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If I’ve said it once I’ve said it a thousand times already in response to this attempt by the blood-magic community to apprehend and abuse Striga lore assets. So because nobody on the ST thought to point it out to you before you posted this I’ll just spell it out. Read Aeldinic lore, ‘Helgraen’s first court’ would have occurred during the time of Elven Empire on the continent and would have been a neolithic and hunter-gathering stage for humanity. He picked Humans exclusively because they were a stupid species he could control, not other elves, and not for any actual skill. I.E TWO SIMPLE THINGS 1 – THERE WOULD BE NO ALNORID SULTANATE TO HAVE A DELEGATE IN. 2 – (edited here, looks like it was fixed or I just read it wrong. I have both the old and new posts in mind so that might have been muddled from two into one here, my b.) STRIGAE CANNOT RE-LEARN MAGIC; very basic principle here. It’s a direct subversion of pre-established lore and exposing of the agenda here to try and create something oppositional to the very core of the lore your using to try and justify this blood magic equivalent. MORE SPECIFICALLY: THERE ISN’T AN EASY REASON TO BE HAD FOR WHY HE WOULD SEEK IT OUT. The culture is of obedience, Helgraen wouldn’t have turned someone who used to have magic powers to begin with, there are a multitude of reasons for why this is unfeasible but those are just a few of the larger plot holes here. To drive that home even further, there would be simply no reason to cross the sea in this instance, Aeldin is a massive continent (hence why isolationism was the policy until it’s discovery by outside forces). It existed in a vacuum save for the Drakkem who migrated MUCH later, like millennia after just before the Imperial Age. Lastly, but much less critically, even if one Striga could somehow manage to get far enough to be incorporated in some capacity by this giant blood-dragon. It doesn’t seem likely that he could just be ripped apart and sacrificed. Much to everyone’s surprise I know Striga are enabled by Deific Magic, and IF YOU CAN’T DISSECT A DRUID OF IT’S CONNECTION TO THE ASPECTS then you can’t rape a Striga for it’s curse from the Unseen. also just as a side note, the time-frame for all of these archon characters seems in question, for instance Waldenians didn’t have a proto-archetype. They’re an offshoot of northern Rhoswenii (I.E they were just Highlander White Rose OGs. Not a people with an ancient history. I just want to point out here at the end of this comment that I’m not unopposed to blood-mages having their own set of vampiric vibes. In fact, while I was opposed to Dreori before I’ll actually come out now and say that they weren’t that bad and could have been easily integrated (because they didn’t bother adding a ridiculous backstory). All I ask, like I did with the last iteration of this crap with Drakul is that you KEEP STRIGA LORE OUT, and if you want to include it actually consult someone from the community who knows the lore well (an Esterlen, a Bagley, a Malaise, me). What I don’t understand is why this is so hard to get through, it’s very easy to do without Striga, they aren’t necessary, you don’t even need a bloody blueprint (forgive the pun) that bit is really just poor story telling; bad plot device in my opinion.) Blood Mages already absorb and work with genus; they already have the compatibility to do their own thing. So work with the potential of your own lane, instead of ruining someone else’s. I would have said this was inadvertent too, but this lore makes the same damn mistake that everyone had a problem with the first time. A strung together narrative with a very clear preconception: ‘how can we piggyback of of the Strigae creature to create our own blood magic equivalent.’

Some people can’t handle the basics of a normal conversation, others can’t conceive having a chat without trying to find some kind of provocation to kick and scream about. Wide majority of players are irrational to a fault, and just come back because they want to roleplaying with their mates. Server would be a better place if these people stayed in their lanes, but we’re on internet. Thats never going to happen. Best thing to do is ignore the shitty players. If they’re bad enough they’ll hand you the gun themselves. It’s a whole lot easier that way.

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@Urara I’ll hand you a tenner (CAD) if you’re down to whip up Beckett from VTMB for me. DISCORD: kaedreniwroth#4183

This is just too good

one might say this lore is very down to earth, very rooted in a strong base.

