Lore: In 1363 an event of seeming insignificant occurred. A sheep stealing bandit received two arrow wound. One to the spine and a second to the heart. He died shortly afterwards. Little could anyone have predicted that the death of this bandit would prevent the deaths of millions.

Short rundown of major events in a world without the last of the mighty Inner Asian conquerors.

In the 1360s to 1380s Ilyas Khoja of Mogulistan son of Tughlugh Timur would continue is father's efforts of reconquering the western half of the Chagatai Ulus after the west had fallen into anarchy. In addition he would expand the borders of the Ulus to include Khorasan and portions of central Iran. The Chagatai Ulus would continue to experience chronic instability. However, the rule of the Chagataids themselves would neve wane inside the state again the way it had in the mid 14th century.

In 1403 the great city of Constantinople would fall to Bayezid the Thunderbolt which would initiate a golden century and a half for the Ottoman state. The Ottomans without the destruction of Tamerlane would expand both east and west. Conquering Vienna and Baghdad in the same year of 1456. Conquering Italy in the 1470s-1480s even taking the red apple of Rome itself. The Pope himself would flee Rome eventually to end up in the city of Orléans. The King of the French would be killed attempting to push Ottomans out of Italy leaving the Kingdom of France embroiled in a chaotic civil war which would eventually to the coming to power of the greatest enemies of the house of Osman: the house of Valios-Burgundy. In the 1460s to 1490s the Ottomans would conquer the Mamluk Sultanate along with the rest of North Africa, and in the same time period they would expand into western Iran and the Caucuses . In the 1500s to 1510s the Ottomans would suffer one of their few blemishes in their golden century. Tartars under the leadership of the Shaybanids would crash into Ottoman possessions in the Caucuses restoring Chinggisid rule over the old Ilkhanate capital of Tabriz. From 1515 onwards the Ottomans would set their sights on the Iberian peninsula in the while they would eventually bring down the Kingdom of Spain and Portugal to defeat they would not be able to conquer the whole of the peninsular due to Franco-Burgundian intervention.

In 1512 a Portuguese trading vessel would be blown off course into the Atlantic, and they would make a discovery of unparalleled importance. The discover of an entirely new world. Further exploration missions would be launched. However, resources could not be diverted to exploit the new discovers from the Iberian Kingdom due to their need to defend from the Ottomans. The news of the discovery would become widespread. Beginning in the 1530s the first attempts to capitalize on the discovery of a new world would be commenced by both the Ottomans and the Franco-Burgundians.

This is a 6000km wide oceanic region, where every small label is an atoll and every big one is a country. The asterisks are capitals of countries, and the circles will be raditating out. Darkest dot: within 173km. 2nd darkest: within 416km. 3rd darkest: within 753km. 4th darkest: within 1,015km. 5th darkest: within 1,553km. 6th darkest: within 2,260km. Lightest: within 2,997km. Blue: within 6000km.

What if Earth was lacustrine ? Our planet is a marine temperate world fill with large oceans and large continents. But what would the planet looks like if there were way less liquid water on the surface of the globe ?

If the sea level would drop to barely 5 kilometers bellow it's current level, our full linked oceans wouldn't exists anymore and the earth would be cover by giant deep lakes and large arid deserts the size of a continent, life would be only possible near the lakes and mostly on the equatorial range.

Most of the smaller lakes that we could find in the desert would be extremly salty and the rare amont of life that we could encounter would be around tiny oasis and would be essentially composed by vegetation that evolves to be acclimated to such arid places by searching water deep bellow the surface.

Oceans currents wouldn't exists anymore, tsunamis and hurricanes are barely a thing in this world.... anyway, because of the gravitational influence of the moon and the season cycle, even in the widely habitable areas, life would have to face intense tides and droughts, making Lacustrine Earth a way less habitable world than the one we have.

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World types in the upper right are based on SpaceEngine classification of planets

The map is made with Paint net and based on the climate calculations of the website labelled on the image

Data: OpenStreetMap (buildings, roads, tracks), Terrarium elevation (AWS Open Data), the city of Brno's aerial photo from March 2026 (roof colours), live vehicle positions from the regional transit operator (KORDIS), plus city open data layers (traffic accidents, roadworks, fire brigade call-outs).
Tools: a custom renderer in Node.js. The map is served as tiles and the live layers are drawn in the browser.
Interactive: https://brno2000.cz/?ref=reddit-dib

How could It happen: president Thomas Jefferson acept the offer of napoleon and Buy Louisiana for 15 Million Dollars

1803: U.S Buy Louisiana

1804: Due to the french influence in the area, the territory of Louisiana becomes the "Quebec" of the u.s

1805-1807: Expeditions are done in the territory

1812: Still Happens for the same reasons and Still ends in an strategic stalemate

