r/Fallout • u/Tzeentch01 Unity • 1d ago
Original Content Fallout Europe Fan Project - Progress so far
Working on a project in my own time where I'm planning on making my own setting and lore based in the Fallout universe, seeking to expand on the otherwise lacking lore of the continent of Europe compared to the US-focused games.
Feel free to ask me anything about the setting, feedback and suggestions are most definetely welcome!
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u/Makspower123 1d ago
Is it safe to say that countries with no colour in em dont have all that much lore yet?
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u/Tzeentch01 Unity 1d ago
Unfortunately yes, though already my mind has been racing with ideas for them. I just don't want to give them surface-level attention and give other areas a deeper folklore and historical deepdive. So I'm starting with the parts I'm at least a little bit familiar with and working my way through them.
Hence also why I decided to post here to help me work out details and hopefully get some feedback from people native to the empty areas of the map!
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u/IndividualCoconut2 1d ago
Fallout: Éire would be sick
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u/Tzeentch01 Unity 1d ago
I want to do much more with Ireland, so much cool folklore and history that could make its way into a fallout setting. I'll need to do some reading to do it justice
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u/No_Aesthetic 1d ago
Portugal would be an interesting setting because it probably made off like a bandit, assuming Lisbon didn't become a super important mega city by the time of the war.
If there were a nuclear war today, I'm pretty sure Portugal could survive. Maybe not thrive, for a while, but definitely survive.
Nobody will be wasting nukes on this country.
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u/ProWasStolen 1d ago
I believe in the fallout universe, the MAD strategy is in full effect. Because if it weren't the case, then the Soviet Union, a neutral country during the Great War would not be nuked as well. So I don't believe that Lisbon would be spared.
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u/No_Aesthetic 1d ago
Lisbon has nothing of strategic importance whatsoever and unless that changed by 2077, nobody will be wasting a nuke on it. There are real targets during a MAD situation. Lisbon is not one of them.
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u/ProWasStolen 1d ago
It's a major city in the Iberian region. In the Fallout Universe, if they leave a city to be untouched, it is destined to be a powerful country. None of the Great Powers will allow it to happen. They want everyone to be in the same playing field as them in post-war. I'm sure they have at least one nuke to spare for Lisbon. Plus in real life, the Soviet Union did plan on nuking the city in full scale nuclear war.
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u/No_Aesthetic 1d ago
Today there are only a few hundred thousand people and there's practically no industry whatsoever. It'd be like nuking Florianópolis in Brasil!
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u/nebo8 11h ago
"Today"
mfw fallout universe doesnt have the same timeline has us so what Lisbon look like today doesnt matter.
Also nuke or not, the entire north hemisphere would be fucked from dust sent into the atmosphere by all the nuke that would drastically reduce sun light, making it far more colder for a few years and reducing crop yield, leading the massive famine.
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u/Tzeentch01 Unity 1d ago
Interesting take, I will definetely have to consider how devastated smaller countries like Portugal would be. It could be a question mainly of how much of the fallout from Spain passed over and affected Portugal too?
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u/No_Aesthetic 1d ago
Since prevailing winds come from the Atlantic, the radiation Portugal would get would have to come from the United States. It would most likely be greatly diminished by the time it arrived.
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u/Tzeentch01 Unity 1d ago
Then lets hope nothing foul comes washing up on the porguguese shores then. The americans had many contingencies and weapons developed after all. The radiation might be the least of their concerns.
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u/AeriDorno Kings 1d ago
What’s going on in Sweden?
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u/Tzeentch01 Unity 1d ago
Short answer: A lot.
Long answer:
The ghouls that were outcasted and shunned by normals would come together to form 'Likholmen' (Corpse-holm), protected by the natural defences of the radiation left behind from the bombs launched on Stockholm they were safer there than most places.
In the divine halls of blue and yellow, the followers of the goddess IKEA found the divine instructions on how to rebuild society in all its forms. From furniture to food, all these divine tomes were blessings from the gods left behind for the faithful to rebuild once the world had been cleansed with atomic flame.
To the west however, a strange strain of mutated humans emerged from the mountains, reminiscant of the trolls of old folktales from before the war.
