Watyll

The skill plugin is coming back....NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Everything else is awesome though.

Watyll

Ah yes, just fill out the app for record-keeping purposes.

Accepted, welcome to the tribe.

MALI’AHERAL CITIZENSHIP APPLICATION: Name: Orion Jaran ((MCName)): watyll Origins of your birth, and your place of living: I was born in Aegis, while the Mali'aheral had no place of our own to speak of, I lived among the Mali'ame. In Asulon I moved from place to place while looking for my estranged brother Silthein. I have concluded that searching for him further would be pointless. How can you declare you are Mali'thill? If one were to perform a physical examination, one would find that I hold no taint or disability. In addition, my mental health is sound, otherwise I would find it quite difficult to fill out such an application. In addition, I can trace my lineage back three generations, to the sire of my family, Jaran Tal'Igne. Why do you wish to become a citizen of our cihi? Because it is been long years since I have been among my kin, the blessed Mali'aheral, but also for the somewhat more selfish reason of hospitable conditions and a healthy income of sustenance. What is your personal vision for our blessed race? I see a grand future for our race in which the lesser races come to accept us as the wisest and heed the call of peace, stopping their senseless bloodshed. What does maehr'sae hiylun'ehya mean to you? When someone says this phrase to me, it makes me smile, and return the phrase. Maehr'sae hiylun'ehya means to me that we must constantly better our own wisdom, and cultivate it, so that we may better ourselves. What Elven phrase do you particularly take to heart? Please explain why: Khel lent, evar lar'sul- When darkness grows, preserve the steadfast light. I take this phrase to heart because I see it as our responsibility as the blessed race to not fall prey to deceit and corruption. I see this phrase as telling us to set a good example for those who do not understand. What is the subject of the first book you may submit to the college? I may contribute a medical study to the college, as I and my brother once worked together, studying in that field. What would be your reaction if you ever saw a human, orc and unknown Mali'aheral travel the Anthos Highway together? Such a sight would merit nothing more than a disgusted thought, the impure and the lesser races do not merit thinking about. Are there any other details about yourself you wish to relay to the mali’aheral? If you have information about my brothers, Atakos or Silthein, please tell me. It has been long years since I have set eyes upon them.

I'll make another contest post tomorrow. Banned for oh god the nostalgia

Time to relive my good old days, as it's my one year anniversary. Thou art banned for being a snowbird. Silly bird, why u in the snow.

You peoples is silleh, the majority of the antagonists are the beastmen, there are only a few wraiths.

Ooh, me gusta.

Glorious.

Accepted. Welcome to the tribe.

In Abresi, people go about their business. Children play in the fountain near the city, and the bricks lining the roads are covered in dirt, hay and manure. Mothers carry squealing babies as they walk from shop to shop. As you push through the bustling crowds in the capitol city of Oren, a young boy runs up to you, he clutches two Horens in one hand, and in the other a sheaf of papers. Looking scared he presses one into your hands and runs off without looking back. The scrawling text on the fine paper is obviously written by a highborn. Paper Money An Economic Argument Against Monopolies for the Sake of the Empire of Oren Greetings, friends and countrymen. By now you've likely lost the child who I have paid to give this to you. Pay no mind to him, he is but a cog in the machine. Now, I know you have a good pair of eyes, otherwise you wouldn't be able to read this small script I am currently writing in. Have a look around with those eyes. Walk down the street, see who owns every building and every store. What is your answer? It may surprise you that the Goldman Corporation owns so much. The Goldman Corporation has gripped Oren in a monopoly, and a monopoly is bad for business, and bad business is bad for the Empire. Read my arguments, think on them, then decide whether to keep buying Goldman goods or not. Why monopolies are bad for Oren, and any country in general. One, in a monopoly, the consumer is exploited beyond reason. For you see, the more companies there are in the Empire, the more competition there is. Competition means one business wants to outdo the other, and get all of your lovely money. When there is competition, prices stay relatively equal, raising the price runs the risk of losing customers to the other business, lowering it runs the risk of losing profit. However, in a monopoly, there is no competition, because everything is owned by one company. Since this one company owns everything, it can raise prices as much as it likes. In addition to this, the monopolist can resist from selling his product to certain people. Say a man from a certain noble house wanted to buy medicine for his wife. Say this man had recently argued with the monopolist. The monopolist can deny the right of the man to buy medicine, and therefore his wife will most likely die. Discrimination is the message here. Economy is all about freedom for the buyer, the consumer. So where is the freedom if buyers are restricted from buying? Two, monopoly reduces output. Monopolists will often deliberately give less items into the market, so that they can charge greater prices for a smaller amount of items. This leads to shortages in goods. Three, monopolies slow technological development. Think about this for a moment. In a free economy, where there are companies competing(you remember what I said about competition earlier, right?), one company will try to outdo the other by making better and more advanced products. I specifically remember the De Sarkozy's creating quite a bit of inventions in their day. Now, the other company, not to be outdone, will also try to "make the better mousetrap." These companies competing with each other creates new technology, medicine, weaponry, all things benefit from an increase in technological innovation. However, in a monopoly, there is only one company. Why would they try to invent new technology? Nobody is competing with them. The products they pump into the market are making enough profit for them, so why bother with new products. Thus, technology is slowed. Do you want the elves to come up with the next "crossbow?" The orcs? Monopolies cause a technological downhill slope where we, the mighty empire of Oren, might find ourselves bested by those we had conquered in the past. Four, unemployment and wage lowering. In a competitive market(I do hope you remember this by now, I've pounded it into your skull as best I can), companies have to balance out the number of workers with the cost of wages. In a free economy, companies that provide high wages for workers will get the best workers, but aren't able to higher a lot of them. For companies that provide low wages, they get a lot of workers, but said workers aren't very skilled. This balance is completely upset in a monopoly, as one company controls everything. They can hire as many people as they need, and pay all of them whatever they feel. In this way you have skilled people working at jobs that do not require skill, and being paid very little for it. Since they only need a certain number of people, and can afford to pay all of them, they don't need to hire new people. So, those without jobs number many. If this monopoly continues, the streets of Oren will be crowded with beggars. So, these are my arguments against the evils of monopoly and the tyranny of Goldman Co. I know some of you might find it quite dry, or are unable to understand it, so I'll simplify it for you: Goldman. Bad. I know some of you might try to hunt down that child and question him, good luck, he's mute. For those of you who care about the great and powerful Empire we reside in, and show homage to our Emperor, Godfrey the First, I implore you to listen to my warnings and boycott the Goldman company. Start your own smaller businesses! Resist the monopoly!

Dubbed, want to watch a show, not read a book.

To be fair, they were smart enough to figure it out.

-The undead unleashed Iblees on Aegis, destroying the continent- -We moved to a new continent called Asulon where the human nation of Oren became the most powerful, and two new races called the Mori'Quessir and the Kharajyr came into existence- -A massive storm forced us to move continents again, to Anthos, our current map, leaving the Mori behind, the kha remain- -Oren has allied with the dwarves and the kha, creating a world steamrolling superpower-

Tokugawa Ishikawa chuckles "As if they can stop me from coming. What will they do? Arrest me? Pfft."

An elf in the crowd grunts "One of the vassals is all the vassals. Oren should learn to control it's dogs, and keep its word."