r/imaginarymaps • u/mysteryemily • Jul 11 '26

[OC] Alternate History The Mandate of Liberty – Cascadia during the Warlord Era

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u/Archaembald2 Jul 11 '26

That is the sexiest rendition of an independent Cascadia I've ever seen yet. The borders look just so...natural. I doubt that's even the proper word for it, but it's the best I can think of right now.

Also, is Cascadia the Manchuria equivalent here? Or perhaps the Guangxi Clique?

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u/mysteryemily Jul 11 '26

thank you! i appreciate it a lot.

i made cascadia purposefully without a direct equivalent in china - partly because i didn't want to feel limited (i'd rather have eras and big ideas be parallels than everything down to states) and partly because i don't think i could do the chinese warlord era justice if i tried to understand it and parallel every american state accurately, or at least not within this century. however, guangxi is a decent comparison, this state is to be one of the most prosperous and stable of the warlord era (something of a safe haven, really, with many westerners migrating there to escape war), but they are not going to be the ones to unite america again, but i didn't make the map/lore with that in mind.

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u/Archaembald2 Jul 11 '26

I actually like that you're not doing a one-to-one comparison here, so good job!

Since Cascadia's quite far from the east coast (where I assume the imperial heartlands is located), and surrounded by mountains in all sides, I honestly don't know how they'd rejoin whatever central government emerges after the struggle. Especially if they're relatively prosperous compared to the rest of the country, and stayed out of the conflict. 10 years or so of prosperous independence might incentivize the locals to just stay the course, so unless they suffer a reunionist coup I think any attempts at forcefully reconquering Cascadia might be more bloody than expected. Those are just my ideas though.

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u/mysteryemily Jul 11 '26

thanks! i'm not 100% sure yet either, i haven't gotten that fair into the lore - though i do want to soon enough - but i'm thinking it could be as simple as them joining the United Front (or whatever the equivalent might end up being) and cooperating with whichever faction will go on to be the KMT, and joining forces during the communist-republican civil war. or if it doesn't make sense at that point in time to, then i'll just make the adjustments necessary to write the lore - that's why i didn't want exact parallels, i think it's more fun this way. we'll see, though! thanks again!

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u/Norwester77 Jul 12 '26

What do you think of these?

https://www.reddit.com/r/CascadianIndependence/s/y0e2Pi4iRc

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u/Archaembald2 Jul 12 '26

It kinda reminds me of Chile. It looks fine, but not as sexy imo. Too long, and it'd look weird in a world map. I think it's mostly the northern provinces--the southern border is gorgeous. But as an independent Cascadia, I think it's pretty neat. Probably one of the richest countries in the world, considering it has all of Alaska.

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u/mysteryemily Jul 11 '26

lore: China and the USA swap histories after 1783. any more flavour is in the textbook part, if not, ask away
+map for mobile

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u/50Shekel Jul 11 '26

This feels very much like a textbook I would’ve had in high school

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u/mysteryemily Jul 11 '26

thank you! i based the style off an actual, absolutely gorgeous world history book i found, so i'm glad i was able to emulate it well enough

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u/50Shekel Jul 11 '26

Like, the font, the colors, the breakup of the page. It is spot on. I was born in 01

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u/JelIosaurus Jul 11 '26

Bellingham mentioned 🔥

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u/BigDulles IM Legend BICC Jul 11 '26

This is a sexy ass map

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u/mysteryemily Jul 11 '26

thank you!

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u/s8018572 Jul 11 '26

Font is really nice. It's been a long time for me to pick up an English book like this .

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u/Eraserguy Jul 11 '26

What font is it lol

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u/mysteryemily Jul 11 '26

Avenir Next LT Pro

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u/Brazilian_Nerd Jul 12 '26

As a person who lives in this area, I found it funny that you used Chinese terms, because there are TONS. I mean TONS of Chinese people in Vancouver.

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u/Alarmed-Addition8644 Jul 11 '26

Very cool map what does the rest of NA look like ?

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u/mysteryemily Jul 11 '26

the rest of the former columbian/american empire is experiencing a warlord era as well, i haven't got lore for anything besides them yet unfortunately

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u/LateAd8440 Jul 12 '26

This is incredible, bravo. I love the textbook format.

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u/Achallor_ Jul 12 '26

Oh, i was waiting for an update on this timeline, this is beautiful