LONES: Dawn over a New World

[Lord of Elves]

LONES: Dawn over a New World

This NES is in the spirit of the very first fresh start NESes. Going back to a classic map, and classic rules (or lack thereof), your success rests solely on the fluency of your orders, your literacy and ability to express the ideas that make up the backbone of your civilization, and the luck of the gods.

Start Technological Capabilities/Tech Tree
Assume we are starting in the late iron age, with all the technologies applied thereof. There will be no tech tree, and if you would like an invention to be applied to your people, outline it in your orders as to what kind of invention it is. New types of weapons go under military, plows under economy, et cetera. Again, there is no tech tree!

Nation Guidelines
I am going to assume you are all adults, at least intellectually, and will know where the line is between realistic and ridiculous. If I get orders from the Royal and Esteemed Sultanate of Jake's Hamster Sparky, I will ignore them, though I might laugh a bit first. All nations or cultures, for the sake of my own sanity I will call them nations, should follow this template:

Nation/Culture Name:
Government:
Capital:
Population: Leave blank
Economy: Leave blank
Religion: Describe your religious habits and the deity you worship. The strength of religions shall be measured in a separate post, and the strength the religion of your people possesses could help influence the tide of fate.
Loyalty/Nationhood: Leave blank
Wonders/Projects: Leave blank
Army: Leave blank
Navy: Leave blank
Anything else you might wish to add/description/etc:

A Breakdown of Stats
Most of these should be self-explanatory, however, they do follow scales and I will explain them here.

Population
Pithy - Small - Growing - Average - Large - Massive - Gigantic

Economy
Depression - Recession - Turning Around - Growing - Expanding - Monopoly - Supreme Monopoly

Army
Pithy - Small - Growing - Average - Large - Massive - War Machine

Navy
Identical to Army.

Loyalty/Nationhood: The general unity of your people, the likelyhood that they will rebel, their loyalty to and satisfaction with your rule. Follows the scale below.
Rebellion - Anarchy - Mass Dissent - Growing Dissent - Placated - Accepting - Loyal - Extremely Loyal - Unquestioning

Religion: A description of your religion, what your worship, the name of any deities included in your pantheon, or the deity of your pantheon. There will be a religion post with their strength, following this pattern.
Atheism(virtually no followers whatsoever) - Disorganized - Agnostic - Organized - Church Hierarchy - Fanatical

Wonders/Projects: Any notable projects you have completed or undertaken. Will have a fraction denoting how many turns are left until the completion of a project/wonder, and the names of any completed projects wonders. Note that civil and military projects do not belong here, unless they are major. For example, the Apollo Program would be a wonder, while radar would not. Outline and describe your wonders/projects in your orders.

Orders
The success or failure of your culture will ride on the fluency and literacy of your orders! If you send my five lines about increasing your military or navy, I cannot promise that anything will come of it. However, if you send me a plan for how you will garner more troops for your military, or re-energize your economy, I can guarantee results! Please be clear and concise, and section your orders, but feel free to go into as much detail as you want. The more in-depth your orders are, the more successful your culture will be. Outline battle-plans, and the more in-depth and logical they are, and to your abilities, the more likely you are to be victorious.

Dating
You are encouraged to create your own calendars, but the game will have its own calendar, beginning in the First Age. Ages shall end by the game calendar based on major events (the rise and fall of empires, rise and fall of religious movements, et cetera), and when an age ends will be at my own discretion, based on your actions.

