Your opinion on a interesting fact about the AN (II)

[Tohorin]

Very intriguing. But we all want to know the real answer to the limits of ese peoples' "esoteric powers" and "advanced skills", .44 Largo is enough to kill 'em, right?

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The climate of this alternate Earth is a bit chillier, in part due to large ice caps and also because of ocean circulation around two "mega continents", resulting in a lot of dustiness (5 to 10 times the normal range compared to old Earth) and also in places at a latitude form 25° and 50° having a more semi-arid climate and areas south of 60° being more temperate. The Equatorial zone and some nearby coastal regions are the only places where forests, evergreens and even tropical grasslands can flourish and are predictably more ecologically diverse.

[Godular]

Very intriguing. Bit we all want to know the real answer to the limits of ese peoples' "esoteric powers" and "advanced skills", .44 Largo is enough to kill 'em, right?

No.

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[Stjerneild]

Very intriguing. But we all want to know the real answer to the limits of ese peoples' "esoteric powers" and "advanced skills", .44 Largo is enough to kill 'em, right?

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The climate of this alternate Earth is a bit chillier, in part due to large ice caps and also because of ocean circulation around two "mega continents", resulting in a lot of dustiness (5 to 10 times the normal range compared to old Earth) and also in places at a latitude form 25° and 50° having a more semi-arid climate and areas south of 60° being more temperate. The Equatorial zone and some nearby coastal regions are the only places where forests, evergreens and even tropical grasslands can flourish and are predictably more ecologically diverse.

Excelente Overview on their cuisine. Now I am hungry...

[Frisia Magna]

Very intriguing. But we all want to know the real answer to the limits of ese peoples' "esoteric powers" and "advanced skills", .44 Largo is enough to kill 'em, right?

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The climate of this alternate Earth is a bit chillier, in part due to large ice caps and also because of ocean circulation around two "mega continents", resulting in a lot of dustiness (5 to 10 times the normal range compared to old Earth) and also in places at a latitude form 25° and 50° having a more semi-arid climate and areas south of 60° being more temperate. The Equatorial zone and some nearby coastal regions are the only places where forests, evergreens and even tropical grasslands can flourish and are predictably more ecologically diverse.

So basically the majority of your world doesn't have woods? I'm not sure if that's terrible or interesting. Probably both. (Or is there a difference between "Woods" and "Forest" that idk about?)

While the concept of class society isn't as relevant in Frisia as it is in the rest of Germanic Europe, the three primary social statuses (Noblemen, Freemen, Thralls) are very important in many matters. While Decretum Libertatis gives each of these classes a lot of leeway in ways that other contemporary legal codes don't (for instance, the oaths of loyalty between the Freemen of Frisia and the nobility are not that of bondage but of subjecthood) it still doesn't change the fact that one of the three groups (which is also larger than the other two) can legally be owned and inherited. The first attempt to rectify this was done by Alfbad IV (the current king's successor) who established that a subject of the Frisian Crown inherits their status the same way a person inherits property. That means the offspring of a thrall and a person who's not a thrall necessarily gets the status of the other spouse. Of course, this was promptly protested by the nobility, because by its very definition this law negates the principle of Left-Handed marriage.

[Borgevia]

Caste systems, similar to Borgovia's old racial caste, is a recipe for stagnation. Noblemen think only of themselves and makes them dangerous for overall social progress.

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Because of Borgovia's unstable Pacific Alliance from the Victorian Era to the start of WWII which consists of France, South America, Thailand, Vietnam, Japan, and China in an attempt to contain British expansion in Asia, the Borgovians and French put more effort making sure the Asian countries like each other enough to not kill one another. For starters, Vietnam and Japan dislike China and do have secret contingency plans should China "act out of line" or how China accepted some form of Western industrialisation since the rest of the Asian countries in the alliance can mass produce weapons and goods that can undercut Chinese supremacy in the region.

