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A Dark Fic Alternate History from AlternateHistory.com, written by its member D'Valdron. The story concerns a world that is to all appearances like ours, until Captain Cook discovers an enormous, technically sophisticated civilization in Antarctica that has been developing on its own, quite unaware of the rest of humanity. The people there are not friendly. The timeline starts with the colonization of a more livable Antarctica by a small group of swept-away prehistoric humans from Australia, and follows the development of society and technology on the southernmost continent. And a truly bizarre and often horrifying civilization it is...Can be read here if you're a member of AlternateHistory.com and here if you are not. Its overview on the AH.com wiki can be found here. For easier reading, said overview now comes with a handy chapter guide. (currently, it is still under construction, but should be finished soon).See also Lands of Red and Gold, a an alternate history project also about Aboriginal Australians that takes a more grounded approach.
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The Tsalmothua are cannibals.
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Speculative Biology
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Most of the Speculative Biology is rather well done, making use of obscure clades that lived in continents adjacent to Antarctica in the early Cenozoic. The same cannot be said for the "koalas", a type of carnivorous marsupial identical to the unrelated Australian variety (which mind you is a hyper-stupid herbivore with smooth teeth and brains) with parasitoid wasp-like breeding behaviours (unknown in mammals and unlikely to ever evolve due to how altricial their young are) that are transmitted via a baculum (marsupials and other non-placental mammals lack it, they are exclusive to placentals since they evolved from the epipubic bones more common in "archaic" mammals).
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Cruel and Unusual Death
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Cruel and Unusual Death: See the Hali's torture methods. The Ptahr sometimes douse exiles in female Shaghui urine and then send them out onto the plains, where the male Shaghut roam. Some other methods involving animals are being parasitized by a Southern Koala, or the "reverse kiss" of the Shupa.
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Breaking the Fourth Wall
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Breaking the Fourth Wall: One update of this timeline takes the form of the author roleplaying as a modern Tsalal member of an alternate version of AH.com, posting on an "ask me" thread.
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Adam and Eve Plot
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Adam and Eve Plot: Antarctica's founding population was one man, Tsa, plus a nuclear family. For thousands of years, the Tsalal are all descended exclusively from them. Downplayed in that plenty of people were alive and well elsewhere on the planet.
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Church Militant
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Church Militant: Several examples of Tsalal religious authorities that form a state within a state.
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I Love the Dead
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The Yag are necrophiliacs.
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Crapsack World
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Crapsack World: Antarctica is not a nice place at the best of times— and that's even before factoring in the Tsalal.
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I'm a Humanitarian
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I'm a Humanitarian: Cannibalism is fairly common among the Tsalal, with the exception of the Yag.
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People Zoo
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People Zoo: Irish in Tsalal zoos are quite popular.
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The Bad Guy Wins
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The Bad Guy Wins: This happens repeatedly in Tsalal history. That's how Antarctica gets the way it does.
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Butterfly of Doom
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Butterfly of Doom: Averted until around the 18th-19th century, when Europeans start venturing closer to Antarctica.
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Land of One City
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Land of One City: During the 19th century, Argentina is reduced to Greater Buenos Aires.
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Phallic Weapon
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Phallic Weapon: Southern koalas have a venomous barb evolved from the penis bone.
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Even Evil Has Standards
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Even Evil Has Standards: The Nightmare Children, Child Soldiers who were raised to be complete and utter psychopaths from birth, were viewed as horrific and cruel even by the Tsalal. The Cold Islanders' totalitarianism and penchant for mad science have made them pariahs among all the other Tsalal civilizations.
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Explosive Breeder
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Devils were introduced to China to control rat populations, unfortunately, by 1936, their population had skyrocketed, leading to large parts of Shanghai being firebombed to destroy the swarm. It's been theorized that the government never fully exterminated them, and a mega-swarm is predicted to break out around 2012-2014.
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In the Original Klingon
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In the Original Klingon: Tsalal claim Charles Dickens as one of them.
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Schizo Tech
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Schizo Tech: The Tsalal discover things like coal mining, rocketry, and domesticated monkeys way, way ahead of time. Guns, not so much.
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Black Speech
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Black Speech: Most Tsalal languages sound this to people from the outside world.
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Cold-Blooded Torture
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Cold-Blooded Torture: Too many to count, but the Hali culture is the most infamous practitioner of this. And they do it For the Evulz.
