LINESII- Into the Darkness- Part II

TerrisH said:
Swiss, wait until United Kingdom of Khemri and Kehexou states it position on the matter before you declare victory. you just committed the greatest Faux pa a nation can commit in the NES. 1 bladeist nation has just split from your little coalition, One has Exiled your citizens from its lands and looks like they might actually break your alliance.
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And? I don't see what you're getting at. I'm playing In Character. My Uber-Theocrat Fundementalist Bladeist Ascendant Master cares not what Guangfei thinks(though his Advisors do, they fear the Dragon Throne immensely and thus don't send the ramblings of the Master to them, only agree by silence to the moves they make), and I explained why IC I killed the Oneists in Myocaca. I excised a disease from a friend. They may not view it that way, but me and my subjects do so....:p

And I would be quite surprised if Kal did that. He knew of my actions. Don't underestimate the UKK, Kal is quite the good player.

You on the other hand, have 2000 people left scattered and there is a good likelyhood their only leader will die a horrible embarrassing death on top of my biggest still standing religious monument.

Swade=Win. 4 /\/0\/\/!

I'll even concede i probably won't manage to kill all the Oneists. But no matter what happens I get to have fun in this game, so its all cool. Perhaps a revolution, perhaps a prophet, perhaps a reconciliation with the Oneists. Perhaps have have to stave off invaders from every directions until there are as many Swade left as Emorians. But that last one probably won't happen.

BTW, Terris, once Emor is gone, you should take Sintonia or something. Give your self a new chance. NESing is a game, have fun with it:p
 
Thlayli said:
Ehe. You razed Veritas twice, and Redemption once. You've got a mortal enemy.
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For the Record, I didn't "raze" Redemption. I rounded up and systematically killed off everyone in it. All the Buildings and their possessions were left intact. Then i resettled Swade people there, who immediately took over.
 
Swissempire said:
For the Record, I didn't "raze" Redemption. I rounded up and systematically killed off everyone in it. All the Buildings and their possessions were left intact. Then i resettled Swade people there, who immediately took over.
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Fair enough, though in your sack of the city and wanton slaughter of innocent civilians, I'm sure it was heavily damaged.
 
really need to get the story up. and you do play like me for the fun of it swiss. like you, do not count me out just yet. the Emorians are just the trigger to my plan. my plans are much much bigger then them. they will shake the world.

Oh, and I would ask, how many emorian blades still exist in your nation. ask yourself that.
 
OOC: You know, I've just noticed that my heavy cavalry isn't up to the strength number for the Iron Age, why?
 
Excerpt: Essays on the Southland: The Shadowed Path, Citadel Archives, Southport

The Great Sin perpetrated against the Oneist people by the Swade sent waves of change across the world. Most of these dealt with by historians deal with the wars of Tellus and the actions of the Great Kingdoms. Yet far to the South, in a land untouched by the grand scale of war seen in the Old World, there existed a miracle - the peaceful coexistence of religions.

As the most casual scholar of the Southern Peoples knows, there existed, since time immemorial, two peoples in the Southlands: the Gerougioikoi and the Guarelai. Both share a common attachment to an almost mythological belief in their origins - both consider themselves the descendants of great explorers and conquerors fleeing a craven peoples (admittedly, when one considers the similarity of culture, language, and religion between the Southrens and certain Old World peoples, it becomes fairly clear that their claims have some basis in reality). Both dealt with low population growth for most of their history and as such have developed ideas about war unique among all the nations studied by our scholars. They have a long and storied history together, one that is not without the occasional tussle, but one that has long been amiable for the most part.

The inability of either peoples to produce a force sufficient to dominate the other forced an atmosphere of tolerance and cooperation against the Barbaroi of the mainland and the nearby islands. Their languages have melded over the years and are virtually little more than dialects of one another. This symbiotic relationship has facilitated the exchange of ideas, both practical and theoretical, and resulted in a strikingly uniform school of philosophical thought. The result being that, although the two religions differed on particulars, they agreed more and more on fundamentals. Combine this with the aforementioned common enemy in the Barbaroi, and a coherent picture of the Southern Peace begins to emerge.

