It's funny how interesting ideas come out of the completely mundane and normal. My latest developement in the building of my novel actually comes out of reading the current issue of Game Informer. In the latest issue there's a beautiful article discussing what the makers of video games have to go through when they are building their video game universes. It discussed the large backlog of story and information that the companies create in order to be able to tell a coherent story. The one thing they discussed was the Elder Scrolls series and how every tiny thing in the series has over 80 pages worth of documentations surrounding the history it. This basically got me thinking more on my own work, my fictional universe and how everything in it ties together and how alot of my problems with developing it is because I really don't have that much involved in its history.

As some of you know I have two correlating universes that, in certain points, have intertwined together. One universe is our own. Outside of very small things its histories more or less mirror the literal histories we have experienced. On the other side of that is the entirely fictional alternate world I've created called Daelin. For the most part my basic premise is that it's a place where mythological creatures of the majority of Earth's cultures actually live- thus giving reason as to why we barely ever see them in our world. In various points there are portals to entering the world of Daelin. As far as the history of this place is concerned it really only stretches as far back as is needed on the project that I'm working on is concerned. I kind of make up the geography on the fly and, as i've noticed a time or two, this contradicts things i've written in other tales. I've had character heading itno mountains in the north where, in another story, there had been farms and small towns.

Its all things i've said 'well, i guess ill figure that out later, let me finish this paragraph..." and never do. Well I need to do that at some point. that some point is this weekend.

Now we come to the title of this fun and boring article. Later int he Game Informer there was a review for a Nintendo DS game called Nostalgia. The basic premise of the game is that it's 19th century London and the world is a strange mic of industrial revolution and magical powers (i believe this is referred to in some places as Steam Punk, though I may be mistaken). For some reason this got me thinking of how different things could have been if the world had taken different courses. This led me into thinking two things: what if the Nazis still held control in Europe. It also got me thinking about Pangaea.

Hopefully I don't need to discuss the Nazis with you. Now Pangaea is a bit more obscure knowledge. In the world of Geology the Idea of Pangaea is that the worl'ds continents, as they are today, is the effect of seismic shifting of the continental plates in the Eaths surface. Somewhere a few billion years ago the continents were part of a massive landmass called Pangaea. It is this mega landmass that is where this alternate world will take place. Here is an outline of what the Pangaea is theorized to have been about.
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Now I'm not naming this whole thing Daelin. No. What this new land mass (in my universe) will be called I don't know. But you see that part where it is outlines and stamped 'North America'? That's now called Daelin. Each of the other continental outlines will also be renamed as different countries and kingdoms. the other pieces of the Pangaea map will be smaller countries, provinces, protectorates or towns.

now to create the history!