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Comparative Timeline of the Settlement of Dragon Pass

Posted on March 30, 2024

From time to time I think it is worth reminding that the settlement of Dragon Pass after the Inhuman Occupation has a shorter history than the British colonies in North America + the United States. Sartar himself became a god about as long ago from the “present” as we are from the time most Call of Cthulhu games are set.

Here’s a handy chart that helps put things in perspective. All associations are idiosyncratic and are pretty much the first thing that pops into mind. Don’t be pedantic about the dates assume they are all +/- 10 years or so.

I picked US history because that’s where the largest number of group members are from.

And such well-educated people as in this group, you all should be familiar with the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Missouri Compromise. I suppose I could have replaced Kansas-Nebraska Act with the Mexican-American War, and the Missouri Compromise with Andrew Jackson, but those were what first came to mind.

So the Kingdom of Sartar is much newer than the Lunar Empire? That is an important realisation. The Lunar Empire would extend back to the time of the English Civil War, and the Red Goddess appeared about the time of the Plymouth Bay Colony. Sartar is a much newer kingdom with its founding just beyond the edge of living memory (which is what the 1920s are for Call of Cthulhu as a setting).

The foundation of the Lunar Empire is long past living memory and is in the realm of abstract statement or mythological story.

Would most Sartarites trace their national / cultural identity back to Sartar, or much further back? I suspect most Sartarites trace their identity to Sartar. They view themselves as Sartarites, not Heortlanders or Kethaelans or something even more abstract like Heortling.

Jeff Richard

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