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Hey, I'm a newbie and this would be my first story in hopefully a series of stories about the Ravenese Empire. I'm a newbie so I'm playing on the lowest difficultly which will draw most people away from the story...but erm I'm just starting out so yeah. One thing I've learned about stories is that doing them is very difficult espcially when you want to do screens. I have to save the screens from the game (1 screen per turn) export them from Screenshot Pilot, load them into photoshop individually and resize them one by one, then upload them one by one to photobucket.....quite a hassile for a image heavy story. Yeah so..it begins.

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4000 B.C. After traveling through the hills I decided that my people should be given time to rest in the grasslands. They bathed in the nearby river and the children splashed around playfully. All was well. My brother Fevsib approached me as I looked out at the ocean from the top of a tall hill. "Brother," he said placing his hand on my shoulder. "I think we should settle here, there is a river for water, and it is teeming with fish and other creatures." I rubbed my chin in thought of the cons of settling here. Heigh hills surrounded us on everyside so it would be hard to leave the capitol, but also hard for enemies to get in if we had any. I nodded my head and my brother departed to bestow the message upon my people. The nearby forest was harvested for fruits and wood to build permanate homes. Every man, women, and child was put to work and I could see my empire growing before my eyes. "All is well" I said.

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3800 B.C. In the short time of 200 years the city of Serverist was erected into greatness. Me and my brother were declared gods and treated as so for preforming such a feat. The city grew steadily and produced a population of 10,000. As I stood before my palace door I turned to watch the sea which was miles away and I stopped to think. "What if there was some way to fly (OCC: Sail) over the water." My thinking was interupted by the group of workers passing by on their way to build a new road over a small hill. I pulled back the cloth with the country flag drawn onto it and retreated into my quaters for the night. The next morning I was rudly awoken by the sound of grunts, feet stomping the grond and gossip. I walked out of my quaters to see a group of no more than 50 men waiting for me. "What is the meaning of this?" I asked. One of the tall men stepped forward and bowed to my feet. "With all due respect my lord, this land is unknown to us so we beg of you to let us explore, we will send back a messenger to tell you of our finds" he explained. I brought my hand to my chin once again and decided to let the men depart for I had nothing to lose and everything to gain. They thanked me finally and went on to make preparations.

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3700 B.C. Small group of soliders reports a coastline and a small forest to the southwest. A hundred years have passed, many have been died but death is celebrated in Raven for their bodies are nothing but vessals and their spirit lives on forever. I however have not died, and neither has my brother. Perhaps we are gods as the people say, perhaps it is the strange white powder we injested in the forest that makes us like this.....I begin to question life itself.

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3650 B.C. Small group of soliders reports mountainous region to the southwest, and more patches of forest. They are moving farther from the coastline.

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3550 B.C. My nation is flourishing around me, this is nothing short of utopia, pure happyness. All happyness has to end but it seems as though this is infinite. Our borders have increase and we have claimed more land in the name of Raven. The work force has produced an irrigation system which will bring more water into our city from the ocean of which I hold so dear. There have been reports of people who've seen the ocean rise and speak to them. Me and my brother are going to investigate this tomorrow it could be a race of people that dwell in the sea. The small group of soliders reports another coastline, they guess that the south of the land is "U" shaped. This information could help in expansion of Raven.

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3100 B.C. The work force has produced a mine to the west of the city and the group of soliders have reported a great plain engulfing the coast. To the far north are thick forests.

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3050 B.C. As I sit in my quaters, compemplating the best way to go about raising the miltary, a young man approaches me. He bows as he is supposed to then stands to me. "What do you want, friend?" I asked the man. He relieved the bag from his back and took a seat. "I want to expand the country by erecting another city to the east on the coast." he explained. "And what will this city be called" I asked. "I will name it Nephilist in honor of the ocean god Nephilem." I gave them my blessing and wished them a safe trip. I also told him i'd be best not to disappoint me and he departed on his journey.

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3000 B.C. The villiagers tell of a documenter passing through named simply "Livy". The man had documented the most powerful nations in the world and asked the people to pass it on to their leader. I was quite overwelhmed when I saw my location in the top 8. I also noticed that there were other nations in the world that could be possible threats. I instantly became intrigued with the thought of competition and tried to gather as much information on these other nations as possible.

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2850 B.C. Word has reached that the city of Nephilist has been erected to the east. The first step in expansion. I predict that many cities will follow after this.

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Hey - dont' worry about people avoiding your story cause it's chieftain. Seems interesting so far. Stories are what they are because of what you put into it.

Well, if you're a newb to civ Cheiftain is what you start out on. Good luck! :thumbsup:

And welcome to civfanatics! [party]

It looks very nice! Don't worry for Chieftain.
Welcome to CFC! [party]

http://civ3000.com/img/res/salt.gif Perhaps we are gods as the people say, perhaps it is the strange white powder we injested in the forest that makes us like this....

What, you have saltpeter already? :lol: Well, your people will be very industrious, since there'll be fewer distractions for them (http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_221.html) now. But don't be surprised if you end up with a lower birth rate as well.

By the way, I'm a geography teacher and I've never even heard of the Ravenese people. Strange...

He could have made it up, dude. ;)

He could have made it up, dude. ;)
I just hope you kids know that if neolithic nomads in unichromatic clothes invte you to walk into the woods with them and injest some mysterious white powder, you run away immediately and tell your parents or a police officer.

I should have quoted. I meant the civ. He could have made up the civ.

or the national enquirer. I mean, they will pay good money to talk to neolithic nomads in unichromatic clothes. Especially if they run them next to a story about batboy...

but enough threadjacking... back to the story ;)