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Map Wall pt 2: Map of Insulinde
Insulinde (850 million people)
A mostly oceanic isola consisting of a series of islands and archipelagoes [Le Caillou, Semenese Islands (Ile du Fantome), Ozonne, Laurentide, Face-a-la-Mer, North Arcade Islands.]
Population 850 million
Le Caillou
the largest island in the North-East
Capital: Revachol [80km radius]
Semenese Islands (Ile du Fantome)
Far to the south west
City: Olduvai
Ozonne
Cities: Fond de l'Air and Virmandeux
Laurentide
City: Deora of the Seven Seas
Archipelagos
Cities: Croyant-Morain, Villiers
OTHER ISOLAS (Azimuths)
Mundi - North
Graad - North East
Samara - East
Seol - West
NOTES: We love scale references! This doesn't add the most details like the number of islands or the orientation of all of them but we'll take what we can get. There may be more detail in Joyce's Reality Lowdown talk.
Map Wall - Several maps have been attached to a bulletin board hidden inside the alcove. They're held up by small pins. The board has come loose from one corner.
Map Wall - The maps look old and faded. Your eye catches a map of Insulinde, a map of Revachol, and a map of Martinaise.
You - Look at the map of Insulinde.
Map Wall - This large map displays archipelagos. You see a constellation of small dots on the light blue emptiness of the Insulindic ocean. The largest, in the northeast, is "Le Caillou" (you are here). Another, far away in the southwest -- "Semenese Islands (Ile du Fantôme)".
You - What else?
Map Wall - Ozonne, Laurentide, Face-a-la-Mer, Archipelagos, North Arcade Islands... all just specks of dust on the vastness of the Insulindic. On the edges of the map, the colour fades into a blur of dotted lines. Black and white.
Visual Calculus - Disintegrating into mathematics.
Inland Empire - In the northeast a dust mite stands on the north coast of Caillou. In a bookstore. It's you.
Shivers - Radiating outwards from you -- the Suzerain Revachol. With a radius of 80 kilometres. Still, the crown jewel of this isola would be barely visible.
You - Squint first -- can you see *cities* on the islands?
Map Wall - You can. On Caillou -- Revachol, a single black star; on Ozonne -- Fond de l'Air and Virmandeux; on Archipelagos -- Croyant-Morain, Villiers; on Semenine -- Olduvai. And on Laurentide -- Deora Of The Seven Seas...
Empathy - Lost little pearls of light. Tiny fires in the dark.
Encyclopedia - 850 million people live on these little dots. An oceanic world of culture and commerce, torn apart by history.
You - Look at the edges.
Map Wall - The ocean breaks apart into a tangle of cosines and azimuths, all pointing into pale nothingness. *Mundi* is the north azimuth; *Graad* is the northeast azimuth; *Samara* is the east azimuth; *Seol* is the west azimuth. *Isolas*, they're called.
Inland Empire - Connections to other worlds. Worlds past the Insulindian, unknown to you. You only know you've never been there.
Logic - 850 million people live on these tiny dots. An oceanic world of culture and commerce, torn apart by history.
#disco elysium#map project#insulinde#le caillou#semenese islands#ozonne#Laurentide#Elysium#Isolas#mundi#graad#samara#seol#revachol
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DE uses real world song lyrics all the time in the wildest ways especially in somber moments i swear to god it can feel like that scene from doctor who with "let us play a traditional earth anthem" and then its toxic by britney spears
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this might be me reading it wrong but while they obviously are Cops and pretty explicitly bastards because of it i'm not sure how 1:1 an analogy the rcm are supposed to be for real-world cops. like generally police forces are, in order to fulfil their role as the means of maintaining the state's monopoly on violence at home, empowered (both legally & logistically) to do whatever they need/want to do that and imo it's very telling that the game goes out of its way to say "the rcm are not allowed anywhere near breach-loading weapons". like the moralintern is apparently willing to allow the mercenaries to run around a civilian area carrying automatics but won't let (as i understood it) anyone in the rcm have them for any reason. couple this w the fact that the rcm was apparently started by the people of revachol themselves & allowed (there's that word again) to continue by the moralintern rather than being the MI's brainchild i think it speaks to some interesting tensions in the rcm's postion which are obscured by just calling them cops. which is not to say that they are not also cops.
