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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr. Strangemonkey" data-source="post: 779046" data-attributes="member: 6533">Wow, this is actually going pretty well.Let's say that this age has been a heroic age.  The peace in Greater Cressia combines with the games, the constant small expansion and conflict of the major cultures, and a judicial amount of encouragement toward individual development from various divine elements to create an unusually high number of high level adventurers, and I use the term adventurer to deliberately distinguish between these men of furious action and the high levels that would be accrued by leaders and sages under normal circumstances.In Ausel all of these heroes are considered more or less a normal part of their society and religion.  The culture gathers at the great temples to witness the contests by which heroes prove themselves and make themselves more perfect.  Clerics come from those who dedicate themselves to either those heroes who have gone before or to the adoration of the dragon heroes who have truely transcended.In Greater Cressia the heroes have gathered in the places I listed earlier, but at the City of the Great Games the Wardens have recruited many heroes into an organization that supports them and gives them a means to work together.  Sort of like a cross between the Round Table, an Olympic Village, a University, and the Vatican with a particular emphasis on creating magical items.Both cultures have been experimenting with tactics to better support these extraordinary individuals in the field and use them to great strategic effect.I think we know need to decide how each culture's particular brand of heroism and heroic technology works.First, however, we need to decide how the different cultures will react to the presence of the Formians.I think there is actually a fairly high likelihood that the Ausel and the Formians will reach a detente.The Ausel have plenty of high level magic users around who quickly realize the nature of the threat.  Gathering with the elder heads of the houses, they send a delegation to the Formians with apologies and all the bound Formians in Ausel.  They express great admiration for the tenets of law the Formians offer them and spin themselves as a very lawful culture.   After all, their people are highly organized and they have many monks and other lawful entities.The Ausel then state that the true source of chaos on this world is Greater Cressia, a power which forces them to bind Formians in order to feed their mighty engines of war and chaos.  They beg the Formians to help them in an attempt to conquer their continental oppressors.I think this scheme could work.  To the Ausel elite the Formians are simply another opportunity.  To the Ausel commoner the Formians are simply proof of ever greater wonders that await the virtuously perfect.  To the Formians the Ausel seem to be a very advanced if unfortunate culture that needs their aid.Afterall, how hard can a creature of pure law be to con?</blockquote>

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