deganawida

Deganawida (or "Degandawida", or "Deganawidah") was a Huron prophet who, along with a Mohawk named Hy-ent-wat-wa (Hiawatha, the historical, not the literary) founded what is now known as the Iroquois Confederacy, which is the longest-running representative government in the world today. The Confederacy was originally composed of five nations: the Mohawk, Oneida, Seneca, Cayuga, and Onondaga. After European settlers landed en masse in the NE U.S., the Tuscarora petitioned for membership and were added in. The Iroquois had a constitution which formed, in part, the basis for the U.S. Constitution, and they were successful merchants, and also had many rights for their people that didn't enter Western Society until the last century. As I am Oneida, I adopted Deganawida's name as my name for internet purposes, in honor of this great visionary. I can't get my avatar to upload yet, but it's a picture of my daughter Maggie, who was born last Monday. I'm a very proud papa.

Judging from past efforts by the individuals that I know of at Obsidian, and ideas that were quite good but due to extenuating circumstances were never implemented, I feel that it is a safe bet that "Project X" will be better than most of the crap that has been released the past couple of years. I mean, let's face it, with the dearth of good and deep games for the last few years, "See Spot Run" converted to a CRPG would be genius and win all the industry's rewards. However, don't let this make you think that I don't have faith in the people of Obsidian; on the contrary, I have an enormous amount of faith in them, and I am 99.9% sure that my faith will be rewarded soon enough.