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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr. Strangemonkey" data-source="post: 446237" data-attributes="member: 6533">Thorn WarsHey Jürgen Hubert, sorry it took me so long to respond.  Sounds like a very 'cool' use of the flower wars idea.  A little less frightening to outside cultures and the participants involved, but no less gruesome.  For an added level of paranoia, cities that stop participating in the thorn wars should be viewed as common targets and game by the other cities involved in the culture.I been thinking about some of the milpolitic aspects of the nexus towers.  I would think that there would be a concerted effort to keep wars low casualty since population is one of the major spoils of fighting.  There might be individual military strategies built around hurting the enemies population but weapons and formations that could only achieve mass slaughter would be anathema to anyone with a military ethic who owned a nexus tower.  Probably more so than in our own world in which people are a less direct resource.I don't know about the poetry comparison with magic.  There is a lot of that involved but magic still seems to have more formal systems.  Such that the results are replicatable only with understanding, though that understanding is insight based.  I would think it compares more to certain forms of mysticism in our own world.I really like the performance aspect of magic, though.  Too few people actually role-play what it must be like to see a wizard cast a spell.  I always want it to be either semi-tai-chi or really wu-xia where people have to dance all over the place.  I mean it has to be active enough that armor, which is designed to be used in combat, suddenly becomes a hinderance.</blockquote>

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