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[Bad King]

Nomadic Hunter gatherer societies generally have a set labor pool based on environmental and population needs.

It's why it's a failure as a model in my eye.

No redundancy or durability.

You kill it's labor force or even if the soil or game fails locally and there isn't a replacement or alternative.

The society dies.

It's why settlements, industry and set job roles prevailed.

 

If local resources decline, such a society can simply move to a new region or adapt their technology to hunt or harvest food sources that are still abundant. Such societies are flexible and sparsely populated which makes it easy for them to adapt to changing ecological conditions. In real history, modern human hunter-gatherer groups existed for tens of thousands of years across a large variety of habitats: it's demonstrable that societies organised around this mode of production are not failures. The reason settled societies prevailed in many areas is mainly due to the demographic and military advantages gained from the greater surpluses available from agriculture, though in some regions of the world both types of society appear to have coexisted symbiotically thanks to the role of trade.

[BronzTrooper]

who is Brevnau? I'm still fairly new to BSN

 

He's a 

 

 

Spoiler

that's a troll in Skyrim, if you've never played it

 

Basically, he's been spamming threads about how Cassandra and Josephine look like men (most of his complaints have been about Cassandra).  He's on his 3rd account now (first 2 got banned) and he's also been harassing Gaider about Cassandra's 'manliness'.  His current account seems to be Ganalysis.

[Master Warder Z_]

If local resources decline, such a society can simply move to a new region

Like locusts

[CathyMe]

He's a

Spoiler

that's a troll in Skyrim, if you've never played it

Basically, he's been spamming threads about how Cassandra and Josephine look like men (most of his complaints have been about Cassandra). He's on his 3rd account now (first 2 got banned) and he's also been harassing Gaider about Cassandra's 'manliness'. His current account seems to be Ganalysis.

Oh, I remember reading a thread a week back or so, about how Cassandra wasn't sexy, and another one requesting to add boob plate armor, and most people seemed to know the guys ). It was....entertaining.

And yes, I played skyrim and I know what that is

[BronzTrooper]

Oh, I remember reading a thread a week back or so, about how Cassandra wasn't sexy, and another one requesting to add boob plate armor, and most people seemed to know the guys ). It was....entertaining.

 

Yeah, VickVeel was his second incarnation.  The boob plate armor thread is still going, but it's less trolling and more serious discussion now.

 

 

And yes, I played skyrim and I know what that is

 

Better to be safe than sorry  

[Master Warder Z_]

Some of that armor is worthy of attention...

[draken-heart]

I think she looks good.  

 

Well, it is not that bad, but it does fit with the "does not fit in" feeling, along with the "had same-sex crush on keeper" thing.

[draken-heart]

Well, after some thought, I decided to restart my game and recreate my Lavellan as a mage (just because I felt like it, I guess). So here is Panolya Lavellan (do not ask, I just picked the name from somewhere):

 

Still the same character background (minus the not staying inside the clan thing + being the keeper's apprentice). Will ad a proper backstory sometime in the future.

[Master Warder Z_]

That sounds...Indian I'd guess.

Maybe mid eastern american.

Or maybe it's some asianic name I've never encountered...

Bleh

[Lady Artifice]

 His current account seems to be Ganalysis.

 

It very definitely is.

 

Or was. It's been eerily--relatively--quiet. 

[draken-heart]

That sounds...Indian I'd guess.

Maybe mid eastern american.

Or maybe it's some asianic name I've never encountered...

Bleh

 

Got it from a website of elven names or something. I may restart and change the name.

[Master Warder Z_]

Got it from a website of elven names or something. I may restart and change the name.

Ah.

I named my elf.

Breylenf

[draken-heart]

Ah.

I named my elf.

Breylenf

 

I decided to change her name to Melana (meaning time from the wiki for the series). Also made her blonde with what I can only assume are icy blue eyes.

[Master Warder Z_]

I usually either just make up names or use historical names.

[draken-heart]

I usually either just make up names or use historical names.

 

Well, I can't really randomly make up names on the fly. Also, just because, here is a backstory (will provide pictures soon).

 

Melana was born to clan Lavellan, specifically to the keeper of the clan. She grew up like any normal Dalish child, until her magic manifested. When they did, her mother decided to train her as her first. Most of the Dalish felt that this was based off of preferential treatment due to the fact that the keeper was in fact her mother, though she always denied it. Her relationship with her mother/keeper/mentor became sightly antagonistic when she began having odd, some would say sexual, thoughts about the older woman. when news of the Conclave came to the clan, Melana's mother asked her to go. She was okay with it, since it allowed her to clear her head of any problems going on, though she went because it was her duty.

 

well, what do you all think the background? I at least tried to incorporate the give history from the game.

 

Edit: Pictures!

 

Melana slightly ticked at Cassandra.

 

Melana talking with Solas

[Patchwork]

Well, I can't really randomly make up names on the fly. Also, just because, here is a backstory (will provide pictures soon).

 

Melana was born to clan Lavellan, specifically to the keeper of the clan. She grew up like any normal Dalish child, until her magic manifested. When they did, her mother decided to train her as her first. Most of the Dalish felt that this was based off of preferential treatment due to the fact that the keeper was in fact her mother, though she always denied it. Her relationship with her mother/keeper/mentor became sightly antagonistic when she began having odd, some would say sexual, thoughts about the older woman. when news of the Conclave came to the clan, Melana decided that she would go, even if her mother did not want her to, so she was asked to go to placate her.

 

well, what do you all think the background? I at least tried to incorporate the give history from the game.

 

 

 

She wanted to have sex with her mother? 

[Master Warder Z_]

She wanted to have sex with her mother?

I saw nothing wrong with it.

[draken-heart]

She wanted to have sex with her mother? 

 

In her mind. I forgot to put it in, but she tried to push them out of her head which lead to the antagonistic attitude she had. I felt it made sense as a reason for accepting the task to go to the Conclave.

[Caddius]

In her mind. I forgot to put it in, but she tried to push them out of her head which lead to the antagonistic attitude she had. I felt it made sense as a reason for accepting the task to go to the Conclave.

I, uh, went with the old cliche 'Seeing if the silly shems were going to stop tearing up the country and keep the Templars from hunting Keepers on their own' myself. 

[EmperorSahlertz]

Why is the old: Because my "superior officer" ordered me to, not a good enough reason any more?

[Master Warder Z_]

I, uh, went with the old cliche 'Seeing if the silly shems were going to stop tearing up the country and keep the Templars from hunting Keepers on their own' myself.

They had better things to do at the time honestly.

Driving the rebellion back and splintering it to pieces.

[Master Warder Z_]

Why is the old: Because my "superior officer" ordered me to, not a good enough reason any more?

No clue.

[draken-heart]

Why is the old: Because my "superior officer" ordered me to, not a good enough reason any more?

 

I do not know. I just felt like the cliche was not that good, so added a personal reason to make it feel real.

[Patchwork]

I went with originally a City Elf (well farm but still not Dalish) and she was part of the group that usually went to human settlements to trade. With her background, personality and the shapeshifting my girl was the logical choice for the conclave. 

 

Yes shapeshifting -the game might have denied it to me but that doesn't stop me from headcanoning she could turn into a wood mouse, useless in a fight but good for spying and getting away unseen. 

 

I'll be honest your character wanting to have sex with her mother is weird, wanting to have sex with her mentor is less so. 

[themageguy]

For those of you who roll as male elf, who do you choose as love interests?