Vietnam's culture is almost identical to China's, the Vietnamese Empire (which conquered Laos and Cambodia) industrialised after seeing how successful Japan is,; Japan surpassed Borgovia and second only to France in the alliance. To 'cut away' from being perceived as another 'Chinese state', Vietnam organically adopted bits of French culture as opposed to IRL which was forced on them. Vietnam still uses its Chu Nom characters, and while Saigon is a French port city, Vietnam still took in French Enlightenment Philosophy, Borgovian 'Altruistic Machiavellianism'*, and Japanese Bushido. In the end, Vietnam became a unique society in its own right and culturally deflect the similarity to China despite maintaining a Confucian social norm. When France returned Saigon to the Vietnamese Republic, its adoption is easy since Vietnam already valued French Humanism. Today, while Vietnam is still seen as a Confucian society, it is unique in that you can see their Japanese respect culture, French value of "Equality and Liberty" alongside rationality as a means of solving problems, and Borgovian belief that beauty = good and how there's no such thing as 'morality' if you're helping the less fortunate. Some nationalists tried to erase the French and Borgovian influence, unfortunately.

*Altruistic Machiavellianism is basically "Help the less able, by any means necessary". Vietnam, like Borgovia, is willing to ignore ethics if it means feeding the poor and saving drowning children

[Vulgaro-Graznavian Commonwealth]

I'm hearing about helping without moral brakes. In our country, Arianists calls that people "Samaritans".

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In Slavic countries, the Bloody Ball was played profesionally only from 21st Christian century. But there's a few mentions about this sport from witnesses of the Wa Mać Mountains' Genocide, during the Seventh Bermudinian War. Feldenberg was occupying Graznavia, where they created a puppet chauvinist terrorist group fighting against Vulgaria, called "Graznavian Rebel Clan" (graz. Graznawskije Buntownje Bractwo). GRC's members were very cruel (their methods of killing and tortures were cruel). Sometimes they played Bloody Ball (with Vulgarian baby's head) but usually against defenseless, forcibly playing that game, Vulgarian civilians (with cutted off hands). I also mentioned that Graznavian Rebel Clan's soldiers were cowardly and didn't won any battle with Vulgarian guerrila forces called "The Fist of Freedom" (vulg. Pjiest Wolnosti). In 21st of March in 1912 (christian year), FoF challenged GRC in the Bloody Ball match. The Fist of Freedom defeated Graznavian Rebel Clan (FoF (0 dead players) 8:0 GRC (all 13 players dead). The only loss of FoF in the match was one slightly injured soldier.

[Coryanhafflaruda]

I can imagine that if it was taken worldwide


The Insititute

Truly the first organisational power that arguably brought peace and stability to the underground shelters for almost a hundred years. It follows a autotalitarianist republic government with a socialist economic policies, it was the first to give out hope to the dwellers and tried to improve the shelter's lifestyle. But eventually fell into civil war against it's political rivals, brutal civil wars would continue on to the entirety of the underground era that means for a million years.

[Las Palmeras]

We thought you were referring to the Mexican PRM until you mentioned that second part that involved a civil war. Also a million, that's a lot of time.

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Las Palmeras declared war on Nazi Germany in the 21st of June, 1941 because they kept sinking our merchant ships going to the UK. From there on, all our operations against the Axis were at sea. Though our small navy was State of the Art and expertly-trained, we neglected in raising or modernizing an army and we had no air force, we had a Naval Air Service. Predictably, our biggest feats involved sinking 54 submarines, 2 cruisers and 3 destroyers in the Atlantic and sinking enemy cargo and shooting down enemy planes in the Mediterranean Sea from 1943 and onward.

The only time we fought in land happened during the Battle of Leros (an Aegean island) in the inconclusive Dodecanese Campaign in November of 1943, and even then that's cheating as the units involved belonged to the 4th Tamanshan Bay Special Purpose Landing Forces, a part of the Navy. Also, we destroyed an enemy Panzergrenadier division in the campaign...by sinking it.

[Borgevia]

Despite your military's shortcoming, being able to perform those tasks into completion is praiseworthy nonetheless. Borgovia, also being an Allied nation, commends the effort in your universe.

