Post #52748
December 13, 2015, 05:16:50 PM
This is the OOC discussion thread for the Wintrean Union, which, along with the Factbooks thread, I've neglected to start for too long. Anyway, a couple of things I was wanting to clear up:
All the things in the subforum "The Wonderful World of Wintreath" are considered canon in this RP, since our meeting place for our delegates is located on the continent Weiss created (which is unseen on our map but located on the south pole). The center for the Wintreath Union will be located in or near Breithern, since I feel going further inland would prove too cold to our citizens since they're not as acclimated to the unearthly cold. To account for the technological and cultural differences between the people established in Weiss's thread and our RP, we can just say that the people of the continent (which we can refer to as Old Wintreath) are the ancestors of all life on the planet, and nowadays relations are fairly distant but there is a mutual respect.
Also, the focus of the RP, since I feel it's a pretty wide scope. I, for one, love relatively mundane things - writing laws and debating them, all that fun stuff. I know that's not to everyone's liking though, which is why I had the "Are there any internal conflicts/wars in your nation?" section in the applications. My vision for the RP is a mixture of legislative drama and story arcs revolving around international intervention in these wars/crises. I'm not too confident on the legislative parts, though; if it bores others too much, I may scrap it altogether. That being said, I feel it would be a good way to address the problem other RPs have of the RPs moving too quickly for people to keep up with. When life is busy, the RP can focus on laws and stuff; when people are more free, the more action-filled conflicts can begin.
Also, I should mention that our planet is cooled down a few degrees from Earth to reflect the more wintry theme of the region. This was briefly mentioned in the Regional Map Discussion, but I don't think I ever made it entirely clear. You can still have tropical climates and all that stuff, it'll probably just be slightly colder than their counterparts on Earth.