OOC: Don't start the update yet! Don't start the update yet! You have another "Europe" country joining!
Btw, not sure if I understand the tax/economy system clearly. You can't spend economy levels, but spend tax instead, but if you spend it on economy, then the tax income grows? Right?
IC:
Thrace
GOVERNMENT: Tribal System
RULER/PLAYER: Chieftain Seft/das
ECONOMY: Stable, Free (not sure)
TAX INCOME: 1/per turn, /treasury
ARMY:
NAVY:
INFRASTRUCTURE: None
EDUCATION: Idiotic
CONFIDENCE: Okay
PROJECTS:
Start me in OTL European Turkey (capital - Bosporata, OTL Byzantium/Constantinople/Istanbul) and Southern Bulgaria.
Story:
"Aedor. The divine wind. The eternal sky. The God Above All Gods.
"O, mighty Aedor! How strong you blow this day, punishing Gaia for her disobedience! O, the fear you instill in the hearts of Men and Gods, Horses and Dogs, Children and Elders, Slaves and Chieftains!" - exclaimed the old high priest, covered in his bear skins, standing with his back to the mighty wind of Thrakia - Thrace.
He was very, very old. It was time for him to make the sacrifice, for the sake of his people, far to the north - for he would not live for much longer. High Priest Bospar prepared himself, he trained well. But fear was instilled into his heart as well. Aedor was in his full strength here.
He turned around to face the wind. The cold, powerful wind froze and burned his face. He took all his willpower into one final move. He was to become one with the Aedor, to plea for his people. The Thracians.
The Thracians were retreating from the mighty armies of Aedor's brother, the Nameless One, Lord of the Northern Winter. Their lands, far to the north on the great river Dunaros, once so fertile, became frozen and barren. The Thracians needed a new land, a hideout. But the Nameless One was moving further and further south. It was obvious to Bospar that no mortal or god could stop the Nameless One - save for Aedor.
"No army could stand against the Divine Wind of Aedor..."
Bospar was not an army. Simply an old man. He was pained, but he mobilized all his willpower. He climbed the hill, and stood on it, looking defiantly at Aedor. A man standing against the wind is a sign of stupidity... or bravery. Aedor knew the difference, and respected bravery.
"O, Migthy Aedor! Take me, and hear out my plea!" - Bospar's mouth and tongue were pained greatly by the wind. Yet he continued to yell at Aedor, so that Aedor will hear him.
"Aedor!!!"
The bear skins begun to be torn off. Bospar could no longer see, but still, through coughing and though blood begun to spill out of his mouth, Bospar continued to chant, and chant, and chant...
...and he became one with Aedor. He no longer had a human body, rather, only his soul escaped, and joined with the migthy wind of Aedor - for what is soul but the small wind inside a mortal's body? He could not speak. But his mind was a part of the Aedor's mind. Aedor knew about the predicament of his people.
Further, further, much further north, snow was falling at the camp of the Thracians. The Thracians were hiding in their tents, horrified, and only a few dared walk out to defy the vanguard of the Nameless One's army. And even they went to the tents, shivering not as much from cold as from fear, when the wind begun to blow.
Aedor was coming. The Nameless One was horiffied as well, knowing that he could not even hope to defeat the Aedor. But, as stubborn as so many mortals, and more arrogant then any of them, the Nameless One marched to the battle, rallying his entire force. Snow was falling in huge amounts, blizzard fell as well, snow storms were surrounding the Thracian camps, and the ground begun to freeze.
Aedor charged in full force, forcing the snow and the blizzard to break ranks and collapse, or join him and fly right at the Nameless One. The tents were almost destroyed by the fighting armies, and the Thracian refugees were lying on the ground, hiding from the two angry Gods.
The army of the Nameless One was being defeated. Desperate, the Nameless One fled as well, but Aedor pursued him, forcing him to abandon much lands, yet even Aedor was tired, and did not wish to expel the Nameless One from his few remaining strongholds in the frozen north. Never again shall the Nameless One threaten the Thracians and other peoples like this once more.
And so, Thracians, grateful to Aedor, continued to travel south, as the freed lands were still barren, will be for many years to come. The south was untouched, though. There was time for a new beginning, and a place for one, as well."
- Tale of Bospar and the Aedor, as recited in "Early Thrace: Myths, Legends and Facts".
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Chieftain Seft jumped off his migthy stallion as the numerous Thracian nomads finally reached the northern coast of the Great River of Aedii that some said to be not a river at all. Between them and the coast were several hills, one taller then the others.
"Tell me, o High Priest Metos, what is the name of this land?" - the chieftain inquired of his High Priest.
"Though yet unnamed, it is from now on Thrace. Know, Chieftain, that our town should be founded around this larger hill." - replied the high priest, saged and wise.
"Why should it be?" - asked Seft.
"It bears the mark of Aedor." - said one of the lesser priests, but the high priest shushed him.
"It does indeed bear the mark of Aedor," - said Metos, smiling - "But it is even greater then a simple shrine hill. This is the Hill of Bospar, the Greatest High Priest who saved Thrace!"
"Indeed?" - Seft wasn't sure how would Metos know that, but decided to trust him - the high priests were meant to know things like that.
"Indeed."
"Then we shall name our new town Bosporata, in the name of the greatest High Priest of all of Thrace."
It was warm here, and the land had much to be liked about it. Thrace would start anew here.