Willy Vereb

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@MihndarThat was my impression, too.
It's also kind of funny how PRK kept the imperial double-headed eagle yet they talk about the evils of imperialism.
My emperor will comment on both Velikaya and Babur.

@CycloneBTW, what were the previous Sultans like?
I don't mean Babur's direct predecesor but Babur's grandfather or even great-greandfather.
Were they more of a warrior just like Babur? Circa when did they reign?
My emperor may make comparions with Babur and Sultans from the past.

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On a different note, since large swathes of the Africa-like penisula are not taken, would you mind if I would increase the size of my colonies a bit? Iwas only that conservative there to give a chance for other nations to claim colonies and generally allow a nation to exist over there.
I still intend the latter but the former is kind of moot now.

On a different note:
@Raijinslayer
I see you also use alchemy.
Well, aside from its near-unneccessarily complex methods, alchemy also differs from chemistry and material sciences that their art is highly secretive.
Alchemists make wows of secrecy and they don't communicate between circles.
I even planned to mention alchemists are using hyponotism on their members to make them literally unable to tell the secret to anyone but people they were conditioned to.
I didn't invent this to keep Yllendthyr's tech secret or anything. I don't mind if other people use mithril, especially not if they get it from me via trade.
I invented this as a means of developing on them.
Overall alchemy is actually not that different from common sciences. They just got lucky and invented a number of methods without completely unerstanding it. That's why they use complex methods and such. Just like how Damascus Steel predates our research on CNT-Steel matrix by many centuries because they used a plant which had something close to carbon-nanotubes.
Think of alchemy as the same. It's a secret only circulating between a small group and if a "proper" scientist would know the methods he may develop a far less complex measure.
Mithril is nothing magical. I basically replaced Titanium with the less dense Mithralium and devised some means to improve it to match steel. That's all.

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Well, if we are at it.
I do think elves would have a small population in any country which doesn't reject people from other races or who came from foreign country.
As for spies, yup, Yllendthyr has them as expected.
Sometimes a small percentage of imigrants from Yllendthyr, other times spies secretly trained from the locals.
Albeit elven spies are somewhat preferred, both because Yllendthyr trusts them more and because their enhanced senses mean they can safely observe or listen to people from further away.

I just noticed that all of the republic nations are beside each other, what a coincidence.
Or maybe it was the work of illuminati.

@hivekiller

More likely they were hit with the same wave.
Just like the revolutions around the middle of the 19th century in Europe.
Given Yllendthyr had a such revolution in 1648 I suppose these nations got something similar around the time?

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From everything I read above, I regret starting the way I did.

Everyone, The bombs went off at the border, I'll fix it when I have the time.

Edit: That is if it's not an inconvenience.

Edit Edit: Actually, no. I stand by what I started with. Or do I?

@Voltus_Ventus

Nah, altering your post would only cause further mess, IMO.
I actually kind of like that I'm not lured into a more hostile situation.
I just expected a more sinister plan.
Oh well, things are apparently progressing towards a war regardless.

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What you all haven't realized is that the PRK has a pretty varied population, and this can work to their benefit now. Both Tinites and elves. The obvious answer is to send some elves on what amounts to a suicide mission in Tin's island. Give them mitril weaponry and Tin will have no reason to not jump to the conclusion that they were elven assassins/scouts/whatever.

Similarly, send Tinites to the elven islands. Because Tinites look kind of like other humans, give them KalMean guns like Tinites might use, and maybe even Dragon pendants or the iconic facemasks of the Temple Guard.

That would sow a lot more chaos and be far more likely to lead to a war, if that is what we want to do. Of course, the elves and the Tinites must be caught, but they must also be quickly killed so that they can't be tortured to discern their actual nationality and motives.

@Cyclone

I actually expected something like this but with the bombings.
Elven preparators are caught after the bombings who then quickly commit suicide before Tinties can question them.
Humans with outfit similar to "Tintie fanatics" are found who apparently were killed from their own explosives by "accident". Just far enough that the bodies are roughly identifiable.
Preferably these two events wouldn't happen at the same time so it would not look so fishy.
But alas this isn't the way it went.
Oh well, there are many other opportunities.

