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Welcome! You probably saw the title and wondered: What on earth is an ISOT game? Well, it's going to take a little explaining, so give me a moment. An ISOT game is a type of map game, which itself is a sort of collaborative writing. In a map game, people take turns with a world and it's countries and essentially make up what they do for a year with a map updated alongside it. So the first person would go: "In Year One, Country X invaded Country Y after Country Y continued to kidnap X-ian citizens. X's army marched down the valley and there was a great battle between X's army and Y's, but with Z's support Y manages to repel X, which retreats back up the valley." Then the second person would write what happens in the second year: "Y and Z chase X's broken forces back into their borders, meeting no resistance as they march back into X's territory and taking the capital, setting up a puppet government under their control, call Xa." and then the third person would do the third year, and so forth. (All of this would preferably have a lot more detail and politicking). The beginning scenario is often a point in history to see what cool alternate timelines can happen, but you can really do anything with the format. Which brings us to... ISOT stands for Island in the Sea Of Time, which is a 1998 book by S. M. Stirling in which the town of Nantucket, Massachusetts is magically transported to the Bronze Age. An ISOT game is where a variety of nations, cities, people, or objects are all magically transported to a new land and you see how they react, evolve, and settle into their new situation. So, for example... "Nation X, Ω, and π are all suddenly cut of from the outside world. In confusion, the three nation's government's send out scouts and discover a completely unfamiliar landscape, and with no indication the nations they are used to existing at all! Instead, they discover each other and are surprised to find strange new technologies and magics in the other lands!" In an ISOT game, before the main section, people take turns choosing what gets transported and where. These can be entire countries with people and infrastructure, to single people, to just objects. Once everyone is done with that, the map game starts with the initial scenario being the strange new world created beforehand! So, the specific concept for this map game: Brandon Sanderson works! Anything written by or with Brandon is allowed, Cosmere or not. Here are the formats you use to submit an ISOT: Nation Name: (What is this nation called?) From: (What work is this nation from?) Where: (Where is this nation being transported to?) Time ISOT'd: (At what time in it's history was this nation transported?) Special Features: (Does this nation have magic? Advanced technology? If so, what is it?) Basic Description: (A basic description of the nation) Person's Name: (What is this person called?) From: (What work is this person from from?) Where: (Where is this person being transported to?) Time ISOT'd: (At what time in their life was this nation transported?) Skills: (What is this person good at? Do they have any magic?) Basic Description: (Who is this person? What do they look like?) Object: (What is this object?) From: (What is this object from?) Where: (Where is this object being transported to?) Object Properties: (What can this object do?) The place we'll be transporting all of these Brandon works is an empty earth- AKA an earth with everything but humans. If you can't add your own ISOTs to the map I'll happily do it for you. Map: Please only do at maximum 3 ISOTs in a turn. Once we have enough things on the map we'll start the game proper. Turn List: 1. Goob (I'll go first just as an example) 2. @The Unknown Order 3. @Lord_Silberfarben 4. 5.