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To be fair contradictory maps is pretty spot on for medieval times.

I'm an SCA member. Your map, as posted on Reddit, has been making the rounds. With Credits. EVERY comment has been impressed with your work. Thanks for making it and posting it.

“Hi, I live in Detroit” -Weak -Normal -boring -doesn’t make people want to talk to you “I Hail from the Middle Kingdom” -Awesome -No one needs to know where that is because it’s the MIDDLE KINGDOM -makes people want to talk to you

The Tigerstar Map Universe has grown too large

6:35 European kingdom claiming nearly all of the world? I would say that's very historically accurate!

As an SCA member, I was really hoping for your year-by-year breakdown of how the Kingdoms have grown and shifted over time. But this is damn cool.

I was a member in the 1980’s, a meek and quiet monk. That is, until my woolen frock gave me a case of heat exhaustion one hot, humid August day.

Iraq has an official medieval reenactment group.? That’s awesome! It’s probably includes things like the Abbasid’s and maybe even the Umayyads. That’s something you don’t really think about when it comes to medieval re-enactments.

I live in Slovakia, and my parents are members of local Historical reanactment group called "Divadlo Corvus Arva." My mom makes costumes, which i would say look much better than those in modern shows. They are popular not only in Slovakia, but also bits of Poland, Czechia, Austria and they once were in Slovenia and Croatia

Now I know that if I end up in some random place in the US or Canada and I don’t know my way home and I see that there are medieval-looking buildings/tents nearby, I can just tell them I hail from “Marion Glen” of the “Kingdom of Meridies” and request passage home or something.

As a reenactor in England currently a member of a group within the parent group The Vikings UK, and also formerly a member of a group within the War of the Roses Federation, it's really interesting to see how vastly different the parent bodies structure themselves over in North America. I don't know if you could really do the same sort of map in the UK since different periods have their own parent groups, sometimes multiple (e.g. Regia Anglorum cover broadly the same period as The Vikings UK), maybe individual parent groups could have maps like this but none quite as broad as the SCA. Also funnily enough I'm watching this while sewing up some reenactment kit, my hose and braies!

I was completely unaware about how organized this type of groups are actually. This looks amazing and props on the groups and your ability to map things.

SCA can be kinda weird and petty in it's hierarchy. my area has two overlapping baronys that just like... dont talk to eachother. Also they have all the weird and petty rules ever like purple being banned despite berry based dye being made and sold at the event itself... like a teenage girl being kicked out for a scarf she got there.

This man went out of his way to create a fully detailed map for a community he heard of only recently just because they don't have an official one. Props.

This reminds me of the Crusader Kings 2 and 3 mod called After the End which takes place in 2700 after a calamity and America is divided into Kingdoms, Empires, and the HRE is the South

I hold myself to be an esteemed member of the Renaissance Men. For mine lack of a represented kingdom, I shall be coming to town. Be wary, self-proclaimed "Emporer" Tigerstar.

hopping in to say that the sca, as its name suggests never claims, or aims to be 100% serious living history. its more aboyt the fun and roleplay.

No way you just learned of the SCA. That's wild

Great job Tigerstar! Your map looks great and very detailed. It's really inspiring to me how good your content is. It's deffinately one of the biggest reasons why I got into mapping recently. Keep up the fantastic work!

Please make this map downloadable and link it in a community post. Though I only heard of the SCA today and have little at best interest in it, I think that would still be cool. In any case, that video was good as always, EmperorTigerstar.

I'm the Sir Brehon in the maps you cited, and I LOVE the work you did! 🙂 Nice job!

Emperor, I'm sure if you ever joined the SCA you'd get a big honor for your cartography skills. An Tir represent!

6:40 yeah the pronunciation of Drachenwald is difficult for Non german speakers because of our beloved Ch, but the D in Wald is pronunced like a T in English.

I've participated on and off with the SCA for around 25 years and it can be a lot of fun. Great map

It would be interesting to make one around my area

I just gave a presentation on Hema today at school and I mentioned the sca as a simmilar thing

I wanted to get into the SCA but never had the time or energy. That said, hail from the shire of Bordergate in the Kingdom of Avacal!

Very cool, definitely going to check out the details when I get a chance!

WOW, haven't heard about the SCA for over 30 years. I had a friend back in the early 90s who was into fencing.

A very beautiful map. Well done!

0:30 Do all of these events taken place in the summer? I bet it would be a lot cooler if it was in the fall or early winter.

Me pulling a Voltaire: *They are not United, they are not States, and they are not America.*

would be cool if they acted out wars between kingdoms and took small fiefs from eachother, mostly on the borders of course

fun fact: one of the leading lights of SCA is David Friedman, who is 1) Milton Friedman's kid and 2) one of _the_ ancaps (unlike me; I'm just _an_ ancap)

Emperor Tigerstar is the only mapper that goes outside

I do reenactment as part of smaller independent group, but I've talked with a lot of former and current SCA members. It probably goes without saying that with so many different people and subdivisions in the group, there are lots of differing opinions about how they should do things. Some groups are super strict when it comes to historical authenticity (sometimes excessively so imho), and others are more like LARP groups when it comes to realism. The general consensus I've gotten from long time members and long time reenactors that have interacted with them, is that it's not really a reenactment group, so much as a group of history nerds with some reenactors in it.

I would have liked to see some slight separation between the two principalities of An Tir, since they are functionally two different kingdoms for most events (our relationship between the two principalities is very similar to the relationship between the kingdom of the west and the kingdom of of Caid

I LOVE videos about the SCA because I can point at them and say "I know that thing!"

Thank you for this map.

