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Beluaterra / Re: 'Beluaterranism'

« on: October 05, 2011, 05:01:55 PM »

I never create anything to be simple, easy or superficial. And for a start I can guarantee that the job was done very quickly. However, it's just the beginning. I am more concerned with create something solid than spread it everywhere just to have good numbers.

We will see what will happen. Mainly IC. Happily or unhappily, a religion (like a realm), need more people involved. And we know that many players are happy just with a letter to find a liege and after that, push some buttons and try to win. But the game is not about to win. It's about conflict. And in this perspective I​​'ve realized that we will have interesting clashes.

In fact, we're already having one 

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East Island / Re: Bye Bye Flow of Balance!~

« on: October 05, 2011, 02:52:06 PM »

A little of history:

When Erik was Judge of Sirion he was against a religious war. But after many slaughters provoked by the Flow, with the Council they declared war against the Flow. We closed the temples inside their own regions, arrested their Priests and the war ended when Erik finally executed a Priest, brother of the Fontanese ruler at the time.

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East Island / Re: Standardization and EC Culture

« on: October 05, 2011, 02:01:28 PM »

I don't like the World of Warcraft thing. Instead, I like to use the myth of Tolkien and another RPG or literary sources. Erik Eyolf Serpentis, the last Judge of Sirion and now Duke Avamar is an elf. He has always been one since the first Roleplay and now I have more than 150 RPs just with this character. Widely known in Sirion and by some enemies. We still have a consensus that in Sirion you can choose a human or an elf. That's what attracted me to the realm from the beginning and honestly I have not met a better realm to play in this game. Sincerely, the players have more concerns than discussing whether or not elves are acceptable. Especially when there is no game mechanic that guarantees advantages or disadvantages. For those who played in Beluaterra among intelligent monsters and politicized demons and undeads, I see no reason to endless discussions about the Elven lineage in Sirion.

After I won the seat of Avamar, I tried to find informations in the Wiki. What I found was a fun story, but full of characters with silly names and an intense mixture of OOC and IG. Perhaps because the game had a pleasant low realistic atmosphere that has been escalating to something more serious with the experience of players over the years or the arrival of more experienced players with a lot of RPG concepts.

In Game, my idea is to found a "museum" in Avamar to remember the history of a rebel realm, after taken by Fontan and now is under the Sirionite falg once again. In the Wiki, I want to gather all informations I can about Avamar.

Unfortunately, now I settled down a little with Erik after years of intense activity. Usually it happens when you finally get to be Duke after years playing the game. And I'm working in a new Religion in Beluaterra that is killing my time.

But the idea to have a full history of the East Continent is a good thing. 

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Beluaterra / Re: 'Beluaterranism'

« on: October 04, 2011, 10:41:46 PM »

We have a great coverage of our lands. The temple of Agyr will be a level 8 temple very soon. The Temple of Fronepu will be enlarged as well. We just don't have a temple in Mhed. Even in regions without temples we have 99% of followers and I sent the High Priest to try something in another realms. And I am seeing that we will have problems with The Golden Feather in the near future because of our expansion.

I am working now in the Wiki Page. I want more than followers. I want a true religion. And I am using many concepts of old gods of many civilizations. We have now a great concept after some preliminary reads about H.P. Lovecraft, his Elder Gods and The Cthulhu Mythos.

At some point, Melhed will have to fight. Not just because of The Bloodspeakers, but to survive as realm. I just hope that The Bloodspeakers can help in this process. I have a lot of ideas to work in Roleplays and to build something good. I would like to have more help from the players with good ideas.

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Beluaterra / Re: 'Beluaterranism'

« on: October 03, 2011, 10:50:27 PM »

Interesting conversation. And with Yeux as Founder of The Bloodspeakers, I'll leave here my opinions on the subject after reading a few posts.

First of all, is extremely difficult to create something completely new if you're not a genius. With all our time of History it's obvious that almost every religion have a lot of common points. And create something new without inspiration is not we intend to do. Not while I'm not a genius 

Our idea is to create a religion with local deities. We are using terms like "Old Gods" and "Ancient Traditions". The idea is about to restore an old faith lost with the Invasions and with internal wars among the mankind in the Island. Plurality guiding to one goal. Discipline and sacrifice. Mainly to attract the attention of people interested in give ideas to create our religious concepts in many ways, but always attached to the same common goal. This is no different from many religions that we know in our world and in the world of BM.

We share the idea of ​​expanding our borders. Every religion wants to expand its influence. And there's a huge difference between what a Priest says and what he really wants to do. The basic difference between what is said to guide the people and what is done to have them in yous hands. And while the 'Beluaterranism' is just a book and The Bloodspeakers are a religion, Yeux consider it just a text of an ancient realm. A crazy one who likes to be slaves of one god.

I don't like the idea of Angels, Saints, Heaven and Hell and the idea of one God. But this is merely OOC. IC, Yeux don't have to worry with a crazy book with crazy ideas. This is just another way to convince people. If the little minds want to believe that at some point they have one God and are ready to embrace the religion, it's better than not have them convinced.

It's like have a religion for slaves and a true religion for true nobles. The difference here is that The Bloodspeakers will not let the slave religion take place and suppress the true one like we have seen Christianity/Catholicism end with all the variety that our ancestor had in a distant past.

Now, forgive me for my grammatical mistakes. I am Brazilian and I still struggle to do my best