ChipNES4-Forward to the Future

[Swissempire]

swiss!! where are the black people... or atleast the non-white people

Just make your people have black skin. I would suggest one of the open cradle area's, perhaps the one closest to the desert, so your people could be Bantu-esque.

Question - with the first update being two thousand years, what is the point of putting our government? .

To have a beginning of what the governing structure of your place is, and because not everyone will emerge at 4000, some will emerge around the end of the update. And this early in time, dynasty's might change but i doubt government FORMS will.

 

[Kentharu]

Nation Name: Absur
Capital: Ban-Ky
Religion: Masra (horay cheapness!)
Government: Lord Kaiser (lord king.... and yes im that cheap)

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Land Based – Seafaring

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Expansionist – Isolationist

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Peaceful – Belligerent

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Pious – Secular

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Commercial – Agrarian

Description:

srry for the wierd gritty map thing

 

[Symphony D.]

OOC: Sent.

 

[LightFang]

The First of Tanet

"You know, I never understood why you got to be Mr. Supreme Ruler." Alastor Queven. A taunting man.

"It's obvious, isn't it? I'm the charismatic leader. No offense to you all but...Alastor, you're just a jerk," the king responded. He motioned to the silent shadow to his right. "And Nanda here can't take his mind off the military. Besides, we all know that in reality, power is shared between us equally. I am not the most pious man, although I am supposed to be head of the Sons of Frynr. You are pious. You are my official adviser and de facto co-monarch."

Nanda decided to be non sequitur. "Hey, you know, I've just been thinking."

"Yeah?" The other two responded together.

"About the beginning."

"Oh. Interesting, isn't it?"

"Of course. From ashes, we are raising a kingdom. And you've been very instrumental, Mr. General."

"From creatures of dust and ashes is evil, for they have fallen. May they burst forth when the everlasting flame ignites within them again. Nice allusion."

"Don't preach to me. We all heard the premonition that day."

"Did we really? I seem to remember that the exact phrasing came from me." The Head adviser.

"The scriptures don't come from men. They come from Azneth. You know that."

"Well, I don't know. Have you ever seen Her?"

"Don't be stupid."

"Why are we even thinking about this anyway?" The military man, in an effort to keep the conversation from derailing off into parts unknown.

"I don't know. Some of us like to think about our religion. Frynrianism, ya know?"

"Yes, yes, the Doctrine of Light."

"Yeah. I don't get how people bought into that. People just don't believe random strangers, you know what I mean?"

"Yes, but, remember, these aren't of us. This is of Azneth and Her glory. Of the world, and of times to come. Of the kingdoms of past and kingdoms yet to come..."

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They had been walking, and hunting. And then time stopped. It gradually slowed down, and everything became a pastepudding sort of bland color. The river stopped flowing, pollen stopped flitting about, birds froze in mid-flight. And then the voice. No glimpse, no nothing. Just a clear voice that permeated from nowhere and everywhere at once.

"I am the Light. Do well to remember this. As the world threatens to dissolve to dust, so long as I am a goddess, I may prevent it from happening. Let the flames of glory be lit again in the hearts and minds of men. This I beseech you three to do. Nothing shall impair my will."

--

And that was it. A moment in time, and yet eternity lay within that minute.

"We'll conquer the world," said Nanda. "And even do some good while doing so."

"For Azneth, of course."

 

[JosefStalinator]

A nice little creation story to get things going...

Creation:

Emperor Ulyan wiped his brow of the sweat which had accumulated during the hot Vissarion summer. Looking south he surveyed the great Swa Godne sea, and his mind wandered to the story of creation of the proud Vissarion people…

At the beginning of time, the Earth was barren, and what few men existed roamed the Earth without direction nor purpose. From the Earth was eventually born the god Yosefi, and from him sprung his wife, the moon goddess Apallika and their children, gods of Agriculture, Fertility, and War.

Yosefi and his family surveyed the Earth with a easy hand; they taught them the methods of agriculture and tamed the beasts to serve man, pleased with the relative harmony in which he lived. Alas, the gods grew bored, and Yosefi sought out a people to favor and serve as the manifestation of his will, to spread his word and enforce his teachings upon the heretics that had forsaken his life-giving gifts.

Disguising himself as a simple beggar, the God Yosefi went from village to village, seeking a people generous and worthy of his blessings. For more than a century Yosefi wandered the earth, and was rejected time after time, each day growing more frustrated with the level of ignorance man showed toward his generosity. Disgusted with man’s hubris and selfishness, Yosefi commanded his son Lev, god of war, to erase man from the Earth and remove his seemingly irreversible taint. Lev obeyed, and sent hurdling to earth a great stone, centered upon what today is the holy island of Swa Godne.

A tremendous hole was put into the Earth, but the protestation of Apallika and her son Tanak, god of agriculture, forced Lev to stay his hand. Lamenting the terrible destruction borne upon mankind Apallika’s tears filled the crater and spread across the entire Earth, leaving merely the continent of Kizen above the salty tears.

