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Lords of Creation Reborn: Third Times the charm!

End first Age on Turn Five?

  • Yes

    Votes: 1 16.7%

  • No

    Votes: 5 83.3%
  • Total voters
    6
  • Poll closed .
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ShieldCrown said:
20 per Robe Color.

Only one of him.

Conquest, diplomacy, marriage, and various other methods.
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I meant more along the lines of was Leviathan the reason why so my Almara were now away? Or was that the result of the lava lizards popping up?

And apparently Death is now a god. This is an odd day. Maybe good, maybe bad.
 
Well, I am worried that as the literal avatar of Death is making his home, he decides to make a shattered moon in the background.
I do not think he likes me...
 
Demi-God Name: T'chon Storcakson

Titles: Wunderkind, First Son, Torch-Bearer

Domain: War

Appearance: Never was a more perfect mortal birthed than the Gorantan called T'chon. As if from iron is his form hewn, unyielding steel in their formation. The very moonlight plays along his features. Handsome and strong as they are they dim in comparison to the fiery suns of his eyes. But still his body is delicate art, beautiful and otherworldy, as though phantasm sculptors carved their craft within the mother's womb. Everything about T'chon is Goranta incarnate, the people distilled into one being. They are an Elder Race, favored of their god, proud and strong and wise but he is Storvack by blood. Half divine and all the more because of it.

Personality: Consider an oak tree,steadfast and strong, older by far than three generations of sons, ancient before the father's father. Yet through its time it had kept its peace. Standing singly on the hill in a meadow plain, the oak has braved lightning and thunder, bowed before no winds fierce enough to crumble houses. Its bark is flame-licked and risen against earthquakes that rent the ground and swallowed men whole.

But still it stands.

Still its wood is whole, scarred and deformed into rictus grins of once-suffered-pain, a history of calamity etched into wooden skin. From the central stalk rises dozens of branches into the sky, as if praising the gods for life abundant. Hands in prayer, boughs as limbs, twigs fingers, jade leaves a promise of growth.

But when the oak tree praises heaven it does not deem to forget those which has granted harbor. Strong roots dig deep into the barth, both sustainer and wall. Through these roots the oak is strong and through these roots the oak has secured its place on the hill in the meadow plain.

Honor. Respect. Family. These are the tenents Goranta stands upon. These are the people's roots and those of T'chon Storvackson as well.

(@ShieldCrown @Iscaren, say Hello to your new son!)
 
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Zeitgeist Blue said:
Demi-God Name: T'chon Storcakson



Domain: Civilization

Appearance: Never was a more perfect mortal birthed than the Gorantan called T'chon. As if from iron is his form hewn, unyielding steel in their formation. The very moonlight plays along his features, handsome and strong they are, but dims in comparison to the fiery suns of his eyes. But still his body is delicate art, beautiful and otherworldy, as though phantasm sculptors carved their craft within the mother's womb. Everything about T'chon is Goranta incarnate, the people distilled into one being. They are an Elder Race, favored of their god, proud and strong and wise but he is Storvack by blood. Half divine and all the more because of it.

Personality:
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......Civilization is not one of Storvak's domains.
 
ShieldCrown said:
There are twice as many Almara as in the cities.....or there was, they all seemed to have disappeared to somewhere. As for Avara, there are roughly 500 currently. Immortality leads to low birthrates after all.
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Shield?Read the race description.

There is no way in HELL a Fishing/hunter-gatherer/Horticulturalist culture not even under the optimum conditions provided by the isle could support 1 city dweller per two rural population, suspense of disbelieve be damned.

Thats the productivity of CHINA in its best rice growing territories upped by one.

Yes, Shield, the highest yield agricultural plant on earth in an iron age high yield AGRICULTURAL society produces 1 city dweller per 3 rurals.

! assumed 1 to 10, boosted by fishing and magic to 1,3 normal numbers on the coast..so basically 1 to seven, and i fretted about that.
To reach "For each two rurals one urban" we need essentially Cockaigne-level of ease, with cooked fish jumping into nets and roasted birds flying into mouths.

Why are you insisting on every thing in large settlements when that was a thing only in the NINETEENTH CENTURY + on earth? A bronze or iron age society does not WORK that way- in a half way recognizable earthlike setting.

Also WHAT do you mean "They seem to have disappeared to somewhere?" The vampires taking them all as foodstock? Quite apart from Avariel, Avitia and TWO ORDERS keeping watch over them... the disappearance of the rural populace would quite simply lead to the END of Almara civilization, point.

Imagine the entire countryside of , say, britain in the high middle ages swept clean of peasants.HOW LONG would london SURVIVE?