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Always Chaotic Evil
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The Cold Islanders are Always Chaotic Evil, so much so that all the other Tsalal cultures fear them more than anyone else.
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Everyone Is Bi
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Everyone Is Bi: More like "Everyone of the Tsalal is bi, if it's a way of degrading your inferiors or their dead bodies (depending on your culture)". Especially if the body's going to be part of the buffet that night.
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Affably Evil
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Affably Evil: The Hali culture. They'll invite you into their homes, politely respect your differences of opinion, and engage you in a discussion about the translated works of Charles Dickens. And then you find out that the Hali's hat is that of the Torture Technician. Even their women and children enjoy it as a recreational activity. As an example, Howard Philips relates the story of a Hali man he was talking to about Charles Dickens who, out of nowhere, suddenly revealed that he had sewn an enemy's face onto... somewhere unmentionable. The Yag (or at least, the Yag government officials) who captured the first Europeans to land in Antarctica also count, as they treated their "guests" relatively well, even letting them have their own dwellings. Meanwhile they, like all Yag, are necrophiles.
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Snow Means Death
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Snow Means Death: The Tsalal attitude, and why they fear the color white. Justified by the long, deadly, and very snowy winter, as well as the massive, uninhabitable glaciers in some antarctic regions.
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Eviler than Thou
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Eviler than Thou: The other Tsalal consider the Cold Islanders to be this for reasons that an outsider would consider trivial, such as wearing the color white. And being obsessed with creating "Remade Men".
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Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp"
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Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp": Averted. Antarctica actually has a surprisingly detailed ecology of unique animals. Most of them are based on the prehistoric animals native to Australia and South America, of which they are evolved forms, specialized to the insanely hostile Antarctic climate and ecosystem.
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Names to Run Away from Really Fast
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Names to Run Away from Really Fast: The first King in Yellow, Iskr, has the sobriquet of "the Childraper". One later Tsalal civilization is named "the Necrophile Empire".
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Death World
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Death World: Even without the sociopathic populations in which murder, rape, cannibalism, and worse are normalized, and not counting the native wildlife (see Everything Trying to Kill You below), Antarctica still gets cold enough in winter to kill anyone unlucky enough to be left outside.
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Planet of Hats
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Planet of Hats: A rare one world example. All the major Tsalal cultures have defining traits. The Tsalmothua are cannibals. The Yag are necrophiliacs. The Zhu believe that God wants to kill them. The Ptahr are proud warriors who are also rapists and zoophiles. The Hali are cultured Torture Technicians. The Ghault are drunkards ruled by a matriarchy. The Cold Islanders are Always Chaotic Evil, so much so that all the other Tsalal cultures fear them more than anyone else.
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Chupacabra
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Chupacabra: The Chupa/Shupa is a very obvious expy.
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But Not Too Foreign
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But Not Too Foreign: Johnny Tsalal, a third-generation half-Tsalal who Hunter S. Thompson travels with. Hunter takes comfort in this.
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Polar Madness
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Polar Madness: On a societal level for the Tsalal. Their Blue-and-Orange Morality is the product of the Death World they find themselves in, with the bitter cold, deadly fauna and othe Tsalal cultures. It's exaggerated with the Cold Islanders, who all of the mainland Tsalal are terrified of.
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Killer Rabbit
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Killer Rabbit: The Kuddly Kritter or Tsalal Koala looks like a big Australian Koala Bear and is one of the nastiest species from Antarctica.
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Prison Rape
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Prison Rape: The Ptahr culture is built on it. Ironically, the same culture also lacks real prison.
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God Is Evil
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The Zhu believe that God wants to kill them.
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Horse of a Different Color
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Horse of a Different Color: The Tsalal use the native animals of Antarctica as beasts of burden and rides, ranging from the sloth-like Shaghui to the multi-trunked Astropotheres and the insectoid Mothbeasts.
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Horrifying the Horror
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Horrifying the Horror: The Antarctic koala terrifies even the Tsalal. It wasn't them who exported it to the rest of the world, even they know better.
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The Alcoholic
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The Ghault are drunkards ruled by a matriarchy.
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Child Supplants Parent
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Child Supplants Parent: In times of famine, it's perfectly acceptable in Tsalal culture for a boy to kill and eat his father, and then take his mother and sister as his wives. That is assuming his father doesn't do it first. And of course it be perfectly acceptable in Tsalal culture for a daughter to kill her own mother and take her brother and father as her husbands as well.
