Thread:Cyrannian/@comment-5496489-20170102034953/@comment-5496489-20170118041812

@Cyrannian Right, well for the opening stages the Persan are basically going to declare war and begin massing their military forces to go on the offensive. One thing to note about the Persan is that while their military is one of the largest in Mirus, as a result of their lifestyle revolving heavily around martial prowess and ability, they tend to use smaller more independent forces better suited for maneuver war. This makes their military seem smaller then it is so the empire may underestimate them a bit.

As for Qliphoggr's influence, during the early years it would be very subtle. The first thing that tends to happen is greater levels of conformity as it slowly erodes the general populace's freewill, eventually beginning to making them more xenophobic, aggressive, and lacking in compassion.

As the corruption works its way up the social hierarchy those in power will find themselves experiencing the same increase in aggression, xenophobia, and lack of compassion (oftentimes even more so). However, those in positions of power will often times become even more charismatic. McCarthyism is often times the result of the early stages of Qliphoggic corruption.

As the war continues the corruption will being to prey on either their sense of superiority if the war goes well, sense of desperation if it doesn't go well, or sense of frustration if their not making or losing any ground. This generally results in morals flying further out the window and the Empire's officers willing to be more and more ruthless. Indeed the corruption can result in downright fascism.

As the war nears its end is when you would see the more physical signs begin to show. Citizens and soldiers becoming mindless zombies, political and military leaders taking on demonic forms, species either dying out or becoming horrific mutations, cities inexplicably becoming warped ghost towns, and ships vanishing to return latter as twisted husks propelled by some unnatural force. All topped off by Qliphoggr taking fully incarnating and taking on its complete form.