The King Of The Moon

Sad reality of modern nation politics that Discord is the META so you're immediately at a 'disadvantage' (where nation leading is nowadays competitive with regards to activity and rallying, all without mentioning the sad reality of timezone coordination for RPers) to other nations without it. At least Skype was inefficient enough that it didn't make as much of a difference and wasn't anywhere near as necessary for leadership as it is now, which is why 'OOC leadership' was much less common (though still done). My advice is to keep the discord and delete minecraft to turn LoTC into a text based RP community; the true antichrist. 

There is no logical reason for Illusionists to learn or comprehend the Material Alphabet in a manner any different to non-Illusionists. 

I’d say your answer lies in the lore: 

Everyone (provided they’re a descendant born on the material plane) is able to read and understand the symbols at a base level, in the same way everyone with sight is able to understand a painting’s subject from an artist using realism as their technique, regardless of that individual’s ability to read or a shared language with the artist.

That doesn’t mean, therefore, that everyone knows what the symbols are, how many there are or what they each mean etc. This also applies in the ability write the symbols in an appropriate manner. Imagine if people could only read in Times New Roman. You might’ve seen a word written in Times New Roman, sure, but chances are when you try and write it yourself it’s going to be in Comic Sans or Calibri unless you have an in-depth understanding of the words and the alphabet they’re formed from.

If you’re intending for your character, therefore, to be able to write and utilise the Material Alphabet then your character is going to have to either be a currently accepted (or former) Further Alchemist, Rune Smith, Blood Mage, Elemental Shaman or practitioner of Voidal Feeling and is going to have to discover and teach themselves the symbols through experimentation and trial and error (bearing in mind there are ninety symbols at present and not all of them are applicable to each field mentioned – for instance, a blood mage will easily pick up on the symbols as they’re given the inherent ability to understand Blood Runes when they touch a blood shard, and these runes in turn are identical to many in the Material Alphabet, but there is no blood rune for ‘Push’, meaning a blood mage would be unlikely to uncover that letter from the material alphabet on their own. The inverse applies for Runesmiths, and a different scenario arises with Elementalists who wouldn’t really have any business studying the non-elemental runes) or they’re going to have to be taught how to properly use the symbols by someone already versed. 

Almost 2 years ago I submitted an overly convoluted, poorly balanced and worse planned out rewrite to Dark Shamanism. Some time around March 2018 I asked for this lore to be pulled and was turned down. It is still a circulated magic to this day whether I like it or not.

That’s just the way the cookie crumbles, friendo. You’ll live.

:(

@Teegah if that's actually a change you make I will worship the ground you walk on.

@Teegah get players permission to use /getpos so we can find our co-ordinates whilst downed (since you can't exit the chatbox to do F3) so we can find our stuff pls. It'd be a small change that'd go a long way.

Nah duck people only sorry

The Emperor whom belongs to house Horen. It seems to me like you're grasping at straws here.

@Flapman I'm not asking for anything OOC to be done, however the simple facts are that this IC will have (and to some degree is already having) an OOC effect on people's desire to play. I just hope something is sorted soon trough RP before player bases start dying like the Orcs 

And @zaezae and @HurferDurfer1 you think rebellion or collapse is actually likely to succeed or occur? I mean the empire isn't dependant on its vassals in the slightest.

Every nation but Haria THAT WASNT ALREADY A VASSAL OR PROTECTORATE*

@Gusano Arentonio
Don't let your memes be dreams.

@Jake!
This isn't 'shitting on the Dark Elf community'. I'm relatively convinced what Mosue is saying is in sarcastic agreement; The point of this post is to acknowledge what Kry is saying.

Trust me they're far from High Elves and Wood Elves in numbers, but of all Dark Elven bodies I'm pretty convinced Warhawkes should reserve the title - even if it's not an official nation (nor is Ker'nor) - to be seen as the racial capital.

Edward Thatch

Chicken.

I appreciate wait times, I just don't see how they can get credit for filling a modreq that requires no work.

I waited two hours online with seven mods...

You can actually "Do" modreqs and not just tick the box whilst the player is offline.

The issue in my opinion isn't the lack of ability to request, it's the lack of bounties and premade events for players to go out and do. All RP these days is focused on player versus player, since unless you wish to RP slaughtering farm animals PVE is non-existent to the average Joe.