*cringe* Ouch. Welp, prepare for us to become surprise!oasis in the middle of a desert full of roaming pissed off people guys
We already been there. We gave everyone food too.
People don't have to go to educators to learn, you know. Educators can come to people instead. A teacher lecturing a group while they're all (including the teacher) tilling the communal soil, or weeding, or harvesting seems like it would work well. And our warriors are already being taught while guarding the place of the spirits.
Likewise a teacher lecturing traders while they travel or fishermen/women while they repair nets (do we have nets?) do other maintenence work or travel to or from fishing spots. Depending on what methods they use, stone carving might be a bit loud to lecture through, but weaving isn't. Not sure how I would lecture to foresters or shepherds though, those are generally pretty solitary professions, I think.
I think you're imagining something that's going to be a VERY poor use of educator's times. The whole point of using Teachers instead of Apprenticeships is that one teacher can teach a dozen or more youths, full time. Teachers going from farm to farm doling out wisdom that they are 90% of the time, never going to use, takes far greater prosperity than we have at present.
Like said previous, the Teacher option basically means the Warriors and Traders are the most likely to become promoted to the Noble/Politician caste, because they actually have a lot of free time for their children! The farmers, artisans, etc are going to be fully employed, even the children, pretty much all day. They couldn't learn even if there were teachers for it.
Exactly? Doesn't stop it from being xlosee to our Coastal Village than the proposed new settlement.
You're having a very optimistic view of the Blight if so. For a tree blight to cause significant increases in landslides that the river cannot absorb, it's not going to be just the final stretch at the mouth of the river, but the whole section of the upper river.
We
spotted the blight there, but for it to have this effect the whole river is being affected.
Why is building a settlement important now? Shouldn't expanding our understanding of nature, and increasing the amount of land our civ takes care of more important at the moment?
You just said it yourself. A new settlement is the most effective way to increase the amount of land we're taking care of.
Sending people 10 days walk out to manage new forests is going to hit diminishing returns unless there's a village nearby for them to bring their produce to and get the tools from.
You know, I just realized. When this whole project is over and done with, we'll need to take Annual Festival. This will be our civilization's first great accomplishment, curing the land of a raging disease. This will be our bragging rights, our banging fist against chest to show others how awesome we are. 'You think you can take us? We fought the land and the death of the spirits, and we won. Come and have a go if you think you're tougher.' We'll need to cement this in our culture's memory, to make sure everyone knows who we are and what we've done.
Hell fucking yes.
