Deuce Traveler's Canterbury Tales OOC Thread
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Dragonwriter
First Post
Either way works for me. If we start in London, I'll have an easier time justifying how my character got there. As I've said before, suspension of disbelief is no problem for me.
Voadam
Legend
I've been out sick for a while but if I'm still in contention I'd prefer Damascus. I like the idea of bringing back Greek Philosophy books from Arab states to translate for a Cantebury patron.
Deuce Traveler
Adventurer
Wow... I just spent an hour long writing an e-mail complete with numerous links, just to watch ENWorld not recognize me, tell me to log in again, and cause me to lose everything. Which is bulls...
Theroc, your character is good to go. Voadam, we have yet to fill all PC slots.
Anyway, I'll type more later. We'll start in Damascus in 1386, which is a run down and once great city due to suffering from an overthrow of its ruling dynasty and the Black Plague a generation before. Oh... and it has 14 more years to go before getting smashed by the Mongols, so the atmosphere will definitely be tense. I'm using wikipedia for a lot of my info, but here is another link I found and recovered for the actual Canterbury Tales: The Canterbury Tales
Do a wiki search for the years 1385 and 1386 for events in the Middle East and Europe. The Mongols are coming in from the east, and there is unrest due to Ottoman invasions and political infighting in central Europe. The western Crusaders were kicked out of the Middle East, but there is still significant trade and interaction between the cultures going on. Also, pagan faiths are still commonplace, but often kept somewhat secret despite the power of Christianity and Islam at the time.
The caravan leader plans to travel from Damascus, then towards the ruins of Antioch as he trades from town to town. Just west of Antioch, he will charter a large ship or several smaller ones to take the caravan into the Black Sea and into Romania (Transylvania and Moldavia). Then through Hungary, the Holy Roman Empire, northern France, England, and finally to his home in Canterbury.
The Caravan will have few horses, so it consists mostly of pedestrians, wagons, and mules moving at a fairly slow pace. The caravan master, Alfred Fayweather, has taken this route three times now for much profit as he brings spices from Persia and India, then trades these for dates, brass and tin from Damascus and the surrounding area, then trades these along the Black Sea for silver before arriving in Hungary and switching these for gems. He then goes into the Holy Roman Empire where he trades some of this for furs and gold. Then its off to France where he picks up some art pieces and sells everything he has collected in England for British pounds and a few political favors.
Theroc, your character is good to go. Voadam, we have yet to fill all PC slots.
Anyway, I'll type more later. We'll start in Damascus in 1386, which is a run down and once great city due to suffering from an overthrow of its ruling dynasty and the Black Plague a generation before. Oh... and it has 14 more years to go before getting smashed by the Mongols, so the atmosphere will definitely be tense. I'm using wikipedia for a lot of my info, but here is another link I found and recovered for the actual Canterbury Tales: The Canterbury Tales
Do a wiki search for the years 1385 and 1386 for events in the Middle East and Europe. The Mongols are coming in from the east, and there is unrest due to Ottoman invasions and political infighting in central Europe. The western Crusaders were kicked out of the Middle East, but there is still significant trade and interaction between the cultures going on. Also, pagan faiths are still commonplace, but often kept somewhat secret despite the power of Christianity and Islam at the time.
The caravan leader plans to travel from Damascus, then towards the ruins of Antioch as he trades from town to town. Just west of Antioch, he will charter a large ship or several smaller ones to take the caravan into the Black Sea and into Romania (Transylvania and Moldavia). Then through Hungary, the Holy Roman Empire, northern France, England, and finally to his home in Canterbury.
The Caravan will have few horses, so it consists mostly of pedestrians, wagons, and mules moving at a fairly slow pace. The caravan master, Alfred Fayweather, has taken this route three times now for much profit as he brings spices from Persia and India, then trades these for dates, brass and tin from Damascus and the surrounding area, then trades these along the Black Sea for silver before arriving in Hungary and switching these for gems. He then goes into the Holy Roman Empire where he trades some of this for furs and gold. Then its off to France where he picks up some art pieces and sells everything he has collected in England for British pounds and a few political favors.
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Deuce Traveler
Adventurer
Hmmm... we've had a couple people drop out, so let's do a roll call. I'd hate to start a game and realize I have no PCs.
HolyMan
Thy wounds are healed!
Am here and been researching for background:
1360- University of Pavia founded
1365- University of Vienna founded
1368- Great Wall of China started
1362- Canterbury College, Oxford started first warden was Henry Wodhull, left and reappointed in 1367(so is current during game time)
Damascus- named oldest city in the world, can find history over 2,000 yrs B.C.
Avigon Papacy- Pope resides in Avignon and is asked to move back to Rome
hints of the Americas as vikings start to coloinzation of Greenland
Teutonic Knights still on campaign take Alexandria in Egypt (don't know the year off hand)
One sorcerer almost ready to go.
HM
1360- University of Pavia founded
1365- University of Vienna founded
1368- Great Wall of China started
1362- Canterbury College, Oxford started first warden was Henry Wodhull, left and reappointed in 1367(so is current during game time)
Damascus- named oldest city in the world, can find history over 2,000 yrs B.C.
Avigon Papacy- Pope resides in Avignon and is asked to move back to Rome
hints of the Americas as vikings start to coloinzation of Greenland
Teutonic Knights still on campaign take Alexandria in Egypt (don't know the year off hand)
One sorcerer almost ready to go.
HM
Dragonwriter
First Post
Here's your friendly Paladin, reporting to protect the silly little pilgrims and merchants.
Still working on his history. I'm thinking basically a young Scotsman who got it into his head that it was his duty to protect people on the road, and before he knew it, he had protected different groups of people all the way to (*insert starting city here*).
That's the basics of it anyway...
Still working on his history. I'm thinking basically a young Scotsman who got it into his head that it was his duty to protect people on the road, and before he knew it, he had protected different groups of people all the way to (*insert starting city here*).
That's the basics of it anyway...
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