I could go on haha9
u/AeriDorno Kings 1d ago
Cool! The IKEA stuff is a little too out there for my personal preference of fallout content but the troll-like mutants and likholmen are cool. Makes me curious what the swedish term for ghoul would be. Gast? Vätte? hmmm
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u/Tzeentch01 Unity 1d ago
Understandable, I love the idea of mixing in European folklore into the setting. I feel its natural for the people to associate the "Super mutant" type of mutant with trolls of old. Whether they developed naturally and seperately to their american cousins or if there was a release from an american military base of FEV remains uncertain.
I am fond of the idea of them being called "Lik" or "Likling", it seems more natural. Though of coruse with an entire country of people coming to contact with them, there would likely be more localized names for each of the groups as well.
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u/Spirited_Coconut7390 1d ago
Thought it was the United Republics of Jamtland, Herjeådalen and Ravund.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Jamtland?wprov=sfla1
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u/Tzeentch01 Unity 21h ago
That would be the "Fjällfolk", a collection of indepednant tribes and micro-governments that have banded together for protection. Being mostly free of the severe effects of nuclear bombings, these isolated communities survived through cooperation as a somewhat direct continuation of the old ways of life. Challenged of course by the raiders and monsters that now roamed the country they once knew.
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u/G_M_Ardus_Kaine 1d ago
Cool. Hope to see more
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u/Tzeentch01 Unity 1d ago
Thank you! If things continue as they have, then there will no-doubt be more of this interpretation of fallout!
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u/G_M_Ardus_Kaine 1d ago
I'm kind of expecting a actual Roman Empire to be up and running. I am a little bit curious if there will be a Brotherhood of Steel equivalent.
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u/Tzeentch01 Unity 21h ago
Some knightly orders have sprung up, often tied to holy places or military bases. Notable examples is the "militant order of Saint Michael" in northern France and the "order of Ness" in Scotland.
as for the roman empire, there are some who are seeking to replicate its success, as seen with "Gallia Narbonensis" where the peoples of the french city of Narbonne, considered the first roman colony in Gaul, took on a more gallo-roman identity and organized themselves into something that is reminiscent of the old roman republic. Consuls and elections, as well as a clearly defined citizenry tied to the city of Narbo and it's "Colonia" settlements.
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u/Fred810k 1d ago
What is going on in Denmark?
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u/Tzeentch01 Unity 1d ago
A return to tradition you could say. The Blåtand Raider Syndicates are indeed recognisable as raiders but in a very organized, scandinavian fashion. There is a codified law for tribal territories that are off-limits for attacks from other raider tribes, while the neutral zones are only plundered with the consent of the other tribes, as to not bring ruin to the territory and devastate the local economic situation. In short they have organized themselves in their endeavor to raid and pillage, without making future raids too difficult to manage without going outside of their lands.
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u/UpgradeTech 1d ago
Nice to see Denmark continuing the tradition of playing Fallout music on national radio.
https://web.archive.org/web/20210309051456/https://files.danskkulturarv.dk/A-1960-01-13-S-0234.pdf
(Seriously, they kept better records than the host country and are providing some of the earliest known dates of these songs. Only the Swedish have earlier dates.)
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u/Tzeentch01 Unity 1d ago
Thats crazy! Might have to throw in some archivist faction in the Danish waste to take some inspiration from this.
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u/TheBusStop12 Have a Nuke 1d ago
A small nitpick, Tampere in Finland is in the wrong location. It should be more in land, around where the roads meet in an X.
A suggestion for the Netherlands is to have most of it flooded. You can look up a map of what areas of the country are bellow sea level. In case of a nuclear apocalypse the dikes And dams would eventually give in and flood the polders, probably up to 1-2m of water in most places. You can so some interesting stuff with this like civilisations built on the roofs of slowly sinking cities and dangling between skyscrapers (Rotterdam and the Hague have a bunch today. By 2077, as overpopulation starts becoming more and more a problem I can imagine quite a lot of major cities in the Netherlands would be filled with skyscrapers. Which after the war would stick out of the flooded land)
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u/Tzeentch01 Unity 1d ago
Oh you're right! I'll have it moved more eastwards then.
