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Alexander slowly stumbled down the street exhausted, still in his work clothes. He called it his work clothes, though it was really just a very tough leather jacket over a t-shirt, and some particular sturdy pair of jeans. They were almost closer to armor than street clothes, but clearly not something that you use in a fight. He took off his leather gloves and attached them to a loop on his belt, and then brushed off some dust and dirt that got on his jacket before entering the bar.

Alex has been travelling for a few months now, but this is the first day he was in Sraefin, and his day has been chaotic. First, his transport was late and he had to rush to where he was called to work. It was a bit awkward when he had to change into his work clothes in the bathroom of the person who hired him. Some person with more money then he apparently knew what to do with decided to buy a pet direwolf, and didn't bother to get someone to train it until it was already in his apartment. By the end of the day, the owner made the wise decision and sold it. Though that now means he is now out of a job.

He walked into the Queen of Hearts Bar as he remembered someone recommending it to him. He sat down on one of the nearest seats, not even paying attention if anyone was already sitting there. By time he raised his head up, he seen a dracon sitting on the other side of the table. He stumbled a bit, Oh, sorry. I didn't see you there. Mind if I sit here?"

Alex had been to many places across Duiland. He was use to seeing all sorts of different races, as tourism is a big thing in Duiland, though this time he was the foreigner.

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Anyone with discord can make the channel, though it would be a bit weird if anyone but the GM made it.

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I use discord a lot, and I will say that I do think it is a much better platform to discuss OOC stuff.

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I am going to save my post for more people to finish up their character sheets or get up their first post. I will probably post later on in the afternoon (Central Standard Time, right now it is 9am in the morning)

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@Lumiere

I haven't actually came up with an origin for the Aosta Trees, but magic is involved. Maybe later in the RP we can explore how and why the Aosta Trees grew, it could even be that no sentient being intended to grow them but they was just seeds in the place and in the right time.

Also, something I should clarify is that Alexander magic isn't radiant. Radiant magic is light magic. Alexander's magic is closer to chi. It is life energy that flows through all living things, Alex just takes the excess energy that is in the air and focuses it. For me, it is less that it is a "good magic" and a "bad magic" meeting, but more trying to pour gasoline in a coal engine. It is just fundamentally incompatible with artificial life.

Edit- An in theory, the same magics that is used to give your own life energy to heal others could be reverse-engineered to take the life energy of others to heal yourself. Though, at least in Rutan where his particular brand of magic is taught, that is about as blasphemous as say, half or three-quarters as bad as artificially creating life in a test-tube.

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@Lumiere I like the idea that Ispar borders Duiland, maybe separated by a mountain range. They both have a temperature climate and I think it would be a bit of good world building if floods of Ispar actually bring in the water that sustains the Giant Aosta Trees.

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We can start making a relativistic map, where instead of trying to give each nation exact coordinates and sizes, we can start trying to figure what nation borders what nation and the general direction each nation is from each other. With this, it gives a lot of flexibility for new nations to be put on the map, because if we have nation X and nation Y that on the same landmass but one is east of the other and they are not bordering each other, you can put as many nations as you want between them.

Though, right now all we know about the nations in regards to their geographic relation to each other is:
- Vafren and Sikstavurbilaes are islands.
- Ispar is in the far south
- Duiland is landlocked.

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@vide I can't find your CS, so I presume you either haven't posted it yet or PM'ed it right to Lyla. Though, for Alexander, I think I wore my influences on my shelve. I like the modern myth of the druid, and decided to incorporate the core theme of the anachronistic nature of this world and have my character be the son of the old, secretive, superstitious clan of the past and the modern, innovative, eco-tech society of the future. There is also a bit of incidental symbolism in that the "old ways" nation is named after roots, and the "new ways" nation is named after leaves. Really, I just like underground forests, and at first I was going to have Rutan just be settlements in underground forests near the roots. Though it developed into them living inside the roots, though there is probably natural caves that are connected to the root system that are filled with overgrowth.

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While I am waiting for the IC, I been thinking over how my character is going to interact with the rest of the cast, and I think the most interesting interaction is going to be with Kaite. Alexander magic comes from things from the excess energy of living things, and is able to have a supernatural connection with animals. I don't think I need to go very deeply about the bunny-person made in a test-tube could be considered a mockery of both of those things.

Right now, I am imaging that trying to use his magic (the things specifically under his magic, so Life Conduit and Rebuke Darkness) would act strangely or just fizzle out if tries to use it too close to her. And I am not even quite sure what happened if he tried to use his magic on an Aylv, though right now I image it would be slightly explody.

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Do we have an estimate about when the IC is going up?