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======The World Further======

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The top left island seems to be labelled with [[:eirsace|'Unofficial Territories of Eirsace.']] Below that, the lone island is named [[:luat_na-bonswi|'Luat na-Bonswi.']] There is a cluster of islands at the bottom of the map named [[:anastius_horasa|'Anastius & Horasa.']] There is a large land mass on the right side of the map that curls around to the left, connecting to a smaller circular mass in the centre. The section which is furthest to the right is named [[:jotama|'Jotama.']] The smaller circular mass is named [[:din_talin|'Din Talin.']] There is illegible writing in the bottom left corner, and a signature in the bottom right. The Map is titled: 'World Map by [[gms_and_npcs#ace|Peregrine Scott]].'
===== The Beginning of the End =====

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>//"Once they had begun, 'Signs' of the end fell like dominoes. The next Sign noted in most prominent fearmongering periodicals of the decade were the flash floods of Luat na-Bonswi. It is obvious that such a drastic climactic change cannot have come from anything but a suitably drastic cause, but with the benefit of hindsight, a far more useful truth-finding strategy than the invocation of mass hysteria such that everyone simultaneously forgot to use their brains would have been for the number of Taline environmental agencies headquartered in Luat na-Bonswi to have conducted thorough surveys of the coastal region in the year following the evacuation.\\
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I am not blind, dear readers, to the unsympathetic manner in which I might be being perceived. Remember, though, that I do not call it 'fearmongering' flippantly -- I wish only to convey that pessimism in and of itself serves not one fraction of the purpose that any other response to devastating crises would. For us to concern ourselves more with pattern-spotting and soothsaying than with using the data available to enact preventative measures -- to ensure that, no matter how much we as a globe are rocked, we can steady ourselves once more -- is nothing but a fool's errand, and I shall say it proudly.\\
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There is no such thing as 'the end'. Time flies forward like an arrow, and those determined that the devastation will only continue till the arrow embeds itself in the ever-nearing heart of the cosmos are fools. **I** do not foresee that the devastating events will continue. **I** do not foresee that the dominoes will continue to fall. I foresee that this is but a mere dip, as dips come and go, in the history of humankind -- that elongated sine-shaped curve that maps out the inevitable highs and lows of our species.\\
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I speak from the bottom of a valley; it cannot get much lower than this. And once it is all over, and we find ourselves climbing steadily out of this valley toward the next peak of progress, we can look back and ask ourselves, 'Why did we panic? Why did we"//
//-- The closing excerpt of Frances Korrapati's paper, "A Doom-Critical Empiricist's Perspective on the Social Phenomenon of 'The Beginning of the End'", left unfinished before her sudden death in 2099.//

=====List of Nations=====

[[din_talin|Din Talin]]

[[Anastius & Horasa]]

[[Eirsace]]

[[Jotama]]

[[Luat na-Bonswi]]