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Aetherius
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Volsmer Culture

Post Ideas for the Volsmer Culture here!

Lavalampmaster and I were considering using an aztec style culture for them:

http://www.hln-store.com/catalog/aztecs.gif
http://www.chronofus.net/wargames/aztecs...ilewarriors.gif
http://www.firingsquad.com/features/2000...images/aok1.jpg
http://www.delange.org/TemMayor/Dsc00358.jpg
http://www.wargamer.com/reviews/1602/aztec.gif

What do you think?

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2006.08.04 03:40

TheImperialDragon
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RE: Volsmer Culture

Aztec near a tropical forest with a volcano?

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2006.08.04 03:48

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Aetherius
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What do you mean by that? they can still have Aztec buildings cant they?

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2006.08.04 03:53

TheImperialDragon
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No, it was a suggestion, not a question.

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2006.08.04 03:56

Aetherius
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Oh, sorry, well, we haven't decided where everything is gonna be yet, but maybe.

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2006.08.04 04:15

TheImperialDragon
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I dunno, just shooting random suggestions left and right is what I usually do Tongue

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A lot of them are actually decent in my humble opinion. Wink

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2006.08.04 04:49

LavaLampMaster
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Aeth already said most of my ideas... I just had a couple

along with their warrior culture and the non-lethal tournaments for leadership, they have tournaments to the death between prisoners. The champions of these tournaments are then sacrificed.

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Aetherius
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sorry about that. Confused

But about your suggestion, SOUNDS GREAT!

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2006.08.04 05:44

Orodromis
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ARCHITECTURE

The Volsmer usually build small villiages rather than large cities, all though they do have a few. Their buildings are made of wood, rocks, and some other materials like glass they get from trade with the Cresmer, the only race they keep in contact with. Their buildings are large and simple, with one house per family. They have few market buildings, as they usually just use stands. They are loaded with guards for every city and are well protected.

ARMOR AND WEAPONS

The Volsmer usally wear dark brown and green light armor for camulflouge. They use small swords with tribal markings on them.

RELIGION

the Volsmer dont have any sort of god, theysimply appoint a ruler by means of fighting skills, and follow his every command. The ruler rules til death, then they every Volsmer male must meet in the largest villiage and compete to be ruler, the males are required to do this, and the females are required to watch. It doesnt involve death, as the Volsmer respect one another, it is simply who bests the other. The greatest fighter is appointed ruler til death. The Volsmer have a shorter lifespan than the other elves, yet they keep their bodies in excellent physical condition, they live about 150 years while most elves live around 200 years.

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2006.08.04 18:40

Aetherius
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For the Volsmer weapons, I was thinking they use simple silver swords and wooden clubs. Maybe some axes, but they aren't fond of shields.

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2006.08.04 21:51

LavaLampMaster
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to go with the Aztec-like theme, the Volsmer should use one and two handed versions of a macuahuitl and (this is considering if there ever will be a NIF exporter), atlatls

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2006.08.04 22:19

DarkAsmodeous
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Gundalf made a very nice nif exporter.

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2006.08.04 22:21

LavaLampMaster
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I didn't know there was one. This is most excellent!
I made a celebratory image in paint for this occasion.

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2006.08.04 22:27

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Finaly some, although vague, weapon description here.

So Volsmer go by Incan architecture?

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2006.08.16 10:21

Orodromis
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I like your weapon Ideas LavaLampMaster, they perfectly fit Volsmer style.

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2006.08.16 17:52

Aetherius
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Altyras, capital of the Volmer, I was thinking the capital building could look something like this:

http://www.4gamer.net/specials/ac_fightb...scene-aztec.jpg

It has very strong sturdy walls for great defense, and the entire city is bordered by a large defensive wall, it has many guards watching over every entrance into the city.

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2006.08.16 18:51

DarkAsmodeous
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This all seems so... organized, I thought the volsmer were tribal?

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2006.08.16 19:41

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well, these images come from other games or real life places; we'd take elements of these and add our own, like instead of the pyramids being the stone block structures with an altar at the top, there'd be tunnels and rooms carved into them for castles and palaces. for example, there could be a giant pyramid surrounded by several huts. The huts would be houses and shops, while the pyramid would act like a castle, with prisons, local government, maybe some services, et c.

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2006.09.03 22:27

KuKulzA
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I hope you guys don't copy them
I hope it is them as an inspiration and changing it into something new, be original right?!
...I mean their conditions aren't the same as the Aztecs... because the Volsmer... forest people, it is their land... if their mentallity was TRULY like that of the old Aztecs, then they;d be emulating the highest civilization of the time or past... Toltecs...

thus Volsmer would be imitating Cresmer in style...

but that's all I can say right now... cause I am fervently for originiallity...
however, if you want Aztec info and stuff, I can be your man... dude I love Aztec, Mayan, and other Native American histories and cultures

This post has been edited 1 time(s), it was last edited by KuKulzA: 2006.09.03 23:00.

2006.09.03 22:59