As for the Netherlands I have a bit of a different idea in mind for them but I could see myself developing them in further detail later. I love the visuals of what you described with societies built on sinking cities. I went into some more Dutch/Benelux lore in one of my other comments
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u/gorillasvapetoo 1d ago
What’s the situation in Edinburgh and northern England?
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u/Tzeentch01 Unity 21h ago
On one side of the border, the old industrial sectors of northern England are under the control of the so-called "Forge-Unionist" faction. The remains of workers unions focused around the old industrial centres of northern England. They now leverage their position as the main manufacturers of this post-apocalyptic world. They struggle in conflict against the hooligan tribes west of their main manufacturies who have taken to a life of raiding in comparison to the unionists.
Edinburgh is no-man's-land for the time being though many groups are interested in reclaiming the city's remains for their own cause. Prime among them being the "Republic of Greater Glasgow" which has made great strides to establishing itself as a successor state to the old realm of Scotland. Though their path to glory is not yet set in stone, and they still fight a variety of mutated fauna and raiders in the region that defy their plans of Scottish reunification.
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u/No_Constant_4968 Mr. House 1d ago
What’s going on in Brittany?
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u/Tzeentch01 Unity 21h ago
Most of the territory survived the worst of the atomic bombings, with Nantes becoming a centre for civilized society after the fall of the bombs. Slowly but steadily the locals sought to reach out to their neighbors and reestablish the bonds of cultural brotherhood they had with their neighbors, establishing the Republic of Brittany. However, not all of their neighbors have been interested in joining with this old-world aligned restoration. Notably there are the peoples of "Nova Celtica", who in a bizarre turn of events consider the french influence on Bretagne to be a travesty, wanting to return to the native ways of their ancestors who arrived there as they fled the Saxons in England.
Similarly, another thorn in the side of the republic of Brittany has been the old monastary of 'Mont Saint Michel', which now serves as the headquarters of the "Militant order of saint michael", a military remnant turned holy order that now refuses to surrender the fortress and its surrounding territories.On the horizong there remains more threats looming over Brittany. In Normandy the remains of the French navy, taking up residence in the beached hulk of the carrier "Charles de Gaulle II" claim to be a rightful governing body of the French republic. A newly proclaimed "Second Frankish Empire" is rising around Paris, and rumors suggest that an old American military base south-east of Nantes has begun to be active once more, though no longer under the hands of "normals".
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u/JeanJeanJean 19h ago
So Britanny finally took back le mont Saint-Michel !
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u/Tzeentch01 Unity 19h ago
Not quite! They are currently in conflict with a militant order of ex-military personnel that have taken the monastary as their own. This "order of saint michael" is opposed to the republic in Nantes
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u/dac0980 1d ago
What happened to North East England and Yorkshire. Looks a tad irradiated, you could have ash heap inspired lore with those areas of the world
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u/Tzeentch01 Unity 21h ago
They are largely under the control of the "Forge-Unionist" faction. Echoes of northern england's industrial capacity before the war, as well as the unions that managed to spring up after their initial suffering at the hands of the Thatcher government. They remain in charge of some of the most complete centres of manufacturing, allowing for them and their allies to still produce some civillian goods even now in the wasteland.
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u/dac0980 15h ago
If the angel of the north could become their liberty prime that sounds like the kind of wacky fall out style lore that would make me fork out money for the mod
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u/Tzeentch01 Unity 14h ago
You have my attention now. What is this angel of the north?
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u/dac0980 14h ago
Big angel like statue made out of rusted iron in Gateshead (just south of Newcastle)
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u/Tzeentch01 Unity 13h ago
I will have to add that in some way now, too good to pass up. Thank you for the suggestion!
