Flagg

Empires of Sand

Here is a map of the world. Several, actually.

Here is a map with geographic and biome detail. Names of established locations have been placed.

Labelled Geographic Map

This is the same map as the previous one, just without the names.

Unlabelled Geographic Map

Finally, this is a blank map designed to give everyone the ability to easily mark your locations/borders.

Territory map

Comments, critiques, and complaints are welcome.

@gorgenmast

Fantastic job!

If someone wants to have certain features, can such be requested to be added?

@Raptorman

What @Pepperm1nts said is correct.

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The organization is called the Million Spears, in total I should only have around 5k soldiers as of current.

@Chairman Stein

Haha, misreading on my part. You're good to go!

@all:

Now that we have a critical mass of approved NSes, I've put up a pirate pad for us to collaborate a bit on. Please keep this Empires of Sand focused, and recall that this is to serve the IC. I only say that because chats, while useful, occasionally tend to take away from IC posting.

Chat

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@Flagg

The NS is about 1200 words now, so I mean, that's the bulk of what it is. Several thousand words more could (will with shared history) be added, but I think there's enough there to base an acceptance off. Most of the other sections i.e. military etc will just be me saying 'lol no' but in a fancy, 'this is my ns' kind of way.

Also, with regards you choosing a flaw and perk for me, what's the deal with that?

@Darkmatter

Reviewed. Approved!

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Ok. Just deleted my entire post by accident... bear with me.

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Shit man sorry, I actually can't believe there hasn't been more non-human races crafted, it's such an awesome setting. Can't wait to read what you came up with tho, would love to collaborate.

@Rhymer

Don't be sorry- love the bugs and am going to work your great ideas into my own faction.

How 'bout my Egyptians Nekaharans Arisen Azarites, there, Flagg?

@Dead Cruiser

Accepted. Awesome. One question: you mention battle mages in your military history. Instead of that, since the Engineers from Prometheus Shaniatu dont wield magic, it might be cool for magic to be outlawed in Azar? Mages hunted down and killed or drained for their power by the Shaniatu's dreaded machines? Something along those lines. Just a thought- but would really play up the contrast with the Drathan Union, which along with @Chairman Stein's super-city, are your largest competitors population wise.

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@Flagg I just saw your nation name will be the 'Drathan Union'. Is there any chance this union will be fond of slavery? In my sheet, I mention a 'Telavin Empire' as the empire that Amidasura freed the slaves from, but I think it would be much cooler if she went against her own people (she's a Drathan) to do so. That said, I also don't want her to be nice. She's supposed to be a scary sorceress, not a saint, so maybe she had some ulterior motive like using the slave legions to steal some powerful Archeo-tech from the Drathan Union and escape with it.

@Pepperm1nts

Yes, yes and yes. That's perfect, and we can work out details as my sheet gets filled out. In the meantime, you can substitute the Union for the Telavin Empire and it will make sense.

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@Flagg

The NS is about 1200 words now, so I mean, that's the bulk of what it is. Several thousand words more could (will with shared history) be added, but I think there's enough there to base an acceptance off. Most of the other sections i.e. military etc will just be me saying 'lol no' but in a fancy, 'this is my ns' kind of way.

Also, with regards you choosing a flaw and perk for me, what's the deal with that?

@Darkmatter

Will review shortly. The perk/flaw thing is just something I stole from one of @Serpentine88's RPs bc i thought it was a cool idea for the GM to be able to throw the players a bit of a curve ball. If you really dont like the idea (some people dont), we can figure out something else.

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Welp, my application I believe is finished, just in time too it seems.

@Chairman Stein

Looks good- accepted! I will have Traits/flaws for you and @gorgenmast shortly.

Also, your sheet has a typo under the military section. That, or you have a very big military :)

-Total Military Size: 3,000 Million Spear Infantry, 1,000 Million Spear Horse Lords

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@Rhymer AHHH! You literally beat me to the horrible giant bug punch. Good work, sir. I love the buggy nastiness. My faction will have some of that too, and we should def. collaborate on history.

@FlaggFor my own sheet, would it be okay if I said that originally my guys (whose name I might change) were originally vat-grown laborers and soldiers but since have "evolved" into more natural means of reproduction. But they still see the buildings where their ancestors as holy sites where they still use what knowledge they have left to create animals for food and for mounts. They've also tried to re-clone themselves like their ancestors did to create them but keep failing since they don't actually know enough about both the machinery and themselves to produce clones, creating what's basically the Ferals on my current NS.

@ClocktowerEchos

Yes that sounds good. In general, let's leave details about the Old Ones and genetics etc etc fairly vague. The oqer may have folk traditions and half-remembered myths about their origins, and an ancient enmity with the nasty bug monsters, but lets leave the details of what *actually* occurred in the distant past obscured by the mists of time.

Also- suggestion: you may want to check out the Red Pantheon information in the OP. Seems like good potential there for religion for the oqer.

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Wow look at all these awesome sheets. In light of a few of them, I've decided to change my nation in a new direction- will have a draft NS up today, as well as try to review the completed sheets.