Upon hearing the news of the disobedience, Yosefi grew angry, and thrust his fist into this continent in fury. From his thrust was formed the Northern Steppes, and from the ring on his index finger was formed Lake Vissar. As his father stormed about the palace of the gods, his son pointed out a city along the newly formed sea.

Yosefi surveyed this land and found a proud and honorable people, striking down those around them with such fury and valor that made even Lev blush with envy. Yosefi immediately donned his beggar’s robe and found himself awash with gifts from the overabundant land, and suddenly his anger diffused, for he had found his chosen people.

Casting his staff upon the great stone, which still stands today within the Temple of the Oracle, Yosefi brought into the world a King comprised of one part god and two parts man; and as he would be remembered Jugash entered the land. Uniting his people as per Yosefi’s will, Jugash brought unto the Vissars the teachings of Yosefi, and would soon forge the modern Vissarian empire.

Orders sent.

 

[North King]

NPC me; too little time to write orders.

 

[LightFang]

I'm so proud that I sent orders practically immediately after I signed up!

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Josef, I liked your little story. But then, I'm hardly a critic, since I barely know how to write

 

[JosefStalinator]

I'm so proud that I sent orders practically immediately after I signed up!

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Josef, I liked your little story. But then, I'm hardly a critic, since I barely know how to write

It's the first story I've written in well over 4 months; I generally as a rule just don't write them.

Sometimes however when it is simple reporting on news or a myth I'll do it, as I have no ability to write stories with actual characters.

 

[Kentharu]

so yea... npc

 

[carmen510]

How much EP do we have? Will you post nations/stats?

 

[Luckymoose]

How much EP do we have? Will you post nations/stats?

These are BT updates not IT ones. No stats are needed yet.

 

[Symphony D.]

How can people not take the time to type BT orders? They should be literally like a short paragraph. That takes all of like 2 - 5 minutes.

 

[Swissempire]

Because of internet problems, the update will be up tommorow. So if you can get orders in before it is up do. I won't penalize NPC'd nations, they just won't get the bonuses intrinsic with people sending orders. Be thankful digital cable company's suck ass.

 

[LightFang]

How can people not take the time to type BT orders? They should be literally like a short paragraph. That takes all of like 2 - 5 minutes.

Really? That's good then. Personally, I was wracked with tons of worries, since I was afraid that, being relatively new, my...second ever BT orders were too short, vague, problematic, etc. etc.

 

[foolish icarus]

Zarkanasad
Capital: Mulei
Religion: Two-tiered polytheistic
Government: Monastic and village chiefs elect a monarch from among their own ranks.

Land Based – Seafaring
2: The Zarkani are more land based, but have some conception of water travel.

Expansionist – Isolationist
3: Zarkani are not particularly expansionist, generally preferring slow, steady colonization. Despite this, they like peaceful contact and trade with other friendly peoples.

Peaceful – Belligerent
1: Zarkani are generally peaceful.

Pious – Secular
3: Zarkani custom and ideology influences their conception of religion, not the other way around.

Commercial – Agrarian
2: Zarkani tend towards self-sufficiency, but lack large scale dense agricultural production engage in a lively trade for valuable goods.

Description:

In the hills east of the Valley of Lakes sits the walled village of Mulei. This village was the origin for the initial settlers and monastics that fanned out to establish the subsidiary communities that appear here and there nestled amongst the large valley's landscape.

Tales say this city's ancestors came across the low mountains from the deserts and rugged grasslands to the south to found the mining and craftworking assembly of huts that became Mulei.

A system was established to guide the settlers who began to leave Mulei to found colonies. A monastery is constructed which houses the essential functions of local government, production, knowledge repository, and even a small armory and granary. Villages for farming, mining, or hunting as appropriate grow up under the guidance of the monastery. Zarkanasad thus lacks cities aside from Mulei, but has many small, well organized monastic/village communities that stay in contact with each other and the palace at Mulei.

The dominant religion of Zarkanasad (largely an informal but solid and sensible collection of superstitions) regards the creating deities as forces of nature possessing no interest one way or another in man or any living creature upon the planet. The children of these forces of creation, demi-deities who are themselves believed to be the ancestors of mankind, are the real objects of mankind's prayers. Conventional dogma has it that the demi-deities are perfect human-like beings, paragons of virtue and kindness without folly or foible, who care very much for their human descendants and often try to intercede on our behalf to the forces of nature. Wise men and women speculate that it is possible for an exceptionally virtuous and enlightened human to even join the ranks of the demi-deities.

 

[JosefStalinator]

Joe wonders aloud if Chip's internet connection is still on the fritz...

for he wants update!

 

[Abaddon]

So when will this kick off?

 

[Disenfrancised]

Really? That's good then. Personally, I was wracked with tons of worries, since I was afraid that, being relatively new, my...second ever BT orders were too short, vague, problematic, etc. etc.

for a fresh start BT, setting the tone of what you want things to look like is far more important that specific orders, after all what specifics do you know about before any other nations are on the map?

 

[LightFang]

Here's to hoping that this NES gets kicked off, because I want to see my nation rise up and absolutely dominate everybody

 

[JosefStalinator]

I swear... if Chip abandons another NES.... I will rape him.

I'll just keep clinging to the hope his internet tubes are clogged.