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<blockquote data-quote="LuisCarlos17f" data-source="post: 8756571" data-attributes="member: 6802378"><p><span style="font-size: 12px">Sorry, but my own experencie has taught me to untrust certain sources. You can show yours, but<a href="https://www.news24.com/News24/the-forgotten-white-slaves-20150321" target="_blank"> others can tell the opposite.</a> We shouldn't forget the radical depopulation in Ireland by Cromwell. If the lives by those Ireshmen had been good, then we should have seen a demographic increase. I have see too many example of History and fiction being used for propaganda. Cromwell might be perfect as source of inspiration for a dark-lord in Ravenloft.</span></p><p></p><p>We shouldn't forget the slavery in the Muslim empires. Lots of Christian villages in the Mediterranean Seas was attacked by Otoman corsairs to catch slaves. This is the reason becuase in Spain we say "moors in the coast" as synonymous of signs of possible menaces. </p><p></p><p>And there is other way of slavery, the debts can't be paid for years or decades, even through generations. Jhon Adams, one of the presidents of USA said: <strong>"There are two ways to conquer and enslave a country. One is by the sword. The other is by debt."</strong></p><p></p><p>In DS we might see something like the Greek Crypteia, a test for the new generation of warriors consisting in a periodic slaughter against the ilotas, the slaves. (Note: the ilotas were a D&D race of slaves in the sourcebook "the scarlet brotherhood".</p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypteia[/URL]</p><p></p><p>* If you have played some strategic game you should realise if sorcerer-kings were too slaughters then their domains couldn't survive the demographic crisis. They need enough strability to get a enough number of skilled workers.</p><p></p><p>* Maybe the Athas we know is isolated in a "sacred timeline" and there are other Athas as parallel worlds where these aren't ruled by the sorcerer-kings, or some races survived the cleasing war, al least evacuating by means of spelljammers or crossing secret planar portals. </p><p></p><p>* In an alternate timeline Rajaat is a dark-lord and in his dark-domain the blue-age returned, but he can't enjoy, and there are a lot of no "pureblood".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LuisCarlos17f, post: 8756571, member: 6802378"] [SIZE=3]Sorry, but my own experencie has taught me to untrust certain sources. You can show yours, but[URL='https://www.news24.com/News24/the-forgotten-white-slaves-20150321'] others can tell the opposite.[/URL] We shouldn't forget the radical depopulation in Ireland by Cromwell. If the lives by those Ireshmen had been good, then we should have seen a demographic increase. I have see too many example of History and fiction being used for propaganda. Cromwell might be perfect as source of inspiration for a dark-lord in Ravenloft.[/SIZE] We shouldn't forget the slavery in the Muslim empires. Lots of Christian villages in the Mediterranean Seas was attacked by Otoman corsairs to catch slaves. This is the reason becuase in Spain we say "moors in the coast" as synonymous of signs of possible menaces. And there is other way of slavery, the debts can't be paid for years or decades, even through generations. Jhon Adams, one of the presidents of USA said: [B]"There are two ways to conquer and enslave a country. One is by the sword. The other is by debt."[/B] In DS we might see something like the Greek Crypteia, a test for the new generation of warriors consisting in a periodic slaughter against the ilotas, the slaves. (Note: the ilotas were a D&D race of slaves in the sourcebook "the scarlet brotherhood". [URL unfurl="true"]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypteia[/URL] * If you have played some strategic game you should realise if sorcerer-kings were too slaughters then their domains couldn't survive the demographic crisis. They need enough strability to get a enough number of skilled workers. * Maybe the Athas we know is isolated in a "sacred timeline" and there are other Athas as parallel worlds where these aren't ruled by the sorcerer-kings, or some races survived the cleasing war, al least evacuating by means of spelljammers or crossing secret planar portals. * In an alternate timeline Rajaat is a dark-lord and in his dark-domain the blue-age returned, but he can't enjoy, and there are a lot of no "pureblood". [/QUOTE]
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