What question do you want to ask AU?

[Kiu Ghesik]

-snorp-

I haven't actually thought about that; it's likely, given that they associate horses and other beasts of burden with wealth, but I suspect it'd be a more "baron" sort of relationship than one of nobility, and the entire band of such a breeder would be considered entitled to their wealth and the management of that exceptionally large herd. I think, at least, I haven't worked it all out yet.

I have two questions regarding the Sky-Mother, hopefully you will like these questions.

1. When did the Ghesite people start believing in the Sky-Mother and how did it become a popular religion among the people?

2. Is the Sky-Mother real in the world of your nation or did the Ghesite people just have a crazy imagination when it comes to the winds and clouds?

1) Whenever it was, it was long enough ago that it's passed out of their ancestral memory. However, from an OOC standpoint it took place around the time that their specific sect broke off from the pastoralists living in the south Kiadan and moved north to enter into the Basin; their existing religion was already a significantly animist one with the idea of a centralized "mother deity" that was associated with the sky, but

moving through Berghi ethnic territory over the course of fifty years or so led to the adoption of a more rigid pantheon of "gods" that would come to be roughly the Cardinal Winds' divine roles, and the Berghi's adoption of some of Ejadrir's more positive traits to represent their proto-conception of Tejisi.

Note that this was literally 1500 years ago and the shift of Tejisi into a darker, more aloof figure based off of the present conception of Ejadrir is the result of an entirely separate and far more hostile cultural intermingling largely taking place after the Battle without End during ~800 TG; the Berghi Empire did not exist at the time, nor did the Cult of the Four.

2) It's deliberately left ambiguous and I won't answer one way or the other. On the one hand, it clearly acts like a "religion" in the sense that it's a belief set that changes over time and has definite cultural influences in a way that might be said to discredit it; on the other, Ari saw something in that grassfire a couple years ago and it looked a hell of a lot like the outline of a fifty-meter-tall thing cut from wind and ash.

Was that the embodiment of the Flensing Wind? Maybe. Or maybe it was just coincidence.

We'll have to wait and find out.

/skip
/do Shin-Makai

[Cavirfi]

Q1) Why did you rewrite your entire nation instead of creating an entirely new one?

Q2) How do you manage your writing time? You pretty much created an entire nation in three days and that's quite impressive.

Q3) Banner change when?

Q4) Do corrupt priests exist in the Way of the Great Spirit?

Q5) What made you choose Royalty over a Prime Minister for the rewrite?

---

Shin-Makai
The Neo Wokou Raiders
The Shin-Sonno Joi
FenexOrg
FenexOrg ABRIDGED
The Northern Wind Marauders
Caribbean Arena
India 2 Nuclear Boogaloo

Is FenexOrg ABRIDGED, the "low-budget" version of FenexOrg proper?

[Socialist Macronesia]

Q1) Why did you rewrite your entire nation instead of creating an entirely new one?

Q2) How do you manage your writing time? You pretty much created an entire nation in three days and that's quite impressive.

Q3) Banner change when?

Q4) Do corrupt priests exist in the Way of the Great Spirit?

Q5) What made you choose Royalty over a Prime Minister for the rewrite?

---

Shin-Makai
The Neo Wokou Raiders
The Shin-Sonno Joi
FenexOrg
FenexOrg ABRIDGED
The Northern Wind Marauders
Caribbean Arena
India 2 Nuclear Boogaloo

1. What's with your "signature signature" line of "It's DATE and THING IS GOING ON." It's in every one of your nations I think. Where did it come from? And why do you keep using it?

2. How many times has this particular nation been confused with Shin-Mutsu of Sanghyeok fame? I personally get you two confused all the time.

3. Are you ever going to finish Fenex's factbooks and stuff? Or are you going to keep working on your alts?

4. What's your favorite flavor of ice cream?

5. <sub>why'd you try to leave the fete thread, fenex

you'll never escape, you know that</sub>

Damn ninjas. Editing.

AN: 1. Call this impolite, but whose bones are in the bone china? I must know.

2. Why does your military have more infantry in the Air Force and Naval branches than the Army does? There's a difference between Infantry and support units...

