Arafel

1 minute ago, Thedeadoor said:

 

I think it mainly comes down to “flintlocks are cool and not that advanced tech wise” as to why people want them.

Could always steer away from flintlocks and have matchlocks instead.

Cannons and a prototype dwarven Hakenbüchse existed in Aegis, so I don’t see why they couldn’t still exist. All you have to do is prohibit rifling with the techlock and you’ll be golden.

I’ve no issue with this so long as it filters out modern-day slurs that have no place being said IC and are unacceptable by community standards OOC. However, the inability for such systems to take context into consideration is very concerning.

If memory serves me right, the only thing that’s ever made RP happen on a somewhat regular basis that could be beneficial to new players at CT is the emergent interactions that take place there as a result of the temple being located in a crossroads of sorts between two or more settlements. This is perhaps the best and only way to have CT be an RP hub of a sort: for passing, casual interactions and/or small-talk. To give new arrivals a few directions or pointers IC and OOC before moving on.

It took @argonian’s comment for me to realize this was satire. I genuinely bought into it and saw nothing unusual about the region names.

Is there a source for the symbols in their real world iteration or are you coming up with your own designs / adapting some fictional ones for the purpose of the lore rewrite? I ask because I’ve been researching alchemy for a little while and I can’t say I recognize them.

Low Fantasy, Dark Fantasy or High Fantasy?

You’re going to want to do some research into what was around in the past. I mentioned it a moment ago in someone’s status update, but things like steam engines, cannons and even a prototype arquebus (made by a dwarf whose name I don’t recall anymore) existed in LotC’s 14^th century (Aegis). Since then there has been a constant back and forth depending on who’s been at the top and what their vision for the canon and technology locks was. I think the top priority should be consistency with pre-established canon – this is, what has been allowed and role-played in the past and therefore cemented into the history of lord of the craft’s universe – with your future vision for the setting(s) of the server being second in the design process you will undertake.

On 31/10/2017 at 11:35 PM, AstralGoddess said:

 

It could become similar to frost witches, in how they have their separate coverns that are enclosed and generally unfriendly (from what I've read) to other coverns. Considering this pack has an alpha, a challenge could also be conducted by one of the lower werewolves to take over, and the alpha then outcast?

Curious theories.

+1 make me a wolf daddy

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Yes! That sounds more like it!

I'm a little disappointed that one would be forced to remain part of a larger pack after being turned. It would be interesting to expand the lore so it's possible to become an outcast but have some kind of added affliction/downside as a result, to function in such a way that one is then forced to be solitary and isolated from the pact in order to survive or to keep this added curse from consuming them from within. I would gladly do a contribution in this regard, but it's not my submission and I'm not familiarized with how these go, so... I guess that's that.

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So, she spent the prime of her childhood learning from adunian, gorundyr and elven culture, though this last would come to suffer of neglect and eventually find itself lacking, for her mother’s health only deteriorated with each passing year since her birth. By her coming of age, Ankou had long-since granted her mother safe passage to Halvengr. As a result, her father grew reclusive and prone to brooding, leaving Adelaide’s mentoring in the hands of folk such as Morvan, friend of his father, and a young adunian by the name of Jocelyn – a brother figure to her, and squire to her father. It was thus that she came to explore the spiritual realm adopted by her father long before her birth: the pantheon of the Gorundyr; and to develop refined skill in armed combat, leaning in favor of the way of the ranger over that of the swordsman or shield-maiden, due to her subpar physical prowess next to others her age.
It must have been when she ceased to be a youngling, when wanderlust struck her like an alluring breeze, inciting her out of the woods familiar to her and beyond the snowy mountains concealing a horizon strange to her, that her father summoned her forth upon his return from an expedition out to lands unknown, accompanied by warriors other than himself. It must have been such a day, when her father bestowed upon her the blade of her ancestors, wrapped in silken fabric of one noble-worthy cloak, when she learned the story of her grandfather. Indeed, it was on such day that her father would lay down the path for her to follow and describe the tracks she was to seek in order to find the man of many a legend, for her father was to depart to lands untold without a word as to whether far beyond the strange horizon he was to remain, or if his visage would be hers to see again.

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