TwistedSun

House of the Rising Sun?

May I have some physical description of the county of Greinburg, please? It is needed for the Greiffon Household history :P

House of the Rising Sun?

Well, you can start writing your family history and maybe make a coat of arms to go with it. In two or three days I will put up the thread and you can post it there.

@Xilaw

Wait, I don't want to complain, but... how do we write our family history without knowing our ranks :I ? Anyway, I have already my coat of arms ;D *points to profile avatar*

@TwistedSun

Oh. That's a good point. Here's the thing, I will give land to you guys and you can figure out the titles yourselves. Just don't go overboard. But, the territory you will be given doesn't mean it was always yours, so you're gonna have to work that out as well. Btw, your profile picture is the same as it was?

@Xilaw

Understood. And, yes; but it seems imgur is sulking for some reason o.ò

House of the Rising Sun?

Well, you can start writing your family history and maybe make a coat of arms to go with it. In two or three days I will put up the thread and you can post it there.

@Xilaw

Wait, I don't want to complain, but... how do we write our family history without knowing our ranks :I ? Anyway, I have already my coat of arms ;D *points to profile avatar*

House of the Rising Sun?

Hey let my little serf rebellion do try and fail at that.

@Enalais

I'll just stuck to my poetry indoctrinated sons and try to sort something out of that rocky limb of land I will inherit somehow xI

House of the Rising Sun?

Sorry guys, RL caught up with me and I didn't do much work the past two days other than add all the villages and a few abbeys/monasteries to the map. I plan on finishing the map tomorrow 'cause I'm tired right now and also start writing the family history. My family tree has 9 generations so it's kind of lengthy to write about.

Xilaw

No worries, we shall all await with bated breath. (Speaking for the group of course)

gowia

House of the Rising Sun?

Was just doing some irony, don't worry :P The fact is that before the 17th century none questions on the nature of royal power. It was given for granted that it came directly from God.

TwistedSun

I don't think anything was questioned back then. Everyone just accepted it as it was, either because they were illiterate and uneducated or because they feared the almighty church that was out to get anyone who was going against it's teachings. Dark ages, indeed.

Xilaw

No. Kings in the 17th century certainly ruled with a divine right to rule, but that's been pretty much standard for all of history- every despot since the cavemen claimed to rule with the mandate of heaven. And throughout that history, it was never enough to just shut everyone up- whether the people accepted an autocrat was largely dependent on the man's political strength. I mean, the 17th century saw ol' Charlie of England- one of the great proponents of the divine right to rule, mind you- be overthrown and executed, largely because of his attemps to control everything. The second assertion I'd like to contest, and one that makes me cringe in terrible agony every time I see it, is everything you said about the so called 'dark ages'. Apparently, everything between the fall of Rome in the 400s and the renaissance was anarchy and cultural stagnation, which lasted over a thousand years. Except for, what do you call it, the Carolingian renaissance of the 700s, or the cultural brilliance of the Byzantines and the Islamic world, ect, ect. /Sarcasm My point here is that calling the 400-1400 period the 'dark ages' is a gross oversimplification, one which reduces the greatness of the countless civilizations that rose and fell in that period (yes, civilization did exist). Finally, you seem to imply that the 'church'- by which I assume you refer to the Roman Catholic Church- was not only a proponent of the divine authority of Kings, but actively hunted those who opposed their tyranny. This is a ridiculous concept; for one thing, the popes would never impart divine authority on kings, authority they guarded as their own. The thousand years you clumped into the 'dark ages' saw a constant struggle between the papacy and the European Kings for religious authority. And even if one were to ignore that and pretend that the popes loved these Kings, it ignores the simple fact that your statement is an anachronism. By the 17th century, the roman church was already spiraling into its political decline. A third of Europe had broken off and formed their owned reformed churches, and even in those catholic nations that remained, papal authority was almost non-existent. With that said, good sir, I bid you adieu. (Oh, and I'm interested in the RP.)

Vahir

Indeed. Defining them 'Middle ages' is degrading as well, since the name derives from the humanist conception of those times as 'intermediary' between two worthy of mention (obviously I'm referring to late Roman history and Renaissance, whose itself is a craft of humanism as well.). Medieval times were, after all, not a period of obscurantism like many know, but some sort of cradle, theocentric and pretty unwired, that permitted modern nations to sprung.

