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Here is my "genealogy tree" of my Insular Celtic OCs, which I somehow managed to spell incorrectly on the picture. As I have told some of you before, I don't approve of the mama!nation theory because it forces you to pair two entities together who may have had horrible relations and I don't like how some people just go "lol, she was raped by him and then she gave birth to this nation". I determine family links through influences, cultural, linguistic and historical. In my view, all the characters you see above consider each other as siblings. No mother and father. This is very rough but it has the main idea of how the Celts in the British Isles are related to each other.

Ireland may have been originally Brythonic/British along with his sisters Albion and Pictland but then Gaels came and settled in Ireland, Gaelicising him. (which is why the light green becomes dark green) Ireland then has strong influences on Isle of Man and Scotland, ensuring that they'd be thoroughly Gaelic too. He had some influence on Brittany too when she was emigrating back to the mainland... though I don't know how strong the influence was (have to look it up) so that might be removed in my next re-do. And of course he had influence on Northern Ireland but it wasn't very heavy in the beginning.

The Pictish line is short and a bit more comprehensive. Pictland was British like her sister Albion/Britannia but when the Picts were pressured by the Romans, they became estranged and broke off from the Ancient British line. I know she inhabited Shetland and Orkney so there would be influences on them. (need to identify other islands though) And to be perfectly honest, Scotland was in origin a Picto-Gael kingdom. Just the Pictish characteristics were lost or became integrated to the extent that you don't notice them unless you really search for them.

The messiest line is the Brythonic/British one. There was heavy fragmentation and I've identified at the very least all these smaller siblings... any less would sadden me because they all deserve some recognition of being different from the others. Sure two fled back to the mainland and one of them seems to have forgotten their Celtic culture with only a bit of their music remaining. Sure from the four who remained in Great Britain, one became Germanic, another died, another was almost extinguished through Anglicization which really leaves us with only Wales standing. But it was an extensive family and I think they share fond memories when they were together. (before life forced them to be pushed into different directions.) Cumbria had a good amount of people migrating to Wales, hence why he influenced him. Welsh tribes also migrated to Cornwall which is why Wales influenced Cornwall. Most migrations to Brittany came from Cornwall but it was noted that most people leading them were Welsh. XD And Brittany influenced Britonia too. Eh, it is very messy as you can see.

And Northern Ireland is a mix of Irish, Scottish and English. I considered briefly putting Wales as an influence because Welsh settlers when to the Ulster plantation as well but I don't know how much of an effect the Welsh settlers had. I need to look into this too. Sorry for the overall messiness, hope this is still interesting.

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Here is my "genealogy tree" of my Insular Celtic OCs, which I somehow managed to spell incorrectly on the picture. As I have told some of you before, I don't approve of the mama!nation theory because it forces you to pair two entities together who may have had horrible relations and I don't like how some people just go "lol, she was raped by him and then she gave birth to this nation". I determine family links through influences, cultural, linguistic and historical. In my view, all the characters you see above consider each other as siblings. No mother and father. This is very rough but it has the main idea of how the Celts in the British Isles are related to each other.

Ireland may have been originally Brythonic/British along with his sisters Albion and Pictland but then Gaels came and settled in Ireland, Gaelicising him. (which is why the light green becomes dark green) Ireland then has strong influences on Isle of Man and Scotland, ensuring that they'd be thoroughly Gaelic too. He had some influence on Brittany too when she was emigrating back to the mainland... though I don't know how strong the influence was (have to look it up) so that might be removed in my next re-do. And of course he had influence on Northern Ireland but it wasn't very heavy in the beginning.

The Pictish line is short and a bit more comprehensive. Pictland was British like her sister Albion/Britannia but when the Picts were pressured by the Romans, they became estranged and broke off from the Ancient British line. I know she inhabited Shetland and Orkney so there would be influences on them. (need to identify other islands though) And to be perfectly honest, Scotland was in origin a Picto-Gael kingdom. Just the Pictish characteristics were lost or became integrated to the extent that you don't notice them unless you really search for them.

The messiest line is the Brythonic/British one. There was heavy fragmentation and I've identified at the very least all these smaller siblings... any less would sadden me because they all deserve some recognition of being different from the others. Sure two fled back to the mainland and one of them seems to have forgotten their Celtic culture with only a bit of their music remaining. Sure from the four who remained in Great Britain, one became Germanic, another died, another was almost extinguished through Anglicization which really leaves us with only Wales standing. But it was an extensive family and I think they share fond memories when they were together. (before life forced them to be pushed into different directions.) Cumbria had a good amount of people migrating to Wales, hence why he influenced him. Welsh tribes also migrated to Cornwall which is why Wales influenced Cornwall. Most migrations to Brittany came from Cornwall but it was noted that most people leading them were Welsh. XD And Brittany influenced Britonia too. Eh, it is very messy as you can see.

And Northern Ireland is a mix of Irish, Scottish and English. I considered briefly putting Wales as an influence because Welsh settlers when to the Ulster plantation as well but I don't know how much of an effect the Welsh settlers had. I need to look into this too. Sorry for the overall messiness, hope this is still interesting.