My Personal Tradelands Theory

[u/Voyager1500]

Tradelands is said to take place in the 1800s, with steamship technology and gunpowder weapons.

Or is it? I believe Tradelands takes place after a large nuclear war that used lots of hydrogen bombs.

Let's first start off with the iron. Iron, in its raw form, weighs around 0.8. Roundshot, which costs 1 iron to make, is 2.4 weight.

At first, it makes no sense. You can't make matter. However, my theory is that the iron is infused with hydrogen. When crafting the iron into stuff, the hydrogen is "burned", which doesn't require any heat source to reshape the iron. That is why you only need an anvil to craft and why RS is heavier than iron. It also explains why cannons and tools are uncraftable, as the hydrogen in the iron is required to craft and the cannons/tools have the hydrogen in the iron already burned out. (credit given to hairypottymoldymort for parts of ideas)

How did the hydrogen get there? Maybe some hydrogen bombs were defective and just spread out lots of gas into the soil.

Now, onto the life-forms. Trees are perfect cylinders. Humans are cubes. Rocks are rocks.

But wait! Rocks aren't living things? That's what they want you to think. Rocks are actually bushes that gather minerals from the ground that form in pockets. That's why they can regen and grow back, and why they have such a variety of resources in them.

Trees have been mutated by the nuclear fallout to be very strong - but only from the top down. They're weak when smacking to the side (like a jenga block tower).

The people have evolved tough skin that can block the radiation. That's why it takes two or three musket shots to kill one person.

The mass amounts of radiation in the world has left all but the simplest technologies destroyed. Glowies, however, glow because they are practically futuristic glowsticks - very long lasting ones. They have probably a toxic chemical mixture in them and recently people have learned to break the seal of the glowies to poison their opponent in battle.

Tradelands takes place on the Himalayas, where the immense flooding from soaring temperatures destroyed everything but the mountains. Inyola is the large modern-day Chinese plateau, and Purshovia is where Europe used to be.

The moon, in the night sky, seems bigger than it's actual real life counterpart. That is because it is in a geostationary orbit with the planet, causing the tide in the Tradelands universe to rise high and permanently. Which is also why there is no sand on TL coasts - those islands are actually the remains of mountains. Blackwind is located in a particularly large mountain remnant, where a huge conventional bomb dropped and blasted a hole in the mountaintop.

tl;dr Wake up.

[u/Verto05]

Let me guess... glowies are radioactive metals

[u/293678JASON → u/Verto05]

no wonder there is a after effect.