Tortoise

Caravan: An Episodic Fantasy with Worldbuilding! [Always Accepting]

@Tortoise My current idea is a mother and her child. Not sure if there will be much magic involved.
Also, is there a list of the current nations / places? I might not use any of them, but I want to know if there are any already created cities that might house my character's backstory. Good to build on others ideas and all that.

@OliveYou

Ah, not yet, alas. That's one of the things I'm working on, down in the "Lore of Alwyne" section, but I haven't had the chance to fill in the Places yet. It's on the to-do list.

Besides, the only places we have thus far would be those mentioned in our Character Sheets. So, if you wanted to read through other player's sheets to see what sort of nations they describe their characters as coming from, you could do so.

Since you want a city, I might point you in particular to Enigmatik's WIP sheet here. Within their character's history, they have described a city of Trist that sounds promising for potential stories. Not to mention that Enigmatik is a good friend of mine, and their ideas are always solid.

All that said, I would also encourage players this early on in the game to come up with their own nations and places, to help us fill out Alwyne a lil more. So feel free to just create your own; we're still at the beginning of things, after all. All up to you :)

Caravan: An Episodic Fantasy with Worldbuilding! [Always Accepting]

Athulwin

Addressing: @Enigmatik

There's an expression in the Old Marshes, a warning whispered from ear to ear and from mothers to their children. "Where the wind blows, a Sayer hears." There's a reason it's one of the most common languages practiced by the Uttering Monks. Sitting with his wooden window propped open, with his eyes on a book and his head off daydreaming, Athulwin nonetheless hears many of the comings-and-goings of the Caravan, the sounds of it all carried to him magically by the wind. When people talk, snitches and snippets of their conversation comes to the Monk. When they take heavy footsteps, they echo towards his reading nook. He does not know everything. He only hears what the Wind chooses to tell him, and it is a spirit both fickle and unpredictable. Nonetheless, he is aware of much.

Through the window, he hears...

People are upset. The Caravan is confused as to why it has stopped here. The refugees who came begging are grateful for all the help, but the Pilgrims themselves aren't sure why they can't keep on moving through this accursed wood and get back out into the open country again. Athulwin hears the voice of Gadri Abzan muttering, saying they'll see what they can do to get them all moving again. It seems like the dwarven smith didn't say that line to any one person in particular, so in one if its fits of whimsy, the Wind decided that Athulwin should be the receiving end.

He hears Gru refuse to reveal his methods- again- which is dissapointing, but he is glad that the monger can show a little bit of willingness to bargain. That is an unexpected good turn. Athulwin doesn't much care for Gru as a human being. He's faithless. He's what the Uttering Monks back in Queensrock would have called a self-seeker, one who has turned from pursuing higher things and now looks inward, hurting those around him by trying to satisfy himself out of himself. An impossible thing. But he is a master of his particular art, and that's something to respect.

And, as expected, the calm voice of Knossos blows through the window too, reassuring Athulwin that the old occultist will be along in just a minute. For a warlock (or whatever he is- he might be a full-blown necromancer for all Athulwin can tell), the Dreamwalker is perhaps the most polite soul in the Caravan. It's refreshing. So many here are road-hardened travelers, more concerned with getting somewhere fast than showing proper respect. It irks the Navigator. But he's also a little irked, and confused, as to why he does not yet hear one particular voice, a yipping one that he expected by no-

"Knock knock! Malleck here! Got your message Athulwin!"

Ah.

Athulwin rises with creaking joints from his seat, his knees popping loud in protest. He summons up his mystical Aura on the way, so that he'll be properly intimidating and persuasive. When he swings open the door to his little, rich Caravan, he is looking at the eager and sincere face of a dog straight from the savannahs.

"You know, Master Freepaw," he looks down at the Ainok singer, "most other people just talk into the wind to answer me. I would have heard it." Maybe. "Hmm. Would you like to come in?" His smile is real, nonetheless.

Caravan: An Episodic Fantasy with Worldbuilding! [Always Accepting]

This is such a great idea. Y'all have room for one more?

@OliveYou

We have room for infinite more!

Kinda interested, you still have room for more?

@Theyra

Indeed! I allow as many people as want to join. Whatchya thinking about making?

Caravan: An Episodic Fantasy with Worldbuilding! [Always Accepting]

I wasn't expecting so many half-humans here. Maybe we should get t-shirts?

@Expendable

The Half-and-Half Club.

I'd call you halflings but that name is taken.

Caravan: An Episodic Fantasy with Worldbuilding! [Always Accepting]

Announcements, everybody!

1. Progress on the Lore of Alwyne has begun. You will now find short descriptions of (most of*) the magics and other powers we have invented, as well as the more unique races, in the OP.

2. We now have a Discord!

discord.gg/5EyKPRc4

*more to be done next time I have an abundance of free time.

Caravan: An Episodic Fantasy with Worldbuilding! [Always Accepting]

A great first post, @Overlord Thraka. I especially loved your description of the Caravan.

Wonderous wagons moving on their own, or else pulled by strange and exotic beasts. Enormous wagons big as houses, to carts so small that they barely held the single occupant, and more-often were filled to the brim with several. The people too were something else. Poor and rich and inbetween, young and old and some perhaps even dead if the smell was any indicator. Humans and Dwarves and Elves, Lizardmen and Catfolk and all manner of Beast-men. Just yesterday a large slug pulling a wagon had shouted at her to move aside while it inched forward, leaving a slimy trail on the ground behind it.

That's almost precisely the brand of chaos that had I imagined when I came up with this RP.

Caravan: An Episodic Fantasy with Worldbuilding! [Always Accepting]

Sorry, boys and girls, I fell asleep last night. I tried to will my body to stay up later but it didn't wanna hear me out.

The Lore of Alwyne is still in progress.

There we go, the cheesemonger has arrived.

@Lugubrious

Ah, yes, the Wisconsinite.

(Excellent writing on your first post, btw.)

Caravan: An Episodic Fantasy with Worldbuilding! [Always Accepting]

and even sneeze to communicate.

@Enigmatik

Domestic dogs sneeze! Some of them will force a sneeze sound to let you know that they're just playing when they play bite at you.

Caravan: An Episodic Fantasy with Worldbuilding! [Always Accepting]

Current Caravanners:

_{Those who play today}

Athulwin of Queensrock (written by Tortoise)
Terilu (written by Tortoise)
Ilyana the Half-Human (written by Expendable)
Malleck Freepaw (written by Enigmatik)
Gadri Abzan (written by Enigmatik)
Madame Morvanne (written by Enigmatik)
Knossos Dreamwalker (written by Crusader Lord)
Galaxor Stoneclaw (written by Timemaster)
Gruyere Emmentaler Caerphilly Yarg (written by Lugubrious)
Ivraan Valdo (written by Twannyman)
Vorex Lector (written by Twannyman)
Nemeia (written by Abstract Proxy)
Hoshitsune Fumiko (written by Antediluvixen)

Past Pilgrims:

_{Those who have, sadly, left the Pilgrim's Caravan; but surely made a mark while they were here}

Lynn and Pietro (written by OliveYou)
Mergoux (written by Overlord Thraka)

Caravan: An Episodic Fantasy with Worldbuilding! [Always Accepting]

Recently rediscovered this insane concept art and now I have to fight the urge to build a whole second character around it.



Absolute madness. I love it.