@MonkeyBusiness I think we are, but it's kind of 'at your own risk,' which in this case is like nihil I think. I think sly said something about it.. He told us in the OOC that Tal had a flat rainforest island, though, so I can only imagine it's not really a big secret. I'm just in the middle of some grasslands.

EDIT: Duh, of course we can tell eachother -- we'd have to tell eachother in the first post we make in the IC anyway. Not much difference in this case.

It's quite strange for an island to be completely flat I think, will wait on further details. Since sly mentioned that it's somewhat like Japanese jungles I imagine there are hills at the very least

Very flat lack of high grouds with only forest...

the mongols are comming

It's all fun and games until Slyboy summons this thing to steal your horses and drop them from altitude onto your steppe.

I'm pretty sure races that rely on magic right now aren't going to fly since magic hasn't been introduced yet. The same goes for shapeshifters.

I'm pretty sure races that rely on magic right now aren't going to fly since magic hasn't been introduced yet. The same goes for shapeshifters.

Pointed at me dont you?

Tal and you, yes. If sly ends up okaying them, then there should be some pretty major counterbalance to living essentially forever as well. Or maybe we're just going to ignore it, who knows.

Well my Race isnt imortal soo no problems in that now my shapeshifiting is alerdy prety limited so nothing wrong for now.

@Ascendant Immortality isn't vital to my species, it just seemed logical for beings that are made of pure magic. As for relying heavily on magic, it's fairly minimal at the moment - they're made of it and consume it to continue living. Wielding magic is not something they currently do.
As for it not magic not being introduced, I think it's safe to assume it exists somehow in the game universe? If it doesn't exist I'll make a new sheet.

I am back! Time to read all the lovely things you've written since I was gone! ^^

@Tal Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa rolls around I like those creatures a lot! I did say that I'll introduceagic later on, but I want these guys right here and right now. It's just something most creatures don't know exist, but it's fair to say any world has it's own magic haha. Fairy creatures have a soft spot in my heart, so approved ^^

And both islands have varied terrain. Sorry if I mixed something up in my original post.

@DX3214 I gave your race some thought while I was away and ultimately I think you should do away with the shapeshifting ability. Either be something like a completely alien looking celestial being, or humans (which we don't have btw) with some curious physical features, like silver hair and changing eye colors. Right now I feel like you are double dipping, and imo this shapeshifting doesn't add much to your race as a while. Maybe a fun gimmick, but I personally see this as being a weird choice...

@Crusader Lord Hmmm...speaking of shapeshifting, maybe such a race woupd be cool. Magic might not be something you can wield yet, but it exists. Ever saw The Golden Compass? Every human there has an animal companion that represents their personality and that they can talk with. At the same time if any of the two die, they both die because of the link they share. I do say it's an interesting concept to work with!

And if that isn't to your liking, well, go wild haha. We don't have the Mongols yet or the greeks, and some others if you look around. The spectrum is fairly wide, all I ask for is something that is cool and thematically makes sense.

@Lunamaria Hawke It is 100% an arbitrary number I just pulled out of my ass

But seriously, I want people at the beginning to focus on the character of their species, how they interact with each other and the world around them, etc. Giving them a ton of people will blur out this aspect, and since I want to gradually build up and fill this NS with a ton of rich lore, starting from square 1 sounds like the best idea. But we will get to 10 million people eventually ^^

@6slyboy6 so just for my own sake, what exactly will you be expecting from the 1st IC posts we make?

@Odin And haha, I might just do that! quietly nabs that picture

I really can't wait to how you all start trading, or even just react to other people! But at the same time I'm fairly certain i said that it was the eastern island which had the fertile farmland and forests, not the west one. Still, both of the islands are roughly the same, which is one of the many reasons I choose this particular map over a more topologically or perhaps more biodiverse one.

I did get a pretty fun one that was just one big island with mountain range and a lot of different biomes, which I might as well show here.

Edit: to answer your question, teh first IC post for everyone should be a general IC-wise introduction of your race. Describe where they live, what they are doing now that they have this newfound knowledge of self (it's a bit more of a magical event than slow-ass and boring natural evolution ) and how they deal with this. It shouldn't be like the biblical adam and eve finding themselves out of eden and scrambling to get clothes or anything, but the feeling of breaking out of that base animalistic cycle. I want to know what everyone is up to and get some interaction between their characters, especially if they don't have a language to begin with.