I certainly do not want to intrude into your rights as a GM.No.I am thankful for this game and my spot in it.
But when you get on a untenable position....
And introduce what would be an apocalyptic disaster in a sideline... Shield, I have to point it out.

so... i would say 50 000 Almara.
Iam fully onboard with 50-75 Almara to a Avara.
But for 500 persons in the smaller settlement and 1000- 2000 in Sessile? Plus the handfull of 200-300 person villages? 50, 000
That , Btw, Means there has be NO population growth-or almost none- over 2500 years.
Which, considering three children in 150 years isd... not that big.
And if i reckon rightly, the goranta are at 25-50000 too. And they do not have phoenix immortality.
 
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SailorMidgard said:
Shield?Read the race description.

There is no way in HELL a Fishing/hunter-gatherer/Horticulturalist culture not even under the optimum conditions provided by the isle could support 1 city dweller per two rural population, suspense of disbelieve be damned.

Thats the productivity of CHINA in its best rice growing territories upped by one.

Yes, Shield, the highest yield agricultural plant on earth in an iron age high yield AGRICULTURAL society produces 1 city dweller per 3 rurals.

! assumed 1 to 10, boosted by fishing and magic to 1,3 normal numbers on the coast..so basically 1 to seven, and i fretted about that.
To reach "For each two rurals one urban" we need essentially Cockaigne-level of ease, with cooked fish jumping into nets and roasted birds flying into mouths.

Why are you insisting on every thing in large settlements when that was a thing only in the NINETEENTH CENTURY + on earth? A bronze or iron age society does not WORK that way- in a half way recognizable earthlike setting.

Also WHAT do you mean "They seem to have disappeared to somewhere?" The vampires taking them all as foodstock? Quite apart from Avariel, Avitia and TWO ORDERS keeping watch over them... the disappearance of the rural populace would quite simply lead to the END of Almara civilization, point.

Imagine the entire countryside of , say, britain in the high middle ages swept clean of peasants.HOW LONG would london SURVIVE?


I certainly do not want to intrude into your rights as a GM.No.I am thankful for this game and my spot in it.
But when you get on a untenable position....
And introduce what would be an apocalyptic disaster in a sideline... Shield, I have to point it out.

so... i would say 50 000 Almara.
Iam fully onboard with 50-75 Almara to a Avara.
But for 500 persons in the smaller settlement and 1000- 2000 in Sessile? Plus the handfull of 200-300 person villages? 50, 000
That , Btw, Means there has be NO population growth-or almost none- over 2500 years.
Which, considering three children in 150 years isd... not that big.
And if i reckon rightly, the goranta are at 25-50000 too. And they do not have phoenix immortality.
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Imortal races have lower birth rates and didn't you also make them have low birth rates as well. Also you put your race on an island that was blessed to have great weather florashing growth and plenty of food so that is probably why they can feed a lot of big communities and how do you know they are all on the island others could have expanded.
 
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ShieldCrown said:
For a brief instance, the World showed the Moon a possibility to come.

shattered and broken bodies laid upon the ground, heroes who died and had failed to stop the destruction that might come. Leviathan was gutted and it's skull crushed to a pulp, the Valkrye bisected, Muna Grend reduced to rubble. The Divine lie dead or dying, broken by something the vision could not fully show. In the destroyer' s grip was The Herald, it's Scythe broken in two below it as it's life came to a slow end.

The World Burned.

The vision ended and the World went silent.
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So the Herald is not the Destroyer.
 
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R The Almarian are at the first glance advanced hunters and gatherers, as well as , gardeners of renown and skillful fisherman. The pleasant surroundings and other aspects allow them a higher population and specialization, than one might expect under their circumstances. The widespread fertility and hospitality of the blessed island, as well as the Almarian abilities when it comes to fishing and their own brand of spirit-magic , ease their living conditions greatly with their widespread nature in the population.
Thanks to this, it is possible that there are nomadic hunters -which include up to eight out of ten persons- as well as larger settled settlements, whose larges: named Avia-Tara, already strives towards becoming a small city with its one-tousand inhabitants.
While the villagers way of live differentiates itself through higher specialization and a group of primary craftsman from the nomadic clans further inland, their basic social hierarchy stays the same: both the nearly 12000 villagers as well as the roughly 48000 Nomaden are organised in matrilineal and matrifocal Family groups, which belong to one of twelve septs.

And:

Similar to the holy animal of their fiery patron goddess their woman are laying special eggs from which their youth will rise up as little children, a process which happens up to three times in the life of a woman. Maturity will be something they reach when they turn twenty and the last egg will be laid shortly before their 100th birthday, which is already roughly half of the maximal life expectancy seen, as most Almara tend to rebirth at the age of 150. Their senses are especially sharp and they have a sensible sense of taste and smell, which can only get heightened by their form-givers changes to their basic form.
This was accepted by you.

Now, I am not going to say that this is the begining number...but could we agree that that, plus some "Lost eggs" , is the status at the beginning of the Second Age of Mortals? You may subtract the beginning Avara...

Of course, your gfame.you say there are 2500 ALMARA; all in two towns, plus some scattered bands..your word counts.
 
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