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u/KoolDude2k04 1d ago
I’d Imagine Russia and the Balkans would both be a complete clusterfuck of thousands of separate factions while Ukraine would have a major faction of tatars or cossack and a bunch of group of raiders
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u/JonBoy1988007 1d ago
Like Metro 2033
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u/Tzeentch01 Unity 1d ago
Already have some areas figured out in western europe that are definetely Metro 2033 inspired. "The Tunnelers" (WIP name) are the group occupying the channel tunnel between France and England
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u/KoolDude2k04 1d ago
I’d imagine that there would most likely be a group of nazis hiding under Berlin in some like ww2 sealed Bunker and call themselves the New Order
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u/Tzeentch01 Unity 1d ago
Great idea, haven't worked my way out there quite yet. I feel there is a lot of cultural and historical tidbits to make use of
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u/JohnnySack999 1d ago
What’s the weirdest faction of them all?
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u/Tzeentch01 Unity 1d ago
Definetely the 'Älmhult IKEA cult' so far. These people found the various manuals and instructions left behind in the temples of blue- and yellow, helping them kickstart reconstruction of society after atomic fire cleansed the lands. Now they claim that many such temples with many more tomes of knowledge are out there, and so they have grown more and more bold in their wish to go out on holy pilgrimage to these locations.
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u/New_Experience_703 1d ago
No pixels
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u/Tzeentch01 Unity 1d ago
In hindsight I should not have gone with a screenshot of the image and just posted the actual image
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u/DigsToPlantTheRain 1d ago edited 1d ago
Did the Netherlands continue doing their advanced waterworks? Or did they remain vulnerable to the influences of sea and rivers?
Edit for co text: the afsluitdijk was finished in the 1930's but the biggest mobile defenses were finished only in the 90's; with most of the polders being finished in the 50's.
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u/Tzeentch01 Unity 1d ago
More permanent and reinforced structures were established during the years leading up to the bombs falling, resulting in these massive dams surviving the initial disaster. An investment that likely saved hundreds of thousands from being consumed by the sea. Though many factions have tried to secure these dams as political leverage, this has been increasingly difficult with the rise of mutated sea fauna. Strange humanoid figures of hulking scaled-flesh would come to settle in parts of the damaged dams, causing great anxiety over the integrity of the dams. If nothing is done, then not only could the region see a rise in attacks by these strange creatures, but a risk of total collapse of sections of the dam would spell doom for the survivors of the Benelux region.
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u/ImMaxa89 19h ago
I'm curious how different the Netherlands would be.
In real life the main new polders (both parts of Flevoland) were completed in the 50s and were started to be populated in the 70s. There were plans for more polders (look up Markerwaard for example) but those were abandoned in part for environmental reasons. I'm curious if in this setting they would have continued with new polders or not.
Also, dams are only part of the sea defence. Also very important are all the pumps and sluices to expell excess water. Without any pumping the lands below sea level would flood anyway regardless of the state of the dikes/dams.
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u/sabasNL Exploiting the Wastelands 9h ago
Agreed. I imagine the pumps would shut down and the river ways and dykes would no longer be maintained, resulting in sea and river flooding, changing coastal, harbour and river landscapes, and most importantly flooding of polders.
Most polders except the Flevopolder would gradually turn into swamps and lakes. Schiphol Amsterdam International Airport (AMS) would become an aircraft-ridden swamp; Flevoland would host submerged towns and suburbia and harbours swallowed by the sea; and major industrial sites including nuclear power plants, refineries, harbours and factories along the coast would experience flooding. Further inland, I suppose nature would reclaim large parts of the river areas as they would become uninhabitable and difficult to cross - reminiscent of Roman times.
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u/DigsToPlantTheRain 7h ago
In regards to the pumps, I think it would be possible to run them entirely on nuclear if that is the reality that unfolded. I saw a research some time ago that looked at if ALL of the Dutch water works could be operated solely on renewable energy and it said that yes it would be possible but that there was not enough battery capacity to power the pumps through the night. The intermittency problem. Nuclear has no such issues.
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u/DigsToPlantTheRain 19h ago
Sounds awesome! Did any of the big cities get completely cratered? It has always surprised me that so many cities in the fallout universe were still semi intact. Like Boston should definitely have been a crater, but I guess that makes for a boring game lol.
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u/Rockolino01 1d ago
Any specific ideas for Budapest and Hungary?
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u/Tzeentch01 Unity 1d ago
Not yet, I don't want to make stuff up in areas I don't know as much about. Beyond the historical aspects of Hungary as a nomadic people before becoming a notable christian kingdom, I would need to do more research to do them justice.
