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Deeply respectable, wish you the best of luck!

How nice is the actual Aspect/Druid Lore and Mythology?
Or what's your opinion on what you know of it?

Deeply Accurate.

Oh phew! That's good to hear!
I was getting worried for a second back there : >

124... DAMN IT

Fully Dice-based wild magic MA/CA

Viewing the various magics and creatures from the lenses of "light vs dark" feels like the quickest way to make them seem hallow and without nuance.

And let's not act like the "Light" magics' are infact entirely morally good

They each have their own wildly different stories, themes and cultures, They are -Tools- to be used by anyone.

Attempting to fit them in a binary of good/bad is how we get people trying to put the outright and publically sadistic and cannibalistic Witches with no redeeming qualities, in the same group with the dragons that follow a pact to defend humanity and that would also wish to murder said witches on the spot.

They are all weird and they all share the same world and used by vastly different people, if we want an actually accurate name for all of these 'darkspawns' then it would be "Illegal magics", because that's actually what decides what a 'Darkspawn' is

Might be the fault of your average "anti-darkspawn" magic grouping all of these vastly different entities under the name of "do-baddering", or just people being really keen on making the different MAs/CAs as black and white as possible

The Azdrazi are only seemingly called that because they are included in Holy Magics' mechanical "evil monster" lists and because they're scawy lizards

What was it like when it did have said thing?

The best way would be to just read the lore itself, but I suppose a quicker more effective method would be to look at the latest batch of amendments that have been made for the CA within the past 2~ months. I would advise reading the "Purpose" of each one to get an idea of SOME of the issues that plague the CA in its current write.

A quick summary of the issues addressed in each amendment would be:
 

Oh right, yeah.
Mummies are just egyptian necromancers.
Forgot about that...

I have been writing nothing but redlines for hours at this point, I am so freaking tired.

I want to see a Victorian-Era orphan in the middle of a city's square handing out newspapers for every single Forum post that somehow everyone has access to, It would after all actually drive characters to talk about the news mentioned as opposed to making one-liners of their character acknowledging the fact since they can do absolutely nothing else..!!!

what instruments would I get to play?

What did they do? :}

The admins don't want you to know this, but there's practically an infinite and untapped source of orphant children running around in the wild to be adopted and they are all free!

I've gotten like 17 of them!

Idk, wouldn't a "rep farm" imply that people are actually agreeing with them, that it's just parroting an already agreed upon opinion for that sweet delicious internet validation?

Looking at how we are nearing 200 replies on said post, I don't think that is the case...

oooh? Please do share :}

Isn't that what Darkstalker is already attempting to do?

Or did you mean something different when you say "In its detail"?

I remember seeing a really old video of someone playing within Lotc and actually seeing that Monks were infact actual players at one point???

That was a really funny surprise, whatever happened to that?

@Unwillingly Yeah sorry about that... Was riding a dumb train of thought at that moment.

It had more to do with viewing it through the lenses of the ever favorite concept of "immortality" and how it provides no real 'point' at all and infact makes you be OOCly more worried over death since it now actually has penalties for said creatures. For example you could just become an elf and never consent to PKing your character on death and you could still have them live for up to 20 IRL years before they grow too old. (Which of course isn't an issue! This is in the end of the day a place with the goal of creating stories, nobody should be able to forcefully kill off another's character before their player is ready to put their tale to an end themselves..!!!!!)

That was the idea, entirely divorced from the fact that the creatures that often possess said immoralities are inhumane entities that have grown detached and separate from the rest of descendantkind down to their very soul having been altered and being creatures that most often than not, retain said immortality by eating the bone marrow of newborn infants or smth. On which point I 100% agree with you, OF COURSE and creatures that have abilities that center specifically on murderizing people should face penalties once they are actually vanquished so that they are even the smallest amount more careful about who or where they attack

This wasn't mean to be interpreted as "Darkspawn should have the exact same respawn mechanics as your average unremarkable person", just how having your character become actually immortal is not all that special really

It's also a really weird double standard when "mortal" characters face no punishment on death whatsoever, just instant revival by monks and you can continue RPing as if nothing even happened, you don't even need to acknowledge your death and all its baggage as It is pretty much voided from existence

It's a bit too late for me to read it in its entirety, but from a quick scroll, I have the feeling like this is going to be one of those life-altering lore posts.

If so, uh, thank very very very much??? This is freaking incredible? Holy Hell?!?

. . .Wait you can make lore for Constellations?

Yeah, I guessed as much, It's the fun of RPing after all. :}
But I am not sure where to actually begin with my own made up shenanigans, or what to even make up.

I am supposed to have a telescope and look up at shiny dots in the night sky... So not a lot to work with.