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Well, with certain something that may or may not happen between Avalia and Tin that me and Cyclone may or may not have worked out... Let's just say some fighting might start very soon.... maybe... possibly... potentially...

Hint hint, Avalia not to long ago cut off all trade relations with Tin, sending them literally nothing.

@Skepic

Yup, that's more likely to get things going.
At first Yllendthyr would be neutral and only assist in offering alternative trade routes without touching Tin territory.
If it comes to actual war they would likely offer an alliance and may propose plans for a two pronged attack.

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@Mihndar

Just for the record, because we are talking about "friendship", cyanide isn't toxic to Elves.

In all seriousness, the bombs should have gone off at the border. Then your guards would probably expect the other did something and start shooting.

They might sound the air raid and/or artillery warning and get the troops to comnbat readiness but you need some targets to begin the actual shootings.
No, the bombs would sure increase the tension and not all people would deduce that there's no way that Tin did it.
So yeah, it'd cause some problems but you need a bigger push.

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Figuring out that this was a plot to turn the two sides against eachother seems fairly simple. Military grade explosives going off on both sides.

The only people who could profit from that are rebels or people against imperialism (*cough* P.R.K. *cough*). So, perhaps the evidence does not point directly to PRK, but it certainly does put the possibility of their involvement on the table.

@Hael

Yeah, it would.
Although I don't think I'd suspect somebody targeted me just because I'm imperialist since that's the general attitude of the whole era.
Actually I may even suspect infighting between the nobles. I'll detail the reasoning behind in my IC post.

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You have insulted my honour!

Your merchants practically deal with anyone so long they pay.
I may not suspect you as a mastermind behind something like this because you would never go against Tin.
On the other hand trading weapons is okay so long it's conducted under the table.
So KalMea selling explosives to the rebels can make sense.

Either way, Klingon or not, it's never wise to challenge an Elf to a knife fight, especially if it's a noble. They are alarmingly swift. One moment and you just happen to find a blade pierced through your neck!

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Are you going to have your forces end up skirmishing with the Tin, as suggested by Voltus, or will it be a more muted reaction?

@Mihndar

I doubt I'll be fighting Tin unless it provokes me.
Bombings happened on both sides, causing equal damage. It's obvious that whoever attacked it was enemies with both Yllendthyr and Tin.
After analyzis it'd be determined that military grade explosives were used and the kind which may not even be standard for either Tin or Yllendthyr.
So yeah, this whole plot is actually rather transparent.
Somebody either infiltrated Zanshir islands or supplying local rebels with weapons.
The question is who?
If the explosives are something Yllendthyr uses then it could be a rebel element in the local Drefgiad.
If the explosives are foreign then my first suspect is KalMea because I know they deal with advanced military grade explosives.
I could also suspect Avalia but they would only really attack Tin and they might be almost happy I have a presence in Zanshir.
And so on.

Generally it's just that a couple of bombs damaged buildings and killed people across the borders. It would certainly increase tension between the local forces but this alone won't be enough to cause war.
If Zanshir openly rises up against the two empires then it may even cause me to slightly cooperate with Tin for a while.
With hundreds of thousands of soldiers staging it's quite obvious that any kind of rebellion in the islands is bound to fail.
Long story short, you need more to actually cause a war.

I expected something more insidious which could've ended up with either side blaming the other. In addition I kinda overestimated the effects.
So yeah, Yllendthyr's response would be that another source of annoyance showed its head.
Whether these events later escalate into war or not depends on how all the other nations would react, IMO.

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I'd say I'm like 3/4 of the way through my post. At about 16,000 characters long right now.

@Cyclone

I'll wait for your response, then.
That may give me more fuel to write about.
I'll be honest and say that the bombings in the first post would barely bother the Emperor and he'd just say the local forces to take care of it themselves.
I actually invented a few additions to the bombings' effect just to avoid me ignoring it as "locals stirring up trouble again".
I may also comment a few on Velikaya's speech and then have my officials meet with Hambria who appears to need my technical experts.
I already discussed a non-aggression pact with them so they are a slight bit like allies to me.
Without them I could never hold the colonies in the Zanshir Islands, for example.
Because I pretty much travel through their turf.

Anyways, as I said, I'll wait for your post then.

@ClocktowerEchosSounds good to me.
Of course you are free to do with your nation what you want.