Dinh AaronMk

England the 51st state.

Hey, it's England's fault they lost the Suez. Not ours.

Do The Eagles Circle The Mountains? - A Eastern "Middle Ages" Fantasy RP

We prefer third person, since it can be jarring to read through posts and posts of third person. And then suddenly first person.

And when there's so many characters that can be rolling around from post-to-post if it was all in the first person then there's a good chance a reader can get lost on who-did-what.

Do The Eagles Circle The Mountains? - A Eastern "Middle Ages" Fantasy RP

So it's very similar, but without the added impetus of overseas trade or long distance military expeditions.

EDIT: And the Vietnamese no doubt traded in Pho. There isn't another culture on this earth that can make a broth that stands up to Vietnamese broth.

@Vilageidiotx

Probably more to the tune of, "How can we pay off the Mongols and Jurchens to keep them from climbing our walls!"

Do The Eagles Circle The Mountains? - A Eastern "Middle Ages" Fantasy RP

@Vilageidiotx
When it comes to the east the Chinese have an operating banking system that managed things like loan, borrowing, saving, and interest rates. However the nature of Chinese banks were different from the western style of banking you'd see in Europe later on. Namely they focused on lending out to people they had closer relationships with like family or friends who may own a business. Or just the local village or town maybe.

The general inherent weaknesses of traditional Chinese Law at the time discouraged larger-reaching and more complex banking because it was just unstable or not very viable. So you'd see a lot of depositing for the long-term, short term shit, and floating.

And the two major systems the Chinese had didn't try to compete like Goldman-Sachs and... Whoever else. In the Chinese environment they just sort of bounced off of each other. But then again this probably lends to Chinese law not being a great environment to what we see as western banking and they did it to maintain each other's Shanxi and Yangxi based banks so they exchange Song paper notes with Mongolian sheep pelts or whatever the Vietnamese traded in; lizards I guess.

Wiki shit I just blatantly ripped this from.

And in India there's parts of the Vedas that detail and discuss unethical money lending.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banking_in_India#History

But that's about as far as I can get while trying to pay half-attention in class.

But most likely given the "primitive" way the land is organized and connected the sort of European model of "Dude A writes IOU to dude B with interest who later turns it into Dude C who pays him what the IOU is worth" would be more than workable. We could assume the Visha - in their supposed enlightenment - had a better understanding born out of the centralization of their realm. But the details or proper understanding of the methods left the world with their automatons when their world caved in.

Do The Eagles Circle The Mountains? - A Eastern "Middle Ages" Fantasy RP

The Witcher has one in their world for their drug Fisstech. So I suppose one isn't completely out of the question.

Do The Eagles Circle The Mountains? - A Eastern "Middle Ages" Fantasy RP

I think I talked to Vilage about that once and the answer we came up with was: it didn't exist.

At least not in the fields that we know of today. There was most likely a drug trade that no one bothered with because no one cared. The use of ganja comes up a lot in things like the original Alladin. And the smoking of Hashish was fairly common in the Arab world.

Do The Eagles Circle The Mountains? - A Eastern "Middle Ages" Fantasy RP

And then you can be in mercantile competition with Byrd. ;D

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Do The Eagles Circle The Mountains? - A Eastern "Middle Ages" Fantasy RP

I don't even know if that would be up to the scope of a medieval RP.

Of the things that come with this sort of thing, The Patriots isn't one.

Do The Eagles Circle The Mountains? - A Eastern "Middle Ages" Fantasy RP

I like this.

And I want to touch it with my hands.

But my plate is full. Hnnng. wat do???

@Spoopy Scary

Remove the least satisfying from your plate.