3. Why 200 battleships? That seems very expensive, and probably also impractical. But whatever... floats your boat?

_{I'll see myself out.}

[UNSPDC]

Q1. What's the inspiration for the insurgent organization PO?
Q2. What is, in your opinion, the most overused NS military doctrine?
Q3. Trivial, but what's your favorite firearm?

[Cavirfi]

Q1) Why did you rewrite your entire nation instead of creating an entirely new one?

Q2) How do you manage your writing time? You pretty much created an entire nation in three days and that's quite impressive.

Q3) Banner change when?

Q4) Do corrupt priests exist in the Way of the Great Spirit?

Q5) What made you choose Royalty over a Prime Minister for the rewrite?

---

Shin-Makai
The Neo Wokou Raiders
The Shin-Sonno Joi
FenexOrg
FenexOrg ABRIDGED
The Northern Wind Marauders
Caribbean Arena
India 2 Nuclear Boogaloo

1. What's with your "signature signature" line of "It's DATE and THING IS GOING ON." It's in every one of your nations I think. Where did it come from? And why do you keep using it?

2. How many times has this particular nation been confused with Shin-Mutsu of Sanghyeok fame? I personally get you two confused all the time.

3. Are you ever going to finish Fenex's factbooks and stuff? Or are you going to keep working on your alts?

4. What's your favorite flavor of ice cream?

5. <sub>why'd you try to leave the fete thread, fenex

you'll never escape, you know that</sub>

Damn ninjas. Editing.

AN: 1. Call this impolite, but whose bones are in the bone china? I must know.

2. Why does your military have more infantry in the Air Force and Naval branches than the Army does? There's a difference between Infantry and support units...

3. Why 200 battleships? That seems very expensive, and probably also impractical. But whatever... floats your boat?

_{I'll see myself out.}

1. The Bone China Company has nothing to do with bones, it's what the British called Porcelain back in the 19th to 20th centuries.

2. Wait, they are called support units? Didn't know that. May change wording.

3. Because I can.

/skipme

[The Saucer Pilots]

Q1. What's the inspiration for the insurgent organization PO?
Q2. What is, in your opinion, the most overused NS military doctrine?
Q3. Trivial, but what's your favorite firearm?

1) Are the Abyssals allies with the Aliens or are they competing antagonists?
2) Is the UN fine with Far-Right figures running a major operation because of different geopolitical dynamics in your canon or is it sheer desperation?
3) What's your favorite X-Com game?

[Aeritai]

According to your overview for your nation, you mentioned that the Air Fleet postponed their invasion on Earth because they found the humans amusing. So, I like to ask two questions regarding this information.

1. What makes the humans so amusing to the Air Fleet?


2. What would've have happened to the humans on Earth had the Air Fleet decided not to postpone their invasion?

[Kiu Ghesik]

When making your rework, what made you go for fantasy over anything else? Do you think that dropping the previous form of Aeritai entirely is a change for the better? What do you find appealing about high fantasy?

[Atheara]

Would you like to write a steampunk based nation?
Do you think you have a theme for a new country you could possibly start writing in the future?
Will you write more countries?

[FenexOrg]

Q1) Have you ever watched Nijisanji?

Q2) You do know that Nerevaska is dead...right?

Q3) What does the law entail when it comes to mental punishment?

Q4) So...what gave you the idea to make your leader an actual VPresident?

---

Q1) do you have any other interesting ideas for other Sven characters?

A1) I have an idea for a campy bond-esque villain Sven with the Leader of the NTLF (for whom her name is yet to be disclosed) to be a James Bond expy who will fight him.

---

Q2) which, in your opinion, is the most "likely" end for Fenex? and a theological secondary question, how precisely does divinity work in Fenex' world if it can be broken up, shared around, or transferred from one being to another, and yet remains a structural pillar of the cosmos?

A2) I would say either Space Sengoku or Heaven Achieved would be the most likely ending for FenexOrg. As for how divinity works, think of it as more like reality warping. Divinity in the FenexOrg universe is the ability to manipulate the world around you. Prometheum, in this case, is a gateway for mortals to harness this ability. Basically, divinity is like coding software and said software can be engraved into your soul but can also be forcefully ripped off by other devices and/or divinity users.

