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The players will be humans and dragons who are part of the peasant rebellion in Korea.
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Madeline - leans towards playing an outsider, maybe a Mongol
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Around this time there is a 10 year old king whose father is Regent.
 
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Government & official reading is in Chinese.  
 
Government & official reading is in Chinese.  
 
Popular stuff, signs, etc in Hangul
 
Popular stuff, signs, etc in Hangul
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Jeju-do (Cheju)  Island to the south in the straits - 17th cent. period of taxes where men couldn't dive for pearls; women then did; women gained more economic and political power
  
  

Revision as of 21:27, 17 February 2007

Dragons of the Yellow Sea

The players will be humans and dragons who are part of the peasant rebellion in Korea.

Madeline - leans towards playing an outsider, maybe a Mongol



Timeline of events

1850 - The Taiping Rebellion in China.

1862 - Peasant rebellion in Korea. Tonghak, religious movement, equality

Around this time there is a 10 year old king whose father is Regent.



Background

Government & official reading is in Chinese. Popular stuff, signs, etc in Hangul

Jeju-do (Cheju) Island to the south in the straits - 17th cent. period of taxes where men couldn't dive for pearls; women then did; women gained more economic and political power


Dragon ecology

Transport - buses! cargo! Herding, pastoral, goats - flatlands and mountains Agriculture - flatlands Fishing - deep sea fishers, giant tuna, coastal

Mountain dragons - in lakes - wise dragons and bandits Korean cockatrice - kye-ryong (Chariot-pulling beasts from legend). (Kingdom of Silla)