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Given Calémere's division in two very different "blocs" (even though there is a sizable Third Bloc of not quite aligned countries), the leaders of each bloc's respective most prominent countries may be said to be the most powerful people on the planet. Currently (2312/4E Ɛ1 <small>(133<sub>10</sub>)</small>), they are Pétéro Bafín, Prime Minister of Ceria, and Hæliyoušāvi Dhīvajhūyai ''Lairė'', Great Inquisitor of the Chlouvānem Inquisition. | Given Calémere's division in two very different "blocs" (even though there is a sizable Third Bloc of not quite aligned countries), the leaders of each bloc's respective most prominent countries may be said to be the most powerful people on the planet. Currently (2312/4E Ɛ1 <small>(133<sub>10</sub>)</small>), they are Pétéro Bafín, Prime Minister of Ceria, and Hæliyoušāvi Dhīvajhūyai ''Lairė'', Great Inquisitor of the Chlouvānem Inquisition. | ||
==External History== | |||
This section may also be named "why Calémere has so many similarities with Earth". When I started my first attempts at proto-conworlding (which also slowly led me to conlanging), when I was 9 or 10, my early "conlands" were mainly areas on alternative Earths, or, increasingly commonly in the next years, just located on planets - not on coherent, unified conworlds, though - where apart from the one or few conlands I was focussing on there were many other, unspecified lands that were like Earth renamed. I never did any map for them nor did I sketch their languages; I just invented a few names and mapped almost 1:1 countries on Earth to these vaguely defined countries, so that if I had to name some characters I could just use names from the languages of the original countries. For example I remember having a large continent named "Puretàn" that was like America (sometimes I did even mention "Northern Puretàn" and "Southern Puretàn" as distinct entities); I had nations like "Trinia" which was basically Spain, "Pulwaria" which was a renamed version of France, and so on. | |||
When I, in 2014, started conlanging in a more serious way, I decided to join everything in a single conworld. While I did everything anew, I still kept more or less the same setting, with a main nation culturally and geographically opposite the "Western" sphere - basically the Chlouvānem Inquisition or whatever preceded it opposite Europe or renamed Europe in the previous settings, Evandor on Calémere.<br/> | |||
This external history is basically why five continents of Calémere are geographically and often historically quite similar to others on Earth: Evandor to Europe, Márusúturon to Asia, Védren to Africa, Púríton to the Americas, and Queáten to Oceania. It is obviously not equal to Earth as there are spaces missing from them (like, where is South America gone? Or Central Asia? Siberia?) and their different dimensions as well as different "connecting spaces" have a huge impact on giving (or at least trying to give) Calémere that "it is familiar but it also isn't" atmosphere I personally try to aim at, but the West-East opposed relationships are just as alive as they were in my earlier proto-conworlding projects. As for Ceránento, Fárásen, and Ogúviutón, honestly the real reason why I decided to add them was "I want/need land in the southern hemisphere", but I take the fact they exist as a stimulus to make me characterize them more; given that such a presence is not something that really has analogues on Earth, it's probably going to be the most difficult part of my conworlding... but I am surely not going just to take them away or leave them as uninteresting, only mentioned places: time will tell what I'll make of them. | |||
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