---

Q3) do i even want to know what you plan to do in mnm's rp
also how can you say something so controversial and yet so brave
A3) no, no you do not (wait, I was in an RP?)
Also, it is in my nature to utter such blasphemous statements.[/url]

---

Q4) trivial question, but what's your favorite kind of music?
A4) Eurobeat

[Kiu Ghesik]

Would you like to write a steampunk based nation?
Do you think you have a theme for a new country you could possibly start writing in the future?
Will you write more countries?

1) no; most steampunk is... a bad genre, imo. it replaces the hellscape of an industrializing nation with literally no labor laws with nifty gadgets and funny steam gizmos, and still tries to keep the dark aesthetic- it's entirely stylistic and I've yet to see a pure steampunk setting that conveys any deeper meaning. other -punk genres without the baggage of Victorian industrialism do much better at that, but steampunk kills nuance if done improperly imo.
2) not yet, but I've had ideas in the past.
3) probably? I dunno, I've got a lot to get done first.

-snip'd-

1) do you have any other interesting ideas for other Sven characters?
2) which, in your opinion, is the most "likely" end for Fenex? and a theological secondary question, how precisely does divinity work in Fenex' world if it can be broken up, shared around, or transferred from one being to another, and yet remains a structural pillar of the cosmos?
3) do i even want to know what you plan to do in mnm's rp
also how can you say something so controversial and yet so brave
4) trivial question, but what's your favorite kind of music?

[Baizou]

Would you like to write a steampunk based nation?
Do you think you have a theme for a new country you could possibly start writing in the future?
Will you write more countries?

1) no; most steampunk is... a bad genre, imo. it replaces the hellscape of an industrializing nation with literally no labor laws with nifty gadgets and funny steam gizmos, and still tries to keep the dark aesthetic- it's entirely stylistic and I've yet to see a pure steampunk setting that conveys any deeper meaning. other -punk genres without the baggage of Victorian industrialism do much better at that, but steampunk kills nuance if done improperly imo.
2) not yet, but I've had ideas in the past.
3) probably? I dunno, I've got a lot to get done first.

-snip'd-

1) do you have any other interesting ideas for other Sven characters?
2) which, in your opinion, is the most "likely" end for Fenex? and a theological secondary question, how precisely does divinity work in Fenex' world if it can be broken up, shared around, or transferred from one being to another, and yet remains a structural pillar of the cosmos?
3) do i even want to know what you plan to do in mnm's rp
also how can you say something so controversial and yet so brave
4) trivial question, but what's your favorite kind of music?

Hiya!

Is there any particular research that goes into Kiu Ghesik and CGB-Palisade? There's a lot of nuance that seems to go beyond cultural osmosis. Is there a Wikipedia article, documentary, book, or something else you've learned from that you'd recommend?

What's your favorite part about your new Ari factbook? (Again, it's all quite swell.)

To move to questions of an entirely different kind, what's a film you would want to recommend? And what's your favorite soft drink?

[UNSPDC]

Q1. What's the inspiration for the insurgent organization PO?
Q2. What is, in your opinion, the most overused NS military doctrine?
Q3. Trivial, but what's your favorite firearm?

1) Are the Abyssals allies with the Aliens or are they competing antagonists?
2) Is the UN fine with Far-Right figures running a major operation because of different geopolitical dynamics in your canon or is it sheer desperation?
3) What's your favorite X-Com game?

A1. Competing antagonists. They're both enemies with the same goal; beating the shit out of Humanity. The only reason they're considered "on the same side" is due to Humanity wanting to simplify who they're dealing with. But they open fire on each other anyways, so there's that.
A2. They're pretty fine with it, as they're riling up support for the War, although originally it was out of sheer desperation.
A3. I think it'd have to be Enemy Unknown, pretty fun game, I tried it once and I actually had fun with it.

/SKIPME

[The Saucer Pilots]

According to your overview for your nation, you mentioned that the Air Fleet postponed their invasion on Earth because they found the humans amusing. So, I like to ask two questions regarding this information.

