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For a long time I had started working on the creation of speculative maps for projects and concepts I had noticed varieties of alternative maps created on the page of World Dream Bank , characterized by showing different types of worlds and variations of the earth, from many extraterrestrial planets, our Earth of the future with Mars and Venus, and two sections in particular, the "Caprices" and the Tilt worlds, being the last ones that caught my attention because they are about versions of the Earth which have a completely changed axis position, which has generated a total variation in climate and distribution of environments, resulting in interesting versions of the earth with the same geography but different settlings

For several years I had had a bit of curiosity about speculating in life that I could evolve there from an Spec evo point of view since the site despite having quite solid information about world building as well about the climate effects of such changes in these maps, its focus on biology and evolution go in a way divergent to what spec evo respects. Of course to start making an appropriate speculation of life, these alternative worlds had to have a kind of point of divergence, a moment in time in which this earth would take a different route, which for obligation it include how the continental organization is across time with the pole position changed, this would be easy to do in a globe since it is only to rotate and locate where you want the axis, however make it to each paleomap of each point of the history of earth would be difficult, and with my not so skilled abilities in change map projections I was unable to do something.

The good news is that I recently found that NASA's cartography program called G.Projector (which is really versatile in doing all kinds of map projections) added oblique equirectangular maps, which is move any area of the map adjusting them to the deformity of the projection withou any trouble, so I started to try and after adjusting several of these to specific coordinates, I could do both modern maps and paleomapas with different polar positions according to the cornucopia worlds, added to two more shift more than I thought of doing.

For the moment I have only managed to make the texture map arrangement according to the shift Tilt and I probably still need to modify more the texture of the continents, sea level and environments according to the climate. I do this more as a template for potential project ideas to start since I am currently not available to cover a project of this type, however, I think it could help this to anyone else who would like to try to speculate about such a world depending of the point of divergence you want to make. Only the land maps of key points in the Earth History appear in the table.

Shiveria
This is the world of the perpetual ice age, caused by the position of two large landmasses, South East Asia (Indonesia) in the north pole, and South American in the south (redundant I know), which cover a great amount of both surfaces, as a result sea levels are low, and Antarctica and The arctic are tropical paradises.

Jaderia
In this tilted world is Africa the continent that occupy the north pole, a great ice sheet covers what would we could call our original cradle in a mantle of kilometers of depth, and the south hemisphere is dominated by the Pacific Ocean.
Seapole
As its name indicates, this is the world with no land in the polar regions, instead the north pole is the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by South America and African coasts, and at the South pole face the West Pacific ocean, being the closest land to this the East Asia region.
Cassini
This special tilt world wasn't created in the dream bank but in the page "What If" result of the question about how the earth would be like if was rotated in an angle of 90 degrees. Like Seapole this earth has no landmass at its poles. Oceans are the ones that dominate the area, however, the south pole is located the East Pacific, and the North pole is the West pacific and great part of the Indian Ocean

Cryosahul
This is already my own, created based on a slightly tilt and switch of continents, instead of Antarctic, such if Australia had become the continent of the South Pole. As a result, the north pole is formed by the entire North Atlantic region, leaving the artic at the tropics.

Maps belongs to the Deep Time Maps
Shiveria, Jaderia and Seapole belongs to Chris Wayan.

Description
For a long time I had started working on the creation of speculative maps for projects and concepts I had noticed varieties of alternative maps created on the page of World Dream Bank , characterized by showing different types of worlds and variations of the earth, from many extraterrestrial planets, our Earth of the future with Mars and Venus, and two sections in particular, the "Caprices" and the Tilt worlds, being the last ones that caught my attention because they are about versions of the Earth which have a completely changed axis position, which has generated a total variation in climate and distribution of environments, resulting in interesting versions of the earth with the same geography but different settlings

For several years I had had a bit of curiosity about speculating in life that I could evolve there from an Spec evo point of view since the site despite having quite solid information about world building as well about the climate effects of such changes in these maps, its focus on biology and evolution go in a way divergent to what spec evo respects. Of course to start making an appropriate speculation of life, these alternative worlds had to have a kind of point of divergence, a moment in time in which this earth would take a different route, which for obligation it include how the continental organization is across time with the pole position changed, this would be easy to do in a globe since it is only to rotate and locate where you want the axis, however make it to each paleomap of each point of the history of earth would be difficult, and with my not so skilled abilities in change map projections I was unable to do something.

The good news is that I recently found that NASA's cartography program called G.Projector (which is really versatile in doing all kinds of map projections) added oblique equirectangular maps, which is move any area of the map adjusting them to the deformity of the projection withou any trouble, so I started to try and after adjusting several of these to specific coordinates, I could do both modern maps and paleomapas with different polar positions according to the cornucopia worlds, added to two more shift more than I thought of doing.

For the moment I have only managed to make the texture map arrangement according to the shift Tilt and I probably still need to modify more the texture of the continents, sea level and environments according to the climate. I do this more as a template for potential project ideas to start since I am currently not available to cover a project of this type, however, I think it could help this to anyone else who would like to try to speculate about such a world depending of the point of divergence you want to make. Only the land maps of key points in the Earth History appear in the table.

Shiveria
This is the world of the perpetual ice age, caused by the position of two large landmasses, South East Asia (Indonesia) in the north pole, and South American in the south (redundant I know), which cover a great amount of both surfaces, as a result sea levels are low, and Antarctica and The arctic are tropical paradises.

Jaderia
In this tilted world is Africa the continent that occupy the north pole, a great ice sheet covers what would we could call our original cradle in a mantle of kilometers of depth, and the south hemisphere is dominated by the Pacific Ocean.
Seapole
As its name indicates, this is the world with no land in the polar regions, instead the north pole is the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by South America and African coasts, and at the South pole face the West Pacific ocean, being the closest land to this the East Asia region.
Cassini
This special tilt world wasn't created in the dream bank but in the page "What If" result of the question about how the earth would be like if was rotated in an angle of 90 degrees. Like Seapole this earth has no landmass at its poles. Oceans are the ones that dominate the area, however, the south pole is located the East Pacific, and the North pole is the West pacific and great part of the Indian Ocean

Cryosahul
This is already my own, created based on a slightly tilt and switch of continents, instead of Antarctic, such if Australia had become the continent of the South Pole. As a result, the north pole is formed by the entire North Atlantic region, leaving the artic at the tropics.

Maps belongs to the Deep Time Maps
Shiveria, Jaderia and Seapole belongs to Chris Wayan.