DO NOT POST YET

 

[Lord of Elves]

Stats
Nation/Culture Name: Warmia - JuliusGandi
Color: Dark Green
Government: Republic
Capital: Braunsberg
Population: Growing
Economy: Expanding
Religion: Warmiak - To follow the life set out by the Lord Warmia, the first one to talk to the spirits of the world and understand the true path to enlightenment.
Loyalty/Nationhood: Placated
Wonders/Projects:
Army: Tiny
Navy: None

Nation/Culture Name: Citia (Citian People) - 1stcitizen
Color: Light Brown
Government: Centralized Tribal Union
Capital: Unity
Population: Large
Economy: Supreme Monopoly
Religion: Parianity (Pariant Faith) - Bitheistic, faith worshipping the Mother God Ma and Father God Fe, it preaches equality of the genders and the goal of life is to help thy neighbors. The followers hope to reunited for etenity in the afterlife, a beautiful land simply known as Home. Those who choose to do wrong shall spend eternity in a the spiritual exile Wilderness.
Loyalty/Nationhood: Loyal
Wonders/Projects: The Great University (1/2)
Army: Large
Navy: Tiny

Nation/Culture Name: Salvonic - Omega124
Color: Slavic Blue
Government: Constitutional Monarchy
Capital: Riga
Population: Growing
Economy: Expanding
Religion: Xeloism-A somewhat Polytheistic Religion that centers around Xelo, a young Ice god, and his various kind deeds to mankind.
Loyalty/Nationhood: Loyal
Wonders/Projects:
Army: Growing
Navy: Tiny

Nation/Culture Name: Dymaea - Julyfool
Color: Dark Yellow
Government: Oligarchy (of Elders)
Capital: Akyme
Population: Massive
Economy: Expanding
Religion: Atheistic Humanism called The Order. The ten most senior (in terms of age) Dymaeans will be chosen as Elders to make rulings on morals and ethics of the society. Even the Grand Chief (appointed by the Elders) is subject to their rulings. Though they do not appeal to any deity, the Elders control the people through reason.
Loyalty/Nationhood: Accepting
Wonders/Projects: Hall of Elders, Great Canals (1/3)
Army: Large
Navy: Growing

Argulic Kingdoms
Color: Orange
Government: Confederation
Capital: Nordunn
Population: Average
Economy: Expanding
Religion: Worship of a pantheon of animist deities, primarily Orgin. (Orginism)
Loyalty/Nationhood: Growing Dissent
Wonders/Projects:
Army: Massive
Navy: Growing

Kingdom of Argulum/Argland - Menanish
Capital: Argula
Color: Red
Government: Feudal Theocracy
Population: Gigantic
Economy: Growing
Religion: Organikism
Loyalty/Nationhood: Unquestioning
Wonders/Projects:
Army: Large
Navy: Large

Kingdom of Amazonia
Color: Pink
Government: Tribal Autocracy
Capital: Pypheldon
Population: Massive
Economy: Growing
Religion: Worship of female earth-goddess deity
Loyalty/Nationhood: Growing Dissent
Wonders/Projects
Army: Growing
Navy: None

Qon'Tai
Government: Tribal Autocracy
Color: Light Green
Capital: Ophenda
Population: Large
Economy: Growing
Religion: Worship of animist pantheon of deities.
Loyalty/Nationhood: Growing Dissent
Wonders/Projects
Army: Large
Navy: None


Kingdom of Phydon
Color: Deep Purple
Government: Tribal Monarchy
Capital: Enalle
Population: Average
Economy: Growing
Religion: Worship of female goddess-deity.
Loyalty/Nationhood: Growing Dissent
Wonders/Projects:
Army: Large
Navy: None

Jenet / Jenetians - Eltain
Color: Bright Yellow
Government: Theocracy
Capital: Tobohr
Population: Massive
Economy: Monopoly
Religion: Jenetism: A monotheistic religion with Prophets, women who can speak directly with the god Ja'Net, priests, men who communicate the prophets' words to the people, and Saints, the common working <person> who has been chosen by Ja'Net in the afterlife to rule the heavens and earth with him.
Loyalty/Nationhood: Unquestioning
Wonders/Projects: Ja'Net's Academy (Completed)
Army: Massive
Navy: Large