#disco elysium#what i'm saying is: i imagine the police force in graad operates very differently#anyway de is so good at doing what it does. i love it#also to be clear this is not me having a go at people calling them cops#or me saying the rcm is Cool Actually#i just think they're shown to be in an interesting position vis a vis the moralintern#rcm
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Saint Seiya Fun Fact:
Did you know Shun's only opponent to call him by his name is Ikki in the Galaxian Wars arc? Every other opponent Shun has fought exclusively calls him Andromeda.
there is a lot of misogyny being directed at this 13yo little boy
#thanks multi-facets 💖#andromeda shun#saint seiya#at least i'm pretty sure this is true#i'll rewatch the series soon to confirm#it's wild to think about honestly#and shun never corrects anybody#i'm sure there's a certain level of name calling he's used to#from his days in the graad foundation#and even training on andromeda island#poor bab#respect my smol green son pls
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i started a list of "movies i would show harry du bois for a professional art man opinion" but accidentally put on that every movie i watched in the past two years
#the first elysium original character i created was called 'the neighbour' and she was a movie enthusiast who had a collection of contraband#films from graad and seol (:#i think it was funny (:#i'm oversharing today wo-oh!!#it's personal tag again
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The PJOL trio during the years they weren't speaking
No One Else Is Singing My Song - "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend"
#sacred and terrible air#püha ja õudne lõhn#let me ruin the joke real quick by making it tragic:#the end of the song when the cast notices each other except for Rebecca?#Rebecca is Khan#(and yeah Khan and Tereesz never stop speaking but he was in Graad and no one knew he was making the same trips to Charlottesjal as Jesper)
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seen people saying that learning about the pale had them feeling like everyone was crazy for not rolling out the guillotine which. is a better reaction to have than what I had which was "yeah, makes sense"
#brain so thoroughly addled by the present that “everyone is literally going insane to get a truck of Adidas sneakers to grand by Wednesday”#didn't register as measurably more fucked up than anything else that was happening#hearing Joyce say “I dont sleep anymore because I spend 22 days a year in the fog that makes you lose it” and just being like#“cool”#“more time to do stuff”#graad not grand#disco elysium#video game making you meditate on how normal youve gotten about global warming and shit
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also (im terrible at remembering fantasy geography) is there a country in disco elysium that is like the usa? 1. i cant remember anyone having an american accent 2. cant remember any historic event or cultural thing thats similiar to american culture
#you know how like revachol is like france and eastern europe#and graad is like russia and seol is a mix of asian countries#the sailing through the pale thing could be a paralel to columbus?#the most confusing thing about elysium lore to me is always geography
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@ Luiga does Miro have the same root as Mirova. If so, given the Very Graadian People he hung around with, where does the Mesque part of him come up. How Mesque. When Mesque.
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honestly the calamity in genjitsu no yohane is like the entroponetic collapse in pjõl
#gemitus#sorry i saw the evacuation from numazu and was like this is just like the evacuation from vaasa to graad and samara...#love live sunshine#genjitsu no yohane#disco elysium#pjõl
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if, for fun, you wanted to give ignus nilsen a character design that reflected the plumage of a shrike you’d want to do something with the very distinctive black stripe over the eyes
well, I recommend this style of 19th century sunglasses
#these probably help with snow glare in katla and northern graad and with direct sun in lower latitudes#I'm making him photosensitive as well as uli they both seem like migraine havers#but when nilsen gets pre-migraine auras they make him manic and he gets Visions#communism is bright white! it is like a blizzard!! its beautiful!!! so beautiful it hurts to look at#mazov: ok ok now lie down and put a compress over your eyes#nilsen: I am seeing the emanations of pure ideological thought
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"Julia Dobreva came from Graad. Jean Abadanaiz was born in Revachol. She was brilliant, charismatic, a revolutionary comet. He was her partner and stabiliser, the planet who kept her in orbit."
Jean and Julia, the "revolutionary lovers". There isn't much information about them to work with so everything aside from her dark makeup are just my headcanons. I ended up referencing other characters and historical figures, & I took the "forbidden love" as them coming from different classes.