Discord: always winning#4183 Skin/s and bid/s: male colonial- 13 USD (idk if this is cheating or not hit me up)

As the reaction to my very well put and calmly made criticism proves; nothing has been learned since that situation prior. This is why your community suffers: for no other reason than because that very toxicity. This is why nobody outside of Sutica would reasonably want to put forth the time to interact, as I mentioned before in my initial vein of advice, this sort of battle gets incredibly tiresome. It’s not that these spaces are actively avoided, it is precisely because these creatures have been kicked out of the community for near constant mania and OOC bickering. It’s also irrelevant as to what a character’s motives are: if the character can be blatantly observed as being a trickster demon based on appearance and attitude the fault isn’t with the player in question making the comment, but with one’s own personal RP and conduct. Being the Izkuthii in question, you can also see why I left your name out of the initial example, as the attitude I witnessed was for lack of a better word; unacceptable. Particularly for someone in that position. What actually occurred during this event was an observation, made by a fourteen year old kid based on skin details and RP comments. That could generally be made by anyone and still have been effectively true (I.E walking around with massive horns will illicit an appropriate reaction.) That kid was then screamed at both in discord and in OOC server side in front of his peers. The arrogance that takes is beyond my capacity to explain without resorting to harsher phrases but it wasn’t something I had the patience to deal with at the time; nor did anyone else involved. It’s also why all was abated both roleplay and discord chats immediately calmed down and happily carried on without the incessant lack of understanding. I’ve given feedback already though and it’s ultimately it’s up to you whether to accept it or not. Adios and enjoy arguing in the comments.

All the interactions I’ve had with this creature have been cancerous in some regard. From the vibes I got most often the appeal is just to be an immortal cute gal with horns; and one of the few times I actually decided to point out those weird physical abnormalities in roleplay I got whined at in OOC for meta-gaming. You would think that displaying bright red hair and giant antler horns would be reason enough to label someone a demoness or a weirdo, but apparently not. Either way whether or not the lore has changed is irrelevant because ultimately the only observation I was able to take away from my own personal engagements is that the type of people who roleplay this creature are extremely hard to get along with and don’t interact with wider communities enough to have an impact beyond their own circles anyway. The writing itself isn’t bad, the spoilers make it a bit hard to read obviously but the descriptions are solid and the mechanics make sense; though that isn’t usually the problem with lore anyway. I’m in a late night paper writing faze so I’m far more accommodating in this reviewish state of mind. I’d get rid of the spoilers obviously and maybe expand on feeding as after running through that section I still don’t know what they’re feeding on or why they need to / are compelled to feed besides the fact that they need a mechanism to explain their immortality. The concept of being a polymorphing trickster is also generally not distasteful to my RP pallet personally (as lets face it I wrote this newest iteration of Striga so it’s directly up my alley.) Hence my only concern is really in the interactions I’ve previously mentioned: being a trickster is fine, but also not very effective if you flex your CA on everyone else with every chance you get. It defeats the purpose of being a trickster in the first place. It gets annoying, stale, un-interactive, ext. And outside of my own experience that was also the general consensus of the other people around me at the time, and this was in an elven settlement (seeing as there seems to be a focus on bashing human roleplay in this thread). An inability to take criticism and handle it effectively without crying wolf to some authority for punishment. That seems to be the prognosis and the problem which must be solved. My last bit of commentary however is in how ironic the solution to that problem is: a bit of old fashioned understanding and accountability.

lots is due an aquatic creature with all the mechanics at our disposal, this ain’t it.

The only thing I can see Joel doing is tearing this to pieces, every complaint made about Striga being OP is exemplified and perpetuated here. Everything is very bare bones mechanically the powers, regeneration, revival, strength, powers; it just overlaps immensely already with prior lore but far too blatantly. It’s essentially Striga with all the philosophy stripped and tossed into the trash. There is nothing here that you can’t already get from somewhere else. The recommendation I will give is to improve your origin and give the story more nuance: “a soldier, a merchant, and a Baron walk into a bar. BOOM vampires” is not a decent premise to stand on.

this is a lore post stop with your cringe centred text, you might as well use comic sans too at this rate

It’s a start; it’s also only happening because you need to cover your own bum, and so that you can get back to a position of strength. It doesn’t mean your off the hook. Keep taking things in stride from here on out and you’ll dodge a lot more bullets that way; nobody likes arrogance as evident by how effective that google doc was.

Iblees isn’t dead. He was banished back again in athera psure, (don’t quote me on that though I was still in high school when that map was live). The backstory in general could use a bit more than just one paragraph; who is Arun’Asna? And why does he exist to her serve? Are there any reasons or motives? There are also places in this piece where it seems like you’ve assumed people will just connect the dots of what you're talking about and understand it. In order for any deity or patron to be utilized they have to be able to stand on their own as a character, it would also be a boon for the people reading it. There also doesn’t seem to be any explicit method on /how/ these abilities work besides ‘deity magic duh’. It isn’t exactly necessary in most cases, but the same goes; if your creating any sort of lore canon character there should be real details on what they influence and how they accomplish that. My advice is this: A: Flesh out the backstory and explain it holistically so readers can fully grasp the concept. B: Give him actual goals; you restate things already touched on instead of adding new details. C: Fill out the entirety of the format, (if your not going to use it don’t include it and waste space)