For you specifically, I like the font you use a lot, but let's keep back on writing for a bit, it's kind of a big deal as far as civilizations go haha



Who knows, amybe if you people go exploring and colonizing you might bump into one of this, or something else. Like I said, it's a very big world you all live in, so I plan on filling it with interesting stuff for you to play with and react to. But for now, the island yu are on is absolutely perfect for our purposes.

@Ascendant I would argue that being about 7 inches tall is a pretty major counterbalance for living forever

As for DX's race, well, they aren't immortal from what I'm reading, but I already said my opinion about that. I think that things which fit thematically together even if they seem OP are far more valuable to an RP if the player shows self restraint, than if we cropped those out. Especially since right now, nobody knows any of the other races, so there is nobody to defeat haha

On that note, @DX3214, I should elaborate now that I'm at my PC. I like the idea of either one of the transformations, but I feel like it thematically makes no sense for them to transform into something that doesn't exist on it's own on the isles. And since you don't know anyone else, it's kind of hard to justify becoming any other race. But shapeshifting as it is, it's not a exactly a bad idea. If you know anything about druids from DnD, I can iamgine your race as such. Some celestial beings who have lost their memories and knowledge, and back at square one they try to fit into this alien world (at least to them) by turning into whatever they find. Hell, I'll do you one better check out the Shapeshifter lore of DnD. They are pretty much exactly the same, mysterious magical beings who try to fit in by turning into other things. I feel that would make for a far more interesting and varied species.

But that's just my own opinion. I'm trying to be the one who doesn't just say "I don't think that's good" and then gives no constructive opinion haha

Edit 2: if you are a map nerd like I am you might have already noticed the little ruler at the bottom. Wellp, try and disregard that while I update the maps I'm using and but a better one there. While it's helpful, it also really skews the distances and area sizes we have here. For all aspects and purposes, think of the ruler as if it was half the size (aka, the end is 300 miles and not 600), this way yoou can get a better idea of what is what. In this case the base point was Tal's island, which according to the old measurement was roughtly the size of my country (hungary), whereas now it's a much more like the side of a similiar real life island, Sicily. Which what I had mind. As for the obvious topographical limitations of an SVG editor, I will say that any color you can see has has hills and lowlands that can range +/- 1 color in either direction. And if you want to add a mountain peak, then feel free, especially for islands which might be created by volcanoes. I shall be doing my best to tinker the original map to add some more variety to it ^^

For you specifically, I like the font you use a lot, but let's keep back on writing for a bit, it's kind of a big deal as far as civilizations go haha

It was more for flavour than actual IC so far, although it is the font I'll use when they actually start writing IC. Consider the char tab header to be Heathfolk historians in the future discussing the earliest steps of the race.

@Odin I very much like that idea of historians writing down events that came ages ago haha

I will also expect that you to come up with a 100% original language for your race. Just for the fun of it while you wait for me to post the IC and deal with any other questions that people may have

@6slyboy6 that will equate to me typing gibberish into my post and pretending there's rules for it.

I'm doing some online learning on Coursera cause I've been skipping out on my classes and i'm quite literally wasting money if I'm not learning, which is something a college student can't afford

That said, my mind is very much on the RP a lot of the time. I will deliver teh first post once I'm done, and probably start working on a google spreadsheet to get some sort of a basic technology screen down to use. And probably some other stuff for myself to remember.

@6slyboy6 school is for nerds man

@6slyboy6 Hmm...noted! :D

On a side note, there is one concept i'd toss out there to make a shapeshifter naturally possible. Not necessarily a flying one, but it's merely food for thought.

Say a race lives in an area rich in magical energy, grew up in the area which might be more toxic to other natural life that doesn't live there. Say this magic has mage them being inherently "irradiated" with, "naturally absorbing" magical energy, or even "producing" magical energy as a by-product of their existence. Or something of the sort.

Then when they get into an intense enough emotional state, their bodies transform temporarily into some other kind of "demonic" or "magically induced" form as a survival mechanism. It would be something that'd take a heck of a long time before they'd learn to control it, as in they'd have to be civilized and working ardently on it, but this was just a thought in the end. XD

(Headed to work in about 2 hours from now, so wanted to toss this food for thought out whilst i still could. :P)

That still basically means the rudiments of magic exists already and has omplications for other races. Since apparently it does for fairies, then reasonably it exists for all others to some extent.

I ain't gonna lie my head is still trying to wrap around Sly suggestion about my shapeshifting ability he said to take it off completely which would make sense but i still wanted to have it and then he said i should i pick a more powerful version of shapeshifting (Well that is what i got the idea) although with some restrictions...

I AM FUCKING SHELDON SAYING I DONT NEED SLEEP I NEED ANSWERS on the middle of this i am confused