[OOC] Welcome to Gladewynn

[Treshure 5817]

 

 

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INTRODUCTION

 

This post serves as a briefer for the OOC expectations you might have entering this new elven community. Gladewynn is a thinly established group of elves within the fabled Wonkawoods. The elves here are as hardy as the lands they seek to settle. Strife and conflict have defined their existence through and through - lending to a raw and untamed atmosphere. Far from the established lands of Elvendom, Gladewynn broaches on unconquered territories and eldritch soils.

As an RP focused community, we espouse certain principles that are centric to what we believe binds the group. As a community, we aim to uphold the following values:

 

- Roleplay realism and immersion. In order to achieve this, the realms of IC and OOC are held at strict divides  - that should they cross, we’d lose the realism we seek to achieve. This means keeping our Discord community as more of a lounge than place of plotting. It means the city-wide acknowledgement that in character plots and motivations are divorced entirely from out of character, lest we lose the illusion of it all.

 

- Real roleplay consequences. Although not enforced (or enforceable), many of the founding and new coming players to Gladewynn acknowledge the importance of allowing roleplay scenarios to play a full impact on their characters - that not every one person is the hero of their story. This friendly dynamism is what allows us to grow. It also means that should the death of your character come, it is the normal expectation to accept the consequences fully.
 

- A glimpse into the changes of customs, cultures and heredity over time. The ultimate goal here is to establish a long-lasting culture and nationhood in the elves that can stand on its own while being a bastion of good roleplay and a rich ever-changing environment.

 

WHAT TO EXPECT

 

Gladewynn is situated in a harsh and uncivilized territory. Despite heavy militaristic presence, much is to be said for the civilians that live here. The raw and elder nature of their surroundings have attracted zealots and purists. The prospects of elven frontiers allure adventurers, monster hunters, and traders alike. The fringe of the wild offers much to any who would make the travel, though the cost runs steep.

 

In order to foster an active and engaging atmosphere, narratives are driven both by the ET and leadership of the settlement - ensuring that there is something to do every week of the year. Whilst the contracted swords fight on lands foreign, the ambient nature surrounding Gladewynn will beckon it’s inhabitants to stories lost and perils hidden – all while plots and strife unfold between the feudal clans of Gladewynn’s ancient hierarchies.

 

COMMUNITY LEADERS

There are members in our community responsible for sponsoring group role-play sessions, events and maintenance of the rules and community conduct in our discord server. They are also accountable for helping induct new players or seasoned community members into our group without serious difficulty.

If interested in joining you may find us in-game or communicate with the following members.

Heathenshammer – heathen#0220

Raphael_Payne – Lothryc (Raphael)#2014

Wolfdwg – Khozydwg#7648

Hedonism – Hedonisthicc#9637

 

[Narthok 10416]

Good to see elves doing something that isn’t tea sipping rp for once. Leo’s culture was always really cool but I feel like it wasn’t taken far enough because of the way the elven community is. Certainly excited to see peasant rp elves.

[WuHanXianShi14 0]

23 minutes ago, Narthok said:

Good to see elves doing something that isn’t tea sipping rp for once. Leo’s culture was always really cool but I feel like it wasn’t taken far enough because of the way the elven community is. Certainly excited to see peasant rp elves.

I guess thats a fair way to see it

 

But the culture I helped to create is still living on in this playerbase. As long as the lore, gods, and concept of elven culture lives on, then I dont mind if its adapted into a different context, or used in new ways. Its liberating in a sense that the upkeep of elven culture is no longer in my hands, and I’m finally free to enjoy it as an observer.

 

I hope this group does well. I mainly hope that it will provide a different experience that you would find among humans or dwarves and that aspects of the tribalistic culture I helped build lives on, which it has, via the Ichorian sect of Aspectism and the Mani worship

[Narthok 10416]

3 minutes ago, WuHanXianShi14 said:

I guess thats a fair way to see it

 

But the culture I helped to create is still living on in this playerbase. As long as the lore, gods, and concept of elven culture lives on, then I dont mind if its adapted into a different context, or used in new ways. Its liberating in a sense that the upkeep of elven culture is no longer in my hands, and I’m finally free to enjoy it as an observer.

 

I hope this group does well. I mainly hope that it will provide a different experience that you would find among humans or dwarves and that aspects of the tribalistic culture I helped build lives on, which it has, via the Ichorian sect of Aspectism and the Mani worship

I think my biggest beef with elven rp and to an extent druid rp was that It really bothered me how they approached nature. To me as someone very fond of the outdoors who spends most of his summers and falls mucking about in the Canadian woods with my hick family it felt like nature through a city dwellers eyes. Rather than be this majestic primal savage creature nature was something that had been harnessed and tamed. Druids were not guardians of nature but rather were its masters. And rather than being almost bestial elves consumed with the glory of old forest gods in the Treebeard / Studio Ghibli vein they were civilized passificst and polite. I’d ******* love to play a savage primal druid that went around expulsing civilization from the forests and murdering wood cutters. But thats not how elf and druid rp shaped up on lotc.

[WuHanXianShi14 0]

Just now, Narthok said:

 

Blame LOTC PVP culture. I’d have loved to RP a primal nomad but the only way to sustain a playerbase on this server is behind a raid-proof city with high walls.

[Auriel_ 652]

yall mind

[Narthok 10416]

2 minutes ago, WuHanXianShi14 said:

Blame LOTC PVP culture. I’d have loved to RP a primal nomad but the only way to sustain a playerbase on this server is behind a raid-proof city with high walls.

I think elves are partly to blame. My village has very low walls and is extremely rp focused yet has only been raided once this map. I do really dislike the elitism coming from both sides and try to punish it where it is warranted.

1 minute ago, Raphael Payne said:

yall mind

Don’t make an ooc thread if you don’t want a discussion of your culture and of elf culture

[WuHanXianShi14 0]

16 minutes ago, Narthok said:

I think elves are partly to blame. My village has very low walls and is extremely rp focused yet has only been raided once this map. I do really dislike the elitism coming from both sides and try to punish it where it is warranted.

 

Every major nation’s capital is a magnet for raids. Freebuild villages are less so. Elves are generally the highest raidbait considering their (false) reputation as noncombatants.

[Enlightenment 2295]

I wouldn’t call it a false reputation.

[Guest]

I’m glad people are willing to discuss this civilly at the very least. The respect shown with the statements on these thread has been rather calming for me in a sea of outcry and disapproval from others I’ve seen. Thankfully, many of us seem quite receptive to this idea going forward! 

[Nectorist 12869]

Moved to The Great Library. It shall be sorted into the appropriate category shortly.

 

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