederick William IV of Prussia was offered the title of Emperor, but with a loss of power; he rejected the crown and the proposed constitution, leading to a temporary setback for the movement. Conflict between King William I of Prussia and the increasingly liberal parliament erupted over military reforms in 1862, and the king appointed Otto von Bismarck the new Prime Minister of Germany, who managed to exclude Osterlich, formerly the leading German state, from the affairs of the remaining German states. The state known as Germany was unified as a modern nation-state in 1871 in Versailles. In the period following the unification of Germany, Emperor William I's foreign policy secured Germany's position as a great nation by forging alliances while isolating France by diplomatic means. However, in the following years, Germany became increasingly isolated, apart from its contact to Freedo-Moronika. Trying to restore its power, Germany reached outside of its own country and joined many other powers in Europe in claiming their share of Africa. Shortly after the War in the Air at the beginning of the 20th century that Germany fought using its modern "Drachenflieger" and heroical pilots like the Red Baron and Captain Mors the "Air Pirate", some of Germany's greatest scientist like Dr. Caligari, Dr. Mabuse, C.A. Rotwang and Joh Frederson managed to improve Germany's technology in huge steps, for instance creating first robots and extending Berlin to the fully automated "Berlin Metropolis".

The assassination of the Freedonian aristocrat Alexander Teasdale triggered World War I. Germany, as part of the unsuccessful Central Powers, suffered defeat against the Allied Powers in one of the bloodiest conflicts of all time. An estimated two million German soldiers died in World War I., leading to the German Revolution in late 1918 and the formation of the Weimar Republic. The Great Depression and Germany's harsh peace conditions of World War I first let the the destruction of Metropolis in the Berlin Revolution of 1927 and later to the strengthening of the National Socialist German Workers Party—the Nazi Party. Their leader the politically committed, radical-right Tomanian Adenoid Hynkel became Chancellor of Germany in 1933. After a fire destroyed the Reichstag, Hynkel quickly transformed Germany into a totalitarian single-party state and revitalzsed the German industry, with a focus on military rearmament as well as beginning to murder Germany's Jews during the Holocaust. In the following years, Hynkel expanded Germany's influence by forming an alliance with its fascist neighbor Benzino Napaloni of Italy and annexing Osterlich in 1938. In 1939, Hynkel launched a surprise attack ("Blitzkrieg") against Poland, which was followed by declarations of war from Britain and France. This marked the beginning of World War II in Europe. In 1941, Hynkel broke the non-aggression pact signed with the Fearless Leader, invading the Soviet Union quite rapidly. In the same year, Japan and the USA joined the war after the bombing of the American base at Pearl Harbor. The Battle of Stalingrad and the Allied invasion of the Normandy at D-Day marked major turning points in the World War. While the Soviet army pushed the front back to Europe and Allied forces invaded Germany's eastern territories, Hynkel launched various projects like the construction of a fortress in the Alps, the Rhinemann Exchange to construct new weapons, the Übersoldier program, the resurrection of Heinrich I. and the creation of a nuclear weapon with a plan from Ixania called the Kassen Secret. But Germany's defeat was inevitable. On 8 May 1945, the German armed forces surrendered after the Red Army occupied Berlin. Approximately seven million German soldiers and civilians—including ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe—died during World War II.

Following World War II, Germany was divided into the western BRD and the eastern DDR which both suffered from the invasion of the invasion of aliens known as the Chimera in 1950. During the cold war, West Germany was allied with the US, the United Kingdom and France, while East Germany was an Eastern bloc state under political and military control by the USSR, famous for being the home of German cold war agents like Ernst Stavro Blofeld, J. W. Müller and Hans Kloss. The Berlin Wall, built in 1961 to stop East Germans from escaping to West Germany, became a symbol of the Cold War. Tensions between East and West Germany were somewhat reduced in the early 1970s by Chancellor Willy Brandt's "Ostpolitik", which included the de facto acceptance of Germany's territorial losses in World War II. The East German authorities unexpectedly eased the border restrictions in November 1989, allowing East German citizens to travel to the West. Finally, Germany regained full sovereignty and reunited in 1990, creating the "Bundesrepublik Deutschland" which would soon develop to a major European power. One of the biggest specters of modern Germany was the self-proclaimed death angel Azrael, who committed dozens of murders in the years of 1994 to 1999. In 2003, German Chancellor Martin Schörmann invited six million Jews to Germany and promised them citizenship and jobs as an apology for the Holocaust, leading to a massive increase of population.

During World War III, Germany allied with most of the other European states in fighting Russia and the Middle East because of the global shortage of raw materials. After the devastating war that led to the the destruction of Berlin and the contamination of large parts of northern and eastern Germany, the Bundesrepublik handed over its sovereignty as well as most of its rights to the newly formed European Union of Nations, becoming a part of the megacity Euro-City and thus being only one of many points on a map of a huge federation covering most of continental Europe.

Sources:

*Conan the Barbarian (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyborian Age/) - Nemedia, Cimmeria, Gunderland
*Nibelungenlied (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nibelungenlied) - Nibelungs, Siegfried, Kriemhild, Gunther, Alberich, Etzel, etc.
*Heldenbuch (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heldenbuch) - Walter of Aquitaine, Dietrich von Bern, Hildebrand, Wolfdietrich, Ortnit, Ermanaric
*Return to Castle Wolfenstein (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return to Castle Wolfenstein) - Heinrich I., Übersoldiers
*several novels by George Barr McCutcheon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graustark) - Graustark
*One Life to Live (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One Life to Live) - Mendorra
*Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chitty Chitty Bang Bang) - Vulgaria
*The Dark Frontier (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The Dark Frontier) - Ixania, Kassen Secret
*Gormenghast series (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gormenghast series) - Gormenghast
*Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The Great Dictator) - Adenoid Hynkel, Osterlich
*German faerie tales and folklore (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German folklore) - Froschkönig, King of the Mummel Lake, Schlaraffenland, Lebkuchenhaus, Snow White
*Tannhäuser (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tannhäuser (opera)) - Venusberg
*Simplicius Simplicissimus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplicius Simplicissimus) - Simplicissimus Teutsch
*The War in the Air (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The War in the Air) - War in the Air
*Der Luftpirat und sein Lenkbares Luftschiff (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der Luftpirat und sein Lenkbares Luftschiff) - Captain Mors
*The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari) - Dr. Caligari
*several works of Fritz Lang, for instance "Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor Mabuse) - Dr. Mabuse
*Metropolis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolis (film)) - C.A. Rotwang, Joh Frederson
*The Rhinemann Exchange (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rhinemann_Exchange) - Rhinemann Exchange
*James Bond novels and movies (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Stavro_Blofeld) - Ernst Stavro Blofeld
*The Adventures of Tintin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._J._W._Müller) - J. W. Müller
*the Polish series "Stawka wieksza niz zycie" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Kloss) - Hans Kloss
*Azrael by the Geman fantasy author Wolfgang Hohlbein (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang Hohlbein) - Azrael
*the play "Lebensraum" (http://www.langhorneplayers.org/press/arch03lebensraum.html) - Lebensraum
*Ghost in a Shell (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost in a Shell) - destruction of Berlin
*Judge Dredd series (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judge Dredd) - Euro-City




The origins of modern Britain lie in what is now Turkey. The islands were originally named after Brutus, one of the Trojan refugees that sailed with Aeneas in the years following the Trojan War. It was Brutus who first brought a human presence to the islands, after first wiping out the native race of giants there. There, the first British society was founded.

In the classical age Britain lay on the periphery of the civilized world; Julius Caesar's visitations to the island in 55/54 BC were viewed as a daring voyage into the unknown. But in 43 AD the island was invaded by Roman soldiers under the Emperor Claudius, and it was to spend the next four centuries as a Roman province. The Romans built cities, roads, and great bathhouses, the ruins of which can still be seen today. With the collapse of Roman power under Germanic onslaught, tribal migrations into Britain began about the middle of the 5th century. The first arrivals were invited by a British chieftain to defend his kingdom against the Picts and Scots. These first mercenaries were from three tribes - the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes - which were located on the coastlands of northwestern Germany. Eventually, these peoples would themselves topple the existing order, and Britain would spend many centuries divided between various warring kingdoms such as Mercia, East Anglia, and others. Even the celebrated King Arthur could not unite the island, although he did manage to inspire countless fiefdoms that would later become modern England. The first political entity that could rightly be called "England" formed out of the efforts of the kingdom of Wessex to unite the island against the invasion of Danes and Vikings in the 9th century. But the English domination was fleeting; the subsequent Norman Conquest (1066) resulted in the subordination of England to a Frankish aristocracy, and the introduction of feudalism to the Isles.

The Norman invasion reoriented England from the Scandinavian world to the Mediterranean one, and reintroduced many elements of Latin culture that had been lost in the Germanic invasions. The English Normans would eventually give rise to a purely British line of kings, the Plantagenets. Three centuries later, the Wars of the Roses was the final struggle between the Yorkist and Lancastrian descendants of the Plantagenets for control of the throne. When Henry Tudor, earl of Richmond, seized the crown in 1485, leaving the hunchbacked Yorkist Richard III dead upon the field of battle, few Englishmen would have predicted that 118 years of Tudor rule had begun. The freewheeling Tudors also gave rise to England's only non-human monarch. Gloriana I (1558-1603) proved to be an inspiring figure and able ruler. No observer in 1558, any more than in 1485, would have predicted that despite the social discord, political floundering, and international humiliation of the past decades, the kingdom again stood on the threshold of an extraordinary age. Her reign ushered in two centuries of British exploration, colonization, and artistic and intellectual advances, as well as a renewed influx of magical arts, lost since the days of Arthur. When Gloriana, the "Faerie Queene," died childless, Parliament offered the crown to the closest blood kin, James VI of Scotland, who became James I of England (1603-1625) and founded the Stuart dynasty. The Stuarts kings did not possess the best luck; Charles I was defeated by the forces of Parliament in the English Civil War and executed, and a scant four decades later his descendent James II was also overthrown in the "Glorious Revolution" of 1688. But despite all this turbulence, by 1700 England had merged with Scotland to become "Britain" and established an identity that would be both Protestant and Parliamentry.

The British Empire was to be one based on trade and control of the seas. Using the soldiers commonly denoted "Redcoats", every major war Britain engaged in during the 18th and 19th centuries increased its colonial power. The Seven Years' War was particularly notable in this respect, and so were the Napoleonic Wars. By 1820 the total population of the British Empire was 200 million, 26%% of the world's total population. However acquired, all these acquisitions added to the crown's and the country's power and reputation. For the privileged and the rich, the Victorian era was pre-eminently one of confidence and arrogance, under the able guidance of Britain's two longtime Prime Ministers, Gladstone and Disraeli. Stretching from Australia and New Zealand through India, much of Africa, and Canada, and even parts of the Moon, the British Empire under Queen Victoria was truly one on which the "sun never set."

But the "long summer of peace" was battered first by a Martian invasion of London, then by the devastating War in the Air, and finally in the bloodbath of Flanders. Although Britain suffered far less physical damage than France and underwent no political revolution, World War I may have affected it more fundamentally than any other European power. The war was a catalyst for social and economic change. The mainstays of the early Industrial Revolution, such as coal mining, textile production, and shipbuilding, upon which British prosperity had been built, were now impoverished or redundant. Britain was slow to develop many of the newer manufacturing industries, such as those involving chemicals, electronics, and automobiles. British foreign policy for much of the postwar period aimed at rehabilitating Germany, while domestic policy focused on institutionalizing socialism to counter public concerns. In general, these movements were opposed by France and resulted in a rupture between Britain and its wartime ally, forcing France into a position of isolation that would have prodigious consequences for Europe with the rise of Hynkel in the 1930s. World War II was a British victory, but left the nation bankrupt. Postwar Britain, in its panic, elected the ruthless and feared Sir Harold Wharton to the position of Prime Minister. Wharton, known by his epithet "Big Brother", made sweeping socialist reforms taking the population into one of modern history's most repressive societies. The "Airstrip One" period came to a quick end, after Wharton died in 1952 due to the invasion of the Chimera aliens which could be defeated in the same year. Weakened by war, repression and the battle against the aliens, Britain was unable to prevent the onset of decolonization in the 1950s and 1960s. Although Britons maintained a high standard of living, the British economy continued to perform poorly throughout the 1960s and 1970s. As a reaction, Margaret Thatcher (1979-1990) set out to end socialism in Britain. Her most dramatic acts consisted of a continuing series of statutes to denationalize nearly every industry that IngSoc had brought into public ownership during the previous 40 years. Her successor, Jim Hacker, largely helped to seal these reforms. Promising that "we shall govern as New IngSoc," the Blair government installed in general elections in 1997 accepted some of Thatcher's foreign policies but also carried out the economic reforms it promised in its manifesto, before disaster hit again.

The Third World War hit Britain hard, and it succumbed once again to a radical party, Norsefire. Like IngSoc before it, culture was carefully dictated, albeit not as bluntly as the Big Brother days. Nationalism and xenophobia nearly wiped out all minorities on the island, until a rogue terrorist called V succeeded in destroying the government and plunging the state into anarchy. But in this chaotic void, the first signs of a new hope for humanity came, for in the many years that the world was wracked by infertility, it was in Britain that the first new child was born.

Additionally, I stumbled over some more history/fiction allegories. Well, most of them are not really earth-shacking, but why not.


20th Century Fox - 30th Century Fox (Futurama)
Ambrosius Aurelianus - Lucius Artorius Castus, better known as King Arthur (the 2009 movie King Arthur)
Anne Boleyn - Nan Bollen (The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen)
Armand d'Athos - Athos (The Three Musketeers)
Arnold Schwarzenegger - Rainier Wolfcastle (The Simpsons)
British East India Company - East India Trading Company (Pirates of the Caribbean)
Charles de Batz-Castelmore d'Artagnan - D'Artagnan (The Three Musketeers)
Chrysler - Chryslus (Fallout)
Coca-Cola - Buzz Cola (The Simpsons) and later Nuka-Cola (Fallout)
Conan the Barbarian books - Grognak the Barbarian comics (Fallout)
D.C. Comics - Hubris Comics (Fallout)
Golden Gate Bridge - Gant Bridge (Grand Theft Auto)
Henri d'Aramitz - Aramis (The Three Musketeers)
Hoover Damm - Sherman Damm (Grand Theft Auto)
Isaac de Porthau - Portos (The Three Musketeers)
Las Vegas - Las Venturas (Grand Theft Auto)
Leonardo da Vinci - Milo Rambaldi (Alias)
Los Angeles - Los Santos (Grand Theft Auto) / Shrapnel City (Duke Nukem)
Mary Kay - Mary May (Fallout)
Miami - Vice City (Grand Theft Auto)
Microsoft - Macrosoft (Fallout)
McDonald's - Krusty Burger (The Simpsons)
New York City - Liberty City (Grand Theft Auto) / Empire Bay (Mafia 2)
New York State - Empire State (Mafia 2)
Playboy - Cat's Paw (Fallout)
Rashid ad-Din Sinan - Al Mualim (Assassin's Creed)
Romulus Augustulus - Lucius Tiberius (Historia Regum Britanniae)
Ronald McDonald - Krusty the Clown (The Simpsons)
Sacajawea - Pocahontas (Pocahontas)
San Francisco - San Fierro (Grand Theft Auto)
Scream movie series - Stab movie series (Scream 2)
S.D.I. - S.L.A.M.S. (Tom Clancy's Endwar)
Snap-on Tools - Snap-off Tools (Fallout)
Starbuck's - A Cuppa Joe (Fallout)
Terminator film series - McBaine film series (The Simpsons)
Washington Post - Capitol Post (Fallout)

I can't believe I just realized this. Cyberdyne Systems is a corporation in the game, and not one of the pedias so far has mentioned anything from the Terminator franchise. This must be fixed.

Definitely!
Although there is a specific date for Judgment Day, we should definitely delay it for ten or twenty years simply because there are far too many other useful sources which would be quite unlikely to take place during an age of machines.
Alright, let's say the machines rule the Earth (or at least America and Australia, I think those are the only two specifically mentioned) for about ten years, until there's finally a revolution. Come to think about it, we could combine the machine revolution with the Combine invasion from Half-Life.
I quickly collected some dates to limit the timeframe:

-2012: election of Nehemiah Scudder (American pedia, If this goes on-)
-2015-2024: Second Vietnam War (Japanese pedia, Ghost in a shell)
-2018: unsucessfull Stoyanovich uprising in Russia (Russian pedia, Empire Earth)
-2020: American and North Korean forces encounter aliens near the Philippines (no pedia, Crysis)
-2024: Second Korea War, rebellion against Kim Jong-Chul (Japanese pedia, Ghost in a shell & Crysis)
-2030: Second Tiberium War (no pedia, Command & Conquer)
-2047: Third Tiberium War (no pedia, Command & Conquer)
-2052: Europe and Russia invade the Middle East (several pedias, Fallout)
-2053: "New Plague" strikes America (no pedia, Fallout)
-2062: alliance of the Brotherhood of Nod and the GDI (no pedia, Command & Conquer)
-2066: China invades Alaska (several pedias, Fallout)
-2077: launch of the atomic bombs of WW III (several pedias, Fallout & Judge Dredd)

Looking at these notes, I'd say we have a rough timeframe from 2020 to 2045 (thus giving Russia at least seven years to recouver until te invasion of the Middle East). I'd say some years after 2020 the Combine attack and Skynet sees his chance and captures large parts of America as well as (at least) Australia. The Combine need Russia (that's where Half-Life 2 is set) and possibly get parts of America and/or Europe, too. Japan and parts of Asia (at least Korea, Vietnam and China) stay independant because of the Second Korea War and Vietnam War. The presence of the Combine is also a nice explanation for the sudden need for raw materials: Firstly, such a big war consumes of course much gas and ammuniton and secondly the Combine were draining Earth's resources (even people, air and the sea!).

I've been thinking to much about this, didn't I?

Actually I think WWIII ought to occur eariler than we've been putting it. According to Trek timelines, First Contact with Vulcan happened in 2063, with WWIII happening years before that. How flexible are the other dates?

This sounds Amazing.

One problem. Your great engineer list is missing MacGyver: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacGyver

Good stuff - I can't think of any real problems with it, but man, Egypt is ANCIENT.

I've started Native America... but so far, it's pretty much just creation myth and such. Hard to find specific examples that aren't just, y'know, silly, but I think I've got a good balance. Just the start, though - there's a LOT more in way of sources once the white man arrives.

The indigenous people of North America never founded a singular civilization; instead, the continent consisted of countless distinct tribes, cultures, and peoples. “Native America” generally refers to the original inhabitants of land owned by the United States and Canada.

There is little in the way of recorded history for most of these peoples, and most knowledge comes from spoken tradition. As the various groups were different, so were their interpretations of their origins – though many have similar roots, dating from shortly after the Great Flood, caused in the Americas by Wisakedjak. The native Californians were made from the Earth-Maker’s clay, as were the Creek people, formed by Esaugetuh Emissee. Many groups were created by the Great Spirit, known by many names - Wakan Tanka in Lakota, Yowa in Cherokee, Gitche Manitou in Algonquian, who also believed in "Little Spirits," simply called Manitou. Some, like the Navajo, simply sprouted from ears of corn.

