Medvekoma

All my interactions so far with ascended & ascended players IC and OOC has been decent and with mutual respect. This also means I have attended a few events with them that were all enjoyable. I wanted to state this before I conclude my opinion on the magic itself. Which is, sadly, the opposite in tone. I was first introduced to the ascended in Vailor, soon after I joined the server. My first picture of them was rather clear: remnants of an old piece of lore with awkward snowflake anime superhero abilities. Ascended fill a niche, have tools & boons and have drawbacks. The main issue, I think, is that these three are completely irrelevant to each other. The niche they fill is an elite group of undead/daemon hunters and sort-of neutral protectors of the different continents. To this, they have their wow-priest-paladin-esque abilities. But that's where the logic ends. Why are they immortal? Why are they immune to poison? Why are they called "ascended"? None of those are much relevant to their niche, all they do is elevate them a wee bit above others in RP. Which does feel like remnants of an Aegis player's ego-stroking. This is only topped by the fact that, as with most disconnection-based deity magics, the judgement over a character's actions and fulfillment of their oath is not judged by external parties, but by internal parties, which is fertile grounds for toxicity and in-community splits. Stone me for this comparison, but can any of you tell me in what details does this above described split in the ascended differ from the Stalinist-Trotskyist split in the Soviet Union before the purges? Oftentimes when interacting with ascended, I even felt like they were ashamed of their snowflak-ey powers and just wanted to fill that one niche they were meant to fill. So my opinions here: 1. Remove ascended. Remove their orders, remove their boons, remove their whatevers. 2. Treat current ascended characters the way Warcraft lore treated Night Elves post-tree. Have them just lose their immortality overnight and start aging proper, and have them know of this. 3. Implement a more universal version of their magic. I find it rather awkward that the "healing" niche is baseline circlejerked into the two most infamous circles on LOTC I have ever heard about (no hate druids, but you can't really deny all the drama of the past years). Implementing a holy / healing magic school could allow for humans & Canonists to finally have a magic they practice (RIP Intercession). 4. Overhaul all disconnection-based magics. I do not understand why internal policing is allowed next to a lore team. If a magic is obviously misused, they can blacklisted. I see disconnections and all these deity misfit removals as just a bunch of players trying to retain MT-level rights for the sake of Mineman power. Meme somewhat related. https://i.imgur.com/QYHu7rj.jpg

Too small, too dark-skinned. 6/10.

Summary: Night howlers (also known as Midnicampum holicithias) are toxic flowers that can turn civilized mammals into savage beasts. Looks: The night howlers are small-medium flowers that have six violet petals and several yellow pistils and stamens. Night howlers are grown from root bulbs, which can easily be mistaken for rotten onion bulbs. Effect: Night howlers contain toxins that are capable of inflicting highly potent psychological effects on mammals. When consumed or injected, the flowers' toxin causes a chemical reaction in the brain that decreases activity in most parts except the cerebellum, which becomes hyper-stimulated, causing the victim to lose higher reasoning functions and lash out at anything that moves. The effect of this is that essentially, any mammal reverts to an aggressive, wild, violent state that is described as "savage". The night howlers can even affect animals that do not have a naturally violent or ferocious disposition—as evidenced by their ability to turn non-predator animals, such as rabbits, aggressive. As natural flowers, night howlers can outright kill small animals such as insects, which makes them an effective pesticide. Alchemical uses: The psychological effects of Night howlers can be transferred to any potion, or may be refined to a more potent agent with the help of an appropriate laboratory.