Talk:The Fallen Cities/@comment-2003:E3:4BD0:1101:31AE:C9CC:4A74:58C2-20180711091237/@comment-44123278-20200104012146

With how things are going these days, I think Venice is already falling......

Cities always seem to fall at the height of their Empire (or at least close to). For Venice, such a time is long past. The city also always seems to be the capital, and its the sovergien that makes the deal that dooms the city. In 1866, Venice was united with the rest of the Italy. Now of course the capital of England missing should have radically thrown history off track, but somehow we ended up with London being roughly Victorian, despite the loss of four cities before. So it seems like the Surface has a knack for staying on history.

As for Moscow (well not Moscow. The capital is St. Petersburg at this point and won't switch back until the soviets come along) as long as the love story doesn't have to be romantic, we already know that Tsar Nicholas II would make deals with allgedly supernatural entites to save his son. Just replace Rasputin with the Masters and you got a deal. Alexi almost died from a hemmorage in 1912, only two years off the Halley's Commet incident. And given his hemophila, miminal interference would be required from the Masters to get Alexi close to death at any time. Then this is where things gets interesting. At that point Russia was a powder keg about to go off once something trigger it. In our world, it was WW1, but suddenly be taken to the Neath because of the Tsar's betrayal of his people would work even better. Boom, communist revolution against the Tsar and possibly The Masters.

I haven't played the story where the evidence for Paris or Moscow as future cities comes from, so I don't know if the order and the specific Russian capital is required, but when I started thinking, the idea of the comerce run Bazaar obtaining a city that reacted with a communist revolution seemed like such an interesting story idea, it won't let me go.