--- ERIC SORTUN  wrote: >
Please see my responses below....
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: celandra-error@phoenyx.net
> [mailto:celandra-error@phoenyx.net]On
> Behalf Of Paul Corrish
> Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 9:26 AM
> To: celandra@phoenyx.net
> Subject: Re: [Cel] [ely] [NewPlayerQuery] Fedral
> Republic of Nomia
> 
> 
>  --- ERIC SORTUN  wrote: > Hi
> Paul,
> 
> > Any other comments?  BTW where is everyone?
> 
> First, in response to your BTW comment, did you
> actually set a date when you'd start accepting
> actions, maybe they thought it was to soon to
> submit.
> 
> ** No.  No start date has been sent.  As of right
> now I only have one player
> that has responded and you would make two.
> 
> With regards to the Gnomes, I had been thinking
> about
> either a) them having been under the control of the
> Sorcerer or b) actually being the Sorcerer if Nomia
> was totally unacceptable in all ways.
> 
> ** I think that them being enslaved by the sorcerer
> is more feasible, since
> the sorcerer is dead.  If they were to emerge
> somewhere after killing their
> overlords once they suspect that the sorcerer is
> dead.  They could stake out
> some territory, but there are thousands (am I right
> Juuso?) of the
> sorcerer's tribal warriors and their families that
> migrated with them in the
> fringe areas and even some that were attempting to
> settle in the borderlands
> and frontier areas of established nations.
> 
> Your comments make sense, if they don't approve of
> that high a level of tech, then they could perhaps
> say
> how high they think the level should be. I ask the
> list comments on your ideas, they would improve the
> society as a whole.
> 
> There doesn't seem to be much list traffic at this
> time, so I guess that I
> am the ultimate decision maker on tech levels...from
> what I posted in my
> previous reply, you can see that the over all Elyria
> TL is low to mid
> medieval or high classical and that having
> renaissance TL would unbalance
> the game.  The societies overall TL should be too
> far from this, but like I
> said before there could some master inventors that
> have knowledge of higher
> TL, but jealously guard that information.  As far as
> magic goes Elyria is
> pretty low-level magic and any magic that would
> effect a society is beyond
> the scope of a player run society in most cases.
> 
> I am not trying to discourage you...I'm just trying
> to stay true the Elyria
> that I knew as a player and Elyria's history.  If
> you decide that your
> gnomes won't work with the restriction in Elyria,
> then by all means chose
> another society and save the gnomes for another
> world.
> 
> Semper Fidelis
> EMS
> 

Thank you Eric,

I've read the response given on the list to your post,
as I said, extreme North-East Corner of the map, with
the society extending just off the north edge (there
Northern boarder marking Elyria's northern at that
point), was what I was looking at. My idea has been
adapted in light of your post to: they used to be
nomads, but banded together in the year of the
founding in order to establish a permanent settlement,
intially under the control of the Sorcerer, but later
becoming a Fedral Republic, after his death. They
exsist predominatly on trade funded by the taxes of
the artisan, one of whom makes the Helicopters, so
they're rare, expensive and impractical, being
designed for show rather than for flight. The average
level of the society is in fact Iron-Age, I believe
that's not to far outside the average for Elyria.

My comment about high tech level, was refering to the
artisans as well as the society level overall. If you
OK this, then they don't have much say, but if they
make comments on it before we start, they should
probably be taken into consideration.

The Latin quote, what is it's significance? I've
notice several players using it. (Yourself and Juus
mainly, I think)

=====
Proffesor S.
Self Proclaimed Pyro-Mage
Master of Fools
Master of Assains
Proffesor of Posions
Proffesor of Potions
Proffesor of Pyromancy

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