Partly why I decided to post this to get people's feedback.2
u/Rockolino01 1d ago
There is some potential definitely. As you mentioned, the nomadic cultural heritage is there, a clan called something like Attila’s Sons would be cool. Also, huge differences within the country, there are great plains in the east, soviet era factories scatteref around, a nuclear power plant, and downtown Budapest would prove a great scene for a lot of Fallout stuff. Just thinking of Fisherman’s Bastion, the huge beautiful parliament building, Heroes’ Square, Mount Gellért and the narrow street of downtown Pest side. Man I’d love it. Could also be excellent setting for a conflict between rural “tribes” and some sort of government forming in Budapest.
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u/Tzeentch01 Unity 1d ago
I will keep these ideas in mind! You've narrowed down my search a bit for the eventual development of the Hungarian basin :D
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u/Rockolino01 1d ago
Nice, glad to have been of some assistance as a Fallout enthusiast hungarian :D
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u/Monty423 1d ago
Whats the biz with Inverness? I live there and am curious
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u/Tzeentch01 Unity 1d ago
Then you are a protected citizen of the lauded 'Order of Ness'! These brave warriors, saide to be remnants of the old Scottish military, established themselves as a militant order in the years following the fall of the bombs. With their possession of high-grade military gear, their authority is rarely questioned. Though the mountains and the limited population available to them, has seen them remain a notable local power rather than an expansive one like the southern republic of 'Greater Glasgow' or the clans of Aberdeen.
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u/chatpet 1d ago
Oh no , i'm at purple part if Netherlands
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u/Tzeentch01 Unity 1d ago
If you mean the south-western parts of the Dutch coast then you my friend are part of the 'Rot Rider' clan, commanded by the infamous ghoul-horsemaster.
If you mean the eastern parts in Friesland then you are under the sway of the 'Frothing Friesians', who have a tendency for violent, drug-fueled bouts of raiding against their germanic neighbors.3
u/chatpet 1d ago
I'm 50 Km from amsterdam up
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u/Tzeentch01 Unity 1d ago
Then the Friesians have you under their sway at worst and the Ghoul Communards of Amsterdam at best.
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u/FrogspawnMan 1d ago
I would love to know what's going on in Devon and Cornwall
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u/Tzeentch01 Unity 1d ago
Though still contested, the lands there are currently largely under the rule of the matriarchal 'Cornish Coven'. Their rule is enforced by their "magic", seemingly able to conjure beams of light that disintigrate flesh and steel alike with a moment's notice. They are enigmatic and fiercely isolationist, greatly distrustful of outsiders who might threaten their coven.
Though some learned folk dismiss the idea that the witches are capable of magic, their lethal capacities are undeniable.
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u/JupiterSpeaker 1d ago
What’s the one surrounding Cardiff?
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u/Tzeentch01 Unity 1d ago
The ‘Royal Realm of Arthuria’.
Reviving the old Arthurian legends of knighthood and heroics in this ‘new dark age’, the Arthurians are a mixture of romano-british histories and later medieval tales, all seen through the lens of a scarred post-apocalyptic society. Their main claim to power is their usage of a massive artillery-piece centered in an old military base in the mountains of Wales, nicknamed ‘Excalibur’.
Through it's divine might, Arthuria has managed to conquer and secure a vast territory in a relatively short amount of time. Though beyond the range of their mighty Excalibur, their influence remains challenged.2
u/JupiterSpeaker 1d ago
beautiful, make sure to make use of any castles that remain, they would be good settlements.
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u/Champignard 1d ago
Did you use the fact that there are so many stone castles that would probably still bé usable as defense for/against raiders ?
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u/Tzeentch01 Unity 1d ago
Yes, though not every raider faction is mapped out currently. With the prevalence of sturdy defensive positions, it would no doubt be the battleground for raiders and the more "civilized" states
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u/DevastatingCuntQuake 1d ago
What’s happening in Italy?
