Taking inspiration from Arknights who heavily takes inspiration from existing cultures and nations from history. The Continental Island Terra does the same.
Locations and themes
Towns and Cities
Copper Town Malachite
- Early British Industrial Revolution
- Copper roofed buildings
- Powerful private company Malachite forges
- German/French Engineering
- Precision over production
- Dwarves Union, Worker union -Welsh/Yorkshire coal country
Chrysalis City
- United States
- Settler city, research and governance hub.
- Upcoming Election, factional lobbying.
- Institutional power and public health.
- Architectural styles from older settlements
- Canada
- Aspiration of cooperation - Highlands and the Goliath tribes
Rural Town Morain
- Scandinavian inspiration
- Highland tribe - indigenous Sámi analog
- Defines itself by what it grows, not what it builds - Pre-industrial scandinavian farm culture.
Wien City
- Holy Roman Empire, HRE
- Meritocratic succession system.
- Art and focus
- HRE was decentralized
- German
- Romantic-era - Tension between civilization and wild nature
Regions
Highland Plateu / Goliath Tribes
- Highland Scots - Clan structure, terrain based tribal identity
- Sámi/Mongolian steppe traditions for nomadic goliaths.
The Underdark beneath Terra
- Expedition culture
- Ottoman Empire
- Exploration and carthography
- Byzantine court complexity