Well, in fact I did comment about the rumour that Icus left the Akenak to search for a returned Dexton here: http://app.ryzom.com/app_forum/index.php?page=post/view/126944.
Since Salazar is no longer in politics, and since the political strings between the Fyros and Matis were cut some time ago anyway, I - as his player - felt no need to get him actually involved. Any question about the ways to get into the story have indeed to be asked those who have either characters living there or who want to be part of this or feel the need to get involved. Again, I wonder why it obviously was not a theme at the Akenak Assemblies, where it would fit nicely. It is the first time I hear Akenak or Fyros patriots from the English language and German community are actually involved in this, by the way; at least you give the impression that this is the case.
Regarding the ranger series of events the problem was that both the Akenak as well as the Taliari had agreed to the termite experiments, while both the Circles and the Chamber of Nobles turned it down. The first steps towards that botanical solution were, in fact, taken by the French Zorai community, namely Fey-Lin, and while Salazar (then still member of the Chamber of Nobles) just joined the expedition out of interest for an alternative he - as a Matis - found much more interesting immediately, he jumped on it when it turned out the legacy of the great Almati was involved. We had found or received or just joined a storyline not completely of our own, but one we were pretty excited about. That in the end it was almost hijacked by the Matis Nobles (which are mainly French, as you know) was partly because Fey-Lin had left the game, which had the Zorai loosing their original driving force in that matter. It would take some time to explore how the Matis were pressed into the termites plot (while the Zorai were not). The grafting of that other plot on us strangled all the Matis communities, and while we lived through it, the compromise we reached was not very logical and somewhat of a sellout. We are very grateful, though, for the ETs efforts to save the day.
Regarding the involvement of, say, all the Germans in regional storylines I can't really comment. It obviously is the case in Tryker storylines, but then they are Trykers. What the German Fyros do, I have no idea - I wasn't in the desert in ages. As far as German Matis are concerned I'd like to point out that we are about a handful at best involved in RP. The purely German Matis plots we had ("A Bodoc for Davae" probably was the only one) would have been impossible with, say, two Matis joining and no-one else (I wasn't there, so can't say how many were there, in fact).
Just on a side note: before the merge, the German Matis Assembly was always closed to the public. Only the Royal representatives, the Nobles, and the ambassadors of the other nations were allowed there. I can tell you I was pretty surprised to see everybody walking in at will at the Chamber Assemblies here. ;)
Finally, regarding the ET and past server histories: I'm very aware of all that, and I have high respect for the ETs. In fact, I try to avoid mention pre-merge events when interacting, like Dexton's death at the Cerakos gate on Leanon. I only get them out when some other player hits me hard with a pre-merge history from another server sharply contradicting mine. The one which usually pops up is the burning of Thesos. Now it happens that I'm pretty proud of my part in avoiding that war on Leanon (which we could not have won anyway), so please have some understanding that I don't swallow that bait hook, line and sinker. ;)
Since Salazar is no longer in politics, and since the political strings between the Fyros and Matis were cut some time ago anyway, I - as his player - felt no need to get him actually involved. Any question about the ways to get into the story have indeed to be asked those who have either characters living there or who want to be part of this or feel the need to get involved. Again, I wonder why it obviously was not a theme at the Akenak Assemblies, where it would fit nicely. It is the first time I hear Akenak or Fyros patriots from the English language and German community are actually involved in this, by the way; at least you give the impression that this is the case.
Regarding the ranger series of events the problem was that both the Akenak as well as the Taliari had agreed to the termite experiments, while both the Circles and the Chamber of Nobles turned it down. The first steps towards that botanical solution were, in fact, taken by the French Zorai community, namely Fey-Lin, and while Salazar (then still member of the Chamber of Nobles) just joined the expedition out of interest for an alternative he - as a Matis - found much more interesting immediately, he jumped on it when it turned out the legacy of the great Almati was involved. We had found or received or just joined a storyline not completely of our own, but one we were pretty excited about. That in the end it was almost hijacked by the Matis Nobles (which are mainly French, as you know) was partly because Fey-Lin had left the game, which had the Zorai loosing their original driving force in that matter. It would take some time to explore how the Matis were pressed into the termites plot (while the Zorai were not). The grafting of that other plot on us strangled all the Matis communities, and while we lived through it, the compromise we reached was not very logical and somewhat of a sellout. We are very grateful, though, for the ETs efforts to save the day.
Regarding the involvement of, say, all the Germans in regional storylines I can't really comment. It obviously is the case in Tryker storylines, but then they are Trykers. What the German Fyros do, I have no idea - I wasn't in the desert in ages. As far as German Matis are concerned I'd like to point out that we are about a handful at best involved in RP. The purely German Matis plots we had ("A Bodoc for Davae" probably was the only one) would have been impossible with, say, two Matis joining and no-one else (I wasn't there, so can't say how many were there, in fact).
Just on a side note: before the merge, the German Matis Assembly was always closed to the public. Only the Royal representatives, the Nobles, and the ambassadors of the other nations were allowed there. I can tell you I was pretty surprised to see everybody walking in at will at the Chamber Assemblies here. ;)
Finally, regarding the ET and past server histories: I'm very aware of all that, and I have high respect for the ETs. In fact, I try to avoid mention pre-merge events when interacting, like Dexton's death at the Cerakos gate on Leanon. I only get them out when some other player hits me hard with a pre-merge history from another server sharply contradicting mine. The one which usually pops up is the burning of Thesos. Now it happens that I'm pretty proud of my part in avoiding that war on Leanon (which we could not have won anyway), so please have some understanding that I don't swallow that bait hook, line and sinker. ;)
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Salazar CaradiniFilira Matia
Royal Historian
Member of the Royal Academy of Yrkanis
First Seraph of the Order of the Argo Navis