LINESII- Into the Darkness- Part II

[Oruc]

Zemora is against a merger and will stand its ground.

.... bummer, pretty much destined to be stuck at sidelines then (well worse then that actually).

 

[Kozmos]

When is the update and when are orders due?

 

[alex994]

how is the small faction an ooc creation? i wrote a story about it... it was ic

Because if you hadn't written a story about it, it wouldn't have happened? And since you choosing to write a story is an OOC action

 

[jalapeno_dude]

.... bummer, pretty much destined to be stuck at sidelines then (well worse then that actually).

That's the problem with having an isolationist nation in the middle of other countries...

 

[Oruc]

That's the problem with having an isolationist nation in the middle of other countries...

I'm not isolationist I just dont like the Citadel and because I dont like you.. you decided to isolate me.

Edit:Although the real reason is because im surronded and cant expand because someone with a better economy will aid the nation I decide to expand into.

 

[jalapeno_dude]

I'm not isolationist I just dont like the Citadel and because I dont like you.. you decided to isolate me.

Edit:Although the real reason is because im surronded and cant expand because someone with a better economy will aid the nation I decide to expand into.

Well, what else should we have done when you invaded? Genocided you?

 

[Oruc]

Well, what else should we have done when you invaded? Genocided you?

It would have at least been a quick end, instead of torturing me forced to watch while everyone does interesting things.

 

[jalapeno_dude]

It would have at least been a quick end, instead of torturing me forced to watch while everyone does interesting things.

So quit and start a new nation!

 

[Oruc]

So quit and start a new nation!

No, I created it, I am still interested in its development, I like the culture I created.
If sticking with it means the only fun I will have is genociding a colony of annoying meddling citadelers so be it.

 

[alex994]

The Mind of a Sole Man​

“Empires will fall, armies wither and lakes drained. An Emperor shall always rule in Guangfei, always.” –Guangfei Maxim

I have read all of the Great Archives of the Han Emperors, every single one of them as I marveled at their words carved in bamboo or written upon the finest quality of paper. From my fabled ancestor, Gaozu to my own father Dian, these Emperors had always in life appeared to be cold and hard like stone, unrelenting and inhumane. And all, if not most of them put not a single word about how they feel, or what they think. It is all of economics, military strategies, court intrigue.

Thus, I have prepared this journal so that the Emperors that shall follow me will know as I did that day as I ascended and sat upon the Dragon Throne, that we Emperors are still human. That we Emperors, are the loneliest of the lonely. As Gaozu once wrote, “I may be the most powerful in Guangfei, yet the power means nothing. I yearn for the past, before power and responsibility came side by side.” Indeed, I would remember those words more then any others…

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It is ironic that when I was summoned to Guanzhong after almost a 7 seven year’s absence, I had not the slightest clue of was going to happen. You see, I, the youngest son of Emperor Dian, had married for love, and not for the state. I had married a merchant’s daughter, a woman I was passionately in love with and while the love cooled in time, it was always present. My Father, the ever High Emperor was infuriated beyond thought. Perhaps it would have been better if I had chosen another marriage date.

For incidentally, the “auspicious” date we were to be marry coincided with the anniversary of the death of my mother. She was my Father’s favorite, even though she was naught but a concubine whose humble manners surprised the court. It would be assumed that my Father too would pamper me, but it was not to be. We never got along and my banishment from Guanzhong was years in the making. We settled near Qingdao and I, to rub salt in my father’s wound, found work.

I became an official of the Duke of Qingdao whose son and I were and still are friends from birth having been raised together in the Capitol. While my father raged at the Duke with streams of letters coming over the Dadong mountains, I managed my duties as a minor official with great efficiency I might say. Of course, the rampaging hordes of Bladeists marching through Qingdao at the time hardly helped.

They are savages, the word barbarian cannot be used for them. At least the Swade troops were, undisciplined levies who would raid and plunder at will if our forces were not ready to assault them. For the Myocacans however, I have nothing but the highest praise. They are the honorable face of Bladeism, much much more acceptable then their older brothers. They are a splendid people as I learned as I discussed philosophy and other subjects with a Myocacan officer.