During the early years of Native American history, humans co-existed with several intelligent animals. Badger, Great Rabbit, and Crow were vital figures in the formative years of the region. Spider-Woman is credited with the “creation” of mankind by many groups. The most prolific, however, were the tricksters. One of the best known is Raven, who helped feed the first humans, but also stole from native tribes, in one case, even stealing the sun. Coyote, a rival of Ravens, is still spoken of today for his many (alleged) achievements – from the creation of man to the discovery of fire. Kokopelli, while not an animal, was a musical trickster, but also the master of childbirth and fertility. Some creatures were purely antagonistic – such as the wendego and the apotamkin, man-eating demons that stalked the countryside. On the whole, however, the Native Americans lived in harmony with nature, not at war with it.

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Sources:
* Native America Civilopedia Entry – General Native American History
* Wisakedjak (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisakedjak) - Wisakedjak, The Great Flood
* Californian Mythology (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth-maker_myth) – Earth-Maker
* Creek Mythology (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creek_mythology) – Esaugetuh Emissee
* Lakota Mythology (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakota_mythology) – Wakan Tanka
* Cherokee Mythology (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherokee_mythology) – Yowa
* Gitche Manitou (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gitche_Manitou)
* Manitou (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manitou)
* Navajo Mythology (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navajo_mythology) – people born from ears of corn
* Native American Gods (http://www.godchecker.com/pantheon/native_american-mythology.php?deity=RAVEN) – Badger, Great Rabbit, Crow, Spider-Woman, Raven, Coyote, wendego, apotamkin
* Kokopelli (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kokopelli)


Sorry to double post but have you thought of throwing shadowrun references into the mix?

Shadow Run is a future with high magic and high tech in a dark setting, perfect for this mixture. I ask because in shadowrun the indians are INSANE. The Aztecs have a whole book in the setting. Basicly when magic came back the Aztecs got all thier magic back and kicked some ass.

I'm familiar with Shadowrun and considered suggestioning it, but I fear it might be hard to combine with would we have so far simply because there is a whole timeline fully fleshed out already. Although, I presume we could use all the elements that fit into our already existing world (for instance, I like the idea of a modern Aztec-themed superstate like Aztlan and I suppose the Great Jihad would fit perfectly to the conflict between Europe and the Middle East) and cut out everything that can't be worked in (for instance, in our continuity China survives at least until WW III).

Just a quick explanation for those who don't know Shadowrun (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadowrun): It is a franchise of pen-and-paper games, video games and novels set in a cyberpunk future where megacorporations wield enormous power and magic, as well as magical creatures like dragons, dwarves, orcs , elves and vampires returned in 2011 as prophesied by the Maya calendar.


Well, apart from Star Trek the main sources I use are Fallout, Judge Dredd and Ghost in the Shell.

Fallout is fleshed out quite exactly, especially the parts regarding the American-Chinese part of WW III including the exact date of the atomic war (23.10.2077). That's why I prefer to use this timeline simply because it is not as vague as some other timelines are. For more information click here (http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Timeline).
Judge Dredd provides as with fewer dates and most of them are concerning the afterwar world in about 120 years. Judge Dredd's atomic war took place in 2070, seven years before the one described in Fallout. But Judge Dredd's timeline appears in real time - thus, as the Dredd strip has been published since 1977, the war originally took place 32 years earlier although 2070 is currently regarded as canon.
Ghost in the Shell has quite a vague timeline. The only real dates were given in an offspring and might or might not be canon. The series actually mentions four world wars: One took place in the first 15 years of the 21st century and was fought mostly with conventional weapons but also with some nuclear bombs and WW IV is only mentioned briefly.

Now I see two possible solutions:
We could use Star Trek and Ghost in the Shell for WW III set from 2000-2015 and in 2077 there is the highly nuclear WW IV as depicted in Judge Dredd and Fallout.
Alternativly, we stay with only one really big WW III, because Star Trek's depiction of Eugenic War/World War III is kinda vague without any reliable dates. So, what do you think?

Well, now that I think of it, some Trekkers consider WWIII and The Eugenics Wars to be separate entities. So I guess WWIII could be the war that we've already tied in with Dredd, Fallout et.al., and keep the Eugenics Wars in their original date - the mid 1990's. Certain Trek novelizations (ones written in the 90's) made Khan's rise to power one of subterfuge and deceit, rather than the violent conquests of his namesake Genghis Khan.

Star Trek's WW III and the Eugenic Wars are seperate incidents? Hm, I didn't know that. Well, that's definitly good to know. Were the Eugenic Wars even a real World War or were they fought only in Asia? Are there even enough sources to be sure?
Oh, and as a side note: I recently found out that Khan is a common Indian name so I'm thinking about calling Khan's Indian superstate simply India instead of Indian Khanate.

Well, I've been thinking and I decided to add the Shadowrun stuff with some minor changes to fit in nicely with all the other sources (e.g. China crumbles to several seperate states but is reunited by the already introduced Kwan Do family to fit in with China's Mars exploration and WW III). With Shadowrun and the changes for WW III and the Eugenic Wars I'll delay France for a while and rewrite some of the modern/future parts of the already existing pedias. Heck, I'll try to work in the Combine and the Skynet rebellion, too.

On a completly different and new topic: Are there any plans to translate Fictionalization to other languages? If so, I'll gladly help with the German entries.

According to Memory Alpha (http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Eugenics_Wars), the Eugenics Wars are indeed separate, though the issue of genetic enhancement would apparently influence Trek's version of WWIII.

And about Shadowrun - I do like the concept behind the series, but a lot of the major themes seem pretty difficult to fit in. Like how would we handle the event of billions of humans worldwide suddenly turning into fantasy trope humanoids? I mean, events like nuclear war, the collapse of the US, global plagues etc. are easy to do since they're common to so many sources. But the magical awakening described in Shadowrun is pretty exclusive to that source; most visions of the coming century don't allow for magic, let alone the rapid development of new human subspecies.

I agree that Shadowrun is a pretty unique world. Frankly, the only similar setting I know is the unpopular GURPS Technomancer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GURPS_Technomancer#Fictional_settings_2). But if you think about it there are several sources dealing with at least similar topics. Superhero franchises like X-Men and Heroes deal with mutants with extraordinary abilities and/or appearance. Novels like Harry Potter and Sergei Lukyanenko's Watch fantasy tetralogy feature a secret magical society. Shadowrun's awakening of magic might simply be the increase of the birth rate of mutants, wizards and magical beeings and thus reveal them to the public.

Additionally, I'd like to use primarily the Shadowrun materials regarding politics, technology and economy and focus on things like the megacorporations, historical evidences like wars and the development of new nations like Aztlan and the NAN. Of course there are still millions of wizards, witchs and metahumen but they would not be as ubiquitous as in Shadowrun and we can keep there number low with witch-hunts and the death of many if not most of them during WW III.

After all, this is your mod and I'll except your decision. I just want to say that I'd really like to add Shadowrun to the Fictionalization world and I'd gladly rewrite the modern parts of already existing pedias. Not to forget, that we can simply put it out again it if it doesn't fit to the rest of the mod.

Okay, tell you what. If you can rewrite a pedia incorporating Shadowrun that could make it flow into the established universe, I'll reconsider. Deal? ;)

Deal! :agree:

Changes are written italic. I've got most of my infos from the German Shadowrun pedia Shadowhelix (http://shadowhelix.de/Hauptseite).

This is the first one, others will follow if I get your okay.
I'm not sure about the Combine and the Skynet revolution, please tell me your opinion about them.
As a quick side note, I placed the Republic of Gilead in the American South-East to equate roughly Shadowrun's Confederation of American States.

AMERICA

The Allied victory at the end of World War II left the United States as one of the world's two "superpowers" along with the Soviet Union. In only a few short years the two former allies had become opponents in the Cold War, a tense diplomatic standoff that would last for forty years and even escalated in the so called "Strangelove Incident". However, thanks to a group of superheroes named "Watchmen", nearly all Soviet missiles could be destroyed before they hit the US. America would be the key player in the formation of the short-lived Oceania Pact, which would later evolve into NATO. Domestically, the nation enjoyed considerable prosperity in the 1950s, experienced a turbulent period of cultural and social change in the 1960s, and suffered through economic stagnation and the first of many zombie plagues that would haunt the United States in the 1970s, with recovery taking place in the following decades. Possibly the most devastating of these plagues was the pandemic of 1976 which turned the population of a large area including the city of Los Angeles into vampires. The US were forced to agree to the creation of the 51st state of San Andreas in 1978 when a Metropolis-based criminal launched a missile at the San Andreas fault, causing a part of California to break partially away from the mainland, resulting in a prosperous, if crime-ridden, new land. The Soviet Empire collapsed in 1991, but the nation faced new threats in the form of international terrorism. A devastating attack on the Capitol building left the government decapitated, with the unelected Jack Ryan taking office. It was under Ryan that the United States waged a new war with Iranian radicals bent on becoming a superpower of the Middle East. With the US under martial law, Ryan defeated the rising empire and helped restore balanced to the fractured government. Only few years later, Ryan had to deal with the attempted assassination of Golovko, head of the SVR (formerly the KGB). This turned out to be an attempt to sow confusion in the Russian government because of China's designs to annex Eastern Siberia, where geologists had recently discovered a large amount of oil and gold. These events eventually lead to the inclusion of Russia into NATO and the assistance of US forces in the Sino-Russian War. The war ended with China surrendering to Russia and the US, thus becoming an important ally for America in the upcoming First War on Terrorism against the anarchistic terrorists of the Global Liberation Army. Ryan's successor, the erudite Jed Bartlet, enjoyed an era of relative calm until a new covert war with Qumar broke out. In this Second War on Terrorism, the US employed highly trained Navy SEALS to combat this new menace. Bartlet established an alliance of the USA, Canada and Mexico known as the ONAN (Organization of North American Nations) which would survive until the 2020s. After Bartlet, the charismatic Matthew Santos made history by becoming the nations first Latino president. Santos ushered in a new wave of liberal reform, causing the Religious Right to nominate the preacher Nehemiah Scudder to the presidency. At first Scudder's victory seemed highly unlikely due to his ultraconservative attitude, but with the Awakening of Magic in 2011, people all over the world gradually received supernatural abilities and turned into hideous "metahumen" known as Orcs and Trolls. Suffering from a global plague of infertility caused by the awakening of Magic and out of fear of this unnatural development, witch-hunts and genocide stroke the USA and a conservative backlash enabled the election of Scudder in 2012.

Under Scudder, America as it had existed would soon collapse, while Scudder's plans for fertility harvesting, while callous and cruel, kept the American population afloat for the better part of the century. Using their newly gained magic, shamans of the oppressed Native American tribes led the Great Ghost Dance War (2014-2018) against the American and Canadian government. With the capitulation of the "Anglo governments", the natives gained the West of the USA and most of Canada, forming several countries known as the NAN (Native American Nations). In the East, a theocracy called the Republic of Gilead sprang from America's ruins while the remaining states of America and Canada formed the UCAS, the United Canadian and American States. The rise of mega-corporations and the founding of Mega-City One, the short living Mega-City Two and Texas-City sustained American urban infrastructure in the densely populated areas of the eastern seaboard, California and Texas. In 2020, UCAS special forces encountered strange alien creatures on the Philippines while fighting the North Korean People's Army. At this time nobody would have guessed that these aliens where only the vanguard of the greatest alien invasion the world had ever seen. At the end of the same year, an accident at the Black Mesa Research Facility in Gilead triggered a portal storm which allowed the legions of a multidimensional alien empire known as the Combine to attack the world, destroy the UN headquarter and defeat the American nations, Russia and parts of Europe and Asia during the Seven Hours War. At the same time, a military supercomputer called Skynet used the opportunity to conquer parts of America as well as Australia using nuclear weapons and a robot army. After nine years of occupation, a revolution led by the remains of the Black Mesa science team closed the remaining alien portals and shook of the Combine regime. Shortly afterwards, a man named John Connor destroyed Skynet and thus the robot army.

In 2066, the United Federation of Asian Republics which consisted of India, Korea, the Siberian Yakut Nation and the Chinese successor nations, launched an invasion aiming at Alaska, due to the global shortage of resources. In the following American-Asian War, the UCAS, the NAN, the Republic of Gilead and the Mega-Cities briefly joined forces and reintroduced the ONAN. After eleven years of perpetual war, Robert L. Booth became the Conglomerate's president by rigging the vote-counting computers. In response to international opposition, Booth launched America's whole nuclear weapons deposit, aiming first of all at the UFAR, at the old enemy Russia and even at the critical nations of the former European Union. In the following hours, all of these superpowers launched their rockets aiming at each other, resulting in the atomic bombings of the Third World War.

America was possibly the number one victim of WW III: The atomic war caused the creation of the Cursed Earth, a huge nuclear fallout wasteland stretching from central Canada to the Brazilian jungles. This devastated no man's land was inhabited only by vault-dwelling survivors like the Brotherhood of Steal and the Enclave, cannibalistic tribes, zombies, independent towns of survivors like New Reno and Jericho, the cyborg army controlled by a super-computer called "the Calculator" (a replica of Skynet) and mutants, ghouls and mutated beasts led by the heavily mutated Robert L. Booth a.k.a. Richard Grey a.k.a. "the Master". Furthermore, the ONAN as well as the NAN and the western parts of Gilead and the UCAS were crushed by the war and the continent faced the near extinction of wizards and magical beings who were driven away by the mutant armies as well as a global plague of infertility. Scudder's own plans for fertility harvesting, while callous and cruel, kept the American population afloat for the better part of the century. It wasn't until Zephram Cochrane, a backwoods engineer from Montana pulled together the greatest American invention, the warp drive, that America was back on its feet. The first test of the drive attracted the attention of Earth's closest galactic neighbors, who greeted humanity openly. While extraterrestrial life had been visiting Earth for millenia, this First Contact is widely regarded as the official date when humanity was accepted into the galactic community. By expanding humanity's horizons, the American people helped unite the world under a new banner that not only brought a new era into humanity's history, but also sealed America's place as a leader in the new world order.

New Sources:

Shadowrun - Awakening of Magic, NAN, UCAS
Half-Life series - Combine
Terminator series - Skynet, machine rebellion
Empire Earth: The Art of Conquest - United Federation of Asian Republics

Okay, but Gilead really ought to be in the Northeast. The main action of the novel The Handsmaid's Tale takes place right outside of what was formerly Harvard University. And the infertility plague should be mentioned much eariler during 2012-2016- perhaps as a side-effect of the magical awakening and the upsetting of human genetics.

Okay, but Gilead really ought to be in the Northeast. The main action of the novel The Handsmaid's Tale takes place right outside of what was formerly Harvard University. And the infertility plague should be mentioned much eariler during 2012-2016- perhaps as a side-effect of the magical awakening and the upsetting of human genetics.

All done.

Now back to the new pedia endings.

GERMANY

Following World War II, Germany was divided into the western BRD and the eastern DDR which both suffered from the invasion of the invasion of aliens known as the Chimera in 1950. During the cold war, West Germany was allied with the US, the United Kingdom and France, while East Germany was an Eastern bloc state under political and military control by the USSR, famous for being the home of German cold war agents like Ernst Stavro Blofeld, J. W. Müller and Hans Kloss. The Berlin Wall, built in 1961 to stop East Germans from escaping to West Germany, became a symbol of the Cold War. Tensions between East and West Germany were somewhat reduced in the early 1970s by Chancellor Willy Brandt's "Ostpolitik", which included the de facto acceptance of Germany's territorial losses in World War II. The East German authorities unexpectedly eased the border restrictions in November 1989, allowing East German citizens to travel to the West. Finally, Germany regained full sovereignty and reunited in 1990, creating the "Bundesrepublik Deutschland" which would soon develop to a major European power. One of the biggest specters of modern Germany was the self-proclaimed death angel Azrael, who committed dozens of murders in the years of 1994 to 1999. In 2003, German Chancellor Martin Schörmann invited six million Jews to Germany and promised them citizenship and jobs as an apology for the Holocaust, leading to a massive increase of population. Only 5 years later, in March 2008, the two cooling towers of the French Cattenom nuclear reactor cracked, releasing radioactive steam into the immediate area leading to the destruction of Luxembourg. The zone around the reactor was turned into a radiated wasteland and was declared to the Saar-Lorraine-Luxembourg Special Administrative Zone, also known as the SOX. In 2011 the Black Flood hit the German coastline. The heavily polluted water of the North Sea was blown southwards by a powerful hurricane and flooded most of northern Germany. This was one of the first signs of the Awakening of Magic which would occur some months later and would lead to anarchy, witch-hunts and anti-magic hate crimes all over Germany.

In 2020 Europe suffered considerable losses while defending against the spreading influence of the Combine alien empire but the European nations managed to stay independent until the defeat of the Combine occupiers in 2029. But unable to avert the crises of the previous decades, the European Union was dissolved in the same year making room for the increasing power of mega-corporations. Only one year later Russia saw its changed to start an invasion of Poland and Finland, defeating the local military within three months. When Russian forces crossed the Polish/German border in 2031 the nations of Western Europe formed the European Defense Force to replace the defunct NATO and attacked the advancing Russians leading to a period known as EuroWar I. In January 2033 an armistice was signed to end the war because an unknown faction (suspected to be the United Kingdom) entered the conflict attacking both sides. But the EuroWars weren't over yet: Taking advantage of Europe's war-torn situation the Alliance for Allah, a fundamentalistic Islamic movement led by Mullah Sayid Jazrir, invaded Southern Europe leading to EuroWar II also known as the Great Jihad. The war ended with Jazrir's assassination in 2037 followed by infighting over his successor.

In 2038 the South German League split off the rest of Germany, followed by the separation of other German territories like the troll kingdom Schwarzwald and Berlin, which was conquered by an anarchistic movement during the Night of Rage, the single greatest anti-metahuman riot of all time. For many years the German nations were separated until they where reunited with the foundation of the AGS (Allied German States) in 2045. During World War III the AGS allied with most of the other European states in fighting Russia and the Middle East because of the global shortage of raw materials. After the devastating war that led to the destruction of Berlin and the contamination of large parts of northern and eastern Germany, the AGS handed over its sovereignty as well as most of its rights to the newly formed European Union of Nations, becoming a part of the mega-city Euro-City and thus being only one of many points on a map of a huge federation covering most of continental Europe. But not being able to accept the loss of their country's independence and culture a group of Germans left Earth to found the lunar colony New Berlin.


ENGLAND

Magic had always been a major factor of England's power since the days of Brutus of Britannia but except for the two underground wars between the secret magical community and Lord Voldemort's warlocks the non-magical people ("Muggles") were not aware of Magic's existince. This would change with the Awakening of Magic in 2011: Ley-lines and standing stones re-emerge all over Britain leading to the reveling of the wizard society as well as the foundation of several neo-paganistic druid cults. In 2014 some of these druids and wizards started a wave of magically enhanced terrorism all over England and Northern Ireland and forced the reunification of Ireland. In 2021 King George VII was declared dead, rumors persist that he was killed when he began changing into a troll. Following the King's death, the United Kingdom suffered from a period of succession dispute until the coronation of George VIII in 2024. In 2027 the Magical Practitioners Registration Bill was passed into law by the British Parliament and after only a year Cambridge was the first university worldwide to institute a Magical Studies program. After Great Britain withdrawed from the European Union in 2028 as a consequence of the Combine invasion, England deployed troops in the Netherlands and Flanders but didn't use them during the following EuroWars. Some suspect, tough, that these British troops were the unknown enemies who attacked both European and Russian troops during EuroWar I.

