bonefang
Emperor
updated application in the first page. ...
LizNES: As You Like It
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SouthernKing
crickety cricket
Player Name: SouthernKing
(Culture Name: Thejans)
Nation/Capitol Name: Huntra (I'd like my city at where the river meets the bay)
Government Type: The nation is led by a council of seven elders (7 is an extremely auspicious number) known as the Council. The eldest among the Higher Council is a de facto head of state, and nominates new elders to the council as members die off or leave.
Subsidary councils can be created by elders if it becomes to unwieldy, creating a sort of basic feudal system.
Culture: Civilized
Religion: Belief in a "force" that manifests itself in all life-forms, it's not organized by any means. Worshiping this force feeds it energy and allows it to maintain balance in the world. Bad events (natural disasters, wars, etc.) are caused by failure of the force to maintain balance.
Military: the most fit and healthy boys once they reach age thirteen are chosen to become warriors. From there. they undergo five to seven years of rigorous training to become whichever type they choose to become (archer, spearman, sailor, etc.). Being a warrior is considered a great honor upon you and everyone you are close to. Naturally, quality over quantity.
Color: midnight blue (hex 191970) would be nice
History: Huntra is the most powerful of the Thejan city-states on the west coast and in the valley of the Westen River. Huntra was once a poor, backwater town, but rose to prominence after an Elder who came to power in roughly [270 RH] led a series of campaigns against a coalition of powerful Thejan city-states to the east and looting and pillaging. Huntra grew rich from the loot. While a sequence of Elders who were less powerful has not helped, and the Thejans remain fragmented, if there is anyone able to unite them it is Huntra.
(Culture Name: Thejans)
Nation/Capitol Name: Huntra (I'd like my city at where the river meets the bay)
Government Type: The nation is led by a council of seven elders (7 is an extremely auspicious number) known as the Council. The eldest among the Higher Council is a de facto head of state, and nominates new elders to the council as members die off or leave.
Subsidary councils can be created by elders if it becomes to unwieldy, creating a sort of basic feudal system.
Culture: Civilized
Religion: Belief in a "force" that manifests itself in all life-forms, it's not organized by any means. Worshiping this force feeds it energy and allows it to maintain balance in the world. Bad events (natural disasters, wars, etc.) are caused by failure of the force to maintain balance.
Military: the most fit and healthy boys once they reach age thirteen are chosen to become warriors. From there. they undergo five to seven years of rigorous training to become whichever type they choose to become (archer, spearman, sailor, etc.). Being a warrior is considered a great honor upon you and everyone you are close to. Naturally, quality over quantity.
Color: midnight blue (hex 191970) would be nice
History: Huntra is the most powerful of the Thejan city-states on the west coast and in the valley of the Westen River. Huntra was once a poor, backwater town, but rose to prominence after an Elder who came to power in roughly [270 RH] led a series of campaigns against a coalition of powerful Thejan city-states to the east and looting and pillaging. Huntra grew rich from the loot. While a sequence of Elders who were less powerful has not helped, and the Thejans remain fragmented, if there is anyone able to unite them it is Huntra.
badunoff
Prince
Hello! Since the image I made doesn't work for some reason I will do my best to describe where I wish to launch my empire. I want to be where the long island thing between Kaiser and Bonefang connects to the main land, if that is still open.
Spoiler :
bonefang
Emperor
ha ! we have a neighbor .. fits with the story as well 
Terrance888
Discord Reigns
Terrence888
Sijilamar
Plutocratic Republican Dictatorship (The Wealthy Buys the Votes
)
Culture: Civilized/Semi-civilized (Depending if Ogres are Semi-Civilized or Uncivilized)
Religion: Araneut
Army: Disciplined citizen force, with cycling training based on the month of birth. Volunteers join the Guard and go on Campaign, but drafting and conscripting in times of need is not unheard of. Generally simple spears and slings for the reserves with glaives, swords, javelins and bows for the volunteers.
