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A N A T O L I A [Dark-Fascist Fantasy]

@Dead Cruiser@babbysama@Didgeridont@Life in Stasis@BingTheWing

Tiny update, interested or no: Working on information that will be sufficient for character creation. There is a shit ton of stuff to write, so I'll continue after that essential stuff is there.

A N A T O L I A [Dark-Fascist Fantasy]

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The idea is indeed quite interesting; apologies if I was misunderstood.

@BingTheWing

Ah, lovely.

To comment on your statements more in-depth, as @Didgeridont and @Life in Stasis touched upon, while there is a clearly defined right and wrong, it's not a universal notion but rather based on the perceptions of two difference races and their divine inspiration. The four named demons—Belial, Azazel, Moloch, and Dagon—for example, are the four nobles that betrayed the First Sovereign, leading to his death and the fall of the empire. There might also be individual Ashkanai that don't condone the practices and behaviors of their race. I was thinking that the characters would meet such an Ashkanai in the story, just to put them through such a scenario and moral test.

The 'dark truth about the empire' would be that there are traitors, that there are humans who don't agree with the empire. When you are deeply brainwashed from the time of infancy, any derivation of your world perception becomes extremely disturbing even if it might be an obvious thing. People are individuals, all of them will not agree with a 'greater good'. But, those brainwashed by that greater good could never understand that. So, the 'dark truth' can also be the extent of the deep propaganda, the need for a common perception that ignores the individual. So, something that the characters can go through is doubt. "Why would there be traitors? What don't they agree with the empire? How could they not see the light? Is the empire wrong?"

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@Prisk Wait, so this is a black-and-white, clearly-defined-good-and-evil kind of world, like the Lord of the Rings?

I personally think this would be far more interesting if the characters, along the course of the journey, discovered the dark truth about their beloved empire.

@BingTheWing

Yes, but the story is about something else entirely.

Okay, and what would that be? To be honest, it looks a lot like you're not actually interested, but pointing things out for whatever reason. I'm sorry if this roleplay idea rubs you the wrong way.

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I personally find the tone of the writing purposely propagandic in nature, as if the narrator is only telling us one perspective of the story. Perhaps the vile description of the Ashkanai was put out to dehumanize the enemy, and the Ashkanai are actually ordinary tribesmen who felt abused by the Empire and decided to retaliate?

@BingTheWing

Is this a lore suggestion or criticism of the roleplay idea? I'm open to both.

The point of putting this in a dark fantasy context is to eliminate subjective perspectives and moral relativism. It works (somewhat) in real life, but not here. The Ashkanai, humanoid goat-like creatures, propagate worship of demonic Gods devoted to corruption, sacrifice of other races, and bloodshed. However, you are right in that they are nomadic tribesmen who believe these practices to be the right way of things, and as such would feel threatened by the Empire and its human values of life, prosperity, social cohesion, and by extension the 'superiority' of the human race.

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This is quite interesting. Just like Dead Cruiser noted, I am a bit put off by the whole "fascism" thing (and I can't be the only one who saw a similarity between the Ashkanai and Ashkenazi Jews can I? lol) (also hordes of people invading a "pure" land and propping up their "dark" gods ), but still, I'll say that I'm tentatively interested. On the one hand the whole idea is pretty badass, not gonna lie, but on the other hand it's somewhat impossible to see the whole thing except through a contemporary political lens. Might be better in some instances to say authoritarian or theocratical.

But in general, interested.

@babbysama

The setting was designed with a contemporary political climate and conspiracy theories in mind, so it is to no surprise that you can see similarities. The word 'fascism' itself wouldn't exist in this fictional world, and I don't think it should be censored here. It's a collection of tenets that have been vilified by the current political left.

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Sounds interesting, though the fascist fetishism is a bit offputting. Hopefully this will be presented in shades of grey?

@Dead Cruiser

I totally understand that. The focus of the story is the liberation of a tortured people by a divine figure. Some of the old state's fascist tenets will naturally be interpreted differently by the new sovereign, and the player characters will be a major factor in that influence.

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Frokane's Mildly Politcal Hangout Thread

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Now that is true! One movie that did that well was Law Abiding Citizen. It's one of my favorite movies, and initially they were going to have Jamie Foxx as the bad guy, and Gerard Butler as the hero. But Jamie Foxx thought it would be cool to have Gerard Butler, known as the guy from 300 (this was a 2009 movie) to be the hammy villain, and they did it.

@POOHEAD189

Butler is still the protagonist, though. He exerts vengeance upon a broken justice system, which Foxx's character supports.

Panacea

Closing this for obvious reasons. Thanks for the initial interest.

Panacea

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Alrighty-- I'll drop her into the character tab.
Lookin forward to this RP.

@Utrax

Me too, but it doesn't look too good at the moment. It's difficult to know if people are working on sheets or just jumped to something else. Snooping around isn't my thing.

Still working on my CS sorry been a bit busy with work.

@EvolvedHigher

No worries.