Mass Effect:The Cycle Continues

Its good. You get a gold star.

caliban22

Mass Effect:The Cycle Continues

1. Tell me how you found it and what you know. Like the last guy, I'm not going to allow you to know everything about reapers. 2. Depending on votes they will either stay or we go with the idea you came up with. 3. Thanks for the approval of the dice roll. This list may not be in order so play some "match this"

caliban22

The Kimo found a copy of liara's warnings (now known to them as 'the shepard') when they discovered a Turian military vessel on a world they intended to settle. Like it says in my nation sheet, those Turians survived the war and tried and failed to carve out a new existence somewhere. The discovery heralded a golden age for the Kimo but it also brought with them the warning of the reapers. Information from the Turian ship's databanks revealed what had happened to them, including a complete record of the Reaper war as experienced by the people onboard. They also found a copy of Liara's warning through which The Kimo learned of commander Shepard and his/her deeds up until the point where Liara made them. (Which was just before the battle of earth. And given that very few ships and even fewer ground troops made it back from that battle, the Turians onboard the ship they found had little knowledge of what exactly transpired there.) They also learned of the crucible and how to build it but given that liara had no idea what exactly it is or what it does, neither do the Kimo and like I said, actually building the thing would require too many resources and that is not something the Kimo government will put any effort into when they don't know what the thing will even do. They know that the citadel is the 'catalyst' and that it is a massive station that used to be the seat of all galactic government as well as a backdoor for the reapers (they know shepard's story afterall) but given that the reapers moved the thing to earth and god knows where else after that, they have no idea where to find it, nor do they have the intention of going to look for it since that might expose them to whatever else lurks in the darkness of space. In short, the Kimo know everything Liara did prior to leaving for earth as well as what the Turians knew. they know about indoctrination, the existing reaper variants, husks, etc. They have alot of knowledge (but that doesn't mean that the reapers couldn't have come up with a few new tricks in the many centuries/millenia since the last cycle, *hint hint* ;p) Also, and this is kind of a big thing. If this rp follows mass effect 2-3 logic the cycle comes every 50.000 years in which case the Kimo know when the reapers will come but if it follows Mass effect 1 logic, the reapers will come whenever they deem gamactic civilisation advanced enough to be harvested, in which case the Kimo's guess is as good as anyone's. (if you ask me, mass effect 1 logic is the better one since I believe that the 50.000 years limit is kind of dumb because there are absolutely no guarantees that sentient lifeforms will grow to the desired level somewhere in the galaxy within that arbitrary timeframe. It's also alot more interesting because it leaves everyone in the dark as to when the reapers arrive.)

Trillovinum

Drahss found a copy of Liara's Black Box some time after they autonomously discovered the mass effect field and how to use it. In the exploration of their cluster they organized a constant and maniacal race to colonization, overlooking easily their own ancestral holdings. After some time then, during a periodic geological & biological survey of their homeworld's highly active moon Ladae, they catched unusual interferences coming from the 'dark side' of the moon'. Their finding was incredible. Wrapped inside a prothean research facility ruins, spurted somehow from the ground, there was one of Liara's box. The dusty storm that would have caused such thing was to be avoided, since at that time the Federacy was still young, and its members unsettled over the colonial rights. In the end it was all locked down and studied; its discoveries kept secret, and released gradually as proofs of Drahss technological advancement. However, those who were fully aware of the content of those artifact, decided they had to make themselves ready for the dark days to come, somehow. As I said before, Liara's Black Box works exactly like any other known VI, containing all data of ME3 period and advancement. Unfortunately, this was one of the earliest copies, so Drahss don't know that the Citadel is the the Catalyst itself.

House of the Rising Sun?

I volunteer as well, my king! May the path of the Gryphon lead us to victory! *whispers* and obscenely enormous amounts of gold... *whispers*

House of the Rising Sun?

I don't think anything was questioned back then. Everyone just accepted it as it was, either because they were illiterate and uneducated or because they feared the almighty church that was out to get anyone who was going against it's teachings. Dark ages, indeed.

Xilaw

Let's simply say they had more... 'pressing' troubles to overcome. And by that I mean: The end of the world, famine, wars, epidemies, poverty, slavery etc. etc. They had really little time to question themselves from where the sovereignty came from ^^' Edit* Also, I somehow stumbled across this wiki. It would surely be of great interest to you. Austrian nobility.