Let's create a Fantasy World....

Charon · Post by **Charon** » Sun May 11, 2008 8:20 pm

frigidmagi wrote:
Though I'm not sure where you got that they're powerful sorcerers. These guys were the stock soldiers, the Teleran sure as hell did not share their secrets with them (or the Marad). How I kind of impictured them was this, in your armies you've probably got 20-30 mages, but you still need several thousand troops. These several thousand troops were pretty much all Kainan. With the Teleran not fearing their own casualties anymore and not really giving a shit about the casualties of the Kainan that caused a further dip of decadence (kind of like the Roman Empire had).
No, you misunderstand me. My statement was that the Teleran's are such powerful sorcerers that they have no need of a soldier class like the Kainan, I'm sorry for the misunderstanding.

Oooh. Well in the original history I had them create the Kainan after they'd started their fall into decedence and did not have enough mages of combat capability to keep their vast empire pacified. But it would probably be easier to just convert them to a secret police. I just got an image in my head of a kroot (which is kinda like how I imagine the Kainan look) with a russian hat on and speaking threateningly in Russian.

Comrade Tortoise · Post by **Comrade Tortoise** » Mon May 12, 2008 12:24 am

GOD DAMN IT! I just lost the page with my Turtle people. So here is the abbreviated version.

Bipedal turtle-like humanoids called Chelyds, live in coastal and riverine city states run by guilds. Religion is a form of nature-worship, and ritual practices. Government is a council of guild elders. Magic is a martial discipline, commanded through meditation and willpower, with ritual movements and incantations to keep it controlled. Physically draining to the user.

1)Soma is the first mastered and consists of abilities that let the magician enhance physical and mental abilities beyond their usual capacity. Making themselves faster, stronger, more heavily armored, and gaining the ability to fly are in this discipline and they take the least drain.
2) Elementalism is exactly what it sounds like, and takes moderate drain
3)The last discipline mastered is Essentialism, which is the manipulation of raw magic into effects such as wards, and non-elemental battle spells, divination, etc. The drain from these spells is massive, but they are also very powerful. Even mages who can use them do not do so often.

There are of course also demonologists and necromancers, but these are not what we would call accepted in society and get hunted down and butchered...

I will have more on the culture, history, and biology of these guys when I reconstitute the file.... magic was just what I was working on when I accidentally hit refresh.

Jason_Firewalker · Post by **Jason_Firewalker** » Mon May 12, 2008 7:17 am

I suggest a race I have seen once before kinda implemented but not fully, the Lycaraus

They are lesser lycanthropes on the order of having 2 forms, their natural form in which they appear to be a member of any race and are capable of doing anything a normal person can do.

Then their second form is a wild manifestation of their own worst nightmare. They are savage and direct in this form, not able to cobble together more then 5 or 6 words into a sentance and even then they have trouble with grammar, its not that the same personality is not there from the first form but its overshadowed by this sort of savagery.

Luckily they can control their changes most of the time but if they are subjected to certain effects or situations they instantly jump forms to savage and continue for at least a few hundred seconds to an hour in their savage form without being able to change back.

frigidmagi · Post by **frigidmagi** » Tue May 13, 2008 4:52 pm

Caesar wrote:"...those animals which are called uri. These are a little below the elephant in size, and of the appearance, color, and shape of a bull. Their strength and speed are extraordinary; they spare neither man nor wild beast which they have espied. These the Germans take with much pains in pits and kill them. The young men harden themselves with this exercise, and practice themselves in this sort of hunting, and those who have slain the greatest number of them, having produced the horns in public, to serve as evidence, receive great praise. But not even when taken very young can they be rendered familiar to men and tamed. The size, shape, and appearance of their horns differ much from the horns of our oxen. These they anxiously seek after, and bind at the tips with silver, and use as cups at their most sumptuous entertainments."

The Uri is a elephant sized bovine, with large, sharp horns capable of smashing any man portable armor and a temper to match. It travels in large herds on the plains.

LadyTevar · Post by **LadyTevar** » Tue May 13, 2008 5:43 pm

frigidmagi wrote:
Caesar wrote:"...those animals which are called uri. These are a little below the elephant in size, and of the appearance, color, and shape of a bull. Their strength and speed are extraordinary; they spare neither man nor wild beast which they have espied. These the Germans take with much pains in pits and kill them. The young men harden themselves with this exercise, and practice themselves in this sort of hunting, and those who have slain the greatest number of them, having produced the horns in public, to serve as evidence, receive great praise. But not even when taken very young can they be rendered familiar to men and tamed. The size, shape, and appearance of their horns differ much from the horns of our oxen. These they anxiously seek after, and bind at the tips with silver, and use as cups at their most sumptuous entertainments."
The Uri is a elephant sized bovine, with large, sharp horns capable of smashing any man portable armor and a temper to match. It travels in large herds on the plains.

Aurochs. Fuckin Huge Wild Cattle, makes the nastiest rodeo bull like sane. More of a Forest beast, as there were few open plains in Germany at the time.

frigidmagi · Post by **frigidmagi** » Thu May 15, 2008 9:06 am

Yes I am aware of Aurochs. No, these are not Aurochs. This is me taking Cesar's writing and making something different out of it, Tev.

So like I said, large elephant sized cattle on the plains, horns that would make the Texas Longhorn weep and die from envy. That sort of thing.

