Terminal

An Age of Empires [Low Fantasy - Advanced]

<Snipped quote by Cyclone> Oh gosh. I think they'd probably just trade for both and put most of it towards weapons / helmets / fancy hats. That, or I'll edit them a bit to include a bit more metal.

@OneEyedChurro

Isn't that a factor of our rolls? I wasn't aware we could edit those.

An Age of Empires [Low Fantasy - Advanced]

<Snipped quote by Cyclone> All valid points that I wholly agree with. I think I had mentioned somewhere that Arhus was importing metal, or at least I meant to, so that's perfect.

@OneEyedChurro

Well on that note - The Metfall Basin is right on the border of the Nati lands, and is the primary source of their rich metal and mineral resources. Assuming you didn't mind dealing with the warlord and the Free Family, you could probably set up a direct trade route with them - and the best part is, they're primitive savages. They don't even want money. You can pay them off with ping pong paddles or something.

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As in for the sunken city full of ghosts, are they really so dangerous and vicious as to actually pose a threat to a fleet a mile or two off the coast? Still, if the sailors were superstitious they could sail just out of sight of the coast for that particular stretch of the way.

Cyclone

It's not quite like that. There aren't actual ghosts and wraiths poking around, so much as a curse hangs over the coastline like a pall. This is a low fantasy setting, so I'm going with the [Maybe Magic Maybe Mundane] route. Perhaps the Necromancer in Iugulum Mot has some heeby jeeby curse going on, or maybe that particular stretch of coast and the peninsula just happens to be a horrible sailing deathtrap full of sharp jutting rock formations and rogue tides. Who knows? Either way, sailing too close is not recommended. And yes, I did say they could sail out of sight of the coastline - but check the map, there's a large jutting peninsula to sail around. I indicated that sailing around the super long way would be both time consuming and impractical. You can do it, but,

if nothing else, Dominion shipping heading that way will likely be issuing several formal and extended complaints.

Terminal

Also, the Iugulum Mot stretch is a barrier to Drastonian vessels trying to reach the Dominion as well. Same problems apply. We'll have to wait for Gowia's input before proceeding further on that front. If Drastonia has particularly good trade relations with the Free Family, it may be that they could have a shipping outpost located at Dakat'fium - which is located South of the Iugulum Mot stretch. Drastonia could ship goods overland across Nati territory and then sail them directly South, and the Dominion could send shipments there instead of having to sail around - which cuts time off of their trade route. The obvious problem is that a massive stretch of the trade route is being controlled by uncivilized bloodthirsty savages.

An Age of Empires [Low Fantasy - Advanced]

That fixed it, thanks. On an unrelated note, @gowia @Terminal Want to have a trade route between our nations? The Drastonian Empire has food and spices, while mine has more in terms of metals as well as some large cities that would have finished goods. Fulmen Nati would be conveniently placed about halfway down the trade route for ships, so it could be involved too.

@Cyclone

The Fulmen Nati, I suspect, would not be formally recognized as a nation per se. The organization you'd be dealing with would be The Free Family (check them out in the NS), and they'd have what you want. Here's some cold hard supply and demand for all of us:

The Bottom Line

Dominion: Mineral Deposits - Rich deposits of metals and minerals such as copper, lead, coal, usable stone. Valuable Mineral Deposits - Trace deposits of rare earth metals. Unique Materials - dyes, leather, sugar Drastonia: Mineral Deposits - Minimal deposits of metals and minerals. Valuable Mineral Deposits - Trace deposits of rare earth metals, predominantly silver, some marble quarries. Unique Materials - Spices, hardwood Fulmen Nati: Mineral Deposits - Rich deposits of metals and minerals such as copper, lead, coal, usable stone. Valuable Mineral Deposits - Trace deposits of rare earth metals. Unique Materials - incense, dyes, ivory

Looking at our positions on the map (which really needs to be updated, and Cyclone, your link on the forum is broken - I had to manually follow the embedded html back to your imagur library), one problem at hand is that for the Dominion's shipping to reach Drastonia, they'll need to sail around Iugulum Mot. If they sail within sight of the shoreline, this will cause problems akin to sailing too close to Old Valyria. Sailing way far off the coast is possible, but likely impractical and time consuming - if nothing else, Dominion shipping heading that way will likely be issuing several formal and extended complaints. Meanwhile, the situation with shipping to the Fulmen Nati is complicated by the fact that a Warlord controls roughly half the Southern borders of Nati land, based out of Mollis Latus. All direct land shipments will likely be raided and sacked, you'd have to take the long way around to get to Radix Arx or Respicit Fulmen. Worse, if you go too far East, you get slammed by the Satus and Baleosus warlords. Your only viable route for circumventing the Nati lands is to go through Arhus. Drastonia and the Free Family should have a considerably easier time of trading with one another. Iugulum mot isn't in the way of naval shipping, and as long as they don't mind dealing with Vathcras even land convoys shouldn't have too much trouble, and the Free Family would likely be able to arrange safe passage for caravans into Baleosus. As for raw materials - Drastonia appears to have a shortage of metals and minerals, and could probably use the dye and incense (unsure about the ivory). The Free Family would be interested in their silver and spices, moreso in the latter. They don't have much use for silver since the Nati lack any kind of official currency, so they probably only want it as a trade good they can sell to other nations - in which case they'll probably try to undercut you on silver trading, since they'll be relying on selling it back for more than they paid.

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In my case - There's only one Necromancer, so having Ossuaries everywhere isn't much of an advantage, especially considering they were never intended to raise massive undead armies. And how worship of Mot is now strongly discouraged, leaving body remnants out in the open like that would be seen as bad. I'll keep the Bloodthirsty con, but I'd like to replace my pro with: Songbird Communiques: The warlords and skirmishes of the Fulmen Nati are masters of moving and communicating as widespread guerilla groups moving unseen in the underbrush. One of their more successful strategic advantages has been their successful domestication and breeding of Songbirds, used for surveillance, reconnaissance, and communication across both short and vast distances. Sometimes the only warning you have of a Nati ambush will be the low, pleasant, burbling chirps of unseen birds.

An Age of Empires [Low Fantasy - Advanced]

@Terminal Do we currently have an active pad I could join? I admittedly have been slacking and need to jump back in.

@Goldeagle1221

Not as of yet. It should be up sometime tomorrow though.

An Age of Empires [Low Fantasy - Advanced]

Related note: Sometime either later today or tomorrow, I will be submitting a Compendium of Monsters, Beasts, and Fiends that roam the lands of our little playground (approved by Sini, of course). I will be posting it in a syncpad with link provided, so if anybody else wants to add monsters to the list, get them approved by Sini and you can add them at your leisure via editing the pad.

An Age of Empires [Low Fantasy - Advanced]

Nation sheet is now completed. Sorry for the delay.

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Entirely possible, but for now, baby steps. In order for anything to happen afterwards, this specific RP still needs to happen first. Hopefully this will garner more interest, in which case, no betting limit.