He was surprised that I, a minor official, was able to speak Valin and discuss philosophy in that language but after that moment things went along quite well I would say. When I questioned his faith in the Blademaster, unlike the stereotypical Bladeists seen by the Han Elite he calmly responded. “Men have nothing, but faith alone.” It was a productive conversation to say the least, and my son seemed infatuated with the Myocacan soldiery.

We had never told our then five year old son my true ancestry and who my father was. I believe that was for his benefit after all. He did not grow up as did many of the ah… well pampered sons and daughters of the Han elite. No, growing up in a small town being naught but the son of a minor official taught him humility and respect. He never knew, in that childhood innocence, that his father would become Emperor. No, not the slightest clue at all.

I am Emperor Shun.​

 

[Kentharu]

alex that makes no sense, what ooc reason could i possibly have?

 

[Silver Steak]

alex that makes no sense, what ooc reason could i possibly have?

Besides, your reasoning would make everything we make OOC, since PMing orders is something we do OOC.

 

[alex994]

OOC: Perhaps, I still think it's an expression of kentharu's OOC hatred as well as IC hatred of he Lengels

 

[Cuivienen]

alex that makes no sense, what ooc reason could i possibly have?

Your OOC reason was that you wanted to get rid of the Lengels in your land. Since it wasn't your government that instituted the massacres, it wasn't an IC action; you don't have control over partisan factions acting independently of the government in your nation.

 

[North King]

OOC: But IC he does want to get rid of the Lengels, and writing stories about groups in your own lands has never been frowned upon, to my knowledge. I say let it happen; it is possible, and even slightly plausible, that something like this might happen.

 

[Silver Steak]

It was not a good thing, this animism. It was not damaging the Church, oh no. It was too weak to stand against the true light of the faith of Mantea. The everincreasing conversions and expansion could speak of that. No, it was damaging the entire World, the cosmic balance, and threatened to extinguish humanity, if left alone.

The heathens are like we Yathai were before. Indeed, they are still Yathai, as all the tribes on the Yathanai speak the same tongue and have common roots. But they do not follow the Church, and as such are separated from us. They still pay tribute to spirits and demigods, fueling their malicious powers and disrupting the equilbrium, the Mantea. They were unknowingly causing their own suffering, and thereby the suffering of all. This destructive practice had to be stopped.

That was why the Church kept sending missions to the other tribes to teach them of their errors, and the true worship. The priests carry the message of hope and life, the key to unlock the chest of remedy. They were the harbingers of truth, of civilization, of harmony. They reflected the brilliance of the shining beacon that is the Church to the darkest corners of Yathanai.

The priests were succeeding as well. Slowly, all of Yathai were abandoning the evil spirits and godlings and turning themselves to the true worship of Shu and Shi. The people was awakening, and believing in world order. In peace, harmony, in equilbrium. They believed in Mantea.

 

[Kentharu]

what the duce? you people make no sense

i had no ooc reasons for it, in order for my nation to not die and fall into chaos i have to get rid of the Lengel, their culture and everything, pretty simple, nothing OOC about it, and anyway, my people never liked the lengel so yea, your wrong

 

[das]

lurker's comment: I think they're protesting over the fact that you are "playing" various non-government controlled factions (whereas your "character" is supposed to be the government; thus making NON-government actions is OUT OF character, and "cheating", as this stuff is technically supposed to be out of your hands and in the hands of the moderator). But then, as NK said, it has never been frowned upon - at least not on that level. It IS frowned upon when it includes something radically implausible, like say free democratic elections with 99% support (as opposed to the government saying that it held free democratic elections and received 99% support; there is nothing wrong with that). This isn't the case here, from what I could discern, as I could easily imagine radical Lengelophobia in Gorin, especially in the conditions of an implied Lengel national revival.

That said, it might be possible that the Gorinese government is behind all of this, making all the point moot.

 

[Kentharu]

gorin had been moving towards this already, even before the fall of the lengel... i thought it was the only logical step to take

and i did say it was a very small faction... very very small -_-

 

[Cuivienen]

I wasn't really protesting, just trying to clarify alex's point.