In a message dated 3/6/04 3:25:58 PM Mountain Standard Time, tosa_mir@yahoo.com writes: >Videssia is in Chaos. Videssia held off the Parglug, >but then was hit by a plague thanks to the Amo'Tral. >The Parglug blockade kept the Plague in Videssia. The >plague took about ten years to die out, and the >government was completely gone by that point in time. >I did not get the chance to change the Videssian page >before I left. So Videssia is a bunch of warring city >states. The Government completely collapsed several >turns before I left. So Videssia may have been >having several groups trying to unit it under their >rule, but when I left Videssia was a bunch of >warring city states. > >Sorry Juha I should have left more information on the >page. Urg. Yes, this changes the entire environment and makes an action I took last turn (Investigate Videssian Church) pretty much useless. (Still, it was an extra action, so I guess it's no big deal.) Can we resolve the situation this way (Explaining the basically unchanged situation in Parglug and the Free Cities.): After the fall of Videssia Parglug raiders and pirates from around the MidSea proceeded to raid the coastal and riverine settlements they could reach, almost completely depopulating the coast and far up the Prand and Imbros. More interested in plunder than conquest, Parglug planted no colonies and few rulers. Busy with their own rivalries, the Free Cities have also failed to plant colonies in the abandoned areas which have begun to return to wilderness. (Possibly with the aide of the Tana and Onagir?) Not wishing to see a rival at their backs, these two groups also prevented other nations from colonizing the area. In the interior the situation is unstable and limited only by the lack of resources. At least have a dozen contenders claim the title of "Emperor" and many other nobles are complete and undisputed rulers of their own lands. Jefferson http://www.picotech.net/~jeff_wilson63/rpg/ ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send mail to celandra-off@phoenyx.net.
RulingNations@aol.com wrote: >>turns before I left. So Videssia may have been >>having several groups trying to unit it under their >>rule, but when I left Videssia was a bunch of >>warring city states. >> >> <...> >Can we resolve the situation this way (Explaining the basically unchanged >situation in Parglug and the Free Cities.): > > <...> Actually, I'd rather have Videssia reunited, or at least partially reunited during the past ten years. I like Videssia as it is. I think it's cool to have a society decidedly against magic on Celandra. Having it in ruins because of a plague + civil war would be kind of pointless. Having it in ruins because the idea is so absurd, or because someone thinks it is heresy would teach someone (know idea who) a lesson. Jason: I leave this one to you. Please tell us your changes to the website concerning this. juuso ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send mail to celandra-off@phoenyx.net.
Okay. My suggestion. Even with the goverment gone that does not mean that magic is excepted. If anything magic would be even more persicuted. The locals don't have to even pretend to obey the law in regards to magic. My suggestions is that things have started to settle down and you have had two major powers emerging. One is Videss and the other in Celoa. One of the cities is basicly the old Videssia emerged with a senate. I would say Celoa. The other is not that much diffrent except that you might have a King or Emperor or what ever (proble still the anti-magic.) I would say that they are equal in force. I would also suggest that there are still a bunch of minor warlords claiming part of Videssia. They have enough men to maintain their power for now but not to go offencive. This way if a player comes and plays Videssia he can chooce (of course the dice might also choose) one of the sides and make it how he wants. He can choose weather to go old Videssia, or new videssia (still the anti-magic, but also allows for some new ideas.), or he could even do a union of the minor warlods against the more powerful foes. He would have to work that one out but this is my suggestion. One thing I would also suggest is that Videssia military is proble shattered. Two decades of no real goverment would mean no training of new soilders and the old ones will mostly dead, and the young soilders will not have been that well trained in the military ways. Some of it but not all of it, and now they would be geting into the reaches were they can't go to war anymore. This is my oppion. It allows for the plauge and civil war to show there affects, but also allows a player to restore it to the old Videssia or create his own version. What do you think? Jason __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what you’re looking for faster http://search.yahoo.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send mail to celandra-off@phoenyx.net.
In a message dated 3/7/04 3:11:47 PM Mountain Standard Time, juuso@iki.fi writes: > Actually, I'd rather have Videssia reunited, or at least partially > reunited during > the past ten years. I like Videssia as it is. I think it's cool to have > a society > decidedly against magic on Celandra. Having it in ruins because of a > plague + civil > war would be kind of pointless. Having it in ruins because the idea is so > absurd, or because someone thinks it is heresy would teach someone > (know idea who) a lesson. Jason: I leave this one to you. Please tell > us your changes to the website concerning this. This actually suits me a lot better. So Videssia has lost some population and resources, but the civil wars are over and there is an (albeit uneasy) Emperor? Jefferson (Exquaestio) http://www.picotech.net/~jeff_wilson63/rpg/ ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send mail to celandra-off@phoenyx.net.
Jason Heaps wrote: > My suggestions is that things have started to settle > down and you have had two major powers emerging. One > is Videss and the other in Celoa. Fine. > One thing I would also suggest is that Videssia > military is proble shattered. No. Military vacuums have a tendency to fill in. And if there are warlords, and two major forces, then I would say that 'military practice' is something that is definetly not lacking. The plague etc. might have taxed their military resources considerably of course. juuso ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send mail to celandra-off@phoenyx.net.
