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[Happerry]

Can I just say drat? I was planning on next turns river search triggering a revival of old beliefs causing ending to the sense of extreme paranoia they have been having, leaving them just highly distrustful of everyone else.

Spoiler: Next age roundup (click to show/hide)

 As time passed without any more attacks, the sidmarians lowly lost their rampant distrust of the world, though they never forgot the lesson. Still, they soon had other things to worry about, and the new armed forced proved quite reassuring. Instead, they found themselves confronting an end result of a process more then a generation old. The rising population, combined with the more extreme differences in patron spirits as new professions were developed, has caused an increasing amount of physical variation, and as the years go by they are increasing deviating from mere cosmetic alterations.

Meanwhile, with the first expeditionary expedition in years, a new, more hopeful and somewhat exploitative view of the world was formed, and plan's where drawn up for the establishment of mining outpost, as soon as a favorable site was found. Indeed, for many this new dawn of more positive thinking promises much, if the rising tensions over the mutations do not cause a civil war first.

Meanwhile, in the halls of the high council, the rising military force has proven divisive as the differing clans argue with each other over who this new powerblock should report too, and rumblings grow in the streets. Strangely, this has proven a boon for the mutates, as anyone with a potentially important advantage is welcome, for form takes second place to victory and dominance of the clan's goals.

Yah, not my best, but been poking at it for a bit now, and its not getting better.

[Ahra]

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As time passed, the kasrs and the orcs fought a few skirmishes, but all the kasrs could do was to wait in the temple and hope that they would be ready when the orcs found serŽkash as the remaing troops would not survive anything larger then an raid.

Meanwhile, as the war continued the castes had to admit that they were all equal but more importantly they managed they managed to stop the most of the hostility as their survival depended upon the castes cooperation

and such the entire kasirian populace was readying equipment for the recruits that would attempt to stop the orcs.

will edit this

[Nirur Torir]

Spoiler: Xeniician Age End (click to show/hide)

As time went on, unrest increased. Food was plentiful and at its cheapest in generations. Kalron, using wealth reinvested and reinvested again from an age of trading, decided that now was the time to return to power. Most of the free citizens went on strike at their urging. In a day, the city's grain was bought by Kalron and sold at extortionate rates to those not working with them. Coinciding with this, the Kalron-controlled merchants - virtually all of important ones - temporarily closed their shops to non-striking workers. Furthermore, Nedici was bribed to cease river trade and reduce fishing to minimum levels. Xeniice ground to a halt. The military still in the city was unable to do anything against the combined threats to torch the entirety of the stored grain and scuttle the fishing boats (The Nedici wouldn't have carried through, but held to the bluff).

It was over in a week. The council had called for an emergency session to decide upon the future of Xeniice's government, and all voices were given absolute power to recreate the government - the week of thus-far fruitless debates could not continue. In an unprecedented move, Nedici bribed the other voices with enough wealth for thirty lifetimes each, and promised them sanctuary as the local governor-council (Power strictly limited to what was allowed by Nedici) of the soon-to-be-built colony.

The council was changed to two voices per family, with two voices for Kalron and one for the Free Citizens added. Vlorith of Nedici was crowned duke. He made the decisions, but the council could veto his decisions with a 7/11ths majority. At 9/11ths, they could remove him from office and vote in a new duke. The old duke remained in office until the new duke was elected, and the council had one month to reach a decision with a 5/11ths majority vote. Finally, the council voted to fix the prices of food in the future as their last act.

The new duke promised to continue expanding Xeniician power abroad. As violence had proven largely ineffective and unprofitable in the past, more diplomatic methods would be tried first. Should the dark giants continue to be aggressive, despite their best efforts, then beating them into submission would again be attempted. Xeniice would gain power by exploring, trading, founding colonies, and having a large military to defend said colonies. There was much rejoicing amongst the Free Citizens, Kalron, and Nedici. Arlenth, Lozanth, and Azuri were less then pleased, but were swayed with promises of new wealth for Xeniice, and accepted it as he could be voted out.

Faction Changes:
Nedici - Now the ruling family of Xeniice. They continue their goals of naval dominance and external influence.

Kalron - After much hard work, they once again have power. They shall continue gaining wealth via any means necessary.

Azuri - Though slightly annoyed at their relative loss of power, they continue their goals of deciphering the secrets of the spirits. With their supplies of Springwater Pearls, they are sure that improved communications with the spirits is possible. Additionally, their settlers from Lake Tranquil reported that the spirits were either dormant or non-existent in the area before their arrival, but are now nearly as prevalent as those in Xeniice.

Arlenth - Their craftsgnomeship may have failed them in the past, but they refuse to give up.

Lozanth - They seek to use the methods Galthor has carefully studied to reduce the need for physical labor.

The Bards remain largely unchanged.

The minor families, long-since powerless, have faded greatly. There is now little difference between them and Free Citizens.

The Free Citizens have scattered, loose coalitions, which each send representatives to meetings of a larger coalition. From this, a new voice is voted on (Or the old one kept) every year.

The Engineers, disciples of Galthor, now form a small faction. Contracted with designing expansions to the city, they possess a great deal of influence relative to their small size.

