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O reino de Thomond no s\u00e9culo XIII<\/p><\/div>\n

Tarlac (em irland\u00eas, Toirdhealbach) \u00d3 Briain foi o rei de um reino chamado Thomond, na costa oeste da Irlanda \u2013 regi\u00e3o que \u00e9 hoje conhecida como o condado de Clare.<\/p>\n

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Que, por raz\u00f5es n\u00e3o relacionadas, \u00e9 tamb\u00e9m um dos mais populares destinos tur\u00edsticos da Irlanda. Fonte da Imagem<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

Como outros reis irlandeses do per\u00edodo, os membros do cl\u00e3 U\u00ed Bhriain eram oficialmente vassalos da Coroa inglesa. Neste caso, por meio de sua vassalagem a um magnata local, Thomas de Clare. Na pr\u00e1tica, os U\u00ed Bhrian eram mais ou menos livres para reinar sobre seus territ\u00f3rios em troca de tributos e servi\u00e7o.<\/p>\n

Infelizmente, esse v\u00ednculo de obedi\u00eancia nem sempre o protegia contra seus inimigos irlandeses. Mais infelizmente ainda, reinos irlandeses costumavam explodir em conflitos din\u00e1sticas com uma certa frequ\u00eancia.<\/p>\n

Entre 1276 e 1318, a regi\u00e3o foi palco de uma violenta guerra do tipo. Os beligerantes foram os descendentes de Tarlac e os de seu rival, Briain Rua \u00d3 Briain. O Cl\u00e3 Tarlac \u2013 como sua linhagem veio a ser conhecida \u2013 saiu vitorioso e foi imortalizado em uma saga conhecida como Caithr\u00e9im Thoirdhealbhaigh: <\/em>Os Feitos de Combate (ou \u201cTriunfos\u201d) de Tarlac.<\/p>\n

