Eranikus

The Puma Druid shakes his head upon hearing the news of what the high elves did, lounging in the treetops of his chosen home. "Scorning a gift from the Mother of the Morn upon a race cursed with infertility. I care not for the propaganda of war, but once more the 'aheral prove themselves not children of Malin, but vile monsters that care only for their own gain. Purity at what cost?" he asks himself, letting a puff of smoke leave his lips and clamping his pipe once more between his teeth.

Hooray, I feel listened to! :D On a more serious note, as I stated in my post on the matter (check it out, I did my best to break up the text wall into lovely little paragraphs), my potential suggestions on how to improve the system were as follows: Increase the cap on how many people can be involved in a combat situation before pvp becomes default (ultimately, the option offered was 10 instead of the current 7) Do not include the number of raiders present in the calculations for the cap, as that puts the defender at an automatic disadvantage as they can only have 2 people involved before it becomes pvp default Assign equal numbers to both sides, i.e. if 4 raiders show up, only 4 defenders may participate in the RP combat and each can only focus on a single raider In addition to this, if the raid is being resolved through RP the raiders get a time span increase so they can't be forced away by ooc means by the defending party stalling for 30 minutes

Mrrgl mrrlrllrlrlrgl! Translation: +1

Taynuel frowns, reading over the missive. His right ear gives a light twitch, shaking his head. "Implying at all that animals don't have the ability to choose. I'm offended," he grumbles, holding an arm out to allow a falcon to glide down from above and land. He brings the bird up, using his fingers to scratch at the back of its neck and preen the feathers it can't reach. "You don't lack a free will. You do things to continue your species, but nothing is forcing you to stick around anywhere or deliver letters for me. You do that of your own volition. I've never ordered you to do anything. I've asked you nicely, and if you haven't wanted to carry a scroll I've delivered the message myself," he states to the bird, holding his arm out again so it can fly off of its own free will. "Leave it to the descendants to measure themselves by how much banter they can spread about their fellow descendants."

Taynuel frowns as he sees the bounty on his notice board. Calmly, he walks over to it and tears it away from the nail used to put it there, reading it over. After a moment, he makes his way over to one of multiple goats that dwell in the Grove and tears it up, offering it a piece of the remains of the bounty. The goat sniffs at it before turning and wandering off, munching on grass instead. "Huh. Guess that proves it," he muses, heading off to locate a fire to burn the bounty. "It ain't worth the ****."

I don't really feel like this is necessary. We already have horses which are faster, easier to control, and more maneuverable irp than this vehicle. It doesn't add any sort of conveniences to transportation that aren't already provided. -1

I vote for Leo next. These are so cute!

Taynuel wanders into the bar and joins Calius, slamming his forehead on the counter. "I've not had enough rum to deal with this today."

Taynuel sits by himself up in treetops, reading over the propaganda spread by the high elves. Thin wisps of smoke rise from the pipe clamped between his teeth, snaking above his head and lifting off into the clouds. His teeth clack against the carved wood as he moves it to the other side of his mouth, shrugging his shoulders. "I mean... perhaps your kin forgot the Fringe, Thales, and Athera. I didn't really see the 'Aheral doing much 'uniting' of the elves either. I saw segregation then, just as I see it now. Silly descendants," he mutters, shaking his head. "The day an elf actually manages to truly unite us as a people and not just get everyone to live in the same general area as the others is the day I eat my pipe." He lets a yawn leave his lips before he folds up the paper, slipping it into his pack and gazing out at the trees around him. "Titles are meaningless. It is those that bow before the ones that have titles that make them mean anything. Take away the followers and a king is little more than a wealthy man with a fancy hat. True son of Malin," he scoffs. "A true son of Malin would not have stood by and watched as his brothers and sisters were killed simply for the tone of their skin. A true son of Malin would not condone the slaughter of children simply because their parents were different subraces of elf. Call yourself son of Malin..." he grumbles, shaking his head. "If the four brothers were here today, I'd wager not but shame upon their gaze, for their children have disgraced them greatly across all lineages."

The thirst... the thirst always wins. +1 for not being disco balls. Although much like Evark, I would like some clarifications on whether or not certain magics will affect them. Also, what happens if they opt to pursue animal blood as a substitute for the blood of the descendants? Does it work like certain vampiric lore where it sates them for a time? Does it work the exact same as descendant blood?

Oh, it's on. I'm going to bring you to your breaking point with this, the last fight. I'm living life on the edge of a knife while you're still looking for a place where you belong. Forever and always I'll make your dignity disappear. Time to say goodnight because you're dead to the world. You want a battle? Here's a war. You're waking the demon and raising hell, now its time to scream, aim, fire. *drops the mic*

I thought our puns were sans-sational but it looks like they're giving him a temmie-ache. Guess he shouldn't have skipped the tu-toriel. I know the Undertale puns are overdone, but I couldn't help but take the frisk.

AND IF ANYONE CAN BEAT MY PUNPOCALYPSE, YOU CAN ALL SAY "TAY TORTOISE WELL!"

I better stop before things get too otter hand. Really I'm having a whale of a time, but I need to get some rest, otherwise I'll bee late for work in the morning. It wasp fun while it lasted. Now its time to make like a banana and split. And if I offended anyone, it was truly... (•_•) ( •_•)>⌐■-■ (⌐■_■) punintentional.

I don't caribout your puns, anyway.

Final! Stop robin me of the spotlight! Its sunfair for you to treat me that way! Acting all koi like you are. Sparrow me your low-quality humor.