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Yowies and Bunyips and Drop Bears, Oh My
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Yowies and Bunyips and Drop Bears, Oh My: The Southern Koala is a drop bear with some flavoring of Xenomorphs. A dreaded taboo creature even for the Tsalal.
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Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil
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Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: Not to the Tsalal, particularly the Ptarh and the Yag.
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These Are Things Man Was Not Meant to Know
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These Are Things Man Was Not Meant to Know: Tsalal art can be disturbing. Extremely. For the Tsalal, the glacier at the center of Antarctica is so evil that they refuse to give it a name, and some groups refuse to ever see it, since it is considered to be the source of all suffering and death.
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Proud Warrior Race Guy
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The Ptahr are proud warriors who are also rapists and zoophiles.
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Ominous Owl
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Ominous Owl: Not technically an owl, but the Antarctic Teratorn's round, ear-tufted faces are very owl-like. They're also some of the nastiest birds you'll ever meet.
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Sewer Gator
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Sewer Gator: A primate example. During a 2014 radio Q&A about invasive species, Dr. Jarrod Aseneskak is asked about the possibility of Gugs living in the New York sewer system. He explains that there was one who survived down there for about a month back in the 1960's, but it died. Nowadays, with so many cameras, it'd be impossible for them to survive down there undetected. Except he's wrong. There are whole families of Gugs who've made their home in the New York sewer, disguising themselves as homeless people with hats and overcoats. And there have been many cases of missing pets and persons attributed to them...
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More Teeth than the Osmond Family
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More Teeth than the Osmond Family: The Devils, lampshaded in-series.
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Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Yeti
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Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Yeti: The Gugs are gorilla-sized primates, and several colonies have been recorded in mountainous areas around the world, as well as the New York City subway.
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More Deadly Than the Male
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Invading Refugees: All the time. The Tsalal live in a Crapsack World, so when things get slightly worse, they usually respond by migrating to a different part of Antarctica and making war on the people there. The Zhu's ethnogenesis was their invasion by the Qys, who forced them to flee in boats on and become the Sea Peoples/Vikings of Antarctica. The "Suffering Path" became an integral part of their religion, and the Qys (by then extinct) were mythologized into demons sent by god to destroy the Zhu. Iskr, the King in Yellow, united hordes of refugees fleeing the Zhu to overthrow the settled Hali and found the kingdom of Carcosa. The Starvation Army was formed by an alliance of Dragon Islanders fleeing famine in their home islands, and laid waste to pretty much everyone else, all while constantly starving and culling their own forces. The combination of wars, famine, and societal collapse eventually led to the death of at least 75% of the population of Antarctica. After learning about the outside world, the 1816 eruption of Mount Tambora disrupted Tsalal society profoundly, as they felt like the world was ending a second time — but this time they had somewhere to flee to. The refugees ended up conquering Chile and Argentina, the Southern Island of New Zealand, and part of Western Australia (and settling in large numbers in South Africa).
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Beneath the Earth: The Tsalal created numerous subterranean settlements called sunken cities. Tcho-Tcho is the biggest sunken city, home to more than two million Tsalal, many unique species, and the oldest still-inhabited known human city.
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Crippling Castration
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Crippling Castration: Happens to James Cook, courtesy of the Tsalal.
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Luke Nounverber
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Luke Nounverber: The Tsalal have a mythological hero whose title is "the childraper".
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Demonization
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The Zhu's ethnogenesis was their invasion by the Qys, who forced them to flee in boats on and become the Sea Peoples/Vikings of Antarctica. The "Suffering Path" became an integral part of their religion, and the Qys (by then extinct) were mythologized into demons sent by god to destroy the Zhu.
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Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot
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Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: The author described the Flayermen as "sort of like Nazi Pedophile Vampire Ninja, except unfriendly and evil".
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Feathered Fiend: Antarctic teratorns are two-hundred-pound acid-spewing, horn-tufted killer birds with faces sort of like a big cat, a tiger or lion, except with a jagged beak instead of a muzzle.
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Knight Templar
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Knight Templar: Most Tsalal religions are very dogmatic.