1. What makes the humans so amusing to the Air Fleet?


2. What would've have happened to the humans on Earth had the Air Fleet decided not to postpone their invasion?

Hi Aeritai:

1) Because there are no aliens or cultural variety nearby in my Canon; the deeply disturbing implication that humanity is alone bugged the Anhu, whom are essentially inter-dimensional/time-travelling humans from Earth. The sheer difference of Earth's societies to their own intrigued many of them in the same way "primitive" societies on Earth interest anthropologists and gawkers. Most Anhu regard the world's nation-states as something akin to a reality TV show or a tacky gonzo film about Sentinelese or Amazonian tribespeople or hillbillies. More deeply, they're glad to have an Other or an "alterity" in which they can compare Anhu cultural "normality" with the "exotic" as they're simply not alone anymore.

2) Unlike Hollywood movies, everybody living in an urban center with over 75,000 people would've perished from high-density kinetic rod bombardment or pure fusion nukes suddenly air-bursting in the first minutes of invasion; select capital cities would've probably gotten spared out of a need for administrative issues. Isolated military installations, oil refineries and other electricity generating stations would've also gotten hit. Everybody else (rural populations) would've had to submit to the occupying force of the Air Domain and it's drone strikes under "Operation Enduring Stability" and collective reprisals with nuclear devices would have ensued for years in the event of guerrilla war or until the Magic Committee would've stopped twiddling their thumbs and gone ahead with a hearts and minds campaign to "civilize" Earthlings...not pretty.

snip

1) Will Baizouan governments' overlapping jurisdictions ever be fixed with a more neatly Federal or centralized approach?
2) How does the Isle get the majority of it's power?
3) Trivial time: who is your favorite Umineko character?

[Atheara]

Q1) Have you ever watched Nijisanji?

Q2) You do know that Nerevaska is dead...right?

Q3) What does the law entail when it comes to mental punishment?

Q4) So...what gave you the idea to make your leader an actual VPresident?

---

Q1) do you have any other interesting ideas for other Sven characters?

A1) I have an idea for a campy bond-esque villain Sven with the Leader of the NTLF (for whom her name is yet to be disclosed) to be a James Bond expy who will fight him.

---

Q2) which, in your opinion, is the most "likely" end for Fenex? and a theological secondary question, how precisely does divinity work in Fenex' world if it can be broken up, shared around, or transferred from one being to another, and yet remains a structural pillar of the cosmos?

A2) I would say either Space Sengoku or Heaven Achieved would be the most likely ending for FenexOrg. As for how divinity works, think of it as more like reality warping. Divinity in the FenexOrg universe is the ability to manipulate the world around you. Prometheum, in this case, is a gateway for mortals to harness this ability. Basically, divinity is like coding software and said software can be engraved into your soul but can also be forcefully ripped off by other devices and/or divinity users.

---

Q3) do i even want to know what you plan to do in mnm's rp
also how can you say something so controversial and yet so brave
A3) no, no you do not (wait, I was in an RP?)
Also, it is in my nature to utter such blasphemous statements.[/url]

---

Q4) trivial question, but what's your favorite kind of music?
A4) Eurobeat

1. I have a few times, mostly the Indonesian sector.

2. Yes, i guess i was just too burdened with it.

3. By "Mental" like in terms that we crack people' minds. Driving them through insanity, pretty much.

4. I think you should know where that came from...

/Skip

[Wochaystein]

According to your overview for your nation, you mentioned that the Air Fleet postponed their invasion on Earth because they found the humans amusing. So, I like to ask two questions regarding this information.

1. What makes the humans so amusing to the Air Fleet?


2. What would've have happened to the humans on Earth had the Air Fleet decided not to postpone their invasion?

Hi Aeritai:

1) Because there are no aliens or cultural variety nearby in my Canon; the deeply disturbing implication that humanity is alone bugged the Anhu, whom are essentially inter-dimensional/time-travelling humans from Earth. The sheer difference of Earth's societies to their own intrigued many of them in the same way "primitive" societies on Earth interest anthropologists and gawkers. Most Anhu regard the world's nation-states as something akin to a reality TV show or a tacky gonzo film about Sentinelese or Amazonian tribespeople or hillbillies. More deeply, they're glad to have an Other or an "alterity" in which they can compare Anhu cultural "normality" with the "exotic" as they're simply not alone anymore.

