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[[HNGH yaaaaas]]

More than likely the staff you're trying to contact is inactive, or just arent getting into their inbox. However making an appeal SHOULD help. They actually check those often.

make a ban appeal with the proper format over in the ban appeal section.

Or if you know what GM banned you, try and contact them through the forums

Lawl, thing is, my horse was still just a normal horse. There was nothing special about it. It was not giant sized, it was not magical, it was not relative to one area. It was a normal horse created via special breeding. It was an animal created in RP through RP traits by the horses brought to me.

Nor do I care or claim that you have ripped anything off. All I said is this is what it looks like to me. Those are my personal thoughts. I personally disapprove of adding more when there is already excess. Once again, all my views are personal. If other people and the lore team support it, that's their view.

Also, Orcs have a legitimate reason for their big bulky mounts. Normal horses and creatures cannot bear their girth. Other than the little mustang that carried Urara in her battle with the sand-worm-thing-whos-name-I-can't-remember, I literally have never heard of an orc riding a horse that made sense. Not a one. Orcs that ride normal horses, in my opinion, are overpowering those animals since their backs cannot properly support that amount of weight. Not to mention the tempers of horses don't fit orcish lifestyle whatsoever.

In the case of wood elves, they have creatures already available that make more sense for them in MY PERSONAL OPINION, that aren't as garish as a giant, antlered, crystal cat. I get you like cats. Cats are awesome. Freakishly awesome. I have literally never lived a day in my life that I didn't have one or two in my house, they are a factor of my perception of a complete home. However I just look at a giant, antlered, crystal cat.. and I don't see the point of it.

I'm all for adding flavor to the world and expanding it. I'm all for adding mythos, mystery, and fantasy. But I literally don't see the point in the cat. The flowers? Freakin cool. I like the flowers. Keep the flowers. Maybe if the flowers grew exclusively in a hidden away forest that was basically made of crystal, where every animal is crystal in this freaky, sparkly mini-biome within itself? That would be cool. If the flowers and animals took over Aatgaard or whatever you call it and became a sort of subtle, invasive, natural sort of antag. That would be cool. Better than a stupid fracking plague.

The idea of a slow, ever nearing swath of crystal that basically encased every living thing into a twisted crystalline form of medusa's garden? Pretty neato. Crystal cats out of left field that suddenly belong to some random girl, that weren't just noticed in the wild and become this fantastic thing before someone finally decides 'Hey I wonder if i can put a collar on that'?

I'm not a fan. Sorry.

Oh god, now I remember! This thing looks like a shaven, two tailed version of the celinox from Subeta!

I don't see the reason for this things creation, like at all. I mean it's kind of cute, but looking at it makes me think of a neopet. And to be honest its too similar to Crystal Beast Amythst Cat from Yugioh for me to not see it in that light..

It falls too easily into various tropes, not to mention it looks like somethign from a DnD Campaign mixed with sailor moon.. Dungeons and Dragons is chock full of these. Xorn, Xaren, and Crysmal anyone? I mean yeah it would be fantastic as a monster from the Elemental Plane of Earth. I'd love to put my barbarian against it, would be an interesting battle to see.

Otherwise? I personally don't see what this adds to the world at all.

Edit: I kind of want to see this in a nekomata form.. it would look incredible in Shin Megami Tenshi: IMAGINE except they already have a handful of both crystal and cat monsters.

Last step on the mountain thing..

Its a short haired animal why the hell does it have short hair if it lives in freaking mountain ranges?

I understand inquisition just came out and you miss fluffy from origins but plz m9... 

Actually, most creatures that live in mountains don't have long hair. Mountain lions, bighorn sheep, boars, elk, moose, hares, mice, black and brown bears. All these animals do not sport long fluffy coats, but short and dense coats that barely ever pass a finger depth in length. Rarely even reaching two inches.

A perfect example is actually boars. Look at their coats.They aren't fluffy at all! They have very short, wiry coats that clutch to their bodies. They don't rely on their coats at all for protection from the winter. They in fact, like a large majority of animals, rely on fat and muscle in order to protect them from the elements. Other animals who also live in regions like this rely on a combination of fat and exceedingly short, dense, fluffy undercoats that rarely ever pass a half inch in length, as a built in insulator from he cold. It basically traps their body heat against them allowing for more heat retention, thus they are not cold.

Now if we look at dogs specifically? The same thing applies. Dogs that actually live in these cold regions do not sport long coats. The St. Bernard, Burmese Mountain Dog, and Great Pyrenees all sport thick, dense coats to trap warm air against their skins in order to keep them warm. Even the Caucasian mountain dog, a breed that is known to be fluffy as can be, bred to live comfortably outside in Russian winters, do not have long fur. They look poofy as can be, but once again their coats do not exceed two inches.

This is because long coats are a damn death sentence in the snow. I doubt you've ever had long hair and been out in the snow, but let me tell you this. It sucks. It sucks so much. Long hair does not trap warmth, it just collects snow into annoying, soggy pellets that cause those luscious locks to freeze. It soaks your skin and sucks away all your radiating body heat.

This is exactly why mountain creatures have short dense hair. The snow doesn't form the pellets of doom that would sap away their precious body heat and allow hypothermia to settle in like you laid out a damn red carpet. No, they get short dense fur that allows the snow to settle atop it and then fall off with a shake as they stand there proud and majestic, looking down at your stupid self with your fritzy long hair shivering in your stupid North Face jacket like a putz.

TL;DR: Things that live in the mountains have pixie cuts.

Iatrilemar Elervathar

Iatrilemar Elervathar

-Miriel

MC Name: Omnyaxle
RP Name: Ilaustius Horen
Reason for nominating: Exceptional writing skills, competent understanding of various cultures as well as having a sound mind. Not to mention he's just the cutie-utiest little cousin.

