Dinh AaronMk

If this thread overtakes the MLP game, I'll wear a Brony avatar and sig for a year.

Go through the Alphabet before someone posts a My Little Pony Picture

Post the most atrocious,cringeworthy,awful fan made content for anything you can

I don't know if this can be even considered "fan-made". But fuck it, I'm going in anyways.

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And then there's this:

What is cosplay?

Would not the better question be:"What is love?"

@BrokenVeil

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Why do you RP?

Because I'm bored as fuck and saying "I write" makes my time on the internet seem more worth it. Better to say that than "playing vidya for hours on end".

Shits and giggles, mostly.

@Vilageidiotx

And this too.

I, Arabicus: A story of Rome and the rise of Islam

We shouldn't forget Abyssania either.

Gotta be some Ethiopia at some point. Gotta make Sahle proud.

I, Arabicus: A story of Rome and the rise of Islam

Hmm, I'm slightly confused. Does each character control an entire nation, along with provincial tribes/officials/noble families, or is there a different player for each region?

@Kho

With possibly the exception of the Caliphate - where exceptions can be drawn - Rome and Persia are larger entities made up of smaller player-controlled entities playing politics under the guise of that Empire. For Rome, it's the diocese. And in the Persian Empire it's the smaller noble families landed across the Empire.

Alternatively below that are smaller groups like volunteer armies or mercenary forces from outside the mapped region moving in to get involved with the region at large.

I, Arabicus: A story of Rome and the rise of Islam

@Kho

You're going to have some difficulty there. the Quryash held a monopoly of power over the course of the Rashidun and beyond. They are the tribe that controlled the Kabba and became wealthy from that, and many of the power-players at this time are early followers of the prophet and they got their position from that.

I suppose there are some small Muslim groups sent over into Abyssania I wouldn't know enough about. Otherwise there's the Lahkmids.

I, Arabicus: A story of Rome and the rise of Islam

@Kho

Depending on view, Husayan ibn Ali was killed and himself beheaded after being killed by Hurr ibn Yazid Riyahi at the Battle of Karbala. Shia view attests he and his followers were executed and decapitated, where the Sunni view simply makes the claim Husayan was killed by Hurr's spear before being beheaded.

And in a half-sense, Rostam Farrokhzaad was beheaded after the load of him camel was cut, crushing him under his weapons at the final stage of the battle of al-Qaadisiyysah.

So it's not like it hasn't happened nor has had its precedent during the Rashidun era.

And yes, the Rashidun are already moving into the Ghassanid lands, or already well in it.

I, Arabicus: A story of Rome and the rise of Islam

Very interesting. Was actually considering creating Khalid, but then I read the IC and noticed he was already made. I guess all Quraysh characters are Dinh's to control xP
Just a note though, head-cutting was never a trend of the Rashidun Caliphate, that only became a thing later on. Desecrating the bodies of the dead in general was something hugely discouraged by the Prophet and his successors (his own uncle had been mutilated in death by the Quraysh after all.)

I can't think of a character to create right now, though I am interested, so I hope you wouldn't mind me sticking around in the OOC and reading the IC xP

@Kho

Whether or not decapitation was prohibited by Mohammad it wasn't something that Khalid was above doing if to hit-home the message behind his being there or to enforce the authority of his commander-ship in that area. Khalid is famously known in his invasion of Persia to have had all his captives of war beheaded over his frustrations, turning the river Khaseef into one of blood when he opened the dams.

Khalid's a brilliantly brutal character. He may be a devout Muslim, but not necessarily moral in his tenacity. I've compared him to Precipice of War's Hassan: a man brilliantly transfixed on the conduct of war and to magnify the strengths of his relatively weak armies to equal or be greater than the others.