Cynical Cat · Post by **Cynical Cat** » Thu May 15, 2008 2:27 pm

Uri is another name for Aurochs. Its a fine choice of name for frigid's hell cattle, as it carries less real world baggage than Aurochs.

Post by **Dark Silver** » Thu May 22, 2008 10:13 am

As demanded by Frigid...I finally managed to work up a map....it's not perfect, but we can fiddle with it more later....

most of the action we'll see should take place in the Eastern hemisphere of the world, where the two big continents are. The Western hemisphere belongs to the Ageless Empire (the southern most continent) while the northern two are...well...whatever.

Yashaness · Post by **Yashaness** » Sun Aug 31, 2008 3:53 pm

Why?

No listen to me for a minute here, why do we need orcs, elves and dwarves? I love em as much as the next fantasy fan but they're not necessary and to be honest if you use them you end up having to compete with Tolkien either be trying to be just like him or by trying to prove how different you are from him. That's not a knock on Tolkien or fantasy that does use the three above, it is possible to write Tolkien like fantasy that is fun to read or turn everything on its head. The question is, do we want to?

I agree. I think if we were to perhaps create our own races then it would turn out to be at least something different typical fantasy. I like Tortoise's idea of reptilian creatures, so maybe perhaps we should make creatures of perhaps cat-races, or wolf, or whatever to add into it.

That's my suggestion anyhow.

frigidmagi · Post by **frigidmagi** » Sun Aug 31, 2008 11:51 pm

While I have nothing against Cat or Dog people I think you would have to work pretty damn hard to avoid them being cliches.

Yashaness · Post by **Yashaness** » Mon Sep 01, 2008 3:51 am

I was thinking we could make them like indigenous people of some sort, and take of of some of their natural animal characteristics.
Does that seem less cleshay?

frigidmagi · Post by **frigidmagi** » Mon Sep 01, 2008 2:32 pm

You mean like the dogs living in packs and howling at the moon and the cats being vain, mysterious and sly?

Actually yeah that's pretty cliche...

Derek Thunder · Post by **Derek Thunder** » Mon Sep 01, 2008 3:21 pm

Well, you could always go with a cybernetically-enhanced race of cat people, hyper-intelligent and beyond what we would term "emotions." They wouldn't really have cat characteristics but they'd groom themselves with lasers and powerful plasma-based instruments. As for the dog people... maybe an entire race of Woody Allen impersonators?

frigidmagi · Post by **frigidmagi** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 3:38 pm

Charon · Post by **Charon** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 7:39 pm

I second Derek's idea!

frigidmagi · Post by **frigidmagi** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 7:42 pm

Not funny. We already established no Sci-Fi in the Fantasy and Woody Allen? Oh God No.

Yashaness · Post by **Yashaness** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 8:51 pm

roflcopter. but I think I figi on that no.

Umm.. no, that's not what i meant. Meaning more like native peoples of some sort and taking on a few of the animal characteristics (beyond obviously looking like half animal and half human) like heightened sense of hearing, and smell. and just be a little more creative with the idea.

Yashaness · Post by **Yashaness** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 8:54 pm

But it doesn't matter if u just want to veto the idea all together.

frigidmagi · Post by **frigidmagi** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 9:01 pm

I'm not trying to veto your idea right off the bat, but I am telling you what you're suggesting has been done pretty often and as such it's not really standing out that much.

Also most of us would prefer if you used "you" as opposed to "u," no offense.

Yashaness · Post by **Yashaness** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 9:23 pm

I think we have a grammar/spelling moderator on our hands. haha.

SirNitram · Post by **SirNitram** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 9:42 pm

Yes, and he'll rip your lungs out through your asshole if you txtspeak here. ELVISH, MOTHERFUCKER, DO YOU SPEAK IT?!

...You get what I mean. But yes. No 'u'. U is not a word.

Yashaness · Post by **Yashaness** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 10:02 pm

is "lol" allowed here?

I wish I spoke elvish. That would be awesome!

SirNitram · Post by **SirNitram** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 11:01 pm

Yashaness wrote:is "lol" allowed here?

It's allowed, but proper capitalization would put you on better footing.

Christ, people! This is not your phone! This is not your pager! You learned how to write properly in school!

rhoenix · Post by **rhoenix** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 11:05 pm

Additionally, avoiding txt-speak and typing properly shows that thought went into one's posts, and that the poster took the time to ensure that his or her thoughts were communicated well.

We don't ask that you be an English major, but we do ask that you take the time to say something in your posts, instead of getting the one-liner "lol" posts.

Yashaness · Post by **Yashaness** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 1:16 am

rhoenix wrote:Additionally, avoiding txt-speak and typing properly shows that thought went into one's posts, and that the poster took the time to ensure that his or her thoughts were communicated well.

We don't ask that you be an English major, but we do ask that you take the time to say something in your posts, instead of getting the one-liner "lol" posts.

I was asking about the term "LOL" because I personally find it odd to use "haha" as a way to express my amusement. Not that I want to break your "rules" or anything.

If you would read above this whole conversation started because I used "u", within a decent amount of text, and thought. I don't mind if people prefer I use proper English. I can work on it. I just haven't had a reason to for 2 years, but going so far as to say I do not put any thought into my posts offends me.
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