ITNES I - An Epoch of Change
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Kal'thzar said:
To: The the 30th Crown Prince
From: God, incarnated as Face-of-the-Sun
You are unworthy; gold and rich offerrings sent to my temples in Huancac will redeem you, in time.
tossi
Der kleine Prinz
From: Phoenicia
To: Pervashid Luca
You are doing us a great favour. Thank you and may peace and prosperty be between our two nations.
To: Egypt
We are slightly confused. Do you agree to a NAP?
To: Pervashid Luca
You are doing us a great favour. Thank you and may peace and prosperty be between our two nations.
To: Egypt
We are slightly confused. Do you agree to a NAP?
alex994
Hail Divine Emperor!
OOC: Just because a country is really big doesn't mean it's powerful and influential. Much China from the mid 19th Century onto the first half of the 20th century.... 
MjM
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tossi said:
From : Egypt
For how long?
tossi
Der kleine Prinz
From: Phoenicia
To: Egypt
An interesting question..
We suggest 5-turns, for now.
To: Egypt
An interesting question..
We suggest 5-turns, for now.
erez87
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I'm influential in the opposite directionalex994 said:OOC: Just because a country is really big doesn't mean it's powerful and influential. Much China from the mid 19th Century onto the first half of the 20th century....
, Instead of everyone around me want to copy, everyone around me want to be as different as they can.. Thats a kind of influence MjM
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tossi said:
From : Egypt
We agree. May peace reign for many years.
Sheep
Orange Shrooms!
To Egypt
From the Punic Empire of Carthage
Our people share a long history of friendship and enmity in alternating years. However The Divine Punic Emperor, Hannibal Barcelona VI would wish yougreat tidings, and bestows upon you a small gift of 20 slave girls. We look forward to many years of friendship with the Egyptian nation and thus offer you an indefinite non-aggression pact and invite your most able emissaries to the Imperial city of Carthage to confer with the Divine Emperor on where we can go from there.
From the Punic Empire of Carthage
Our people share a long history of friendship and enmity in alternating years. However The Divine Punic Emperor, Hannibal Barcelona VI would wish yougreat tidings, and bestows upon you a small gift of 20 slave girls. We look forward to many years of friendship with the Egyptian nation and thus offer you an indefinite non-aggression pact and invite your most able emissaries to the Imperial city of Carthage to confer with the Divine Emperor on where we can go from there.
MjM
Deity
Sheep said:
From : Egypt
We thank you for the gift, and will take up the offer of sending emissaries. Egypt has become increasing isolationist in recent years, and though we have many foreign blunders, we hope to slowly become more virulent to the outside world. We also agree to the NAP.
MjM
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Finmaster said:
Repost please?
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This is why mods eventually learn to never let people discover a New World in the 400s.
das
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Not really, you need better (prefferably Nihonese) ships and compasses, plus navigation methods, plus knowledge of just what the hell are you looking for.
Don't worry, it will all be fine.
From the viewpoint of my amusement, ofcourse.
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A few words on the new Dacoillyrian duotheistic theology
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When the 5th century started, emperor Leo Dicomes saw it good to start a Great Academy of Philosophy, Theology and Economics to Burebistatusa. Dacoillyrians had a long academic tradition ever since the Dacian king Rhemaxos II had started the Academy of Naval Warfare almost half-a-millenium earlier, but that Academy had only offered militaristic education. The new one was more philosophical.
In this Academy, a new Dacoillyrian theology was soon presented. The problem in the old Dacian theology was that it didn't include Illyrians, and with the merging of the cultures, new theology was needed to satisfy the people's need to find answers to deeper questions.
In the year 403, high priest Molonik, one of the main characters in the creation of the new theology, gave a lecture in the newly-founded Academy:
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"Our old Dacian theology has forgotten that Zalmoxis is not our only god. We have 2 gods. Not one, but two.
We all know the story of Zalmoxis: He travelled around the world, all the way to Egypt, to study the secrets of the human soul and of immortality. Then he came to Dacia where he died fighting the Scythian barbarians. He went to the land of the dead, Hades as the Illyrians call it, and spend three whole years there.
Then he came back. He resurrected from death and came back to life to lead the Dacians.
This gave great power to Dacian fighters who now saw that the soul really was immortal. And they beat the Scythians and founded the city of Sarmizegetusa around the fortresses. Dacia was born, and Zalmoxis became its first king. Soon, he was lifted to heavens, and before he went he said: 'I will look after the Dacian people from the skies, and those who are true Dacians in heart will join me there after their deaths.'
That is the story we all know. But throughout history, priests have wondered: why do we have two gods, and not one? What is the purpose of Gebeleizis, the god of thunder and lightning? Why two, not one?
Recently, we have started to develope answers. The answer is actually quite simple, once you think about it.
