The World After Ragnarok (A Map Analysis)

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What if the world was almost eaten by a giant snake? You might get a map that looks like this...
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@jeffjones4654 11 месяцев назад

As a fellow Chicagoan, the b29 hit Jormungandr in the eye and nuked it's brain which is what killed him.

@johanlundstrom1561 11 месяцев назад

They deployed the Trinity Device on it, yes.

@johanlundstrom1561 11 месяцев назад

And the explanation of how the nuke worked is that the Midgard Serpent starts manifesting from some extradimensional space, starts to grow, gets hit, is mortally wounded but not dead yet, continues to grow, and _then_ dies after getting bigger than it was but carrying the wound.

@toobig7150 11 месяцев назад

@@johanlundstrom1561so it's like getting cut as a kid but it never heals and as you grow so does the wound until you die?

@johanlundstrom1561 11 месяцев назад

@@toobig7150: Well, except it happened over merely hours or days. This blasted, seeping eye is part of why Egypt is so messed up.

@timothymclean 9 месяцев назад

I was going to suggest a nuclear shaped charge, but those other ideas sound more plausible.

@axelprino 11 месяцев назад

Part of the snake's corpse seems to lay on top of the Alps, and I don't think that it would be able to fully crush a mountain range no matter how large the beast is, which makes me imagine that in some parts there's probably passages under the snake. Just picturing what it must look like to walk through a ruined valley between mountains with a giant snake's dead body serving as roof is really trippy.

@delano4526 11 месяцев назад

It's funny how it went from the worst logistical travel route in Europe to the only one that takes you West and East lol, depending on how deep the Mediterranean Sea is though, it might be possible to use a Submarine to go under the snake, but you'd be underwater for days and I don't know if that's even feasible

@johnny_thunder_3024 11 месяцев назад

What if you crawl up the snake? Also I wonder what effects it rotting would've had on the environment

@nateghast6456 11 месяцев назад

I bet the nuke gave the snake an eye cancer the size of Sudan, so it'd probably kill it.

@aksmex2576 2 месяца назад

that's a hilarious explanation.

@alexref6074 16 дней назад

@@aksmex2576r snake dies from dirt getting into open wound

@Nostripe361 11 месяцев назад

I mean the world is interesting though I do think it would have been better to have the Soviets have some major problem here. Just feels like a wasted potential to have them not only suffer no big problems from this but to actual get a their major rivals completely destroyed, magical giants, and their western border having the snake as wall which they can mine resources from.

@jimmothy3012 11 месяцев назад

I mean they'd have to deal with instability in all of Europe

@Ocelot835 11 месяцев назад

The vibes of this setting reminds me a lot of "Dust 1947", another tabletop game that take place in alternate 1940s with heavy pulp fiction vibes. Just instead of giant magic snake summoned by nazis they have superweapons based on alien technologies found in Antartic as starting point premise. Still they also have Lovecraftian cult controlling Middle East and army of intelligent ape-people!

@alicorn3924 11 месяцев назад

sooo... Wolfenstein + Eldritch Gods?

@Ocelot835 11 месяцев назад

@@alicorn3924 Something like that but WW2 is still going on, Germany under Dönitz control that ousted Nazis yet keeped totalitarian state, Soviets ditched Allies and created their own bloc with China where Zhukov slowly takes control from Stalin, while US even after blowing atomic bomb over Ceylon still cannot outpower other factions and face several land invasion on its soil. Not to mention sudden attack from awaken Lovecraftian monsters all factions now need to face

@alicorn3924 11 месяцев назад

@@Ocelot835 Ceylon, the place in Sri Lanka?

@alicorn3924 11 месяцев назад

@@Ocelot835 also, when's a UN-like organization when you need it? (or atleast for the non-major powers who aren't already in a bloc of a major)

@Ocelot835 11 месяцев назад

@@alicorn3924 Yep, although it's not a place but european name of the whole island back in a day. According to lore Japan successfully captured it in mid-1945 and out of fear that it could damage Allies supply roots in the region Americans nuked Ceylon by modified with alien technologies atomic bomb. Due to that the island was completely vaporized and consumed by ocean. Then out of shock every side just agree to not use such weapon again on battlefield, fearing the level of rough destruction it could bring to the Earth

@danielsantiagourtado3430 11 месяцев назад

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@creatoruser736 11 месяцев назад

Is the implication of this that WWII happened very differently and lasted longer than it happened in real history?