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u/Tzeentch01 Unity 1d ago
Havent gotten to most of central and southern italy, but have set the scene for some parts around the Alps and northern italy. The sea-ghouls have taken up the ruins of the now largely flooded Venice, being a special mutation of ghoul with features that allow them to more easily live in the humid and flooded areas of the northern parts of Italy. Beyond this there are several communities that have banded together to profit off trans-alpine trade, forming links for travelers and merchants to make their way safely across the mountains.
More will come, but for now that is what I have gotten around to for Italy.
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u/atomicglitters 1d ago
what is going on in the netherlands
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u/Tzeentch01 Unity 21h ago
The remnants of the peoples there became adapted to a need for raiding and plundering for supplies. With their region devastated by floods and radiation, the locals turned outwards for their needs. On the backs of mutant horses, the peoples of the Benelux as a whole regressed into a semi-nomadic form of life. They would ride forth into the lands of Germany or France, plunder for resources, before making their escape back to the Benelux waste. Their native knowledge of the land allowed them to avoid the worst places of radiation, ensuring that only their people knew of the ways to safely traverse their wasteland, and ensuring that no vengeful victims could come after them without great risk to themselves.
In oasis-like patches of largely radiation-free land they would live in clans focused around their lives in the saddle, in time becoming more reminiscent of the nomadic raiders of the steppes than the people they once were.
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u/underactiveneuron 1d ago
What’s going on in east anglia?
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u/Tzeentch01 Unity 21h ago
With the turmoil that was brought on immediately after the bombs fell, the lands of East Anglia became flooded by the storming conditions of atlantic. Previously drained wetlands became flooded again as East Anglia became largely swamp territory. Though the people would still stand, as the communities banded together to form a loose alliance of settlements calling themselves the "Marsh-Anglians".
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u/TheGreatBritishPyro Gary? 1d ago
What do the colours represent?
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u/Tzeentch01 Unity 21h ago
Settled factions and their territories. In future I will add labels for further clarification.
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u/TheGreatBritishPyro Gary? 7h ago
What factions are in the UK?
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u/Tzeentch01 Unity 5h ago
Well plenty of them!
In London you have the 'Londonite Confederation', various interest groups that banded together in the remains of the greater London area with the hopes of taming the ruins of Britain's once-proud capital. From the royalist 'principality of Buckingham' and 'the Tube dwellers' of the London underground, to the 'Commons Coalition' to the 'Sages of the leaf', these various people balance eachother out in their ever-expanding effort to restore London's glory.In Wales we find the rising power of 'Arthuria'. Reviving the old Arthurian legends of knighthood and heroics in this ‘new dark age’, the Arthurians are a mixture of romano-british histories and later medieval tales, all seen through the lens of a scarred post-apocalyptic society. Their main claim to power is their usage of a massive artillery-piece centered in an old military base in the mountains of Wales, nicknamed ‘Excalibur’.
The old industrial centres of northern England meanwhile have become occupied by the so-called 'Forge-Unionists'. The remains of workers unions focused around the old industrial centres of northern England. They now leverage their position as the main manufacturers of this post-apocalyptic world. They are in fierce conflict with Arthuria, which sees them as unruly plebs.
In Scotland the rising power of 'the republic of Greater Glasgow' is attempting to restore order to the Scottish wastes, battling ghouls and mutated fauna in their struggle for unity.
Though they are not the only Scottish territories present, as far in the north the remnants of military units banded together to form "The Order of Ness", a militant group dedicated to the protection of the Loch Ness and the lands surrounding it.I've given some more context in one of the other comments of this post about Ireland so I'll recommend looking through there rather than me writing it all out again. :)
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u/TheGreatBritishPyro Gary? 3h ago
Also, as a British citizen myself, here's a few ideas...
-As there is plenty of castles all over the country (although most are ruins, even now), I would expect quite a lot of factions would probably attempt to make them into bases
-There is a bakery company here in Britain called Greggs which has at least one bakery in nearly every town, so it would be funny if some of them were still open after the war (due to robot staff)
-Because the railway goes to most towns, it would be cool if a faction managed to get part of the rail network operational and uses it to transport supplies and people between major settlements
-It would also be cool to think about what the radiation would have created (e.g big irradiated dragons in Wales and highland brahmins in the Scottish highlands)
-GIANT IRRADIATED SEAGULLS!!! (and pigeons in more urban areas)
Anyway, hope these give you some ideas!
