North America

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Geography

As the name suggests, North America is located north of South America.

Notable Locations

• Canada
• United States of America
• Mexico

History

Long ago, humans came to North America, Crone Mara among the first;<ref>What could a hag as old as humanity’s presence in North America be doing, with all of her opponents blind and unwitting? - excerpt from Sine Die 14.7</ref> arriving as an infant in a reed boat. Others arose, echoing human intelligence, to join those Others that predated humanity.<ref>“The town will fall, just as it rose, two hundred and fifteen years ago.  Before that, I was here.  I watched people come and go.  Settlements rose and fell.  Not many, not large, but a number.  Before that, I was here.”
“Been here a while,” I said.
Her eyes narrowed.  “The man and woman who brought me into this world

came to this place on a raft of reeds, and I was so small I had to be 

carried. We traveled from the west to here over my lifetime, following the deer and the hunt.  When my parents passed, I stayed.  I was one of the first to lay claim here, and I have never given it up.”
“Over the water to the west?” Peter murmured.  “The lake?”
“Ocean,” Tiff said, her voice almost a whisper.
“I nurtured those who followed after me or passed through, offered them my hand and my amassed knowledge, so they could be communities, a people.  Many are mine.  Hundreds of years of work.  I saw things follow in our wake, things stirred into existence by our being. 

Your Others, echoing our intelligence, echoing our pride and fear and 

pain, to join those Others that were here before the first people.  I am

familiar with them all.  I know what man is, and I know that your love and law and fairness are invention.  Invention younger than I am." 

[...]
“You know the power of your repetition. Three times, you do something. Three times you bind it to make it so. Agreed?”
“That’s the gist of it.”
“Invention. But at the core, there is truth. I have not counted, but I can still be utterly confident in saying that I have woken up in the same place for more than nine million of your days. I have gathered, hunted, cooked and eaten the same foods on those same days. I have been born, bled for the first time, and been reborn on more than one thousand occasions. The wheel of life and death turns forward and I am an indelible part of it, especially here. This is a pattern, this is my ritual. Now tell me, what is the truth of this. What does it make me?” - excerpt from Sine Die 14.6 </ref>

The English presence in North America is young, in the great scheme of things. They and other European powers invaded the Aborginal peoples living there, then fought among themselves over the land, with the English eventually the victors in Canada. Others birthed by these conflicts still walk North America today.<ref>“I wouldn’t imagine Conquest is a great fit for Toronto,” I said.

“It was, once.  The English presence in North America is young, and Others can be very old.  For some, it wasn’t long ago at all that we wiped out the Aboriginal people and took their land.  It wasn’t long ago

that there was war over what European country would claim sovereignty 

over this land.  Toronto was a site in the war of eighteen-twelve, and Conquest continued to gain power after it was released, with immigrants coming in to reaffirm the invader’s claim to the land.”

- excerpt from Collateral 4.1 </ref>

References

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