We are no longer Dacians. Just as none of us are Illyrians. We are now Dacoillyrians. Two has became one.
But Zalmoxis never said he would look after Dacoillyrians; he only spoke of Dacians. Yet history has shown that the fate of Illyria has walked, and will walk, hand in hand with Dacians! Wouldn't it be sensible to assume that Illyrians also had their protector in Heavens, just as Dacians had Zalmoxis? Perhaps the secret behind our mystic duotheistic religion is that Gebeleizis is to Illyrians what Zalmoxis is to us; their first king, who rose to heavens and together with Zalmoxis they have looked over the Dacoillyrians from the dawn of time, planning the totality of Dacoillyria long before king Burebista the Peacemaker decided in his wisdom to unite the fates of Dacia and Illyria, and long before king Rhemaxos II and empror Leo Burebista united the two nations.
Look what the holy books say about our afterlife: 'When you die, those of you who will be accepted to Heavens will see both Zalmoxis and his servant Gebeleizis, but now they will not see them as two. No, the two are from the same essence, and though you might see them separately, they become one totality once the soul sees what Heaven is like. There, one is all and all is one.'
So, when we die, Zalmoxis and Gebeleizis will not show themselves to us separately, they will be of the same being. They are the two sides of the same totality. Same way Dacians and Illyrians are two who have became one; two sides of one totality, of Dacoillyria.
This is why we no longer need to speak of Dacian theology when we talk about our duotheistic religion. We can just as well call it Dacoillyrian, for the two have merged into one, both in Heavens and here on Earth."
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When the 5th century started, emperor Leo Dicomes saw it good to start a Great Academy of Philosophy, Theology and Economics to Burebistatusa. Dacoillyrians had a long academic tradition ever since the Dacian king Rhemaxos II had started the Academy of Naval Warfare almost half-a-millenium earlier, but that Academy had only offered militaristic education. The new one was more philosophical.
In this Academy, a new Dacoillyrian theology was soon presented. The problem in the old Dacian theology was that it didn't include Illyrians, and with the merging of the cultures, new theology was needed to satisfy the people's need to find answers to deeper questions.
In the year 403, high priest Molonik, one of the main characters in the creation of the new theology, gave a lecture in the newly-founded Academy:
***
"Our old Dacian theology has forgotten that Zalmoxis is not our only god. We have 2 gods. Not one, but two.
We all know the story of Zalmoxis: He travelled around the world, all the way to Egypt, to study the secrets of the human soul and of immortality. Then he came to Dacia where he died fighting the Scythian barbarians. He went to the land of the dead, Hades as the Illyrians call it, and spend three whole years there.
Then he came back. He resurrected from death and came back to life to lead the Dacians.
This gave great power to Dacian fighters who now saw that the soul really was immortal. And they beat the Scythians and founded the city of Sarmizegetusa around the fortresses. Dacia was born, and Zalmoxis became its first king. Soon, he was lifted to heavens, and before he went he said: 'I will look after the Dacian people from the skies, and those who are true Dacians in heart will join me there after their deaths.'
That is the story we all know. But throughout history, priests have wondered: why do we have two gods, and not one? What is the purpose of Gebeleizis, the god of thunder and lightning? Why two, not one?
Recently, we have started to develope answers. The answer is actually quite simple, once you think about it.
We are no longer Dacians. Just as none of us are Illyrians. We are now Dacoillyrians. Two has became one.
But Zalmoxis never said he would look after Dacoillyrians; he only spoke of Dacians. Yet history has shown that the fate of Illyria has walked, and will walk, hand in hand with Dacians! Wouldn't it be sensible to assume that Illyrians also had their protector in Heavens, just as Dacians had Zalmoxis? Perhaps the secret behind our mystic duotheistic religion is that Gebeleizis is to Illyrians what Zalmoxis is to us; their first king, who rose to heavens and together with Zalmoxis they have looked over the Dacoillyrians from the dawn of time, planning the totality of Dacoillyria long before king Burebista the Peacemaker decided in his wisdom to unite the fates of Dacia and Illyria, and long before king Rhemaxos II and empror Leo Burebista united the two nations.
Look what the holy books say about our afterlife: 'When you die, those of you who will be accepted to Heavens will see both Zalmoxis and his servant Gebeleizis, but now they will not see them as two. No, the two are from the same essence, and though you might see them separately, they become one totality once the soul sees what Heaven is like. There, one is all and all is one.'
So, when we die, Zalmoxis and Gebeleizis will not show themselves to us separately, they will be of the same being. They are the two sides of the same totality. Same way Dacians and Illyrians are two who have became one; two sides of one totality, of Dacoillyria.
This is why we no longer need to speak of Dacian theology when we talk about our duotheistic religion. We can just as well call it Dacoillyrian, for the two have merged into one, both in Heavens and here on Earth."
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