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For people wanting a hero genius.
The cultural choice is the best of the lot.
Alot of you have been harping about the need to speed up or forcibly assimilate our vassals.
Well the natural way of creating unity in empire was by cultural dominance.
The idea is if the culture of the core is so grand and rich, then the people of empire will be naturally drawn to it, and will incorporate it into thier own culture by thier own will and initiative.
And cultural strength is not just about maintaining rule over far flung territory. It is also about order in the core; as its culture gets more developed, it's ethos starts seeping into the various segments of society until it becomes ingrained. This helps with both integration of refuges and provencials as well as dissent and crime; for propriety makes people self police and forces them to act in specific predictable ways. The Last aspect of this is that development and enforcement of values start separating from the church (which whilst a tragedy, should please some in the thread)
The last part of cultural dominance is its effect on deplomacy and international influence: a cultural juggernaut makes the world desire either its hand in friendship or to be subject to it. Giving our diplomacy substantial weight. And culture tends to organically seep out of the Empire into neighbouring and even distant lands.
And naturally, the development of the arts and of social ritual and ceremony is incalculably valuable in and of itself aswell.
Thus the culture hero is not only Somthing new and interesting, but likely to be as valuable as the discovery of iron.
The cultural choice is the best of the lot.
Alot of you have been harping about the need to speed up or forcibly assimilate our vassals.
Well the natural way of creating unity in empire was by cultural dominance.
The idea is if the culture of the core is so grand and rich, then the people of empire will be naturally drawn to it, and will incorporate it into thier own culture by thier own will and initiative.
And cultural strength is not just about maintaining rule over far flung territory. It is also about order in the core; as its culture gets more developed, it's ethos starts seeping into the various segments of society until it becomes ingrained. This helps with both integration of refuges and provencials as well as dissent and crime; for propriety makes people self police and forces them to act in specific predictable ways. The Last aspect of this is that development and enforcement of values start separating from the church (which whilst a tragedy, should please some in the thread)
The last part of cultural dominance is its effect on deplomacy and international influence: a cultural juggernaut makes the world desire either its hand in friendship or to be subject to it. Giving our diplomacy substantial weight. And culture tends to organically seep out of the Empire into neighbouring and even distant lands.
And naturally, the development of the arts and of social ritual and ceremony is incalculably valuable in and of itself aswell.
Thus the culture hero is not only Somthing new and interesting, but likely to be as valuable as the discovery of iron.
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