Thanks everyone who joined us for the Crossroads of the World event, it is now complete! This whole collection contains civilizations based in the Central Asia/Steppe region, all from various authors!
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Start of event/Bukhara: There are forces massing. A seemingly empty crossroad, harsh sunlight beating down upon it, has yet to reveal its secrets. There was once, many years ago, people here... but now... that time has long past. Here, in the dirt, the legacy of empire lives. That prosperity is no more.
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Sibir: A place once known for its legacy of khans; A khan once forced from this home; Homelands whose conditions harshened by the seasons; a seasoned veteran that appears once more
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East Turkestan: Dying in a region they call home exists the remnants of an unfinished battle
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Sogdiana: In the world's intersection lies a gate of wealth that people of all backgrounds paid homage to
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Sorghaghtani's Mongolia: Inside the empire with a never before seen belief, a direct causation to some of the world's greatest empires is found
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Kokand: A state freed from its enemies yet never truly unbound by; One beauty said to address injustice
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Tajikistan: A people historically lacking a state set free; freedom well met with a rift
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Zunghars: In a new place a people were born anew; but born into a realm plagued with constant conflicts
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Ghurids: Distant cultures altered for centuries to come, due to the unlikely conquest by these patrons
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Kazan: Stuck in time between the most grand empires; But its conquest was delayed many times, against all odds
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Qara Khitai: Overseers originally from afar; Collectors of cultures, vassals, and languages they claimed their own
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Ogedei's Mongolia: Not the name most remember from its legacy, but its legacy was pushed to its greatest by his command
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Turkmenistan A state, or a person? Nevertheless, a land dictated by unusual laws
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Kalymks: Far from both ancestral land and religious hearth, alone and unexpected
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Nogay: Forbidden in June, they are so greedy to harvest your wealth and heads, that even Rasputin wants to cancel them
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Afghanistan: After a King’s last stand, his kingdom fell to permanent unrest
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Afsharids: Following the footsteps of his idols, this King of Kings didn't hold back any cruelty
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Kazakhs: An unlikely culture liberated by its own; a people never backing down despite encroaching superpowers
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Yettishar: A foreigner displaced from his own home; a ruler disliked by his new people
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Khiva: Home of histories written and unwritten, exists a people slowly subjected to a fate not dictated by their own
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Zunbils: The east was prone to offensives from the west; but its people protected its fish and sun
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Oxus: Home to a graveyard full of mystery; forged of bronze, lost to history
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Khwarezm: Born with the task to fend off the mightiest and bloodiest of invaders; yet the richness of the once powerful ceased
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Xinjiang: Switching sides to stay alive, X marks the spot where the gold is buried
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Bukhara/End of event: In our beginning, there was the end. But its beginning was our end.