Avacyn

Wayfinding

Written by Bagley

There are those arcane practitioners who do not find themselves falling into the niches of combative magics, warding or what other schools - all of which Wayfinders might simply dismiss as nonsense. Instead, these wizards dedicate their lives to the ferrying of peoples across the various planes of material existence. While some contemporary scholars refer to it as Arcane Navigation, its practitioners prefer the term Wayfinding and label themselves as Wayfinders. Many of these specialized magicians take up the trade as captains and are most always found at the helm of some manner of vessel, the means of their transport.
 
How does it work?
 
Wayfinders are finely attuned to the magical currents that naturally occur within the world. These currents, known in the colloquial jargon of the Wayfinders as the trade winds. These currents will often lead to places in the world where the fabric of reality is thin, allowing for Wayfinders to puncture the layer between the physical world and the Veil. When this occurs, it culminates in magical storms which envelop the region and allow for the Wayfinders to skirt the edge of the Veil, resulting in the transportation of single vessel and sometimes even entire fleets from one reality to another. 
 
What purpose does it serve?
 
The Wayfinders fill a certain niche in a world split quite literally into two halves. With both civilian and government ventures making such travel extremely profitable, wayfinders are eager to facilitate. They are commonly employed by nation-states, mercantile charters or freelance groups to work their magics and are becoming increasingly relevant in the modern era where commerce serves as the lifeblood of all things and wanderlust captivates a great many, opening the lands of Axios to a much broader world and a great many places otherwise unreachable without the skillful hand of a Wayfinder.

This lore's purpose is to justify the interplanar travel between the two halves of the material world we live on. It is simple and vague due to this-- it will never be used by players, and is simply for flavor.
 

I am pleased to announce that the Lore Team's first month-long project has come to a close and is now being released to the public eye.

For the end of April and all of May, the Lore Team's various members have each been individually constructing pieces of World Lore designed to broaden our server's horizons; For all of our time playing on Lord of the Craft, all of what we've done and roleplayed has occurred within the boundaries of the continents we've visited. That isn't to change, but a few years back something called Aeldin caught on to players' interests, and with the draws and benefits of such a place in mind, I set our team on a task to create more places like Aeldin: Distant lands as travelled and settled as the ones we've been to, rich in cultures, histories and diverse peoples. Aeldin offers something unique to the playerbase, and that's freedom and a sense of something larger which was our priority with this project. Over the course of the day and the coming week we'll be posting our finished projects for your reading pleasure, and will be formally opening lore like this to public submission-- if you've had an idea for a distant land or continent but felt you've never had the opportunity nor scope to post it, now is your time to submit.

I'll be updating this post as more pieces are submitted and added to the list below:

Wayfinding: The Nautical Art of Navigation

Skjoldier: Home of the Fjarriauga

The Meranesian Islands: Islanders!

Magara'lin: Dark Elf Origin Civilization

Vectra, the Scaled Forest: Turok with Elves

The Shogunate of Oyashima: Easterner Lore

The Godless Lodge of Yulthar: Also Easterners

Another announcement: The Lore Team's next project for June is going to be finalizing and ironing out the kinks and gaps in our Aengudaemonic Pantheon, so if you've been sitting on some according lore, now is the time to submit! I'll see you all on July 1st when we release Update 1.2. 

MC Name

TheMaskOrMyFace

Character's Name

Asmodea/Velstadt/Lana'thel

Character's Age

400-something

Character's Race

Zar'alak

Link to your accepted MA
Nay

What magic(s) will you be teaching?
Naztherak 

Summarise the Lore of this magic(s)
Its my magic buddy

Write up a lesson that your character would give to a student

The very first lesson given will be instruction as to how to create your own Grimoire: the student will collect all the necessary parchment and the leather bindings for the book. They will be informed about the uses the Grimoire has for the would-be Prince, and then given a heaping of Inferis blood and taught the properties of it, including its ability to treat the parchment in order for the spell-writing to be possible.

Do you have a magic(s) you are dropping due to this app? If so, link it
No

Do you agree to keep the MT updated on the status of your magic app by using the Magic List Errors topic?

Yes

Have you applied to teach this magic on this character before, and had it denied? If so, link the app
No

MC Name

TheMaskOrMyFace

Character's Name

Asmodea/Velstadt/Lana'thel

Character's Age

400-something

Character's Original Race (N/A if not applicable)

Elf

Transformed form

Zar'akal

Creator's MC Name
N/A

Creator's RP Name

The Red King

Briefly explain the lore behind this construct or creature

The Princes who consume a true Zentherak are forevermore bound to lead cursed half-lives as  Zar’akal, ‘Twisted Kings’, or Archprinces. Their souls become warped with the raw, unabated Maleus of the Inferis they devoured and they take on physical mutations similar to the ones the Inferis had. They become physically susceptible to all forms of Holy magic and can even be harmed more heavily by Shamans due to the nature of the dark spirit that has fused with them. With this corruption comes new boons, however: no longer do they require the inscriptions of the Grimoire for their Malflame’s casting and can conjure it from their very being. They gain the Malice of the Prince they devoured, opening up opportunities for new effects for their Malflame. Gone also is the physical degradation of the form that results in manipulating Malflame, and the Zar’akal additionally become self-sustaining sources of Maleus and only need their Cistern for large amounts of it.

