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Feel free to ask questions, share ideas or just have a chat.
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Blep. Forgot about the zeroth post thing.
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Hello. I find this concept and the world-building elements to be very, very interesting and would love to participate.

I'll be working on a Character Sheet and sending it your way soon @TheMerlin
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Thanks, I'll be looking forward to seeing it. I also forgot to mention that you can have up to 2 characters if you want and you can also format your cs however you like, just gotta include those basic details. Doesn't have to be right off the bat, it can be at anytime. Just letting you know it's an option. Anyways, welcome aboard!
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Minor update, seemed a bit redundant to have both Magic Type and Role in the cs so I'll be removing Magic Type. It's just to inform the nature of a character's abilities anyway.
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As I was writing the cs for Roland, I accidentally renamed him to 'Ronald' halfway through the history section and didn't realize until I was finished... Woops.
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this looks fun
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Anyone wanna talk character ideas? I'm thinking of making another one, maybe a Spectre. A former soldier of a fallen allied nation who has since joined the Spectre program and is in the last year of his shortened lifespan.
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@TheMerlin I was thinking possibly a mage that is a defector from the Vaim empire never liked useing slaves in the first place and doesnt agree with the empires politics.
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Brave to choose the losing side of the war. Would you say that your character is a native of Vaim or perhaps one whose nation had been conquered and assimilated by it?
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@TheMerlin swapped sides at the beginning of the war from an old honor driven clan possibly.
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Like Dorian from Dragon Age Inquisition. Alright, well if there's anything you want to ask me, just lemme know. I'm more than happy to help.
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Hey there~

I like the aesthetics and feel of this a lot.

I was wondering how much overlap if any there is between practitioners of Ki and Mana?

Similar to Psionics must you forego one to use another? Or is it simply 2 different schools of Magic?

I'm interested in making a battlemage who wished to be a knight but has an exceptionally weak constitution; so they use some lesser ki to become just a bit better than an average person (and nowhere near a knight)

So they focus their talents on mana instead; but retain their envy of knights.

Is that lore compliant?
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Hey yourself. Short answer, no. Slightly longer answer, allow me to clarify.

So basically, Ki is available to everyone who is NOT a mage. In the world of this roleplay, there's no limit except for one's lifespan to how physically powerful humans can become through constant training, so it's basically the Charles Atlas Superpower trope in action mixed with a bit of martial arts movie magic like wuxia.

On the other hand, mana is only available to those born as mages and the two forms of magic are mutually exclusive. A non-mage cannot use mana and a mage cannot use Ki. You can choose one or the other, but you can't have both. Lore wise, this is because a mage's soul is different from an ordinary person's, but practically speaking, I figured they're already born powerful so it wouldn't be fair to let them use Ki as well.

As explained in the Setting, psionic powers are unique to Spectres and the program is available to non-mages only. If someone had Ki powers before becoming a Spectre, they are replaced by the psionic abilities that they gain and the person can no longer use or learn to use Ki ever again. Price of power and all that. To be clear, no one is born a psionic. They are artificially created, hence why their telekinetic and telepathic abilities are considered to be unnatural.

There is a bit of overlap between how psionic and Mana abilities work in that similar things can be done by both, eg. Lifting and throwing objects, or stopping projectiles mid-flight. The difference is that Mana is about the direct control of matter whereas psionics use pure kinetic force. They can't, say, summon a ball of fire or shoot lightning from their hands, but what they can do is something like this (skip to 0.45): .

Hope that clears everything up.
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Understood; so each form of magic is separate. Makes sense for game balance.

I'd like to keep the motivation of a battlemage wanting to be a knight, and held back by their constitution. So instead I wonder if they could have some physically debilitating condition, and they are supported by cybernetics or really just any manner of support devices. Not a Spectre or anything of that kind but I'd assume medicine is quite advanced in this setting.

Does that sound a little better?
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It sure does. As much of a rivalry Knights and Battlemages have, Knights tend to be held in higher regard among the citizens of Belisio due to what they represent and I can easily see mages envying them for that.

As for cybernetics and such, that's also fine. Quite a few Knights and Battlemages would have cybernetics themselves due to injuries sustained in battle. It's usually just prosthetic limbs and things of that nature though, nothing as extensive as the Spectres with the implants and injections that give them their psionic powers.

I'll say this though, it's a little odd for a mage wanting to be a Knight when they're exclusively all masters of Ki, so perhaps we could say that your character is a late bloomer?

Like, maybe they wanted to be a Knight as a kid, but after realizing it was never going to happen due to their condition, they experienced a highly intense emotional outburst and their power as a mage finally manifested itself by accidentally setting the room on fire, or something like that. The punchline to a lifelong joke, their dream being impossible from the start. That's just an idea off the top of my head though.
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Ignore this post, accidentally double posted.
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Perfect; yes that's more along the lines I was thinking of. Someone who learned younger they were a mage but had big starry eyes about knights. It's not a current aspiration more like a childhood dream.

I'll get started working on a character soon ^ ^
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Impressive work, @RezonanceV! This is what I ike to see. There's just a few minor things to work out with the abilities before I can approve your character. Would you like to discuss it here or in pm?
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