Slitherine

I've begun thinking about what real-life nation each Sovereignty realm is supposed to be based off. Feel free to discuss your opinions about ones I haven't included and provide better suggestions if you can think of any

Also, for the purposes of this thread ignore the fact that half the realms are not human - I don't wish to call any historical countries Dwarves or anything like that.

Boruvia - Eastern Roman Empire c.1100-1300
Ariselle - Merchant Republic of Venice c.15th to 17th century
Jotland - Norse Countries c. 793-1000
Vessoi - Mongol Empire c.1210-
Icespire - Caledonia c.50ad
Azure Isles - Barbary States of North Africa c.1800 or Caribbean Privateers c.1600

As I said earlier, feel free to add. Developers of the game, we want your input as well

- BNC

Nicely done.

My own guesses so far are:

Ariselle--I think it's actually England. It's army has longbowmen, dragoons, and knights and it's an island nation with a powerful navy.
Boruvian Empire--backstory is pretty strongly Byzantine/Eastern Roman Empire, though it uses hussars as it's cavalry so it's a little of a mix. It also has unused units called cataphracts and hospitallers to further confuse things.
Myrmont--France. It's got gendarmes, one of the game's few very heavy cavalry that isn't an Elite unit and was the heavy cavalry used in late Medieval/Renaissance France. It also has a heavily fortified border with Hadrigel, which seems to be Germany, though allusion to the maginot line may be unintentional.
Hadrigel--Germany/Holy Roman Empire. Ritter was the German word for knight, and landsknechts were famous late-Medieval German mercenaries.
Jotland--fairly clearly based off viking-era Norse countries.
Vessoi--I initially thought they were Mongols, but their units make me think more of the common portrayal of European barbarian tribes, with berserkers and horde warriors and mastadons for a fantasy touch.
Valegorn Palatinate--the Papal States.
Ladvia--Dracula-inspired Wallachia/Romania.
I think Elidon is based off of Italian states, though I'm far from certain. Elidon has a strong focus on mercenaries, which was a common issue with Medieval Italian states, and a good navy. Averine may also have a similar inspiration but I am not certain.

Of course many of the non-human factions seem to have inspiration from common fantasy portrayals. One I find particularly interesting is that the Irony Barony uses the "weak but numerous" orcs similar to Tolkien's, while Khazoth's "fewer but strong and brave orcs" it another common fantasy portrayal of orcs used in other works.

Hehe, good stuff. I can neither confirm nor deny...

Cataphracts and Hospitallers are specialty units held in reserve for a future update. They are part of an inspiration that came from one of the beta players, and their story is yet to be told.

Elidon's focus on mercenaries brings one thought to me - Carthage!

As for Vessoi - the berserkers were a Viking concept, but the Viking title goes to jotland. Maybe the Khazars or the Magyars then?

Weak but numerous Orks is clearly a reference to Warhammer 40k

Ariselle is very interesting to be considered England, seeing as they too had a remote location and a powerful navy. But England only seemed to catch on to the idea of 'Britannia rules the waves' in the 15 or 1600s, medieval England wasn't anything like Industrial Britain.

Calland and the farmer nation near it bring in the thoughts of post-Roman Britain as they tend to keep to themselves and ignore most warfare.

As for the Three Sisters idea - this brings to mind the great allainces in the 30 Years War (1618-1648) and again in the Seven Years War (1754/1756 - 1763 depending on where you are).

Sonneneve, although it isn't a human nation, reminds me a bit of the small Iberian kingdoms in the 7th-11th century (between the Umayyad conquests and the Reconquista) - a midget kingdom holding out while defying a much larger one while keeping to itself a bit.

GrayRiders wrote: Boruvian Empire--backstory is pretty strongly Byzantine/Eastern Roman Empire, though it uses hussars as it's cavalry so it's a little of a mix. It also has unused units called cataphracts and hospitallers to further confuse things.

Well Boruvia being the ERE is pretty much set in stone then.

Breca wrote:Hehe, good stuff. I can neither confirm nor deny...

We want to know what you guys were thinking though

- BNC

I have been enjoying Berany a lot. From the day I started playing them I have thought in the back of my mind that the inspiration for Berany was drawn from Prussia, circa the Napoleonic War period minus the muskets and cannons. They have that feel of a small nation which has the potential to be a military power house and eventually a world power with the right hand guiding them.

Ostwindflak wrote:I have been enjoying Berany a lot. From the day I started playing them I have thought in the back of my mind that the inspiration for Berany was drawn from Prussia, circa the Napoleonic War period minus the muskets and cannons. They have that feel of a small nation which has the potential to be a military power house and eventually a world power with the right hand guiding them.

One could say they can also be compared to Alexander the Great's Macedon c.336 bc. I haven't played the game a lot since it came out of closed beta mode, but spent most of my game time then on Vessoi (largely due to their aggresive and huge nature)

- BNC