Nation/Culture Name: Malakhan Kingdom - Tree151 (NPC'd currently)
Color: Dark Purple
Government: Monarchy (de facto, Theocratic Monarchy)
Capital: Shalkhadan (Shal-Ha-Dan, meaning Land of Man)
Population: Growing
Economy: Supreme Monopoly
Religion: Druidic, yet religious nature which has heavily influenced the government. Malakhan religion, commonly called Shaladanism (Earth Worshipping in Malakhan language), is based of the worshipping of the gifts of the earth. Shaladins do not formally use temples, since they often pray in the hearts of the forests, yet in some situation temples are built if there is no nearby forest that is dense enough, or just to ease people's travels. The religious leaders are the Shaladin druids, who also elect the ruler of the kingdom after one has died and has no heir.
Loyalty/Nationhood: Growing Dissent
Wonders/Projects: None
Army: Growing
Navy: Tiny

Nation/Culture Name: Calli
Color: Dark Red
Government: Tribal Confederacy
Capital: Fornia
Population: Growing
Economy: Supreme Monopoly
Religion: The Calli follow the ways of the sun, the moon and the visible planets, comets, meteor-showers.
Loyalty/Nationhood: Accepting
Wonders/Projects: Scope (Completed)
Army: Average
Navy: Tiny

Nation/Culture Name: Gvardia
Color: Southern Gray
Government: Autocracy
Capital: Arot
Religion: The leader of Bravia is considered a short term deity (called the Kovia) chosen by the spirits to lead the nation. It is customary to donate food and slaves to the Temple in which the Kovia resides to lead his armies, heal the sick, and pass judgement.
Loyalty/Nationhood: Accepting
Economy: Expanding
Wonders/Projects:
Army: Large
Navy: Average
Population: Average

Nation/Culture Name: Kivorites or Vorthon Worshipers
Color: Electric Green
Government: Theocratic Oligarchy
Capital: Kivor is the greatest City of the Kivorites
Population: Average
Economy: Supreme Monopoly
Religion: Vorthon is the greatest god of the parthenon, and he defends the Kivorites, and the Kivorian people. He is the god that created all the others with his sweat and blood after he defeated the Precursors. He is worshipped by faith, as well as observence of holidays, law, and offerings.
Loyalty/Nationhood: Loyal
Wonders/Projects: Breath of Vorthon (Completed)
Army: Large
Navy: Average

Makadi Horde
Color: Dark Green
Government: Oligarchic Familial Hierarchy
Capital: Ravangar
Population: Massive
Economy: Recession
Religion: Not Applicable
Loyalty/Nationhood: Unquestioning
Wonders/Projects:
Army: Average
Navy: Small

Nation/Culture Name: The Kingdom of Ankgola
Government: Tribal Autocracy
Capital: Iedo
Population: Average
Economy: Expanding
Religion: Polytheistic Religion: Called Akynais (In Modern English), They believe in the 3 main gods, Sun (Koarkea), Water ( Zear) and Earth (Maer), But there are many other gods for various differant things, (Plants, Love, Etc)
Loyalty/Nationhood: Placated
Wonders/Projects:
Army: Average
Navy: Average

Nation/Culture Name: Poland
Government: Dictatorship
Capital: France
Population: Leave blank
Economy: Leave blank
Religion: Raido active monkeyinism. The people worship raido active monkies. Do I need to say more?
Loyalty/Nationhood: Loyal
Wonders/Projects:
Army: Small
Navy: Small

 

[Lord of Elves]

Religions

Warmism: Disorganized

Terran Ancestor Worship: Organized

Ronentism: Disorganized

Parianity: Fanatical

Xeloism: Organized

Humanism: Fanatical

Amazonism: Disorganized

Jenetism: Fanatical

Shaladanism: Organized

Callism: Disorganized

Orginism: Disorganized

Kovism: Organized

Vorthonism: Church Hierarchy

Organikism: Church Hierarchy

 

[Lord of Elves]

Starting Map

Spoiler :

