Greetings! I'm Duke Nicholas, your Minister for Applications and Settlement. Pleased to meet you and to welcome you to our commons!
Like my esteemed fellow Duke, I am most pleased to see another newcomer peer into Hermertia! I'm greatly curious to learn of your origins: we have heard tell of many a distant realm, shrouded in mist far past our Great Border Mountains. Could the lands of Civilexia be one of these?
Though we have recently emerged from a Dark Age where a number of our oldest historical documents were lost to time (as Sam has revealed), some of our faithful scribes have compiled a history of much of the Old World (from our founding in 2010 to 2013):
viewtopic.php?f=9&t=193 . Furthermore, you have arrived at the gates of Hermertia at a point where we are getting fast underway in the construction of a new library: check out our work so far, including lots of history and charts, here:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5Bi7 ... mtwaHhTNU0You might like to check out some of our highlights as a community here:
http://imgur.com/a/vGyJP#0 ; it shows off arguably our greatest strength in our great group of players.
If you have any other questions about our history, please do ask: many of us have been around for yonks and can provide some historical context.
Finally, I would appreciate it if you could provide some answers to a couple questions I typically ask of new applicants:
-Are you particular to building in certain biomes?
- What sorts of skills would you see yourself bringing to Hermertia? You mention skills such as raiding and diplomacy; how would you hope to incorporate these into our world?
-If you ran into conflict where you and another player wanted to build in the same location, how would you resolve the issue?
I'll leave these thoughts with you good sir! Over the next bit you should see some more of the community respond to your application; many will no doubt have questions of their own. Again, I'll refer you to our discussion of the application process (
viewtopic.php?f=13&t=58) for the run-down of what you can expect next. While you're waiting, I absolutely encourage you to take a look around the forums at the many different aspects of life in Hermertia, and to shoot me a pm or reply here with any questions you might have.
Until then, I'll leave off with an introduction to the Imperial motto since time immemorial:
For Glory!