Why don't you leaf me alone? I can see this forum dragon on for a while. We oughtta snow better than to start carrying on like this. But owl have you know that my puns have a seal of approval, oak-ay? I'm a mosster of them.

I'd be lion if I said druids didn't love puns. Not everyone has the stomach for them, but you just gotta liver it up. Not everyone realizes you're just kidney with 'em. Eventually they get a hare annoying, but I think that's a load of bull. A real hawk of ****. Deer lord, that's already eight puns and we're just getting started.

They've been separated before. It took an Iblees nuke to do it. I really don't see the reason to completely outline every single detail with druidism that could possibly happen. I can understand wanting a bit more clarification on the stones themselves, but visions vary from person to person. The best part of druidism is its flexibility. There's such a wide range of things you can do with druidism because of how its structured. I could write a full-length novel entailing everything you could do and barely scratch the surface because nature is just so varied. Nobody wants to sit through a thousand-page document reading over all the possible things you can do with it. That just robs you of the creativity to come up with something clever. It's a vision. It's flavor. All it would create is character development. OH NO, NOT CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT. Redlines here would obviously include things like moongazing. That's stomping on other magic's toes, which I do not and never will appreciate. I don't feel they should be exact details either, they should be symbolic and spiritual visions, not Druid used Future Sight! Druid foresaw an attack! Or if it was going to be a sort of glimpse into things to come, it would be very foggy and difficult for the druid to interpret, like a vision of what may be, not what will be. Like if X doesn't happen, here's a vision of what will occur, but not like... explicitly stated. Just tiny images that would be up to the druid to figure out what they mean. They're unnatural beings. The stones are, in essence, an embodiment of perfect balance created by the very aenguls that created the balance. They're walking corruption, going directly against nature in the case of ghouls as an example. However, I would say that it should only block certain dark magics or certain aspects of dark magics, rather than blanketing over all of them. Necromancy would definitely be blocked from causing corruption or taint within the radius entailed in the post by the OP. Their tethers would also operate at roughly half capacity within that radius, as the stones would be drawn to correct the damage that was being done within the radius. I think at most Frost Witches would feel about the same as ghouls would within the range. I'm not sure how their magic works. Same with Shades, just feel sick around the stones. Although passing on their shade-ness should be more difficult within the range, as again its unnatural. Blood mages would probably be fairly unaffected. Same with Soul Puppeteers, though curses should be weaker within the range. Does not outright stop them from creating the soul connection or inflicting curses. Ummm... Fi magic is technically voidal, so they shouldn't be affected either. Although I think a Fi mage should be able to temporarily stop them from regenerating energy expended, but not outright block them from using the energy they already have pooled inside them. I can't think of any other dark magics off the top of my head. I figured it'd be like a larger version of a fairy ring. Like... advance by a full tier instead of half a tier though. If already T5, just treat it as if a T2 druid was powersharing with them. I believe in the OP it was explained what would happen if a stone was moved to the void or the nether, being that they'd dissolve and reform in the real world. I think if they were shattered it could create some very cool RP if the shards then scattered (limit that to a set number that powerful druids would then receive hints as to their location for little events, I don't want to go on some wild goose chase for seven shards or more. If I wanted to do that I'd play Sonic, not LotC) and had to be gathered and brought to the remaining stones to reform and remagnetize. That would prevent them from being lost as well as give the ET a few easy events to do should a stone actually be shattered. That being said, already stated that it took an Iblees nuke to separate them before, so we're taking direct aengudaemonic influence to destroy them. These are aengul-forged artifacts after all. If they're made by an aengul, I personally don't feel that anything short of another aengul could break them, and that goes for any such artifact. I would say each would have a stagnant energy pool of two T5 druids apiece for a total of the equivalent of 6 Ariks (Congratulations, Song Druid. You are now a unit of measurement). That being said, I think 48-72 hours would be a fair recharge time assuming all three were entirely drained of their energy. So roughly raid cooldown. Already answered by Arik, but I'll state it in a bit more detail. No. For reasoning, see aengul-forged artifact argument in the last paragraph. These are directly tied to the Aspects themselves. Even if a corruption was attempted, the inherent nature of the stones would be to rebel against the corruption and purify it. It would create a paradox. And that's my /2cents

The Hare Druid smirks when he hears of this declaration, sitting high up in the mountains. "How quaint," he muses, "that the Rex believes we will stop under the threat of death. It has not made us cease before. It will not make us cease now. You who would live as the slave to a spirit of decay and death shall too feel what he stands for: failure." "Krug should be ashamed of his children for the scourge they have become to the lands of the four brothers and their children. How the once honorable orcs have fallen, to fight with underhanded tactics and go to external sources for their strength when they are more than capable of doing it without. He who sacrificed himself in defense of his brothers, his land, and his people, must now watch as those he protected betray the values he once stood for. For what? For victory? For war? There is nothing to be gained. Nothing to be had from what they do." "Why would the father of the uruks want to reward those who would destroy his own lands with pestilence in trade for power? Horen would not have stooped so low. Urguan would not have done that. Malin would never even consider such." "To think. I once respected them for it," he muses, rising to his feet and shouldering his staff. "They have robbed themselves of all reason to respect them, fueled by their own lust for power... a corruption far greater than any plague." With that, he turns and strides off into the forest. ((Also, that's very clearly a spruce tree.))

Somewhere far up in the mountains of Urguan, a druid celebrates as once more a prayer goes up for the Aengul of Harvest. Taters fill the bags of all in Vailor.