I too being an Sca member was surprised to find this video ^^ thanks. Me and my brothers are going to start our own house and join up with eldermere (originally part of the middle kingdom or "Midrealm")

Someone should put this into crusader kings now

What about Roman Reenactors, such as Nova Roma

Not active now, but bout 25 years ago I went to many events a year and was very active. I fought a lot at first, then grew old of that aspect of it. I loved doing live weapons, dancing and other activities. Most events would have feasts as well, always great. Then the revels at night, music, singing, more dancing and other activities.

My eyes lid up when you mentioned QGS(or that what I heard) because I work as a Geoinformatic and we use that. Even a program called QGis. To my knowledge it’s only a job in Germany but my source is just a friend who studied in France in geography and was asked about it. Geoinformatics is a Job deeply routed in Geograhpy and map making btw.. it’s known in Germany as Geoinformatik or Geomatiker and I don’t know the English version of it sry. Some other may know Vermessungstechniker.

Omg, this is super cool.

"Some of the maps were contradicting in places..." Aha! A casus belli!

Cool! ❤

Regarding the pronunciation of "Drachenwald": It's a German word meaning "Dragon Forest". The "ch" isn't pronounced like a k, but more like its pronunciation in "church"without the "t"-sound upfront (although not completely the same, it's more from the throat). For the "a" i still try to find an equivalent in English words, but if you say "aye", "eye" or "I", you'll notice that your mouth moves and gets tighter. Try to hold the first "letter" without moving your mouth. Or you open your mouth as wide as possible and make a sound. That is pretty close to the German pronunciation of the letter "a". Or just say the letter "r" without the r-sound..

very impressive and interesting

I do 20th Century Reenacting primarily do WWII and I have done Vietnam and World War I and our system is more funkier than this is were divided into different nations, armies, divisions, regiments and companies and there is a lot of competition for recruitment for the units

I remember listening to Heather Dale's song United At War, written at Pennsic XXV (the 25th Pennsic War the SCA did) and looking up the Kingdom of Ealdormere. It's pretty cool to know I live in the Barony of Ramshaven within Ealdormere. United At War is a great song btw

Now each reenactment battles will actually have an impact on the map 🗺️ ! And have an actual outcome !!

Okay now I’m interested in this

would be very cool to see one of these for England

One of them is literally just Arizona. Of course Florida has its own

There are a bunch of medieval living history and reenactment groups in the US and EU that aren't connected with SCA, so this is only the tip of the iceberg. SCA is a unique organization with its own traditions and standards. They are looser on some aspects of authenticity than most living history groups, and cover a much wider time span.

I really do recommend takinf a community college class on gis or even just followint a KZfaq tutorial. Might make it so you can develop custom reference maps for drawing much faster and they are actually a lot of fun to work with. I enjoyes my gis class so much i applied to my nations military mapping unit

And now time to make the HOI4 mod.

Does the S.C.A. have wars where kingdoms can lose territory to neighbouring kingdoms?

I'm part of a reenactment group in the UK. I'd LOVE for you to do this for the UK (and European groups aswell)

Contradictory maps? *Puts on knight helmet* that's a funny way to say invading squaters!

On your reasons for not wantin to do ren faire stuff; honestly the summer is when i personally least want to LARP. Which is why its a grt thing that stuff happens in the other months too xD My fave event back in my old kingdom was Winterbash bcuz its far more fun to me fightin in the bitter cold heh

Can you share the link for the watershed map you mentioned?

My dad used to be involved in the Society for Creative Anachronism.

Please come to Pennsic in Slippery Rock, PA. it's the 50th anniversary and it'll be a hell of a party

As an El Pasoan it tickles me in just the right way that we are part of the Outlands Kingdom. Suck it, Ansteorra :P

Used to be part of Calontir but now live in An Tir.

This makes me think of HEMA groups like mine as bands of mercenaries moving between the various baronies. Accurate considering the sources we study…

What program do you use to draw in your tablet? PD: Nice video!

Personally, I would just show up in Roman gear. Probably to confuse people. Technically, it was a medieval empire.

Tigerstar "Society for Creative Anachronism" My brain : "Wait, isn't that the group that gave Starship Captain Honor Harrington an M1911 in like the year 3000 from the book I read? They're *REAL*?"

Interesting. Im an English Civil War reenactor and im facinated by how other countries do it

Shoutout to the currently inactive Afghan Medieval European Reenactment Community

Could you examine the world of After the End?

On my way to start a rebellion in the Kingdom of Caid as the Taifa of Caláfia

Wait, so in Japan reenactment groups, do they have a medieval japanese style reenactment or an european style one?

I was gonna go to one in Germany this year but the event takes place literally like 2 days after I leave

Your mapping skill is great, I think we could partner up or something.

The Outlands that are an interior region. We could come up with a better name than that. The Archduchy of Albuquerque is available.

Hello from the UK, in the kingdom of Northumbria (410 AD to present)

Is the North America every year video still coming out?

Draco Invictus! Hunter and Sable!

What the hell is with Missouri taking ANOTHER bite out of Arkansas!?

Tigerstar isn’t a reference to warriors, is it? I’m a warriors fan boy so it just got me thinking

Does SCA run Renaissance Faires?

How do I become a sca member

I didnt even know there was kingdoms in washington lol

Trust Americans to draw territories with straight lines

Team Forged Pacific 🙌

This seems like a lot of work, when I can just play CK3 instead

Ehem. CK3 mod of that would be really cool

Welp, I may not be in the SCA but this has piqued my interest. I looked it up and live within the Marche of Tirnewydd

Do these count as micronations?

EAST KINGDOM REPRESENT

Hello from the middle kingdom

Just like Game of Thrones?

Do the same with europe

America but DND

The Iraqi emirate XD I wonder if that was DoD guys alone or if some imaginative bilingual Iraqis were the drivers.