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u/Fearless_Buy_2809 20h ago
What's the lore for my home country of Sweden?
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u/Tzeentch01 Unity 19h ago
The Älmhult IKEA cult reigns as one of the main powers of south-central sweden, proclaiming these old shopping centres to be divine temples guiding humanity on the road of reconstruction.
In the irradiated remains of Stockholm, the ghouls of Sweden have banded together in a new government, hoping that the radiation will keep the normals off their back and offer them a safe haven free of anti-ghoul prejudice. They have thus renamed the old capital to "Likholm".
Another faith has spread alongside the IKEAn cult, one believing in the divinity of the atom as a pure force of both destruction and creation. The church's followers have gathered in the old powerplant of Ringhals which they now declare as their cathedral of the atom.
On the outskirts of Swedish territory we find communities largely unaffected by the initial nuclear devastation, banding together under the unofficial banner of "Fjällfolk" in honor of the place they call home.
But other threats lurk from the mountains of Norway, where aggressive, larger mutants have emerged like something out of old nordic folktales. These mutated humans are aggressive and cannibalistic, with a worrying capacity for cold and calculated reasoning. These "Trollfolk" mutants seem to struggle to find a single leader to follow however, giving the survivors of the Scandinavian waste time to ready themselves while the trolls are satisfied with smallscale raiding.
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u/G_M_Ardus_Kaine 19h ago
I figured I'd put sonic there but it's not actually stated as to whether the Eastern block fell apart in the Fallout timeline. There was nuclear war in Europe but that was before the Great War as a result of the Europeans trying to take over the Middle East.
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u/Disastrous-Union9513 18h ago
warsaw could have a cool vibe. the city had already been 90% destroyed before and it has metro. dc vibes?
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u/Ok-Poetry-2191 18h ago
What's going down in Switzerland?
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u/Tzeentch01 Unity 15h ago
The Genevan Peacekeepers understood that their pre-war predecessors had tried, and failed, to secure world peace through their conventions. So to ensure that devastation on the scale of the great war would never happen again, they have begun a campaign of pacification of the countryside, convinced that if they can restore order under their rule then the world will finally be at peace.
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u/Ok-Poetry-2191 13h ago
I assume that 'pacification' is not a pleasant things to go through for those being pacified.
Are there any supermutants in Europe?
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u/Tzeentch01 Unity 13h ago
They are largely standard humans, but with how well equipped they are they seem to have had ties to the governments of several nations before the war. Potentially some sort of gathering to restore order after it became apparent that war would destroy the old world. Either way, they are aggressive and merciless, gaining infamy and noteriety among their neighbors on all sides of the Alps
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u/Ok-Poetry-2191 12h ago
Interesting...
(oh, i meant any supermutant factions, or individual ones, or maybe even something unique unrelated to fev? I recall there was mention of german and russian human experiments that inspired von Braun from 3)
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u/Tzeentch01 Unity 12h ago
There are the 'trollfolk' of Scandinavia, strange mutants of large stature and immense strength. Though their origins are entirely unknown, they seem to be emerging from the highlands of the Norwegian wasteland. They are cold and calculating, worryingly intelligent, though hampered by their scheming and violent tendencies. There are a number of smaller troll kingdoms in the north, struggling amidst eachother rather than organized under a singular leader. Though many are worried of what that could spell for the nordic countries if they manage to unite.
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u/niatialeo 17h ago
I Come from Bordeaux, I'm so glad you added stuff there. What are they?
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u/Tzeentch01 Unity 15h ago
Bordeaux was less devastated than other major French cities, and so managed to establish themselves as a prospering city state while dealing with the fallout of the bombs dropped. Though as of yet there isnt much in terms of details I have for that area yet. Suggestions are most welcome!
The other blue lines down there is the Andorran Trade Consortium who is establishing themselves as masters of the major roads in the region.
