History Fridge / StandStillStaySilent

* In the Swedish prologue, the Västerström family are driving to their vacation home to escape the cities, and by year 90, they had been one of the richer families in Mora. If you compare the map shown in the comic with a real world map, you'll notice that Y90 Mora is a bit further south of real Mora, in an area where there's mostly forest in the present day. It's possible that the Västerström vacation home was actually located in the area that became Mora, or even that the house shown in the comic is the same house as the one they were fleeing to in the prologue. Having been around basically since the founding/rebuilding of the city, would certainly give them the basis for being one of the better of families.

* The Vehiclepedes kind of solve a previous mystery: the carved swathes of flattened cityscape forming giant "footpaths" through what had been masonry make sense when you realise just how big construction equipment, trucks and busses can get. Yeah -- heavy-duty forestry or mining vehicles used as sunshades/ bulldozers by ''intelligent, networked souls''... Now consider this: Mina hid this in plain sight from very early. We've seen ruined cars with dead Rash victims in them from right back.

* The Vehiclepedes kind of solve a previous mystery: the carved swathes of flattened cityscape forming giant "footpaths" through what had been masonry make sense when you realise just how big construction equipment, trucks and busses can get. Yeah -- heavy-duty forestry or mining vehicles used as sunshades/ bulldozers by ''intelligent, networked souls''...

* The Vehiclepedes kind of solve a previous mystery: the carved swathes of flattened cityscape forming giant "footpaths" through what had been masonry make sense when you realise just how big construction equipment, trucks and busses can get. Yeah -- heavy-duty forestry or mining vehicles used as sunshades/ bulldozers...

* Väinö's filing cabinet and a offhand comment from him brings a layer of horror unnoticed at first thought of its specifics. Namely, how it ''only'' keep track on the "living" and the "dead" travelers, ''not'' if the living are still "''human''" or not.

* Between the TheFamine and the urban exodus, entire sections of Reykjavik have been abandonned. Sections big enough that if a troll nest grew in one of the buildings, nobody would notice.

*** Main question: while the "any cat is better than no cat" is obviously a common knowlege of the Known World, how could any expedition possibly be launched without ANY cats onboard (not counting Lalli)?
*** Probably if the expedition was started by a bunch of cheapskates whose sole goal in starting it up was to get rich by sending the cheapest crew supplied as scantly as possible with less regard for their safety than they care about making a profit.

*** Main question: while the "any cat is better than no cat" is obviously a common knowlege of the Known World, how could possibly expedition be launched without ANY cats onboard (not counting Lalli)?

* When the team first finds out about a potential vaccine for the Rash, Siv and Taru advise them not to detour to investigate, and instead just let whatever's been there for ninety years wait a little longer for a better prepared expedition. However, Sweden is the only country that has been confirmed to be working on a cure in the story. So strong odds says that if the protagonists had stuck to their original travel plan and left the vaccine for the next expedition to investigate, the next team would have likely been primarily Swedish. Swedish people can't be mages, and are firmly of the opinion that magic isn't a thing, so that team would have decent chance of not including a mage. With nobody able to see the spirits, that team would have either been killed by the ghosts or ended up briging both an unfinished cure whose horrific side effects are InvisibleToNormals and the ghosts back to Sweden. The supposed cure being brought back to Sweden could have very easily ended with humanity getting taken out for good.

* The "many different nationalities" document mentions that attempts to reconquer Denmark's old lands resulted in an outbreak of the Rash on Bornholm that claimed many lives. With that fact taken into account, it makes sense for Bornholm's quarantine policy to have become as strict as Iceland's by the time the main characters show up there.

* When the Nordic council is mentioned to be holding an auction for some of the salvaged books in Chapter 1 of Adventure II, it first seems like the fact that the whole book reselling plan was supposed to be kept hidden from official channels according to Chapter 2 of Adventure I was forgotten. However, the intial book reselling plan was made assuming that the crew would be able to get back to civilization via the Denmark-controlled route they used to leave. The plan likely got a few re-arrangments after the return trip turned into hitching a ride on an Icelandic ship after having run the book-looting operation right under the eyes of an Icelandic civilian they weren't planning on having around.

* Veeti Hollola has a UsefulNotes/GameBoyAdvance despite the fact that the devices used by other characters indicate that the console should be obsolete. The model Veeti is using runs on normal batteries that can be used with other devices. Later models of the same console line, including the one Mia Västerström seems to be using, run on batteries that are specifically made for the device and may be tricky to use to power anything else. The Hotakainen-Hollola family is the most CrazyPrepared among the prologue characters.

