Lords Of Creation 14 (OCC)

[Marvelous Miscreant]

Well, I can't really help you there. I have no idea where you want to go with it, plus I lack most of the basic knowledge you've provided for your lands already.

[Philote]

Go read my post on the last page

It contains most of my land's information that currently exists.

[Marvelous Miscreant]

Already read it. Seems, you have a handle on everything already.

[Philote]

I guess so. It just seems like Vault is able to breath so much life into his land and I wanted to flesh out mine more to achieve that too.

[Marvelous Miscreant]

I think Vault just has that natural ability though...

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

Well, you have everything in your land down square. That's important. Now you have to think about how all these things relate to one another.

Who makes what? Who grows the food? What are each races exports? What do they have to import? What do they trade with one another?

How do they react to the Durhians? How do they react to technology? How do they treat outsiders in general? How do they treat one another? Is there much racial tension between them? If so, how would this influence the way they interact with non-Eternus races?

What are the major religions? How do they interact with one another? Are there any religious controversies? Is Heroism seen as something that has to be handed down by a god, or can normal people achieve heroism? Is their conflict between these two philosophies?

What is daily life like for a soldier? For a hunter? For a King? For a farmer? For a tradesman? For a child? Fisherman? Teacher? Scholar? What do people do for fun?

How are people named? Are names important? What is the naming scheme of each society?

If one group does this, how do all these other groups react? And does everyone within the group react the same way?

What are the most dangerous animals? What are the most common animals? What animals do the inhabitants domesticate? What do the Mythos do? How do the Mythos interact with one another, the normal animals, and the people? Are Mythos hunted? Are they domesticated?

These are the sorts of questions you ask for all the races, that that isn't even going into specific questions.

Shardminds: They stay in their tower most of the time, I can only presume they don't really need anything. How is this going to affect the way they view themselves? How is this going to affect the way other people view them? Do the Humans resent the fact that they're naturally talented at what the Humans have to go to school to learn?

Genasi: How do they form pacts? How do they respond to being overworked? Underworked? How much of them appears in this plane to do the work? What keeps one from getting summoned just as they're sitting down to dinner with the family, or on the toilet? Considering their isolation, how do they view themselves as compared to he rest of the world?

Shifters: How do people view them in response to their hidden nature? Do they have to go into town to buy anything? What happens when, lets say the Goliath, want to get at a copper vein under a patch of trees? Consider how terribly mysterious all three of these races are to the others living on Eternus. What are their relationship with the Treants?

Dragonborn: How would being so divided along color lines in addition to being divided along racial lines affect how they view the world? Are there many revolts, say, by the green ones when a red one is chosen as leader? Is there any arrogance over of being the favored child of Gilgamesh, or the first? How, specifically, do they treat Goliaths, as the second child and enemy since the dawn of time?

The Humans: Why are they the most widespread? How would they, who have access to a battery, be seen by the other magic users of the world, the one's who don't? How is their relationship with technology specifically? Are they worried that it could allow the other races to rise in prominence and oust them? Are they worried that it could allow others to accomplish things that, before, would take magic? How would this affect their relationship with the Durhians?

Goliath: What do they mine? Who do they trade it to? What are the mining conditions? Is strength really the most important quality of someone who has to make such decisions? Is there dissent over this?

The point I'm trying to make is to constantly ask yourself questions, the most important of which is "How does this all fit together?" It's a puzzle, and it's a complicated puzzle because it doesn't only include each race, but the history of each race, the history that the races have together, every other society on the planet, the Gods (i.e. the effects of other players meddling), and what you want your land to be going into the future.

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

Personal question: can anyone make a contract with a Genasi? Because they seem pretty Standish and Stands are, like I said, the coolest power ever.

[Zaleramancer]

Hazet's lands should be some of the more obviously interesting.

Waverider's society will be fun, but less likely to be seen.

I'm pondering them at the moment.

I wonder if we'll have an dialect development..

[Zaleramancer]

Yes, I do.

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

It could be kind of difficult for me if we justify it like that.

It's kind of hard to lose track of a city, is what I'm getting at here. But lets ignore fluff for a moment, and focus out efforts on crunch.

Zale, post the rules you want.

[Zaleramancer]

Meh.

I want there to be Tools Of Office, some kind of unique abilities (As apposed to the generic ones all deities have), mote-using actions to be impressive, more difficult artifact making process, and a range of power from super-mortal to mountain stomping.

Those are the things I want, not sure about the rules.

[Philote]

 I don't have an answer for everything just yet but Thanks, I'll try to get to work on thinking it all out.

On the pacts, a person first has to know the spell to perform it. In the first age this didn't spread beyond Gilgamesh's lands but in the second age, with the world being more connected, others could learn the secret. The Genasi have to agree to the pact and there is generally a "Workforce" looking to respond to the pacts and take a journey to the world. So, it doesn't just randomly grab a specific Genasi at inopportune times. The person making the pact could specify a certain type or a certain Genasi if they wanted though.

