<i>I just went to my local library and checked out about 20 books. Many of them are picture books, and I'm getting different tellings of the same tales.</i><br/><br/>Coolies!  I'll try that sometime.<br/><br/><i>As for the Non-con thing... if it happens in story, I won't object due to the situations. But I'll say flat out right now that rape is not a turn on for me in any way. More of a turn off really.</i><br/><br/>Don't want to write anything that people won't have fun with.  The plot calls for a non-con situation that Goblinmoon has already volunteered for, and if we play it a tad bit unrealistically, the social consequences aren't meant to be unrealistic.  Like the historical Shaka, using war brides and adopted male children to make the Zulu grow from a small tribe to a great nation, Shakir is using the promise of captive girls to keep his military happy.  Driving this home in narrative is one way to establish the evil of the antagonists.<br/><br/><br/><i>And as for engineer, I was more thinking someone who knows how to build roads, good buildings, ect.<br/><br/>I intend to play her as being native to Africa, and having gone to an exchange program in Britain or American for much of her studies, thus she'd be returning to her roots in more ways than one in her visitation, which likely would have happened only a little while ago.</i><br/><br/>Sounds pretty good.<br/><br/>Is she a local?  IF so, is she from a particular ethnic group?<br/><br/>Zulu are the citizen caste, males from adulthood to 40 are supposed to enlist.  Bantu are the dominant peasantry.  Swanzi are also generally peasants, but political pressures and financial aid from Swanziland is allowing some of them to move up in the world.  Afrikaners (white dutchmen who immigrated years before the english and the ruling class that Shakir and his brothers stripped from power) and assorted others are in the grey area between property owners and citizens.