#disco elysium#julia dobreva#jean abadanaiz#sacred and terrible air#im not entirely satisfied with this maybe i'll draw them again someday#guess which historical figures and characters i had on my moodboard for this and i'll send you a telepathic communist kiss#revolutionary lovers
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I'm reading Sacred and Terrible Air rn and I had to do a double-take when I saw this illustration
"The hull of the ship bears the beautiful inscription “Harnankur” in the Graad script."
Yeah no that just says "pfkifiogk" in Georgian 😭😭
#georgian jumpscare...#obviously პფკიფიოგკ doesn't mean anything lmao#it's not just a keysmash tho! they've replaced the letters of “harnankur” with random georgian letters: h=პ a=ფ r=კ n=ი k=ო u=გ#(btw georgian has 3 different scripts; so to be more specific this is the mkhedruli script. it's what we use in the modern day)#pjõl#püha ja õudne lõhn#sacred and terrible air
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YOU - "I still don't really understand this whole *boiadeiro* thing."
PALEDRIVER - "Of course not. To truly understand the boiadeiro, you need to listen to 'On the Western Plain'."
YOU - "Okay. What's that?"
PALEDRIVER - "It's an old ballad about a young girl who falls in love with a daring boiadeiro. He promises to marry her as soon as he returns from the Western Plain."
YOU - "I'm guessing that doesn't happen."
PALEDRIVER - "Of course not. The boiadeiro returns from the Western Plain a *changed* man. One night, as he and his beloved are out walking along the River Magritte, she pleads with him to give up his riding and settle down..."
YOU - "I think I see where this is going."
PALEDRIVER - "So the boiadeiro strangles his beloved and throws her body in the Magritte. Then he rides off, because the Western Plain is calling to him."
YOU - "That's a terrible song."
PALEDRIVER - "You have to understand -- a true boiadeiro needs a whole horizon to himself. He can't be tied down by man or woman. His beloved was selfish. She didn't know what it meant to love a *boiadeiro*."
INLAND EMPIRE - What if... to truly love a boiadeiro is to float lifeless downstream?
JOYCE MESSIER - "*Entroponetics*," she corrects, "is the scientific study of the pale. Or a recent iteration of it, by way of Graad. The study of the pale reaches back 6,000 years -- the Perikarnassians called it the Western Plain."
HORSEBACK ANTENNA - [google translated from German] Marianne told me that Oskar hasn't been the same since he came back from Graad on an airship. Of course the psychologists think he's completely normal, but she feels like she's been living with a stranger since his return...
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You know... As much as I love pjõl and believe it's an excellent piece of fiction, I am entirely unsurprised that it was a massive flop when it was first published. Imagine you're an Estonian guy in 2012 and you go "wow, a fantasy mystery book written by an Estonian author! I gotta give this a read!" And then you pick it up and it's This Mess.
And you go hey wait a sec. What's Vaasa. What's Graad. What's the Pale, why does the narration act like I should know what this is. Why are they speaking Finnish suddenly. What's an Innocence, that seems important why hasn't it been mentioned until now. Wait there are ghosts now? Is this a normal thing in this world? If only this were some kind of interactive experience where I could ask questions and learn about the world alongside the protagonist.
I love the world of Elysium, but it is so massive in its scale and the chain of cause and effect that has led the world to be in the place it's in (both in DE and in pjõl). Disco Elysium is a game chock full of worldbuilding through dialogue, and it still leaves a lot of players confused about aspects of the history and political situation. And that's in a game where you play as a character who knows literally nothing and goes around asking people "hey what the fuck is the Antecentennial Revolution". Imagine your first exposure to Elysium being through this spiralling surreal novel that is so caught up in its own story that it kinda forgets that it has an audience.
Idk, I just think it's easy to forget that the initial target audience for pjõl was not Disco Elysium fans, but just... Regular Estonian readers.
#this was gonna be a joke post but then I over explained it and it stopped being funny#this is not me saying pjõl is bad. it's really really really good you guys#pjõl#püha ja õudne lõhn#sacred and terrible air#sata#robert kurvitz#disco elsyium
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Smokes Astra
These Graad-made cigarettes are remarkable for their high tar content. A favourite of fishermen, police officers and working men all over the world.
Fake Astra ad inspired by this one art deco Manoli poster lol
#disco elysium#my art#art deco posters are my passion and ive got so many illustrations planned that take inspo from them#this one was the easiest so i made it forst#im just putting off drawing the kineema OOPS i said it heehee
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