Choice of Rebels: Stormwright (XoR2 WIP)

Thats true, but I was asking more about the buy in from the population and locals compared to how the state treats its subjects. Like could the Shayardenes of the Rim and southern Whends be convinced that they have enough in common to coexist not in a pan-archonty way but in a “we’re here and want to be good neighbors/survive against all the invading magic vampires” way.

Asked a differently, how many ways can an MC choose to ‘flavor’ their potential homelander ideology.

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Havie said once or twice that we will be able to pursue a strategy of being homelander state allied with other homelander states (of other cultures) if that’s what you mean

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Cosmo is cool if you wanna be an hera knockoff. but im an Homelander just tryna make the continent firmly under shayardene influence.Keeping the eastern tribes out ofcourse!. And because I don’t wanna be forced to make aekos the capital because it more practical than everywhere else…

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:moyai: based

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Or of course, you can be the ruler of Shayard and give the rest of the continent to Halassur. Let the Halassurqs take care of the refugee problem for you…

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Not my cup of tea. Swords of Shayard will be pointed at all of foreign tyrants and opressors, be it Karagonds or heathen Hallasurq.

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What is the inspiration of the Seracca civilization?
Does “Seracca” have “cc” instead of “k” because Seraccas use the equivalent of the Roman alphabet?
Why did the Karagonds apoint a traditionalist (de Bors) to the office of Cont of Shayard?
Please add a serious reason to distrust the Seraccas before the protagonist reaches the Triple Alliance decision.

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Vile cat ladies! :scream:

Plenty of reasons to distrust these foreigners in my opinion, hmmmphh. :unamused:

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Are you saying that the Seraccans are secretly Swifties? :scream:

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Hah, good one :rofl:

Sure, I can see My’kar bopping out to Taylor Swift songs but I’m not sure which one would be her favorite…

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“Exile.” M’kyar’s a sucker for Bon Iver.

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What alphabet do Seraccans use?.

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For accuracy, I amend the statement that I was “uncomfortable” when Cerlota said that Erjan is a Halasurq. It is in the Top 5 most shocking experiences by me in a year. The problem is that I only felt deep suspicion and mild panic and utter shock instead of all of the above and disgust and hatred.

Edit: I have been taught by the wiki that knowledge of Theurgy in Halassur has been “very restricted until recently”. Oh. Oh. Ooh, ooh… AAAAH!

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I don’t imagine anyone is using real life alphabets and the like. They probably all look rather alien.

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Yeah ik but it makes things simple

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The only realistic for the existence of “cc” in “Seracca” (a name that is only used by Seraccas) is that they have an alphabet with a letter for the “k” and “s” sounds and that their pronounciations of “cc” and “c” are different, which is too specific to be a coincidence.

They also might have lived in Shayard a long time ago, because Cerlota calls M’kyar a “daughter of the plains” though the Abhuman confederation has no plains (credit to a user whose name I forgot), but Shayard does. Shayard probably uses the Roman alphabet because it is heavily based on France and England

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Sorry to have let this slip earlier, but ADA roughly T, @Verand first posted on the WIP thread. It was the beginning of a long track record of thoughtful questions and encouraging comment. Thanks @Verand for being part of this community!

It doesn’t have to be either; the option you later describe as “we want to be good neighbors/survive against all the invading magic vampires” can work without a cosmopolitan ideology.

But homelander ideologies have languages or families of languages close to their core. You’d not be able to be strongly homelander and have a single state where both Shayardenes and Whends feel equally at home. In a homelander realm, someone’s language and culture is getting privileged.

Different homelander realms can rub along just fine. You could have a close alliance between your Shayardene domain and Wiendish neighbors. (As long as the borders fall out in a way that doesn’t leave you poised to fight over contested territory like Steswick.) But if you want the neighboring Wiends as subjects rather than allies, you’ll either need to limit your homelanderishness or bring them in on a second-class basis.

No, it’s because one of the primary Seracca dialects involves a phoneme of a light rattle in the back of the throat that’s I’m representing with a double-c. It’s not hard enough to earn a double-k in transliteration.

A century ago the traditionalists weren’t an organized faction hostile to loyalists the way they are today. The de Bors Archons were well placed to keep order at the time.

This was a misunderstanding, I’m afraid :slight_smile: “Desert” and “plains” are not mutually exclusive descriptions. The Abhuman continent has plenty of semi-arid savannah between the harshest deserts on the Shayard border and the jungles of the far south.

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I think that Wards are created by the same method as streels, because both are caused by a lot of aether and look like infinite vertical lines.

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Ok speaking on how MC views certain things. My Mc views the Helasurqs as an Tribal people, whom do not deserve to rise above the Eastern lands as they have done. Their order as according the propaganda is an Chauvinstic, babe killing, tribal empire. but my MC doesn’t just view them as evil men, but just as another Abomination just like the hagemony must be destroyed with whatever method nessesary…other than he really doesn’t really care much, they can Conquer the Eretza if they want as long as they don’t cross further west we are good Also part of me personally don’t think its possible to wage an war on hellasur, and it would probably be more diplo warfare. Which could be fun :grin:. Like trying to rally your allies against them and forming an league of States or conquer all the Magocratic sucessor states and do starring contest if Diplo is boring, but I like my method better as Small homelander states must resist big Ottoman larp.

For the Abhumans…Their are goats Saved me from my Schitzo dreams about father.

Also Good to see that your MC is sane, and just want an good future with everyone :+1:

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Nothing ever Happens

“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where nothing happens”

-Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.

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