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Hope Spot: The first Yag culture was one of the nicest Tsalal civilizations around, despite their penchant for Human Sacrifice. They had advanced technology, had a proto-democratic system of government, and abstained from cannibalism. Then Urtulu destroyed the Water Kings' dams, causing a great flood that destroyed the settlements of the First Yag. There were survivors, but the "civilized" Yag were gone, replaced with the brutal necrophiliacs that would later form the great Yag empires.
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Bestiality Is Depraved
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Bestiality Is Depraved: Some species of hive monkeys were bred specifically to use the females as concubines for the Tsalal. The Ptahr are said to have a particularly... close relationship with their Shaghut mounts.
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Kangaroos Represent Australia
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Kangaroos Represent Australia: The Sicaripods, kangaroo-like marsupials with deadly claws on their feet. They come in different sizes, from small mouse-like critters to man-sized beasts.
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Shout-Out
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Shout-Out: To Edgar Allan Poe and his famous adventure/horror novella The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. The very name of the disturbing Antarctic natives of this Alternate History is kind of a dead giveaway. The story by Poe featured the "Tsalal", black-skinned, black-toothed evil natives living near the South Pole. The author has acknowledged this series was Inspired by… them. Also, to virtually every other Mysterious Antarctica piece of fiction ever written. Including those by H. P. Lovecraft : The Plateau of Leng, complete with weird landscape, architecture and really disturbing inhabitants. That, and Lovecraft himself is a journalist in this Alternate History, who travels to Antarctica to study all the weird and creepy native civilizations (and get some ideas for his short stories, presumably). Another Lovecraft shout out is the name of the city of Tcho-Tcho, named after his race of cannibalistic Mythos-worshipers. Some others are the Gugs, a species of gorilla-sized rapist monkeys, and the Shantak, a gigantic, acid-spitting bird of prey. There's also mention of an astropothere species with a "face full of tentacles". To The King in Yellow, not only with the obvious "Kings in Yellow", but also by using other names supposedly present in the fictional play, like Hali. To Robert E. Howard and Conan the Barbarian, specifically the story The Tower of the Elephant, with the name of the dead Tsalal culture of Yag. The names of some of the coal kingdoms are subtle puns on Nat King Cole and Old King Cole.
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My Species Doth Protest Too Much
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My Species Doth Protest Too Much: To some extent, Chal Lovegrove, the Tsalal interviewed in "Ask Me About Tcho-Tcho!". While he's quick to defend the Tsalal people from the flak it gets from the rest of the modern world, he still considers cannibalism and torture to be abhorrent, and has even joined an Anti-Cannibalism League that persuaded many restaurants to take Human Resources off the menu.
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The Alliance
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The Alliance: The Southern Pact, an alliance of European and South American countries against the expansive Tsalal in Southern Cone.
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Child Soldiers
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The Nightmare Children, Child Soldiers who were raised to be complete and utter psychopaths from birth, were viewed as horrific and cruel even by the Tsalal.
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In Spite of a Nail
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In Spite of a Nail: Something happened that Antarctica didn't got completely frozen like in OTL. Yet world history still went on exactly the same until the Tsalal got into the picture, by pure accident.
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Artistic Licence – Biology: Most of the Speculative Biology is rather well done, making use of obscure clades that lived in continents adjacent to Antarctica in the early Cenozoic. The same cannot be said for the "koalas", a type of carnivorous marsupial identical to the unrelated Australian variety (which mind you is a hyper-stupid herbivore with smooth teeth and brains) with parasitoid wasp-like breeding behaviours (unknown in mammals and unlikely to ever evolve due to how altricial their young are) that are transmitted via a baculum (marsupials and other non-placental mammals lack it, they are exclusive to placentals since they evolved from the epipubic bones more common in "archaic" mammals). Many Antarctic species manage to quickly become invasive in places such as North America and Asia, to the point where animals as common as raccoons have become endangered. As a general rule, introduced species are more likely to become invasive in a landmass smaller than their native one, and are likely to due out if forced into competition with species that evolved in a larger landmass.
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Call a Smeerp a "Rabbit"
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Call a Smeerp a "Rabbit": Several of the Antarctic animals are named after unrelated Outer World species, like the Wasp Weasel, a venomous, parasitic mammal.