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* The absence of EncyclopediaExposita pages from Chapter 16 to the end of Adventure I. Several of the documents are implied or outright shown to be the official mission's reference material. Said reference material is probably one of several copies existing somewhere in the Known World, so it would make absolutely no sense take it along on the trek to the pickup point[[spoiler:, especially with the only person who ever officially needed it dead]]. The only reading material that ''was'' taken on the trek was a bunch of carefully packed Old World books that nobody would consider touching just for the sake of killing time. In other words, the crew no longer has access to the reading material they had up to Chapter 15, so the audience doesn't either.

** On he other hands, considering that most trolls have a lot of exposed internal parts and slime-covered surfaces, they probably would like hot conditions even less...

* The absence of EncyclopediaExposita pages from Chapter 16 onwards. Several of the documents are implied or outright shown to be the official mission's reference material. Said reference material is probably one of several copies existing somewhere in the Known World, so it would make absolutely no sense take it along on the trek to the pickup point[[spoiler:, especially with the only person who ever officially needed it dead]]. The only reading material that ''was'' taken on the trek was a bunch of carefully packed Old World books that nobody would consider touching just for the sake of killing time. In other words, the crew no longer has access to the reading material they had up to Chapter 15, so the audience doesn't either.

* Iceland's violently enforced isolation policy in the early days seems horrifying at first, but makes sense with some cold logic. While able to be autonomous in terms of bare necessities for some time at first glance, present-day Iceland is still reliant on imports for some perks of modern life, including things that could make the difference between life an death for some people. One spell of bad weather without anywhere else to import food from could create a famine. Fishing may have spent years not being considered a reliable food source between the presence of sea beasts and fish being possibly considered a potential vector for some time; Árni had to do two weeks of quarantine without ever interacting with a beast. On top of this, whatever imported modern-day supplies they had in stock before closing the borders were destined to run out eventually and any new children born after they ran out of vaccines would be at risk of catching various diseases. The closing of the supply routes may have started to have real consequences by Month 3, to the point that the last thing they needed was extra people coming in, regardless of whether they carried the Rash or not.
** Iceland in Year 90 has only about 60% of the population that real life Iceland had in late 2013 (190,600 to about 325,000 [[labelnote:note]]the second number increases if later years of the comic's run are assumed to be Year 0[[/labelnote]]), which hints to other factors than the Rash decreasing the population at some point. An info page at the end of Adventure II Chapter 1 confirms that there was a famine between years 0 and 10.

** Iceland in Year 90 has only about 60% of the population that real life Iceland had in late 2013 (190,600 to about 325,000 [[labelnote:note]]the second number increases if later years of the comic's run are assumed to be Year 0[[/labelnote]]), which hints to other factors than the Rash decreasing the population at some point.

* Iceland was the first nation worldwide to close its borders, and Denmark the fourth. The ''only'' in-comic indication that the second and third were Japan and Madagascar respectively is the appearance of their flags in the news report announcing Denmark's border closure. It's an early hint that the reader is going to need to be good at recognizing flags to be able to fully enjoy the main story. The presence of both the Icelandic and the Danish flags in the line-up also hints that they will need to be good enough at this to tell the difference between two ''Nordic'' flags, which all have the same pattern.

* Iceland was the first nation worldwide to close its borders, and Denmark the fourth. The ''only'' in-comic indication that the second and third were Japan and Madagascar respectively is the appearance of their flags in the news report announcing Denmark's border closure. It's an early hint that the reader is going to need to be good at recognizing flags to be able to fully enjoy the main story.

* In the present day cats are known to be very useful in detecting trolls, Giants and beasts. Having a cat would be a great help in surviving in the silent world. Hence why all the prologue characters have access to a cat

* When the team first finds out about a potential vaccine for the Rash, Siv and Taru advise them not to detour to investigate, and instead just let whatever's been there for ninety years wait a little longer for a better prepared expedition. However, Sweden is the only country that has has been confirmed to be working on a cure in the story. So strong odds says that if the protagonists had stuck to their original travel plan and left the vaccine for the next expedition to investigate, the next team would have likely been primarily Swedish. Swedish people can't be mages, and are firmly of the opinion that magic isn't a thing, so that team would have decent chance of not including a mage. With nobody able to see the spirits, that team would have either been killed by the ghosts or ended up briging both an unfinished cure whose horrific side effects are InvisibleToNormals and the ghosts back to Sweden. The supposed cure being brought back to Sweden could have very easily ended with humanity getting taken out for good.

* The Norwegian part of the prologue takes place on Year 0 Day 0. According to the paper Gøran is reading, Iceland is closing its border that day (the newspaper is a day old announces the closure happening the day after its release). In lieu of another significant historical event, Iceland's new date system is based on the year they started isolationism.

* The Norwegian part of the prologue takes place on Year 0 Day 0. According to the paper Gøran is reading, Iceland is closing its border today (tomorrow, but the paper was from yesterday). In lieu of another significant historical event, Iceland's new date system is based on the year they started isolationism.