Actually is the author of harry potter that had been reading about Nordic culture
I am not a harry potter person. (There will be a LOT of obscure references in this nes 
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Actually is the author of harry potter that had been reading about Nordic culture
I am not a harry potter person. (There will be a LOT of obscure references in this nes )Is that the name of the religion or creation story?
Finmaster
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Hagalaz
Production: 5 Gold
Banked: N/A
Army:
1 Infantry Division
Navy:
N/A
Tech:
Developing : none 0/? Gold
Achieved: No Techs discovered yet
Special Items: None
Legendary Creatures: None
Background:
If its not taken.
EDIT: I have a question: is this continent the only one in the world, or do we see more if we sail beyond the sea? not really useful to build ships if all we have is one huge pangaean continent..
Production: 5 Gold
Banked: N/A
Army:
1 Infantry Division
Navy:
N/A
Tech:
Developing : none 0/? Gold
Achieved: No Techs discovered yet
Special Items: None
Legendary Creatures: None
Background:
If its not taken.
EDIT: I have a question: is this continent the only one in the world, or do we see more if we sail beyond the sea? not really useful to build ships if all we have is one huge pangaean continent..
*****
Crunch. Crunch. Silence. Crunch. Silence. Silence. Swoosh. Crunch, crunch, crunch.
The hunt had gone well. The volley of arrows from the hunting party had felled several of the beasts in the cold winter morning. The snow broke the silence with each step they took. No words were exchanged as the men dragged the mornings catch back to a captured beast attached to a cart.
Only a few had been caught so far, and that was mainly due to luck more than anything else. They were not docile beasts at all, but the people of Kenaz were learning ever so slowly. But until then, they would follow the beasts in their migrations. The few they had killed today were nothing to its herd, but it would feed the tribe for a month or more. No more hunting partys need wander too far from the nomadic camp.
It was a great improvement to the half-life the people lived on the tundra before Kret the Explorer (formerly of the Bear) found the great beasts, and gave bounties of food and warmth to his people. For this, he was named blessed of Kringtri (The Sky Above), with Yeza of Elder (formerly of Rock Point) as his advisor.
He ruled supreme over what meager people followed him, but his numbers swelled as the nomads of land learned of the great beasts, and learned of the tribe that was hunting them and attempting to tame them. The relatively small population of before was growing. Enough to assemble another group of warriors in the tribe.
Before too long, the icy Steepes would grow to large for Kunaz. Before too long, the people under Kret would look South to the lands he spoke of before. The warmer lands. The lands of Sun and grass.
*****
Struggle. Fight. Hunt. Live. Survive in the place I have borne you, and you will be granted the Earth. All that will be required, is for you to take it. Become strong in my cold, against my hatred, and you will be loved.
Darsu, the White Wolf of Kringtri
Update to be finished tommorow as soon as thom gets the orders in.
@Finmaster, i didnt even know u were around. Anyhow in regards to your question..... your questions ruin the whole point of exploration uh?
Even if there were no other continents (btw u are starting before copper age and u already want to colonise contients?) having a strong navy is not a bad thing. Your nation has one of the best natural harbors in the world.
EDIT: if you want to join, wait till after update. Since ill start working on NPCs now.
@Finmaster, i didnt even know u were around. Anyhow in regards to your question..... your questions ruin the whole point of exploration uh?
Even if there were no other continents (btw u are starting before copper age and u already want to colonise contients?) having a strong navy is not a bad thing. Your nation has one of the best natural harbors in the world.EDIT: if you want to join, wait till after update. Since ill start working on NPCs now.
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The world as we know it is not new. In fact is far older than any one can imagine. Its history turned into legends, and from legends into myths. But this has in fact happened because of the events that have taken place. Little remains known, but the old world was destroyed by fire and sword. Destroying everything under the heavens and most of the land sinking into the sea. But the world would not die. The sun would shine again and the lands would resurface from the deep waters of th Ocean. Lif and Lifthrasir are belived to be the humans that survived the devastation and repopulated the world. Although it is not only man that wants to have its own will imposed on this new earth. There are other races that have the same chances but less known origins. The past has been forgoten, or lost. But the future is what is on the minds of the peoples of this brave new world. A world that has been destroyed three times before.... and three times reborn....
But those are mostly forgoten myths. Nations have created their own religions, forgoten the old gods. And creatively invented new creation stories that fits the world they live in. They all think that they live alone as they are unaware of the existance of other tribes. This ended quickly for Isa and Eiwaz, who are now aware of each other. And of hagalaz and Wunjo, where a lost fisherman from Hagalaz encoutered a small Wunjo village in the north. Of most interest is the expansion of Kenaz, who are the first to encounter the Catoblepas. A large animal that lives in the north. It has the body of a buffalo and a head of a hog. His head is so heavy that it must always look down. One must be careful of eating this animal. As it feeds from poisonous roots and vegetation. As a result, the head is never eaten and often disposed of without any use to it. It however still provides large ammounts of meat that the people of Kenas needs to live and expand their territory. Another creature they encounter (And had perhaps one with greater potential) was the Sleipnir (whose name means smooth or gliding). It is almost like any horse, but it has eight extremities instead of four. This 8-legged horse is somewhat larger than usual horses. they have the same speed, but twice the endurance. Allowing potential raiders to rider longer with fewer stops and maintained speeds. Because of being larger, it is larger to maintain and more expensive to use as a cavalry unit. But ofcourse horseriding has to be developed before the sleipnir can be used in battler or hunting...
