Almea: Industrial Age

I’ve now reached the year 3678, and the project to date has been turned into a book, and you can buy that book!

In previous Almeology, the planet had just begun the Industrial Revolution. This period brings us right into the modern era. Almea faces industrialization, capitalism, socialism, fascism, colonialism, upheavals in age-old systems.

Sexual mores are upended; new religions appear; technology from typewriters to rockets to nuclear weapons to computers are invented; you’ll read about the best comics, novels, and movies. There are major wars— many nations are put through the wringer, and there are plenty of surprises for long-time readers.

Almea is still a fantasy world, and we’ll see how the iliu, ktuvoks, elcari, and flaids deal with industrialization and increasingly lethal weaponry. Can ktuvok empires withstand modern artillery, or for that matter the idea of socialism? Can elcari continue to sell their goods by taking wagons around the human lands? How do the flaids deal with income inequality? What do the iliu think of nuclear war?

The non-fantasy parts are not exactly like Earth, either: notably, Almea has far less oil.

And if that’s not enough, we'll learn about how the previous civilization, the one mythologized in the Count of Years, really looked like; and we’ll get a deep look at two entirely new continents, Lebiscuri and Curym.

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What is it?

It’s more text-heavy than the earlier atlas, since there is so much material to cover. The pace is slower, so we can get into the personalities behind the historical forces. Rather than using two base maps, I use close-up maps of each region.

The major sections:

• The Perunic Era: archeology, the origin of species, and the earlier period of civilization
• The Steam Era: from the First Dhekhnami War to the Eretald Revolt; the Zone of Fire vanishes; colonization
• Modernism Rising: Revolutions in Xurno and Belesao; the Second Dhekhnami War
• The Machine Age: modernism rises and then tears itself apart in the Ereláe War
• The Atomic Age: Decolonization, space exploration, and the leadup to the Almea War
• References: leaders, populations, technological advances

When is it out?

What's the (gulp) price?

What about cheaper options?

I will also create a Kindle version. This is not great for the maps, but it’s fine for text and it should be quite affordable, less than $10.

Is this everything that’s available on Patreon?

Several languages have been created for this project. Four are already available on Virtual Verduria: Tžuro, Bhöɣetan, Šɯk, and Basfahe. More are coming: Modern Verdurian, Mei.

How about a preview?

Are you stopping there?

Eventually that will become another book, Almea: Space Age.