History of the universe

Paper Era
Hey yall, this is Dan. I started working on Cascana when I was in 6th grade on the notes app on my phone. It was originally called Catlandia and took place on an island in the Bermuda triangle inhabited by humans with cat ears and tails or something like that (I swear I'm not a furry.) It began as just a short story I wrote to pass time and, as far as I can tell now, no cohesive storyline or lore. Around 2016 or so, I stopped calling it "Catlandia" and drew out the first ever map of the world. As you may see, I wasn't the best at drawing back then (and I'm still not.) There's nothing necessarily special about this one except for the general shape that still persists in modern versions of the map.

In early 2017 I decided to redraw it for whatever reason. The second map was drawn in the same sketchbook as the first, but you can see that it's beginning to take a little bit more of a recognizable shape, albeit still really janky.

Early Digital Era
Late 2017 is when I realized that  t e c h n o l o g y   existed, so obviously my first reaction was to use my phone to make a third map. It was less than stellar, but it first introduces the idea of another island to the south of the main landmass. Those with keen eyes may notice the radioactivity sign in the northeast. Rest assured, the only thing there is a massive starship crash, nothing to worry about. (More about that in the actual lore)

2018 brought about the fourth map. To be honest, the only thing I really remember about this one was that I mentioned that it would be the final Cascana map and that everything would be based around it. That was obviously a lie. This map actually has some country names like the first one, so you can easily tell which ones are important based on which ones are still around. I'm also not really sure why this one is a drop in quality from the previous one, but it might have something to do with the fact that I made it with mouse and keyboard instead of my phone. I also started a shitty Discord server that I called Yeet Wendy's around this time, a fact which will be very important soon.

WorldPainter/ Late Digital Era
In early 2019 I discovered WorldPainter, a program you can use to make custom world files for Minecraft. The Yeet Wendy's MC Server was run through the built-in Realms servers, and I decided to make my first custom world based on Cascana. It was a pretty unremarkable, besides looking like a fat Italy. This was the first introduction to Cascana for most people in the server.

Early 2020 brought with it a new iteration of the story itself, and I felt like it was time for a new map to make up for it. By now, I owned a drawing tablet and was a bit more dedicated to the task, so the final product came out looking much more realistic than anything I had ever made beforehand. The Minecraft Realm had ended over a year before I finished this, and it gave me a great idea.

In April 2020, I started work on porting the latest map of Cascana to Worldpainter, painstakingly copying every inlet and island that I could so it stayed as close to my original vision as possible. The beginning of the Cascana Minecraft server introduced many more people to the world I had built, along with something that I never really thought of bringing to the server: lore. From this point onward, Cascana was self-sufficient. Any addition in the lore from any one person laid the building blocks for even more to be built on top of it. The Cascana server, sadly, was not to last. In may of 2020, the world file got lost during transfer to a new IP. I made one more updated version of Cascana before moving on to my next project, Aurora