I also forgot to mention that Anima made harbor regions for the four races on the coasts that recreated copies of the boats that the Shark Spirit gave Gilgamesh really early on in the RP.

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

Now you get why I only made one.

So, it isn't a specific Genasi that responds to the pact call every time?

[Zaleramancer]

I remember that now...

So, your Navy should be great.

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

So, some generics stay: Flight, shape shifting, creating mundane objects.

A unique ability related to each of your domains. This would make gaining domains actually mean something. It always seemed like a waste of time before.

So, The Watchman would get:

Just Causes: All mote costs is halved when undertaking and aiding a just cause.
The Oppressed: gonna have to get back to that because I can't think of anything.

I don't know how to make the artifact process harder to do besides limiting the amount you can have "equipped," so I'm not going to try.

Everything that uses motes is impressive.

[Zaleramancer]

One Word:

Miraclex60

[Philote]

The main problem that we have is spam. In general, it always benefits a person to keep making more stuff.

@Zale: They will have good ships anyways, and having hippogriff troops on the ships as well make them effective. They don't have any major experience with naval stuff though. Just exploration and some trade.

@Vault: Spectropolis is a special case so ignore it for all rules related to artifacts disappearing

Yeah not a specific Genasi but there are exceptions. You can specify a type, so such as summoning specifically earth Genasi. Another exception is if you know a specific Genasi and have good relation with that Genasi you can call on that Genasi specifically.

[Philote]

I'm going to try to work on this one part at a time

Gentleman Vaultboy wrote

Who makes what? Who grows the food? What are each races exports? What do they have to import? What do they trade with one another?

This is sort of hard. I'm not sure what the regular crops would be in this world. Gilgamesh did a Create Life action in one of the earliest posts that provided basic food resources for the Dragonborn and Goliath until everyone got more developed.

The Genasi and Shardmind probably need the least involvement in export and imports, they can take care of themselves.

The other four have all had access to boats at some point. They did a lot of business with Zale's hags. Each has its own food production but they probably trade for variety. Shifters would live mostly off the land but as the Second age comes they are becoming more settled.

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

One "Action" per post, actions do not stack.

[Philote]

Gentleman Vaultboy wrote

What are the major religions? How do they interact with one another? Are there any religious controversies? Is Heroism seen as something that has to be handed down by a god, or can normal people achieve heroism? Is their conflict between these two philosophies?

Well Gilgamesh or Crav. Not really any controversy there, most honor the memory of Gilgamesh and those who have benefited from Crav's contributions usually pay respect in whatever way is natural for Marv's group. Heroism is seen as something specifically built into the fabric of each race. Those that can reach their second tier are most commonly brought into either the Council of Heroes or the Colleges of Magic. They don't see heroism as being part of the fabric of other races but understand that it can be gifted to certain individuals. As long as they don't have any reason to be hostile towards an outside Hero, they would probably have some respect for that hero's power. Each of the races have a sense of competition in them, even though its dulled from being the wars from before, so they are constantly testing each other with mock battles or tournaments.

Gentleman Vaultboy wrote

How do they react to the Durhians? How do they react to technology? How do they treat outsiders in general? How do they treat one another? Is there much racial tension between them? If so, how would this influence the way they interact with non-Eternus races?

They generally consider Crav's group to be a benefit, everything they bring over would be a new aspect to improve their lives. Gilgamesh's group being magical and Crav's group being technological they sort of fill in what the other lacks.

They are wary of the Watchman's group. Watchers/Vandals. Being the Watchman's police force and spy network, but they've learned to put up with them. Mostly with the Watchers since probably not many vandals on Eternus.

They would probably be most untrusting of large groups coming over, not counting Crav's group. Smaller groups of each species visiting the lands they would put up with though would probably expect them to live up the the toughness of the Eternites.

Gentleman Vaultboy wrote

What is daily life like for a soldier? For a hunter? For a King? For a farmer? For a tradesman? For a child? Fisherman? Teacher? Scholar? What do people do for fun?

Soldiers, Children, Teachers, Scholars all have a lot of training with magic and combat. Hunters, Farmers, Tradesmen, Fishermen, would be pretty ordinary I think but would have to be trained in case they encounter mythos. Kings have to deal with the general improvement of their settlements and have to fulfill their duties in the Council of Heroes where the overall prosperity of Eternus is looked over. For fun you have the tournaments and some lesser recreational activities involving a mix of physical activity and magic depending on how magical the race is.

Gentleman Vaultboy wrote

How are people named? Are names important? What is the naming scheme of each society?

I get my inspiration for naming from D&D mostly, I'm not sure I could explain it. Shifters are the easiest, all nature themed names.

Gentleman Vaultboy wrote

If one group does this, how do all these other groups react? And does everyone within the group react the same way?

In general each settlement's people all tend to be along the same lines. It would depend on the situation for me to answer more clearly.