There is the Mound Culture of Cheokia (just SE of St. Louis). Pre-Columbia, they were a pretty powerful culture. Could always expland them to cover much of the Missouri/Mississippi watershed.
The Great Lakes/NE area is home to several famous indian cultures, notably the Iriqoises (I know I butchered that name) and Blackfoots. They actually had some moderately powerful nations, not just tribes. A Great Lakes Confederation would work there.
Moving west, you have both the plains indians (the classical horse-riding indians), and the cliff-dwelling haopians. The cliff-dwellers were interesting because they farmed the plateaus (all desert now due to climate changes).
I'd shrink Iberian territories in Vinland. In RW history, they were slow about moving north--no rich native nations dripping in gold and silver and turquoise and jade to conquer, just miles and miles of desert and hostile natives. In RW history, Spain conquered some of the Pueblo lands in the early 1540's, abandoned them, and came back in 1598. Spain didn't have much to do with Baja California until the late 17th century except missionaries. It wasn't until 1769 that Spain sent an expedition to bring Alta California under control, establishing San Diego and Monterey; 1776 to establish Yerba Buena (San Francisco). The Russians were still in the Aleutians! Spain brought Texas in begining 1716, responding to French probings from the Mississippi.
Albion establishing itself in California? *shrug*.
Especially if Iberia's got a major war going on in South America. Maybe make a more determined move to control Baja or up the coast to the Colorado and the Gila, but not too much. California, at the time, was a LOT different than today. Most of the south--desert. No Salton Sea to grow crops around. The Central Valley turning into a giant marsh with the winter and spring rains; Lake Tulare still dominating the southern Valley (don't bother trying to find it on a map; it got drained and plowed quite a while back). I'd say hand Albion coastal settlements from (RW) Vancouver to Monterey, with a large area between Southern California and the Rio Grande--perhaps claimed by both but under the control of neither.
In the RW, Russia came to N. America across Siberia. Is that still their route?
It sounds as if Quebec has been handed to the Norse. That so, are the Franks concentrating on New Crescent?
Nova Albion doesn't seem much involved on the Atlantic side; just in California. What about Virginia, Carolina, Georgia, the Bahamas, Florida? Florida and the Florida Straits (between Florida and Cuba) could easily be a battleground between Iberia, Frankland, and Albion. Native confederacies could be established between the Ohio and the Great Lakes (Shawnee, Delaware) and in the Southern interior (Cherokee, Creek, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Seminole), upstate New York (Iroquois), plains.
New Crescent (should that be "New Croissant"?) could be the base for a number of Frankish settlements along the Mississippi.and coastline (St. Louis, Biloxi, Mobile) (New Orleans dates from 1718, incidentally!).
There are only a few (coastal) cites of any significant size, one being the SJ port city New Amstelredam (New York), one being Nova Albion (San Francisco), and one being New Crescent (New Orleans). The Vinland or New World States are not really an empire, as they are only a loose federation, but some think they show great promise for the future.
The native peoples worship their various native gods, the colonists the gods of the lands of which they are colonies.
New Amstelredam (New York) is currently Norse, and was previously Frankish (Dutch). The Norse currently hold much of the North-East coast of Vinland, after a successful invasion about twenty years ago from the modern-named island of Newfoundland, when the Franks became far too focused on internal problems and their two nearby SJ ports of Randstad (Rotterdam) and Massalia (Marseille). This gave the Norse their own SJ port, and they intend to take maximum advantage of it.
Nova Albion (San Francisco) was orginally settled by Albion after its discovery in about 1580 C.E., via the spelljamming craft "Golden Hind", but it has gone backward and forward between them and the Iberians. Albion has held Nova Albion for the last ten years and Iberia does not look like arguing about this, at least for a while. There are also nearby Rus. A noted landmark is Plymouth Square.
The New Crescent (New Orleans) major SJ shipyard and trading center. Known for music, cuisine, and debauchery. Rumors have it that The New Crescent exists in an area where the barrier between the Prime Material and the Ethereal is much thinner and bleedover is common. Psionics also seem to be enhanced. It is an oasis in the midst of subtropical swamps containing tribes of lizardmen and a preponderance of zombies.
The ruling body is an oligarchic council which includes representatives from the three thieves guilds. Contraband is king. Existing on the mouth of the Old Man River it is the port which allows water access to the entire continent. Several crews of pirates and privateers operate from here and roaming the nearby islands.
There is a yearly carnival which is known and legendary the world over.
The SJ ports are New Amstelredam (New York), Star Mountain (Pike's Peak/Denver), New Crescent (New Orleans) and Nova Albion (San Francisco).
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