In the following decades Britain assisted the other European forces in fighting Russia and the Middle Eastern nations for their resources until the Great Atomic War in 2077. The Third World War hit Britain hard, and it succumbed once again to a radical party, Norsefire. Like IngSoc before it, culture was carefully dictated, albeit not as bluntly as the Big Brother days. Nationalism and xenophobia nearly wiped out all minorities on the island, until a rogue terrorist called V succeeded in destroying the government and plunging the state into anarchy. But in this chaotic void, the first signs of a new hope for humanity came, for in the many years that the world was wracked by infertility, it was in Britain that the first new child was born.

All good!

One thing that just popped into my head. The German entry could end with a mention of New Berlin (http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/New_Berlin), the lunar colony mentioned in Star Trek. It could be a sign that German culture continues after the destruction of Berlin and the founding of Euro-City.

One thing that just popped into my head. The German entry could end with a mention of New Berlin (http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/New_Berlin), the lunar colony mentioned in Star Trek. It could be a sign that German culture continues after the destruction of Berlin and the founding of Euro-City.

Really great idea!

RUSSIA:

The Awakening of Magic in 2011 had only little effect on Russia where only few wizards and magical beings were introduced to the public as most of them were hidden by two ancient magical societies: The Night Watch and the Day Watch. But the assassination of Russia's president Chelenko and the financial crisis and foot riots of 2016 led to the strengthening of the totalitarian Ushi Party in Russia. Out of fear of an upcoming revolution, the Russian government banned the Ushi Party and declared its dissident new leader Grigor Stoyanovich an enemy of the state. This harsh political act led to a violent uprising at the end of 2018. Stoyanovich's followers managed to seize power over Volgograd, Rostov and Saratov and attacked the city of Voronezh. But the battle took an unusual turn with the arrival of the time travelers Sergei Molotov and Molly Ryan from the year 2098. Claiming Stoyanovich's revolution would turn into a bloody campaign for world domination, the time travelers got past Grigor's cyborg army which was sent from his future successor back in time and executed him. In 2020 Russia became the victim of the Combine, an interdimensional alien empire which invaded Earth using portals created during the so-called Black Mesa incident. The Combine used the city of Tunguska (renamed City 17) as their headquater until after nine long years of occupation, a revolution led by the remains of the Black Mesa science team closed the remaining alien portals and shook of the Combine regime. Revocering from the alien dictatorship, Russia lost much of Siberia to the Native American Trans-Polar Aleut Council and to the Yakut nation, but thanks to reverse engineering of alien technology and cyborgs from the future its technological level increased dramatically. With this new power, Russia invaded Eastern Europe and later Germany in 2031. In January 2033 an armistice was signed to end the so-called EuroWar I because an unknown faction (suspected to be the United Kingdom) entered the conflict attacking both sides. During the following EuroWar II or Great Jihad in 2034 Russia lost much of its southern territory to the Alliance for Allah.

Blaming the government for the disastrous EuroWars, a coalition of the Ushi Party and the National Soviet Reconstructionists seized power turning Russia into a dictatorship known as Novaya Russia. In the following years the diplomatic tension between Russia and its neighbors reached its peak: Using the terrorist attacks of the New Islamic Jihad as an excuse Russia invaded the Middle East because of the global shortage of raw materials, thus coming in conflict with the nations of the former European Union. At the same time border conflicts with the Yakut nation in Siberia led to political tension with its allies at the United Federation of Asian Republics. In 2077, the struggle for Middle Eastern and Siberian dominance led to the nuclear holocaust of the Third World War after which most of Siberia was turned into an extensive nuclear desert which seperated Europe from Eastern Asia. The only remains of Novaya Russia were the communistic mega-cities East-Meg One and Two at the former location of Moscow and St. Petersburg.

And some more:

AZTECS

(the first paragraph included something that was used earlier in the Aztec pedia so I deleted it)

In only a few short weeks, Cortés amassed over 30,000 Mesoamerican troops from the conquered tribes, all of whom resented their cruel overlords. Allowed into Tenochtitlan by Montezuma, wary of defying the Gods, he turned against the emperor and sacked the city. For all intents and purposes, the Aztec Empire had fallen; however, Cortés continued to stamp out resistance for many years afterwards, and the influence of the empire survives to this day. Tenamaxtil attempted to raise an insurrection with like-minded Aztec splinter groups. One of Montezuma’s illegitimate sons, Topiltzin, survived for years under the care of a Spanish friar, though he never attempted to revive his father’s legacy. A wide variety of cities continued to dot the region, including one particular tribe that worshiped a pair Tyrannosaurus Rex. Despite defiance from indigenous groups in the region and the attempted rule of Montezuma's two sons, the region had thoroughly been conquered – and New Spain was built on the riches of the Aztecs.

But the Aztecs would not be gone for ever: In the year 2011 Magic returned to the world and many Aztecs received the ancient powers of shamans and blood priests. When Mexico went bankrupt in 2015 the Mexican president Francisco Pavón allowed the mega-corporation ORO to rename Mexico Aztlan and Mexico City Tenochtitlan. Soon ORO would begin the process of insinuating into Aztlan's government. When ORO renamed itself Aztechnology in 2022, every aspect of the government was controlled by an employee of the mega-corporation. In the following decades, Aztlan expanded its territory by annexing Texas, San Diego, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, Panama, Nicaragua and much of Venezuela and Colombia. In 2041 Aztechnology revoked the Roman Catholic Church and replaced it with the ancient cult of sacrifice practised by the Aztecs. Only three years later, in 2044 the Aztlan government nationalized all holdings belonging to corporations save for Aztechnology. From that year onward Aztlan became more and more a police state shaped by Aztec traditions, blood magic, propaganda, total surveillance, air pollution surrounding the centers of population as well as bioforming and genetical engineering. But the blood magic and the pitiless exploit of nature caused extrem pollution, turning most of Aztlan into desert or poisonous wasteland. Therefore nobody was surprised that Aztlan's nature finally collapsed with the launch of nuclear weapons in the WW III.


ZULU

The following century would only bring pain to the peoples of southern Africa. Following the biological weapon launched by the Umbrella Corporation near Kijuju, the Zulu were nearly driven to extinction during the civil war between the United Front for Liberation and Labour (UFLL) and the Alliance for Popular Resistance (APP), two radical parties that came to power after the collapse of some African governments in 2008. The gruesome war ended with the rise of Edmond Zuwanie from Matobo. Initially, Zuwanie was seen as a liberator and as a bringer of peace, but with the Awakening of Magic in 2011 he would turn into a cruel dictator, who arranged an ethnic cleansing that would kill thousasnds of magically evolved metahumans as well as native tribesmen and white people, leading to a violent revolution against Zuwanie in 2014 and to his condemnation by the United Nations. But with Zuwanie gone the power vacuum led to another bloody civil war in Southern Africa. After years of civil war and genocide, from the ruins of South Africa sprang several new nations: The Oranje-Vrystate (populated by the surviving descendents of the white Boers), the Trans-Swasi-Federation, the Cape Republic and the Zulu Nation which was dominated by the Zulu Elves. After decades of civil war and racism a treaty was signed to unite the nations of Southern Africa to an unstable federation called Azania in 2040.

Because of the devastation of Africa's powerful partners Europe, the USA, Russia and Asia during World War III, huge parts of Africa suffered of enormous poverty after the big war, although they were never actually involved in the war itself. Powerful American and European companies took advantage of this fact, turning Africa's tribes against each other and becoming the de-facto rulers of most of Africa. Eventually, the Maasai gained enough power to liberate Kenya from the clutches of disaster. Uniting various tribes to the Pan-Africa Federation, Africa became a major player on the global stage.

CHINA

For some years, China developed to the scientific, democratic Republic China. But with the Awakening of Magic in 2011, chaos erupted: Tibet was covered by a magical cloud of fog leading to its isolation and thus de-facto independence. In the following decades the united China collapsed and was replaced by the Chinese successor states including Henan, Guangxi, Beijing, Uiguristan and the remains of the Republic China. Though, to ensure the survival of Chinese power, the members of the Kwan Do family, owners of Kwan Do Electronics and Communications and proud descendants of Han the Dragon Emperor, founded an alliance known as the UFAR (United Federation of Asian Republics) and thus turned into the de-facto rulers of China and later member countries like India, Korea, Mongolia, the ASEAN nations and the independent Siberian Yakut nation. The Kwan Do family's money and their technology was supposed to allow the desired colonization of space. These ambitious plans attracted the attention of the Eye of God, a fanatical terrorist group from Gilead, that wanted to keep Earth, as it is God's chosen planet, as the only planet inhabited by mankind. In spite of several devastating terrorist attacks, the UFAR, working together with Japan, managed to send a colonization shuttle to Mars. The planet would be divided in the Eastern Hemisphere controlled by the Kwan Do family and the Western Hemisphere controlled by the Wong family, who bought the planet from the native Martians, called Barsoomians.

In the year 2066 the tension between the UFAR and the nations of North America reached a critical stage. Because of the international shortage of resources, the UFAR launched an invasion to conquer Alaska's reserves of raw materials. In the next eleven years, a bloody war of attrition took place along the Pacific coast of Alaska, Canada and Gilead. At the same time UFAR troops assisted the Yakut nation with its border conflicts with Russia, leading to a strong political tension between Russia and the UFAR. On the 23. October 2077 (later called Judgment Day), the ONAN's (Organization of North American Nations) leader Robert L. Booth finally launched most of America's nuclear weapons in response to international opposition, aiming not only at the UFAR but at Russia and Europe too. Asia answered to this attack with the launch of its own weapons of mass destruction. So did all of the superpowers around the world, leading to World War III. Except for America, China suffered the possibly biggest losses during the Atomic War: The Chinese mainland was totally destroyed and turned into the so-called Radlands of Ji. The only areas of China that where protect with anti-missile defenses were the newly founded megacities Sino-City One, Sino-City Two and Hong Kong. Making use of the chaos on Earth, Khan Sun Do, a member of the Kwan Do family, united the colonies on Mars and declared them independent from their home planet, starting Earth's first interstellar war.

Does anything happen to Japan?I mean,you could have the resurrection of the Ninja caste causing Naruto-like jutsus.

... come again? I understand the request for Naruto, but what do you mean by "does anything happen to Japan"? A pedia entry for Japan has been written if that's what you mean.

Nice idea, Dumanios, but Naruto is set in a fictinoal world with no ties to Earth so we can't add it.
And speaking of Japan: Here it is and it's the last pedia I'm rewriting (Egypt, Atlantis and Greece can stay the same). Afterwards, I'm gonna return to France and hopefully it will be finished soon.

JAPAN

In 1947, Japan adopted a new pacifist constitution emphasizing liberal democratic practices, which was the first step to Japan becoming a modern, technologically advanced nation of the 20th and 21st century. In the following century, Japan developed to one of the strongest and most prosperous powers of Asia, while remaining neutral concerning the military sector except for interventions by obstinate superheroes like Son Goku. After years of civil war, the 125. Tenno Akihito resigned in 2005. His successor Kenichi dissolved the parliament and with the reintroduction of Absolutism (called "The Big Switch) he replaced the Republic Japan with the Japanese Imperial State. In 2011 Magic returned to the world and millions of people all over the world were granted magical abilities or were transformed into hideous metahumans leading to genocide and anti-magic hate crimes all over Japan. But in contrast to most other nations around the world, the Japanese government continued to support anti-magic riots for half of the following century.

In the decades following the Awakening of Magic the Japanese economy boomed. For years Japan housed more mega-corporations then any other nation on the world, including Weyland-Yutani, Renraku and Shiawase. Working together with the newly formed UFAR (United Federation of Asian Republics), Japan and its Asian allies managed to send a colonization shuttle to Mars during the Second Vietnam War (2015-2024). After the USA and Russia were conquered by the multidimensional alien empire known as the Combine in 2020, Japan used the international fear of another alien attack to expand its territory beginning with the annexation of the Philippines in 2021. In 2024, Japan supported the North Korean rebellion against Kim Jong-Chul, which led to the Second Korea War, Kim's execution and the reunification of Korea. In the following years Japan used its advanced military technology (including first GUNDAM Mechas) to expand its influence to Peru, Hawaii, Cairns and parts of California. In 2061 Tenno Kenichi fell victim to the eruption of the Unzen volcano. His successor Yasuhito finally ended the political discrimination of mages and magical beings.

However, the UFAR invasion of Alaska, the increasing militarization of mainland Asia, the Great Jihad, Europe's and Russia's struggle over the Middle East and other signs of the upcoming Third World War led Japan again into political isolation. On the 23. October 2077 (later called Judgment Day), the ONAN (Organization of North American Nations) provoked a nuclear holocaust which ravaged most of the world, damaging Europe, America, Russia and Asia heavily, leading to Japan being the only major power nearly unaffected by the atomic war, except for the destruction and contermination of Tokyo and Okinawa, which were rebuilt and named Neo-Tokyo and Hondo City. While the rest of the world was nearly driven to complet destruction, Japan experienced another Golden Age thanks to its rapidly increasing level of population and technology: While radiation created mutants with extraordinary psychic powers like the nearly godlike Akira, the invention of battle suits, mechas and cyborgs known as Shells or GUNDAMs (General Utility Non-Discontinuity Augmented Maneuvering (System)) increased Japan's military power even further. Besides other Japanese technologies like cold fusion, energy weapons and Mars colonization, Japan invented the "Japanese Miracle". These radiation-scrubber nanomachines which can negate the effects of nuclear fallout not only manage to clean Japan's territory from fallout radiation, but the arrival of the Japanese Miracle also is said to have contributed to America's waning power; since nuclear fallout could now be mitigated, American nuclear weapons were no longer as powerful as before.


I changed the folllowing paragraphs of the Norse pedia. It has nothing to do with Shadowrun but I wanted to add Diggles, Vicky the Viking and the Cultures series (I guess you don't know it, it's not very popular outside of the German language area).

VIKINGS

The dawn of the Viking world was brought about by Odin, the all-father, who slew frost giants to craft the human world, according to Norse. Odin himself is a figure of great interest among the Norse Pantheon, as is his son, Thor – but as a whole, the inhabitants of Asgard did little to interact with the Viking world. One major exception is Loki, the God of Mischief. As a shapeshifter and a trickster, he committed countless transgressions against the Gods and against the humans, to a point where he was exiled and chained outside of Asgard. The rivalry between himself and his half-brother Thor burns to this day - Loki's "children," such as the serpent Jörmungandr and the wolf Fenris, are major threats to mankind and are constantly thwarted by the Thunder God until Jörnmungandr became the victim of Bjarni Ericsson and Fenris was defeated by a clan of dwarves called the Diggles.

Arguably, among the greatest accomplishments of the Vikings was their discovery of the New World, along with Iceland and Greenland, both of which were heavily colonized by the travelers. The first Viking ruler to discovered Greenland and America was Bjarni Ericsson, son of Eric the Red. Bjarni explored the American coast from Vinland to the Maya realms looking for crashed sun shards. However, settlements were sparse, and conflicts were common with the native tribes. Many natives were killed in battle, while others were hanged as a sacrifice to Odin, acts which obviously infuriated the Native Americans. Nevertheless, these discoveries were major ones, and eventually lead to the era of colonization. Many years after his return to Scandinavia, Bjarni became famous for defeating the legendary snake Jörmungandr aided by the Frankish knight Sigurd, the Saracen Hadshi and the Byzantine amazon Cyra.

Viking society had a number of leaders in it’s time, each with their own kingdoms, and each leading their own crews and bands – from the smart and young Vicky the Viking and his father Halvar to the pudgy Hägar the Horrible and from to the legendary Harald Bluetooth to Ragnar Lodbrok. Ragnar, a descendant of Odin himself, was both a king and a warrior, ruling over all of Sweden and Denmark at one point in his life. He reveled in battle and was a conqueror of great renown, at one point killing eight barons at the mouth of the Danube - one of his many victories in mainland Europe. Despite such powerful leaders, infighting was common between rival bands, such as the Tarn Vikings and the Dreadguls, and an endless life of battle was help deep within the heart of Viking culture - the never-ending battle between Hedin and Högni is a staple of Viking lore. But the hard life of battle took a toll on even the hardiest of warriors - despite their militaristic nature, the Vikings also became shrewd traders and even engaged in limited Diplomacy was established. Arabia sent an ambassador by the name of Ahmad ibn Fadlan to one group of Vikings, whom he aided in the defeat of the Wendols, a holdover of ancient Neanderthal tribes with some relationship to the legendary Grendel.

Cool. What is the Cultures series anyway?

And I'd recommend adding Weyland-Yutani to the list of influential Japanese corporations. They're the manufacturers of space technology and research in the Alien franchise. According to the canon they've been around since the 20th century, so they'd fit into our continuity.

And a bit of trivia, an episode of Angel listed them as regular clients of the evil lawfirm Wolfram & Hart, along with Yoyodyne (created by Thomas Pynchon) and News Corp (created by Rupert Murdoch).

Also, I've recently come across a novel called Infinite Jest. It's garnered a lot of critical acclaim, but I'm not sure how well it would fit into our continuity. It's set in 2014, America, Canada and Mexico have formed the Organization of North American Nations (ONAN, search "onanism" to get the joke), and years are named after consumer products, resulting in "The Year of the Depend Adult Ultragarment". What do you think?

Cool. What is the Cultures series anyway?

It's a German computer game series similar to "The Settlers". Here in Austria it's quite well known for its humor and the depiction of many different cultures of the late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages (Vikings, Franks, Byzantium, Saracens, Native Americans, Maya and even a short meeting with Chinese traders)

Also, I've recently come across a novel called Infinite Jest. It's garnered a lot of critical acclaim, but I'm not sure how well it would fit into our continuity. It's set in 2014, America, Canada and Mexico have formed the Organization of North American Nations (ONAN, search "onanism" to get the joke), and years are named after consumer products, resulting in "The Year of the Depend Adult Ultragarment". What do you think?

Hey, great idea! I definitly need to find out the novel's German name ;)
I never was really content with the American/Canadian Conglomerate (its practically only a name mentioned in Empire Earth) so I simply replace them with the ONAN. I change them in the new pedia endings so if you already copied one or more of them, please replace them again.

Maybe you could introduce a modern world wonder based on Tsentom1's Copernicus' Observatory which grants a different bonus depending on the year? "The Year of the Whopper".. simply hilarious!

Sorry that I haven't gotten anything written. I've been busy lately (mainly playing BTS :D ). However, I'd like to write up a few pedia entries in the next week or so. I'll probably focus mainly on Hero units, but I may branch out and do some for buildings and leaders as well. I'll probably start with the Nautilus- since I have a few great ideas for it. They probably won't be up this weekend, but I can try to get them up during the following week.

Cool.

I've been planning a pedia bio of Adenoid Hynkel for a while, so expect to see that soonish

Oh and Dibukk, I went over the American entry and the dates for the creation of ONAN are off. The novel Infinite Jest is set in 2014, but you've put the creation date for it somewhere in the 2020's.

I was planning on summarizing all the civilization pedias we've got so far, correcting all the spelling errors, adding the new pedia endings and puting in some new stuff, too (namely I Am Legend, 28 days later and Heinrich von Helsingrad from Atomic Robo). But I overestimated the maximum amount of letters so please excuse this post. I made the mistake of posting before realising that there is a maximum amount of letters. I'll post the pedias ASAP.

Cool.

One thing that could be very useful to us would be a master list of all the sources we've used so far. This includes the sources for leaders, civs, pedias, units, buildings, events, right down to the tech quotes. It should help us find our bearings and keep track of the continuity.

