By the way, I'd like to go ahead and show you guys how I'll be showing areas being conquered in a war. It's very much going to be done in Europa Universalis fashion.



Thick lines on the territory layer would indicate lands that have been conquered during the course of a war. If they are granted to the conquering realm in a peace treaty or by the total capitulation / domination of the enemy state, that territory becomes the color of the conquerors.

Work continues!

I've decided to really run with the Ottoman theme-been reading up on the pirates of Barbary. Make sense of a decayed empire to rely more on corsairs then it's own navy-and it gives me some leeway for the main plot I'm planning.

Anyone here familiar with Barbary?

Anyone here familiar with Barbary?

State-sponsored Piracy? Should be good fun! :P

How far do your corsairs go @Ophidian?

@Ophidian Sounds good, Zhodulan Merchant ships usually take both the southern and northern sea routes to Arcturia.

@Ophidian Out of curiosity, what is the Black Serpent? Is it a person, a deified creature, an order, or something else?

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All of these actually, first it was a person, a great hero-the founder of the Empire, reckoned to be the avatar of Yig upon the Earth. Now it's a name borne by the nifty fellows I posted a pic of a few posts ago.