1819: U.S Anexed Florida Under The Adam-Onís Treaty

1846 - 1849: The U.S sent's military help to the Texas revolution, Resulting on Mexico and the U.S going to war, and due to having an bigger military the u.s wins

1861: After the end of slavery, Florida, West Florida, Louisiana, Texas, Mississipi, Alabama, Georgia, Carolina, Arkansas, Tennesse and Virgínia Forms The Confederation Of America, Starting The America Civil War, But Western parts of Texas remain loyal, forming the "Western Texas Rebelion"

1865: The War ends whit the victory of the union, due to Western Texas remaining loyal, the State of "West Texas" And the State of "Llano" are created

I Guess From Here the rest stay the same, spanish american war, u.s neutral in ww1 and 2, great depression, march on washington blah blah blah

This is a riff on Miklós Horthy’s shenanigans during WW2 and Queen Elizabeth II having received the title of “Admiral in the Great Navy of the State of Nebraska” (Nebraska’s highest civic honor) seriously, look it up

LORE:
(Events leading up to the start of WW2)

Amidst rising tensions in Europe, Her majesty Elizabeth II is ousted from the throne upon being exposed of supporting her uncle, Edward VIII, a Nazi sympathizer. As a result, the two are to be exiled to the Bahamas for the remainder of the coming war due to concerns of espionage, however, upon arrival they are successfully smuggled into the United States as part of a Fascist plot by members of a contingent of the US government. In an attempt to regain some semblance of her former glory, she accepts a task given to her by a coalition of state consolidationists and, uhmm.. let me see if i’m reading this right… “Nebraskan Nationalists”… huh…

(feel free to continue the lore)

Although this historical situation never occurred in our world, it is diverting to think about what might have allowed it to happen. The most plausible scenario I can think of is history diverting from our timeline in the first century B.C., with a smashing Roman victory over the Parthians, who are driven back to their homelands. Then, emulating Alexander, the Empire might have extended east, conquering Babylonia, Media, and Parthia. If the Empire became bogged down in holding those areas it may never have established firm rule over Gaul and Britain (or the interior of Asia Minor), being a much more Mediterranean- and Eastern-focussed Empire. And perhaps the Empire may have emerged from the crisis of the third century (or something analogous) with a much looser political structure, still centred on Rome, but with a dozen or so kingdoms owing allegiance and tribute but otherwise autonomous. In this milieu, it is conceivable that north-western Europe, occasionally ruled by Rome but never entirely subdued, could have developed larger states much earlier than in our timeline, and also accelerated Viking settlement, from northern Scotland to Iceland. But really it is pretty hard to believe Geoffrey's clash of Empires even as alternate history.

🌏 UNITED ASIA — STRONGER TOGETHER

One continent. One union. One future.

From the Himalayas to the Pacific, from the deserts of the West to the islands of the East, we stand as one.

Different nations. Different cultures. Different languages. But one shared destiny.

Our strength lies in our unity. Our pride lies in our diversity. Our future belongs to all of us.

Today, we stand not as separate nations, but as one united force.

ONE CONTINENT • ONE UNION • ONE FUTURE

🟡 PEACE • PROSPERITY • PROGRESS

Ysacyithaia is one of the oldest surviving states in my fantasy world, Elyden, founded in 2804 RM when rival Siirvani clans came together under the Accord of Aachacars. Rather than being forged through conquest, the kingdom was built around compromise, shared law and a rejection of hereditary monarchy.

Today, Ysacyithaia is a land of broad pastures, cattle ranches, ancient forests, market towns and rugged frontiers. Its wealth comes largely from ranching, forestry, cinnabar mining and trade routes connecting the Inner Sea with the Ishmmarran interior.

But the kingdom has a rather more unusual problem on its eastern frontier: the Stone Whirlpool, an enormous and mysterious phenomenon whose presence has shaped Ysacyithaian history for centuries. The frontier is guarded by the Gerasene Legion and the Order of the Steel Spear, but the greatest threats to Ysacyithaia aren't necessarily other nations.

This is the latest map of Ysacyithaia, showing its major regions, cities, roads and geographical features.

I've been building Elyden for over 2-years as a single interconnected fantasy world, with its own history, cultures, religions and geography.

I'm happy to answer questions about Ysacyithaia or anything else on the map!

Basically in the colonial days the European powers partitioned the Indian subcontinent based on their personal desires.

A conference was held in Rome to discuss this matter.

Spain didn't get anything cuz they respect Tordesillas.

Also the text is a bit weird... That's a mistake on my behalf, call it a cool text style or smth.

After (more or less peacefully) uniting into Scandinavia and a big population boom, the Northern Countries have a larger population than Poland, enabling them to colonize much of the world and turning the Baltic Sea into a Scandinavian lake.