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Uh oh, gun and gun time.
I hope things don’t go too badly.
Oh good greif, geared up and no pain to give, get through the entire deserted enemy camp, only to seriously annoy a God. If Mikhail goes the whole way to Smaug, theyre going to use up their entire loadout taking him down, and lose a Lot of freinds doing so.
The Windigoes are going to be intresting to deal with, first trying to get enough of the rest of the colony back to break the beacon, they trying not to be frozen by their mere presence to be able to strike them in return?
Wasnt Pedro gicing the radiers the same speech essentially the Spanish did when they arrived origionally? or does it go back to Romans or Greek? Make peace with the wave of civilisation or be drowned by it? Still, intresting to see the tech institute using static and microwaves, with a decent sized directional antenna only need one or two canteen microwave generators to make things very uncomfortable, but depends where they have enough solar panels and batteries for the continous kilowatts, or a barrel a week for the Honda generator? Or are they using some other source?
As for Pedros wife, still cant get a mesure of her.. Mainly the birds of a feather, mothers together, for freinds etc, but given pushing of the nature gods still think she is being deifically backed to expanding the Emperors folows and so the Nature strength by searching for more bloodlines to bring in, hence the eggs thing, as soon as theyre out the way, theres resources for making more available?
As for the demon ship, why that particular one. The only one in good enough shape to be relifted, through all the growth patching, and if so, how much more damage would it need to take to make it unrecoverable, and anything else found, given the Rhines fleet would then be targeted as floating bases?
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Well... my reasoning with that is more as an author than strictly logic. There are tons of wreck I could pick from to throw at them given how Charybdis' demonic pirates work (without drowning the good guys under ships of course, the bad guys still need crews after all), but what I settled with had to be WW1/Interwar period wrecks because in terms of mobility and firepower, I deemed it would be those that would make more interesting foes. Because in terms of balance of power I *believe* it wouldn't be too compelling to pull the equivalent of throwing Tiamat at a third level party in DnD.
It's only merchant vessels that they have after all, something cruiser and destroyers can make short work of, let alone the convoy annihilators the likes of Gneisenau and Scharnorst were designed to be.
Then of course there's the whole demonic corruption turning them into 'zombie ships' to take into account.
In short: it's a matter of balance of power.
Pretty sure it was repeated throughout all of human history whenever there was something that could be remotely considered a frontier. Caesar told that to the Gauls after Vercingetorix was laid low, there was the 'Civilize the West' part in America with the end of the frontier (you Yanks correct me if I'm spouting BS there)...
Though I'm pretty sure in Brazil this would have been Portugal's doing, not Spain, given how both drafted the Treaty of Tordesillas for the specific purpose of not getting in one another's way.
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Less civilize the west more civilize the natives (Indians). See the Five Civilized Tribes.
Well finished the story, was a fun read. Still, i cannot help but comment on how many branching story-lines you have going on. Somewhere in the end i started to stop caring about most of the characters since i started to forget who was who and what they were going.
In addition i cannot be helped but be irked on how little the "Switzerland Clause" and general idea of "We are just Merchants" play into thinking of the thinking of these people. Was expecting more tough moral decisions instead of locking and loading stemming from that.
Still, thank you for writing it, was generally a good story.
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That right here is exactly the kind of comment any author should want on his stories. The ones that point out flaws and help figure out how to get better. Thank you.
The part about the weak characters I was aware of, but the one about the Switzerland clause? That one really helps.
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Quite often i go tangents about characters like Epona but in this case i am much less annoyed due to that Scorpion and Frog parable. Gods cannot help themselves since they are what they and it is up to humans to bring them in line on what level of meddling is proper if they want ever to be free.
She is an old god made powerful again but one shudders to think what all this belief in science, progress and other enlightenment ideals has spawned. If you take the calculus of population in account i am quite certain some kind of an entity, power or whatnot should have been formed to manifest those if i have understood how your magic system works. Unsure how it goes, but go take a look at the world population boom, does magic react better to prolonged beliefs or rapid booms of belief like we have had since 1900? Or does it not count since it was in the age of magical starvation? Then that might cause some really interesting effects, how does something like magic mold into beliefs that has been formed in isolation from it.
And as of the Switzerland Clause goes, it is not just about being neutral but also appearing to be neutral. They did not even talk with the bandits in the US. Likely smart tactical decision, but if the word gets out it might be some slave holding people who have entrenched themselves might want to launch preemptive attacks against them and they might end up getting tangled in keeping international laws about human rights. Could be this is something they would be willing to do, but that is immediately one
stepleap away from neutrality. Same might go with the death cults they are not good people, but they so far share a common enemy, and great new things could be forged from those kind of situations.10536014
Ironically in that fashion, and given the system which human magic follows, if their followers think gods are meddlesome then the trope will only reinforce itself and they'll just keep doing it.
Well... the way I wrote it down in my notes the disappearance of magic was more of a process than a single Event. I did mention the Entzauberung (disenchantment) way back in the story to set it as a sort of sealing note at which point in time magic had been rendered null. But there are several actors in that. Christianisation (as I sort-of intended to show when a sailor interacted with a barrow in Norway), the Renaissance, European colonisation and even missionaries.
And in all that you have gods that were superceded centuries if not millenia prior. The pooled magic that created them through their followers' shared beliefs was still there to let them subsist... so you wind up with the magical equivalent of stuffing an artificial intelligence in a time capsule. They haven't really changed, because they haven't received much in the way of faith since them, leaving them relatively 'pristine'.
Of course it also gets more fuzzy when you address the issue of shinto and hindu pantheons.
And then there's the lingering sting of being replaced by Christianism for a lot of these divinities that may have a part in them taking a long hard look at their promoted ideology to avoid it happens again.
But to get back to your point... beliefs spawned in that span of time would have (little to) no effect. Anything after the Event however is up for grabs however, provided enough people share the belief. If they start thinking Earth-type dragons and Equestrian-type dragons can interbreed... wait a while for the magic to take, and that's bound to become truth.
One thing I can definitely be accused of is that after the IRA in Belfast, I didn't exactly make much effort of giving them morally ambiguous enemies to fight. Convicts-now-slavers and narcos-now-cultists don't exactly make you hesitate on the shoot/don't shoot part. And even then I've been trying to humanize Los Lobos to some extent.