06-03-2014, 11:23 PM | #1 |
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Banestorm Early
What would be different if the Banestorm took place earlier in history, has anyone ever changed the date?
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06-04-2014, 04:41 AM | #2 |
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Re: Banestorm Early
Well, if you go back far enough there won't be any Muslims, nor Christians if you go a little farther. That'd change the setting kind of a lot.
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06-04-2014, 04:56 AM | #3 |
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Re: Banestorm Early
Well, it does depend how far back you want to go and where you want to draw the majority of the immigrants from.
The way the canon Banestorms worked out was that people brought with them and tried to recreate the social systems they knew at home. If you go with that again you might end up with copies of the Roman, Persian or Chinese Empires (imagine Alexander the Great finding a whole new world to conquer!) or a lot of city-states on the Greek model.
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06-04-2014, 07:33 AM | #4 |
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Re: Banestorm Early
One interesting question this raises is, what Tech Level were the indigenous inhabitants of Yrth at?
If the humans who came over were less technologically advanced, they might have adapted elven technology--which may have made their cultures unrecognizable.
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06-04-2014, 10:18 AM | #5 |
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Re: Banestorm Early
You might take the Earth humans from the Hellenistic East in the centuries between Alexander's death and the Battle of Actium. Recent discoveries show that there was a much higher than understood technolgical level present. However, the vast numbers of slaves made applying technology to daily unnecessary and perhaps not very profitable. Under the conditions of Ytarria, the Greek aristocrats would soon see the need to use technology for practical everyday use.
This could give you a TL4 (with odd clockpunk additions) setting. You could have the Greek, Egyptian, Cannanite, Persian, gods, and Zorastrianism, and more if you like. Lots of competing kingdoms with a shared Greek culture and Koine Greek as the universal trade language.
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06-08-2014, 04:26 PM | #6 |
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Re: Banestorm Early
Thanks all for your responses.
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06-08-2014, 05:54 PM | #7 | |
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Re: Banestorm Early
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The nature of Dwarven, Orcish and Elven society suggests that all of them were long-term technologically stable. An earlier Banestorm arrival is unlikely to change that state much. And going the other way, it's worth remembering that the Yrth natives have a highly developed magical ability that provides a substantial equaliser against high-TL arrivals. Lower-TL arrivals who adopted Elvish technology and culture fit easily within Yrth-as-written. The canonical history describes Elvish groups offering assistance and training to disoriented new arrivals; it's easy to imagine one of these groups being so demoralised or impressed that they adopt the culture of their rescuers. You could even go for a Banestormed orphanage or something if you want a "lost boys" situation. An isolated human/half-elf community that draws the attention of local authorities due to their unorthodoxy (e.g. imagine the enforcement of a religious law in a racially mixed community that permitted non-human paganism but considered humans who adopted Elvish beliefs to be apostates, punishable by the Church...) makes a good plot starter or character background.
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