Hibernia VI
Violence Seth
Hallowed are the digital halls of eIreland's Tír na nÓg, a far and away place, neither here or there but beyond. Noble are her stalwart citizens, both past and present, fine eRep players from every corner of the world who have come here to contribute their efforts toward eIrish life, love and liberty. Our eCommunity may seem a tad bit laconic as of late, but we manage. Real info is broadcasted to who it needs to be broadcasted to. We are one of the tiniest eNations yet we've possibly the sharpest voice in the whole ensemble cast of other eNations.
We're a proud home to wanderers, exiles, rogues and the truly, truly talented.
I have no ill feelings towards any other ePlayer, their business is their own, but as for the fate of my RL home, well, I can't make it any clearer, if you're wearing that little tricolour badge, you're either all in for eIreland or fooling no one but yourself.
I don't want eIreland wiped so now that I'm in Congress I'll do whatever I can to get a fairer deal for our small community. Any eIrish player, new, middling, old or lost entirely can find an ally in me. The ePlayer with the agenda for their pals is something I'll be watching out for, vigilantly.
The ePlayers that have chosen eIreland as their home, to conduct their business and fight the good fight, have my utmost admiration. Having experienced different eNations and Communities, it's fair to say the current establishment have a decent handle on things and I'm glad to be apart of this months cycle of Congress as a member of the I.L.P. - But, if they mean to rule as anything other than eIrish then I'd sooner go back to no counties, wiped out and ruled by any eNation. I cannae stand usurpers. The effort required to be such a.. Anyway..
I've been welcomed back with aplomb and I'm happy there are so many responsible folk, out there taking care of eIreland when'er I go a rabblin'. As a man living in Ireland I could get up on my tip toes and say my opinion has more weight, but it doesn't and it shouldn't. Although we haven't enough RL players to wave the Green flag as Pearse or Connolly would have it, we do have enough interested, passionate ePlayers, from all over the world, that would see Ireland survive, with it's native culture fertile and alive and with the luck we collectively make for ourselves and our Country, possibly even thrive. And so..
To those players, I give my utmost gratitude as you've given your fealty and labour to an eIreland we all can share. Together we can create an eIreland that any willing ePlayer can call a home, beyond simplistic "Irish Pride", instead an understanding of an eCommunity that requires effort and care, whether it's just social participation, like this or full on, coordinated in-game damage.
I don't think I'm alone in the belief that the average Joe is meant to strive for an exalted version of their chosen homeland, therefor I ask you, my fellow patriots, why not eIreland? An eIreland built by it's brightest thinkers, protected by it's most staunch defenders and held all together by it's faith in Community? If all this sounds far fetched and fanciful then look elsewhere for an eNation to ruin with your dour self. We have the guts, we've the spirit and we have, in abundance, the fighter's glory right where it needs to be, in our deep hearts core.
Glad to be back eÉire!
Éire Abú!
- Seth the Magnificent
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No need to sponsor if you've seen a version of this before, I just needed to fix some of the stranger tangents ha
Keep writing Seth, no matter where choose to stay in this world, I will enjoy each and every single article 🙂
Cheers Fyr 🙂
Best of luck with Nova Theo. It'll take time but good things come to those who wait.
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seth, my good friend, what a joy it is to see new articles by you!
i love your beautiful descriptions, the nice parallelisms, the poetic moments and the elegant prose in all of your articles, and this one is no different.
im not an irish man irl, but i always had a deep love for ireland as a kid, a love which grew more and more over the years when i would meet people from ireland, or when i would read about the hardships that ireland faced versus the englishmen...
its been a hardship that lasted for a millenium, and yet ireland is still standing strong, weathered, tired, but always ready to defend its own values and its untameable spirit.
Eire, the emerald island, Hibernia, the land of the brave people and of the hardy yet honest folks, the glorious Ireland, which i love so much, as if its a part of myself!
be well, my friend, and keep writting great articles like this, you are awesome!
as for the in-game choices and e-countries, here's my story:
a random click made me to choose e-switzerland as my first and main e-nation, which was very different from my irl nation.
over time, i kept going back to my irl nations e-nation community, yet i always returned to e-switzerland shortly afterwards, for that small community of friends and brothers in arms made me feel at home, and it still does today, even after all those years.
im alwyas loyal to my e-swiss nation, and if i can, i will always defend it from any thread, both from external invaders, and from internal troublemakers too...
when you speak about usurpers, trust me, e-switzerland has seen many such bad people, inveders and usurpers, who care only for their personal prestige and for nothing else.
(you've seen such usurpers too recently in e-switzerland, and like you, i cant stand those usurpers at all)
if i wasnt so deeply involved with e-switzerland, i would definitely give it a chance to go to e-ireland and to make some new friends in your e-community and to help people out, if i can...
i love small e-countries because they are united and friendly communities, and unlike big e-nations, you are not lost in the noise and the big drama of those massive groups of people...
its really good, imho.
anyway, whatever you do, be well, and remember: if you ever want to return back to us, we will always have a cold beer and a chair for you, my friend!
Thanks Chris. If the game had a dual citizenship function I'd be half eSwiss 😛
As long as eSwitzerland has players like you on guard you'd needn't worry about any usurpers 🙂
PS: for anyone who might want to read on the historical origins of the old name ''hibernia'' for ireland, keep on reading this comment.
if not, then its OK...
so, the history behind irelands name of ''hibernia'' starts out like this:
pytheas the ancient greek explorer who went upwards to ireland on 320 BC, he called ireland as Iérnē (written as '' Ἰέρνη''), while claudius ptolemeus, another great greek chartographer, on 150 AD, described ireland as Iouerníā (written Ἰουερνία, where "ου"/ou stands for w).
later on, the romans borrowed the greek term ''ierne''/''iouernia'' and reshaped it as ''hibernia'', which was widely used ever since.
ofcourse, the word Ἰουερνία (Iouerníā) was a greek rendering of the celtic name ''Īweriū'', from which later arose the Irish names Ériu and Éire.
ofcourse, the celtic name of ireland, (Īweriū), means "land of winter", which is a beautiful name for the nation.
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