Author Topic: The Current War  (Read 573728 times)

Silverfire

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Re: The Current War
« Reply #195: April 03, 2011, 04:52:22 AM »
Oh i bet i would Silverfire if you count the fact i had a family in Darka  since 2005....see this is my second account and i had Lavigna in Darka for many years and i am very well aware of the politics in Atamara as i have joined enough realms and held leader positions multiple times there.

You may have a general issue with Darka and that is of course your problem but still in this particular situation..you are wrong. :P

Also if you are a true veteran you would know that such wishes are far beyond reality.I would give your dream a 5% of success in any future :D But then again that's just me

I never said that I knew I would be successful. You may know very well Atamaran politics, but that is not what I was referring. I was referring to the ability of certain individuals to shape the future of Atamara far above and beyond what their rank or station may contend for it to seem. Atamaran politics follow a trend, and many of the efforts of certain leaders can be predicted. These predictions allow those who know what will happen to shape the future, and influence those individuals who they "shouldn't" have influence over by forcing one issue or another.

You may have had a character in Darka since 2005, but that makes little difference in predicting the full future of Atamaran politics. Having a character in the realm does little as to determining how things may flow. Certain things can be known, but unless your character individually is acting on the larger and more hidden political spectrum which isn't always visible, then you won't always have direct access to how things are shaping up to change. I believe few people would have predicted in 2005 that Falasan would be destroyed in the way that it was at the time it was by an upstart colony (with or without the help of its founding realm is not relevant in this case). Or that Norland would be destroyed by its former allies due to some dumb mistakes being made.

Specific happenings can't always be predicted, but general trends can be. Shaping those trends may be difficult but not impossible. There are those that know how to do this, and I believe that it is interesting watching them work in Atamaran politics in both the foreground and background.

It may be true that there is about a 5% chance of a Corian army sacking the Darkan capitol in any future. But, you forget that I never stated anything about it being a Corian army doing the sacking. Also, things are far from what they seem on the surface with regards to all of the politics of the current times. Things are even different than what they may seem a single layer under the surface.

Trust me when I say that there are still a few more surprises to come before this "war" is over. I can't predict who will win or how exactly it will end, but I can say that Atamara will be far different after the war than how it was when it began.