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I don't own this map and I don't own Last Exile. I just put the runes into grish.
LITTLE BLACK BUTTERFLIES
little
black
butterflies
MAP
for
Last Exile
Fam - The Silver Wing
Source: A scan of a Young Animal magazine
1 - Translation Notes
--Translation of promotional text
--Note on written context, alphabetical selection.
--Notes regarding terms and moonrunes used to label the various places on the map (goes from SW, S, SE, E Center, W, NW, N, NE.)
2 - Polarity
3 - Image
4 - Added Content
5 - Comments
1.
Note on Promotional Text:
Sorry for covering the promo text. It reads: Spanning a hundred years, the continuing age of long-lasting violence...
Notes on context / alphabet:
Almost all proper nouns are written in Katakana, the Japanese alphabet for spelling foreign words: ie. "computer, mitzvah, thanks".
This is true for the name of nations/countries (Turan, Ades, Grakiiehs), cities (Morvarid, Iglesia, Kartoffel) and for natural features (ie. Grand Lake)
All other text appears in Hiragana (alphabet for Japanese spelling) or Kanji (moonrunes), with the Hiragana spellings only used for the text describing the situation at the opening of the series. Kanji is used for the actual labels and descriptions accompanying the names of nations, cities, etc. (the sole exception is the word: Line, which is written in Katakana, and, taken with the Kanji next to it, reads as: border / borderline.)
Other terms written in Katakana: Augusta, leader, Notos.
Notes Specific to the Map itself: (Starts out in Notos in the SE and then goes SOUTH, SW, WEST, CENTER, EAST, NE, NORTH, NW)
--IF YOU'RE USING THE WRONG MAP WITH THE MODERN-DAY POLARITY, YOU'RE GOING TO BE UPSIDE DOWN--
Notos is denoted with a character for: "Former / ex-" as in "the former Ottoman Empire" - It may or may not have a current government or a code of laws etc.
Turan is a labeled "Oukoku" - Kingdom / Monarchy
It's "royal capital" is the city of Iglesia.
There are two collections of lands labeled "Union of Small States". It is ambiguous as to how, how many, and how much these lands are united.
The "Unsettled Lands" reads literally as "not yet residence region"
It is strange that these lands would be unsettled, because they reside in almost the exact same geographical area as Turan, although more mountainous and more land locked. They would correspond to present day Southern Europe.
"Sky Pirate Air Space" is literally "air space of the sky tribe/family. It is not noted whether or not the Sky Pirates have any formal control over any land.
Grand Lake is labeled: giant/great lake.
Ades "Federation" is read as "renpou", which is used with multiple meanings in multiple examples. It can mean: commonwealth, federation (of states), confederation, union. It's used in as opposite examples as "Federal Reserve (of the United States of America)" and "Soviet Union"(referring to the former USSR).
Morvarid, the capital of Ades, is labeled "shuto" or capital city / metropolis. As in: the capitals of Japan and France are Tokyo and Paris.
"Ades Vassal State" is literally: Ades Federation Vassal State. Unlike the other areas within the Ades Federation, only this section is labeled with the moonrune for "country / state"
The other lands composing the Ades Federation are labeled as literally: Ades Federation Conquest/Subjugation Lands. It is quite likely that these peoples of the so-called Ades "Federation" did not join very willingly.
While much land to the northeast of Morvarid has been subjugated by the Ades Federation, the land to the north and northeast of much of the Ades Federation is still not in their control.
The land furthest northeast that is NOT part of Ades is labelled literally: Northern Country / Nation. The wording here makes it seem much more likely to be a single, united country / state, rather than a looser affiliation like the "Union of small States".
I wrote it as GRAKIIEHS. Grah - key - S (as in the letter "S"). I have a bad feeling this is a very poor mispronunciation of some actual thing...
The term accompanying Grakiiehs is said: "taikoku", for: "large country / major powers". It may very well be that this is a single, great country, or the term used to refer to the many multiple, major powers that rule this land. Obviously this explanation and both terms would not fit on the image. I had to choose one, and it seems strange to have such a clearly defined border for such a loose collection of lands, so...
2 - THE POLARITY
So Last Exile has this thing with weird planets, remember? If you watched the first Last Exile series, you should! If you haven't, go and watch that, you silly, silly fool. And the weird thing with the planet this time is that it's Earth (or at least everybody keeps calling it that!) but this Earth has had the poles reversed (to what degree? that's unknown). So in this series now, what we'd know as south is north, and what goes west now goes east. Grakiiehs is in Africa (you can see the Nile on the map) but it's the Great Country of the North. I've labelled this "New North" near the map's compass.
It is not neceassirly that the poles are exactly reversed. After all, even today Magnetic North is NOT located at Polar North. (they're near each other, but not the same location). God only knows if this map is supposed to be using Polar North or Magnetic North or something else. It doesn't say what poles are where or anything like that. It just says Great Country of the North, Grakiiehs. So, what's North? I don't know. Maybe it's polar north, maybe it's magnetic. That's why I've dubbed it: "New North"
I made two images and switched the one image, to flip the polarity back to modern day polarity.
3 - THE IMAGE
The image was made with a satelite image of Earth partially imposed on top of the concept map for the anime. It was likely a color image. The scan, obviously, was not in color. Now it's here in glorious black and white. That's why it's so fucking impossible to make out what's what and where's where on the part of the map with the satelite image printed.
I know the image sucks don't bitch to me you fucking good for nothing two bit shit for brains didn't your mother ever teach you not to grouse about a gift, even if you didn't particularly care for it in the first place go learn some manners you accepted this and i did my best so take it up with a priest or your pillow i don't really give a.
Apparently the image comes from a promo / publication in Young Animal Magazine. I don't know who got bought this magazine. I don't know who scanned this image out of the magazine. I don't know who spread this image on the Internet. I don't even know how I found this image. I don't even know how this image and this text file got here. Wait. Uh-oh. I mean, I'm not sure what image we're even talking about?
I made two images and switched the one image, to flip the polarity back to modern day polarity. I fucked around with the levels more in one. Enjoy the eye pain, but remember that it should have been a color scan, not this gray fuckmess I had to squint at to read goddamn runes off of.
4-- ADDED CONTENT
I have only added the words: New North, and New South. Having single-handedly dubbed these terms, I now copyright them for all time. Yes, I just did that. Wait, what's that? Oh, well, I'll see you in court.
5 -- COMMENTS
I don't get how Dio is there? Wouldn't it have taken like A REAL LONG TIME for him to have left the world from the first anime, and gotten to this one?
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