Panashea

Make a Mak/join orc discord! I would also recommend just making an orc from the region and rping joining the clan to help develop your character.

A purple warbanner crest the horizon of Ghorazad. Scarred Akaal hands lift up the Uruk again. Krug's light glimmers below. They would fight again.

This reminds me a lot of the astrology lore I wrote for orcs titled Ilzhonal. Some of the Spirits you used for the constellations are shared! Although I'm unsure the efficacy of the magic, I really like the concept and would love to see it fleshed out more as a cultural/scientific study!

The story team discord accessible to everyone has an Audit log channel for everything that has been changed, orcish lore hub has been around since 2023 and has everything lore page wise to look at.

They already have different roles in combat, people just choose not to pact to the combative spells. I'm probably the only shaman pacted to Ogrol rn, even though it's a strong form of CC. There have been tons of addition to Shamanism in the last year but it's pretty rare people pay attention to them or utilize them, which is how i feel about point #4. It's not a matter of adding more, it's recognizing what's there and doing more to grow it.

I don't think people need to apply to LT roles to fix it, I think shamans as a playerbase need to gather together to better roleplay and create events between each other as to improve the general standing of shamanism on the server. There are issues(as is the case with every magic) where people aren't reading specific redlines/lore posts, or utilizing the lore that we currently have before we spend the time trying to rewrite and retcon everything. I think that's been one of the largest issues with shamanism, a lot of half-steps toward improving Shamanism, rewriting parts of lore, but never tackling it all together due to the scope and size. We have had many Shaman LT in the past there to write shamanism, but it mostly was people arguing about the nature of the Spirits rather than any tangible progress forward. If I could gather all the shamans in a room together to try and improve shamanism I would- 1. Ask them to be a more unified playerbase in events, interacting, and creating engaging stories for themselves and other players. Spiritualism goes ignored a lot of the time and although people reflavor the Spirits to suit religious/cultural ideals, it doesn't match server canon or allow for an expansion of what we currently have. Haruspexy is rarely used though would fit way better for a lot of these cultural groups rather than completely erasing previous spirit lore. 2. Teachers especially need to do a better job at guiding shamans toward more collaborative or engaging events and stories, shamans rn are mostly delegated to instant healers which feels bad balancing wise, and rp wise mises the point of Spirits pacting with shamans- to gain more influence. While healing does exert their power, it's not a shrine, hex, or some kind of deal established to make sure that people are worshipping the spirits. 3. Erase the general frustration about shamanism "not being as powerful" as the other magics. Shamanism as it stands has no drawbacks that typical deific, dark, or other combative magical subtypes have. It has tons of crowd control, ranged attacks, healing, and effective damage towards pretty much every other magic on the server. While I recognize a lot of the combative parts of Shamanism needs to be tweaked, I don't think adding 50 combative spells will suddenly change it to be in a better standing without effort from the playerbase. 4. More MArts, Prophecies, Remnant Hexes, and other quests shamans can pursue- for a faith based magic system, it feels like a lot of the "journey" shamans go on is something completely in the background of regular server dynamics, or only gone after by a specific few of older shamans. I don't think this only means pump out a ton of shaman MArts, as education, writing, and engagement need to improve from the Shaman community as a whole as to create better standards and paths for new players. I think thats it.

Spirits weren't originally part of the Aengudaemonic pantheon, and were retconned in with Apohet's lore. Its left their cosmology really confusing, and like Dingo said, you would have to gut/change a lot of how Spirits work (like with Apohet/Kor overriding the Soulstream), and how Spirits actually manifest/gaining power works compared to Aengudaemons. I was never keen on the Apohet addition for this reason, and the expansion of cosmology lore in the last decade would make trying to rewrite them in a lot harder, they would be unrecognizable in a lot of ways. The Spirit Realm sits in a really tricky spot and it would take a lot of dedicated ST with knowledge of how backlore/secret cosmology would function to make sure all the pieces thread together, as well as changing a ton of player history and past events.

Just realized i didn't include the time! It's 6pm EST 11/8!

Great plugin for aesthetics!

I forgot to say Orcs need to be able to eat spoiled food for my opinion to be swayed.

As someone who's worked on past maps I've never heard of a map being delayed because of plugins. Admins definitely made a bad call on this as like many people have said, there are no supporting systems to enable farming immersion. Most staff use /god so this will only make it harder for new players to travel the map, and demand that they join some nation or risk starving between roads they don't fully know. LOTC constantly switching between half finished technical systems and ignoring general consensus harms the community and ability for new people to join and old people to return to the server. Adding timers to mines did not make me want to roleplay black lung, nor will adding spoil times encourage roleplay in the fields. This isn't Cheezi's fault but a discrepancy in the desire to mechanize the server more by a minority of players in hopes to generate more playtime("rp"). I think it will take a continued vocal effort to try and get admins to steer clear from nexus-adjacent plugins. So I encourage people to vocalize their disdain toward the Admins directly, rather than the guy who was forced to do it. To the admins, there's a reason people like scaling. It adds more to the visual experience of understanding the different races and creatures on Lord of the Craft without impeding on people's lore or experience. Making the experience of roleplaying on the roleplay server easier should be a priority, rather than adding new mechanics based on your discretion.

not to be that guy but someone made these a few years back

Shamanism* i will always accept more friends

[!] Scar-lined goblins and blind uruks offer a message throughout the land, offering a missive to the willing. —I seek to teach again. — [Looking for Students] Ghoraza seeks to restore faith within the world. While the blood of my clan and people require wisdom first, I will always be a path toward knowledge for all descendant kind. I seek to create S H A M A N S and C L E R I C S of all kinds, so that my work toward the S O U L - B L O O D rites might end. The Mountain has stirred an urgent fire into my being. I seek to overcome Aevos itself. So find me, before the world breaks, and before ruin engulfs us. [Pen a letter to the Motsham. IRP] [Dreamscle/Ghoraza'Akaal] [Thank you LordMJO for the formatting]