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Introduced Species Calamity: Pretty much any Antarctic species that makes it to the rest of the world becomes horribly invasive, some of them managing to thrive even in the tropics. Interestingly, it seems to not work the other way, since while rats, pigs, and dogs have been introduced to Antarctica, the native wildlife is more than a match for them. Devils were introduced to China to control rat populations, unfortunately, by 1936, their population had skyrocketed, leading to large parts of Shanghai being firebombed to destroy the swarm. It's been theorized that the government never fully exterminated them, and a mega-swarm is predicted to break out around 2012-2014. Hive monkeys have displaced raccoons and other small-to-medium sized omnivores in North America, and are capable of killing humans. Gugs have established populations in the Alps and the sewers of New York. Southern koalas have infested and caused the depopulation of large portions of the Amazon, Congo, and Southeast Asia. They can survive in the tropics, it just makes them more aggressive. Likewise with wasp-weasels, a venomous mammal that some people theorize were deliberately introduced as biological terrorism. Fire ants (that is, ants that can start small fires) have been introduced to other continents, where they cause wildfires.
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Mysterious Antarctica
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Also, to virtually every other Mysterious Antarctica piece of fiction ever written. Including those by H. P. Lovecraft : The Plateau of Leng, complete with weird landscape, architecture and really disturbing inhabitants. That, and Lovecraft himself is a journalist in this Alternate History, who travels to Antarctica to study all the weird and creepy native civilizations (and get some ideas for his short stories, presumably). Another Lovecraft shout out is the name of the city of Tcho-Tcho, named after his race of cannibalistic Mythos-worshipers. Some others are the Gugs, a species of gorilla-sized rapist monkeys, and the Shantak, a gigantic, acid-spitting bird of prey. There's also mention of an astropothere species with a "face full of tentacles".
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Torture Technician: The Hali have raised torture to an art form, and practice it as a hobby. Hali families even participate in this as a family outing, torturing animals or outsiders.
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Totalitarian Utilitarian
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Totalitarian Utilitarian: The Cold Islanders subscribe to a particularly extreme version of utilitarianism, where a person only matters so far as what he can contribute to society. Those who are judged to be unable to contribute are enslaved, considered merely tools and Human Resources that those who rule over them can use as they please.
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Slave Race
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Slave Race: The Gugs are a a kind of eusocial gorilla-sized monkeys that drag their prey underground, rip their legs off so they can't get away, keep them alive so they can "use" (rape) them, and then eventually eat them. However, the Tsalal have found a way to domesticate them. This involves the Gug master wearing the skin of a Gug king, castrating the young males, and raping and beating them daily to show them who's boss. They are used in both mine labor, and as shock troops. They are also smart enough to use human tools and weapons. It's strongly implied that the Tsalal reduced the Irish, in whole or in part, to this.
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Powered by a Forsaken Child
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Powered by a Forsaken Child: The Tsalal use children as guidance systems for their bigger rockets and space program. They don't understand why the Northerners are so upset about it.
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Aliens Never Invented the Wheel
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Aliens Never Invented the Wheel: The Tsalal were able to develop gunpowder independently, but didn't have any practical guns until Captain Cook arrived. Instead, they focused on making rockets.
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Blue-and-Orange Morality
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Blue-and-Orange Morality: The Tsalal civilizations in general have morals that are far removed from regular human beings'. The Hali engaging in torture as a leisure activity is one particularly terrifying example.
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Spring-Heeled Jack: In an In-Universe Sherlock Holmes story, Sherlock and Watson discover that "Jack" is a sicaripod wearing clothes and with an amputated tail.
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Crazy Survivalist: The Tsalal are an entire race of them. Having to eke out a living in a Death World is the reason why their way of life turned so horrifying.
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Matriarchy: The Ghault. Since their women were forbidden from drinking alcohol while pregnant, they tended to outnumber the menfolk, who had a bad habit of dying young from violence. As a result, they tended to assume high positions of authority. The result was an inflexible, conservative culture ruled by Witch Queens, several of whom would rival Hali's Kings in Yellow in their viciousness and cruelty.
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Weaponized Animal: The Starvation Army set animals on fire and sent them towards their victim/enemy's camp, burning it and leaving them in disarray while they swooped in to slaughter everyone.
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Everything Trying to Kill You
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Everything Trying to Kill You: The native lifeforms of Antarctica are just plain nasty. There are the Gugs, ants that shoot fire, giant platypi that have evolved to be similar to crocodilians, and a kind of small mammal whose bite sends humans into comas. It's like Australia 2.0. And that's not counting all the other humans trying to kill you and each other in horrible ways.
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