[OOC] Do The Eagles Circle The Mountains? - A Eastern "Middle Ages" Fantasy RP

[Kassarock]

@Dinh AaronMk So I'm writing my post, and it involves the Vos going on a military incursion to the east in the unclaimed gap between our nations? What kind of society theoretically exists there? Some smaller human state ruled by a raja, rana, rajput?

[Dinh AaronMk]

@Dinh AaronMk So I'm writing my post, and it involves the Vos going on a military incursion to the east in the unclaimed gap between our nations? What kind of society theoretically exists there? Some smaller human state ruled by a raja, rana, rajput?

@Kassarock

Well my post involves bringing in basically a mercenary from out that way, so presumably humans. I don't have any immediate plans for the area so I don't care, in so far my current immediate ideas involve the underground.

I was initially hesitant to imply the mercenary could be related to the Vos in some way too, if that helps.

[Dinh AaronMk]

[Kassarock]

Well my post involves bringing in basically a mercenary from out that way, so presumably humans. I don't have any immediate plans for the area so I don't care, in so far my current immediate ideas involve the underground.

I was initially hesitant to imply the mercenary could be related to the Vos in some way too, if that helps.

@Dinh AaronMk

Okay cool, not sure what you mean by the second part though? Feel free to use Vos mercenaries, I imagine it would be quite a common thing, good way for younger branches of the Great Houses to get gold and glory.

[Dinh AaronMk]

Well I'd post but I got webdesign shit to finish. So whenever I get my attention span back to finish this I'll get back to that post I started. Just a fair warning to anyone impatient and unfamiliar with the Precipice pace I move at.

[TheSovereignGrave]

You know Thrashy, I have to wonder what in the world possessed your people to travel to Poertia. I mean, they surely have a reputation as violent warmongers elsewhere in the world. They certainly do in Svargiya; though that may have to do with them sharing a border.

And I wonder what exactly that seeress of yours has in mind. I mean, it's obvious she wants her people to go on the warpath, but where would they go?

[Thrashy]

You know Thrashy, I have to wonder what in the world possessed your people to travel to Poertia. I mean, they surely have a reputation as violent warmongers elsewhere in the world. They certainly do in Svargiya; though that may have to do with them sharing a border.

And I wonder what exactly that seeress of yours has in mind. I mean, it's obvious she wants her people to go on the warpath, but where would they go?

@TheSovereignGrave

Maybe they had nowhere else to go. Maybe they did not know about the Gul. And even if they did, noone would think to look for them there. It will become more clear as the story progresses.

They could go anywhere. Straight west into Svargiya or Poertia, or bypass them and follow the archipelago to the mainland, or north of the mountains and then dip into any of the passes. They are a nomadic people at heart. Movement should pose no problem, it is what they do.

My plan for the seer is simple: she wants her people to go to war. Whether they fail or succeed in that undertaking is entirely up to us; I do not care about the outcome as long as it makes for a good narrative. I wanted to introduce a kind of barbarian hordes menace-thingy to the game. Not to win (because you cannot win at storytelling), but to spice things up.

[Vilageidiotx]

Just a heads up with Sarnath...

I think you can get away with the market bit because of the festival, but typically Sarnath would not be a mountain town. Excluding the massive fortress carved into the cliffs, the town itself is going to look something like this...



Sarnath is the home of the Gul Shapur themselves, but very few people go there except when there is a Sacrificial festival. Poertia is a sparse, somewhat rural land ruled mostly by nobles that are one part knightly manor, one part highland clan, one part farmer.

There is a relatively decent sized market town in the north west part of the country I will be mentioning at some point, but I haven't quite got that far yet.

[Pepperm1nts]

Yeah, I think Thrashy misunderstood you when you said that Sarnath wouldn't be a very populated place, and that he should instead set his post somewhere in the arable valleys.

[Thrashy]

I understood completely. My characters are there with the Poertian family they live with, who in turn are there for the festival. Piripi thinks everything is big and strange because all he has ever seen before are yurts and plains. I know you said Sarnath was not a big place, but with so many people coming together it only felt natural that there would be a market.

Again, Piripi thinks these things are big because he does not know better. He is perhaps a bit like Ygritte in GoT, mistaking a tower for a castle.

[Vilageidiotx]

Normally there wouldn't be a market, but since the festival is there I think we can say that there is a makeshift one.

Sarnath would be one of those villages where it is small enough that if people want to buy shit, they just go to the person who has it in town and make a trade.

Though the town itself would be shitty and dull, the Castle would definitely be pretty impressive, being Visha built and all.

[Dinh AaronMk]

But inhabited by vampires.

[Vilageidiotx]

But inhabited by vampires.

@Dinh AaronMk

Preteens migrate to the area in droves only to be disappointed.

[Dinh AaronMk]

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Preteens migrate to the area in droves only to be disappointed.

@Vilageidiotx

>Expect to find handsome, sexually attractive men or women
>Get shaggy and pissy-looking mountain Persians

[Pepperm1nts]

It's funny the Satyr aren't the ones in the mountains, what with their goat legs.

[Dinh AaronMk]

It's funny the Satyr aren't the ones in the mountains, what with their goat legs.

@Pepperm1nts

They get orange trees instead.

Fuck yo' mountains.

[Vilageidiotx]

It's funny the Satyr aren't the ones in the mountains, what with their goat legs.

@Pepperm1nts

I don't think they have the same advantages when they only have two legs.

[TheSovereignGrave]

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They get orange trees instead.

Fuck yo' mountains.

@Dinh AaronMk

BUT THERE CAN'T BE LEMON TREES IN BRAAVOS!

Anyway, oranges aren't even a particularly good fruit. I don't really like them. And the mountains are great man, don't diss them. Or else, you know, my Sasquatches will get you.

[Pepperm1nts]

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BUT THERE CAN'T BE LEMON TREES IN BRAAVOS!

@TheSovereignGrave

Wildfire can't melt Valyrian steel beams!

[Dinh AaronMk]

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Wildfire can't melt Valyrian steel beams!

@Pepperm1nts

Those ovens can't bake 12 million fruit pound cakes.