Mr. Etan

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[Drowning by Pretty angel] The streets of Lurin were empty due to the downpour that overtook the city winds howling loudly. Within its back streets laid an old Mali'aheral glasses shattered in a pool of his own blood that was mixing with the puddle under him. He found a defeated smile on his lips - the mage turned himself over to look up to his would-be killer the world around him starting to fade. He didn't feel pain and he could not even feel the cold rain anymore. The only thing possibly audible was shouted from the last deep breath the man could make. "Tell my daughter I said goodbye." ... "I will." A short exchange of words passed the two the words lost to the winds and to time itself. Only one will ever remember the mages last words and soon he laid back accepting his rest. The weapon came down and the cracked road under him ran red as the mage laid there in the rain finally getting rest without nightmares or the guilt he had carried for centuries, no longer needing to watch history repeat itself. A bloody grimoire that always never left Sarrions side was delivered to the Divadri Estate with a single unsigned letter not in Sarrions handwriting. "Goodbye." The passing of Sarrion Divadri would be announced for those who cared to mourn and those who did not to celebrate.

Some real RAT posting here.

An old man would look over the listed parties.. Elves, Orcs, Humans? HIGH ELVES AND DARK ELVES? "What kind of weird alternate reality did I wake up in?"

You guys should +1 my comment instead of his lore.

Good idea, and aye casting implements can act as handles I think I already wrote that in. Also, I added it so projectiles (and onlly projectiles) can be boiled with an extra emote. Only does 1st degree burns, at most 2nd if its consistent, to not step on fire evo toes.

Yknow what, why not.

Much appreciated. I'm going to take some of this as well and stew on some ideas. Thanks so much! You can add me on discord here: Etan#1111

Somewhere, sometime, the old Elf stubbed his toe and screamed out. "SARRRAAAAHHHHHH."

A thesis on innate casting and the overcomplication of magic By the ancient wizard Divadri Before you was a parchment. It was longer than a usual parchment perhaps the writer was too lazy to write on the other side. Perhaps you found this posted by a tavern or mayhaps you are a fellow wizard summoning their daily wizard newspaper and found this thesis upon it. This was an open thesis. “Ah yes, magic. So whether you thrive in the topic or hate it, we cannot deny that magic is a great part of our world. The world itself was born from the abyss afterall molded and shaped by a greater being, one GOD himself as the mortals say. This would by proxy make him the greatest magician of all. But what if it was all but a dream? I digress..” Some ash was smeared here on the parchment. It smelled of fine herbs a bit minty as well. Perhaps a pipe was being smoked when it was being written. “All students of mine can attest to one conclusion of magic in which it is born of a dream. It might be safe that our reality itself is but the dream of one slumbering GOD but.. That is another topic of debate for the future aye?” A splotch of ink was here. Did he try to scratch something out or did his pen leak? “These younger generations go out trying to put reason to rhyme with the unthinkable.. That there is a ‘Science’ behind the chaotic energies that lay between our stars and that one can tame that is untameable. Hoshposh I declare! I cry out asking for our generations to stop with their ‘rationalizing’ of the void and their over stepping in attempts to tame this beast. We must step back from these ways and go back to the ways of yore - a safer understanding of the void. Dreams!” “I think, and therefore, it is.” “This is what magic is. Not tearing open holes in realty and sundering thy souls to the void. Nay! We must ground ourselves in reality but keep our minds open to the dreams I say.” “Magic is simply that - dreams. If we wizard's wish to conjure forth a pool of water to splash the rabble and youths off our lawn and keep them from stealing our pink flamingo lawn ornaments (I know who you are, I will find you and I will kill you) - Then we must first understand what water is innately! We must be able to picture it in our mind's eye!” “It's just a dream! You do not need to know all this hoshposh of temperature and numbers. You just dream of the calm and cooling ocean waves splashing between your toes on a warm afternoon.” A few dots of ink were here. It may be evident the writer was tapping his pen a few times in thought or perhaps he was just bored. “We do not need to over complicate the already complex. We do not need to overreach into such a power and drag the world down with us. Simplify your wizardry and do it safely. Wizards and Witches of the realm hear me out. Reflect upon this, yourself and think deep.” A cat paw was stamped here in ink. It looks as if the author was trying to get it off the parchment as it was smeared but gave up. “Ask yourself this. What reason do you dream so big?” “If you cannot justify it to yourself. You do not deserve such.”

Worry not expressing your own opinion doesn't discredit anything and I appreciate it. I just wholeheartedly disagree with your idea that a "rewrite" needs to be 100% different. I feel as large scale tweaks and changes to already existing lore constitutes a post much like this otherwise I would be making several amendment posts. I did ask Squakhawk about this, he did say that a rewrite is best for overhauls and rewording and better explaining a previously written lore I would argue is a decent overhaul. But hey, thats my opinion and if I cannot sway yours then so be it. I understand your viewpoint regardless though. This is already addressed with a redline. But I could re-add it to ensure everyone understands you can't drink it. I agree with you - but I personally think *this* post is *not* the place for debating such. This is a problem with void magic as a whole, not water evocation. It would be weird if we only did this to one of many void lores. This point is not to disregard your opinion as they are valid. I feel as Voidal Magic as a whole could use a change but that would require the Lore Section of the story team to actually have the guts to shake the norm and start up a Void Project like in the past. I can assure you that if any player attempted a whole rewrite of Voidal Magic as a whole it likely would not get passed through for the sake of stability of lore. Until then, with the way Voidal Magic is now, Evocations are kept simple and used for a half bit of combat and half bit of utility and art. Its kept simple for a reason and we need to keep it simple until the day someone decides to rewrite the entirety of voidal magic and how it works together. Honestly, in my opinion, having separate lore's for every "magic" for voidal magic is crazy. It should be more like Alchemy with a primary core post or three with explaining the mechanics and then spells can be added individually. Thank you thank you thank you for your thoughts on Water Evocation this right here is what I am looking for on this post. So we can make the lore better together. Water Evocation is quite versatile yes that is my idea for it as well. This lore does keep the water shields, whip and the wave as well. It actually better expands on the spells. ^ Could you elaborate on this idea for me? It sounds really interesting, but I do not see how it is different from Water Projectile? So *this* would be a really cool idea. Entrapping people in a water / tide cage of some sort? We could do something like that yes but it could easily be an addition to water barrier instead of a spell. Questions with this. Do you think the ability to call forth a rainstorm, to put out a large fire for example, is not disguising water from other elements? I truly enjoy the idea of summoning a rainstorm of sort as an ultimate ability that isn't 100% combative. Whats your opinion? Do you think we should get rid of ice? It's been a huge part of water evocation for a long time. End Note: Thanks so much for responding. Every opinion helps shape the overall end product and I hope to have one that the majority enjoys and will promote roleplay for both sides. Tbh, I enjoy discussing these on the forums on the post itself as it allows people outside of the circle of influence to nitpick and provide their two cents. Edit: Also this - do you think some sort of stronger more compressed water to be used as the material for this kind of enchanting would be better? Solid barriers of watrer, Water statues and Water Weapons of sort?