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Regeneration In Process
Thlayli said:A response to my diplo would be most appreciated.
Sorry, we were trying to develop a bureaucracy and really needed a test subject for our new procrastination techniques (also, my allies are dodging the issue).
North King said:One has to remember that nationalism has not been invented in this NES and may well never be invented.
Arguably the Uggor idea of the Great Family, in its more Uggor-centric interpretation, might count as proto-nationalism, even though a) it has other possible interpretations (i.e. universalism), b) those other interpretations are likely to prevail if all goes to plan and c) it's also the main idea enabling tribal particularism. Still, the very existence of a theoretically overarching "national" identity among the Families/clans seems like a step in that direction.
Masada said:So the short answer is Aya'se.
Righto. So we will just be turning that into this universe's "Caesar", then.
A subset of that requirement would look at the Seshweay equivalent of the mana tangata (authority by blood) of the individual to the Ancestors, although that isn't as important as it once was.
Obviously that's rather more important to us (our entire society runs on
(1) mistaking your ancestors for the Ancestors, since the latter tend to be pretty generic really;
How does that sit with our ancestors being highly-distinct zoomorphic deities that receive highly public bloody animal sacrifices on a semi-regular basis?
Another potential "cross-cultural diplomacy" problem I could see is that your rulers seem to be a tad bit more divine, while ours are simply better than all their subordinates (and are the closest living descendant of the best god ever, but, ofcourse, most everyone and everything is descended from him and more directly from his many god-children).