Well. My new goal is to murder the Xoh. Can't have Academia Nut liking anyone better than us. Best part? We can properly salt the land!
Paths of Civilization
- Thread starter Academia Nut
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Omegahugger
Inattentive Idiot
Don't be silly, there's no way murdering his favourite faction will make Senpai like us.
Instead we should eat their population for the greater good. Then the Xohissiri will become part of us and Academia Nut will love us forever~<3
ThrawnCA
Carbon-based biped
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- Australia
They've certainly shown resilience. It's just a bit unfortunate about the whole "sacrificing children behind their wall of human skulls" thing.
Dominating such a large chunk of the lowlands gives them massive potential, and they seem pretty stable now.
Perhaps we should think about building a long-term alliance with them. It's not feasible to subordinate them, and they would have a pretty hard time beating us, but they've mellowed a lot since their early days, and they've shown a willingness to trade technologies. If there were some way to reconcile our views on respecting human life, then we could probably be good friends. Between our technological advancement and their superb territory, the alliance would have a real shot at taking over the world.
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pblur
Reminiscing over the halcyon days of Ymaryn
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They would need to actually respect us. Since we haven't fought the lowlands in a millenium they mostly think we are weak.
Abby Normal
High Clerk of the Ymaryn
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I knew there were more megaprojects out there in our neighbors...did they have either of those when we first scouted their city and discovered their Wall of Bones? I'd suspected their holy site sounded like it could be either a really well upgraded one, or actually a megaproject?
I'm expecting three choices for her:
Make her heir (-legit and/or stab for appointing the kings lover heir)
Make her head priest/similar position (-religious authority for the king appointing influential priest roles)
Sideline her (lose out on hero in major role)
Umi-san
Procrastinating.
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They had the mound a long time ago, and the temple was 100% built when we visited them after the diarrhea outbreak.
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Is there any civilisation in real life human history that's as Obviously Evil as the Xohyssiri? Between the child sacrifices, the cannibalism, and the literal wall of skulls, I don't think anyone could so easily and cleanly labelled as 'the bad guys' except maybe the Nazis.
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Umi-san
Procrastinating.
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Lol....
Like, the aztecs flayed people alive and had others wear their skins, and would rip out the hearts of defeated warriors continuously from sunrise to sunset once or twice a year. The romans practiced crucifixion, had unarmed groups of dissidents or war spoils fight to the death or be eaten by lions in front of giant crowds, and fought then enslaved everyone nearby. Pretty much everyone has sacrificed children at some point let's be real. It's basically the equivalent of leaving your baby out in the woods or on the snow.
Idk if the DP actually practiced cannibalism. Sauce?
No one really beats the wall of skulls though. Like technically China's Great Wall has the bodies of laborers under it and there used to be sacrifices to sanctify buildings in a couple European cultures IIRC but
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pblur
Reminiscing over the halcyon days of Ymaryn
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- Lawrence's Wagon
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- BaWü
How about the Aztec? I mean there were other south american civs that sacrificed children, but they were pretty evil.
BungieONI
Seven gremlins in a trench coat
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Really. That was a crit? Hmm! Well I rescind my point for the time being, and am now on the wait and see what happens next turn.
OM NOM NOM NOM NOM WE WILL EAT YOOOOOUUUU SO SENPAI WILL LOOOOOOOVE US! *insert Mirai Nikki Yuno.jpeg*
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- Canada
Most countries have done things that fall under that trope.
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I think we could stand a legitimacy loss if she really genuinely is the best person for the job and future record-keeping will attest to that. It'd be a pain to bring back up, but Proclaim Glory is honestly pretty cheap for what it is, and as a main it also raises stability...
Um, still not sure if the article was legit or not because I haven't had time to actually find it again, but you've definitely misunderstood what it was saying. Sorry for not explaining it well.
See the lighter blue parts of this image? That's shallower water. The site said those were land back then. Which has no impact on the existence of the Crimea at all, it just makes it landlocked.
Also when I checked Wikipedia for this image I noticed this, which was probably what I was remembering. Archeologists apparently agree that something like it happened, they just disagree on how sudden it was, when it was and such.
pblur
Reminiscing over the halcyon days of Ymaryn
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- Lawrence's Wagon
Where are our snails? I can't find them.
BungieONI
Seven gremlins in a trench coat
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Wait no wrong coast. It's probably the:
Hexaplex trunculus
or
Bolinus cornutus
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...Um, the Roman taste for crucification and blood sports didn't impress you? There's a frankly disturbing human tendency for later cultures to romanticize some of the worst and most obviously evil polities throughout history- part of this seems to be that military success breeds success breeds decadence and horrific practices. If you're cynical and you've lived a while, you can compare how people talked about them and pretty much see it happening with the Nazis.
Celts, Chinese, India, Japanese, Romans, Vikings, Mongols, it really doesn't take much to dig up frankly staggering dirt on most of the militarily successful cultures throughout history.
The Xoh are pretty gruesome but they're hardly in a class of their own- especially given AN has told us they are engaging in more measured atrocities. The wall of skulls is impressive for purely structural reasons, but human sacrifice and even child sacrifice is sadly not that uncommon.
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Oooh. You meant a rise in sea level or otherwise flooding of the area. Well, the article you've linked there says that they believe what happened was due to the Mediterranean breaking into the Black Sea to cause the catastrophic flooding (Edit: Okay, they argue about that, but the flooding would be caused by a breach of the Mediterranean). This pretty much rules that out for us as it's already happened.
So no, if Crimea was there, we'd know about it. I will say that the deep water version of the map does look a lot more like our version though.
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Look back during the time when we were at war with them. Not sure which of the updates said they practice cannibalism, but they totally actually did. They probably still have the value that lets them eat humans, it's just that recent times have meant that it's more efficient to keep their people alive than to eat them.
ThrawnCA
Carbon-based biped
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- Australia
But so did eg many of the Polynesian people, and looking at them as a whole, they were not Obviously Evil.
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The Xoh started off as the Assyrotecs for maximum atrocity factor, although they never really got worse than actual real world atrocities, but they have since evolved.
Did the Spirit Talkers have a Grand Temple in their time as well or was it just a ridiculously large Holy Site?
Like roaches.
Egypt is one of the lushest places around along the Nile river, with the associated forestry.
Thanks to pop culture everyone thinks desert.
That said, Egyptian early boats were pretty reed heavy.