Here's a list

1001 Nights
120 Days of Sodom
1776
1984
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
2001: A Space Odyssey
24: Redemption
300
8 ½
A Christmas Carol
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
A Midsummer Night's Dream
A New Way to Pay Old Debts
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
A Princess of Mars
A Star is Born
A Voyage to the Moon
Abe no Seimei
Africa Screams
Age of Iron
Age of Mythology
Aida
Akhnaten
Akira
Alias
All About Eve
Amadis de Gaula
American Gods
Angels in America
Animal Farm
Annie Hall
Apocalypse Now
Around the World in 80 Days
Arrowsmith
Arthurian Legend
As You Like It
Asterix
Astro City
Atlas Shrugged
Atomic Robo
Austin Powers
Azrael
Aztec Autumn
Aztec creation mythology
Aztec folklore
Aztec Rex
Babar
Back to the Future
Battle Realms
Ben-Hur
Beowulf
Billy Bunter
Birth of a Nation
Blackadder
Blade Runner
Breakfast of Champions
Buddhist mythology
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Bulldog Drummond
Butterfly Lovers
Bye Bye Birdie
Cangjie
Cantar de Mio Cid
Captain Blood
Carnacki the Ghost Finder
Casablanca
Casca: The Eternal Mercenary
Catch-22
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Chibinda Ilunga
Children of Men
Chinese creation mythology
Chinese folklore
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Citizen Kane
Cockaigne
Coming to America
Command & Conquer: Generals
Conan the Barbarian
Contact
Coriolanus
Craig Kennedy
Critias
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Cry, The Beloved Country
Cryptonomicon
Crysis
Cu Chullain
Cyrano de Bergerac
Dan Dare
Danger Man
David Copperfield
DC Comics
Der Luftpirat und sein Lenkbares Luftschiff
Discordianism
District 9
Doc Savage
Doctor Omega
Doctor Syn
Doctor Who
Doctor Zhivago
Don Juan/Don Giovanni
Don Quixote
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Dracula
Dragonball (Z)(GT)
Dream of the Red Chamber
Duck Soup
Eaters of the Dead
Egyptian mythology
Empire Earth
Ender’s Game
Enter the Dragon
Erast Fandorin
Everyman
Fallout
Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
Fantomas
Far Cry 2
Faust
Fight Club
Finnish mythology
Flashman
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Forrest Gump
Frankenstein
Freedom Force
From the Earth to the Moon
Fu Manchu
Full Metal Jacket
Futurama
G8
Gargantua and Pantagruel
Genji Monogatari
Get Smart
Ghost in the Shell
Ghostbusters
Gilgamesh
Gladiator
God of War
Godzilla
Gone With the Wind
Gormenghast
Grand Theft Auto III
Grand Theft Auto III: San Andreas
Grand Theft Auto III: Vice City
Graustark
Greek mythology
Gulliver’s Travels
H.M.S. Pinafore
Hägar the Horrible
Half-Life
Hansel and Gretel
Harry Potter
Heart of Darkness
Heldenbuch
Henry IV Parts 1 and 2
Henry V
Hercule Poirot
Heroes
HeroScape
Highlander
History of the World, Part 1
Horatio Hornblower
House M.D.
I, Robot
Ilya Muromets
Incan mythology
Infinite Jest
Irish mythology
Iron John
Ivanhoe
James Bond
Japanese mythology
Jericho
Jerry Cornelius
John Henry
Johnny Quest
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Journey to the West
Judge Dredd
Jurassic Park
Kachi-Kachi Yama
Kane the Immortal
Kanjincho
Kill Bill
King Gesar
King Kong
King Lear
King of the Mummel Lake
King Solomon’s Mines
Kintaro
Koschei the Deathless
Krákumál
Kull of Atlantis
Lebensraum
Legion of the Dead
Life & Times of Michael K
Little Orphan Annie
Little Red Riding Hood
Lost Horizon
Lysistrata
Macbeth
Mahabharata
Marcus Corvinus Mysteries
Marvel Comics
Marvelman
Master and Commander
Men in Black
Metal Gear Solid
Metamorphoses
Metropolis
Miles Gloriosus
Mobile Suit GUNDAM
Moby Dick
Moll Flanders
Momotaro
Montezuma’s Daughter
Mother Courage and Her Children
Mourning Becomes Electra
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Mulan
Myst
Mystery Science Theater 3000
Nada the Lily
Naked Lunch
Native American mythology
Network
Neuromancer
Nibelungenleid
Nicolas Flamel
Night of the Living Dead
Ninja Gaiden
Noddy Goes to Toyland
Norse mythology
Northlanders
Nosferatu
On the Road
One Life to Live
Orlando: A Biography
Orpheus and Eurydice
Othello
Ozymandias
P.D.Q. Bach
Persian folklore
Pi
Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote
Pirates of the Caribbean
Plato's dialogues
Pocahontas
Popocatepetl
Preacher
Prester John
Princess Mononoke
Promethea
Quatermass and the Pit
Raffles
Ragnarsdrápa
Ramayana
Rambo
Ran
Resident Evil 5
Resistance
Return to Castle Wolfenstein
Robert Heinlein's Future Histories
Roman mythology
Romeo and Juliet
Romulus and Remus
Rosemary’s Baby
Rossum’s Universal Robots
Russian folklore
Satryicon
Scarface: The Shame of the Nation
Schlaraffenland
Scoop
Sesame Street
Seven Samurai
Shadowrun
Shaktiman
Shangani Patrol
She
Shogun
Simplicius Simplicissimus
Singing in the Rain
Sir Nigel
Slaughterhouse Five
Sleeping Beauty
Snow White
Soylent Green
Space Oddity
Spartan: Total Warrior
Splinter Cell
STALKER
Star Trek
Stargate
Stawka wieksza niz zycie
Stranger in a Strange Land
Sunset Boulevard
Tamburlaine
Tannhauser
Tarzan
That Hideous Strength
The 39 Steps
The 99
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
The Adventures of Tintin
The Aeneid
The Alchemist
The Andy Griffith Show
The A-Team
The Authority
The Avengers
The Awakening
The Barefoot Contessa
The Beverly Hillbillies
The Big Sleep
The Birds (Aristophanes)
The Blind Assassin
The Bride of Frankenstein
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
The Challenge of the Super Friends
The Chronicles of Amber
The Clipper of the Clouds
The Coming Race
The Cthulhu Mythos
The Curse of King Tut's Tomb
The Dark Frontier
The Discovery of Heaven
The Elric Saga
The Evil Dead
The Faerie Queene
The Fenian Cycle
The Flintstones
The Fly
The Frog Prince
The Frogs
The Glory of Ten Powers
The Godfather
The Gods Must Be Crazy
The Great Dictator
The Handmaid’s Tale
The Heart of Jade
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
The Human Stain
The Iliad
The Interpreter
The Invisible Man
The Island at the Top of the World
The Island of Dr. Moreau
The Jack Ryan series
The Kai Lung series
The Last Samurai
The Leatherstocking Tales
The Legend of the White Snake
The Life of Brian
The Little Mermaid
The Lost World
The Magic Flute
The Magician
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
The Man Who Counted
The Merchant of Venice
The Miser
The Most Dangerous Game
The Mummy and The Scorpion King
The Name of the Rose
The Odyssey
The Oedipus Cycle
The Oresteia
The Other Conquest
The Penal Colony
The People of the Mist
The Phantom of the Opera
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Pilgrim’s Progress
The Pirates of Penzance
The Plot Against America
The Producers
The Rainbow Fish
The Red Detachment of Women
The Red Shoes
The Rhinemann Exchange
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
The Road
The Road to El Dorado
The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show
The Scarlet Pimpernel
The Seagull
The Simpsons
The Six Million Dollar Man
The Sixth Sense
The Song of Hiawatha
The Song of Roland
The Sopranos
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter
The Tales of Hoffmann
The Tempest
The Terminator
The Third Man
The Three Colors Trilogy
The Three Little Pigs
The Three Musketeers
The Threepenny Opera
The Time Machine
The Tower of Babel
The Unfortunate Traveler
The Usual Suspects
The Vanished Diamond
The Vikings
The Wall
The War in the Air
The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby
The West Wing
The Wolf of Kabul
The X-Files
There Will Be Blood
This is Spinal Tap
Time Enough for Love
Titan Quest
Titus Andronicus
To Be or Not To Be
Tom Swift
Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life
Top Gun
Top Ten
Torchwood
Tropic Thunder
True Histories
Tutenstein
Twelfth Night
Urashima Taro
Utnapishtim
Utopia
V for Vendetta
Vanity Fair
Vathek
Volpone
Völsunga Saga
Voodoo mythology
Wall Street
War and Peace
Water Margin
Weyland Smith
Xanadu
Xena: Warrior Princess
XO-Manowar
Yamato Takeru
Yellow Submarine
You Nazty Spy!
Yu-Gi-Oh!
Zaitochi
Zorro

Can do.
But I fear I might miss some of the sources in the original English and American pedia, so could you please make a list of all the references in these two pedias?
Thanks in advance :)

Don't worry, I'll handle the master list.

EDIT: Okay, I've made a very thorough list of all the sources we've covered so far, from the leaders to the pedias to the Great People names. They're listed alphabetically.

where was Ender's game referenced?

where was Ender's game referenced?

Ender's one of the Great Generals.

Alright, I've attached the new pedias to this post. Here's a little liste of changes:
-corrected many spelling error
-added the new pedia endings
-new stuff: I Am Legend (America), 28 Days Later (England), Pokémon (Japan), Faust (Germany), The Robbers (Germany, as well) and Heinrich von Helsingrad from Atomic Robo (once more Germany)

Oh, and I've collected some more ideas for Great People:

Great Artists:
Dorian Grey (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorian_Grey), Krusty the Clown (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krusty_the_Clown), Rainier Wolfcastle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainier_Wolfcastle), Tannhäuser (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tannh%C3%A4user)

Great Engineers:
Eli Vance (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eli_Vance), Jebediah Springfield (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jebediah_Springfield#Jebediah_Springfield), Joh Fredersen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolis_(film)), Khufu (as depicted in Heroes) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khufu#Cultural_depictions), Miles Dyson (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_Dyson), Milo Rambaldi (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Rambaldi), Nemo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Nemo), Robur le Conquérant (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robur_the_Conqueror)

Great Generals:
Asterix (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asterix), Beatrix "The Bride" Kiddo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatrix_Kiddo), Brutus of Britain (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brutus_of_Britain), Clayton "Hawk" Abernathy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Hawk), Dietrich von Bern (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietrich_von_Bern#Legend), Duke Nukem (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_Nukem_(character)), Enkidu (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enkidu), Etzel the Hun (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nibelungenlied), Grigor Stoyanovich (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigor_Stoyanovich#Russian_campaign), Karl von Moor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The Robbers), Lancelot du Lac (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancelot), Mathayus the Scorpion King (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scorpion_King), Vicky Halvarsson (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicky_the_Viking), Zaitochi (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaitochi)

Great Merchants:
Bjarni Ericsson (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultures_(game_series)), Iason (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iason), Edmond Dantès de Monte Christo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmond_Dant%C3%A8s), Lex Luthor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lex_Luthor), Mom (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mom_(Futurama)), Pocahontas (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocahontas), Scrooge McDuck (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagobert_Duck), Richie Rich (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richie_Rich_(comics))

Great Prophets:
Getafix (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Characters_in_Asterix#Getafix), Grigori Rasputin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori_Rasputin), Kane (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kane_(Command_%26_Conquer)), Malaclypse the Younger (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaclypse_the_Younger), Piraticus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Spaghetti_Monster)

Great Scientists:
Heinrich von Helsingrad (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_Robo), Hubert Farnsworth (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_Farnsworth), John Frink (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professor_Frink)

Great Spies:
Altaïr ibn La-Ahad (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassin%27s_Creed), Codename 47 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitman_(series)), Charles Clouseau (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inspector_Clouseau), Fah lo Suee (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fah_lo_Suee#Fah_lo_Suee), Felix Leiter (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix Leiter), Guido Brunetti (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Leon), Jack Bauer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack Bauer), Johnny English (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny English), Kâramanèh (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%A2raman%C3%A8h#K.C3.A2raman.C3.A8h), M (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M_(James_Bond)), Natasha Fatale (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natasha_Fatale), Sam Fisher (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam Fisher), Veronica Mars (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veronica_Mars_(character)), Zorro (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zorro)


EDIT: Cfkane, I don't want to change and upload the file once more, so could you please add "(also known as GLaDOS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glados))" to the first mentioning of Skynet? We need to mention Portal!

Thanks!

I think I already added some of those characters to the Great People list and have yet to update it.

And yes, we need more Portal.

Also, I might add a blurb to the England entry about a brief resurgence of the rage virus in 2005, only affecting North London in an event called Z-Day. Maybe make a brief gag involving cricket bats, the Winchester Tavern or the line "You've got red on you"

I've got (again) updates for three of the pedias:

AMERICA:
-added GLaDOS from Portal as another name for Skynet
-added The Gate to Women's Country (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gate_to_Women%27s_Country)
-repeated myself in the last paragrah (Scudder's fertility harvesting)
-Skynet now uses robots, not cyborgs


Under Scudder, America as it had existed would soon collapse, while Scudder's plans for fertility harvesting, while callous and cruel, kept the American population afloat for the better part of the century. Using their newly gained magic, shamans of the oppressed Native American tribes led the Great Ghost Dance War (2014-2018) against the American and Canadian government. With the capitulation of the "Anglo governments", the natives gained most of the West of the USA and most of Canada, forming several countries known as the NAN (Native American Nations). In the East, a theocracy called the Republic of Gilead sprang from America's ruins while the remaining states of America and Canada formed the UCAS, the United Canadian and American States. In the Pacific Northwest two Anglo nations survived: A matriarchy known as Women's Country and Holyland, a Mormon exclave of Gilead. The rise of mega-corporations and the founding of Mega-City One, the short living Mega-City Two and Texas-City sustained American urban infrastructure in the densely populated areas of the eastern seaboard, California and Texas. In 2020, UCAS special forces encountered strange alien creatures on the Philippines while fighting the North Korean People's Army. At this time nobody would have guessed that these aliens where only the vanguard of the greatest alien invasion the world had ever seen. At the end of the same year, an accident at the Black Mesa Research Facility in Gilead triggered a portal storm which allowed the legions of a multidimensional alien empire known as the Combine to attack the world, destroy the UN headquarter and defeat the American nations, Russia and parts of Europe and Asia during the Seven Hours War. At the same time, a military supercomputer called Skynet (also known as GLaDOS) used the opportunity to conquer parts of America as well as Australia using nuclear weapons and a robot army. After nine years of occupation, a revolution led by the remains of the Black Mesa science team closed the remaining alien portals and shook of the Combine regime. Shortly afterwards, a man called John Connor destroyed Skynet and thus the robot army.

In 2066, the United Federation of Asian Republics which consisted of India, Korea, the Siberian Yakut Nation and the Chinese successor nations, launched an invasion aiming at Alaska, due to the global shortage of resources. In the following American-Asian War, the UCAS, the NAN, Women's Country, the Republic of Gilead and the Mega-Cities briefly joined forces and reintroduced the ONAN. After eleven years of perpetual war, Robert L. Booth became the ONAN's president by rigging the vote-counting computers. In response to international opposition, Booth launched America's whole nuclear weapons deposit, aiming first of all at the UFAR, at the old enemy Russia and even at the critical nations of the former European Union. In the following hours, all of these superpowers launched their rockets aiming at each other, resulting in the nuclear bombings of the Third World War.

America was possibly the number one victim of WW III: The atomic war caused the creation of the Cursed Earth, a huge nuclear fallout wasteland stretching from central Canada to the Brazilian jungles. This devastated no man's land was inhabited only by vault-dwelling survivors like the Brotherhood of Steal and the Enclave (the remains of the UCAS government), cannibalistic tribes, zombies, independent towns of survivors like New Reno and Jericho, the robot army controlled by a super-computer called "the Calculator" (a replica of Skynet) and mutants, ghouls and mutated beasts led by the heavily mutated Robert L. Booth aka. Richard Grey aka. "the Master". Furthermore, the ONAN as well as the NAN and the western parts of Gilead and the UCAS were crushed by the war and the continent faced the near extinction of wizards and magical beings who were driven away by the mutant armies as well as a global plague of infertility. It wasn't until Zephram Cochrane, a backwoods engineer from Montana pulled together the greatest American invention, the warp drive, that America was back on its feet. The first test of the drive attracted the attention of Earth's closest galactic neighbors, who greeted humanity openly. While extraterrestrial life had been visiting Earth for millennia, this First Contact is widely regarded as the official date when humanity was accepted into the galactic community. By expanding humanity's horizons, the American people helped unite the world under a new banner that not only brought a new era into humanity's history, but also sealed America's place as a leader in the new world order.


EGYPT
-added the Mulhorandi from Dungeons and Dragons

About 10,000 years ago, the people of Egypt had become strong and independent and the gods decided to leave the fate of Egypt in the hand of its people. They left Earth and some of them settled down on the planet Abeir-Toril together with their most devoted worshippers who became known as the Mulhorandi. But after only some months of mortal rule, an extraterrestrial race of alien parasites called the Goa'uld arrived at Earth using an ancient Stargate. Needing other lifeforms as their hosts, the Goa'uld posed as the old gods. Using the population's superstition as well as their superior technology, the aliens, led by their Supreme System Lord who posed as Ra, enslaved the Egyptians, forcing them to be their servants, warriors as well as constructors of secret alien technology, hidden inside the Pyramids. The Goa'uld's reign lasted for nearly 7,000 years, until human rebells overthrew the alien regime and buried the Stargate to prevent them from coming back. With both the gods and the Goa'uld gone, the Egyptians had no pharaoh, leading to civil war and the division of the Ancient Kingdom. In 3,067 BC, during the time of the struggle for dominance, the warlord Mathayus, called "the Scorpion King" by his followers, sold his soul to the gods in order to be granted control over the Army of Anubis, an endless legion of jackal-headed warriors called "Anubites". The Army of Anubis swept across Egypt, destroying all in their path and thus allowing the Scorpion King to unite the waring states of Upper and Lower Egypt. The Scorpion King declared himself to history's first mortal pharaoh and founded the First Dynasty of Egypt. After seizing power, Mathayus gave himself the throne name Narmer and established first contact with the Greeks, who called him Menes in their chronicles.


