Style of Andromeda

What good is a collection of text without and idea of how to image it in your head? This page is dedicated to describing the look of Andromedian History as best I can through words and some pictures. As I am no artist, you must work with these words until they develop technology for me to project my thoughts onto a screen like a movie. Until then, this is all we have, or until I find an artist.

Inspiration
As Andromedian History is a story of humanity, I cannot just go about and invent entirely different cultures for every single people that exist. There has to be a point where I take some inspiration from us here on Earth as guidance. But this limitation is also a good point of historicity. We (humans here on Earth) have experienced many things that have shaped how we behave and form society, the most important factor being geography. The geography of where we lived determined almost everything for us. This is the reason why civilizations that lived in the Arabian peninsula did not dress like Inuit natives in the far northern reaches of Canada. Geography ultimately shapes how our civilizations formed. And it is this same exact principle that is present in Andromeda too. In my mind, other than taking inspiration from things I wanted to include, what I am describing is how these people adapted to their surroundings. So when you're reading the descriptions that I have provided, do not think that all of them are the way they are because I want them to be, they are the way they are because it just makes sense. Of course the archaic North Aesonians dressed and looked like medieval Scandinavians, their two environments are very similar, so therefore they will develop a similar look.

So what are some inspirations I have other than pure geographical logic?

Silonians: Eastern Slavs (i.e Russians, Ukrainians, Belorussians, etc.)

This pairing just seemed natural to me. Ever since I created the Silonians I knew that they were the people known to be particularly savage, the people known to be both great warriors but also horrible civil servants. Just to be clear, I'm not saying Slavs are savages, at least, not modern day Slavs. In the middle ages, the lands that would one day constitute Russia and its neighbors were populated by fragmented Slavic tribes, most if not all of them were destitute. The reason for this was because of geography. Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine are vastly flat countries, with countless forests and marshlands. Land is fertile due to the mighty Dnieper and Volga rivers, but is subject to rather extreme weather, particularly the infamous Russian winter. But it was also just pure location as well. During the middle ages, the land the Eastern Slavs inhabited was the primary bridge to Europe by steppe hordes such as the Cumans, Khazars, Mongols, and even earlier, a primary migration route for the Huns and Avars. This made the region in a never ending cycle of constant warfare. The dominant power always being switched between different Khagans who would rise up and overthrow the previous, or another Khagan who just moved his tribe from Central Asia to the west.