I don't appreciate your behavior at all through this Sam. I am really pissed I'm having to type all out for you.
I. Many of us consider their realms population and lore forces to correlate with builds. Several of us that actually write lore more than once a year use the population counter and use it to influence our lore.
II. I had lore backing up that the Östron navy had been escorting merchant fleets with armed boats over a lore DECADE through the Khabranthian-Valyrian Sea canal, because of the attitudes of Khabranth in the Minervan-Khabranth "War":
viewtopic.php?f=25&t=1271#p14719III. I had established some time ago Pyrencia was my largest trading partner:
viewtopic.php?f=69&t=1478IV. There is no Imperial fleet. I've never even seen it mentioned in lore before. Perhaps it was on the forums before this, but most of the time throughout the wiki I saw mention of nations grouping together to take care of menaces to Imperial authority. Matter of fact, the only boat that I know of that is a dedicated Imperial vessel is one built by Östron shipbuilders near Oakland, a galliot ( on the left):
V. The Emperor/Empress is not prescribed with powers to attack other nations for whatever they feel like. The Carta does not give them this authority.
VI. The Empire didn't do anything when leaders of entire nations were killed by other elements in the past. Several other realms have had various things happen without blockades happening. Obviously this is a different lore situation, but the lore actions of Dawnstar way outpaced what other nations were doing:
* GRHH didn't blockade Östlaed:
viewtopic.php?f=20&t=1614He only called for freezing of assets, likely only enforceable if the Imperial Judicial Court did something about it. Pretty creative without effecting my lore too much, and created tensions without forcing my hand in a major way.
* Many nations refused to sign "Treaties of Understanding," basically saying they don't want to increase trade with an agressive bullying nation.
VII. In the lore, I warned realms that
attempted to restrict mobility laws:http://hermertia.com/viewtopic.php?f=69&t=1615
Awesome fun responses - not blockades, but requests to not dock in their lands - by Kaine and the GRHH. Again, no one forcing me to react to
illegal behaviors.
VIII. Dawnstar threatened to take actions that outpaced even the others taken by other nations:
http://hermertia.com/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=1614&p=16761#p16761Of course, in this lore setting, my realm isn't going to respond to this ludicrous request for rather minor things. The threat in itself is rather laughable:
"Failure to do so will result in further Council backed sanctions and restrictions on foreign trade and Östron vessels, merchants and imports until your values return once more to those our Empire has held dear and proudly displayed for hundreds of years."
The reaction is so outsized for what's going on, that I have to write a realistic lore reaction here.
IX. I had lore planned to get out of this stupid situation so the Empire doesn't march straight to war. I've not built up lore since June just to end in Sam's Valyrian bloodbath.
X. Going back to point I - most of us avoid situations like this by having respect for each other in lore writing, asking first, collaborating in google docs, and trying to avoid situations where we need to compare military sizes. yes, I've had my character brag in lore about the huge Östron military forces, but I don't literally go around claiming I could destroy every realm's navy in one battle. That's just not realistic. I imagine even a fight with a smaller neighbor would still be a bloody, nasty conflict, and despite the realm being ruled by fanatics, they aren't stupid. Oh, and I've actually written lore and built things in game to prove my people are not uneducated - you know, things like libraries and universities.
XI. Elves openly attacking Östron forces would result in the fanatics and non-fanatics uniting together. I've long established the lore disdain for Elves among the Östron population - oh, and I've already begun to work on lore for how they could get over this in the future. Yeah, they are a bit racist, but I'm going to have fun showing how they get over it in the future - at least, unless snow elves come with an imaginary navy of 100,000 boats and burn Acholm to the ground.
XII. What populations (which I've guessed is somewhere on our census calculator around 60-100k for each more than likely) Valtoros and Perth do have are very spread apart and not likely to coordinate with the same efficiency as either Dawnstar or Östlaed. Also, they have far more ocean to patrol and deal with in remote parts of the Mercurian Empire that *might* have some piracy issues. I don't buy that they'd have a huge chunk of their fleet - which Östlaed would - in the upper Valyrian sea.
Summary: I'm really angry I'm having to write this. It's going to make me look like an awful person - as if I"m trying to dictate other's lore. However, what you're doing is the same thing and has no basis in what many of us consider elements for in game actions influencing our lore on a
Minecraft-lore server. I don't care if realms have been around for years. If you don't have the builds and lore, you can't just waltz up and attempt to ruin/greatly influence someone else's lore because you feel like it at the time.
I'm not responding to any more posts in this stupid conversation.