Do you have a magic(s) you are dropping due to this app? If so, link it

No

Do you agree to keep the MT updated on the status of your magic app by using the Magic List Errors topic?

Yes

Do you consent to accepting what may happen to this character?

Yes

Have you applied for this creature on this character before, and had it denied? If so, link the app
No

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"Thou wouldst do best not to trust the tongued mutterings of red-fleshed men."

"You never have anything trustworthy to say, either."

"This is sacrilegious to the highest degree, whelp. Do not forsake thine sanctity."

The witch did not reply to her Preacher, instead returning to the dim-lit lounging room wherein sat the evening's peculiar guest: as the Preacher did truthfully speak, yes, he bore skin tinged with the brightest red, an infernal and blinding color and owed to his origin. Hands clapping together once in satisfaction, his sharp-toothed smile fell upon the returning witch.

"I was beginning to fear you wouldn't return."  he chimed, standing to his feet and dusting his scarlet hands off upon his coat. "You've an answer for me, then? The both of you?" 

The room's other dweller shambled from the shadows by the other door: a hooded and entirely veiled man that the witch knew as the Dreadlord. He simply nodded, and despite the vagueness of the movement, the witch and the King both knew what his answer would be. Another grin, and he opened his coat to pull a long-scrolled piece of parchment out.

"Sign here, Princes."

The Thrones were claimed-- Woe and Temptation had risen.

((Students will be sought out over the coming days.))

Just now, Данстан said:

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if you couldnt tell my clear use of green coloring and the same image was me quite obviously replicating the greentext

>my face when Americans call chips "french fries"

>my face when Americans call crisps "chips"

>my face when Americans call chocolate globbernaughts "Candy bars"
>my face when Americans call motorized rollinghams "cars"
>my face when Americans call merry fizzlebombs "fireworks"
>my face when Americans call wunderbahboxes a "PC"
>my face when Americans call meat water "gravy"

>my face when Americans call electro-rope "power cables"

>my face when Americans call beef wellington ensemble with lettuce a "hamburger"

>my face when Americans call whimsy flimsy mark and scribblers "pens"

>my face when Americans call twisting plankhandles "doorknobs"

>my face when Americans call a breaddystack a "sandwich"

>my face when Americans call their hoighty toighty tippy typers "keyboards"

>my face when Americans call nutty-gum and fruit spleggings "peanut butter and jelly"

>my face when Americans call an upsty stairsy the "escalator"

>my face when Americans call forcey fun time "sexual assault"

>my face when Americans call a knittedly wittedy sheepity sleepity a "sweater"

>my face when Americans call rickedy-pop a "gear shift"

>my face when Americans call a choco chip bicky wicky a "cookie"

>my face when Americans call peepee friction pleasure "sex"
>my face when Americans call a pip pip gollywock a "screwdriver"

>my face when Americans call a rooty tooty point-n-shooty a "gun"

>my face when Americans call a ceiling-bright a "lightbulb"

>my face when Americans call a blimpy bounce bounce a "ball"

>my face when Americans call a slippery dippery long mover a "snake"

>my face when Americans call cobble-stone-clippity-clops "roads"

"Filth." spits a hooded and masked witch as they read over the paper within their hands with venom befitting a viper.

"Wretches best punished, art they not? Plead for forgiveness, they'd best be made to." comes the voice of their lone companion.

A pained sigh slips out of the mask's curled mouth. "I can't. She told me I could be good."
 

"Fallacious as ever, little issue. Thy lady's cause hath been lost to thee now. 'T must be abandon'd." the Preacher drawls.
 

"We'll see yet." she rasps in protest, though the Preacher knows otherwise-- they have been sat in a confessional together, alone, for far too long.

Wow our builds ******* sucked back then

59 minutes ago, Archipelego said:

aren't we supposed to have another druid LM? just puttin it out there

anyways--

this app has really got me thinking

horrible lore

Full on reqs for now! Come back later.

I'm literally just here to capitalize on Phil's rush

Just kidding the BOTH of us are in need of cash so I'll take a limited number of requests...

Here's my portfolio: http://www.planetminecraft.com/member/lesbomancy/

Default price is 1000 but if it's less than a full skin we can negotiate lower (or higher if you want me to do somethin fuckin nuts)

I'll have 3 slots open at any one time and will only take on more requests when I've done all 3. Slots are first come, first serve-- please contact me on SKYPE (logan.ferioli) and we'll talk about your request.

1. hedgehog the sonic -- some dumb shaman armor
2. caleb (flamboyantboy) -- something wacky 
3. anananananananananadunae -- ? ? ?

Hi
I need a builder for a personal building project I have neither the time nor skill to complete myself. Willing to negotiate compensation if asked for. Reply to this thread with your portfolio, forum PM me, or hit me up on skype (logan.ferioli) if you're interested and I'll see if you can do what I'm looking for.

Where the **** did you go

im not sold,,,

After having left the course, a weedy thing sits alone on a riverbank, starting to cast the individual blossoms from a bouquet of dying wildflowers into the rime-edged stream.
 

"Well he's never gonna be President, now." chimes a Shade, horribly familiar with Azoth.

2 hours ago, SugarBlind said:

Are the LT actually going to enforce this? @Avacyn

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At the moment the current status of enforcement is that you aren't required to auto-age your character, but if your card displays a lore-breaking age and we are notified then we will reach out to you. We have done so with a few folks already.

Event Team

Under review.