#gildingham

inspired by @crymeariveronceagain 's similar post

part 1/?

The Dizznees and Elwin are Canadian - which makes sense, considering they’re walked over by the other characters and simply put up with it.

There is an elf-graveyard off the coast of Quebec

Candleshade is West Coast

Everglen is New-England East Coast

Which reflects the Sencens and Vackers - the Sencens are new money and the Vackers are old money. As someone familiar with the difference, it’s actually surprisingly accurate.

Mysterium is in Florida which explains why the Nobles hate it

Gildingham is in South America (which makes sense, considering it inspired the stories of El Dorado)

Havenfield is off the coast of California. So that’s cool, Sophie’s close to her old home.

The Shores of Solace are in Australia. Interesting.

Eternalia is in Asia - but seeing as Fitz said that it inspired the legends of Shangri-La, we already knew that.

Atlantis is in the Mediterranean. Meh. I can’t think of any jokes here~

Foxfire is in Egypt. That’s cool.

We already knew that Lumenaria was on the channel islands

Stina is a lesbian Swedish/Nordish Lesbian Unicorn Girl

Ravagog is in Russia

Loamnore is in Russia/Mongolia

Eternalia: The multi-colored sparkly buildings bring to mind a gaudy an over opulent Baroque concerto. Trying to take it all in is probably like hitting play on all your liked songs and having to jump between The Beatles and Cardi B.

Mysterium: It seems normal until you think about how Problematic™ it is that all of the Talentless and working class citizens basically work in buildings that look like Soviet Block Housing.

Atlantis: Going to Atlantis is probably like walking down 5th Avenue and being like “I can’t spend $10,000 on a pair of high heels.” Also this is what happens when we fight global warming by building sea walls.

Gildingham: I get that using gold is supposed to be symbolic, but building your house out of a soft metal of purpose seems really dumb imo. But I honestly just imagine this as the El Dorado set from that Dora movie but with goblins.

Loamnore: Dwarves live in isolated caves surrounded by precious gems. I respect the hell out of that. But going to get groceries every week must be a pain.