The animal can only breed in norther territories, where only a special kind of grass grows. It is scential to the diet of young sleipnir during its early years.
The people of Tatai expand northwards to the mountains. The more they move north, the more horrible noises they hear. However they do know their origin.
(Thats all for now. I will still update the front stats abit. specially regarding the religions some of you described in sotry or PM.) And also add the new creatures.
Orders due saturday.
*****
"Do you see, my son? There is little point in trying to move quietly upon the snow during winter," said a much older Kret to his young son. The rabbit they had been following had been alerted to their prescence when Kret's son shifted from his position, crunching the snow underneath his feet.
"I understand father. But then how do we catch them?" said the little boy, bundled up in Catoblepas leather and fur to protect himself from the cold.
"Traps Itri, traps," responded Kret, with a smile on his face.
"How do I set traps then, father?" questioned Itri, a perplexed look in his eyes.
"Come, I will teach you," smiled his father.
*****
"No, no, no! The bow must be aimed, not held! Use your eyes boy!" yelled a gray haired Kret, his teenaged son holding onto his fathers bow while his sisters giggled from the sidelines. A few tribal girls were watching as well, as the tribe went about their daily life, hunting, trading, and eating during the slightly warm summer months.
Twang! went the bow as Itri launched the bone tipped arrow towards a target a good distance away. Only to have it fall far short. A disgusted snort came from his father, while the girls watching on the sidelines giggled at him.
"Do it again boy, and don't stop until you get it right!" yelled his father.
Itri only offered a grimace, before pulling up the bow once more to aim.
Twang! Twang! Twang! Twang! Twang!
The sun slowly sank in the summer sky, until a small noise broke the long chain of twanging bow string.
Twack!
"I hit it father! I hit it!" screamed Itri, joy deep in his eyes.
"Good, now hit the center this time. And then maybe it'll make a decent archer out of you. Trapping is not enough upon these plains..."
*****
"You have grown, my son. It is a pleasant scence to these aging eyes," remarked Kret, balding and grey haired. His body slumped at the old age of forty five winters (old for them, at least). His son on the other hand was at his prime, eighteen with a child on the way, strong and powerful.
"I have heard talk, that you are quite the hunter these days. Going after catoblepas all by your-self, eh? Yet, that is not why you are here...?" as he trailed off, hoping for an explanation of his son's visit.
"Father, just as you explored to find our great bounty of the catoblepas, I too have explored, and found another remarkable beast. Out on the plains three sunset's ago, tracking a lone catoblepas, I happened to hear a great sound, like a rumble far off in the distance. Only that is was drawing closer to me. I reacted quickly, and moved swiftly to higher ground," began Itri, his voice deep and powerful.
"Where did you hear this sound? To the West?" questioned the elder, his curosity overwhelming.
"To the South, father. As the rumbling grew louder, I looked to the East, and saw a great amount of dust being kicked from the plains ((as its summer, there terrain is plains, but in the winter it is tundra)). The catoblepas do not move so swiftly as to cause something like this, I thought. Nothing could have prepared me for what I saw," said Itri, his voice quivering as he recounted his tale, remembering the sight he saw.
"What did you see boy, what did you see?" asked the elder man, his eyes wide, hoping that what his son said would not bode ill for the tribe.
"I saw a great host of great, eight-legged creatures. Their hooves pounded against the Earth, kicking up dust and grass as they moved quickly across the plain, never once stopping their movement. Such glorious beasts. How I wish to ride but one of them, flying like the wind across the plains..." finished Itri, his mind wandering as he imagined it.
"Truly? This bodes well for our people. If we were able to ride those beasts, it would make the migration of our people between Summer and winter easier, and the tracking of the catoblepas would be much easier. Itri, gather up the best of our scouts. I am sending you out to explore the area, to find where these beasts wander, and what landmarks to use while we study them."
Snapped out of his daydreaming by the commands of his father, Itri nodded and left quickly to gather up a group to leave by the week. They would leave with the tears of the tribe following them, unsure of what awaited them, out side the comfort of Kenaz's small section of nomadic land.
A Sleipnir, carved out of stone by a member of the Kenaz tribe
Reno
The Studio Ghibli Fanatic
Perthro Orders:
- Begin research of Fishing with all of my gold (6).
- Encourage our people to look to the sea for their livelyhood.
- 1 Division guards our capital, and the other division guards our city to the west.
- Begin research of Fishing with all of my gold (6).
- Encourage our people to look to the sea for their livelyhood.
- 1 Division guards our capital, and the other division guards our city to the west.
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