LINESII- Into the Darkness

[Lord_Iggy]

I've added links and maps for every update to the front page, for your convenience. I've also added a government stat.

 

[erez87]

btw not Monarchy, Despotism

 

[Lord_Iggy]

Hereditary despotism, or is the new despot chosen by the old one, with lots of intrigues and power struggles?

 

[Lord_Iggy]

Every stat is updated. I've made some treats for all of you NESers, check them out if you have a moment.

 

[erez87]

Shouldn't my country relgiion be Antigotica?

 

[Silver Steak]

Religion

Oratheism- Gerber belief in 5 gods, representing life, death, earth, air, fire, and the afterlife.

I count six?

 

[Thlayli]

Good work, Iggy.

 

[Disenfrancised]

I count six?

perhaps its that they believe in the afterlife, rather than a god for it...

 

[Lord_Iggy]

Death and the Afterlife are the same.

 

[Lord_Iggy]

Like the links to the updates?

 

[Lord_Iggy]

But anyway, maybe Silver Steak can elaborate. If you aren't pleased with your religion's description, write one and I'll use it.

 

[Silver Steak]

Elaborate on what? Crystalism? I think the one you've written is just fine. I like the "fastest growing" bit of it.

 

[erez87]

Lord Iggy somthing about my stats.. feels.. wierd and can you please edit the map with expansion to the mountains and to the two gray tribes around me in lines? I don't want just blob expansion...

 

[andis-1]

errr, are the stats updated? because my population hasn't grown at all...

 

[Lord_Iggy]

Moving is not easy business, there was little population growth in the unsettled populations and some people died from the harsher life that the migration caused.

 

[Azash]

INTRODUCTION TO NEO-CRYSTALLISM
"COLBAUTH D'ELGINN, ZHAUN VENORSH"
Written by Xuil Zhaunil, 12.1. 388​

Praise be the Red Lady, she who grants us the finality and soothing embrace of demise. Praise be her Silence and those who prepare us for this manifest destiny. So know this, o Qual'Aen Jal:

• Thy mind and body be united: Through perfection in the art of death do we understand tranquility, and by the enlightenment we meet the Silence in life.
• Betray not thy word, for it shall rob you of the Silence.
• Though Death seeks no moral, serve thy ethics well.
• Grant those who fail no mercy. They shall only fail again.

As published in Colbauth Ultrinna (13. 22. 389) , by the Sage Naut'Nin. Salvaged scroll from a pillaged library.​

 

[Lord_Iggy]

So what's the difference between that and regular Crystalism?

 

[Thlayli]

I think he's slowly refining it into a monotheistic version.

 

[Lord_Iggy]

And yes, stats are updated andis. I said that a while ago.

 

[Silver Steak]

Neo Crystalism is slowly going to develop into a branch of Crystalism that is not directly under the control of the Church (meaning Yath al'Shanaal). This is in accord with the Church itself, which sees it too dangerous and unnecessary to start a war over the believers. (The Church is the government, hence all believers are subjects) Besides, Yath al'Shanaal already fight that kind of war with Gorin already. No need to waste a perfectly sound alliance like that.

From now on, Neo Crystalism will be governed and described by Azash as a totally different religion. But the faith is basically the same, and there has been a tradition of respecting different styles among the Church as well, so it will not instigate a religious conflict, I think. Crystalism as it is now is pretty much just a bunch of shamans and village wisemen who have adopted the smoking of pot and hoarding of shiny crystals anyway. The Church as a government, however, is more like using the authority and span of the religion to levy taxes and administrate. It's quite clever, is stable, and it works.