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History and Culture of the Horn of Ardia OOC [working title]

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Gadshack:
The idea of this RP series is collaborative history building, but in a fluid way where we play out our history in a loose, non-predetermined fashion outside of a few outlines. These outlines include:

- Rise and fall of the Quywe Empire from the 14th to early 20th century, i figured 'Empire of Quywe' can be more of a defining period on the Horn rather than a consistently governing entity, something like what the Iron Throne from GoT, loose enough for us to have some fun and drama within these eras.

- Before the Empire of Quywe period, if we had any significant interactions before the 14th century.

- Ancient history, BC type stuff, i can personally name Ahkabnilian civilization going back that far though i don't know how significant it would be.

- After the fall of the empire through the 20th century, chaos yay.


I suggest we begin at just before the rise of the Empire of Quywe and work on through there since it seems to be common era. Thoughts?

We can also get a posting order going, since this is sort of a history-book/story-book type deal, and since it will revolve around the Quywe Empire we can probably control it cooperatively outside of Vesi and a few guest writers if we want to include other nations not from the Horn.

yasha:
Considering at least half of us wouldn't be native to the horn, I think it'd be important to include that in our first few posts, my theory about Himeyans is that they arrived in northern Ardia before 1000 CE, not sure if Choco is working with a similar idea, but it'd be nice to explain how Asian people ended up there along with what the natives were doing about it.

Chocomoto:
I don't think the nativity would be too much of an issue. I think you arriving there around 1000 CE would be grounds for me to say that's about when the native Joseon people arrived. It actually works great that Quywe came about around the 14th century because that's about when the Vesian's began feudal society in earnest aside from the scattered pockets of tribal leadership and loose sense of identity among different pockets of Joseon tribes.

BC would mostly be fluff, maybe an explanation as to how these asiatics came in the first place? I can only imagine a natural migration following overpopulation in wherever we want to deem the 'home' of Asiatic cultures is. Once they started migrating as part of a natural process, many chose to simply not stop for generations until they reached the horn 'signifying' the end of their journey.

Working just before would actually be great not going to lie. It'd allow, at least personally, the lot of us to create a general atmosphere and political set up prior to their explosion to power. After all we need some sort of prerogative for Quywe to become the regional power house it was. Especially given the cultural diversity, I think it'd be best to map out right before the rise.

guest17:
The way I imagine things might play out, Ahkbanil would be the first indigenous civilization that was highly developed and influential through out the horn prior to the arrival of the Asiatics. In terms of Cojo, prior to the establishment and expansion of the Quywe empire what is currently Cojotan would be inhabited by various peoples divided into small tribal societies and nomadic societies.  Each of these peoples would occasionally engage in political and military interaction with each-other depending on the reason and need for such interaction.

Following influential reach, some societies closer to Ahkbanil would be more advanced due to interaction with them. This could lead to small and less advanced, but still somewhat developed polities seeping into the west via Ahkbanil influence and interaction.  In contrast the various peoples in the east would be more nomadic and less advanced.  From this I could imagine that the Ahkbanil civilization would view the Cojos as Barbarians and generally uncivilized, much to the similar way the Aztecs (and latter Spanish) viewed the Chichimecas and other Nomadic peoples. Alternatively and perhaps in the way of the Quywe Empire, how the Romans viewed northern Europeans and other non-Mediterranean societies.   

Ultimately it would be the expansion of the Quywe empire and its ability to pit rival tribes and polities against each-other that would lead to the rise of Clans or noble families recognized by the Empire (for there loyalty, based on what tribes and polities fought with them) and latter establish a more advanced society. This would lead to Cojo, latter becoming more loyal province of the Empire at large and perhaps the last to hold on to the Quywe dream before its ultimate collapse.

On the topic of the collapse, what may be able to happen is that with the various uprisings the indpence conflicts could shift from each province (depending on the siutation) to the point where the war would lead into Cojo borders. This would allow for the cahos of the aftermath collapse to create a Cojo Warlord era and ultimately the current authoritarian political situation  I have planned for contemporary Cojotan.
   
*Edit: I forgot to mention that the inevitable arrival of Himeyans would lead to tensions between the native Cojo and the new settlers. This could lead to an interesting story between Himeyama and Cojotan warfare in the east.

yasha:
Early conflicts between Hime settlers and Cojo natives could def make for an interesting subplot. That being said, while Gad is MIA, I still think we ought to get this (and that horn defence coalition) going pretty soon. Best we at least get this going somewhere because while Ahkabnil, Vesi, Cojotan and Himeyama are all radically different and unique nations, having an IC way to build cultural similarities ubiquitous to former Quywe nations should be a focus as well, after all, we've all spent a good thousand years as neighbours, plenty enough time for each and every one of us to have adapted and evolved in each other's presence.

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