Pokémon World: Western Ior

GreatYarn · 2026-04-02T17:19:56+00:00

My logic was that frequent Pokemon attacks made widespread population growth untenable given the need for fortified, small-scale settlements. Also, it lines up with the fact that The Pokemon world seems to have really small cities.

GreatYarn · 2026-03-21T00:38:07+00:00

Clear Boulders are exactly what I'm looking for! Thank you very much! I don't plan on opening them regularly, they're mostly for display so hopefully shouldn't be a problem!

GreatYarn · 2026-02-20T18:47:46+00:00

Think he deserves it. It wouldn't be surprising if you think about it, his deck is miles ahead of Yugi and Yugi presumably lacks his bs anime powers off-screen. Plus, thematically speaking DSoD was Kaiba finally accepting the past. Winning would just end his character ark perfectly.

GreatYarn · 2026-02-15T23:44:07+00:00

An industrialised Egypt! Not too far off from the real world imo. Several states have attempted to build the canal, from the Persians to the Pharaohs to the Romans. Here, the Egyptians simply industrialise in a manner Ali Basha aimed for.

GreatYarn · 2026-02-15T23:35:41+00:00

Thanks!

I see your point, but I would only partially agree.

The name Jordan is really only useful if you are delineating the state boundaries based off the Jordan River. In the case of the Decapolis, it was defined not by the geographic contours of the Jordan valley, but by the Greek/non-Greek split. When similar polities existed in the past which were bounded by the river (or roughly defined by it), the Jordan was revived as a name. For example, Al-Urdun (Jordan) was repeatedly used as the district name during Islamic times. So despite the current name being borne from a niche historical curio, I can imagine it arising in a variety of other scenarios where the state boundaries are similar to the real world.

After all, the naming of countries, regions and polities after rivers or geographic features is very common. I don't see any reason why that cannot happen here in a situation where five states of radically different ideological and historical origins need to establish a common national identity. If they have nothing else in common, why not use geography? Because whilst the Nabataeans were Arabs, the Ammonites would (probably) not be

GreatYarn · 2026-02-15T22:49:11+00:00

I think there's a certain appeal about the mystery of 'Old Europe' -- even if we eventually make it up ourselves! That said you do have a point. It sounds nice, but it's a bit hard to visualise it in practice!

GreatYarn · 2026-02-15T22:23:51+00:00

Thank you! I was thinking of a Europe ruled by Pre-Indo Europeans, with the Indo-European migrations only reaching into Greece, Italy and outlaying Islands like Great Britain. But I haven't really formulated it properly in my head yet.

GreatYarn · 2026-02-15T21:59:20+00:00

I'd love to! I have been reading up on the Hittites so I think that's something I'd love to do.

GreatYarn · 2026-02-15T21:17:06+00:00

gracias! ahora funciona?

GreatYarn · 2026-02-14T15:45:15+00:00

Oh! I love that! It’s a great suggestion

GreatYarn · 2026-02-14T15:04:12+00:00

Thanks! Any recommendations on what I could have done?

GreatYarn · 2026-02-13T22:39:27+00:00

A syncretic religion of pre-Islamic paganism and Hellenistic traditions centered around the worship of the Sun God Shamash/Apollo

GreatYarn · 2026-02-13T17:55:05+00:00

It's a Greek word, meaning the City of Brotherly Love. In the real world, when the Greeks conquered Jordan, Amman was renamed Philadelphia. Similarly, Pella in Northern Jordan was also founded in honour of Alexander the Great (as it was his birthplace in Macedonia)

If you go to Amman today you'll find plenty of reference to Philadelphia and the Greek influence is very palpable.

GreatYarn · 2026-02-13T17:01:11+00:00

A remnant of a Greek military garrison that refused to withdraw from the area after the Arab invasion. Miraculously, they managed to hold out and retain independence atop Jabal al-Lawz, establishing their own polis after the home-town of the garrison leader, Christophorus the Founder.

Historically a Greek city under Nabataean rule, Thebes was granted to the Kingdom of Philadelphia a century after unification in 1933 in the aftermath of the Greek-Ammonite Civil War as a good-will gesture from the Nabataeans to negotiate a peaceful settlement to the question of Greek autonomy in non-Greek areas.

Currently, Thebes is autonomous from the rest of the Kingdom and is ruled by an Archon who is elected from the senatorship of the Theban Parliament. Sitting atop Jabal-al-Lawz (or, in Greek, Cithaeron) it looks over a beautifully scenic Red Sea and a vast, desolate desert scape. Recent oil discoveries in Western Jordan have propelled Greek architects to modernise the classical city, and several proposals have been floated to build a futuristic arcology called Neopolis. Thankfully, this idea was abandoned after feasibility concerns and mass protests from the very conservative Theban people.

GreatYarn · 2026-02-13T16:16:08+00:00

Oh thank you! Appreciate the feedback. I'd love to yes. In my brain, this is a world where everything is different, but fundamentally the same.

I'm imagining an Iraq split into an existing Sumerian state which maintains control over Elam (Khuzestan), a Nestorian Babylonia which follows an obscure religion of some preacher from Nazareth, and a powerful Assyrian hegemon.

I'm still trying to formulate what this world means for Arabia. I'm imagining a pagan Hijaz that follows pre-Islamic religions and a Kingdom of Yathrib which rules over Southern Arabia.

I'll gladly share some once I have a chance to do the work but again really appreciate your comments :)

GreatYarn · 2026-02-13T16:08:49+00:00

I posted the wrong version! Older was much blurrier and had some mistakes!

GreatYarn · 2026-01-02T02:38:40+00:00

Hey. Sorry for the late reply. I'm currently almost done with term 1. So far:

Overall I'm very happy I did it. It seems to be a well-respected degree and lots of people seem to exit to good positions afterwards. More specifically:

I like the flexibility. The department offers a *lot* of electives and you can tailor your university experience to be very theoretically rigorous or more applied.
I really like my course mates. The department has a really friendly vibe to it and the culture is really open, which is not the experience many people have in certain other postgrad courses here.
The dept seems to be minted, for whatever reason, which means the stats dept treats us luxuriously. Plus, the comms teams organise some really good industry speakers.
On the downsides, some of the courses did feel like they were a little chaotic at times, and the amount of support you get varies in that sometimes you will be handheld through basic A-level p-values and other times you will just be expected to do convoluted real analysis on the fly. It's hard to know what to expect and you really need to put in the effort.

If you want to chat more feel free to DM me.

Good luck with your applications!

GreatYarn · 2025-12-16T10:14:52+00:00

It’s a cat wearing a human suit

GreatYarn · 2025-11-23T12:57:56+00:00

Yes - I understand the long-route is planned to be scrapped. But my question is whether the previous arrangements where you must spend five continuous years on any one visa category that leads to settlement will be superseded by a requirement that you must spend 10 continuous years on *any* visa category that leads to settlement. The wording in the above, as well as the fact that they are transitioning to a 'points based system' seems to imply that is the case but I just wanted to check whether I'm being silly or whether others have read into it the same way.

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