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Augusto Pinochet and Juan Peron exist in Borgovia's timeline, although neither managed to gain political power. Instead, they clashed with the Reformist President of Borgovia Alfonso Paoli. The difference between the three is that Augusto Pinochet is an Authoritarian Free-Market Capitalist of sort while Juan Peron is akin to a National Socialist. Alfonso Paoli borrowed aspects of Social Democracy, Internationalism which became "Paolism" which is the belief that Democracies are bound to fail and society will collapse if the population isn't educated or informed enough to make use of current knowledge, technologies, and sources to make the most informed decisions. It's the source of influence for Lee Kuan Yew's authoritarian rule of Singapore. What set Paoli apart from the pack is that Alfonso Paoli wants his citizens to be well informed and educated whereas Peron and Pinochet require their followers to be blindly loyal. All three are ruthless nonetheless, except Pinochet and Peron never held power, just populists leading their own movements against Paoli whose end goal is a "pure, honest, transparent democracy after the ignorant are eliminated".

General Pinochet was the first to be eliminated when an SIF agent planted among his ranks found incriminating information about Pinochet's attempt of a coup. He was trialed, and, for his crime of high treason, executed. His followers "disappeared" but some people say his followers were used in medical experiments. Alfonso Paoli was more cruel to Juan Person, since Paoli view Nazism as an ideology of subhumans, and because Peronism resembles it in a way, were killed without trial as Fascism as an ideology is banned in Borgovia. The Federal Police in Buenos Aires burned down Peron's house with his wife "Evita" and his children inside while they were asleep, SIF agents then arrested Juan Peron at his military barrack, interrogating, even torturing his own troops, for more incriminating information for his trial. Juan Peron wasn't cooperative, he kept shouting "Murderers" in regards to his wife and children being burned into cinders and his men waterboarded or drugged up as part of America's extension of MK-Ultra. His base, where his followers reside, were gassed and escapees were gunned down. Juan Peron was found guilty of high treason for having Sympathetic views of Nazism and hanged. With no one in Alfonso's way, his reforms went on unabated: A "War on Poverty" via a National Health Insurance Policy, Reparations to the Germanic/Slavic/Nordic/Central Asian/Mongolian/Hmong population, Education Reform, Public School subsidies, Investments into Small & Medium sized businesses, 0% interest rate loans to startups, and incremental implementation of a "Bill of Rights". The more educated and informed a population is, and the more valid & academically sound their criticism of his reign is, the more he'll concede human rights to them as a 'reward' for being educated.

[Vulgaro-Graznavian Commonwealth]

"I can imagine that if it was taken worldwide"

The size of territory doesn't matter.



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[Federal Commonwealth of Germany]

Quite horrible for a nation to result to killing its opposition to stay in power

The Federal Commonwealth of Germany was formed upon defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II, founded in 1949. The British installed the head of the former Saxon royal house House of Wettin (Parent house of the House of Windsor) to be a unifying figurehead, in 1949 with the formation of West Germany the allies proclaimed Charles Augustus as King Charles I of Germany. The foundation for the influential position held by Germany today was laid during the reign of King Charles I when West Germany rose from the enormous destruction wrought by World War II to become the world's third-largest economy. Following the collapse of communism in Central and Eastern Europe in 1989, East Germany voted to dissolve itself and accede to the Federal Commonwealth in 1990 during the reign of King Wilhelm III. Today Germany is a unitary parliamentary democracy and constitutional monarchy. The current monarch is King Frederick IV, who has reigned since 2017.

[The Fylkirate]

I very much dislike the idea of this Germany, especially because it didn't push for taking Austria, Silesia and Pomerania, and because it's ruled by the Wettin (you'd think the Brits would put a Hanover in charge huh)

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European contact with the New World began with the explorations of the pagan vikings in Greenland in the 980s. Erik the Red, a major Viking explorer, reached North America in 985, probably making contact in what is now Newfoundland. He -alongside other explorers- went southward along the Atlantic Coast until they reached an unmarked area in Central America where their explorations were put to a permanent stop after a major battle in the area. While the majority of the Vikings escaped to their settlements in the North (the famed Vinland, New Valhalla and New Scania), the Skræling tribes managed to take a few of them hostage, learning the Viking method of sea travel. That, of course, came to bite Europe in the ass around 1335 when a large host of those very Skrælings made land in the Visigothic Province of Lusitania, starting the Great Skræling War in the middle of the Black Death.