2) Unlike Hollywood movies, everybody living in an urban center with over 75,000 people would've perished from high-density kinetic rod bombardment or pure fusion nukes suddenly air-bursting in the first minutes of invasion; select capital cities would've probably gotten spared out of a need for administrative issues. Isolated military installations, oil refineries and other electricity generating stations would've also gotten hit. Everybody else (rural populations) would've had to submit to the occupying force of the Air Domain and it's drone strikes under "Operation Enduring Stability" and collective reprisals with nuclear devices would have ensued for years in the event of guerrilla war or until the Magic Committee would've stopped twiddling their thumbs and gone ahead with a hearts and minds campaign to "civilize" Earthlings...not pretty.

snip

1) Will Baizouan governments' overlapping jurisdictions ever be fixed with a more neatly Federal or centralized approach?
2) How does the Isle get the majority of it's power?
3) Trivial time: who is your favorite Umineko character?

What has had the biggest impact on your political beliefs?

[Cavirfi]

That flag looks suspicious, are you sure this isn't inspired by Dominica's flag?

[Sophia in England]

How would you best describe your political influences and what's your reason for paying such close attention to US politics when you don't live there?

[The Saucer Pilots]

What has had the biggest impact on your political beliefs?

NSG, because I avoid the cringe of talking about them or getting needlessly angry like I did when I was a teen. I'm very quick to anger, I have to admit, as much as it reveals a deficient in emotional intelligence. And also lectures on YIMBYs, water supply and satellite cities...but do you really want to hear me ramble about urban planning instead of my stories about Roswell and ayys?
/SKIP

[Cavirfi]

How would you best describe your political influences and what's your reason for paying such close attention to US politics when you don't live there?

My political influences were probably a mixture of the Catholic Church, the LGBTQ+ Community, the Feminist Movement, and the MGTOW movement altogether, weird; I know.

I pay close attention to US Politics because the country I live in is heavily influenced by it. Whatever happens in America affects my homeland, so...

/skipme

[Kiu Ghesik]

Hiya!

Is there any particular research that goes into Kiu Ghesik and CGB-Palisade? There's a lot of nuance that seems to go beyond cultural osmosis. Is there a Wikipedia article, documentary, book, or something else you've learned from that you'd recommend?

What's your favorite part about your new Ari factbook? (Again, it's all quite swell.)

To move to questions of an entirely different kind, what's a film you would want to recommend? And what's your favorite soft drink?

1. there's some research that goes into the Kiu and Palisade, but again, a lot of it is reading between the lines, original stuff, and having far too much time on my hands. the Wikipedia articles on some of the odder religious theologies of the 1700s derived from deistic thought were pretty useful with coming up with the Mother, but at this point I'm more or less going off my AP World History class's lessons on cultural intermingling and the transmission of ideas from one place to another (i.e. the spread of Islam in India through trade and philosophy along with open conquest), developing my own lore from the places that haven't been filled in and seeing where the odd spots take me, and a smattering of knowledge from too many sources to count. it's not one thing, really; it's tidbits and odd trivia from various places, not all of which I remember.
   
   something odd that helped with developing Palisade that I might suggest is actually something of my own making. I constructed a flowchart of the various factions and historical stuff in order to help me fill in the gaps I saw and to suggest to me new gaps to fill in and relationships that might exist, and it led to entire factions being created; the revolutionaries in the SPESS!college that I've yet to write about, for instance, are basically "how do the Free League and the Interim Government struggle to influence the new generation being raised under the Interim Government but still remembering the Confederacy through a nostalgic lens?" and that flowchart, along with making visualisations and graphics of my work, pretty much inspired that whole-cloth.
   
   
   
2. my favorite part about the new Ari factbook is... probably Sfaroghin's campaign and his death; it's a selection of scenes that I can really empathize with and picture vibrantly, given that it's such an emotionally traumatic time in her life with such strong, yet internalized feelings coupled with imagery of rain and storms that I really like. I mean, I just imagine her being an angry teenager then dealing with a world she doesn't understand, and honestly I love it and wish I could do it justice with a longer bit of prose.
   