[Vanigo]

Everything looks good except for Ahra's. Ahra, you have no military to speak of. You cannot fight the orcs at an even level. You cannot fight the orcs at a moderate disadvantage. If they find you in the time between ages, they will crush you like a grape.

[Ahra]

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As time passed, the kasrs and the orcs fought a few skirmishes, but all the kasrs could do was to wait in the temple and hope that they would be ready when the orcs found serŽkash as the remaing troops would not survive anything larger then an raid.

Meanwhile, as the war continued the castes had to admit that they were all equal but more importantly they managed they managed to stop the most of the hostility as their survival depended upon the castes cooperation

and such the entire kasirian populace was readying equipment for the recruits that would attempt to stop the orcs.

i have to get an better imagination 

[lemon10]

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Public discontent among the Hinor had reached a boiling point. Most other societies would have broken down long ago, with riots against them, and possibly outright rebellion. The Hinor's problem with the Guild wasn't that they were living better lives, and that they were able to gain more money and be richer then everyone else, it was that their actions were disrupting and damaging Ljus faller, and causing economic problem within the city.
However, the fact that the average Hinor hadn't done anything didn't mean that plans weren't in motion to dispose of the Guild. A group of peasants and military men had formed the Order of the White Shield, a group dedicated to the greater good of the Hinor race, whatever the costs necessary to achieve it.
Over the past few years they had gathered the members and equipment necessary for a assault on the Guild, planning a suprise attack that should kill all their key members. They couldn't kill all of them, since they still needed labor leaders for the running of the city, but they would kill most them.

The Mages of the sun were troubled, for they had seen traces of a shadow, had seen something dark whispering in the ears of the wise and the powerful, a darkness where no darkness should be. For the most part it was at the edge of their vision, and when they looked at it it disappeared, but it wasn't flawless in it's hiding, it was seen.

The Order took action at midnight (or what would be midnight in a realm without a second sun), killing or imprisoning the members of the Guild, almost all of them of them were killed outright, while the ones who survived were imprisoned.
The Guild never saw it coming, and from one day to the next, it went from being second only to the military, to gone.

The removal of almost all of the labor leaders had immediate and dire repercussions, but this was only in the short term, in the long term, the economy managed to recover almost entirely due to the fact that some of the labor leaders had survived to help reorganize the economy, and because the guild had been eradicated.

Well, dere it is.

[Vanigo]

Ahra: Can you give me more detail on how this pulling together manifests? Is it just that they're putting their differences aside for the moment, or are they reaching more lasting (if informal) agreements? And if it's the latter, what are they?

Lemon10: So, the guild is out. What now? Who's taking charge? If it's the Order of the White Shield, tell me more about them.

[Ahra]

theyre putting their differences aside since they realised that you cant really survive if everybody dont trust eachother, the elders,the kash,the council had to beat that into their heads but it kinda worked.

[Vanigo]

By the way, if anyone has some ideas about directions they'd like their technology to move in, go ahead and speak up.

[Nirur Torir]

I'm really not sure what counts as early/mid Iron Age technology, but I want siege ships. Land-based catapults have proven to be tactically disadvantageous.

[Ahra]

armor/protecting stuff like amulets and totems, that or beast keeping

[lemon10]

Lemon10: So, the guild is out. What now? Who's taking charge? If it's the Order of the White Shield, tell me more about them.

The military is back in charge again.
The mages have a fair amount of influence, but they don't really wield power in the society as a group, outside of people listening to influential mages because they A) they are wise and B) they can fry someone who doesn't listen or is impudent to a crisp (although they don't usually, but it's better to listen to someone who is capable of doing that to you).

The Order of the White Sheild is a paramilitary organization, they have both non-millitary and millitary members. They are rather out of the public view. Their only goal is to help the greater good of Ljus Faller and the Hinor (they don't care what they have to do to individual Hinor to further help the city, and they don't care what they have to do to non-Hinor living outside Ljus Faller at all). They don't do much in the day to day administration of the city, and essentially do nothing unless they detect a threat, that the millitary isn't dealing with, or isn't being dealt with by other people.
Honestly, they won't have much impact unless I get some immigration from other races (due to the Hinor as a group being goody-two-shoes on average (well, as far as other Hinor go, they don't really care about the other races)), something that I was thinking about doing in this age end, (although i suppose it can wait till age 4/age end 4).

Technology: I would like to go down the magic path, and maybe get some recruits from the other races close to me (dark elves, halflings, humans) to help me. EDIT: to train them as mages in my army as well i mean.

[IronyOwl]

Pretty much just the obvious. Better military, better magic, better beasts, better economy, better empire. Might be interested enough in ships to finally pick up a naval tech or two.

For magic, probably continuing along body and mind magic, presumably into enfeebling/charming/dominating stuff. More warlike or logistics/supporting magics wouldn't be out of the question either.

[Happerry]

By the way, if anyone has some ideas about directions they'd like their technology to move in, go ahead and speak up.

I already talked about how I want my magic to grow earlier. As for tech in general.... Hum. I don't really have anything in specific that I think you are missing, currently.

[lemon10]

Ka bump.
Are you waiting on someone vaingo, or are you just preparing age 4?