Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-98.189.181.249-20160213004821/@comment-25555436-20160213230947

98.189.181.249 wrote: The world of Remnant might have been Earth in the past, before the "event". There is sufficient similarity in the planet surface, where maps have appeared, to make out that most continents are either submereged, or not illustrated in the series, and that parts of North America (Vale and Vacuo), Western Canada (Menagerie), the Arctic (Atlas), and Western Europe (Mistral) remain. You fail geographical histography (or whatever it's called) forever.

For starters, Western Canada is in North America. It's not it's own continent or located outside NA.

Second of all, you say "The Past", yet mention Modern continents. The continents have not always been like this. They have changed, heavily, over the centuries. Hell, in the past most of those continents would be unrecognizable, and even before that they were a single continent.

If Remnant was Earth in the past, the continents would definitely look different from modern continents, which means that none of the continents in Remnant would have anything even resembling a bit of America, Europe, or any other modern continent beyond the climate and biological life.

And if it was in the near-past or near-present, it's continents would not look like that, they would look more like ours.

The only way to explain how it would be possible, would be by saying it's Earth in the Future. Something happened that altered the climate in some areas and possibly gave life to the Faunus. At the same time, the poles keep melting, raising water levels and submerging parts of the land.