User blog comment:UnknownKing22/The Problem with Map Games/@comment-5590986-20200209003332

Read the comments below, but just adding:  if you have been paying attention

There was the 4 Empires instead of just 1 mongol empire, they are the horsemen empires

it actually started with the Tuvans (War)

then the Mongols (Conquest)

then the Daevites, which if you look it up (they are originally known from late Roman Period, returning from the battle of Empress Nera and Matriarch Attilla hundreds of years ago) (Death)

then the Altaics (Famine)

Other examples include the Knights of the Round table having branches around Europe

the situation in China

Australia becoming the "land of beasts"

probably a kraken

etc

A lot of symbolism is included. Don't take the game at its surface value, because there is a deeper meaning to some or most (if not all) events