shimmeringbliss
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Helpppppppp someone give me a minecraft book to LOTC bookshelf formatting guide. It looks horrible!
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Trying to get back into LOTC after a while. Any interesting factions out there looking for players around the australian timezone?
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Who should I contact regarding Nordengrad?
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I'm pretty bored, are there any active userbases looking for players?
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Asulon Planning http://i.imgur.com/pRqpobB.jpg
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my superpower is the ability to subconsciously create cosmic coincidences. it actually sucks. end my suffering.
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i now see paintings a whole lot differently
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All it took was roughly 20+ hours shifting through 3200 topics.
Funnily enough, I had to spend the most time here because Supremacyops made like..... at least over a 100 topics on his own. Athera has the largest reference ever with over 200 topics.
My eyes are bleeding send help
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Haria's forests and statues are very pretty!
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2 weeks, over a thousand topics, 100 references, I present to you the entire history of elves in Anthos.
Read about the drama, the many betrayals, and how one elf claimed the throne because he was really bored.
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I'm a massive fan of your Flagship, even though I hadn't even joined the server in Anthos! Its amazing, and has helped me document elven history.
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Hi thanks for your help! I could find no records about this coup, but thanks for providing the information.
What happened in the end, since Bravepaw was chased out? Did Elene sit on an empty throne?
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At granite I'm finding gigantic quartz veins every 2 seconds but never any iron. What's the best y level for iron?
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I've been mining nonstop since I got home from work. ;o; Never enough iron. Never enough.
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Someone end my life now
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does anyone else feel like the elven supremacist-purist **** is overused as ****? every subrace uses it, and it seems to get kinda old. like, there
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I think its mostly because nationalists are the easiest to rouse roleplay. Playing a pacifist would involve having their values continuously challenged, and other factions will certainly target you for it (IE orcs and tribute demanding).
If you dont have strong nationalism, you need something else that will form a core value to base the culture on. In the books of Divergent, they had 5 distinct cultures (daredevils, intellectuals, hippies, truth speakers, and unconditional kindness), but they lived together in a strange and forced understanding, to which in the end a faction inevitably tried to attempt complete take over.
Having a pacifist culture wouldn't be very sustainable in the world of LOTC, and the high elves are perhaps the most 'peaceful' among st all groups. Still have their own warriors to defend themselves. Can you imagine roleplaying to be a defeated faction over and over again?
There are actually a decent amount of neutral territories, Sutica being a prime example. So no its not all 'death to every outsider'. And keeping in mind the war that Ames have fought with Aherals, there will always be tension present. You cant just turn the Ames into pacifists all of a sudden, especially since they were conquered and subjugated ruthlessly so many times.
There is always more to a culture than strong nationalism, with overlaying themes and what not. Aherals with their stringent rules and careful social etiquette, Ames with their ferverent Aspect worship, Ker with their ancestral and shadowy themes. I dont think you can find a culture in real life that didn't have its share in bloodshed. Everyone was violent and peaceful at points in times. So to say that we are all the same really hurts us who put so much effort into developing them, and its why we do get defensive!
You do present some very interesting suggestions, Space, but I cant see them being feasible unless the culture can sort of pay for its protection. Everyone's gotta live at the end of the day :P
Sorry for the long rant, this status debate was very interesting!
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New update on the Laurehlin board! We had a ball! Literally!
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Hope you enjoyed the first of 6 Krugmas events! Next one will be same time tomorrow!