[Godular]

Ha! Turnabout! How amusingly poetic!

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The central star of the Thorn system used to be a simple red dwarf, on the higher end of the K-class but still only about half as massive as Sol. In an effort to make the system as thoroughly dangerous as possible, the Godulans infused this star with a specific form of extra-universal hydrogen with different physical behaviors. The star now glows white, with an eerie purplish tint and the occasional prismatic flash that accompanies many of the star's flares.

The ionized gas and stellar wind produced by Thorn have a disruptive effect on a wide variety of communications and sensor technology, rendering ships caught within Line-of-Sight to the star effectively deaf and blind. Curiously, it also seems to have a decoherence effect, rendering most any kind of Line-of-Sight communications also ineffective (yet somehow just *seeing stuff* seems to be unaffected). The only safe regions are in relatively small shadow regions behind objects of planetary mass and bulk.

Within these regions, the Godulans have concentrated a significant number of long-range weapons platforms, including one installation of the dreaded Long Arm of the Law. Aided by optical sensor beacons interspersed throughout the system and the fact that of all the things the star disrupts, telepathy isn't one of them, any invaders to the system can expect an uphill battle against an avalanche of weaponry.

Amusingly, just to test if it would work, the Godulans fired a starbuster weapon at Thorn.

It didn't explode. It grew by 20 percent.

The singularity bomb they threw at it exploded into flowers for some reason. They smelled like lavender, with a slight lemon tinge.

[Greater Victora]

"10 bucks says the Godulans went through all the painstaking effort to literally just flex on everyone else...."

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JoJo Stands "canonically" exist within the "GV Universe"

[Godular]

"10 bucks says the Godulans literally only did all this just to flex on everyone else...."

>Insert pic of Macho Man Randy Savage saying 'AND IT BLOCKS FTL TOO'<

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[The Fylkirate]

"10 bucks says the Godulans went through all the painstaking effort to literally just flex on everyone else...."

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JoJo Stands "canonically" exist within the "GV Universe"

To be perfectly fair, it's not the weirdest thing that could happen in your universe. I'm neither a fan of JoJo no have I watched and/or read it so idk

European contact with the New World began with the explorations of the pagan vikings in Greenland in the 980s. Erik the Red, a major Viking explorer, reached North America in 985, probably making contact in what is now Newfoundland. He -alongside other explorers- went southward along the Atlantic Coast until they reached an unmarked area in Central America where their explorations were put to a permanent stop after a major battle in the area. While the majority of the Vikings escaped to their settlements in the North (the famed Vinland, New Valhalla and New Scania), the Skræling tribes managed to take a few of them hostage, learning the Viking method of sea travel. That, of course, came to bite Europe in the ass around 1335 when a large host of those very Skrælings made land in the Visigothic Province of Lusitania, starting the Great Skræling War in the middle of the Black Death.

[The Empire of Occitania]

If these Skrælings managed to invade Europe after only advancements in shipbuilding, they must have been much more advanced for their time than any Native Americans were in OTL. How did Europe deal with these strangers from beyond the sea? I certainly can't imagine the Black Death would've been too kind to them.

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Empress Lúcia, the great granddaughter of Ramon II and one of Occitania's most fondly remembered monarchs, was a famous trobairitz before she acceded the throne in 1319. The majority of her songs and poems focused around themes of love and romance, and unusually for the time, all such works seem to have been dedicated to women. Some even seem to have highlighted her dejection over having been married to someone against her will. Many of her recently rediscovered works also seem to have uncovered a secret romance that blossomed between the Empress and one of her ladies-in-waiting, and as a result, the Occitans consider Lúcia to have been a lesbian and their first homosexual monarch. Her poems are very famous in Occitania and the Occitan-speaking world, and are even taught in Language, Literature, and History lessons in Occitan schools.