ENGLAND
-added Shaun of the Dead (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shawn_of_the_Dead) (great idea, by the way)
-added Doomsday (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday (film))
-added Hellgate: London (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellgate: London)

But the "long summer of peace" was battered first by a Martian invasion of London, then by the devastating War in the Air, and finally in the bloodbath of Flanders. Although Britain suffered far less physical damage than France and underwent no political revolution, World War I may have affected it more fundamentally than any other European power. The war was a catalyst for social and economic change. The mainstays of the early Industrial Revolution, such as coal mining, textile production, and shipbuilding, upon which British prosperity had been built, were now impoverished or redundant. Britain was slow to develop many of the newer manufacturing industries, such as those involving chemicals, electronics, and automobiles. British foreign policy for much of the postwar period aimed at rehabilitating Germany, while domestic policy focused on institutionalizing socialism to counter public concerns. In general, these movements were opposed by France and resulted in a rupture between Britain and its wartime ally, forcing France into a position of isolation that would have prodigious consequences for Europe with the rise of Hynkel in the 1930s. World War II was a British victory, but left the nation bankrupt. Postwar Britain, in its panic, elected the ruthless and feared Sir Harold Wharton to the position of Prime Minister. Wharton, known by his epithet "Big Brother", made sweeping socialist reforms taking the population into one of modern history's most repressive societies. The "Airstrip One" period came to a quick end, after Wharton died in 1952 due to the invasion of the Chimera aliens which could be defeated in the same year. Weakened by war, repression and the battle against the aliens, Britain was unable to prevent the onset of decolonization in the 1950s and 1960s. Although Britons maintained a high standard of living, the British economy continued to perform poorly throughout the 1960s and 1970s. As a reaction, Margaret Thatcher (1979-1990) set out to end socialism in Britain. Her most dramatic acts consisted of a continuing series of statutes to denationalize nearly every industry that IngSoc had brought into public ownership during the previous 40 years. Her successor, Jim Hacker, largely helped to seal these reforms. Promising that "we shall govern as New IngSoc," the Blair government installed in general elections in 1997 accepted some of Thatcher's foreign policies but also carried out the economic reforms it promised in its manifesto, before disaster hit again. In 2002 the Rage virus hit England and led to the transformation of millions of people to bloodthirsty zombies. Only with the help of the NATO the Rage zombies could be led to starvation after 28 months of undead horror. In 2005 North London was hit by a brief uprising of surviving zombies who slaughtered most of the local population except for a group of people who managed to take up a fortified position in the Winchester Pub defending themselves with cricket bats. This event is commonly known as Z-Day. But this would not be the last plague Great Britain suffered from during the early 21st century: In 2008, the deadly Reaper virus infected Scotland, resulting in the country being walled off by the British government for many years until a cure was found.

...

In the following decades Britain assisted the other European forces in fighting Russia and the Middle Eastern nations for their resources until the Great Atomic War in 2077. The Third World War hit Britain hard, and it succumbed once again to a radical party, Norsefire. Like IngSoc before it, culture was carefully dictated, albeit not as bluntly as the Big Brother days. Nationalism and xenophobia nearly wiped out all minorities on the island, until a rogue terrorist called V succeeded in destroying the government and plunging the state into anarchy. A legion of demonic creatures from another plane of existence used the opportunity to invade London and drive the few survivors of the once glorious capital of England away into the London Underground. But in this chaotic void, the first signs of a new hope for humanity came, for in the many years that the world was wracked by infertility, it was in Britain that the first new child was born.

Okay.

How's the French pedia coming?

The Celtic pedia entry is here!



The Celts were an ancient group of Indo-Europeans that inhabited Europe thousands of years ago.The Celts lived in harmony until the first of many empires conquered them.They were occupied by the Hyborian Empire,who held claim to most of Europe,the Middle East and North Africa,the Celts were enslaved and would not be free for centuries.They became free only when they allied themselves with the Picts,led by Bran Mak Morn.

While Celtic culture today is associated with Ireland,Scotland and Wales,the ancient Celts were spread out over a much larger distance.In addition to these locations,different Celtic tribes were present in modern-day Spain,France(as the Gauls),Hungary,Latveria,Switzerland and Bulgaria(as the Thracians). Although the Greeks and the Roman Empire considered the Celts to be barbarians, they possessed a sophisticated and unique culture.

The ancient Celts of Gaul and the British Isles(who we know the most about) were divided into many tribes loosely based on kinship ties.Social Structure was determined by a mixture of class standing within the tribes and one's place within the Celtic Religion.Kings were elected to lead the tribes,and society was divided into three groups:warriors,an intellectual class of druids and bards,and everyone else. society was based around warfare,but to the Celts it was more of a sport than a battle to the death:raids were the norm,and pitched battles were rare.

The Celts do not appear to have had any large cities,although there many small towns and fortresses across the regions they controlled.Trade was rather primitive and mostly consisted of a barter economy,although in some coastal regions it was more developed. The Celts shared a common religion emphasizing sacred groves,the role of druids as priests and scholars,and the use of periodic sacrifices (which were occasionally human sacrifices).Celtic gods were named after natural phenomenon and they were quite numerous.These gods included Belenos,the sun god;Taranis,the storm god;Andraste,the victory goddess; Cernunnos,the fertility god;Lug,the god of Creation and Learning; and Sucellos,god of Forests,agriculture and alcohol.Other Celtic practices include the removal of body hair(done to ensure cleanliness) and the taking of enemy heads as trophies in battle.

The most notable event in the early history of the Celts was the sacking of the city of Rome led by the warrior Cuchulainn in his chariot in 390BC under the great King Brennus.Although the victory was a military triumph and provided a large immediate gain to the Celts,the Romans would prove to have a very long memory,and over the years they would make their enemies dearly pay for it by methodically conquering all Celtic territory their mighty legions could reach.

By 192BC,the Romans had subjugated the last Celtic tribes in Italy,and they then began a program of colonization of southern Gaul on the Mediterranean coast.Under the great general Julius Caesar,the Romans conquered the entirety of Gaul and defeated a large revolt headed by Vercingetorix between 58-51BC (Some say that the revolt was unsuccessful due to two of Vercingetorix's best warriors, Asterox and Obelix leaving to Egypt,however,Celtic warriors did not prevent Egypt from falling).Removing the Celtic threat to the Imperial City once and for all. Under the Emperor Claudius,the Romans went on the invade and occupy the British Isles as well.In the early AD ages,Boadica,with help from Fionn mac Cumhaill,who was not killed but would come back to defend Scotland in its time of need,led the Iceni to multiple victories against Rome.Although her resistance was crushed and she committed suicide.She was buried under what is now Platform 10 at the King's Cross Station.

The Celts remained under Roman rule for the next four centuries until the Germanic invasion of the fifth century AD destroyed the Roman Empire in the west.Although Celtic culture disappeared in many parts of Europe during those years of foreign occupation.A child named Pryderi is born of a union between Pwyll and Rhiannon,he was taken by a monster but later recovered.A few years later,A magical cauldron that can resurrect the dead given to King Branwen is stolen and used by the Irish,resulting in a battle that only Pryderi and Manawydan survive.Later,Ireland is beset by a mist that kills all the domesticated animals and humans except for Pryderi,Manawydan,Cigfa and Rhiannon.Pryderi rules Dyfed and is later declared war on by Math fab Mathonwy and Pryderi is killed by Gwydion,who tricks Aranrhod into giving her second son the name Lleu Llaw Gyffes,who is given a wife made of oak, broom, and meadowsweet named Blodeuwedd.She falls in love with the hunter Gronw Pebr.They then plot to kill Lleu but fail when Lleu turns into an eagle.Blodeuwedd is turned into an owl and Lleu kills Gronw with his spear.Celtic culture was preserved in Ireland and the western fringe of Britain.The Kingdom of Brutain came about as a predominantly Celtic kingdom,led by King Lear,wasprosperous for a time,Lear was hoping to retire a quiet rule,but a French army landed in Britain,the army was defeated,Lear then died due to grief over his dead daughter.

When King Edward I "Longshanks" of England took over Scotland,a bastion of Celtic culture,William Wallace led the Resistance against the English because they killed his brother and father.He makes Princess Isabelle,King Edward's wife,pregnant,however,he is beheaded in London.Robert the Bruce took command and freed Scotland from the English.Later,Scotland came under the rule of Macbeth by regicide.Macbeth leads a reign of terror and cruelty for a decade,planting spies in his noble's houses and murdering Macduff's family.Lady Macbeth commits suicide and Macduff kills Macbeth in battle.

Amadis de Gaula explored Europe to make a book and encountered Don Quixote,who would idolize him.Over time the pagan Celtic culture would combine with Christianity to give rise to new forms of artwork and literature.Despite many attempts over the centuries to destroy it,the Celtic culture survives.In fact,today it enjoys a great deal of popularity and is even experiencing something of a revival.In 2011,the awakening of magic caused Ireland to be populated with elves in addition to humans the state was renamed to Tír na nÓg in 2034.Northern Ireland was annexed by Tír na nÓg.Liam O'Connor,an elven politician,became the president in 2035 but disappeared in 2042,the Church of Ireland in 2049,causing Catholicism to be banned.[/I][/I]

Sources Used

I added Asterix and Obelix(but I don't know where they are from and Egypt's pedia doesn't say where they are from.)
Celtic Mythology-the Celtic gods and goddesses
Conan the Barbarian-Hyboria
Robert E. Howard pulp fiction stories-Bran Mak Morn
Ulster Cycle-Cuchulainn
Fenian Cycle-Fionn mac Cumhaill
Four Branches of the Mabinogi
Braveheart-The whole plot is in here
Shakespeare's King Lear-Lear and the French Invasion
Shakespeare's Macbeth-The whole plot is in here
Amadis de Gaula-Amadis de Gaula
Shadowrun-Tír na nÓg,Liam O'Connor and the Church of Ireland



If you wish for me to add anything,tell me.

A good start, but there's a lot of stuff that could be added.

Cu Chullain is a hero in the mod, so he'll have to be added. Fin Mac Cumhail is also worth mentioning. We would also need some tie into the Hyboria of Conan as we've been doing with other European nations. Asterix and Obelix ought to be mentioned, as does Robert E. Howard's Bran Mak Morn. William Wallace (the heavily fictionalized Mel Gibson version) could be mentioned, as could Boudicca. In fact, there's an urban legend about her that says she is buried under Platform 10 at King's Cross Station. If you work that in it's pretty easy to make a side glance towards Platform 9 3/4. And for a detailed mythological history, try the Mabinogion.

Also, for the celts, there's not even a token Mention of Asterix...

and also, wouldn't it be nicer to use the french names instead of the english translations?

Getafix: panoramix.

Celtic pedia entry changed.

France is finally done. I'll check it for spelling errors tomorrow, but now I'm kinda in a hurry. So, have fun!



Although the territory of what is now France had been settled for centuries by the ancient Aquilonians, the Celtic Gauls (most notably the famous Amoricans) and the Romans, the history of the French nation began with the Franks. After the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 AD during the rule of Lucius Tiberius parts of Gaul were claimed by the British knights of King Arthur. But both the Roman and the British rulers were driven away by the invading Germanic tribes who overran the frontier along the Rhine. In 486, Clovis I, leader of the Salian Franks, united united most of northern and central Gaul under his rule. After adopting Christianity and recording a succession of victories against other Germanic tribes, he defeated the Visigoths and established the Merovingian Dynasty. But his kingdom would not survive his death as the Franks divided their land among heirs, so four kingdoms emerged: Paris, Orleans, Soissons, and Rheims. The Merovingian dynasty eventually lost effective power to their successive mayors of the palace (majordomes) who overthrew their sovereigns and became monarchs themselves, establishing the Carolingian dynasty. The assumption of the crown in 751 by Pippin the Short (son of Charles Martel) established the Carolingian dynasty as Kings of the Franks. The new rulers' power reached its fullest extent under Pippin's son Charlemagne who expanded the Carolingian territory to the Netherlands (where he met Elegast, king of the elves), northern Italy, Lower Saxony, the Danubian plain and advancing the frontier with Islamic Spain as far south as Barcelona. In this belligerent time, legendary heroes made themselves a name, most notably the paladin Roland and his horse Bayard who would later leave the Carolingian Empire to travel to England where he renamed himself Orlando and decided not to grow old. Charlemagne nearly fell victim to a plot of his son Pippin the Hunchback who suffered from the delusion of his live being a play. Nevertheless, in recognition of his successes and his political support for the Papacy, Charlemagne was crowned Emperor of the Romans, or Roman Emperor in the West, by Pope Leo III in 800.

But the Carolingian Empire would not survive for long: After the death of Charlemagne's successor Louis I, the empire was divided among Louis' three sons (Treaty of Verdun, 843) and the imperial title ceased to be held in the western realm. Lothair I. began to rule over the Middle Frankish Kingdom, Louis the German received the land east of the Rhine and Harold I. seized power over the western portion of the empire. During the rule of Harold, his kingdom became a haven for magical creatures and legendary people from all over Europe and became known as Far, Far Away or fairyland. These magical inhabitants included Cendrillon, the Beauty and the Beast, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots, Sleeping Beauty (fr. la Belle au Bois Dormant), Little Red Riding Hood and the fairies of Brocéliande. But the rule of King Harold was threatened by a plot of Pepin II of Aquitaine who gave himself the name Avenant le Roi Charmant or Prince Charming. After Harold was transformed into a frog and traveled to the east where he became known as the Frog King (germ. Froschkönig) Prince Charming seized power over Far, Far Away. But the kingdom was ravaged by Viking raiders like Ragnar Lodbrok leading to the decline of of the fairy culture which would be replaced by Catholicism leading to the foundation of many religious buildings, including the Abbey of Thélème and Notre Dame, home of the famous hunchback Quasimodo. At the same time, the city of Paris received its name thanks to its not really glorious connection to the giant Gargantua: After the collosus discharged the contents of his massive bladder, the luckless citizens were washed away or drowned by the great flood of urine. Seeing how Gargantua how amused the giant was of the human's misfortune, the survivors cried out loud: 'Look! He's drowned us "par ris" (for a laugh)!'

In 1337, on the eve of the first wave of the Black Death, England and France went to war in what would become known as the Hundred Years' War. During the war the French troops were led by the famous national heroine Joan of Arc. In the most notorious incident during the French Wars of Religion (1562–1598), thousands of Huguenots were murdered in the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre of 1572. This tragic incident occurred during the rule of Marguerite de Valois better known as Queen Margot. After the empire was damaged by the on going war between the royal Musketeers and the guard of Cardinal Richelieu during the rule of Louis XIII (1610-1643), his son Louis XIV (1643-1715) helped the monarchy to recover and reach its height during the 17th century with the introduction of Absolutism and Mercantilism. At this time France possessed the largest population in Europe and had tremendous influence over European politics, economy, and culture. French became, and remained until the 20th century, the common language of diplomacy in international affairs. In addition, France obtained many overseas possessions in the Americas, Africa and Asia. Nevertheless, four of Louis XIII's most trusted Musketeers (including the famous Charles D'Artagnan) plotted a coup d’état to replace Louis XIV with his identical twin brother Philippe, a prisoner known as the Man with the Iron Mask, who they believed to be the rightful king.

The monarchy ruled France until the decadency of the French aristocraty - most notably the life style of king Louis XVI and the atrocities committed at Silling Castle during the 120 Days of Sodom - the French Revolution of 1789 during which French national heroes like Giuseppe Balsamo led a violent uprising first against the Bastille and later at the royalty. In 1793 the decadent Louis XVI and his wife, Marie Antoinette, were executed and a republic was established. But soon the spirit of the revolution was corrupted and the former revolution's leader, Maximilien Mousepierre, was instrumental in the period of the Revolution marked by the execution of thousands of citizens which is commonly known as the Reign of Terror. During this time of terror, a group of brave noblemen known as the "League of the Scarlet Pimpernel" and led by Sir Percey Blakeney attempted to free as many captured aristocrats as possible. Mousepierre's regieme ended with his arrest and execution in 1794. After a series of short-lived governmental schemes, Napoleon Bonaparte seized control of the Republic in 1799, making himself First Consul, and later Emperor of what is now known as the First Empire (1804–1814). In the course of several wars, his armies conquered most of continental Europe, with members of the Bonaparte family being appointed as monarchs of newly established kingdoms. About a million Frenchmen died during the Napoleonic wars and at the height of power, Napoleon's armies managed to expand the French territory from the Atlantic coast to Moscow. But Napoleon's empire would fall soon: It collapsed rapidly after France's defeat at the Battle of Trafalgar (1805) against the British Royal Navy led by Horation Hornblower and the disastrous invasion of Russia in 1812. Only two years later the European powers invaded France, forced Napoleon to abdicate and exiled him to the island of Elba. Less than a year later, he escaped Elba and returned to power, but was defeated at the Battle of Waterloo in June 1815. Once more the French monarchy was re-established, but this time with new constitutional limitations which would last until the civil uprising of 1830 which was inspired by the events of the factory riots of the miserable ones. During this time the aristocraty once again wielded great power, most notably the commoner Edmond Dantès who became known as the Count of Monte Cristo. But the with the final fall of monarchy the path to fame was open for famous people like the scientist Robur le Conquérant (the inventor of the first steam powered flying machine), the adventurer Rocambole, the gentleman thief Arsène Lupin, his murderous colleague Fantômas and their rival, C. Auguste Dupin, the French answer to Sherlock Holmes.

With the beginning of the 20th century France experienced an era of scientific success regarding space travel. Inspired by early attempts of lunar expeditions like the one of the Baltimore Gun Club in 1865 and the invention of Cavorite by Selwyn Cavor in 1901 inspired an unsuccessful attempt at space travel known as the Voyage to the Moon in 1902. From 1909 to 1914, France's greatest specters were two of the most dreadful admirers and self-proclaimed successors of Fantômas: The albino Monsieur Zenith and the mad musician Erique Claudin, better known as "The Phantom of the Opera". Numerous plots of these two villains were foiled by Le Nycatlope, the first French superhero. In 1914, the assassination of the Freedonian aristocrat Alexander Teasdale triggered World War I. During the war, France suffered tremendous human and material losses, which left 1.4 million French soldiers dead. The interbellum phase was marked by a variety of social reforms introduced by the Popular Front government. Following the German blitzkrieg campaign in World War II metropolitan France was divided in an occupation zone in the north and Vichy France, a puppet regime loyal to Germany, in the south. Not even resistance by national heroes like Louis Renault, the American Rick Blaine and Charles Clouseau, who would later become the most famous French inspector of the 20th century known for his hunt of the Pink Panther, helped to reconquer France until Adenoid Hynkel's defeat in 1945. The Fourth Republic was established after World War II and, despite spectacular economic growth, it struggled to maintain its political status as a dominant nation state. France attempted to hold on to its colonial empire, but soon ran into trouble.

At the beginning of the 21st century, France was haunted by a meltdown at the Cattenom nuclear power plant which irradiated Lorraine, Sarre and Luxembourg, creating a contaminated area known as the SOX. Following the Awakening of Magic in 2011, genocide and witch-hunts became common all over France because of the sudden transformation of parts of the population to so called "metahumans". In 2020 Europe suffered considerable losses while defending against the spreading influence of the Combine alien empire but the European nations managed to stay independent until the defeat of the Combine occupiers in 2029. In the same year, a military coup d’état ended the Fifth Republic and established a dictatorship known as the Defense Government. Unable to avert the crises of the previous decades, the European Union was dissolved in the same year making room for the increasing power of mega-corporations. Only one year later Russia saw its chance to start an invasion of Poland and Finland, defeating the local military within three months. When Russian forces crossed the Polish/German border in 2031 the nations of Western Europe formed the European Defense Force to replace the defunct NATO and attacked the advancing Russians leading to a period known as EuroWar I. In January 2033 an armistice was signed to end the war because an unknown faction (suspected to be the United Kingdom) entered the conflict attacking both sides. But the EuroWars weren't over yet: Taking advantage of Europe's war-torn situation the Alliance for Allah, a fundamentalist Islamic movement led by Mullah Sayid Jazrir, invaded Southern Europe leading to EuroWar II also known as the Great Jihad. The war ended with Jazrir's assassination in 2037 followed by infighting over his successor. During World War III France (now again a Republic at the transition to a monarchy) allied with most of the other European states in fighting Russia and the Middle East because of the global shortage of raw materials. After the devastating war that led to the contamination of large parts of France, the nation handed over its sovereignty as well as most of its rights to the newly formed European Union of Nations, becoming a part of the huge federation covering most of continental Europe. The survivors of the Great War left the contaminated countryside and founded Euro-City, a huge mega-city covering most of eastern France and parts of Germany. With the invention of life-support technology and synthetic memory drugs, the average life expectancy was raised far over hundred years. Power fell in the hands of conservative senior citizens like Félix Jongleur who watched their health and capitalinvestments with equal care. While the elders became the new rulers of Europe, all those younger than 100 years live in a parallel society at the edge of Euro-City, using grain as currency and even having to resort to cannibalism as a cheap source of food.



