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S E C O N D C H A N C E S (An Isekai Adventure)

@Thinslayer
Nah it’s fine, just as long as the whole Claybitah tribe hasn’t been dragged into the witches army.

S E C O N D C H A N C E S (An Isekai Adventure)

@Thinslayer
Gungun is our Zuko. Calling it now.

S E C O N D C H A N C E S (An Isekai Adventure)

@Thinslayer
Oh, question though. Does this mean the Claybitah tribe serves the witch, or did Gungun kind of split off to do his own thing for a bit? Because I imagine this would be a bit of an issue in regards to Chatak’s “befriend the humans” plan if they’re all in on it. Also he’d have to kill his own kinsmen, which wouldn’t be great for him.

S E C O N D C H A N C E S (An Isekai Adventure)

@Zool
I mean, you could easily grab them further into the story, after he’s been our team rival for a few arcs and we finally take him out.

S E C O N D C H A N C E S (An Isekai Adventure)

Now, just bear in mind all, a goblin elder just means they’ve been alive longer than most of the other ones. By which I mean Gungun could easily just be ten or fifteen and still qualify.

S E C O N D C H A N C E S (An Isekai Adventure)

Chatak Claybitah

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@Thinslayer

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Chatak nodded along with the guard, trying to pretend he knew what he was saying. Ancestors, why did he have to talk so fast?! Eventually though, he finally realised that he wasn't actually giving him directions, instead just telling him not to eat grass or something. Which, now that he thought about it, was probably fair. He'd had to resort to grass at a couple of points during his first winter, after a string of particularly poor hunts had left the clans food situation even worse than normal.

He did say something weird towards the end there though. Invashun... The way he talked about it made it sound important, like it was coming to the town... A political figure maybe?

Eventually, he found a human who could give better directions, pointing out where he could go. They also said the 'blacksmiths' were busy though, because they were preparing for that same thing the guard had talked about, so he guessed he'd better find somewhere to wait. Or no wait, shit, maybe he should hide! If that Invashun thing was some sort of hume lord, they might be able to assume he was a gob! And humes hated gobs! Looking around, he wasn't especially sure where he should actually go...

Wait, no, calm yourself Chatak. You're panicking. Right, thanks Chatak. Guess I got carried away again. You're welcome Chatak. Now maybe we should ask someone what an 'Invashun' actually is before panicking. Good idea Chatak! Thanks Chatak.

After a moment of thought, he decided to go back to the guard by the tower again. Sure, he wasn't much help with directions, but he seemed to know a hell of a lot about the Invashun, and didn't even kick him or anything either!

"Ey, Guardman." He said. "It Chatak again! New ask. Not good with you langwi. No know all words good. What is 'Invashun?'"

S E C O N D C H A N C E S (An Isekai Adventure)

@Thinslayer
Ah yeah, ok. My version is sort of similar but also very different at the same time. Don't worry about changing it too much though, I think the religious part is pretty cool, and works better for this world than how mine would.

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Anyway, I'm going to try to keep this shortish because trying to type it up in real big detail was starting to disintegrate my brain. Essentially, all of existence runs on something called 'the code', which is basically like computer code, but for every inanimate object, living thing, and even metaphysical concepts of things like death. The three schools are the current known ways to utilise the code, but in reality it's only the tiny collection of information people have managed to put together in a coherent way, as the true nature of the code is so vast and incomprehensible that it's entirely possible it might just start to contradict itself one day, and no one would understand why. This is most clear in the fact that the code may actually be alive itself, but nobody knows how they would even begin to test that.

The first of the three schools is Thaumaturgy, which involves using runes to tweak and alter the code of whatever they're written on directly, but have to be done absolutely perfectly or else bad times for everyone.

The second is Shamanism, which involves seeking aid from spirits. Spirits are actually parts of the code that have 'awakened' though strange, often unknown circumstances and become real souls like those of other sapient entities.

Finally, the third is sorcery, which involves using your soul to perform various effects. To do this, a mage has to learn their True Name, which is basically the code of their soul in it's written form. It's a complicated, dangerous form of magic, and making a bad enough mistake can cause irreaprable damage to your soul. However, it's still easier to do safely than the more complicated Thaumaturgy, if not a little less versatile due to having to meditate on certain concepts and attune your soul to them to cast spells of their type effectively.

Anyway, those are the basics of it. It does actually does go a lot deeper than that, but I guess I never actually wrote it down before now, so it's all just a tangled up mess in my brain, and when I tried to sort it out and write it fully before, said brain decided to try and melt itself. So, instead of sticking to that one, I moved it to a google doc to sort out some other time I'm feeling a little too relaxed, and instead tried to summarise it all as simply as possible with this new version. It went... ok...

S E C O N D C H A N C E S (An Isekai Adventure)

@Dark Cloud
On the one hand, goddamn it, but on the other hand you’re right so I’m not correcting it.

S E C O N D C H A N C E S (An Isekai Adventure)

I mean, I personally think Xadia sounds better, but it’s also probably copyrighted. As long as we never make a profit from this though, I’m sure it’ll fine.

S E C O N D C H A N C E S (An Isekai Adventure)

@Thinslayer
Thanks. Oh, also, probably won’t have time to post it til a bit later, but I actually have a couple of ideas to build on the magic system you mentioned before. Mostly because somehow, I think I might’ve completely independently come up with the exact same one, at least in terms of the main three schools of it involving runes, working with spirits, and casting using your own soul. Legitimately surprised the hell out of me when I saw that bit.