First off, next update is maybe 30% done. I went and had a long spell of writer's block I've had to work through... and as I've usually done when I have writer's block, I
started another AAR, as that tends to get the creative juices flowing again.
Vesimir - Thank you the honor of being CharacterWritAAR of the week. I am humbled.
o You made me finally have to change my signature!
Nikolai - The aim is for a year, maybe a year and a half. I'm probably going to be starting work on the mod in earnest in six months or so.
Sudaxe - See above. The new AAR was a byproduct of me playing with modding in HttT just to get the hang of things before the real deal...
Leviathan07 - It'd be easy to divide the earlier story up based on the lives of the Emperors. Later on the story gets all hodgepodged, and so you'll have to go David Weber Honorverse on it and start having multiple stories running at the same time... oi oi oi...
At the moment, I'm not looking into doing anything with Rome AARisen, mostly because it would need
MAJOR revision and editing at the very least, and that I sincerely still don't like many sections of it. Part of the reason I'm asking my bf (who majored in creative writing) to read over it is so he can become an in-house critic, so to speak, so when I start writing my own work, he can lean over my shoulder and go "ah ah ah! Shouldn't do that!" before I get attached to the words on the page.
As for the social aspects of the empire for the average person... hmm... I haven't explored that enough yet. That sounds like material for a good interim, I think!
Qorten - This thing would be monstrous. Simple as that. Like a tome. Or a multivolume encyclopedia.
armoristan - Nothing much. Nothing to see here!
Thank you for the vote of confidence. If I ever get anything actually published I'm going to make SURE to let all of you know!
RGB - Oh, Altani is definitely screwed out of the whole ulus... you'd better believe Ariq Boke is going to try to give it to an ally after her father was one of his enemies...but don't doubt she's going to TRY to go Daenrys on the whole affair. And with Tokhtamysh, as well as the parts of her father's forces still loyal, she's got a formidable, compact little force...