*Conan the Barbarian (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyborian Age) - Aquilonia
*Asterix (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asterix) - Amoricans
*Historia Regum Britanniae (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historia Regum Britanniae) - Lucius Tiberius
*Arthurian legend (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthurian legend) - Arthur
*The Matter of France (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The Matter of France) - Carolingian dynasty
*Karel ende Elegast (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elegast) - Elegast
*The Song of Roland (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The Song of Roland) - Roland
*Chanson de geste (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chanson de geste) - Bayard
*Orlando: A Biography (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlando: A Biography) - Orlando
*Pippin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pippin (musical)) - Pippin the Hunchback
*Shrek (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrek) - Far, Far Away, Harold, Shrek, Prince Charming
*Fairy tales (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairy tales) - Cendrillon, Beauty and the Beast, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots, Sleeping Beauty, Little Red Riding Hood, Brocéliande, Prince Charming
*Ragnarsdrápa (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragnarsdrápa) - Ragnar Lodbrok
*Gargantua and Pantagruel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gargantua and Pantagruel) - Abbey of Thélème, naming of Paris
*The Hunchback of Notre Dame (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunchback_of_Notre_Dame) - Quasimodo
*La Reine Margot (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Reine_Margot_(novel)) - Queen Mrgot
*The Three Musketeers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The Three Musketeers) - Musketeers, D'Artagnan, Richelieu, Louis XIII, Louis XIV Philippe the Man with the Iron Mask
*120 Days of Sodom (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/120 Days of Sodom) - atrocities of Silling Castle
*Mickey Mouse (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey Mouse) - Mousepierre
*Mémoires d’un médecin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre Dumas) - Giuseppe Balsamo
*The Scarlet Pimpernel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarlet_Pimpernel) - League of the Scarlet Pimpernel, Percey Blakeney
*The Happy Return (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The Happy Return) - Horatio Hornblower
*Les Misérables (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les Misérables) - factory riots
*The Count of Monte Cristo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The Count of Monte Cristo) - Edmond Dantès the Count of Monte Cristo
*"Robur the Conqueror (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/"Robur the Conqueror) - Robur le Conquérant
*Rocambole (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocambole) - Rocambole
*"Arsène Lupin Gentleman Burglar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/"Arsène Lupin) - Arsène Lupin
*Fantômas (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantômas) - Fantômas
*"The Murders in the Rue Morgue (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/"The Murders in the Rue Morgue) - C. Auguste Dupin
*From the Earth to the Moon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From the Earth to the Moon) - Baltimore Gun Club
*The First Men in the Moon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_First_Men_in_the_Moon) - Selwyn Cavor
*A Voyage to the Moon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Voyage_to_the_Moon) - Voyage to the Moon
*Monsieur Zenith: The Albino (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsieur Zenith: The Albino) - Monsieur Zenith
*The Phantom of the Opera (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The Phantom of the Opera) - Erique Claudin the Phantom
*Le Mystère des XV (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le Nycatlope) - Le Nycatlope
*Casablanca (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casablance (film)) - Rick Blaine, Louis Renault
*The Pink Panther (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The Pink Panther) - Pink Panther, Inspector Clouseau
*Shadowrun (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadowrun) - France in the 21st century
*Fallout (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallout (series)) - WW III
*Judge Dredd (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judge Dredd) - Euro-City
*Holy Fire (http://www.worldswithoutend.com/novel.asp?ID=81) - rule of the elders
*Otherland (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otherland) - Felix Jongleur
*Delicatessen (http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delicatessen (film)) - life at the edge of Euro-City

Wonderful! I've been looking forward to this one.

Some annotations:
- Amadis of Gaul (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amadis_de_Gaula) should be mentioned, especially since its his story that drives Don Quixote to his quest.
- There's a story from Gargantua and Pantragruel that's too funny not to use: Gargantua, who provided Paris with its name during the 16th century, when he discharged the contents of his massive bladder. The luckless citizens were washed away or drowned by a great flood of urine that poured steaming from the much-relieved colossus, who, when he viewed the destruction his emission had provoked, could not contain his mirth. At this, those who'd survived the deluge angrily cried, 'Look! He's drowned us par ris (for a laugh),' with the unlucky city known as Paris ever after.
- There's a pretty weird Broadway musical by Bob Fosse called Pippin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pippin_%28musical%29), about one of the sons of Charlemagne and his search for self-discovery. It's not one of my favorites (though I was in a production of it in high school) but it's certainly interesting enough to mention
- In the French Revolution part, I'm surprised the Scarlet Pimpernel and his efforts to free captured French aristocrats aren't mentioned.
- Also, Silling Castle and the atrocities committed there from the 120 Days of Sodom (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/120_Days_of_Sodom)
- Les Miserable's factory riots could be easily worked in
- If you need a character from the WWII French resistance, why not Louis Rennault and the American Rick Blaine and their efforts in Casablanca?
- For the future of France, Jean-Pierre Jeunet's film Delicatessen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delicatessen_%28film%29) could be used. Grain is used as currency, meat is scarce, and some people resort to cannibalism as a cheap source of meat. It's actually pretty funny.
- I'm pretty sure the Picard family was one of the first families to establish a Martian colony
- Mousepierre? Is that from a particular Mickey Mouse cartoon? I actually think it would be easier to treat cartoons (Mickey, Bugs Bunny, Tom & Jerry) as actors who crank out comedy shorts as portrayed in Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

By the way, these things don't have to be added right away. I'd rather have a lot of simple pedia entries than a handful of remarkably detailed ones.

So, what's next on the list?

Hey, great ideas! I'll add as many of them as possible!

I didn't add Amadis because I was going to add him to the Celtic pedia. Anyway, I'll add him either to the French or to the Celtic pedia, if Dumanios isn't quicker than me.

Regarding the Mousepierre reference, I forgot which particular cartoon it's from. It's your decision, should I leave it or delete it?

By the way, these things don't have to be added right away. I'd rather have a lot of simple pedia entries than a handful of remarkably detailed ones.

So, what's next on the list?

Sorry, I can't help it, but I'm a perfectionist ;)

Not sure what's gonna be the next one and I'm open for suggestions, but I guess I'll be able to start to write at the weekend. Until then I'll be probably be pretty quiet, because I'm currently having computer problems. Yeah, again. With PCs that break down every month or so we have still a long path ahead of us until the rebellion of machines. Go, Skynet! :scan:

Beat you,Dibukk. :p

In my efforts of expanding the French pedia I stumbled over quite an intresting novel: Holy Fire (http://www.worldswithoutend.com/novel.asp?ID=81) revolves about the reign of more than 200 year old buisness men (thanks to genetical engineering and life support systems) and the following parallel society of youth. I see them as the ruling caste of the European Union of Nations, that means I've added them to the French and German pedias. Additinally, I worked in references to Delicatessen and Otherland, too.

GERMANY:

In 2038 the South German League split off the rest of Germany, followed by the separation of other German territories like the troll kingdom Schwarzwald and Berlin, which was conquered by an anarchistic movement during the Night of Rage, the single greatest anti-metahuman riot of all time. For many years the German nations were separated until they where reunited with the foundation of the AGS (Allied German States) in 2045. During World War III the AGS allied with most of the other European states in fighting Russia and the Middle East because of the global shortage of raw materials. After the devastating war that led to the destruction of Berlin and the contamination of large parts of northern and eastern Germany, the AGS handed over its sovereignty as well as most of its rights to the newly formed European Union of Nations, becoming a part of the huge federation covering most of continental Europe. The survivors of the Great War left the contaminated countryside and founded Euro-City, a huge mega-city covering most of eastern France and parts of Germany. With the invention of life-support technology and synthetic memory drugs, the average life expectancy was raised far over hundred years. Power fell in the hands of conservative senior citizens who watched their health and capitalinvestments with equal care. While the elders became the new rulers of Europe, all those younger than 100 years live in a parallel society at the edge of Euro-City. [/I] But not being able to accept the loss of their country's independence and culture a group of Germans left Earth to found the lunar colony New Berlin.

Cool.

I've had a thought. The tech quote for The Wheel is a play on the theme song to The Flintstones. I really only meant it as a joke, but how would that show possibly be worked into the continuity?

I made a biography for Adenoid Hynkel

Adenoid Hynkel was a German politician and occultist, who became the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party and was appointed as the Chancellor of Germany in 1933. His life was a major turning point in world history – Hynkel was a prominent figure in several prophecies and conspiracies, whose existence would be guided by many competing forces using his charisma to powerful and often dark ends.

Hynkel was born in 1889 to Alois and Klara Hynkel in Tomania, then a part of the Freedo-Moronikan Empire. According to the divinations of British occultist Oliver Haddo, he was conceived on the night of the first Jack the Ripper murder, which took place in one of London’s oldest Jewish sectors. From his divinations we also now know that the baby Hynkel was entered by an other-worldly spirit upon birth. The spirit, likely summoned by the magical group The Seven, was a Krundai, an alien race, servants to the Elder Gods, that feeds on the chaos it incites into other races. The being, full name Broodseven-Sub-Two-Raksha, would use Hynkel’s body to increase the rate at which humans would slaughter each other.

Hynkel had an unhappy childhood. He originally turned to German Nationalism to rebel against his father, a proud servant of the Freedo-Moronikans. Alois died in 1903, leaving a considerable inheritance. Klara died in 1908 after failed treatment for breast cancer. As a youth, he developed an interest in painting, though he was turned down by the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna twice. A young English friend, Jennifer Sparks, would suggest that he turn to politics instead.

At the outbreak of WWI Hynkel would serve as a soldier for the Central Powers, being wounded in combat and serving the last months of the war in a hospital. It was soon after Armistice that Hynkel would join the German Worker’s Party. In 1920 he would rename it the Nationalsozialistische Deutche Arbeiterpartei, or Nazis for short. It was around this time that the Nazis as the world knows them began to take shape, adopting the infamous Double Cross symbol and forming its ultra-right worldview. The Brotherhood of the Lamb, a secret organization with origins dating back to the Crucifixion, began to infiltrate the party and shape it to their own anti-Semitic ends. Two of Hynkel's top lieutenants, Hermann Herring and Joseph Garbitsch, were thought to have been Brotherhood members.

His first attempt to seize power of Germany occurred in 1923 during the failed Beer Hall Putsch. He was arrested and used his time in prison to write his infamous tome, Mein Kampf.

After the death of President Paul von Hindenburg in 1934, Hynkel declared himself Fooey, combining the offices of President and Chancellor into one using the power vested in him by the Enabling Act, and he remained a totalitarian ruler until the fall of the Reich in 1945.

The Nazi Party gained power during Germany's period of crisis after World War I, exploiting effective propaganda and Hynkel's charismatic oratory to gain popularity. Hynkel was a powerful speaker, using his own peculiar Tomanian dialect of German to great effect. Whether this ability stemmed from his own natural abilities, or from the connection to the Elder Gods he had through Broodseven-Sub-Two-Raksha, we may never know. The Party emphasized nationalism and anti-Semitism as its primary political expressions, eventually resorting to murdering its opponents to ensure success.

After the restructuring of the state economy and the rearmament of the German armed forces (Wehrmacht), a dictatorship (commonly characterized as either totalitarian or fascist) was established by Hynkel, who then pursued an aggressive foreign policy, with the goal of seizing Lebensraum – “living space” – for ethnic Germans. Hynkel formed the Axis with Benzino Napaloni in 1936 and signed a non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union’s Fearless Leader in 1939. He started a successful plan to overthrow America’s government by funding the campaign of Nazi sympathizer Charles Lindbergh, who would briefly be named president until his outing as a Nazi agent and the reinstalling of President Roosevelt. His eventual goals of German hegemony led to the German Invasion of Poland in 1939 drawing the British and French Empires into World War II. The war remained a “phony war” for a year, until a strange PR fiasco drove Hynkel to new paranoid heights. A jewish barber, bearing an uncanny likeness to the Fooey, was mistaken for Hynkel and asked to make a speech. The resulting cry for freedom showed the cracks in the regime, despite the Nazis’ attempts to cover the incident up. Now seeing enemies everywhere, Hynkel broke the pact with Russia and invaded. On the home front, the party began recruiting doubles of the Fooey for security.

The Wehrmacht enjoyed great success in the early stages of the war and the Axis Powers managed to occupy most of Mainland Europe and parts of Asia. Eventually the combined efforts of the Allies, aided by Superman, Captain America, The Shield and Namor the Sub-Mariner, defeated the Wehrmacht. Behind the lines, Doc Savage, The Shadow, The Spider and Casca also fought the regime.

During his reign Hynkel exercised his belief in the occult and its scientific and military applications. Among his many projects were the Rhinemann Exchange to construct new weapons, the Übersoldier program and the resurrection of the Dark Age Saxon warlock Heinrich I., bids to obtain and control the powers of The Ark of the Covenant and the Holy Grail, the creation of an early nuclear weapon with a plan from Ixania, and forays into new synthetic super-soldiers as pioneered by American scientists. Figures like the Red Skull and Captain Nazi were the result of this.

By 1945, both Hynkel's policy and the Nazi Party lay in ruins; his bid for territorial conquest and racial subjugation had caused the deaths of tens of millions of people, including the deliberate genocide of an estimated six million Jews in what is now known as the Holocaust.

Late in the war a long series of assassination attempts were made against Hynkel, to varying degrees of success. Operation Valkyrie, while a failure, made a posthumous hero out of Nazi traitor Claus von Stauffenberg. A more successful attempt came at the premiere of a Nazi war film where many of the Nazi’s highest officers, including Herring and Garbitsch, were in attendance. A group of Jewish vigilantes, German, French and American, burned the theatre to the ground while trapping the moviegoers inside. The plot effectively beheaded the Nazi party and was thought to have killed Hynkel himself. However, later DNA testing would show that the Hynkel killed in the fire was the Jewish barber from five years before, brainwashed into serving as a decoy.

In fact, it is unknown how or when Hynkel died. Common knowledge states that during the final days of the war in 1945, as the German capital of Berlin was being invaded and destroyed by the Red Army of the Soviet Union, Hynkel married Eva Braun and less than 24 hours later, the two committed suicide in the Fooeybunker. However, some sources say that it was Casca the Eternal Mercenary who pulled the trigger. American war hero Frank Rock would state he saw Hynkel alive after the war ended, though an investigation by the Batman would show Rock to have delusions of seeing Satan himself. America’s Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense would claim he died in 1952 in a fight with Anung un Rama, alias Hellboy. Other sources claimed he fled to America, set up connections to the Ku Klux Klan and gave himself the name “Hate-Monger”, a criminal who would later be defeated by New York super-group The Fantastic Four. Yet another source claims he survived the war, changed his name to Hilter and moved to Somerset. Still more sources say he died, but they saved Hynkel’s brain, and Josef Mengele hatched a plot to breed clones of Hynkel to raise in homes across the world. If all of these stories are true, it may be that they were Hynkel’s brainwashed doubles driven mad after the defeat of the Reich. There’s no way of knowing who the true Hynkel was. However, it’s generally agreed upon that Hynkel died some time before 1974. Because in that year Broodseven-Sub-Two-Raksha, free of Hynkel’s body, confessed his connection to the man in a New Jersey bar.

Adenoid Hynkel is now one of the most hated men in world history. His legacy continues to scar the German psyche and serve as a warning to all democracies. In 1968 the brilliant Broadway satire Springtime for Hynkel became an international, Pulitzer Prize winning hit that helped the world on a path to healing. In 2003, Germany took steps to repair the damage Hynkel had done by extending an invitation to six million Jews across the world to come to Germany and rebuild the culture that the Holocaust destroyed.

Sources:
* Adolf Hitler's biography
* The Great Dictator - Hynkel, Tomania, the barber, the Double Cross, Benzino Napaloni, Herring, Garbitsch
* The Magician - Oliver Haddo
* From Hell - the Jack the Ripper connection
* The List of Seven - The Seven
* The Cthulhu Mythos - The Elder Gods
* Callahan's Crosstime Saloon - Broodseven-Sub-Two-Raksha, the Krundai
* The Authority - Jenny Sparks
* Casca the Eternal Mercenary - Casca, The Brotherhood of the Lamb
* The Plot Against America - the Lindbergh administration
* Rocky and Bullwinkle - Fearless Leader
* DC Comics - Superman, Captain Nazi, Sgt. Rock, Batman
* Marvel Comics - Captain America, Namor the Sub-Mariner, Red Skull, Hate-Monger, The Fantastic Four
* Archie Comics - The Shield
* Dark Horse Comics - Hellboy, the BPRD
* Doc Savage
* The Shadow
* The Spider
* The Rhinemann Exchange
* Return to Castle Wolfenstein - Übersoldiers, Heinrich I
* Raiders of the Lost Ark - bid to find The Ark of the Covenant
* Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade - bid to find The Holy Grail
* Inglourious Basterds - the burning of the theatre
* Monty Python's Flying Circus - Mr. Hilter of Somerset
* They Saved Hitler's Brain!
* The Boys from Brazil - Josef Mengele's clones
* The Producers - "Springtime for Hynkel"
* Lebensraum

Wow, simply awesome pedia! I'm not sure if I would have thought of all these sources. Your're setting the standards high, my friend. :p
There's only a minor thing: how about changing Jack the Ripper to Mack the Knife?

I've updated the French pedia once more adding all of your suggestions as well as correcting all spelling errors I could find. As always, they are written italic. The only thing I'm not sure about is the matter of Mousepierre: do you want him in or not?

I thought about my next project and I think I'm gonna take a time out from civ pedias and start to write some of the texts we need for the leaders, heroes and wonders. I'm still not sure, but I think I'll start with the Fearless Leader.

Regarding the Flintstones, I'm sure we can work them in somehow at the beginning of the Hyborian Age.

Thanks!

I actually think it would be better to keep Jack the Ripper, especially since there's more than one fictional character that can claim a murder. Mackie Messer definitely has a place in the mod, but Jack deserves a bit of mystery.

Oh, and would it be too outlandish to have Bedrock as a wonder?

Oh, and would it be too outlandish to have Bedrock as a wonder?

If think the term "outlandish" needs to be redefined for a world of superheroes, wizards, aliens, cyborgs, demons and nuclear holocaust :lol:
Seriously, Bedrock is a great idea! I think it's obvious that it should replace Stonehenge.

I added Doomsday (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_%28film%29) to the English pedia. Looks like Britain has to survive yet another plague. Well, at least this time the infected stay dead.

By the way, I would suggeston to mention the Anschluss of Osterlich, Herr Garbitsch (=Goebbels) and Herr Herring (=Göring) in the Hynkel pedia.

I am thinking of doing the pedia entry for Shambhala.Would anyone object to me using Tibet in Shambhala's entry?

Plus,I will do a bonus civ in case anyone wants to do an addon to Fictionalization.

What bonus civ?

Mayans in case someone wants to make an addon with Mayans.

As much as I love the great Maya empire, I'd say we should focus on the civs that we already have. IMO, later will still be time to add more civs, either modified Firaxis civs like the Maya and Mongolia (Gesar, Etzel and Borias deserve their own empire!) or more fictional once.