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Um dos manuscritos de “Os Triunfos de Tarlac”<\/p><\/div>\n
\u00c9 a hist\u00f3ria por tr\u00e1s dessa r\u00e9cita a que nosso board game <\/em>pretende dar vida. Jogadores dever\u00e3o controlar ou Thomas de Clare ou um dos v\u00e1rios subreinos de Thomond e garantir que a fac\u00e7\u00e3o que apoiam \u2013 Cl\u00e3 Tarlac ou Brian Rua \u2013 saia vencedora.<\/p>\n
Triunfar nessa guerra depender\u00e1 de mais que garra pol\u00edtica O final do s\u00e9culo XIII e in\u00edcio do s\u00e9culo XIV foram um per\u00edodo complicado na hist\u00f3ria da humanidade. O planeta passava por um esfriamento global conhecido como A Pequena Era do Gelo<\/a>. Esta mudan\u00e7a clim\u00e1tica provocou uma bateria de problemas como colheitas arruinadas, pestes animais e dificuldades econ\u00f4micas.<\/p>\n
\u00c9 poss\u00edvel que essas adversidades tenham tido um papel na vit\u00f3ria do Cl\u00e3 Tarlac?<\/p>\n
\u00c9 isso que Os Triunfos de Tarlac <\/em>\u2013 com a ajuda dos jogadores \u2013 pretende averiguar.<\/p>\n
Obviamente, botar algo em pr\u00e1tica \u00e9 sempre mais dif\u00edcil. Conven\u00e7\u00f5es de game design<\/em>, afinal de contas, est\u00e3o a\u00ed\u00a0 por um motivo. \u00c9 mais f\u00e1cil fazer um jogo divertido que respeite os princ\u00edpios cl\u00e1ssicos do g\u00eanero do que reiventar a roda em nome da validade hist\u00f3rica.<\/p>\n
Nos pr\u00f3ximos posts dessa s\u00e9rie, compartilharei com voc\u00eas as etapas de nosso processo criativo \u2013 e os desafios que estamos enfrentando garantir que a hist\u00f3ria e o game design andam de m\u00e3os dadas.<\/p>\n
Fiquem de olho!
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Those of you who follow my blog must have noticed by now that I am a historian by training. You are also aware (more than anyone else<\/a>) that I never tire of writing about games.<\/p>\n
This month, however, I have something different for you. An attempt to combine these two passions of mine \u2013 and offer something that will (hopefully) impress both gamers and my colleagues in academia.<\/p>\n
It is my pleasure to announce The Triumphs of Turlough, <\/em>my first historical board game.<\/p>\n
Why a game and why\u00a0this\u00a0<\/em>game?<\/h3>\n
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Think about a historical game. It doesn\u2019t matter if it\u2019s a videogame on an epic scale like Crusader Kings, <\/em>or a charming board game like Tokaido<\/em><\/a>. Even if you don\u2019t usually follow the work of historians, you must agree that there\u2019s a difference between playing <\/strong>and reading about <\/strong>the past.<\/p>\n
Games allow us not only to experiment historical episodes, but also to challenge<\/strong> our knowledge about them. From the outcome of battles to the very laws of physics, nothing is too sacred that gamers are not willing to meddle with. The medium would be a lot less fun if we couldn\u2019t perform leaps of faith<\/a> or \u201cpaint the map\u201d with the colors of our empire.<\/p>\n
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Unfortunately, this isn\u2019t always useful to us, historians. Commercial games may foster interest for the past \u2013 and can even help us think about some thorny themes. But they don\u2019t live up to the level of argumentation \u2013 and rigor \u2013 expected of a scholarly monograph.<\/p>\n
But what if there was a tool to fill in this gap? A game that was able to bring life to our hypotheses about the past while making sure that as little as possible was lost in translation? A way to explore, understand \u2013 and, why not, question \u2013 the works of historians in an engaging way?<\/p>\n
The Triumphs of Turlough <\/em>is my attempt to make this idea into reality. \u00a0Based on my PhD research, it is a board game set in Ireland in the 13^{th<\/sup> and 14^{th<\/sup> centuries. In the role of Irish kings and English magnates, players will have to deal with challenges like dynastic feuds, political assassinations, food crises and climate change.<\/p>\n}}
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Our team is made up of historians from Laborat\u00f3rio de Estudos Medievais da USP<\/a>\u00a0and researchers from ARISE<\/a>, a study group specialized in the use of games and technology for archaeological research.<\/p>\n
Our goal is to observe how players handle themselves in dealing with the historical problems of 1276-1318. From there, we will analyze their solutions in light of our historical model and use them to refine our hypotheses about what really happened.<\/p>\n
That, of course, is just part of the story. We also hope to introduce board game enthusiasts to a historical period that is little known outside Ireland.<\/p>\n
But who, after all, was \u201cTurlough\u201d? <\/strong><\/h3>\n
Turlough O\u2019Brien (in Irish, Toirdhealbach \u00d3 Briain) was the king of a chiefdom called Thomond, in the west coast of Ireland \u2013 a region that is now known as county Clare.<\/p>\n
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For unrelated reasons, also one of the most popular touristic destinations in Ireland. Image source<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n
Like other Irish kings of the period, the O\u2019Briens were officially subjects of the English Crown In their case, by means of a bond of vassalage to a local magnate, Thomas de Clare. In practice, however, the O’Briens were more or less free to rule over their territories in exchange for tributes and service.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, this bond of submission not always protected them from their Irish enemies. Even more unfortunately, Irish kingdoms were prone to erupt into dynastic feuds between rival factions of the clan.<\/p>\n
Between 1276 and 1318, Thomond was the stage of one such violent war. The belligerents were the descendants of Turlough \u00d3 Briain and those of his enemy Brian Rua \u00d3 Briain. Clann Turlough \u2013 as his lineage came to be called \u2013 ended up victorious and was immortalized in a saga known as Caithr\u00e9im Thoirdhealbhaigh: <\/em>The Battle Deeds (or \u201cTriumphs\u201d) of Turlough.<\/p>\n
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One of the surviving manuscripts of “The Triumphs of Turlough”<\/p><\/div>\n
It is the history behind this account that our board game wishes to draw upon. Players will take control of either Thomas de Clare or one of the subkingdoms of Thomond and make sure that the faction they support \u2013 either Clann Turlough or Clann Brian Rua \u2013 come out on top.<\/p>\n
Winning this war will depend on more than political mettle alone. The end of the 13^{th<\/sup> c. and beginning of the 14^{th<\/sup> c. was a complicated period in human history. The planet was going through a period of global cooling known as the Little Ice Age. This episode of climate change led to an avalanche of problems such as harvests failures, animal murrains and economic difficulties<\/p>\n}}
Is it possible that these adversities played a role in Clann Turlough\u2019s ultimate victory?<\/p>\n
This is what The Triumphs of Turlough<\/em>\u00a0was designed to find out — with the help of our players.<\/p>\n
Obviously, making something work is always harder in practice. \u00a0Game design conventions, after all, are there for a reason. It is easier to make a fun game that obey the classic tenets of its genre than attempt to reinvent the wheel in the name of historical validity.<\/p>\n
In the next posts in this series, I will share with you the ins and outs of our creative process \u2013 and the challenges that we are facing to ensure that history and game design walk hand-in-hand.<\/p>\n
Stay tuned!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Aqueles de voc\u00eas que acompanham o blog j\u00e1 devem ter percebido que sou historiador de profiss\u00e3o. Voc\u00eas tamb\u00e9m sabem (melhor que ningu\u00e9m) que n\u00e3o me canso de escrever sobre games. Esse m\u00eas, no entanto, trago uma novidade diferente. Uma tentativa de unir essas duas paix\u00f5es \u2013 e oferecer, com sorte, algo que impressione tanto a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[580,21],"tags":[175,483,589,671,427],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.finisgeekis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/20200728-tarlac-cover.jpg?fit=1500%2C1094","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9rUzW-5Og","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.finisgeekis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22336"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.finisgeekis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.finisgeekis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.finisgeekis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.finisgeekis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22336"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/www.finisgeekis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22364,"href":"http:\/\/www.finisgeekis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22336\/revisions\/22364"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.finisgeekis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.finisgeekis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.finisgeekis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.finisgeekis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}