[voice]
One of the most puzzling questions of this place is why, precisely, we've all been brought here. What the commonalities among us are. It's clear that there are indeed similarities; after all, there are many here who speak the same languages - Italian, German, English - even if they obviously come from other words. Others speak languages which I've analyzed and believe to be from language families which do not exist where I come from. So there are clearly divergences, as well.
The task, therefore, is to determine where were are similar.
Speak on the history of your world, inasmuch as you know it. If you recognize any aspect of your own history in the narrative of another, speak up. Attempt to determine whether these similarities are substantial. In order to get the most use from this, let us initially limit the topic of discussion to but one aspect of history: war.
In my home, there's a grand oral and written tradition surrounding the conflict known as the Trojan War. It occurred some thousands of years ago. This war was sparked by the seizure of the wife of a king of Greece by Paris, a prince of Troy; the Greeks consequently attacked Troy.
The city was besieged for ten years before the Greeks finally won through trickery: they built a great hollow wooden horse, a seeming gift, in which their greatest warriors hid, and pretended it was a surrender-offering. When the Trojans celebrated their victory, the Greeks leaped forth and killed the inhabitants, thereby conquering the city.
Do any of you have traditions of a similar war? If not, discuss other conflicts in your own histories.
[OOC: Needless to say, as always, threadjumping is very much encouraged here. Mingle! Talk!]
The task, therefore, is to determine where were are similar.
Speak on the history of your world, inasmuch as you know it. If you recognize any aspect of your own history in the narrative of another, speak up. Attempt to determine whether these similarities are substantial. In order to get the most use from this, let us initially limit the topic of discussion to but one aspect of history: war.
In my home, there's a grand oral and written tradition surrounding the conflict known as the Trojan War. It occurred some thousands of years ago. This war was sparked by the seizure of the wife of a king of Greece by Paris, a prince of Troy; the Greeks consequently attacked Troy.
The city was besieged for ten years before the Greeks finally won through trickery: they built a great hollow wooden horse, a seeming gift, in which their greatest warriors hid, and pretended it was a surrender-offering. When the Trojans celebrated their victory, the Greeks leaped forth and killed the inhabitants, thereby conquering the city.
Do any of you have traditions of a similar war? If not, discuss other conflicts in your own histories.
[OOC: Needless to say, as always, threadjumping is very much encouraged here. Mingle! Talk!]