Lol my comments were directed at the first released game we have been talking about. Not the current wip the author is working on. As to teh cog demos thats where several games are going to since the owner of the server basically all these games was ending there involvement. Another person here in the forums took over and created the cog demos aspect its relativly bew still but basically its moody version just with cog as its name sake hence the special save system that requires a valid email to make saves.
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Ok.
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You misunderstood what I said.
I said “please add a save system” to the thread about the sequel of choice of rebels, that quite clearly shows that I was talking about the second game, not the first one.
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Yep lol
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Where, it’s worth noting, you’d just been asking a lot of questions and sharing thoughts about game 1. 
The misunderstanding was understandable; it wasn’t clear that you’d just switched back to talking about the WiP when your immediately previous 10 posts had all been about the published game.
But I hope the answer is clear now, anyway.
PS: if you ever wondered what the author looks like, I’ve just blown my cover on this thread.
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Nothing ever happens
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Kiddo, that shit needs to stop. You don’t get to come on these forums and moan repeatedly on authors’ threads about the infrequency of updates. Take it to the Discords or reddit…but here, it’s an asshole move.
I’m sure you didn’t mean it that way, and assuming you cut it out, you’re very welcome here.
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Damn. Yeah it was getting a little repetitive
Anyway I wanted to ask an question about how Centralised the original Shayardene kingdom was and what did they consider the other peoples of the continent, and how aekos was before it became an Magocratic dystopia, and the other city states haven’t seen anyone as of yet Speak about them.
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Havenstone, what is pre-Karagond Xthonosis based on? I believe that it is what Judaism would have become if the Romans did not interfere
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None, but there’ll be an achievement only possible for high-COM tinkers.
I haven’t written that in yet, but I’ll give it some thought.
Indeed. Everything I say makes sense to me.
It wasn’t particularly centralized – very much a premodern empire, without the “techs of Theurgy” (in comms, transport, and agriculture) that have allowed the Hegemony to look more early-modern or precociously industrial.
The Erretsins were dissolute, unreliable cousins, the Karagonds were an odd smattering of impoverished city-states respected for their religious and intellectual prowess, the Whends and Neres were barbarians.
I’m holding off on pinning down the full history of Aekos, except to note that it was the site of the gameworld’s equivalent of the Delphic Oracle.
In general Xthonism is like a Christianity sans Messiah, with Aristotle’s Unmoved Mover as God and a law code that resembles medieval canon law rather more than Torah. In practice it looks like the Christianity rendered by highly imperialistic, power-friendly interpretations in our world, though like any religion it includes an undercurrent of subversive values that allow for it to criticize and transform itself. I’ve also said elsewhere that:
In terms of values, the Shayardene Codex does include the strong emphasis on humility and compassion toward the lowly and oppressed that Christianity learned from Judaism (and which is so totally alien to pre-Christian Greek or Roman mores).
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Are you planning to make every convo fully fleshed out before dropping a demo, or are you just pushing to finish out the endings?
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The latter.
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For A while I thought the Shayardenes didn’t care much for the Nyrish to even form an opinion on them. Since they were too far north, there were very few of them and they probably spent most of their history living like the finno uralic peoples of sacandinavia. But an answer is better than saying "The shayardenes didn’t care for them "
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Which leads to the struggle between the Ecclesiasts like Zebed who can just hit compassion with a quick theological handwave and basically ignore it, and those like Linos who accept that even if it’s the most dangerous door to Xaos, it’s also the greatest of the virtues.
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How?
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I capture them and either put them for ransom or I don’t and later on I free them.
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Since there was talk of picking a dialect to be a national one for Shayard, even though it’s not relevant to my characters, I have one primary consideration for which dialect receives this honor.
Which one most closely resembles Cockney?
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@Havenstone how sophisticated is non-Theurgic aviation? Has any progress been made on getting people who aren’t Theurges into the air?
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Probably maybe hot air balloons at best. Perhaps in time theurgy and theurgic material manipulation may make possible a vehicle that may well be impossible outside fiction in real life, the vacuum airship, which could mean that even in the far future of this world airships, one of the hallmarks of steampunk and alternate history both may remain the predominant mode of air travel with things resembling the conventional planes of our world being the niche application, kind of a reversal of how aviation history in our world developed.
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