Ryloth

one can only hope, but story team certainly won't ... right? 😞

no it isnt ok maybe

♫♫♫ Relic World A tale of a world lost Khalenwyr -- a utopia, my utopia. Our utopia, the lapis jewel so great it stood a millenia proud, untouched, unscathed. Ever-expanding, ever-taller, ever more divine. The birthplace of the true, just, and right celestial children, the Kharajyr born of light from the stars, those guardians of the paradise that was our homeland. The dawn of night ushered forth auspicious moons of the Empyrean Trident high, and with its dusk did dawn of day break into resplendent beams of a thousand league’s grace stretching our unshadowed empire. Our emperor Tla’Jhaan reigned supreme, canonized with the silver sheen of stars’ ichor amidst his acme, beneath the infinite oculus of an outrageously doting moon standing bright in our elysium above. It was said to be impossible. The fall of a civilization so great was brazen lie and doom-saying, inconsistent with the foretold future by our time-seeing seergazers. Our paradise was the pinnacle of achievement between both Aos and Eos -- nothing could oppose us, nothing. At least, that is what Tla’Jhaan foretold. He ignored his seers’ visions, ignored their warnings. He was divine after all. He was right and the stars forbade refutation of his word. He brought forth the zenith of our empire’s influence. He was our success. Nothing could oppose us, except us. Tla’Jhaan failed to uphold his oaths and vows to the blessed moon, our silver shining beacon and guide. But a beacon no longer, for Her worship was made crime. How could he? Tla’Jhaan were divine, but a god he was not -- Metztli was our goddess, She gifted him his divinity, She wrote his story and guided his hand. She bathed him in the blood of the stars. Tla’Jhaan betrayed Her, and Her nurturing affection swiftly turned to malice. We were unworthy of Her gifts, unworthy of our empire, unworthy of our successes. We were Her children, and as an ignorant child would, we had to learn. We had to be taught. In the blink of an eye, it was all over. A millennium of success -- gone. An empire stretching far and wide, vaporized and cast away as if a meaningless mote of dust before the tremendous climax of an ending world. Our island paradise was unknowingly nestled around the waist of a great dormant volcano, and when its peak unleashed the might of the world beneath it, the tallest temples became ruined, and the smallest homes became dust. Every achievement we had made for a thousand years was lost in a flash, all for the arrogance of a single Kharajyr undeserving of Her love. This was his legacy. Metztli watched from above as those few survivors fled to our world ships, our behemoth juggernauts which barely survived the blast. Behind them, thousands of our innocent people petrified at knee-fall were frozen to time, brimstone-blasted and sear burnt black to the bone. Their skeletons eerily kneeled into the position of submissive prayer, begging for Her forgiveness and mercy, and still stand locked in eternal damnation to this day as a testament to Her power. When I arrived at the remnants of our temple mount I swear I could see their very shadows burned into the still-gilded streets struck with such ferocity that the vibrant metal had warped like ocean waves from the heat of a blazing sun. Metztli’s power was wicked and absolute. The world ships undocked under a mellow twilight slashed with fire and fled for the horizon, only the unknown blue expanse before them. That was when we arrived in Asulon, a thousand years ago in the now bygone Mathic Age. I stand here now in the present, my pilgrimage my atonement, but I find no liberation in Khalenwyr. With prayers unheard, I am a blessed kind no longer. To what can I now confide in? Like the ashes of my homeland I am scattered, and now like the hand of a clock, the Trident turns. Mother, forgive me - Mother, forgive us. It is a depressing thought -- once upon a time, I bore Her with my own two eyes. A hand out-stretched to meet Her through the veil, but She did not meet mine. I sought forgiveness, I sought Her love. But She delivered a fleeting glance, turned, and vanished into the long dark, only to return as a glister in the sky, then a desecrated corpse within the sands. I -- we, were abandoned, and with Her fall alongside Gazardiael did the Mathic Age end and the Second Age begin with a silent, singular clap in a vast, empty dark room. Our world is now a relic of a once divine empire, now fallen into ashes and rubble. Our people are scattered, our lives changed forever, and She is gone -- but as Her children we live on, and She through us. Metztli -- yectenehua. ~ Ri'Haskir Therkul

Haskir peers over the flyer, cringing briefly as he imagines the already fully-filled manor housing even more Kha’. He sighs, and decides he could make room before dispatching a bird for Rha’kir – after all, he was Therkul. It would only be right! “We need Sa’Kaktimani.”

wasnt another snake CA just posted like a week before this one also this area just seems like the writer is struggling to explain what Azdrazi are, and it’s more importantly not entirely correct

Excellent choice.

Raid rules release soon chief. It'll all start again shortly.

dw homes, gotchu covered Funniest redline I've seen in a while and I now approve +1 say no to catgirls

i only skimmed this but from what i read actual labrat catgirls can be made and i hate it. cool lore anyways tho at least i can hunt kharaboos

gotta solve the banditry problem first. conflict rp will lead to a settlement finding walls more and more a necessity. brandybrook is about the only example of a non-walled settlement that functions, because the only purpose of raiding brandybrook is to raze and terrorize. it’s hardly even worth it, and it’s just a bit toxic. any other settlement though, they have militaries and – typically – a reason to raid. unfortunately when the server has a multi-life rule in effect where you die and respawn, there is no risk of death, and therefore walls will always exist because bandits will incessantly return. but that’s a whole other argument which effectively nullifies this one without the other being solved first.

that’s because walls irl take serious man hours to construct. in lotc it takes like 10 minutes to make a wall design, 10 minutes to paste it around a city on a build server, and 2 hours with an energy drink to litematica the build in. if it took that little time and manpower irl, everything would have walls.

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Well, I certainly didn't say it shouldn't have limitations or be a cure-all.

I think it should. You as the writer of both have the ability to make it what you will, so personally I'd make it so. You could also make it eatable in small quantities like a charcoal tab to dilute and neutralize poisons that have been ingested.

While I believe this is an extended lore piece to your open CA to allow their venom neurotoxin to be more permissible, I do think this material is alright. I generally hate the idea of venom and poison in LoTC because annoying assassination becomes much more prevalent with its presence and this lore allows for it to exist. But it is a cool material that might make poisons and venoms much more acceptable and reasonable. Just maybe.

Venom bite is OP for a CA. Snakes do not always need to have venom, and it is a realistic but unnecessary addition; additionally, it states that it becomes useless on contact with air. I can think on the top of my head a few ways to loophole that, so it should be changed and/or the venom bite should be removed, imo. Fangs are already pretty strong by themselves given they are natural weapons plenty longer than most knives. A bite to the neck would incapacitate by itself. Additionally, there are absolutely no red lines or mentions of constricting a target. It seems like that might be a heavy-hitter to consider mentioning in some way, shape or form but I wouldn’t recommend adding it as an ability. Otherwise it looks alright. I’ve always wanted a snakeskin cowboy hat.

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Awesome. And fair enough.

Really nice lore. Will it end up eventually incorporating continents not yet visited (IE: Aeldin)? Also curious if it will incorporate anything regarding Metztli regardless of her supposed death and the conquering/destruction of her claimed plane.

got my pre-order ready

runic siege cannons when?

foreshadowing? 👀

This is good. It should’ve been like this a long time ago. While it’s going to end a lot of gate keeping which could prove bad, it’s proper to how it should realistically make sense imo. Puts more faith in the players too, so it’ll be a nice experiment and hopefully it turns out well and good.