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<blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 9096525" data-attributes="member: 63"><p>I hadn't really thought about it until now, but yeah, Danor has some big history gaps. It basically goes "Demonocracy was here. The Clergy arose here. The Clergy was splintered by the Great Malice. Jierre managed to wrangle people to start working together. There was smallpox. 260 years later Danor started fighting for control of the Yerasol Archipelago. A few wars happened, and somewhere in there people started making steam engines. Aodhan steals a steam warship and blows up an orphanage (allegedly!). Then the adventure path starts."</p><p></p><p>Yeah, that leaves a lot of room.</p><p></p><p>If I had to make things up off the cuff, I'd draw heavily from actual French history after the Black Death hit in the 14th century. Only instead of kings, you've got various 'governors' (who would fill the role of French nobility) who elected a Sovereign (who would fill the role of the French king). That's oversimplifying, because you don't have Catholicism really -- though honestly the history of Jierre and Nicodemus trying to stamp out latent adherence to Clericist religion could be fascinating and likely very horrific. </p><p></p><p>I guess the Great Eclipse could be sort of a stand-in to the French Revolution.</p><p></p><p>But like any history, there would be far more factions and shifting alliances than you could easily synopsize in a few paragraphs, so you'd need to simplify things. But I would figure the region originally was loosely federated and it took time for the Jierre line to really solidify power and create a sense of patriotic unity.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RangerWickett, post: 9096525, member: 63"] I hadn't really thought about it until now, but yeah, Danor has some big history gaps. It basically goes "Demonocracy was here. The Clergy arose here. The Clergy was splintered by the Great Malice. Jierre managed to wrangle people to start working together. There was smallpox. 260 years later Danor started fighting for control of the Yerasol Archipelago. A few wars happened, and somewhere in there people started making steam engines. Aodhan steals a steam warship and blows up an orphanage (allegedly!). Then the adventure path starts." Yeah, that leaves a lot of room. If I had to make things up off the cuff, I'd draw heavily from actual French history after the Black Death hit in the 14th century. Only instead of kings, you've got various 'governors' (who would fill the role of French nobility) who elected a Sovereign (who would fill the role of the French king). That's oversimplifying, because you don't have Catholicism really -- though honestly the history of Jierre and Nicodemus trying to stamp out latent adherence to Clericist religion could be fascinating and likely very horrific. I guess the Great Eclipse could be sort of a stand-in to the French Revolution. But like any history, there would be far more factions and shifting alliances than you could easily synopsize in a few paragraphs, so you'd need to simplify things. But I would figure the region originally was loosely federated and it took time for the Jierre line to really solidify power and create a sense of patriotic unity. [/QUOTE]
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