Why is the Warhammer Fantasy world so similar to Earth?

Looks like a generic fantasy world map to me.

>>52309020
because it's a fantasy version of it

duh

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>>52309020
>why does something look like the thing it's based on?

I honestly have no idea.

>>52309020

Because it's the backstory for warhammer 49k.

Funsies?

>>52309035
>generic
Oh look, its someone who can't make a criticism that is specific.

>>52309020
I will never be able to get over "Nippon".

>>52309205
Araby speaks Arabic, you know.

>>52309344
At least it's a bit different, but "Nippon" is a real name of this place. They at least changed "Ind" a tiny bit, but it seems they gave less fuck as they went eastwards.

>>52309020
Old Ones made Earth and the Warhammer World. Probably just last copy/pasta job.

>>52309020
It's not entirely similar. They moved Greenland from northeast of Canada to southwest of Japan.

>>52309020
OOOOHHHHHH ITS LIKE EARTH NOW I GET IT

>>52309020
It *is* earth.
Distortions of the map are the Empire's poor cartography.
Also, Atlantis hasn't sunken yet.

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>>52309035
I know, right?

>>52311527
Ooh. dint know the reason the world was like earth but different-shaped is because the empire cant map

>>52309020
Why not just use the actual world map though? This always bothered me

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>>52309495
>>52309495
Why didn´t they use some of the archaic names of Japan instead? Maybe Wa? Or Wakuni? (like Land of harmony-Wa no kuni) or Fuso, Fusang? Becasuse that was a mysterious land in the East with a tree io life(which might´ve bben a mullberry, pic related) in Chinese tradition
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wa_(Japan)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusang

>>52312049
Short version is that at the time of Nippon's creation they likely had no idea those names existed and didn't have access to anything like Wikipedia to go research it, and thus getting it right would require a trip to the library to HOPEFULLY find an accurate book on the subject matter of ancient names of easy Asian counties, all so they could accurately name a location they weren't even going to ever use anyway.

>>52311924
Because it's not the real world and Canada was never ruled by Dark Elves.
And because the full world map was only slowly developed over a long period of time, at which point there were already lots of inconsistencies with real-world geography.

>>52309020

It's not entirely the same, they entirely deleted Scotland and Ireland right off the map.

Albion is basically the most southern part of the British isles.

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>>52312108
I knew that it ´d be annoying to actually do historical research around the 80, but I was just poking fun at how lazy the name is. Kara-Tur actually has a Japan-themed country called Wa which has an Emperor (who actually has a bow with arrows that banish evil, nice touch.) a shogun and shapeshifter sprits and all that nice stuff. I would´ve liked it more if they ´d riffed on the Orochi myth instead, but that might´ ve been a little overplayed. Or was it, back when Kara-Tur was released? I don´t know actually.

>Arabian peninsula nonexistant
>calling West Africa "Araby"

what were those cartographers smoking

>>52312049
Japan also had Zipangu as it's name.

>>52312782
What an odd word,Shanghai folk sure talk funny.
>Shanghainese, like other Wu variants, is mutually unintelligible with other varieties of Chinese outside of the Wu region such as Mandarin, sharing just 29% lexical similarity with the Mandarin heard in Beijing.[1]
>mutually unintelligible with other varieties of Chinese.
I didn´t know, I was just poking fun at them.

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>>52309020
Why not? It's s good as any.
If only they explored it more...

>>52312049
nobody cared enough

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>>52309020
They're nothing alike. Earth hasn't been blown up yet.

>>52313152
>Earth hasn't been blown up yet.
it blew up twice already, get with the times

>>52309154
Oh look, anon didn't get the joke and now he's upset that someone is pointing this fact out.

>>52309020
everyone's familiar with it st first glance and can assume the general climates/roles of the factions.

it's an easy way to have suggestive locations without spelling out every detail, you immediately know that Norscans are fantasy Scandinavia, you immediately recognize Ulthuan as fantasy Atlantis, and you immediately recognize the Badlands as the stinking wastleand shithole that is the Balkans.

Other Settings do that too, but Warhammer is bold enough to be blunt about it and not cloud it under some pretenses of artistic integrity.

>>52313361

Oh look, anon didn't realize I was only pretending to be retarded.

Fucking trolled m8 :))))

>>52309020

If it isn't broke, don't fix it.

>>52311863
I fucking love this pic.

>>52312108

Pretty much this I imagine.

I like the way Tolkien only fleshed out a tiny part of Middle-Earth (less than a continent) and everyone praises his world building but because GW didn't detail the entirety of the globe they were lazy. They concentrated on one area so they would have half a chance of doing it in some detail.

Plus they were all history graduates, so they weren't idiots but what's the point of that much effort for a throwaway line?

>>52309495
Nippon is actually the Dutch mispronounciation of the Japanese name "Nihon".