Map of Pangaea
Map of Pangaea Ultima
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Joyful Announcement:
As of now, all future episodes of our weekly serial adventure Lost on the Last Continent are written and ready, including the epilogue and the appendix.
This week’s episode was 81, the final will be 105, which, God willing, and if all goes as planned, will be posted on October 9th of this year.
In meanwhile, the map has been once again updated (see above) and a timeline has bee added to the appendix (see below), for the convenience of any readers confused by the baffling immensities of periods, epochs, and ages involved.
Ever since the first fantasy novel it was my great good fortune to read the day I left the children’s section of the library and ventured into the grown up books, I was fascinated by the maps, timelines, genealogies and suchlike that authors lavished on the rear pages or endpapers of their work.
And since I have a weakness for elaborate backgrounds, and have quires of notes already penned, it is simple enough to prepare my notes for inspection, in case any readers share my delight in such ornamentation.
I am particularly pleased with this map, which shows the modern continents as they would be by the time of my tale.
Timeline of Futurity
| ERA | RACE | DATE | Dramatis Personae | NOTES |
| First Era | FIRST MEN | 300,000 BC | Subject to disease, insanity. Undesigned. | |
| Neolithic | 5th Millennium BC | Quaternary Ice Age | ||
| 57th c BC | Gnophkeh of Catalhoyuk | Cannibals with bone weapons | ||
| 55th c BC | Naacal of Mu | Androgynous Shield Maidens | ||
| 50th c BC | Kumari of Lemuria | Pygmies with bull-roarers | ||
| Purebreds | 4th Millennium BC to 1st Millennium AD | |||
| 40th c BC | Azaës son of Atlas of Atlantis | Greek hoplite panoply | ||
| 30th c BC | Cynisca daughter of Cyrene of Atlantis | Seeress. Manifests astral eidolon. | ||
| 30th c BC | Lemurians | Astra Weapons | ||
| 25th c BC | Kshatriya | An ancient city of Dvarala submerged in the sea | ||
| 20th c BC | Gilbert Islander Warriors | Shark-skin armor | ||
| 6th c AD | Dahut of Ys | Berserkers | ||
| 8th c AD | Irem of the Pillars | Iron Chariots | ||
| 9th c AD | Vinetalings | Vineta beneath the Baltic | ||
| 2nd Millennium AD | ||||
| 13th c AD | Fyodor Poyarok | Kitezh on lake Svetloyar | ||
| 14th c AD | Beast-lords of Elelin | El Dorado | ||
| 15th c AD | Aztecs of Aztlan | Jaguar-Knights | ||
| 17th c AD | Meido Michi-no-O of Togenkyo | Samurai | ||
| 18th c AD | Sing-Shi, the Vengeful Widow | wife of Sing-Ye | ||
| Hybrids | Human breeds intermingled | |||
| 3rd Millennium AD | ||||
| 21st c AD | Col. Preston Lost | Veteran of the China War | ||
| 26th c AD | Nevil Kingston-Brown | Australian physicist | ||
| 6th Millennium AD | ||||
| AD 5000 | Savant-Captain Tsan of World Empire of Tsan-Chan | Fire weapons | ||
| 15th Millennium – 21st Millennium AD | ||||
| AD 14,000 to AD 20,000 | Dark Conquerors | Energy weapons | ||
| AD 16000 | Nug-Ma’at | Ur-stones | ||
| AD 20,000 | Last of the Dark Conquers | Diabolism. Living weapons | ||
| 21st Millennium — 99th Millennium AD End of the First Myriad | The Collapse: Civilization in eclipse. | |||
| 2nd Myriad —5th Myriad AD | Quinary Ice Age | |||
| AD 100,000 to 400,000 | The Pantarchy | Lunar military bases established. | ||
| Circa 200,000 | Seven Score of Aleph Line | Lunarian | ||
| AD 500, 000 | The Apocalypse of Darkness | First Near-Extinction of Man | ||
| 7th Myriad AD | ||||
