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Post by Yla on Jun 15, 2011 16:28:27 GMT -5
New proposal to resolve the Djinn issue here. Also, I wrote a first piece of story. It's supposed to be a in-universe historical tale, not a legitimate story set in Shifting World. I was inspired by Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival, which I was reading last weekend. I was aiming for a similar style to that of Parzival and other medieval tales translated into modern prose. Needless to mention, I'm sure I failed (I am speaking Modern German and try to write a Middle German story in Middle English modernized into Modern English. For fuck's sake, I never even read Shakespeare in the Klingon Elizabethan English original). It's on the wiki here, so you're invited to improve it and weed out the anachronistic etymologies. It's full of embellishments (Alfreyd's power level and character is blatant anti-mage propaganda, for example, and what about that bit about a dragon?). A bit I couldn't place (because the character doesn't appear) is about Tjorgin's Tallfellow companion. 'Tallfellow' is the dwarven term for a human-dwarven hybrid (humans would call them 'halflings', maybe?). The author is supposed to speak out against claims that hybrids are soulless and stating that if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck and is made of wood, it's a duck. With this I wanted to showcase what our soul pentachotomy and the existence of hybrids might lead to in animalogy, theology and society. Also I'm sorry for being so unimaginative with the name of the sword.
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Post by John E on Jun 26, 2011 21:49:05 GMT -5
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Post by Yla on Jun 30, 2011 14:03:41 GMT -5
Well done, John. A bit I stumbled upon with your changes: can you name the Commonwealth after something more than a direction? Also: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_groups_in_AfricaRead up, if we want to do the humans properly! CtraK, can you please donate another two cents to the Djinn issue again?
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Post by John E on Jun 30, 2011 21:51:56 GMT -5
Well done, John. A bit I stumbled upon with your changes: can you name the Commonwealth after something more than a direction? I'm open to suggestions.
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Post by Yla on Jul 1, 2011 3:08:45 GMT -5
How about just France? (assuming French are the dominant ethnic) French Commonwealth?, with the Kingdom of France as the largest member state? Franconian? Frankish?
Alternatively, since I'd like to have a dwarven communist state, maybe we can have a revolution a few years down the road? Commonwealth of Workers?
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Post by John E on Jul 1, 2011 12:46:36 GMT -5
Maybe the Scandinavian states could go communist.
Should we go back to calling it the Franko-British Commonwealth (FBC)?
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Post by Yla on Jul 2, 2011 10:53:44 GMT -5
How exactly did the unification happen? Did the British call for help from the French against the pirates? Did they submit to the Frankish king or was it just a military alliance? Edit: Has the Commonwealth a strong central monarch/government or is it a Federation?
I'm not sure what to think of the dwarfism(heh) of the British dwarves.
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Post by brandonl337 on Oct 5, 2011 13:57:43 GMT -5
oi vey, don't you guys think we should maybe keep it simple to start?
for instance, the idea of long range magic being summoning something that does what you want at a range. this seems needlessly complicated, just have the mage throw a fireball, alternativley, you could have something where long range is harder, most mages can lift a rock, but very few can tear down a building.
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Post by CtraK on Oct 5, 2011 14:59:20 GMT -5
Maybe the Scandinavian states could go communist. Should we go back to calling it the Franko-British Commonwealth (FBC)? The French-Anglo Republic Treaty State. Naming issue sorted, once and for all.
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Post by Yla on Oct 6, 2011 2:28:13 GMT -5
just have the mage throw a fireball What is a fireball? What fuels it and keeps it burning during transit? If a mage were to create a self-sustaining object and throw it, that is an option, but shaping materials out of thin air isn't exactly the easiest of exercises. A three-task spellmind has no baggage, nothing not directly serving its purpose. The French-Anglo Republic Treaty State. Naming issue sorted, once and for all. I don't know about you, John E (it's your pet state, after all), but this or something similar pleases me. It's big and unwieldy, it represents the odd origin of the state, and most people will abbreviate it to 'France'. Remains the question whether it's supposed to be a republic, or a monarchy.
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Post by CtraK on Oct 6, 2011 11:44:34 GMT -5
French Anglo Republic Treaty State
Gotcha.
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Post by Yla on Oct 7, 2011 4:21:00 GMT -5
Hence, 'or something similar'. :-P
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