Random History and Waveform Collapse

Happy 21st Work Anniversary/52 years plus two months birthday to me...

Two more items for my to do list- 1. Make random histories and 2. Illustrate and demonstrate my understanding of waveform collapse with a simple tile set of land/sea broken up into coast, interior and mountains and deep vs. coastal shelf. Coast bordered by coast, coastal shelf or interior, interior by interior, coast or mountains, mountains by mountains or interior, coastal shelf by coast, coastal shelf or deep sea, and deep sea by deep sea or coastal shelf. I can do a list of lists, a list of tiles which contain a list of allowable tiles. So we can look up a type and have a list of which we can count the length and then randomly choose a type from. So we look at a grid point, find out what kind of tile it is, then look at its four neighbors and randomly assign a type based on that first tile.

How do I make a random history? It is made up of events which need to answer the reporters’ questions, starting with when and what, but who, where, how and why as well. When is a date and we can generate random dates one after the other or subdivide a timeline. What is a list, for example war, disaster, prominent births or deaths, famine and pandemics, first contact, prominent marriages and treaties, legislation, revolution and civil war (internal vs. external war?), religions, depressions, etc. Events break down into good or bad, major or minor.