Alternate Future of Europe (Eradiate)

Alternate Future of Europe is a series created by Eradiate. It is the first mapping series posted on Eradiate's channel. It was inspired by IonMapping's NAFOE and Nick HD Mapping's AFOE, also taking inspiration from Nick HD Mapping's Großdeutschland video as a basis for the Neo dialect used in this series. Map texture, infobox, light land color and light ocean color are used.
==Episode List==
Full playlist here
===Season 1===
No. of episode	Release Date 	Title 	Length
1	30 December 2015	A Gathering Storm 	2:44
2	1 January 2016 	New Powers 	2:53
3	9 January 2016 	Contra Vim Mortis 	3:27
4	14 January 2016 	The Great Eastern War	2:52
5	28 June 2016 	Imminent 	2:34
6	30 June 2016 	The Enemy of My Enemy	2:38
7	6 July 2016 	End of the Beginning 	2:46
8	11 July 2016 	When Gods Clash 	3:00
9	18 July 2016 	Ares Wins 	2:48
===Season 2===
No. of episode	Release Date 	Title 	Length	Quote
10	5 August 2016 	The Calm 	3:44 	Only the dead have seen the end of war.
11	12 August 2016 	Consumed by Power 	3:08 	Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
12	17 August 2016 	The German Question 	3:13 	The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
13	24 August 2016 	Entropy 	4:17 	The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
14	7 September 2016 	Déjà Vu 	3:53 	Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.
15	14 September 2016	Bow Before Ares 	5:42 	The way to have power is to take it.
16	27 September 2016	Beginning of the End	5:58 	If we don't end war, war will end us.
17	4 December 2016 	Doom 	9:53 	Every human being is doomed to die, which is the greatest of all failures.
18	19 January 2017 	Game Over 	16:53 	There is no real ending. It's just the place where you stop the story.
==Trivia==
Contains spoilers, do not continue if you haven't finished the series.
*Power is the theme of the series.
*This series was mainly inspired by The Prestige and Primer.
*Graxum, arguably the most important nation in the entire series, was originally going to appear at the end of IonMapping's NAFOE Season 2.
**The name of Graxum was originally Graven, but it was changed to the current name.
*Graxum and Ardumus' relationship was inspired by the Biblical tale of David and Goliath.
*The series contains a lot of references to Greek mythology and Latin proverbs to fit with the Greek origin of Graxum.
**Graxum is compared to Ares, the Greek god of war, bloodshed and violence.
**Ardumus and the Eurasian Union play supportive roles in World War 3, similar to Ares' sons, Phobos and Deimos.
**France is compared to Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom, courage and justice.
*The French Empire is a reference to Nazi Germany. Both countries desire redemption and glory after their humilliating defeat in previous wars. The Stuttgart Agreement signed by the French Empire and South German Confederation is a mirror version of the Munich Agreement.
*The idea for Graxum's immoral and almost sadistic personality was partly inspired by moral nihilism, and the idea that everyone can and will become evil when forced.
*Similarly, being corrupted by power and hatred also plays a huge role in the series. This can be seen in the Stanford prison experiment, where when participants were given power over other people, they exhibited sadistic tendencies.
*Most major characters in the series have their own way of dealing with power and the corruption that ensues.
**Graxum embraces the corruption of power, desires it, and masters it.
**Ardumus desires power too at the start of the series, but as he witnesses what power can do to nations, and the lines Graxum is willing to cross, Ardumus becomes wary of power.
**The Eurasian Union is consumed by power, but he attempts to control it. Although the Eurasian Union also desires power like Graxum, he isn't willing to sacrifice his own sanity and morality for it.
**The French Empire is consumed by power and hatred, without any attempt to control it. Believing that power is the only way to achieve his ultimate goal of revenge against not only Ardumus, but anyone in his way, he lets his own negative emotions fuel his resolve.
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