| AD 600, 000 | Progerians | Grown by 7; Wed by 14Gray by 21 | ||
| AD 610,000 to 650,000 | Methuseleans: All-Stone, Raad | Five to twenty times normal human lifespan | ||
| 8th Myriad AD | ||||
| AD 700, 000 | Patagonians
| Reconstitution of Man Normal lifespan restored | ||
| Circa 750, 000 | An unnamed soldier | Shield-gun matter-exploder weapon dates from this period | ||
| AD 800, 000 | Apocalypse of Fire | Second Near-Extinction of Man | ||
| 9th to 11th Myriad AD | ||||
| AD 800,000 to 1,000,000 | division into Feugians and Siberians | Reemergence of Man. Equatorial regions uninhabited | ||
| AD 802701 | Morlocks | Nocturnal, subterranean variant of Feugian | ||
| Posthumans | ||||
| Second Age | SECOND MEN | AD 1 Million to 2 Million | Anakim or Ipotane: Ushahin, Vanant | Designed for justice. Spline gun. |
| Third Age | THIRD MEN | AD 2 million to 4 million | Emim, or Terrors: Ahara, Vkra, Sinhika, Son of the Wind | Designed for compassion, affinity with nature. Extra acute senses. Wasp-throwers. |
| Fourth Age | FOURTH MEN | AD 4 million to 7 million | Rephaim, Green Men or Phantoms: Eien | Designed for prudence. Immortal. Built Final Unit, other self-aware machines. Time travel. Microscopic energy weapons. |
| Fifth Age | FIFTH MEN | AD 7 million to 15 million | Gibborim, Gargantuans, or Mighty Ones: Tlatoc, Zipacna, Grind | Designed for fortitude, affinity with the supernatural. Altered their children to erase instinctive fear of death. Armed with electric wands. |
| Pelagic Epoch | SIXTH MEN | AD 15 million to 30 million | Nephidim, Descenders or Amphibian Men: Sobek/ Emogoalekc | Designed for moderation. Sophisticated miniaturized vitalistic technology. Armed with infrasonics. |
| Boreal Epoch | SEVENTH MEN | AD 30 million to 60 million | Zamzummim, Ascenders or Winged Men: Cucuio, Ercinee, Basan | Designed for hope. Antigravity technology, wind control. Armed with wind-lances. |
| Egregorine Period | EIGHTH MEN | AD 60 million to 125 million | Eljo, Grigorim, or Watchers: Samyaza, Gadreel | Designed for peace and unity. Asexual. Armed with force auras |
| Laurasian Period | FINAL MEN | AD 125 million to 150 million | Avim, Devastators, Final Man. | Designed for liberty. Anarchic subterranean hermaphrodite cyborgs |
| Pangaean Period | AD 150 million to 250 million | Surface rendered uninhabitable by the Devastators. | ||
Notable events in the Pangaean Period:
- Time Tesseract discovered by the Final Men.
- Greater Resurrection.
- Pangaea repopulated with creatures from prior geologic ages, including man
- Second Time Paradox disaster. Final Men in eclipse.
- Watcher-Phantom War. Watchers driven into Alaska by the Phantoms.
- Eighth Men ally with the Fifth Men. Progress Advocacy formed.
- Time directional integration engine falls into Watcher control. Time Tesseract hides itself. However, Gate of Eternity remains in Watcher control.
- Watcher time raids. Abductions limited to disaster sites as Atlantis, Lemuria, &c.
- Investigations into afterlife open an alliance between Watchers and Macrobes.
- Suicide of the Fourth Men. Towers of Immortality toppled.
- Triumph of the Advocacy.
- Empire expands. First Men reduced to degrading servitude.
- Advent of Colonel Preston Lost, big game hunter.
About John C Wright
John C. Wright is a practicing philosopher, a retired attorney, newspaperman, and newspaper editor, and a published author of science fiction. Once a Houyhnhnm, he was expelled from the august ranks of purely rational beings when he fell in love; but retains an honorary title.
