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NorseQuest (A Norse Xianxia)

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Ah, that makes sense!

Imperial Fister said:
One thing to note is that the Magyar—or 'Hungarians' in the modern day and age—aren't your typical group of Steppe Cultivators. At least, not originally. They were a sedentary people first before they were forced on the move. Once they found a new home in the pannonian basin, they settled down again.
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For steppe cultures I've been imagining cultivation styles based around growing and improving a your horse herd, or putting swords into stones in your soul-kurgan.

But yeah, that sort of syncretic setup is interesting. You see it a lot - Hungary and Ukraine are basically the place where the great steppe ends, so you see a lot of groups turning up there and slowly going soft sedentary. Even the Scythians too, although it took centuries.

DeadmanwalkingXI said:
This would be my interpretation. His Norse is a bit broken, remember. Whether his own people have women warriors cannot readily be inferred from the one statement.
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*nods*

Man, imagine if we could recruit this guy. Or maybe one of his cousins or something.

Having a horse archer to show off to the other Jarls would be such a flex.
 
[x] What is your name
[x] What is your tribe/group called?
[x] What are you doing here?
[x] What is your cultivation like?

Getting the obvious stuff out of the way.
 
DoorAlarm said:
Keep in mind that since basically every Norse is a cultivator, that's a thousand cultivators right there
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Five hundred. Only a tiny minority of Norse women earn significant amounts of orthstirr.

And given Norse lifespan a good portion of those 500 are children.

(unless the figure of 'a thousand people' only counts free male adults in the first place. Norse might do that.)
 
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The Lone badger said:
Five hundred. Only a tiny minority of Norse women earn significant amounts of orthstirr.

And given Norse lifespan a good portion of that 500 are children.
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Even the women and children are cultivators. A girl of 16, on average, Has Hamr 3 and a Combat Pool of 5-10 (probably more, that scale wasn't really taking Glima into account...edited to 10-15 after I did some math), and is thus physically superhuman and can likely kill most mortal soldiers with her bare hands. Maybe two or three or more if she gets lucky.

They're no match for a serious warrior cultivator, but saying they're not cultivators is a deeply misleading statement.
 
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DeadmanwalkingXI said:
I mean us visiting Miklagard is not impossible...staying there for too long isn't happening, but a visit is plausible if we wrapped up our local problems and had some time.
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I'm going to have to ask you to not go to Miklagard in this life, as any travel to Miklagard is going to be at least 100k words, not to mention how much Miklagard itself will demand of me.

I'm not sure I've got the ~200–300k words left in me for Halla to go to Miklagard, unfortunately.
 
Imperial Fister said:
I'm going to have to ask you to not go to Miklagard in this life, as any travel to Miklagard is going to be at least 100k words, not to mention how much Miklagard itself will demand of me.

I'm not sure I've got the ~200–300k words left in me for Halla to go to Miklagard, unfortunately.
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Fair enough. I honestly don't really expect the precondition of all local business getting taken care of to happen prior to Halla's retirement anyway.
 
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[X] Ask him about his people. How do they travel on Sea of Grass without getting lost when it's all... grass?
[X] Ask him how many horses he has. Is it true that every Maygar warrior has to own at least four horses to be counted a member of their Jarl's hird?
[X] Is it true that a Maygar can throw a shield into the air and hit it with a hundred arrows before it falls?
[X] Would he like to arrange a friendly demonstration of our respective culture's martial skills?
[X] Ask his name, why he left home, the basic personal stuff that shows we're interested in him.
[X] Explain our situation in regards to being a warrior (including our husband), ask what women's lot is like back in his homeland.
 
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I've gotten explicit permission to shill er, 'raise awareness' for NorseQuest, so I shall

The Users' Choice awards are currently ongoing and NorseQuest is in the running for Best Ongoing Quest and Best Original Work.

So, go ahead and copy-paste this here vote in both threads and let's see if we can't inflate my ego to massive heights get ourselves a nomination!

[X] NorseQuest (A Norse Xianxia)
 
Imperial Fister said:
I've gotten explicit permission to shill er, 'raise awareness' for NorseQuest, so I shall

The Users' Choice awards are currently ongoing and NorseQuest is in the running for Best Ongoing Quest and Best Original Work.

So, go ahead and copy-paste this here vote in both threads and let's see if we can't inflate my ego to massive heights get ourselves a nomination!

[X] NorseQuest (A Norse Xianxia)
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I hearby endorse this flagrant and blatant attempt to shill for votes.

NOMINATIONS FOR THE NOMINATIONS THRONE

VOTES FOR THE VOTE GOD

ENGAGE! PARTICIPATE! LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE!

THE ELECTRODES THE DIRECTORS PUT INTO MY BRAIN LIGHT UP EVERY TIME SOMEONE PARTICIPATES IN AN EVENT-
 
oh interesting choices.
i see we are prepping for the spy games.
Imperial Fister said:
One of the handsome young men catch your eye in a way most peculiar. As his head swivels around like a loose sail in shifting winds, his eyes glow with an all too familiar curiosity. While his fellow Magyar merely gawk and stare at the fascinating world they've crossed over into, he regards the oddities and marvels with a fascination revealing the true depths of his curious soul. Where his fellows merely look, he observes.
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Imperial Fister said:
One thing to note is that the Magyar—or 'Hungarians' in the modern day and age—aren't your typical group of Steppe Cultivators. At least, not originally. They were a sedentary people first before they were forced on the move. Once they found a new home in the pannonian basin, they settled down again.
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Magyar... well, damn i would have done a spit take if i was drinking.
Its always funny to come across mentions of your country in stories that play far away from it....
 
It's that time of the day again. You know it, you love it, voting is now closed
Scheduled vote count started by Imperial Fister on Dec 14, 2023 at 9:46 PM, finished with 29 posts and 6 votes.
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