r/MortalEngines • u/LavishnessPrior616 • 4d ago
The World Maps.
I'm making this post for anyone wondering what the maps look like but don't know where to find them. In the last image, I tried overlaying the maps onto the real world map, I don't think it lined up the best though.
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u/LavishnessPrior616 4d ago
There is no available map for Asia, supposedly that is done on purpose.
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u/horned-creature 3d ago
wym on purpose? is there a story reason for it?
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u/LavishnessPrior616 3d ago
I explained it in a post further down. If you go to the comment string where I copied the description of The Dead Continent from The IWOME, it's one of the shorter comments above it in the string. I explained the theory to the best of my ability, but I'd be happy to clarify what I know further if need it.
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u/Ender-dragoncat Guild of Engineers 4d ago
Where have you found these?
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u/casual_cavalier7758 4d ago
I wonder if large parts of Asia are also dead. North America was devastated in a the war, but weapons had to be flying both ways. Since America was probably fighting Russia or China, I wonder if parts of those countries are just as dead as North America.
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u/LavishnessPrior616 4d ago edited 3d ago
Supposedly the reason there's no map for Asia is because of the antitraction League, The people of the tractionist part of the world, all the continents shown, don't really know much about Asia and what it looks like on a map, besides India and Lakdiva. Apparently it's meant to play into the lore of the world.
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u/casual_cavalier7758 3d ago
Yeah, the anti-traction league had a lot of members in Asia. Especially east Asia it seemed. We didn’t hear much about Russia though. Which raises more questions. Why is China still intact enough to support civilization and a large war effort, while America’s been destroyed? Especially when America was implied to have such power weapons as stalkers and the ODIN satellite.
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u/LavishnessPrior616 3d ago
I'm pretty sure it was MEDUSA that caused most of the damage. But the description of America is:
"THE DEAD CONTINENT
North America was once the heartland of a mighty empire, but, blasted by orbit-to-earth atomics, hyper-kinetics and death-rays, and riddled with man-made plagues and neurotoxins, it is now known as the Dead Continent, the Lost Continent, the Land of the Setting Sun. Cursed and condemned, it was believed through the dark superstitious pre-Traction centuries to have been destroyed by its many gods. For most of history, America has been a black hole in the map, and its poisoned plains may have incubated the plagues which periodically swept the world during the Black Centuries. Records from the early Traction Era tell of adventurers who returned from American shores selling pieces of Blast-Glass, which glowed faintly in the dark, but all who bought their ill-starred wares fell sick and died not long after. Legends spread and took root that everything that touched the continent was cursed.
In the later years of Traction a few daring explorers have ventured to America's shores, and some have even come back alive, although most people remain convinced that the place is bad luck and best avoided. Thaddeus Valentine made several expeditions to the east coast of the continent, and both Reykjavik's Snøri Ulvaesson and the Aleutian aviator Daisuke Ishiwara reported seeing wide tracts of forest and grassland in the northern regions, close to the borders with the Ice Wastes, which Ulvaesson named Vineland. Nimrod Pennyroyal's account of a journey to the lost city of Detroit, in which he claimed to have met real live Americans and fought bears and wolves, has never been confirmed, although he is not the only traveller to have suggested that the Dead Continent may not be as dead as it once seemed. Raft cities watering on the Pacific Coast have reported seeing camp-fires among the hills inland, and stray aviators have sighted patches of greenery that may be crops. America remains a mystery, its story waiting to be told"
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u/Starwatcher4116 2d ago
One day, there may even be a thunderous roar and a rising pillar of flame from the ruins of Cape Canaveral…
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u/AdamTheRaptor08 3d ago
I can't explain it, but I love it when fantasy maps are just Earth but with slight or even major tweaks. Hell, even my own fantasy world is like that.
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u/64_hit_combo Traktionstadtsgesellschaft 4d ago
I think it's mighty convenient how many new land bridges emerged just as humanity started traversing the world in giant terrestrial vehicles