Choice of Rebels: Stormwright (XoR2 WIP)

[mshan95032]

@Havenstone

and catching Great-Eels (actually a giant sea mammal)

1- Are Great-Eels also native to Shayard’s coasts, or exclusive to Erezza’s?

2- And when turned into Plektoi (instead of being eaten), can Great-Eel Plektoi alternatively serve as aquatic war mounts (or replacements for boats)?

@Havenstone

They won’t go back to a land that can’t feed them.

After further pondering, another question came to mind: how do you reconcile your above-mentioned statement with your past answer concerning how “there’ll be no factions wanting to resettle on Shayardene land”? (On the original Uprising forum)

@Havenstone

ditches and ramparts

Can decommissioned Harrowers be repurposed to serve as underground burrowers/tunnelers/“mole machines”?
If so, then my MCs would like to find out if it’s possible for us to do the XoR version of the classic “digging from America to China” childhood fantasy? (assuming that most, if not all, of the Hegemony’s Wards can be deactivated)

@Havenstone

As it is, the biggest slums of Aekos are in the shadow/drainage zone of the Palace.

Oh my goodness, I can already imagine the Vitamin D insufficiency! (from the widespread lack of sunshine)

@Havenstone

tens of thousands of snails

Are snails also a staple food in Shayard? (Given its French inspiration)
Or is the ‘consumption’ of snails strictly limited to the “porphyra dye” example you pointed out?

@Havenstone

Laj-jas

If MC is as gender fluid as Laj, what’s the estimated allowable frequency? (that MC’s health, INT mastery, and XoR’s narrative would permit)

@Havenstone

the imperial core

Will MC have the option of having an itinerant court/capital? (similar to the EU)

@Havenstone

There are imperial repertoires

Got the Kindle book, and will get back to you on this later! (if any relevant feedback comes to mind by then)

@Havenstone

But that will also undermine the social “glue” that has held Shayard together (as a pre-Hegemony empire, not just as an archonty) despite its own tremendous internal diversity.

Unless of course, high-CHA MC finds another social “glue” to replace Xthonic worship: e.g. Abhuman syncretism, Whendish paganism, Halassurq paganism, and/or Kenon cult of personality.

@Havenstone

incorporate regions that have been part of other realms for centuries,

If an XoR NPC nation/faction gets annexed by another, then will their respective relationship bars (with MC) be merged into a consolidated relationship bar? (with the new bar representing the two former bars’ average score)

@Eiwynn

Because of my MC’s history in book one… the only other province i’d desire a union with is the mountainous one (name is escaping me) where my rebellion had first taken hold.

I feel an obligation to hold them as an equal part to my Shayard homeland and to make sure they rise along with Shayard.

Wiendrj is the province you have in mind.
Anyways, what model of governance did you have in mind for your envisioned Shayard-Wiendrj union?
Austro-Hungarian style diarchy?
UK-inspired constitutional monarchy? (with Wiendrj acting as the Scotland/Wales to Shayard’s England)
Super decentralized tribal confederation?
Or some other model?

@CaptainAcab

In a certain respect, he would say that the helots have no nation

Looks like your MC is headed towards the direction of a Big Boss-inspired “soldiers without borders” faction of mercenaries.
(unless of course, you have a different intended analogy in mind)