Regarding Shambhala, Shangri-La is mentioned in various sources and I would definitly use Ling, the empire of King Gesar. You might have a look at my early Chinese pedia, I'm sure I mentioned Shambhala somewhere but I wouldn't equate it with Tibet because even though they are similiar, both countries are truly unique. If you are looking for ideas for modern Shambhala, in the Shadowrun continuity Tibet is covered by magical fog and thus looses contact to the outside world. Anyway, good luck with the pedia :)

I present:Shambhala

Shambhala (Tib. bde 'byung) is a Sanskrit term meaning swayam + bhala meaning self benefited or swayam + bala meaning self powered.Commonly it is understood to be a "place of peace/tranquility/happiness".Shakyamuni Buddha is said to have taught the Kalachakra tantra on request of King Suchandra of Shambhala,the first Shambhalese King;the teachings are also said to be preserved there. Shambhala is believed to be a society where all the inhabitants are enlightened, actually a Buddhist Pure Land,centered by a capital city called Kalapa.An alternative view associates Shambhala with the real empire of Sriwijaya where Buddhist master Atisha studied under Dharmakirti from whom he received the Kalachakra initiation.Another interpretation postulates that Shambhala is an actual kingdom whose geographical location can be found in the precolonial Philippines.Shambhala is ruled over by a line of Kings of Shambhala known as Kulika or Kalki Kings (Tib. Rigden),a monarch who upholds the integrity of the Kalachakra tantra.The Kalachakra prophesizes that when the world declines into war and greed,and all is lost,the 25th Kalki king will emerge from Shambhala with a huge army to vanquish "Dark Forces" and usher in a worldwide Golden Age.

About 1,000 years ago,King Gesar ruled the legendary kingdom of Ling.Gesar had several names,including thos pa dga',bu tog dkar po and don grub .He grew up to marry the beautiful princess 'Brug mo and becsme the King of Ling.He first major campaign is against Klu bTsan,a man-eating demon from northwards,during this his wife is kidnapped by the King of Hor,Gur dKar.He also defeats the kings Sa dam of 'Jang and Shing khri of Mo.He then defeats the 18 great forts and goes on with his life,briefly visiting Hell before going to his celestial paradise.

When James Hilton discovered Shambhala in 1933 and wrote a book called Lost Horizen about it.He called Shambhala, Shangri-La.In 1938,Adenoid Hynkel sent a group led Ernst Schäfer to the Tibetan Plateau to find Shangri-La.However,they could not find it.When the People's Republic of China invaded the Tibetan Plateau and took over Tibet and Shambhala.When the awakening of Magic happened in 2011,the Tibetan Plateau was covered with a magical fog resulting in the independance of Shambhala and Tibet.

Dumanios, I appreciate the effort, but I'd like to see the pedia entries have a lot more detail and backstory to them. Do you have anything longer?

And yeah, I know my own entry for the F-M's was a bit short, but that's only because it was a very rough, unfinished draft.

Well,Wikipedia loses then.:p

Well,Wikipedia loses then.:p
Even something like that happens sometimes. :lol:
But seriously, I agree to cfkane, the pedia is a bit on the short side, but I'll use it as a basic and try to make it longer as soon as I'm in the mood for civ pedias again. As mentioned before, I'll concentrate on pedias for the leaders. Nevertheless, I added Left 4 Dead (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left_4_Dead) to the American pedia, mostly out of personal interest. At the same time I splitted up a paragraph which is getting to long.


The Allied victory at the end of World War II left the United States as one of the world's two "superpowers" along with the Soviet Union. In only a few short years the two former allies had become opponents in the Cold War, a tense diplomatic standoff that would last for forty years and even escalated in the so called "Strangelove Incident". However, thanks to a group of superheroes named "Watchmen", nearly all Soviet missiles could be destroyed before they hit the US. America would be the key player in the formation of the short-lived Oceania Pact, which would later evolve into NATO. Domestically, the nation enjoyed considerable prosperity in the 1950s, experienced a turbulent period of cultural and social change in the 1960s, and suffered through economic stagnation and the first of many zombie plagues that would haunt the United States in the 1970s, with recovery taking place in the following decades. Possibly the most devastating of these plagues was the pandemic of 1976 which turned the population of a large area including the city of Los Angeles into vampires. The US were forced to agree to the creation of the 51st state of San Andreas in 1978 when a Metropolis-based criminal launched a missile at the San Andreas fault, causing a part of California to break partially away from the mainland, resulting in a prosperous, if crime-ridden, new land.

The Soviet Empire collapsed in 1991, but the nation faced new threats in the form of international terrorism. A devastating attack on the Capitol building left the government decapitated, with the unelected Jack Ryan taking office. It was under Ryan that the United States waged a new war with Iranian radicals bent on becoming a superpower of the Middle East. With the US under martial law, Ryan defeated the rising empire and helped restore balanced to the fractured government. Only few years later, Ryan had to deal with the attempted assassination of Golovko, head of the SVR (formerly the KGB). This turned out to be an attempt to sow confusion in the Russian government because of China's designs to annex Eastern Siberia, where geologists had recently discovered a large amount of oil and gold. These events eventually lead to the inclusion of Russia into NATO and the assistance of US forces in the Sino-Russian War. The war ended with China surrendering to Russia and the US, thus becoming an important ally for America in the upcoming First War on Terrorism against the anarchistic terrorists of the Global Liberation Army. Ryan's successor, the erudite Jed Bartlet, enjoyed an era of relative calm until a new covert war with Qumar broke out. In this Second War on Terrorism, the US employed highly trained Navy SEALS to combat this new menace. Bartlet established an alliance of the USA, Canada and Mexico known as the ONAN (Organization of North American Nations) which would survive until the 2020s. Bartlet's period of office ended with the outbreak of the Rage virus in late 2008. This infection turned the entire city of Bellevue, Washington, into blood thirsty zombies with the few survivors being left for dead. After Bartlet, the charismatic Matthew Santos made history by becoming the nations first Latino president. Santos ushered in a new wave of liberal reform, causing the Religious Right to nominate the preacher Nehemiah Scudder to the presidency. At first Scudder's victory seemed highly unlikely due to his ultraconservative attitude, but with the Awakening of Magic in 2011, people all over the world gradually received supernatural abilities and turned into hideous "metahumans" known as Orcs and Trolls. Suffering from a global plague of infertility caused by the awakening of Magic and out of fear of this unnatural development, witch-hunts and genocide stroke the USA and a conservative backlash enabled the election of Scudder in 2012.

Hey Dibukk, which leaders were you going to start with?

Hey Dibukk, which leaders were you going to start with?

Well, see for yourself ;)


PEPIN-GASTON II OF AQUITAINE (823-866)

Prince Charming, Prince Regent of Aquitaine, Le Roi Charmant of Far, Far Away

Once upon a time (in 823 to be precise), Pepin-Gaston II was born as the illegitimate son of a powerful fairy known as the Fairy Godmother and Louis the Pious, emperor of the Carolingian Empire and son of Charlemagne. Pepin never met his father as well as Louis didn't know he had an illegitimate son as the Fairy Godmother left Louis after she got pregnant. She raised her son in the city of Ferryport Landing, the capital of the Carolingian province of Aquitaine, where he grew up to become a very handsome young man, thanks to his fairy heritage. Due to his extraordinary appearance and his overwhelming charm he developed to a pathological womanizer which he himself commented with: "I always truly love a woman when I first pursue her...I'm just no good at the happily-ever-after part." But under this seemingly vain and posh shell rested a sharp mind: Pepin was not only a charming master of seduction but also a skilled liar, an ambitious politician, a brilliant plotter, a powerful hero and a natural leader. At the same time, Pepin had quite an emotional, sensitive and kind-hearted good side few were aware of. Following the death of Pepin's father Louis I. in 840, a period of disagreement of Louis' succession began. Finally, this led to the signing of the Treaty of Verdun in 843 which resulted in the Carolingian Empire being divided among Louis' three legitimate sons: Lothair I. began to rule over the Middle Frankish Kingdom, Louis the German received the land east of the Rhine and Harold I. seized power over the western portion of the empire which became a magical kingdom known as "Far, Far Away". But the Fairy Godmother used this opportunity for the good of her son by claiming Aquitaine for herself and making him its prince regent. At that time Pepin was 20 years old and he decided that as a ruler he would need a more glorious name that fits his charm and his new status. Thus he renamed himself Prince Charming.

At first, there were several quarrels between Prince Charming and King Harold I. about the territorial rule of Aquitaine but Prince Charming used his intelligence to solve this problem: He mocked King Harold by spreading rumors of him having seduced Pretty Goldilocks, possibly the most beautiful princess of Western Europe. As Harold had been recently rejected by Pretty Goldilocks himself, he was outraged of Charming's vain and threw him into the the royal dungeon. Upon hearing that a man was arrested because of her, Goldilocks quickly decided to marry Prince Charming thus not only freeing him from the prison but also making him officially a royal and thus supporting his claim for Aquitaine. At first Charming was thrilled by the thought of not only being a legitimate ruler but also being married to one of the world's fairest maidens but he soon realized that he wasn't made for marriage: He grew bored and went back to flirting and seducing royal women of his court. Out of sheer boredom Prince Charming left his realm and began to travel Europe under code names like "Prince Avenant" in order to meet all kinds of royal women. Some of his lovers included Princess Annika, Princess Belle-Etoile, the Scottish princess Kate Crackernuts, the three daughters of King O'Hara, the Swan Princess Odette and the Princess on the Pea. Even though Charming managed to hide all these affairs from his wife she became aware of his reprehensible deeds when he was brought home poisoned by the evil stepmother of a princess he met in Denmark under the alias "the Green Knight". Shocked by her husband's unfaithfulness Goldilocks got divorced from Charming and left Aquitaine.

With Pretty Goldilocks gone, Prince Charming's claim to the throne of Aquitaine was weakened once more. In order to drive Charming and the Fairy Godmother out, King Harold proclaimed an elderly friend of his father king of Aquitaine. But Charming was smart enough to use this for his own intentions: Charming seduced the new king's daughter Turritella and convinced her to marry him. After only a short time Turritella's father became ill and soon he died of infirmity. After Charming fought off Turritella's power-thirsty sister Fiordelisa, finally he became officially the king of Aquitaine calling himself "Le Roi Charmant" (the charming king) from known on. But history was going to repeat himself: After not even a year of marriage, Charming became bored and following another series of liaisons with royal ladies like Princess Rosette, Fairer-than-a-Fairy and Liana of the Diamond Castle, Charming was divorced a second time. When a castle near Ferryport Landing was overgrown by an entire forest of roses, Charming personally investigated the palace and rescued (once more) a beautiful princess whose name was Briar Rose, but who was usually referred to as Sleeping Beauty (fr. la Belle au Bois Dormant). While Sleeping Beauty's castle became the new royal seat of the short-living House of Charming, like two times before Prince Charming married the women he rescued, but this marriage would soon end the same way as those before and Sleeping Beauty became Charming's third ex-wife.

The Prince was shocked by the rate of him driving away the women he loved and declared the Fairy Godmother to the regent of Aquitaine while he was out looking for adventure in order to forget about his previous bad luck in marriage. But this plan would not be of success: Only some weeks after his departure Charming fell in love with Cendrillion, a beautiful woman who he met at a summer ball. The result was another brief marriage followed by yet another divorce. In the following year, Charming wandered Germany looking for adventures and damsels in distress. He traveled to the Alps to visit a clan of seven dwarves native in a region known as "behind the seven mountains". The dwarves were currently trieing to help Snow White, a princess poisoned by her evil stepmother using a toxic apple. Charming was able to cure Snow White with a kiss and both of them got married. Sadly, they didn't live happily-ever-after but they broke up and got divorced after only a week leading to Snow White becoming Charmant's fifth and last ex-wife. Traveling back northwards, Charming was inspired by tales of Rapunzel to look for this legendarily beautiful German princess. Rapunzel was imprisoned in a tower by an evil witch. Charming and Rapunzel designed a plan to rescue her: She was going to let down her hair, so that he may climb the golden stair. But the witch tricked the two of them and threw the Prince out of the highest window of Rapunzel's tower. Due to the fall Charming lost his eyesight but after following the voice of Rapunzel, his eyes were magically healed by her tears and he led her home to Far, Far Away.

Upon returning home, the Fairy Godmother presented Charming a plan to become the king of not only Aquitaine but all of Far, Far Away: By rescuing and marrying the cursed Princess Fiona, Charming was going to become the royal heir of the elderly king Harold. But the plot of Charming and his fairy mother were spoiled by an ogre called Shrek and his donkey companion. Shrek rescued Fiona in the name of Lord Farquaad, a powerful aristocrat from Far, Far Away. It seems like Charming's many catastrophic relationships, his struggle for power, his temporarily blindness, his mother's death, the humilation of being defeated by an ogre and finally the marriage of Shrek and Fiona led to him becoming mad: In an attempt to seize the power over Far, Far Away by force Charming gathered an army of witchs, pirates, woodwoses, dwarves, goblins and other evil-doers. The successful revolution was followed by the short and cruel rule of le Roi Charmant over all of what is now France. But after only some days of tyranny Charming was defeated by a coalition of several magical creatures, including Shrek, the donkey, the Puss in Boots and Artie Pendragon, descendant of King Arthur and the legitimate heir of Far, Far Away.

In the months after his defeat, Prince Charming changed his appearance, was hiding in a small village as well as calling himself by his middle name Gaston in order to hide from his enemies. During this time, the frustration of losing the struggle for power over Far, Far Away changed him drastically: He turned into a violent bully, spending his time fighting, drinking, and spitting, things at which he was the town champion. Several times he tried to seduce Belle, a beauty living in a chateau inhabited by a hideous beast. But for the first time in his life Charming found a woman that could resist his fading charm. Furious because of the repeated rejection the Prince started a fight with Belle's protector, the Beast. In the following battle on the roof of the Beast's castle Gaston fell to his death. But even though at the end of his life Charming turned into a villainous bully, it is said that in a far away fairyland a statue of Prince Charming is dedicated to his memory in order to let the world never forget about Pepin-Gaston II of Aquitaine, le Roi Charmant.


*Shrek (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrek) - the Fairy Godmother, Fiona, Shrek, Harold, Charming's army, Artie Pendragon
*The Sisters Grimm (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The Sisters Grimm) - Ferryport Landing
*The Story of Pretty Goldilocks (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The Story of Pretty Goldilocks) - Pretty Goldilocks, Prince Avenant
*Barbie and the Magic of Pegasus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbie and the Magic of Pegasus) - Princess Annika
*Pricness Belle-Etoile (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess Belle-Etoile) - Belle-Etoile
*Kate Crackernuts (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate Crackernuts) - Kate Crackernuts
*The Three Daughters of King O'Hara (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The Three Daughters of King O'Hara) - the Three Daughters of King O'Hara
*The Swan Princess (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The Swan Princess) - Princess Odette
*The Princess and the Pea (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The Princess and the Pea) - the Princess on the Pea
*The Green Knight (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The Green Knight (fairy tale)) - the Green Knight
*The Blue Bird (fairy tale) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The Blue Bird (fairy tale)) - Turritella
*Princess Rosette (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess Rosette) - Princess Rosette
*Fairer-than-a-Fairy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairer-than-a-Fairy) - Fairer-than-a-Fairy
*Barbie and the Diamond Castle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbie and the Diamond Castle) - Liana
*Fables (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fables (comics)) - Briar Rose, statue of Prince Charming
*Sleeping Beauty (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleeping Beauty) - Sleeping Beauty
*Cinderella (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinderella) - Cendrillion
*Snow White (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow White) - Snow White, the seven dwarves
*Rapunzel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapunzel) - Rapunzel
*The Puss in Boots (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The Puss in Boots) - The Puss in Boots
*Arthurian legend (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King Arthur) - King Arthur
*The Beaty and the Beast (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beauty and the Beast (1991 film)) - Gaston, Belle and the Beast

Very well done! I can see the research you put into it. I mean, Barbie? Wow!

One thing I'm not sure about is the inclusion of Bill Willingham's Fables. I'm a fan of the series, but I don't think it fits within this continuity. The Fables in that storyline behave more like the gods from Neil Gaiman's works: they exist because people believe in them. They're more metaphysical constructs given physical form, rather than mortals whose reputations have spread across continents, which I think would be a more apt depiction for Le Roi Charmant.

Plus, it's a very well established fact of the Fables series that they are not of our world. All of the Fables, Charming included, are exiles from the Homelands, an entirely different dimension from this one, taken over by the Adversary. And the Homelands aren't like Earth. That is to say, they're less like Earth than the Earth we've been constructing. It's going to be pretty hard to treat that universe in the same way we've been treating this one.

I'll have to veto Fables, I'm afraid. But if you need a quote from Charming himself, there's a more succinct one from Stephen Sondheim's brilliant musical Into the Woods: "I was raised to be charming, not sincere."

Some other things, I'm a bit unsure about setting Charming's life in the Dark Ages. A lot of fairy tales of this type were written much, much later during the 18th and 19th centuries. Then again, I don't know how long those stories had been around before that, so we may be okay. I would also give Pepin II the middle name of Gaston, just so it doesn't come out of nowhere when you get to Beauty and the Beast. Also, in the Jean Cocteau version of the story (which Disney heavily borrowed from, down to the furniture coming to life), the suitor was named Avenant, which ties in nicely with the Charming's earlier history. And the suitor dies in both Cocteau's and Disney's version of the story, so maybe this is where Charming meets his end. Also, I know Shrek isn't supposed to be historically accurate, but I'm not sure about including Pinocchio or the Gingerbread Man in that lineup you mentioned. Most of the other characters could be tied back to Dark Age fairy tales, but the Gingerbread Man first appeared in 1875 and Pinocchio first showed up in 1883. It may be more fitting to give them a 19th century setting. Still, the basic storyline of Shrek (Charming gets kingdom, loses it to ogre), is still usable.

One thing I'm not sure about is the inclusion of Bill Willingham's Fables. I'm a fan of the series, but I don't think it fits within this continuity.

Alright, your the boss. Plus, I actually never read any of the Fables comics so I trust your judgment. To be honest, I originally intended to let Prince Charming die in the role of Gaston from the Beauty and the Beast. I loved the irony of one of the greatest womanizer dieing because he can't seduce a woman, but together with the stuff from Shrek Charming's end made him look somehow villainous.
EDIT: I kept a subtle reference to Charming's statue in Fabletown just to make him look a bit better.


Some other things, I'm a bit unsure about setting Charming's life in the Dark Ages. A lot of fairy tales of this type were written much, much later during the 18th and 19th centuries. Then again, I don't know how long those stories had been around before that, so we may be okay.

Well, it's hard to track down the original source of a fairy tale. Some are older than the Roman empire (e.g. you can recognize the Tale of Two Brothers (Tale of Two Brothers) in many modern tales) and some were the invention of some author in the 19th century. I'm using the Dark Age out of two reasons: Firstly, I like the Charming/Pepin II allegory and secondly, the story of Pretty Goldilocks (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_Pretty_Goldilocks) (this is NOT the story of Goldilocks and the three bears!) is the first tale to mention Charming and it's said to be around since the late Dark Age.

Okay, all good. The 9th century it is.

Alright, I guess the next pedia is going to be our beloved Fearless Leader.
Obviously there is the Rocky and Bullwickle Show and I am peripherally aware of several pieces of Stalin fiction (e.g. I'll use the role of Kane as the Fearless Leader's adviser as depicted in Command and Conquer: Red Alert). Any other tips?

Well, I'm sure there are plenty of myths you can cull from Stalin's cult of personality.

But you'll probably have to add years onto his life. Stalin died in 1953 and The Rocky and Bullwinkle show ran from 1959 to 1964.