Update 0 Map

Spoiler :

Update 1 Map

Spoiler :

Update 2 Map

Spoiler :

Update 3 Map

Spoiler :

Update 4 Map

Spoiler :

Update 5 Map

Spoiler :

 

[Lord of Elves]

Deadline is Saturday July 10th

 

[Julius Gandi]

Nation/Culture Name: Warmia
Government: Tribal Confederacy
Capital: Braunsberg
Population: Leave blank
Economy: Leave blank
Religion: Warmiak - To follow the life set out by the Lord Warmia, the first one to talk to the spirits of the world and understand the true path to enlightenment.
Loyalty/Nationhood: Leave blank
Wonders/Projects: Leave blank
Army: Leave blank
Navy: Leave blank
Anything else you might wish to add/description/etc: Life is hard, the cold winters and vicious enemies leave the Warmians little time for nicety. However, the words of the Lord Warmia and his decedents have given a light in their dark lives.

Located Here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Prussian_clans_13th_century.png

 

[1stcitizen]

Nation/Culture Name: Citia (Citian People)
Government: Centralized Tribal Union
Capital: Unity
Population:
Economy:
Religion: Parianity (Pariant Faith) - Bitheistic, faith worshipping the Mother God Ma and Father God Fe, it preaches equality of the genders and the goal of life is to help thy neighbors. The followers hope to reunited for etenity in the afterlife, a beautiful land simply known as Home. Those who choose to do wrong shall spend eternity in a the spiritual exile Wilderness.
Loyalty/Nationhood:
Wonders/Projects:
Army:
Navy:
Anything else you might wish to add/description/etc: The are a hard working people, with a strong and uniting sense of community. They are chariatable, have a strong sense of honor and always give the benefit of the doubt. They hate violence, but will fight to the bitterest of ends, but still they will show mercy.
Start me off along the Hudson River

 

[Lord of Elves]

Preliminary update will come when we have five player cultures. No orders are necessary.

 

[Jason The King]

Wow that map brings me back.

Terran Kingdom
Government: Absolute Monarchy
Capital: Olikarsk
Population: Leave blank
Economy: Leave blank
Religion: Ancestral Worship. Honoring the ancestors, from kings to relatives, is very important for the Terran people.
Loyalty/Nationhood: Leave blank
Wonders/Projects: Leave blank
Army: Leave blank
Navy: Leave blank
Anything else you might wish to add/description/etc: To come later.

 

[Lord of Elves]

Wow that map brings me back.

Terran Kingdom
Government: Absolute Monarchy
Capital: Olikarsk
Population: Leave blank
Economy: Leave blank
Religion: Ancestral Worship. Honoring the ancestors, from kings to relatives, is very important for the Terran people.
Loyalty/Nationhood: Leave blank
Wonders/Projects: Leave blank
Army: Leave blank
Navy: Leave blank
Anything else you might wish to add/description/etc: To come later.

Great to have you.

 

[Omega124]

Nation/Culture Name: Salvonic
Government: Constitutional Monarchy
Capital: Riga (Aren't I lame?)
Population: Leave blank
Economy: Leave blank
Religion: Xeloism-A somewhat Polytheistic Religion that centers around Xelo, a young Ice god, and his various kind deeds to mankind (All the gods are going to be from Ninja Dude's recent God NES)
Loyalty/Nationhood: Leave blank
Wonders/Projects: Leave blank
Army: Leave blank
Navy: Leave blank
Anything else you might wish to add/description/etc: A peaceful, quant nation. They are very passive, and hold a lazzez faire ideology on pretty much everything. However, they have a huge beserk button, their freedom. Expect a Soviet-styled defence if you invade them, and if you do succesfully conquor them, there will be a La Resistance.

Start me in Riga, with a nice Marron.

