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PTTG · 09-14-2017, 12:42 AM

Lemuralantis Lemuria (in the Pacific) and Atlantis (in the Atlantic) appeared sometime around 500 CE. They are sworn foes due to an ancient royal enmity. each a unified and fertile continent-state.

Atlantis is TL3+2 (Crystal-based psionics). Lemuria is TL3+2 (Weird Science Alchemy). They both have difficulty projecting their power, and so they've begun a colonial campaign to provide staging areas and servants in their great feud, and proxy wars are already brewing.

It's not clear where they were before. Are they dimension-hopping civilizations, intentional or not?

Neptune is a series of worldlines inhabited by Homo Hydoquæsedes, a gilled amphibious near-human species sometimes called merfolk. They can survive out of water for not much more than a day, and that in extremes. One in good health can stand an hour or two, though. Where they don't use magic, they use their own form of technology based on worked undersea materials (such as shells). When they need fire, they either go on beaches or occasionally build floating, stone-lined fire ports. Later civilizations use solar concentrators. They use thrown javlins on land, and generally disregard ranged undersea weapons in general (not that there are many low-tech options). They do have a library of technologies that take advantage of the pressure, chemistry, and temperatures of their homes that are apparently mundane, just never occurred to surface-dwelling humans.

Neptune-1 is less outlandish than some; it is a high-mana world with human mages that created or cursed several populations into the sea-dwelling variants. It has a complicated history that doesn't resemble Earth's.

Neptune-2 looks quite odd. The land masses are vast, windswept flats that resemble, in arrangement, Earth's oceans. The seas are small but rich, and home to merfolk. Their history is now alarmingly similar to Homeline-normal 1920*. With this and the U.S. of Lizardia worldline, Homeline cliodynamicists are starting to think there's a god with a sick sense of humor out there just toying with them.

Neptune-3 was an echo until 1449*, when a banestorm swept an entire merfolk city into the Mediterranean, near the pillars of Hercules, complete with a large army prepared for war. They immediately claimed that entire sea as their new nation, and have the TL-0+4 (Undersea Adaptations) might to back it up. Do not cross their waters without paying the toll.... The current date is 1475*.

Neptune-4, current astronomical date 1320. Homo Sapiens lives in scattered inland communities. The glorious civilizations of the merfolk raid them periodically. This is the origin of the Neptune-3 city; its sudden disappearance with the near-entirety of the armed forces led to the fall of the Mediterranian to an Atlantic coalition. TL-0+4 (Undersea Adaptations).

*Adjust to historical taste.

09-14-2017, 12:42 AM	#478
PTTG Join Date: Feb 2011	Re: Catalog of the Weird Parallels Lemuralantis Lemuria (in the Pacific) and Atlantis (in the Atlantic) appeared sometime around 500 CE. They are sworn foes due to an ancient royal enmity. each a unified and fertile continent-state. Atlantis is TL3+2 (Crystal-based psionics). Lemuria is TL3+2 (Weird Science Alchemy). They both have difficulty projecting their power, and so they've begun a colonial campaign to provide staging areas and servants in their great feud, and proxy wars are already brewing. It's not clear where they were before. Are they dimension-hopping civilizations, intentional or not? Neptune is a series of worldlines inhabited by Homo Hydoquæsedes, a gilled amphibious near-human species sometimes called merfolk. They can survive out of water for not much more than a day, and that in extremes. One in good health can stand an hour or two, though. Where they don't use magic, they use their own form of technology based on worked undersea materials (such as shells). When they need fire, they either go on beaches or occasionally build floating, stone-lined fire ports. Later civilizations use solar concentrators. They use thrown javlins on land, and generally disregard ranged undersea weapons in general (not that there are many low-tech options). They do have a library of technologies that take advantage of the pressure, chemistry, and temperatures of their homes that are apparently mundane, just never occurred to surface-dwelling humans. Neptune-1 is less outlandish than some; it is a high-mana world with human mages that created or cursed several populations into the sea-dwelling variants. It has a complicated history that doesn't resemble Earth's. Neptune-2 looks quite odd. The land masses are vast, windswept flats that resemble, in arrangement, Earth's oceans. The seas are small but rich, and home to merfolk. Their history is now alarmingly similar to Homeline-normal 1920. With this and the U.S. of Lizardia worldline, Homeline cliodynamicists are starting to think there's a god with a sick sense of humor out there just toying with them. Neptune-3* was an echo until 1449, when a banestorm swept an entire merfolk city into the Mediterranean, near the pillars of Hercules, complete with a large army prepared for war. They immediately claimed that entire sea as their new nation, and have the TL-0+4 (Undersea Adaptations) might to back it up. Do not cross their waters without paying the toll.... The current date is 1475. Neptune-4, current astronomical date 1320. Homo Sapiens lives in scattered inland communities. The glorious civilizations of the merfolk raid them periodically. This is the origin of the Neptune-3 city; its sudden disappearance with the near-entirety of the armed forces led to the fall of the Mediterranian to an Atlantic coalition. TL-0+4 (Undersea Adaptations). *Adjust to historical taste.