Let's talk Gaians

[farmerman]

I wanted to add some of my thoughts. For one thing, I think there is a good deal of variation among the Gaians in their backgrounds and general thoughts - much more than most of the unlawful groups (more like the Bundschuh perhaps).

But considering it's a major movement, I think one area they get recruits from is the same who would join the Bundschuh or GC if they lived elsewhere. It always seemed to me there was a noticeable anarchist feeling underneath everything Gaian. And to that, I always imaged there were many who were recruited from Cambridge University and such who were primarily interested in "sticking it to the man" as it were. The Gaians would give them a vehicle to do so.

Of course, there's also certainly a group of die hard Gaians who have lived their entire lives that way. Rather militarized and purely into it, like Marburg's perspective.

The Green Front is a major force in Cambridge so both residents there and students of the University would certainly be involved, though I think a lot of them would not be the major activists (but saying all would be wrong, too).

Disgruntled miners could very well also make up a part. Though most would probably favor the Mollys, it's not hard for me to think some would want to clean things up, literally and figuratively. In my view, it always seemed people who worked closely with such things were more in tune with them.

But at the same time as all of that, it is at its heart an idealistic movement, and as such must draw people for that very reason. Drifters and generic criminals could be recruited with the logic it's a way for them to turn around their life and do something right (while not really changing). This is my one Gaian's general background, actually.

And lastly, Bretonia doesn't really even HAVE much in the way of criminal groups. So I think there are many who flock to commit their crimes and such under the Gaian banner.

All in all, I think the majority of Gaians would be rather low key and made up of a lot of University recruits and idealists. Then there's a smaller group of the really hardcore extremists, which would have those raised in the Gaian way as their main core. With that in mind, I draw the distinction in game as the difference between the Gaian and the Gaian Guard ID - the latter being the extremists (and the NLH is primarily using that ID, too).

On that last note, what about something like renaming the Gaian Guard ID to Gaian Extremist ID, much like the BHG Guard is the Core ID? That was a thought I had anyway.

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