kk. Iwill get started on it. Can you pm me some more nation names and general areas. Just throwaways to help take up space. because right now there are lots of blank patches. you have managed to occupy the east coast but have left most of the west coast and the center of the continent uninhabited. I have come up with a place called the burning planes. Previously the great plains and it is burning forever because of the violent storms lighting the planes.
I'm not sure that any place could conceivably burn that long. However, it could be a landmark from where a particularly bloody and brutal battle was fought, where the plains burned for a long time because of the bearers involved. And yeah, I intentionally left the west not so much uninhabited but open for other people to colonize.
Also Is Oberon the largest nation on the continent? Or just the most profitable?
Oberon is actually one of the smallest. It's the area of RI, CT, MA, the southern halves of VT and NH and a little bit of southern NY, though not Manhattan island. It's just as powerful as it is because of the trade that passes through it, using the Cape, Narragansett Bay and the Sound much like it did in the 1800s. It controls most of the shipping in the region, a naval power ala Napoleonic wars England. Thorgard is the northern halves of VT and NH, along with Maine, Fredericton and Nova Scottia. Galletia is most of NY state, along with bits of southeastern Quebec and eastern Ontario. The Manhattan Confederacy has all of Long Island, along with about a mile radius around New York City, though that range is a little less on the northern border due to the militant nature of it's northern neighbors.
The MRPA controls roughly 100-200 miles out on both sides of the Mississippi for most of it's length, but "control" loosely. It's a bit like the West during the gold rush in that there's a law, but it's sort of loosely the law because it's not policed very well, and people with a lot of money can generally do as they please. The US Government in Exile lays claim to most of northern Virginia, Maryland and some of Delaware, enough to border on Manhattan Confederacy land a little. The Three Crows control relatively little territory, all they lay claim to is their stockade and 20 acres of land, but most people within 15 or so miles around them on the Kentucky/North Carolina border (which is not technically part of any kingdom, remember that there
can be empty swathes of land, or at least where people don't really answer to a large ruling body or powerful bearer, like small democratic enclaves and farming communities) would defer to them. The Gloria Dei Abbey does the same kind of thing, except in southeastern Montana.
I've sort of envisioned the area from Kansas to the Rockies and then from that relative latitude north to be at the same time less stable and way more stable than the east coast. A lot of the warlords staked their claims roughly along state/county/etc lines because it was easier, and when the states and counties get bigger out west, well. So there are a lot of smaller farming communities that are sort of isolated and don't really answer to anyone, but there's also a lot of constantly warring powers that are constantly shifting where their lines are drawn because of constant power squabbles. So the smallfolk generally just pay their taxes to whoever is in charge at the time.
In the post I made, I mentioned a Mormon power bloc in Utah, and I'd give about the northern third or half of the state to that. I also mentioned a revived Lakota nation that has staked its claim in the southern Wyoming area. So that's there too. Basically, Fr. Fitzpatrick is a tiny little power with not much land to speak of, but he acts as a mediator between local powers and keeps things from shifting too much there, and prevents open war from breaking out. I've also mentioned a kingdom along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico whose primary export is oil and is probably also a thriving fishing community. It doesn't extend too far inland but probably stretches in a crescent from Houston to the Alabama state line, meaning it controls the Mississippi delta, preventing the MRPA from being a sea power as well.
On a different note:
New plot post. This is a big one. As in, like, the actual meat of the plot of the RPG starts here. It's our first fight and we're all without our artifacts. So yeah, that's a thing, but don't think it will become the norm, from now on we'll mostly be fighting with a lot more firepower. If you're outside of the gathering of warlords under the tent, I'm afraid you can't get in, or even really see what's happening, but I think most of us are in the tent, so enjoy the rather one-sided bloodbath, and remember that even if you're outside, people are still probably freaking out about a giant impermeable black force field suddenly appearing and then screaming starting from inside.
Also, feel free to add your own contributions into the trade summit, I left time gaps for that purpose.