This history is instrumental the primary discussion of this essay - namely, the origin of Messianic Gnosticism. The horrors of the Old World genocide caused massive disillusionment among the Guarelai Bladeists. Theirs was not a religion of wholesale slaughter. They had been out of communion with Orthodox Bladeism for countless years, influenced by Gerougioikoi philosophy and religion for many of those years, and shared a common disgust for the events reaching their shores.

So it was that a great council of theologians was called in the Southlands. It was decided that God could only have allowed such a thing to happen if a change was desperately needed in the world. That change could not be the deaths of countless civilians, so it must be that they were received into Paradise that those left on Earth might more fully realize His true nature. It was determined that the revelations given to the Oneists/Kyriotheists were by and large compatible with those given to both the Bladeists and, most surprisingly, our own New Eldism. They, after much discussion, determined that God must necessarily contain all three aspects within his nature, that sometimes He was a God of peace and love (thus New Eldism), but sometimes war was necessary to defend the faithful and therefore practice with weaponry was a religious pursuit (Bladeism). Yet it was held through all that the primary purpose of God was neither. He was a noble warrior and peaceful priest, but He was something more than that. He was a liberator of men, something that transcended war and peace.

Thus it was prophesied that there would come a time when God would deliver his people from the evils of the world, release them from its self-destructive behavior, and set all things to rights. This Messiah would come one day to fulfill those scriptures taken by the council to be holy (mainly some rough translations of ancient Oneist and Bladeist texts themselves transcribed by memory, in addition to more recent revelation unique to the Southlands). This new faith was largely accepted by those who refused to believe that the God of Bladeism would have sanctioned the actions of the Swade, as well as by those who were philosophically concerned with the concept of limited revelation amongst foreign faiths. The religion swept over the Southlands like a flame and further bound the two realms together.
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OOC: Kinda crappy, but its late. Oh well.
 
Swissempire said:
And how in the end Segu DIED MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA

But seriously, the War of the White Rose has been going on for like 88 years, so there should totally be a mini-update to wrap things up, or maybe just make the next update 22 years, and then we can call it the 100 Years War:p
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Um. Unless you're trying to be ironic because the actual Hundred Years War was slightly longer than one hundred years (which is doubtful, given your numbers), your numbers don't exactly add up.

Just saying so to be an arrogant jerk. :D

EDIT: Forgive the double posting, please.
 
Lord_Iggy said:
@LB- Sometimes people forget to carry the one. :p

I think it's a good story.
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Yeah I know, but my arrogant elitism refused to let that go unexposed :p

And thanks! I left it midway through for a couple hours while I went out and did stuff tonight, and when I got back (which is not more than 30ish minutes before writing this) it was quite late but I wanted to get it out anyway. The part that actually deals with the religion is sort of forced, as I was trying to get through it to go to sleep. Which I should really do now.
 
Ehe. You razed Veritas twice, and Redemption once. You've got a mortal enemy.
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Such things are transient, I mean, the Khemrians don't care that you razed my capital...uhmm how many times? :p

and what position do people want from me? the one regarding the Swades killing Oneists? such Exterminations are quite common if you recall our history (NES history) I can think of at least 5 nations that have had large members of their population killed off.

Although I will note that is the Swade try to kill my swadists or Emorians they will lose friends rather rapidly. also Certain things need to be worked out which I will explain to him, *sigh*. (I'm a melting pot, I assimilate people, thats one of the MAIN functions of my religion!)
 
@LittleBoots: "the Great Sin?" "a miracle?" You trying to determine my policy? :p

Iggy, I really do need my PM...
 
I'll even concede i probably won't manage to kill all the Oneists. But no matter what happens I get to have fun in this game, so its all cool. Perhaps a revolution, perhaps a prophet, perhaps a reconciliation with the Oneists. Perhaps have have to stave off invaders from every directions until there are as many Swade left as Emorians. But that last one probably won't happen.
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Swiss, everyone's quite sure that we're going to lose (myself included). However, the single fact shall remain: you won't survive this war intact. By hook or by crook, we will kill you. You've condemned your people to death with your little program. I will remain just long enough to make good on that promise. Yeah, you are fun to play with.
 
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