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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zephyrus" data-source="post: 700968" data-attributes="member: 8728">something brought up before and bares rementioning expecially in light of the comment just made about Cressian Calvery.the presence of humanoids, beasts/magical beasts and other  monsterous creatures. I think one nation (perhase a bit cliche) should be a dominantly of another race more than just ruled by another race like the suggested psionic dragons. On the down side most of the psionic dragons are anti-social or agressively territorial (according to their descriptions) or they are tolerant or even friendly but non-involvists/observers/sage-like.  Also such a nation might be perhaps too.. powerful unless it was a sole dragon of only Adult to Mature Age. at least enough peopel might have enough power to take it down if threatened. I think the cressians should have at least one allied nation of the other three. perhaps the other acting as isolationists (the psionics) and the monsterous race-nation agressive. on the other side of things maybe flip flop that. the monsterous race-nation are isolationists and the psionics are the agressives. perhaps using their psionic abilities to create legions of non-psionic slaves or puppets to their powers (or maybe these psi's are githyani and are monsterous race but its a bit cliche to have the monster race always the badie).I imagine Cressian's developing massive very open cities. a small city could cover as much ground as a typical metropolis. That the cressisans would concentrate on these few large area covering cities perhaps even after a long enough time becoming united city states (depending on the politics of their evolution). the cities having hundreads of farmlettes and almost seeming like the city itself is composed of dozens and dozens of towns that share borders. The city acting as both farm and wildlife preserve with a few small urbanized clusters. again roads are lined with briars  and the the cities are lined with concentric rings/layers of thick briars. Crossroads and in populated area's these will be roses isntead of simple thorny thickets to appease the populance as far as apperances. the premis being that at the heart of the city being the most dense but very open construction by others standards and provide a means to slow any possible enemy so that they can be harrassed and taken appart on the Cressians terms. the openness of the cities serving both a tactical advantage as a social and moral advantage. the cressians feel safe in their cities and by making these cities cover vast area's with all their farmland and such occuring within and with their resources not limited to being on the outskirts of t heir villages but rather the 'city' encomapasing everything a greater national and natural togetherness forms.I would think that thanks to the druids and following the jongan wars they would develop a clear if not almost modernized lumber plan organized forestry where they grew lumber for the express purpose of construction etc while leaving natural forests alone. farmletts being tended to periodically by druids to produce prolly an extra crop each year without overwealming the soil. Homes being made of natural materials like wood or clay brick and alowed to grow over with ivy or vines.  getting back to what I started saying about the animals and such I think the cressians would have considerable alliance with nature and its animals. awakens animals as well as befriended and trained animals applenty. I suspect they would gather animals and use them widly in even day to day chores, working closely with them. creating habbitats and such for these animals to thrive and be comfortable expecially with the agressive and preditory species so they were out of the way of the people but could still roam free much of the time. I can easily see wolf packs lead by awakened wolf alpha pairs having hteir wolf packs roam the boarders. I imagine quite possible the cressian's developing a close connection with horses as a means of transportion. with such open cities transportation of goods and supplies would become tricky. Horses are suffiently docile yet fast and strong enough to fill a need for a very versitle beast of burden. I think it would be awsome if possible in the approaching conflict for the Cressians to develop Centaurs!  I think a neat or nice aspect of the Cressians will be the graces of a monsterous race now and then in responce to need or circumstances. I even wonder if perhaps the Cressians develop the other lycanthrope types as their culture grows Or if perhaps that is what sparks another conflict other lycanthrope types. With Druids and wild-shape as well as Werewolves the cultural evolution into monsterous creatures is quite possile be them the other shapeshifter types or more fixed transitions like hybrid races such as Centaurs and Wemic's this could be a reason for the city-states... or perhaps these creature occured naturally and the Cressians welcomed and intigrated them into their societies.</blockquote>

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