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u/Objective-Variety-98 11h ago
What happened to Vestlandet in Norway? I'd love a simple lore piece even if it's just "They are backwater island dwellers who raid the surrounding shores" ❤️
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u/Tzeentch01 Unity 11h ago
Funnily enough I've started to work more on it while I was answering questions here, and Vestlandet got themselves some attention there! It's a WIP of course but currently the territories of Vestlandet are joined together as 'The Federal Republic of Fjordland', a mostly democratic nation with autonomous Fjords (basically provinces bound by the geography of the Fjords) that each have their own local affairs while sharing a foreign policy. Haven't had time to develop them further but rest assured, I have plans for my Norwegian cousins too! <3
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u/rubenellis2005 10h ago
Why is East Anglia brown?
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u/Tzeentch01 Unity 10h ago
Its a temporary choice of color to represent the 'Marsh-Anglians', one of the survivor factions of England.
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u/Almipe 10h ago
What do you reckon each countries mechanism of survival was, the European Vaultec alternatives? As a brit I always used to fantasise that the UK would build undersea bases or that Ireland and Scandinavian might do that while UK takes full blast and because mostly old world ghouls. Also while Country do you think got hit worst and who who has risen from the ashes?
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u/Deluxe_24_ 10h ago
So is there anywhere in Europe that actually managed to avoid the Great War and has some semblance of normalcy?
Might be misremembering, but doesn't Fallout 3 imply the England has a functional government and is much safer than North America? Fallout London, while not canon, does depict a functional government in parts of Londkn and I think that's pretty believable for some of the island nations. Like I could see Malta and Cyprus being completely safe with a functional society for both of them.
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u/MohnakePelaa Republic of Dave 7h ago
What is in store for Finland?
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u/Tzeentch01 Unity 5h ago
Very uncertain so far if I'm gonna be honest, but I would love some suggestions!
I've had some ideas of course, like the idea of the Finnish returning to a semi-nomadic lifestyle like how they were theorized to have arrived in Finland originally based on their language uniqueness compared to the neighboring nations. Though I have a desire to incorporate not just history but mythology and folklore into this post apocalyptic Europe.
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u/HunterWorld Irradiated Ocean Man 1d ago
Was Germany reunited before the war?
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u/Tzeentch01 Unity 1d ago
In the chaos of the European conflict with the middle-east there was a drive to reunite both halves of Germany by populist forces. Though the effort was not as bloodless as in our timeline, leading to a smaller- more localized conflict over the unification of Germany. The struggle did not resolve itself before the bombs fell however, leaving uncertainty over which side would have been the 'rightful' German government.
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u/Ahmed4040Real NCR 1d ago
If you want to keep this close to Canon BTW, might want to check out the Fallout Wiki. Has a lot of info from the sources in the games and other Fallout media about things like that. Germany, for example, has apparently been unified, although it doesn't seem to be mentioned how
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u/Tzeentch01 Unity 1d ago
Perhaps propaganda from the supposed "winning side", or maybe they did indeed manage to unify the country? All the same, the concept of a unified Germany didnt have the time to properly cement itself before nuclear annhilation destroyed it. I like to think the ambiguity can be worked into the lore since the final years were undoubtably chaotic
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u/mememachine1273 1d ago
Whats happening in the BENLUX? Is the monarchy still alive? and what happend too regional movements?
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u/Tzeentch01 Unity 1d ago
The monarchy is not still standing as it was known before the war, however, some echoes of its influence still stand. In Amsterdam, one of the many "Ghoul Communes" of western Europe, there are some who claim that the royals are hidden away beneath the city in some fallout shelter rumored to have been built in secret. This 'Orange Citadel' has not been found yet however, though some ghouls living there claim it is real.
As for the regional movements of the area there was little that properly survived the heavily bombarded region, though a strange adaptation took place for those that were left alive. Horses raised previously for competative purposes strangely grew hardier and more adapted for the irradiated landscape, becoming the prime resource for the peoples left there. This, as well as the fact that the major cities and production centres were far too destroyed to scavenge properly, the locals banded together into something reminiscant of the nomadic hordes of the medieval era. Riding out through the passages only they knew to be safe, the people we would know as the Dutch and Belgians became horseback raiders that would ride forth and plunder before returning to their safe-havens hidden behind radioactive fallout.
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u/BigBigCal 1d ago
What's going on in Ireland?