   
   
3. ooh, film! uh... haven't watched many movies recently, but if I were to recommend one it would probably be Interstellar. I know it's a really common movie that most people have probably seen but I really enjoy it and it's probably my favorite movie, period. if they made a Silmarillion movie I'd obvs. recommend that. my favorite soft drink is this absolute abomination I created thanks to the cursed, hellish monster that is the American self-serve soft drink vendor that involves mixing one-third Dr. Pepper and two-thirds diet root beer. it's incredibly bitter and I don't know why I like it but I do.

How would you best describe your political influences and what's your reason for paying such close attention to US politics when you don't live there?

Where'd the inspiration for sending Oomiya to England come from, if you don't mind me asking such a boring question? I recall the letter she sent to an English paper around the turn of the 1900s from your other factbooks, did that lend to this concept's creation in any way? And if you don't mind me asking, how does she feel about going through education over and over again, given that she's basically hopping from institute to institute right now?

[Baizou]

1) Will Baizouan governments' overlapping jurisdictions ever be fixed with a more neatly Federal or centralized approach?
2) How does the Isle get the majority of it's power?
3) Trivial time: who is your favorite Umineko character?

1. I want to make a future compass at some point that might imply certain government reforms taking place. But in Baizou's "active present" of 2004 I don't think it'll ever change. The amusing absurdity of Baizou's interwoven parliamentary-government-executive-judicial morass is part of what makes Baizou fun for me. Even "A Revolutionary Compromise" as a prose piece feels something that is eternally happening in the immediate future of any Baizou forum post, rather than something that exists in its "active present."
2. The Isle as in the island of Baizou-Jima, as in Baizou? Right now, mostly by being the cassette capital of the world. If a nation wants functional cassette computing, they need good relations with Baizou-Jima, whether to get hardware, software, or programming education. Baizou's continually at the cutting edge, technologically speaking, and the rest of the world knows it.
3. Ah, this is a tricky question for me to answer! I'm familiar with Umineko more through hearsay and fancontent. But I usually say Ange. I think it's a combination of factors—sharing the audience's outsider perspective on Rokkenjima, the way her story casts the whole Rokkenjima situation in a new light, and the way she helps the bigger picture of Umineko play out.

/skipme; Kiu's turn.

[Sophia in England]

Where'd the inspiration for sending Oomiya to England come from, if you don't mind me asking such a boring question? I recall the letter she sent to an English paper around the turn of the 1900s from your other factbooks, did that lend to this concept's creation in any way?

Since almost the beginning, Ōmiya's first formal education was written as in the UK, and Cambridge specifically because of how many early Meiji-era Japanese students were educated there following the end of sakoku. However, the letter she wrote to Lady Charlotte (niece of Lady Sophia who's protagonist of this nation) was originally only for informal insight into her politics. Yet after I found there was a gap between the end of Reverberating Days and the events in Sanghyeok, I decided to create another nation. I also wanted Ōmiya to not be the main character of any nation containing her experience in university, mostly because I think it's interesting to explore Ōmiya from an outsider's perspective.

And if you don't mind me asking, how does she feel about going through education over and over again, given that she's basically hopping from institute to institute right now?

Ōmiya's education hasn't actually been that repetitive. If we don't consider her first secondary education in the 1170s at Ashikaga, her only other formal education before the events of Sophia in England is 1470-1471 at Sendai Aoba Academy. So when she starts at Cambridge for the first time, she has around ~15 years of education after being alive for 700+ years, much of which is in the humanities and arts. Almost everything she learns at Cambridge is entirely new to her because it wasn't ever taught before in Japan or elsewhere, since economics as a discipline didn't really exist until the early 1800s. Later on she gains doctorates in economics and political science, and again much of that knowledge is new. Ōmiya doesn't mind learning new things- as long as her weekends aren't too busy and the content is new- so she's perfectly content.

/skip

[Cavirfi]

How did you go from making CBG-Palisade to making Kiu Ghesik?

[Drongonia]

Are you ever going to make more nations to fill out your 3 worlds?