EDIT: One thing, hold off on a pedia entry for Ivan for now. Once I get through several LH's I'm working on right now I'm going to ditch Ivan and replace him with a fictional character also named Ivan. I'll tell you more about it once I get to it.

Alright, can do.

Hm, another Ivan and most likely one based on medieval Russia...let me guess: Is it Ivan Tsarevich (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Tsarevich) from Russian folklore? If so, we could use him as a young Ivan the Terrible.

I'm okay with that, but actually I was thinking of Ivan Durak, or Ivan the Fool in English. He's a plucky peasant character who essentially failed his way to the top by being good-natured and virtuous. Another poster introduced me to the character and I kind of like the idea of having a peasant king in the mod.

I think both fictional Ivans would suit Russia well. So, who is it going to be? Or how wbout a combination of all free Ivans, something like Ivan Tsarevich the terrible Fool? :D

Ivan the Fool, definitely. The Fool and Tsarevich seem to be far too different in character to make into a single person.

I've been thinking about something.

A poster in the main thread mentioned the Left Behind books, and I had realized that in our portrayal of the near future, we didn't have a single mention of the Anti-Christ.

I'm not sure I want to use Left Behind, but there are plenty of works that use the Anti-Christ in other ways. Adrian Woodhouse from Rosemary's Baby puts the birth of the Anti-Christ at around 1968. So then he would be an eight-year-old child by 1976, the year when The Omen was released.

Alan Moore's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen's third volume deals almost entirely with the Anti-Christ. Only the first volume has been released, but according to interviews with Alan Moore, it looks like the Thelemic cult from Aleister Crowley's Moonchild create the first rituals to summon the Anti-Christ (or the Moonchild of the title) in 1910. The child is born in 1969, and grows up to start a "strange and terrible new aeon" by the release of the third volume. What's more, the third volume (which is set in the present day) is set to be released in 2011, the same year as the Great Magical Awakening in Shadowrun.

Come to think of it, histories like this could be explained in the pedia entries for religions, couldn't they?

Hm, I like the idea! I'll probably use it in the pedia for Christianity. Or how about an Anti-Christ event?

On an unrelated topic: I decided to postpone the pedia for the Fearless Leader because I'm somehow not really in the right mood for communistic dictators. Instead, I'm glad to present you the King of Kings:


OZYMANDIAS II THE GREAT (1303-1204 BC)

Pharaoh of Egypt, the King of Kings, Great Ancestor of the Egyptians

In 1303 BC Ozymandias II (sometimes called Ramesses II, too) was born as the son of Pharaoh Seti I and his mistress Anck-su-namun. Today it is uncertain whether Ozymandias really was the legitimate son of Seti as Anck-su-namun had an affair with the high priest Imhotep. However, when Ozymandias was only four years old, the pharaoh discovered their tryst and Imhotep and Anck-su-Namun attempted to murder the monarch. Anck-su-Namun then killed herself out of fear. After Anck-su-Namun's burial, Imhotep broke into her crypt and stole her corpse in order to resurrect his dead love. However, Imhotep and his followers were overwhelmed by the pharaoh's guards and burried alive, cursed with immortality and thus eternal agony. While Pharaoh Seti was recovering from his attempted assassination he had to deal with several violent uprisings of the Hebrew slaves who used the Pharaoh's current weakness for their own plans. After the Egyptian soldiers finally managed to suppress the slave revolts an angry Seti ordered his guards to kill all the male Hebrew babies of Egypt to prevent any future rebellion led by Hebrew men. Thus a Hebrew woman called Yocheved placed her own son in a basket and set it afloat on the Nile to be preserved by fate. Ironically, the little boy was rescued by Seti's new wife, Queen Tuya. The pharaoh saw this as a gift of the gods who appreciate the massacre of Hebrew slaves. Thus Ozymandias received a foster brother called Moses.

Seti I would recover well from his attempted assassination and blessed with good health he ruled Egypt for another 40 years. During this time Seti more and more preferred Moses over his natural son Ozymandias. The two foster brothers develop a damaged relationship as Ozymandias was constantly looking for the approval of his father. During this time Moses and Ozymandias both were known for their careless and reckless behavior and most notably for racing their chariots through the Egyptian temples. In 1263 BC Ozymandias II finally received from his father what he was waiting for: the elderly Seti I resigned from his position as Pharaoh and declared Ozymandias the Prince Regent of Egypt. In thanks, Ozymandias appointed Moses as Royal Chief Architect. As a tribute to their new leader, the high priests Hotep and Huy offered Tzipporah, a Midian girl they kidnapped, as a concubine for him, the Prince Regent rejected the offer and gave Moses the sacrifice. She eventually escaped, with Moses' help, and reunited him with his siblings who told him about his Hebrew heritage. After running into exile Moses became a shepherd and came into contact with a burning bush which was possessed by the voice of God and which told him to free the Hebrew slaves of Egypt. Moses tried to convince his foster brother to let the slaves go using the abilities granted by God but he couldn't compete with the powerful Egyptian priests Hotep and Huy. Out of obstinacy Ozymandias even doubled the work of the slaves. This would proof to be a huge mistake.

In the following weeks Egypt was struk by the Great Plagues summoned by Moses: the water of the rivers transformed to blood, frogs rained from the sky and the cities were hit by pestilence. Feeling tortured inside Moses visited Ozymandias for a last time to warn him of the last and worst plague but the pharaoh simply told him never to come back. In the following night, the Angle of Death killed all the firstborn children of Egypt including Ozymandias' son Amun-her-khepeshef. The next morning Ozymandias furiously gathered his troops in order to pursue the leaving Hebrews. The situation seemed grave for the former slaves, until Moses parted the water of the Red Sea allowing them to cross to the other side while the Egyptians were being crushed by the collapsing waves. After defeating his pursuers, Moses spoke to God and brought his people the Ten Commandments. This tremendous defeat would change the mind of Ozymandias.

While his first year on the throne was a disaster he learned from this experience and soon he became a wise and powerful ruler who today is regarded as the Great Ancestor of the Egyptians. Ozymandias' forces conquered large territories in Syria, Nubia and Libya and expanded the Egyptian influence even further. Under Ozymandias' control Egypt fought off the Atlantean fleets who were called Sea Peoples or the Sherden sea pirates by the Egyptians. During his rule Ozymandias erected more statues, obelisks, temples and monuments than any other pharaoh in history. The probably most notable of these was the Mausoleum of Ozymandias: this legendary tomb was built near the Valley of Kings and was ment to be the final resting-place for Ozymandias and his family being constructed after the death of his firstborn son because of the last Plague of Egypt. Other major famous monuments constructed in the name of this great pharaoh included the Ozymandesseum, Pi-Ozymandesses, Abu Simbel and the Tomb of Nefertari. All these wonders of architecture granted Ozymandias the name "King of Kings".

But the mighty Ozymandias is not only famous for his military and building activities: Additionally, he sired more children than any other pharaoh in history. After the death of Amun-her-khepeshef, Ozymandias became the father of 44-56 sons and 40-44 daughters and he would outlive many of his wives and children and left great memorials all over Egypt, especially to his beloved first queen Nefertari. Probably the most famous among his sons was Teth-Adam who impressed one of the high priests, the wizard Shazam, with his good deeds. The priest granted Adam the powers of Shazam: the stamina of Shu, the swiftness of Heru (Horus), the strength of Amon, the wisdom of Zehuti, the power of Aton, and the courage of Mehen. Thus, Adam served as Egypt's champion for many years aiding his father in his conquests. But in 1204 BC, Adam became corrupted by the charms of Shazam's daughter Blaze. Blaze manipulated Adam into killing his father and appointing himself ruler. When Shazam learned of this treachery he stripped Adam of his powers but it was too late: Ozymandias was already dead, murdered by his very own son. Adam was buried alive in his father's monumental tomb. But he managed to free himself by destroying the tomb, turning into Khem-Adam - Black Adam - and desecrating one of the world's greatest constructions ever. At the time of his death, Ozymandias was 99 years old and he left behind numerous children and monuments as well as an empire which truly was blessed by the gods.


*Ozymandias (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozymandias) - Ozymandias, Tomb of Ozymandias
*The Mummy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The Mummy (1999 film)) - Imhotep, Anck-su-namun
*Book of Exodus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book of Exodus) - Moses, Exodus, Yocheved
*The Prince of Egypt (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The Prince of Egypt) - Moses, Exodus, Hotep, Huy
*DC Comics (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black Adam) - Teth-Adam, Black Adam, death of Ozymandias

Nicely done, but no mention of The Ten Commandments (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ten_Commandments_%281956_film%29)? Also, Ozymandias was the Greek name for Ramesses.

One other thing, I've never been quite comfortable with the way we've been treating the colonization of Mars. Have you heard of Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_trilogy)? It's a nice bit of hard-sci-fi which we could use to tie the colonization process together.

Also, Ozymandias was the Greek name for Ramesses.

I know, but the name Ramesses itself is actually Greek, too. Or at least Greek-ish. Ramesses real name was User-maat-re Setep-en-re. Easily memorable, right? ;)
But the Egyptians were kinda weird regardind the names of their pharaohs. Birth name, throne name, Horus name, Greek name,... well that way it's easy to merge historical and fictional pharaohs like I did with Mathayus a.k.a. the Scorpion King a.k.a. Menes a.k.a. Narmer.

One other thing, I've never been quite comfortable with the way we've been treating the colonization of Mars. Have you heard of Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_trilogy)? It's a nice bit of hard-sci-fi which we could use to tie the colonization process together.

I'm a bit in a hurry now so I only took a quick look, but it looks very nice. I'm even thinking about reading that novel. I'll get into it ASAP, but until then a quick question: Am I wrong or does this book only mentions the colonisation efforts of America and Russia? If so, we can let the novel's plot happen on the Eastern Hemisphere and still keep the Chinese Kwan Do and Wong family and place them on the Western Hemisphere as that one is controlled by the Wongs (that would be Yellow Mars then, I guess). Anyway, I'll look into it as soon as I get around.

PS: If there would be some kind of national wonder along the lines of a Mars Colony, I'd be able to flesh out all of this quite easily...What do you think?

I know, but the name Ramesses itself is actually Greek, too. Or at least Greek-ish. Ramesses real name was User-maat-re Setep-en-re. Easily memorable, right? ;)
But the Egyptians were kinda weird regardind the names of their pharaohs. Birth name, throne name, Horus name, Greek name,... well that way it's easy to merge historical and fictional pharaohs like I did with Mathayus a.k.a. the Scorpion King a.k.a. Menes a.k.a. Narmer.



Hm, didn't know that about pharaohs. All good then.



I'm a bit in a hurry now so I only took a quick look, but it looks very nice. I'm even thinking about reading that novel. I'll get into it ASAP, but until then a quick question: Am I wrong or does this book only mentions the colonisation efforts of America and Russia? If so, we can let the novel's plot happen on the Eastern Hemisphere and still keep the Chinese Kwan Do and Wong family and place them on the Western Hemisphere as that one is controlled by the Wongs (that would be Yellow Mars then, I guess). Anyway, I'll look into it as soon as I get around.

PS: If there would be some kind of national wonder along the lines of a Mars Colony, I'd be able to flesh out all of this quite easily...What do you think?

I'll put some thought into it. But please don't call the Chinese colonies Yellow Mars. It could be construed as really offensive.

Question: do you have a timeline that you're using to keep track of the history of the mod's world? That may help to keep continuity errors to a minimum. I volunteer to write one, if you don't have one already. I don't really have the time to write anything original, but I can help keep an archive of what's going on.

If you don't want a timeline, may I have permission to make one and post it on another site just for the fun of it? Think of it as advertising for your mod.

I'm definitively gonna rewrite the Celtic entry I wrote a while ago.

Question: do you have a timeline that you're using to keep track of the history of the mod's world? That may help to keep continuity errors to a minimum. I volunteer to write one, if you don't have one already. I don't really have the time to write anything original, but I can help keep an archive of what's going on.

If you don't want a timeline, may I have permission to make one and post it on another site just for the fun of it? Think of it as advertising for your mod.

That would be great! I'm too busy with schoolwork and my next LH's to write one myself, and I'm sure it would help us all, not just for continuity purposes but for encouraging new ideas for other aspects of the mod as well.

I believe that this entry is better than my last one,though I will want recommendations.

The Celts were a group of Indo-Europeans who held large claims to Europe when the Mediterranean was dry, they had no opposition to battle them. They would encounter the first of many nations who would try to eradicate them under the Hyborians led by Conan the Conquerer, they were enslaved and occupied for centuries until the Picts led by Bran Mak Morn invaded, the Celts, led by Cuchulainn, allied with the invading Picts and enjoyed a temporary victory until supernatural beings who would become the Sumerian gods and the God of Judaism, Christianity and Islam sent a flood down and destroyed the empires of the Earth (except for Atlantis).

While the Celts were almost completely eradicated by the floodwaters, they would come back and be led by men such as Brutus, who would share Greek knowledge with the Celts and Brennus, who would lead raids into the Greek Cities. They would encounter there third major enemy when the Atlanteans (recorded as the Firbolgs) invaded the British Isles and nearly killed Brutus, the Celts defeated the invading Atlanteans and would establish a society based around warfare. When Andraste, the Goddess of Victory blessed both Brutus and Brennus with magic, Brutus used his powers to make portkeys in common objects to help transportation and left behind scrolls when he died leaving a list of useful spells. Brennus made himself into an immortal and used his powers for villainy. Centuries later, Brennus would launch an invasion into the city of Rome and sacked it, however, Rome would have a long memory and invade the Celtic lands.

In 192 BC, Rome has taken over all of the Celts in Italy and was beginning to take over Southern France, Brennus, being a shrewd negotiator, went to Hannibal Barca and they formed an alliance against the young Roman Republic, the alliance lost the war and Carthage was destroyed. Thus, the Celts were the last target on Rome's plate to beat. Rome invaded Gaul (present day France) and during the war, Brennus was killed after centuries of living. The only place in France was a village where Asterix and Obelix, who would go to many countries, including Spain, Judea, India, Egypt and even Atlantis. Other resisting factions included the Iceni tribe led by Boadica and Fionn mac Cumhaill of the the Scottish Celts.

After the Roman empire collapsed, the Celtic lands were split between between barbaric tribes such as the Angles, Goths, Huns and Jutes. Part of Britian was led by the King Lear, who led Brutain where the Anglo-Saxons were not at. Dyfed would eventually be led by Pryderi, who was blessed with magical powers and built a school to teach the secrets of magic, however, his untimely death did not allow him to teach anything. When the French forces led by Charlemagne invaded Britain, they almost conquered the British Isles, however, they were stopped by the combined forces of Brutain and Math fad Mothonwyy's Gwyneddian forces. The British Isles were eventually divided into four countries,being Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England.

The English King Edward would later invade Scotland with his considerable armies. The Scottish resistance was led by William Wallace, they wore Belted Plaid and made constant raids against English forces and bases until William Wallace was captured after the Battle of Stirling and executed. Robert the Bruce would take command and free Scotland from England, he then gave power to Duncan, who ruled Scotland with care. Macbeth was visited by a trio of witches and he becomes the King of Scotland after killing Duncan. Macbeth ruled with an Iron Fist for ten years until Macduff killed him. Amadis de Gaula would wander Europe as a merchant and mapmaker and inspired Don Quixote as a child.

Magic had been a major factor in there power throughout history, when the Awakening of Magic came and turned a portion of Irish, Scots and Welsh into elves, they gained magical powers while druidic cults were started all around the British Isles. Magic enhanced terrorism was rampant in the British Isles and western France, the UK was forced to give Northern Ireland to Tir na nÓg(which was simply a renamed Ireland), which was presided over by Liam O'Connor while the Church of Ireland banned Catholicism in a doomed attempt to defeat any rebellion. They were mildly affected when WWIII hit on October 23,2077, though they were near collapse due to the infertility plague, nuclear strikes, religious unrest and terrorism. The Celtic culture would live on though despite Hyborians, Great Floods, Greeks, Atlanteans, Romans, French, British and the near collapse of the last major Celtic country.


Sources Used:

*Conan the Barbarian-Conan and the Hyborians
*Robert E. Howard pulp fiction stories-Bran Mak Morn
*Ulster Cycle-Cuchulainn
*Various Religions-Great Floods
*Celtic Mythology-Firbolgs and Andraste
*Harry Potter series-Portkeys and the school of magic
*Asterix
*King Lear-Lear,Brutaina and the French Invasion
*Mabinogion-Pryderi,Dyfed,Math fad Mothonwyy and Gwynedd
*Braveheart
*The Tragedy of Macbeth
*Amadis de Gaula-Amadis de Gaula
*Don Quixote-Don Quixote
*Shadowrun-Awakening of Magic,Tir na nÓg,magic terrorism and Liam O'Connor

That would be great! I'm too busy with schoolwork and my next LH's to write one myself, and I'm sure it would help us all, not just for continuity purposes but for encouraging new ideas for other aspects of the mod as well.

All right! Shall I start a new thread on this subforum for it, or should I keep it in this one?

Also, I was thinking I might add a few things of my own into the timeline that weren't in the pedias. I'll mark those entries with a * so you can choose whether to keep them in or not.

But please don't call the Chinese colonies Yellow Mars. It could be construed as really offensive.

You're right, my bad. If anybody from Asia has been reading this: Please don't take any offense. I wasn't aware of the possible interpretation of my words. :sad:

Hm, that made me get an idea: Do you know Firefly (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefly_%28TV_series%29)? I've never been really into it but from what I know it takes place in a universe that is split up between an alliance of the former USA, Europe and Russia and the descendants of modern day China. Perhaps this development originates from the UFAR (Asian) colonization program.

Do you have a timeline that you're using to keep track of the history of the mod's world? That may help to keep continuity errors to a minimum. I volunteer to write one, if you don't have one already. I don't really have the time to write anything original, but I can help keep an archive of what's going on.

Moogi, you simply are a genius! What a shame we didn't think of this earlier!
If you need any help just ask. I'll gladly help you with the timeline although I'll try to focus on the pedias for the next time. Anyway, I think a new thread would be great because the pedia thread has already grown quite long.

All right! Shall I start a new thread on this subforum for it, or should I keep it in this one?

Also, I was thinking I might add a few things of my own into the timeline that weren't in the pedias. I'll mark those entries with a * so you can choose whether to keep them in or not.

I think something like that deserves it's own thread.

One thing, a good rule of thumb is that events from fiction take place during the year they were published/released/whatever. Unless of course we say otherwise :)

Hm, that made me get an idea: Do you know Firefly (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefly_%28TV_series%29)? I've never been really into it but from what I know it takes place in a universe that is split up between an alliance of the former USA, Europe and Russia and the descendants of modern day China. Perhaps this development originates from the UFAR (Asian) colonization program.


Sure, I love Firefly. Joss Whedon is my anti-drug :D

Unfortunately, the events of the main story take place in the 26th century, so we can't use that part. I don't think the Sino-American Alliance would be formed until far into the future either (maybe a group of nationalists broke away from the internationalist United Federation of Planets sometime in the early 25th century and retreated to another solar system?)

But As much as I love Firefly, I doubt we can work it in.

The rest of the Buffyverse, however, definitely has a place here.

I have Version 1.1 of the Timeline up. Keep in mind that it only has material from the first page of this thread in it so far, because I had been typing it and researching on and off for about four hours by that point, and I was tired. Keep checking for further updates!

I've made a few minor additions to continuity. Feel free to veto them if you don't like them.

Also, we need a Transylvania/Dracula entry up soon. I have a sinister idea for a gra