 

[1stcitizen]

Nation/Culture Name: Salvonic
Government: Constitutional Monarchy
Capital: Riga (Aren't I lame?)
Population: Leave blank
Economy: Leave blank
Religion: Xeloism-A somewhat Polytheistic Religion that centers around Xelo, a young Ice god, and his various kind deeds to mankind (All the gods are going to be from Ninja Dude's recent God NES)Loyalty/Nationhood: Leave blank
Wonders/Projects: Leave blank
Army: Leave blank
Navy: Leave blank
Anything else you might wish to add/description/etc: A peaceful, quant nation. They are very passive, and hold a lazzez faire ideology on pretty much everything. However, they have a huge beserk button, their freedom. Expect a Soviet-styled defence if you invade them, and if you do succesfully conquor them, there will be a La Resistance.

Start me in Riga, with a nice Marron.

Hey Where's Altru?

 

[Lord of Elves]

One more, and I will begin the update. As a note, several NPC factions will be added in this update nearby to player character factions, just to add a little more tension to the first part of the game.

 

[JulyFool]

Nation/Culture Name: Dymaea
Government: Oligarchy (of Elders)
Capital: Akyme
Population: Leave blank
Economy: Leave blank
Religion: Atheistic Humanism called The Order. The ten most senior (in terms of age) Dymaeans will be chosen as Elders to make rulings on morals and ethics of the society. Even the Grand Chief (appointed by the Elders) is subject to their rulings. Though they do not appeal to any deity, the Elders control the people through reason.
Loyalty/Nationhood: Leave blank
Wonders/Projects: Leave blank
Army: Leave blank
Navy: Leave blank
Anything else you might wish to add/description/etc: Dymaeans are very obedient and highly moralistic. The rulings of the Elders are absolute, but they seldom interfere with daily lives of citizens.

Please place me in present-day Shang-hai

 

[Lord of Elves]

Update coming shortly, no orders necessary!

 

[Lord of Elves]

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." - Eleanor Roosevelt

The First Age: Year 1
Pockets of civilization dot the surface of this young world. Man separates himself from beast by erecting structures, making armor and weapons, and forging the foundation upon which the history of this species shall be built. The first civilization we come to is that of the Warmia. A confederation of various tribes, this people of the cold north seem almost too proud of the rolling forests and snow-capped mountains they call home. They have erected many villages therein, and their fledgling society prospers under the guidance of their legendary leader, Lord Warmia, who it is said speaks to the spirits and ensures the safety and well-being of his people. Their capital of Braunsberg is a center of civilization in the isolated wilderness of the north.

On the same continent, we come to the people of the Terran Kingdom. Living on the southern end of the peninsula that juts from the mainland of the continent, their farms prosper from the sea that separates them from the southern lands. Their capital of Olikarsk is a great port, and the cities surrounding it are home to many luxuries unseen in other parts of the land. To the "barbaric", tribesmen that surround this isolated nation, the Terran Kingdom is a marvel of the gods. The ancestor worship that the Terran people practice has spread across the peninsula.

Going back to Warmia, and to the east, we see the people of Salvonic. Residing in the city of Riga and surrounding areas, their land is that of the tundra, and were it not for the nearby sea and the small tributary streams that erupt from it, they would surely starve to death. Their worship of the Ice God Xelo shows their reverence and respect for the harshness of the land in which they live.

Across the sea blue, and its great towering waves, live a people of the forest. Known as the Citia, they make a home for themselves among the plains and forests of the northern reaches of their continent. Their bitheistic religion and the interesting dynamic it creates has made their culture unique among the tribesmen that inhabit this area. Their capital, aptly named Unity, is a beacon of civilization in the otherwise dark wilderness.

Far, far upon the other side of the world lie the Dymaea. A strange people, they live in the forests and swamps of the largest continent of this world. Their even stranger religion, which does not hold true to the doctrine of a deity, but is in fact self-worship has earned them many followers among the less-organized and more primitive tribesmen.

