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>"Northmen"
>"Easterlings"
>"Southrons"
>"Men of the West"
But what do you call the people who live in the center of the map? Aren't they important too?
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>>98913960
I call them northmen, easterlings, southrons, or men of the west depending on where they are in relation to me
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Radical Centrists.
They exclusively engage in late 80's/early 90's culture and surf on the waves around the equator.
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>>98913960
>But what do you call the people who live in the center of the map?
Chinamen
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>>98913960
>But what do you call the people who live in the center of the map?
Chinese.
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>>98913960
"Us". The people at the center of the map are the ones who made the map. You're using the names they made for everyone else.
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>>98913960
>"Men of the West"
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>>98914184
Hated this fucking artstyle so much as a kid
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>>98914220
Pussy
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>>98913960
Centerions <|:O)
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>>98914067
Those are more or less the Rhûnedain
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>>98913960
Midwits
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>>98913960
>But what do you call the people who live in the center of the map?
Agarthans.
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>>98914009
>>98914067
the chinese word for china was "middle kingdom"

what this actually was a middle in reference to changed from dynasty to dynasty
>symbolic center of the universe
>literal geographic center between the bend of the yellow river
>political center after putting their capital at the center of the map
they were likely aware of the "middle of what?" question and were not ignorant of the concept of relative position, but chose to keep going with calling themselves the center because thats true from a political standpoint

so go ahead and have every kingdom in your own setting call themselves middlemen and everyone else direction-men in relation to their own kingdom
so whats east to one person is west to another
this would obviously result in everyone using more specific names in official treaties and agreements, because you cant take everyone knowing relative direction as a given
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>>98913960
the center of the map is whoever makes the map. They probably have some name symbolizing their belief that their society is the pinnacle of all human civilization or they're chosen by the gods.

That's what most people do.
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>>98913960
Chinese.
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>>98913960
>Middle Earth
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>>98913960
Mole people.
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>>98913960
Mediterraneans?
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>>98913960
What center?
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>>98914009
Statistically speaking, the Han Chinaman is the most average man in the world.



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