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🎀 𝓟𝓻𝓸𝓹𝓮𝓻 . 𝓨𝓸𝓾𝓷𝓰 . 𝓚𝓲𝓵𝓵𝓲𝓷𝓰 . 𝓜𝓪𝓬𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓮𝓼 . (a steampunk RP of petticoats, poison, and propriety)

@MorningStar1399 also you should know that I'm laughing my head off because my char has a number of similarities, especially in her dark version (which may or may not turn up).

🎀 𝓟𝓻𝓸𝓹𝓮𝓻 . 𝓨𝓸𝓾𝓷𝓰 . 𝓚𝓲𝓵𝓵𝓲𝓷𝓰 . 𝓜𝓪𝓬𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓮𝓼 . (a steampunk RP of petticoats, poison, and propriety)

@MorningStar1399 Yeah, I was looking through the lore, and I went "but...but...you know that (list of gifts) are good for (every guild but the labelled one), right? Who does this task?"

🎀 𝓟𝓻𝓸𝓹𝓮𝓻 . 𝓨𝓸𝓾𝓷𝓰 . 𝓚𝓲𝓵𝓵𝓲𝓷𝓰 . 𝓜𝓪𝓬𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓮𝓼 . (a steampunk RP of petticoats, poison, and propriety)

@MorningStar1399 alright, here's the tl;dr.

Gifts are something you're born with. They do not automatically determine which guild you're in. Figure out what you want your character to be doing and what training they have, and if the gift "matches", great! If not, also great!'

If you wanna talk over what you're thinking, I'm around...though I can't promise to be helpful. ^.^;; I'm very good at complicating stuff.

AN AERONAUT IS SOMEONE WHO NAUTS...IN THE AIR. *flailing* pilots, captains, crew. People involved in airship maintenance, people handling routing for airships might fall in this group.



It's less the traveller and more people whose lives revolve around airships, etc.

🎀 𝓟𝓻𝓸𝓹𝓮𝓻 . 𝓨𝓸𝓾𝓷𝓰 . 𝓚𝓲𝓵𝓵𝓲𝓷𝓰 . 𝓜𝓪𝓬𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓮𝓼 . (a steampunk RP of petticoats, poison, and propriety)

@MorningStar1399 They could be in a guild -- merchants includes some, and I imagine healers might have the equivalent of flying ambulances. I did ask about a guild specifically for aeronauts, but I believe @ayzrules declined to make one. Furthermore, having the machine gift does not mean one must be an aeronaut, and being an aeronaut does not mean one must have the machine gift.

The issue of wings is an interesting one, and while this will need Ayz's confirmation, I suspect there are people who make or commission a pair just for the fun of it, if they have the gift of machine communication. Why not? For others, they may come in handy regardless of guild, and be worth the price of manufacture and maintenance. I mentioned that I'm pretty sure there's a portion in the military comprised exclusively of winged soldiers, who help maintain air superiority in a fight and are able to easily reach places otherwise accessed only with difficulty. *envisions a winged fellow fetching a cat down from a tree, instead of using a ladder* They'd be a boon to any police force or team of firefighters as well. However I also figure that there's any number of people with machine gifts that do not have mechanical wings, for one reason or another.

🎀 𝓟𝓻𝓸𝓹𝓮𝓻 . 𝓨𝓸𝓾𝓷𝓰 . 𝓚𝓲𝓵𝓵𝓲𝓷𝓰 . 𝓜𝓪𝓬𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓮𝓼 . (a steampunk RP of petticoats, poison, and propriety)

It should also be noted that "typical powers" is...well, not all that accurate. There's definitely squads of machine-winged Legionnaires; there's going to be people with machine powers that make clockwork toys among the Craftsmen, or serve as mechanics for the Merchant Guild. There are people with the power of healing who serve as researchers; there are people with intellectual gifts that make excellent tacticians or eschew guild membership entirely. A person is born with their gift, though it requires training to hone. Guild membership is determined later in life, by one's parents or oneself, and certain requirements must be met before a person is accepted. Gifts may influence schooling/training which may in turn influence capabilities and guild membership, but by no means are these hard and fast rules. There's always the person with gift A who just really loves profession Z, and goes in a completely different direction.

🎀 𝓟𝓻𝓸𝓹𝓮𝓻 . 𝓨𝓸𝓾𝓷𝓰 . 𝓚𝓲𝓵𝓵𝓲𝓷𝓰 . 𝓜𝓪𝓬𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓮𝓼 . (a steampunk RP of petticoats, poison, and propriety)

@bloonewb The Legion includes more than just aeronauts, and there are a considerable number of aeronauts who are not in the Legion (pilots for merchant vessels, for ones that serve primarily as transportation, etc). It's terribly misleading to call it anything involving aeronauts, as much as I wanted a guild for them. =/ My guess is that being a ship captain or pilot confers a certain status separate from any guild membership, but there is no guild solely for aeronauts.

The Last Embers (Dark Steampunk/Fantasy)

@Lovejoy@CollectorOfMyst A reminder that they're just talking, so it doesn't have to be very long.

The Last Embers (Dark Steampunk/Fantasy)

@CollectorOfMyst *patpat*

🎀 𝓟𝓻𝓸𝓹𝓮𝓻 . 𝓨𝓸𝓾𝓷𝓰 . 𝓚𝓲𝓵𝓵𝓲𝓷𝓰 . 𝓜𝓪𝓬𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓮𝓼 . (a steampunk RP of petticoats, poison, and propriety)

@ayzrules ...I read that as "pervert" and that really fits with what I think of every time I hear "polyvore".

I'm only sort of sorry.

The Last Embers (Dark Steampunk/Fantasy)

@Lovejoy I mean changing state can still be forceful even without fire. I'd assumed it was some sort of chemical or etheric reaction that produced a minor explosion via pressure, and not worried about it much beyond that.