I believe the fact that Elvish is broken and can't be spoken correctly is part of lore and is part of the /point/ of our Elvish language.

pretty much this. if you want to expand the language, do so in rp.

Lynette slowly sets her hand to her face, "Oh my creator why.."

Think we can get back to discussing why the /other/ nations aren't popular and not whine about the two /most/ popular nations? I think it's already been established in the second and third pages that if you are an 'abnormal' you're not going to be accepted.

Lets go back to figuring out why there aren't more adorable kha-kitties and orcish eye-candy walking about.

I would actually look at the non-popular races more than the two most popular. Maybe look at why nobody is joining the orcs or the kha. Then there's just the fact that some characters dont fit in national areas because they bear traits such as aggression or thievery or dark occultism such as necromancy. Basically 'bad' people. You'd find that outside of nations in independent areas, these are groups that just dont fit into 'normal' society.

You get this because people want to break away from the norm and do fanciful things, or fantastical things, or evil things, or strange things, or 'edgy' things, or outrageous things. These kind of characters, 'abnormal' characters, get pushed out, just like they would in reality. No jocks would ever accept a weak, scrawny, boney person onto the team, it is a detriment. No bookclub will allow a member who likes to rip pages apart for papermache into their group either.

A good example is my wood elf Alisum, she's loud and aggressive and rather rude, and because of this is very close to being booted out of the elven nation unless she shapes up or keeps her head down. She's chosen the latter and is only spiteful where she knows she can get away with it. She barely manages to fit into the social norm, and thus can stay. Now if she came around and shanked someone, she's gonna get kicked out. If she breaks the rules and goes where she shouldnt, shes gonna get kicked out. If she goes and fills Kalenz' shoes with custard, shes gonna get kicked out.

Really its a case of people not wanting to do roleplay that is best described as 'slice of life' with very little extravagance in its thematic tone. That's how the elven nation is. Unless someone can manage to overthrow this style of government in rp and implement a very malinorian 'we dont really give a crap what you do' government, its going to stay that way.

That's not to say they don't want new players. New people are always welcome, and I've found that the high elven players were very kind and helpful in giving me the information I needed to play within the 'norm' of high elves.

Basically what I'm trying to say is there really isnt anything to discuss. Oren and Mali'aheral are in charge right now because the most influential groups have power and are enforcing that style of 'slice of life' roleplay, which is fine. If you want a more malinorian or ancient oreneian style of roleplay, Alras is actually a very good place. It most resembles more aegian styles in lax but somehow at the same time outrageous behavior in characters.

Also, the high elves themselves do call themselves nazis for the humor of it from time to time,and do make little quips for that line of amusement. Snelf armbands anyone?

>Post results of community survey.

>Becomes thread about high elves within first page.

>High elves always compared to Nazi.

>High Elves are now instruments of Godwins Law.

BEWARE! Opinions below!

Anyway.. can we not do this again? High elves are high elves. I don't see the complaint honestly. I was able to get integrated among them within the span of two days, i find the roleplay easy and rather enjoyable. Those that complain.. just find another area and group. Its seriously not that hard. There's at least 50+ people on every time I care enough to log in. Often there are 100+ The lowest I have seen is 24 people exactly.

 

Please, stop trying to change high elven culture. The quirks it has makes it unique to itself, and I'd rather play a culture and race with likes and dislikes rather than 'everybody needs to love each other and get along'. This isn't an episode of Barney, people.

Bring back status updates. Its how a lot of us advertise small things or share links. Unless of course you want is to flood the forums with threads linking our twitches, arts, and gyazos of funny or cool stuff even though the thread is only viable for five minutes or less.

Absolutely not. Absolutely immature player and will no doubt abuse his position to run events for his friends so they get overpowered named items. He has a terrible attitude and in no way deserves the position.

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There's already a thread about this.. o  u  o

https://www.lordofthecraft.net/topic/115113-food-expiration-issue/

"As I just said, sweetie. I wait for someone to come and properly ask. Those that know how to speak in a propper manner, you are welcome to it."

Della shakes her head, tugging in a fat salmon. Hooking her fingers beneath its gills she holds it to the light, ruby scales gleaming as she grins.

"Though I suppose it is difficult, for one of your breed to speak to someone such as myself properly. Often between the kinds of mali, they forget they are mali first, and whatever else is secondary. Should you wish to distribute from my baskets, you need only come and see me whenever you may need it, and a basket will be set aside for you, dear. Not to mention we are gaining more than fish with each passing night, we have plenty of creamed mushroom soup, not to mention every now and then we shoot down a pheasant or rabbit, though those are few and far between.."

Smiling softly she drops the fish into a wide woven basket, watching it squirm among the others within before setting the cap atop it.

"Bless your little heart, but you really do need to pay more attention to how things are spoken, dear.. It will get you further in life if you pay attention to the nuances that others give with every little move they make."

Della sits on her perch near the pond, a brow raising slowly as her gaze drifts to the four overfilled baskets of squirming fish beside her, a fifth nearly filled as well.

"You.. do realize dear, that the ker have been ready to provide food, yes? We've already been able to fill everyone's bellies below without much effort. We're even gaining surplus rather quickly. The only hindrance to our gain is a lack of string, provide me with this, and you will have a basket full of fresh, fat salmon for nearly every pole I have in my hand."

Slowly she shakes her head, gaze drifting back to the water, flicking the line out across the pond.

"All that is needed is for someone to properly come to me and take it to distribute among the aheral and ame. Bless your little heart, but really I would have thought there would be cleaner organization by now.."

Whitelist was turned on so that when the map is up the GMs can finish off the map. (Boats, shops etc. )

five hundred and forty ninth

inb4whatdoesthefoxsay

Then let them die.

I should never have shown you that song.