[Christenmark]

If these Skrælings managed to invade Europe after only advancements in shipbuilding, they must have been much more advanced for their time than any Native Americans were in OTL. How did Europe deal with these strangers from beyond the sea? I certainly can't imagine the Black Death would've been too kind to them.

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Empress Lúcia, the great granddaughter of Ramon II and one of Occitania's most fondly remembered monarchs, was a famous trobairitz before she acceded the throne in 1319. The majority of her songs and poems focused around themes of love and romance, and unusually for the time, all such works seem to have been dedicated to women. Some even seem to have highlighted her dejection over having been married to someone against her will. Many of her recently rediscovered works also seem to have uncovered a secret romance that blossomed between the Empress and one of her ladies-in-waiting, and as a result, the Occitans consider Lúcia to have been a lesbian and their first homosexual monarch. Her poems are very famous in Occitania and the Occitan-speaking world, and are even taught in Language, Literature, and History lessons in Occitan schools.

reminds me a bit of Nero in the whole area of: "they were an artsy ruler" realm. Not the 'burn Christians to light parties' realm

The Ruhreti are carriers and exressers of an alternate version of the ginger gene, a version which is actually dominant and not recessive.

[Borgevia]

So a nation of redheads? If so, this is interesting given how rare natural red hair is. If I read it wrong, then consider me confused at what you mean.

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It's actually difficult to hold Federal office in Borgovia, as Alfonso Paoli's reform created a strict meritocratic filter allowing only the best of Borgovia's politicians to run for office. It also banned people who held one powerful position from holding another: A Prime Minister can't be President and vice versa. The following are requirements for one to be able to run for President:
- Must be 35 years or over
- Must serve at least a total of 5 years in local government (City, County, State, Region). Experience in Federal Parliament counts on a year-to-year basis.
- Must be a member of the political party you're running for at least 3 terms.
- You must hold a minimum a Masters Degree
- You must pass the "PEHS Exam" or, the "Political Science, Economics, History, Sociology" Exam with a score of 90% or higher during your tenure in local government
- If your Masters Degree is in Political Science or Business, you are required to at least hold one Bachelors or Masters degree in another field
- You must have a minimum of 5 year experience in a non-business, non-political science field. Meaning, you must be a Carpenter, a Programmer, a Music Teacher, or even a Cashier for 5 years alongside having political experience
- You must have documented evidence you've spent a minimum of 1 year living abroad, military service does not count. You are then required to write a report, to the best of your memory, about your experience there and describe their culture, politics, economics, and history to prove you're not a brain damaged moron. Your essay is then to be verified as factual by an expert on said country, including Foreign Ambassadors volunteering their time to verify accuracy.
- You must pass the STEM Exam covering the basics of Information Technology, Mathematics, Physics, Biology, Geology, and Chemistry. Passing score is 80%.
- You must be fluent in English, Spanish, and Italian. An exam will be provided to prove your fluency. Passing score is 70%.

In order to be eligible to represent your party during a Presidential Election, Party Elections are in place where members of said party vote on who they want to represent said party for President. It's a one-day event so the whole nation votes. The winner of the Party Election becomes a Presidential Candidate.

[The Fylkirate]

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I have so many problems with that list, but the most hilarious part is that I can totally see why a tinpot dictator would enforce such a stringent criteria for Head of State because I would do something similar too. If the State controls who can be appointed (by putting retarded criteria as "has to pass history test" when the state is known for its lack of tact and rationalism in historiography (Muh Roman Master Race), then the future politicians will necessarily be cut from the same cloth as Paoli, and isn't that what every State-building politician wants?

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European contact with the New World began with the explorations of the pagan vikings in Greenland in the 980s. Erik the Red, a major Viking explorer, reached North America in 985, probably making contact in what is now Newfoundland. He -alongside other explorers- went southward along the Atlantic Coast until they reached an unmarked area in Central America where their explorations were put to a permanent stop after a major battle in the area. While the majority of the Vikings were killed, the Skræling tribes took a few of them hostage, learning the Viking method of sea travel. The majority of those later escaped to their settlements in the North (the famed Vinland, New Valhalla and New Scania) That, of course, came to bite Europe in the ass around 1335 when a large host of those very Skrælings made land in the Visigothic Province of Lusitania, starting the Great Skræling War in the middle of the Black Death.