Now, we are left with two more peoples. The Arguli, and the Ronenta. The Arguli, whose lands border upon those of the Warmia, are a people similar in ancestry and spirit. They are known to pilot great ships among the untrustworthy waves of the north, and though they are yet to expand beyond their peninsula, they shall surely be a great force in the world.

The Ronenta, who live in the pastoral and warm lands of the middle peninsula of the continent which holds the Warmia and the Salvonics. They farm the fields of their land, and live in relative peace, interrupted only by raiding bands of tribals from the south.

What all these cultures will amount to, is yet to be seen...

OOC: Hope this wasn't a too horrible first update. I will set a deadline up in a little bit. Map and stats will be added imminently.

Spoiler :

 

[Omega124]

OOC: Nice update, but I believe you should had waited a few days, so more people could had joined. I thought I asked for Maroon, as well, but that Slavic blue looks much better in my opinion.

@1stcitizen Don't you worry, Altru is worshiped as the (adoptive) father of Xelo, and is the most important god besides Xelo himself. His words of kindness stretches throughout the entire kingdom.

 

[Lord of Elves]

OOC: Nice update, but I believe you should had waited a few days, so more people could had joined. I thought I asked for Maroon, as well, but that Slavic blue looks much better in my opinion.

@1stcitizen Don't you worry, Altru is worshiped as the (adoptive) father of Xelo, and is the most important god besides Xelo himself. His words of kindness stretches throughout the entire kingdom.

Ahh, sorry. I did the update today to get us started off, so no one gets disinterested waiting for the beginning. As a note:

More players not just welcome, but wanted. Create your own society, or take over the currently NPC'd ones.

 

[Tree151]

Nation/Culture Name: Malakhan Kingdom
Government: Monarchy (de facto, Theocratic Monarchy)
Capital: Shalkhadan (Shal-Ha-Dan, meaning Land of Man)
Population: Leave blank
Economy: Leave blank
Religion: Druidic, yet religious nature which has heavily influenced the government. Malakhan religion, commonly called Shaladanism (Earth Worshipping in Malakhan language), is based of the worshipping of the gifts of the earth. Shaladins do not formally use temples, since they often pray in the hearts of the forests, yet in some situation temples are built if there is no nearby forest that is dense enough, or just to ease people's travels. The religious leaders are the Shaladin druids, who also elect the ruler of the kingdom after one has died and has no heir.
Loyalty/Nationhood: Leave blank
Wonders/Projects: Leave blank
Army: Leave blank
Navy: Leave blank
Anything else you might wish to add/description/etc: Most of the society is conservative and religious, especially when it comes to Shaladanism. They are calm and friendly, but are very harsh to those that dare defy what is sacred to them. Also very agricultural.

Put me in the area around Istanbul.

Also, is there any penalty to posting an application after the first update? I just saw this NES when I woke up, and it's already updated.

 

[1stcitizen]

OOC: For my own sake and sanity all of my people will have Western names.
IC:

John the Thinker sat pondering the meaning of life along with his beautiful wife Deborah the wise, he realized that if he was to understand life he must understand the scope of which it takes place. He needed to measure time, so he set out to do so, he took notice of all activies that take place on a regular basis, the pulse of his heart, the rising and setting of the sun and moon, the regularity of his wife's menstruation, (too regular if asked him) the appearance of the stars, and the time it took from conception to birth. He measured this and saw it was good, so he dropped to his knees and gave thanks to Ma and Fe. This was the First Citian Calendar.

Meanwhile Deborah sat ponderng numbers and mathematics, she wondered why numbers went I,II,III,IV,V etc..., she looked at her fingers and her toes and realized it would be much simpler to condense the figures into base ten. So she set about doing so, but then she realized that the need to be symbol to represent a lack of objects to count, so she drew a circle 0 and it would henceforth represent the void. She showed the scribes her idea and they liked it, the King and Queen declare that all scribes would use base 10 for their measurement from now on.