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AFTER THE END: A Post-Apocalyptic America
(A CK2 Scenario- Mod Summarized By
SimoTheFinlandized / Paul P. - 2022 CE
- Map By Alaxsxaq1 @DeviantArt)
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The year is 2666 AD, over six centuries
after a mysterious world-ending catastrophe that
is known only as "The Event" shattered the geo-
political landscape of North America, which not
only regressed Humanity so dearly back to medieval
levels of cultural and technological advancement,
but also left in its wake a myriad of confused
and scattered cities, kingdoms, duchies, minor
trade-republics, and tribes. The cultures and
religions to survive have since been forced to
reconcile the world that was with the ruined
apocalyptic murk that they inherited. Now, in
the wake of conquerors and statesmen many of these
remnants have reassembled themselves into empires
and kingdoms, many drawing from the faded memory
of "Old America".
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In the Pacific Northwest a cult to "Mother Gaia"
has emerged, blaming the Fall on men and their
polluting ways. They thrive on the coast and east
into the Columbia Valley even as the former Kingdom
of Cascadia has collapsed into petty states. To
their north seaborne warriors have journeyed from
their homes to carve a realm out of the Vancouver
coast and island. These fierce Haida now eye hungrily
the treasures of the Columbia.
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California was once the titan of the west, forged
by sheer will by the brilliant Celestial Emperor
Elton I Yudkow under the Cetic philosophy calling to
mind the oriental ideology of Imperial China. Now
however it has degraded into a farcical landscape
of jealous kings and warring dukes vying for supremacy
while the powerless figurehead Emperor is a prisoner
in his own palace.
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Deseret, the stronghold of the Mormons, remains,
holding the many heathen tribes at bay along the
shores of the Great Salt Lake. To their south they
count the Navajo, Hopi, and Apache peoples as brothers
in faith, bulwarks against the Atomicist pagans.
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Roaming the deserts of America, a cult has risen,
venerating the ancient atomic weapons, seeing their
strange and otherworldly power as divine. One has
even risen to carve a kingdom in the remnants of
Chihuahua, the Kingdom of Sierra Madre.
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Along the great plains such nations as the Crow, the
Blackfoot, and the Sioux have taken again to lives on
horseback, hunting the bison herds that have returned.
Beneath the open sky they terrify the settled peoples.
Two have since quieted though. The Lakota tribe have
formed their kingdom from the ruins of Rushmore's,
left to the lands just around its mountain. The Comanche
tribe meanwhile became good Roman-Catholic kings of
the Llano Estacado.
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The lands just west of the Mississippi, from Texas to
Illinois, are inhabited by Catholics under the authority
of the Pope in St. Louis, established when contact with
the Pope in Rome was lost. Some, however, resent this
arrangement, believing that the old Holy See in the
Vatican still remains. To their northwest are their
two strongest kingdoms, the Kingdoms of Iowa and the
Platte.
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The dells and lake-lands of old Wisconsin and Minnesota
have however turned away from the Christian God and
instead to the Norse pantheon of gods once worshiped
by their distant ancestors. They believe the world
was lost due to great weakness, and never again will
they allow themselves to be weak. One of the them,
King Albert, conquered the realm of Superior, but
upon his death it has gone the way of so many other
kingdoms.
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The people of the Great Lakes, living beneath the
rusted ruins of factories, mills, industrial centers,
and railroads, could only assume them to be constructs
of the Gods. This technology-worshipping "Cult of Rust"
holds sway from Gary to the old city of Pittsburgh,
centered by their "shining" jewel, the old industrial
city of Detroit.
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Old Canada is now divided between the Anglicans who
broke with Rome ages ago and those Catholics that
would not bow to St. Louis, and instead turned to St.
Ursula for guidance. While the Kingdom of Quebec
collapsed into a dozen states in lower Laurentia,
Ontario remains strong enough to resist the encroachment
of the Rustmen. To their west, the states of Aurora
defend against the many First Nation tribes that have
returned to their ways since before the White Man first
set foot in America. The Kingdom of the Maritimes'
troubles, however, are more focused on the bizarre
pagan cult centered around "The Old Ones" that dominates
the Yankee lands of New England. With their knowledge
of the occult, the Yankee tribes had once ruled from
Boston westwards to Buffalo and Niagara. Though fractured
and weakened, these zealous folk are not to be taken
as lightly.
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Hudsonia was the result of this breakup, formed when
an heroic Anabaptist warrior-king was sent north by
New York to clear out the pagans. He did too good of a
job. The Deitscherei is however old, preserved from
much of the Fall due to their people's isolation in
the heart of old Pennsylvania.
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From Manhattan south to Washington the "Americanists"
rule. To them the "Founders" were incarnated gods; to
them were dedicated great temples and statues, how
could they have been anything less? Perhaps if men
sought to emulate their ways, the Great American
Empire might rise again. A President is elected from
their ranks to hopefully see this ambition through.
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Along the Ohio and east to the hills of Appalachia
dwell brave tribes practicing a superstitious quasi-
Christian religion oddly fixated on snakes. Order is
not something these men will receive lightly.
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At the mouth of the Great Mississippi lie practitioners
of the Voodoo religion, their grandest being the King
of Louisiane. Their strange Afro-Syncretic ways irk
the Christians from both east and west.
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Stretching across the old American Deep South, calling
to mind the gallant American noble heroes of an earlier
age, is the Holy Columbian Confederacy. Their Emperor,
elected from amongst the realm's peers, defends the
Evangelical-Christian faith, lest another schismatic
break away as the Catholics did. Beneath the Confederacy's
shadow dwell the Magnolia Marches east of the River
and the Gulfard states of old Florida. Yet in the
heart of that swampy lowland country a tribe dwells
amongst the ruins of "The Happiest Place on Earth,"
said to have been built by a god who once ruled the world.
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Mexico has recovered, with a distant descendant of the
House Iturbide on the throne in the capital of Mexico
City. However, like California, weakness has struck the
realm, and many of the provinces have drifted into
independence. While the King himself professes the
Cult of the Sacred Heart, many Indians have returned
to the worship of the old gods. The Sun God fell without
the nourishment of human hearts, so now men must feed
the God of Death in his battle against the ever-encroaching
Darkness. Meanwhile, the Maya have settled in their
valleys and the Yucatan, slowly returning to their
ancient ways.
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The Caribbean Sea is now a lake for the personal ambition
of its aging Empress Portia, who forged the Caribbean
Empire just forty years before. But there are those who
fear the empire cannot survive her death, especially
when the many cultures and cults under its banner come to
conflict.
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South America has evolved into a patchwork of kingdoms
itself. West of the Andes, Puente Grande controls the
Isthmus, drawing great wealth from the trade in both the
Atlantic and Pacific. Eastwards the Cult of the Three Powers
dominates, while the various kingdoms are kept in fear
of the Llanero horsemen. In Guyana a kingdom composed
of Hindus has emerged, a curiosity from the antediluvian
age. And south of the Great Amazon River rules the great
and powerful Empire Of Brazil. Already immensely rich
from lucrative trade in coffee and sugar, this far realm
is a greedy and ambitious thing. How long until it turns
its eye, and armies, northwards?
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