@delano4526 11 месяцев назад

I suppose the Americans were busy dealing with the apocalypse while the soviets eventually overpowered the Germans and occupied whatever land they could, without America, France or Britain to stop them they just took over pretty much anything they felt like while stopping at the snake

@nono-lz9qr 11 месяцев назад

As far as I know, no. It’s still around the same length, it’s just that when the nazis summoned jormungandr, the snakes corpse fucked over the Americans so hard that Japan was able to keep some colonies.

@CoryAlbrecht 11 месяцев назад

6:32 Splitters!!!😂

@goodman4966 11 месяцев назад

Wow this crazy but very interesting Alternative world.

@Peldrigal 9 месяцев назад

The GURPS Alternate History of both 3rd and 4th edition are excellent sources for both specific alternate timelines, and the philosophy of writing AH. I highly recommend reading them even if you know nothing about rpgs.

@Peldrigal 9 месяцев назад

So instead of "Everyone is nazi but a few holdouts, plus eldritch horrors and air pirates" it's "Everyone is Red, plus eldritch horrors and air pirates"? Hardly Hite's best effort.

@lawden210 11 месяцев назад

Really fascinating scenario!

@BamBamAbraham 11 месяцев назад

Nice

@kevinhenrique4256 11 месяцев назад

Only Fire dinossaurs? Meh things are as usual in brasil them

@johnwalsh4857 11 месяцев назад

Love hite's gurps alternate earths

@notsostealthmission5184 11 месяцев назад

If the snake was maybe like 1000km long it would be more understandable

@SomasAcademy 11 месяцев назад

~7:33 Gloucester is pronounced "Gloster." I know, it's weird, that's just how older English spellings be sometimes.

@nealjroberts4050 11 месяцев назад

Shout out to B Munro!

@ZemplinTemplar 11 месяцев назад

Honestly, I'm kind of tired of all these "WWII, but occult magic !" type of settings. They're a cliché by this point, even allowing for pulpy, campy ideas. I like that, for a change, the setting isn't focused on nazi and fascist malarkey, their defeat is just the starting point, but it's still a rather unappealing setting overall. Especially when it's a textbook soviet/communist wank, with essentially the entire rest of the globe being on the backfoot and disadvantaged. The whole thing with Norse mythic giants is also rather rote, I feel. I'd prefer an alternate setting for gaming purposes where you might not even have a superpower of any sort, and there are loads of smaller and varied countries, with unusual but plausible histories and cultures from the perspective of our history. (E.g. Tony Jones' Cliveless World feels like one underrated AH setting that could be very cool and original for RPG gamers.) Kenneth Hite has designed some good alternate history RPG content for GURPS (Alternate Worlds, Infinite Worlds rulebooks/modules) and other systems (including Savage Lands, no doubt), but these "20th century war + occult fantasy" takes have, IMHO, become the new "your protagonist is a cigar-chomping space marine in powered armour" of game premise design.

@nono-lz9qr 11 месяцев назад

I don’t think it was a wank that the Soviets came out overall alright. I’m pretty sure it was done as a more “the evil guys are doing good” notion then a “And then the communist befriend the Giants and spread communism everywhere. It seems like them and the Japanese are meant to be the big evil world powers, for incase the GM wants to run a espionage setting.

@denifnaf5874 11 месяцев назад

Commie giants XD

@xavierschatzle7816 10 месяцев назад

🤦 Promo-SM

@avalonpage5985 11 месяцев назад

id love to see this as a hoi4 mod...

@S1AR_DUS1 11 месяцев назад

Just for future reference, Gloucester is pronounced Gloster

@thomasgray4188 11 месяцев назад

7:20 90% of whats left of England is not Cornwall Cornwall is the tiny thin sticky out bit on the end of the peninsula. south England people will get very mad Devon, Somerset and Dorset. people (Especially Devon people) get very mad at this.