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Message: <blockquote data-quote="psychognome" data-source="post: 560299" data-attributes="member: 828">I have been thinking of this for quite a while, but only quite recently (okay, okay, it was a few months ago, but I haven't really given it thought) I noticed something weird about the world of Warhammer with my friends: the map used in that world parallels our world!Let's take a few examples: the Old World is, of course, Europe. Right where we have Germany, there's a big old thing called the Empire of Man which is, oddly enough, quite Germanic in the naming conventions and all. A state of the Empire called Sylvania also catches my attention. It's in the eastern part of the empire, and it's ruled by vampire counts, and evil undead roam the dark woods. Vell, I alvays considered ze Eastern Europe a dark place, even viz ze vampires. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Where we'd have France in the real world we have Bretonnia, a place with knights in shining armor and quite a lot of Celtic flavor, like the Lady of the Lake. The people who live there actually have names like Giles L'Imbecile and stuff! The British Isles were absent from the map for quite a while, but then suddenly the island of Albion appeared, which is a misty, rainy, marshy place with lots of druids and giants living around, just the way I'd imagine Britain to be. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> The thing that irks me is that right where Finland and rest of the Nordic Countries are there is Norska, a place of Demon worshipping savages with longships, and right up north there are the Chaos wastes. Hey, we Scandinavians aren't that bad! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f621.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":mad:" title="Mad    :mad:"  data-smilie="4"data-shortname=":mad:" /> It goes on: right near the real world Arabic countries there's a place called Araby, where people deal with strange magic and Djinn and stuff. Even further East there's a country called Cathay, a place where monks study the perfect art of the body and who eat rice and have a Great Wall and who think of everyone living outside the wall as being "foreign demons".The Americas have a similar trend too: South America is full of rain forests, and is home to an ancient civilisation of lizardmen who are quite Aztec-like. Even their gods have that Tiki-tcha-whatnot sound to them!North America is quite interesting. Part of it is obviously a land ocalled Ulthuan, where the High Elves live, but the Northern parts, known as Nagarroth, are inhabited by Dark Elves... what have the people at Games Workshop got against Americans? Oh, yeah, they're Brittish...Have any of you ever tried to pull of a similar thing? I don't mean just borrowing real world cultures and religions, we all do that, but making blatant geographic similarities with the real world and then spicing it up with a little bit of magical stuff! I've been considering doing the very same thing for my next campaign, and so far I'm happy with what I've been able to come up with...Comments? Flames? Tomatoes?</blockquote>

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