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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kichwas" data-source="post: 170107" data-attributes="member: 891">The Goddess theories: I'd give them some credcence in the area that cultures were different at one point and then went through a massive change. That those early people did worship some kind of goddess figure.But that's where it ends for me.Worship of a goddess != hippy love fest. The problem comes from modern neo-pagan feminism trying to put it's morals on something very ancient and lacking written record.It's a lot like the Noble Native American concept touted by another branch of these same groups... the neo-pagan shamanism crowd.That ideal has serious problems when it runs headlong into the Sioux, Crow, Apache, Aztec, and so on... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />Sure it has some basis in some things that are true; but it is falsely interpreted using their own modern morals rather than the realities of the people they are 'recoloring'.Only in this case it only takes one of my cousins to walk over and slap them around a bit in order to set the record straight... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" />The ancient goddess cultures of prehistoric europe are long dead so they can't really come by and slap anybody around to get their own record straightened out...So... moving on.I have a '14th century europe model' location in my world. It's one of the 'backward places'. A region constantly stuck in internal warfare and highly destabalized. Actually a good source of slaves for the people in the civilized world. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />If the 'Eastern Kingdoms' ever got organized though; they'd be a terror to the rest of the world. Presently they can't field a kingdom that controls more than a few hundred miles at best before it rips itself apart in infighting.They do field sizeable armies there, but lack naval skill which is what is important given the geography I use. Many of the more developed nations actually have small land armies but vast naval and merchant fleets. The most developed form of military combatant is not the knight on his warhorse... but the marine with his ability to be launched in from a naval attack on a city and quickly take ground on a beachhead or port until footmen can be brought in to hold it. Or boarding actions along major trade routes.Warfare does not have to follow the typical paradigms of the middle ages...</blockquote>

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