Talk:The Neverlands

Hmm. As the Discworld evolves, its referents to Roundworld geography move with it. "Sto Lat" and the rest, with the name straight out of a Polish folksong, were in the time of The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic meant to be part of a vague and strange Other somewhere outside Ankh-Morpork. So they initially got a Slavonic/Polish vibe. Then the perception of the world changed. With the cabbage economy, you get references to a wide flat Sto Plains growing a lot of brassica, and things like "Sto Lat Sprouts" (Brussels?) figured heavily. So with Quirm evolving into a Discworld France and Überwald/Borogravia becoming the Germany-Bavaria-Switzerland-Austria continuum, the three Sto states started to fit the mental map as a Benelux thing: Belgium, Luxembourg, Holland. But then you see how close to Ankh-Morpork they actually are.... even though if the North Sea were not there, you could see a situation where there'd be no clear dividing line between English and Dutch/Flemish - the two language groups would shade into each other. Just listen to old boys from Suffolk talking to each other. English words, Dutch cadences. The Slavonic world moved further out, to Zlobenia and Far Überwald with Otto Chriek and others. As you'd expect, if Ankh-Morpork and Lancre have a vaguely "English" feel to them. Everything else that's "European" would map to a relative distance nearer or further away.

And now Terry, or his co-workers (or his heirs?) move Holland to the other side of the continent altogether, next to "Italy". Feels wrong. And I'm not going to alter my fanfic writings to account for this.... Holland in my overlapping Discworld will forever be Sto Kerrig, thank you very much, along with its stroeppy Howondalandian offshoot! AgProv (talk) 14:58, 12 April 2016 (UTC)