Fullmetal Knights: The Website

[Big Brother]

Since the IT is still down for software upgrades, I've taken the liberty of creating my own site on Geocities as a place to upload background information for the game. So far (since I created it five minutes ago), the only thing up there is the latest version of my map of Medieval Amestris. Once I've got my file of geographical and historical notes into an appropriate format, I'll upload that as well. Then, once we've got the story going, I'll probably periodically collect the forum postings and put the story up in a more easy-to-read format. But mainly, the site will be a sort of FAQ and Encyclopedia of background information for the writers and readers of our story.

More information will be released when I have some to release and come up with more concrete plans for what this site will include.

Until then, you can access the site at:

www.geocities.com/fullmetalknights

[Lolua]

So, based on the key you posted with that map, we're assuming that the rail lines of modern Amestris were built over the old roads of medieval Amestris? Because the lines on the map in the anime are probably railroads... Ed and Al almost never travel by road unless they're doing intracity travel or they're trying to get to the next rail station (like in "That Which Is Lost"). It would seem that Arakawa-sensei has the same thing for trains that Jo Rowling does. :-P

[Big Brother]

Lolua said:

So, based on the key you posted with that map, we're assuming that the rail lines of modern Amestris were built over the old roads of medieval Amestris? Because the lines on the map in the anime are probably railroads... Ed and Al almost never travel by road unless they're doing intracity travel or they're trying to get to the next rail station (like in "That Which Is Lost"). It would seem that Arakawa-sensei has the same thing for trains that Jo Rowling does. :-P

Well, it's the middle ages, they don't have trains...but, yes, rail lines often follow pretty much the same route of roads...roads go where there is demand for traffic and where the terrain permits easy grades, and railroads have pretty much the same requirements. That's why the paths of old Roman Roads now have Autobahns running along them, and why an interstate now runs through the same mountain passes originally crossed by the Transcontinental Railroad (which itself followed the path of an early plank road across the Sierra Nevada).

I was at one point hoping to have rivers flow over some of those lines on the original map...but couldn't find any that followed reasonable pathways and ended at the sea or even lakes.