[A m e n r i a]

Hold up, so vikings charted all of America, then stopped heading south because the Aztecs beat them in a fight, and Vinland is not Finland but Texas? Or maybe somewhere further north? That's a bloody achievement. Still, how did they lose against the Aztecs if they were badass enough to beat Native Americans all over the continent?

Gender is irrelevant in the order of succession in Amenria. If Tianshi dies after Hyesoo reaches the age of 14, then she would be the ruler of the nation, if her younger brother Jeonsa is below 14. If both are above 14, they can decide who would rule among themselves. If neither wants the throne, they could give it to any of their 13 sisters who were born to Tianshi's concubines. If both want it, they could consult the Patriarchs and Matriarchs of other nobles families or fight for it.

[HypErcApitAl]

Islamic but also Asian.. that's interesting in itself. 'West Asian' isn't really Asian, but Middle Eastern, and it'd be hard for me to imagine an Islamic Korea or Japan. Islamic China? (See Xinjiang or Xibet San Ma)

[A m e n r i a]

Islamic but also Asian.. that's interesting in itself. 'West Asian' isn't really Asian, but Middle Eastern, and it'd be hard for me to imagine an Islamic Korea or Japan. Islamic China? (See Xinjiang or Xibet San Ma)

That's irrelevant to my post, but thanks! Think of it like real life China but futuristic and with a nicer government. /Skip

[The Fylkirate]

Hold up, so vikings charted all of America, then stopped heading south because the Aztecs beat them in a fight, and Vinland is not Finland but Texas? Or maybe somewhere further north? That's a bloody achievement. Still, how did they lose against the Aztecs if they were badass enough to beat Native Americans all over the continent?

Gender is irrelevant in the order of succession in Amenria. If Tianshi dies after Hyesoo reaches the age of 14, then she would be the ruler of the nation, if her younger brother Jeonsa is below 14. If both are above 14, they can decide who would rule among themselves. If neither wants the throne, they could give it to any of their 13 sisters who were born to Tianshi's concubines. If both want it, they could consult the Patriarchs and Matriarchs of other nobles families or fight for it.

1- Vinland, OTL, was a semi-mythological (but possibly historic) Viking Colony in North America, probably either in Newfoundland or Nova Scotia. TTL's Vinland is in Newfoundland.
2- They didn't "beat" everyone, they were just exploring along the coast to chart their maps for future exploration, they only met sparse opposition because nobody really minded the weird-ass pale men until the Skrælings in Central America decided they didn't like these weird-ass pale idiots so much but loved their sea-snakes (ships) instead. /skip

[A m e n r i a]

Hold up, so vikings charted all of America, then stopped heading south because the Aztecs beat them in a fight, and Vinland is not Finland but Texas? Or maybe somewhere further north? That's a bloody achievement. Still, how did they lose against the Aztecs if they were badass enough to beat Native Americans all over the continent?

Gender is irrelevant in the order of succession in Amenria. If Tianshi dies after Hyesoo reaches the age of 14, then she would be the ruler of the nation, if her younger brother Jeonsa is below 14. If both are above 14, they can decide who would rule among themselves. If neither wants the throne, they could give it to any of their 13 sisters who were born to Tianshi's concubines. If both want it, they could consult the Patriarchs and Matriarchs of other nobles families or fight for it.

1- Vinland, OTL, was a semi-mythological (but possibly historic) Viking Colony in North America, probably either in Newfoundland or Nova Scotia. TTL's Vinland is in Newfoundland.
2- They didn't "beat" everyone, they were just exploring along the coast to chart their maps for future exploration, they only met sparse opposition because nobody really minded the weird-ass pale men until the Skrælings in Central America decided they didn't like these weird-ass pale idiots so much but loved their sea-snakes (ships) instead. /skip

Ahh okay. Thanks.

/Still me