Global Politics (CCW)

Humanity is at a crossroads and must face several pressing questions about its past and future.

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Strangers: Opposition or Cooperation?
The world shrinks. The Druids in the west, tied to the land and its forests, are breaking immemorial tradition and taking to the seas. The Rvorh to the east are revealing themselves to be more powerful and unified than anyone suspected. Humanity, which always thought highly of itself, now must face a reality in which they are a secondary player in a world of mega-powers. Some are suspicious, some are angry, some think it best we make friends and not enemies. This doesn’t just concern the major powers, but all of Evinkind, who human nations are increasingly forced to ally with or oppose. What must we do when our neighbors are strangers no longer?

Wars against the Gods: Triumph or Tragedy?
For two thousand years, humanity struggled against its gods and finally triumphed, freeing itself from oppression—so the narrative goes. Some would pose another story: small groups of irreverent and power-hungry nations took it upon themselves to topple humanity’s greatest protectors and corrupted the world to their own taste. Who has the right of it? Most people sit somewhere between the extremes, yet still lean one way or another. And with the possibility that the gods could return…well the question is no longer a toothless one at all.

Vadraedic Empires: Tyrants or Civilizers?
The last thousand years has seen most human nations in the role of colonizer or colonized, with varying consequences. No colonizers have been as prominent as the Vadraedic island nations, many who claim to be improving the nations they conquer. The Capalesians even claim that their rule is essential to the very survival of the species, and certainly, powerful nations have had the strength to defend against powerful threats.

In some cases wealth is brought to the colonized nations. In most, it is extracted. Infrastructure is built, trade networks are connected, peace is kept… yet few reap the benefits of the greatest advances and prosperities while new forms of violence are inflicted. And with most the old empires fading away now, their legacy has been put into full relief. Is it time to oppose Empire for good? Or do we need it more than ever? And if so, can it be done right?

Religion: Personal Faith or State Institution?
Most humans have never had the luxury of religious freedom. They transitioned seamlessly from Dalgun Immortal worshiping to the mage-based Cosmacan faiths, all state religions. But with the spreading of the very personal and proselytic Compassic Faith, droves are abandoning official churches to form their own. Should these converts be allowed their freedom? Or will conflicting ideologies unravel the nations?