[Good questions! Here's how I propose handling this: I'm going to give you the basic framework stuff that I know (but which may not have been spelled out in canon) or that can be reasonably extrapolated from canon. Anything outside of that, you are welcome to invent, just as eller has been taking the very scant material on the Hafn and extrapolating her own version of what the Hafn could be like for the purposes of the game. For invented details, if you want any of them to be deliberately inaccurate or scurrilous rumor, please put a note [in brackets] letting us know to help us keep track; I'll do my best to track such material in the wiki if someone doesn't beat me to it.]
Virmad could totes have a Lanterner icon from some unfortunate Lanterner who was captured during some later operations in the Glover March.
All of the following is stuff that Virmad would reasonably be aware of as a person with an interest in the era:
Before going to war with the heptarchate, the Lanterners were a client state that paid nominal homage to heptarchate calendrical norms and doctrine as well as actual tribute/taxes in exchange for a certain small degree of self-determination. This arrangement was originally negotiated, on the heptarchate's side, by some Andan who thought a diplomatic solution was best to protecting the heptarchate's sphere of influence in the region, and Lanterner leaders who were milking the situation for their own internal benefit.
The war happened because people on the Lanterner side came to power who wanted more autonomy than what the heptarchate was willing to give them. The Lanterners also spent some of this period of agitating building a coalition of like-minded neighboring polities (like the Gheffeu that get like a one-line mention in Ninefox).
The dominant Lanterner society has a class system that is largely based on birth, although it is not quite as extreme as a caste system (think British rather than India) and people can intermarry if they're willing to put up with the associated stigma. The military is one of the accepted means of social advancement, hence high-ranking officers being accorded a "courtesy" address of "kae." Their primary language is distantly related to the high language, which perhaps helps explain some of the heptarchate's earlier leniency toward them.
If there's anything else you'd like me to tell you about Lanterner politics/culture, don't hesitate to ping me again.]
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Re: info about the Lanterners - paging GM
Date: 2018-12-06 04:26 am (UTC)Virmad could totes have a Lanterner icon from some unfortunate Lanterner who was captured during some later operations in the Glover March.
All of the following is stuff that Virmad would reasonably be aware of as a person with an interest in the era:
Before going to war with the heptarchate, the Lanterners were a client state that paid nominal homage to heptarchate calendrical norms and doctrine as well as actual tribute/taxes in exchange for a certain small degree of self-determination. This arrangement was originally negotiated, on the heptarchate's side, by some Andan who thought a diplomatic solution was best to protecting the heptarchate's sphere of influence in the region, and Lanterner leaders who were milking the situation for their own internal benefit.
The war happened because people on the Lanterner side came to power who wanted more autonomy than what the heptarchate was willing to give them. The Lanterners also spent some of this period of agitating building a coalition of like-minded neighboring polities (like the Gheffeu that get like a one-line mention in Ninefox).
The dominant Lanterner society has a class system that is largely based on birth, although it is not quite as extreme as a caste system (think British rather than India) and people can intermarry if they're willing to put up with the associated stigma. The military is one of the accepted means of social advancement, hence high-ranking officers being accorded a "courtesy" address of "kae." Their primary language is distantly related to the high language, which perhaps helps explain some of the heptarchate's earlier leniency toward them.
If there's anything else you'd like me to tell you about Lanterner politics/culture, don't hesitate to ping me again.]