Navy: A Hilarious Joke
History
Sijilamar is but one of the two or three Daratelite city-states in the mountain ranges. The Daratelii have lived here for all time, and over the years some migrated to the lowlands while others used newly learned herding, mining, and masonry to build themselves strong shelters on the cliffs of the Darateli mountains. With the flames of progress copper, tin, and later iron was demanded by coastal cities dotting the shorelines. And the Darateli obliged, developing vast mines into the heart of the mountains, their cities slowly melding into the cliffs they clung to. It was a long way to reach the coastal cities, and those who fought their caravans, the lifeblood of the highland cities, can become very rich with little fear of retaliation. And so the cities remained small, and outside influence strong.
Sijilamar ended the warbands of the past and installed a new system. Every citizen has to give a few weeks of their time, depending of their month of birth, to training in the ways of war. The legendary dictator Haedrin led his new force and crushed the Ogre bandits, freeing the trade routes and allowing Sijilamar to grow into a great city in its own right, instead of merely a colony of the coast. His program was borrowed by other cities while future dictators maintained the system with much investment while discretely undermining their rivals to the contested Scepter of the People.
Politically, the Scepter of the People is held up to the vote every year of every able bodied citizen. Actually, it was the wealthiest and sauvest politician who wins by buying the loyalty of various mining brotherhoods, merchant gangs, and the volunteers. Often, men of similiar political views join into a single "Bath", known for their propensity to discuss tactics in said private chambers. These Baths fund campaigns- inscripters, criers, dealmakers- to garner support to become elected. Although the political right of the citizens are protected by tradition, every Dictator knows loopholes to undermine support of opposing Baths when needed.
Religiously the most common polytheistic belief is the Araneut pantheon. It is similiar to many others, but it emphasizes the power of Fate, or the Arane. Composed of the song of every free-willed spirit, the Arana punishes the bad, rewards the good, and proceeds to the benefit of itself, and thus, of all. It is not conscious, but it is proactive, and it connects everybody.
Sijilamar
Plutocratic Republican Dictatorship (The Wealthy Buys the Votes
)Culture: Civilized/Semi-civilized (Depending if Ogres are Semi-Civilized or Uncivilized)
Religion: Araneut
Army: Disciplined citizen force, with cycling training based on the month of birth. Volunteers join the Guard and go on Campaign, but drafting and conscripting in times of need is not unheard of. Generally simple spears and slings for the reserves with glaives, swords, javelins and bows for the volunteers.
Navy: A Hilarious Joke
History
Sijilamar is but one of the two or three Daratelite city-states in the mountain ranges. The Daratelii have lived here for all time, and over the years some migrated to the lowlands while others used newly learned herding, mining, and masonry to build themselves strong shelters on the cliffs of the Darateli mountains. With the flames of progress copper, tin, and later iron was demanded by coastal cities dotting the shorelines. And the Darateli obliged, developing vast mines into the heart of the mountains, their cities slowly melding into the cliffs they clung to. It was a long way to reach the coastal cities, and those who fought their caravans, the lifeblood of the highland cities, can become very rich with little fear of retaliation. And so the cities remained small, and outside influence strong.
Sijilamar ended the warbands of the past and installed a new system. Every citizen has to give a few weeks of their time, depending of their month of birth, to training in the ways of war. The legendary dictator Haedrin led his new force and crushed the Ogre bandits, freeing the trade routes and allowing Sijilamar to grow into a great city in its own right, instead of merely a colony of the coast. His program was borrowed by other cities while future dictators maintained the system with much investment while discretely undermining their rivals to the contested Scepter of the People.
Politically, the Scepter of the People is held up to the vote every year of every able bodied citizen. Actually, it was the wealthiest and sauvest politician who wins by buying the loyalty of various mining brotherhoods, merchant gangs, and the volunteers. Often, men of similiar political views join into a single "Bath", known for their propensity to discuss tactics in said private chambers. These Baths fund campaigns- inscripters, criers, dealmakers- to garner support to become elected. Although the political right of the citizens are protected by tradition, every Dictator knows loopholes to undermine support of opposing Baths when needed.
Religiously the most common polytheistic belief is the Araneut pantheon. It is similiar to many others, but it emphasizes the power of Fate, or the Arane. Composed of the song of every free-willed spirit, the Arana punishes the bad, rewards the good, and proceeds to the benefit of itself, and thus, of all. It is not conscious, but it is proactive, and it connects everybody.
