Joat42 wrote:Alistair wrote:What the hell has happened in Siddarmark?? This snippet seems to suggest that Siddarmark is not the primary base for Charis industrial expansion.
That is a surprise if true after all they:
1.They won the war
2.They were industrializing even before the war ended.
3.They have a republic system of governance.
So what has happened in Siddarmark for it not to be the primary base for Charis industrial expansion?
I can see the western inland provinces spending decades recovering from the war and reconciling the Temple Loyalists and the church of Siddarmark but the old province and some of the eastern ones should be roaring along with developments.
If I would take a wild guess, they turned inwards because of all the horrors that befell them with the Sword of Schueler and the Jihad. So they distanced themselves from everyone while trying to rebuild, mend and to come to grips with the aftermath of the war.
This. It was recognized before the end of the Jihad that things in Siddermark were going to be...interesting (in the way of that ancient Chine--er,
Harchong, curse.
Their religious situation is mixed, the loyalists lost, but the reformists weren't jumping to 'Church of Charis' brand reformism.
They saw the products of Charis industry, but didn't repeatedly get their teeth smashed with it the way, oh,
Dohlar did.
There's that little matter of being a republic that just went through a fairly uncivil civil war. I can just imagine the attack ads: 'sellout to Charis' and 'sellout to Clyntahn' are favorites this election cycle.