Parallel universe is precisely the term I was thinking of, although you'll have to forgive me if my fascination with your Terra overwhelms the conversation. Implications of the parallels aside, I like when my conception of normality gets tossed back into my face. I've much to learn in more ways than one.
[ The characters for this "Japan", for example, are a bit less self-evident than Higashi, but perhaps whoever named this Nihon had some opinions about the common culture? A country named after its books doesn't seem all that bad. ]
So that would make you similar to the Lung people, or perhaps the Oni of Higashi... I see. If we're looking at where or how our histories diverged, I suppose we'd have to look back to see if there was one common event that we had in common? Recorded history of the common era of Terra started a little over a millennium ago, during the Nightzmoran conquest... Before that, most history is legend or myth.
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[ The characters for this "Japan", for example, are a bit less self-evident than Higashi, but perhaps whoever named this Nihon had some opinions about the common culture? A country named after its books doesn't seem all that bad. ]
So that would make you similar to the Lung people, or perhaps the Oni of Higashi... I see. If we're looking at where or how our histories diverged, I suppose we'd have to look back to see if there was one common event that we had in common? Recorded history of the common era of Terra started a little over a millennium ago, during the Nightzmoran conquest... Before that, most history is legend or myth.