Hooray
Civ3 Cartographer
So named because I ended up with exactly 12 native-built cities.
I recently began playing the Rise and Rule mod, and I'm very excited about it. I just finished up one game with it, and have started a new one. I figured, hey I'll use one of those unique RAR civs like Ethiopia, and while I'm at it I'll do a little story and put it on CFC just for the heck of it. So here goes.
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The dawn of civilization. Mankind has just begun to become aware of their consciousness, and have begun to organize into unique and structured societies. One such society was the Tribe of Ethiopia, and their leader was Chieftain Hooray, a wise and powerful man. The great Chieftain once led his people atop a hill that overlooked a river to the North, fields of grain to the East, and forests full of wild Game to the South. He declared that his people could not hope to find any more perfect place to live than this, so he ordered a city built on that hill. That city was called Aksum.
It came to pass that Chieftain Hooray desired to know the lay of the land, so he sent out scouting parties who were to travel to all corners of the world and bring back news of what they found. Many of them never came back because they had been killed by hostile foreigners. However, here and there, Hooray's scout met friendly people who wisely chose to pay homage to the great Ethiopia.
There was the Bantu tribe which taught the Ethiopians much knowledge about how to build boats to float on water.
And then there was the Harrapan tribe who showed the Ethiopians how to use those boats properly.
Eventually the scouts found a tribe that was more than just a tiny disorganized village. This tribe was organized in much the same way that Ethiopia was, and they called themselves the Japanese. The Japanese would not simply give away their knowledge, but they were open to a trade. So, Chieftain Hooray traveled to Japan's city of Kyoto and met with Chieftain Tokugawa. There they decided that Japan would teach Ethiopia the ways of war, while Ethiopia taught Japan the ways of building.
This meeting took place in 3500 BC, 500 years after the founding of Aksum.
There followed a period of peace that lasted for a few of centuries. However, eventually some of the population of Aksum decided they wished to strike out on their own and live independently from the rule of Chieftain Hooray. Hooray wisely allowed them to leave and form a semi-independent clan of their own, but only if they swore eternal allegiance to Aksum and Ethiopia. Those who wished to do so left in the year 3375.
For a full century, this new clan wandered in the northern mountains, looking for a place to live. Eventually they found a fertile grassland on the coast of the northern sea next to the mouth of the River Aksum. They settled there and called themselves Matara. This was the beginning of the Second Clan of Ethiopia.
Not long after the founding of Matara, the last of Hooray's scouts returned to Aksum with knowledge of the land. Chieftain Hooray enjoyed listening to the scouts' stories of the land. However, it eventually became clear from the scouts' information that the land was completely surrounded by water. Ethiopia and Japan were isolated on an island.
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And that ends the first part of the game.
I want to give an individual persona to each chieftain of each of the clans. However, I don't know jack about Ethiopian names. So, the first eleven people to reply to this thread get to be eleven of the twelve chieftains of Ethiopia!
I recently began playing the Rise and Rule mod, and I'm very excited about it. I just finished up one game with it, and have started a new one. I figured, hey I'll use one of those unique RAR civs like Ethiopia, and while I'm at it I'll do a little story and put it on CFC just for the heck of it. So here goes.
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The dawn of civilization. Mankind has just begun to become aware of their consciousness, and have begun to organize into unique and structured societies. One such society was the Tribe of Ethiopia, and their leader was Chieftain Hooray, a wise and powerful man. The great Chieftain once led his people atop a hill that overlooked a river to the North, fields of grain to the East, and forests full of wild Game to the South. He declared that his people could not hope to find any more perfect place to live than this, so he ordered a city built on that hill. That city was called Aksum.
It came to pass that Chieftain Hooray desired to know the lay of the land, so he sent out scouting parties who were to travel to all corners of the world and bring back news of what they found. Many of them never came back because they had been killed by hostile foreigners. However, here and there, Hooray's scout met friendly people who wisely chose to pay homage to the great Ethiopia.
There was the Bantu tribe which taught the Ethiopians much knowledge about how to build boats to float on water.
And then there was the Harrapan tribe who showed the Ethiopians how to use those boats properly.
Eventually the scouts found a tribe that was more than just a tiny disorganized village. This tribe was organized in much the same way that Ethiopia was, and they called themselves the Japanese. The Japanese would not simply give away their knowledge, but they were open to a trade. So, Chieftain Hooray traveled to Japan's city of Kyoto and met with Chieftain Tokugawa. There they decided that Japan would teach Ethiopia the ways of war, while Ethiopia taught Japan the ways of building.
This meeting took place in 3500 BC, 500 years after the founding of Aksum.
There followed a period of peace that lasted for a few of centuries. However, eventually some of the population of Aksum decided they wished to strike out on their own and live independently from the rule of Chieftain Hooray. Hooray wisely allowed them to leave and form a semi-independent clan of their own, but only if they swore eternal allegiance to Aksum and Ethiopia. Those who wished to do so left in the year 3375.
For a full century, this new clan wandered in the northern mountains, looking for a place to live. Eventually they found a fertile grassland on the coast of the northern sea next to the mouth of the River Aksum. They settled there and called themselves Matara. This was the beginning of the Second Clan of Ethiopia.
Not long after the founding of Matara, the last of Hooray's scouts returned to Aksum with knowledge of the land. Chieftain Hooray enjoyed listening to the scouts' stories of the land. However, it eventually became clear from the scouts' information that the land was completely surrounded by water. Ethiopia and Japan were isolated on an island.
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And that ends the first part of the game.
I want to give an individual persona to each chieftain of each of the clans. However, I don't know jack about Ethiopian names. So, the first eleven people to reply to this thread get to be eleven of the twelve chieftains of Ethiopia!
