#what was that otome game based off persian and islamic folklore that got popular a couple years back???

[themoonsbeloved]

I actually think the "giant river that flows by the city" might be a reference to the Euphrates and/or Tigris rivers in Iraq, since Disney's Aladdin was originally supposed to be in Baghdad, but they re-ordered the letters to Agrabah because it was around the Iraqi war. So anyways Iraqi Kalim and Jamil supremacy.

same anon, so I just saw the map and it definitely looks like a place you will find in pre-war Iraq (I'm actually kinda mad about how realistic that map is? It's like oh so you CAN put effort into cultural accuracy if you want to? Where was that before?)

Aladdin is literally just an amalgamation of so many countries/regions/cultures made to be this one homogenous group, its no wonder so many people from every single region can find SOMETHING that links to their specific culture(s)/home country sdbslakndlasjdns.

But YES the map???? so fucking detailed I'm astonished....my favourite thing is to decide which building is a mosque and which is something else lmao. Like I'm not gonna give credit to twst since they've done below the bare minimum but you really can create fantasy worlds and cultures inspired by real cultures in a way that isn't disrespectful.