TheLizardKing
Let's talk Michelle.
The update has officially started, and I am doing my best to fill out this map. Welcome to badunoff, and any other players that are new. If I get all the histories and such in sooner, we might be able to start this thing a bit sooner as well.
Popcornlord
Steampunk Mechanic
- Joined
- Oct 18, 2007
- Messages
- 787
Popcornlord
Nation+Capitol: Sarhit
Government Type: Theocratic Monarchy
Culture: Civilized
Religion: Nezerism
Army: Small army of enlisted men. Most peasants on the edge of the borders are used to dealing with nomad raids.
Navy: Not fully developed yet.
For centuries, the Massadar Plains have been dominated by the Kaalic People, a race of nomads surviving primarily through hunting and minor animal husbandry. Clans would often fight amongst themselves for ideal hunting grounds, and the rulers served also as religious leaders, communicating with the spirits of the dead using complex religious rituals. Greater spirits became powerful enough to fill the role normally left to gods in other cultures. Indeed, there are no traditional "gods" in the Kaalic belief system.
Among the Sarhit tribe, however, a man named Nezer spread his own form of the religion. He claimed to be a direct descendant of the first great spirit, his ancestors being born instead of made like the rest of the world. He explained this gave him a greater ability to talk to the great spirits. He also explained that the first great spirit was the only spirit that survived from the last incarnation of the world, and when the humans no longer listen to their ancestors, they will recreate the world anew.
His followers continued to wander, the descendants of Nezer leading them. A prophecy arose, that the Sarhit should settle in the land where the spirits whispered through the plants. This land ended up being on the banks of the Ildren River, where the roots of the hallucinogenic plant "Nolcern" made the leaders believe they had a greater communication with the gods. Nezer's many descendants became the highest class of the society, with those purest of blood (through extensive incest) becoming the kings and queens of the new city-state, and those of less pure blood becoming priests. Outside of the city, life remains fairly close to the old ways. Agriculture is gradually entering the society, but most peasants continue to maintain large herds of cows or goats, or even survive through hunting on the edges of society.
Nation+Capitol: Sarhit
Government Type: Theocratic Monarchy
Culture: Civilized
Religion: Nezerism
Army: Small army of enlisted men. Most peasants on the edge of the borders are used to dealing with nomad raids.
Navy: Not fully developed yet.
For centuries, the Massadar Plains have been dominated by the Kaalic People, a race of nomads surviving primarily through hunting and minor animal husbandry. Clans would often fight amongst themselves for ideal hunting grounds, and the rulers served also as religious leaders, communicating with the spirits of the dead using complex religious rituals. Greater spirits became powerful enough to fill the role normally left to gods in other cultures. Indeed, there are no traditional "gods" in the Kaalic belief system.
Among the Sarhit tribe, however, a man named Nezer spread his own form of the religion. He claimed to be a direct descendant of the first great spirit, his ancestors being born instead of made like the rest of the world. He explained this gave him a greater ability to talk to the great spirits. He also explained that the first great spirit was the only spirit that survived from the last incarnation of the world, and when the humans no longer listen to their ancestors, they will recreate the world anew.
His followers continued to wander, the descendants of Nezer leading them. A prophecy arose, that the Sarhit should settle in the land where the spirits whispered through the plants. This land ended up being on the banks of the Ildren River, where the roots of the hallucinogenic plant "Nolcern" made the leaders believe they had a greater communication with the gods. Nezer's many descendants became the highest class of the society, with those purest of blood (through extensive incest) becoming the kings and queens of the new city-state, and those of less pure blood becoming priests. Outside of the city, life remains fairly close to the old ways. Agriculture is gradually entering the society, but most peasants continue to maintain large herds of cows or goats, or even survive through hunting on the edges of society.
Gem Hound
Deity
Gem Hound
Nation: Fartol
Capitol: Harlow
Government Type: Plutocratic Republican Monarchy - The Wealthiest are allowed to elect a new King or Queen when the last one dies. A new king or queen is normally elected every ~60 years.
