What happens when you meet your doppelganger?
Actually it is best not to.
In my case – creating a Mythical Realm is not normally a problem because I tend to invent some totally separate location that just happens to have the same oxygen, societies, nature, science and warfare of the period I want to plunder.
And then occasionally real history just cries out to be used. Italy is a regular case in point for me. Most recently I was on a Normans in the South (NitS) splurge before crashing into Faux Napoleonics by Renaissance Troll.
One thing has led to another and one minute I was on the Wars of the Italian Unification (WotIU) – kepis, garibaldi and kettels, next I am thinking how to do Napoleonics without Napoleon, Wellington or Blucher etc.
Well I have solved the problem – it is a Vardoger Planet – ok maybe it is a sort of doppelganger.
The story is this.
Once upon a time there was a planet – called Earth and in front of it so to speak was another planet called Earth which experienced everything just that bit earlier. And so the worlds trundled along except that one day there was a small ripple and it was a very small ripple.
No one noticed because no one knew. Well I guess someone knew because I would not be telling you this.
We live on the first planet, or lead planet. The “Vardoger” one. Now our following planet is just slightly different.
Welcome to “Fauxterre” where things are just slightly different.
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