Culture: Civilized
Religion: Hezar - The belief in what you can perceive with your senses.
Army: Soldiers are equipped with bronze weaponry, the most fit and healthy men and women between the age of 13 and beyond are trained to become warriors in the army or the navy. Their weapons consist of spears, axes with bronze heads, swords made of bronze and bows with eagle feather arrows.
Navy: They have caravel-like boats with majestic sails.
For time immemorial, the Fartol have lived in Harlow. They live off of the weak kingdoms on the coasts. Everytime a warboat has gone out and returned, it has returned laden with treasure and slaves for the markets.
Nation: Fartol
Capitol: Harlow
Government Type: Plutocratic Republican Monarchy - The Wealthiest are allowed to elect a new King or Queen when the last one dies. A new king or queen is normally elected every ~60 years.
Culture: Civilized
Religion: Hezar - The belief in what you can perceive with your senses.
Army: Soldiers are equipped with bronze weaponry, the most fit and healthy men and women between the age of 13 and beyond are trained to become warriors in the army or the navy. Their weapons consist of spears, axes with bronze heads, swords made of bronze and bows with eagle feather arrows.
Navy: They have caravel-like boats with majestic sails.
For time immemorial, the Fartol have lived in Harlow. They live off of the weak kingdoms on the coasts. Everytime a warboat has gone out and returned, it has returned laden with treasure and slaves for the markets.
TheLizardKing
Let's talk Michelle.
Gem Hound, while this game takes place in an alternate universe, that is only in terms of geography, not science. There are no other races, just humans. :/
Gem Hound
Deity
I thought it was because Terrance is leading a race of Ogres.
Eltain
Deity
Barbarians are known as ogres.
momo1000
King
- Joined
- Jan 25, 2010
- Messages
- 871
Can I still join?
Player: momo1000
Nation Name: Az'kuru
Capitol: Num-Az
Government Type: Theocracy
Leader: Ku'Num Tanak
Culture: Civilized
Religion: Sun-Worship mainly, but with other minor gods
Stability:
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Population:
Army:
Navy:
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Player: momo1000
Nation Name: Az'kuru
Capitol: Num-Az
Government Type: Theocracy
Leader: Ku'Num Tanak
Culture: Civilized
Religion: Sun-Worship mainly, but with other minor gods
Stability:
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Population:
Army:
Navy:
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TheLizardKing
Let's talk Michelle.
From my understanding, it was mostly slang to refer to the local barbarians, based off of the mountain range they reside in. That is not to say that your people can't be convinced they are of a different race then humans.
And welcome momo1000!
Gem Hound
Deity
Oh. Changing it then.
TheLizardKing
Let's talk Michelle.
So that we are all on the same page...
I have received information from (for the purpose of a mention in the update):
Lord of Elves
Eltain
merciary
Zeletdude
m.t.cicero
Mickzter97
Haseri
SouthernKing
Badunoff
Terrence888
Popcornlord
Gem Hound
momo1000
Bonefang
(Nylan)
And still need information from:
<nuke>
TerrisH(?)
Son of Erdrick
KaiserElectric
Tycho
theDright
I have received information from (for the purpose of a mention in the update):
Lord of Elves
Eltain
merciary
Zeletdude
m.t.cicero
Mickzter97
Haseri
SouthernKing
Badunoff
Terrence888
Popcornlord
Gem Hound
momo1000
Bonefang
(Nylan)
And still need information from:
<nuke>
TerrisH(?)
Son of Erdrick
KaiserElectric
Tycho
theDright
Son of Erdrick
Chieftain
I kinda wanted to see what theDright would come up with and build off of that considering the close proximity of our cultures.
Son of Erdrick
Chieftain
It's in a 'Temperate' zone, although very near to a 'Savanna' (down the south-west branch of the river) and near a 'Mediterranean' zone (down the south-east branch of the river).
Terrance888
Discord Reigns
Hey, they are stupid, ugly, fight and squabble, and are suspiciously taller than us civilized folks. Clearly nonhuman ogres! 
Mickzter97
The One and Only
Lol my spot looks like India
