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@quint I’m having a time crunch with another project that I’m having a meeting about on Sunday afternoon. I was hoping I’d be able to write this on Motzi Shabbat (well actually I was hoping I’d get to it last night but I had to do the other thing), but I probably won’t be able to get to it till Sunday night.

Kind of. The issue is it makes the following year counts and time lines sound strange. For instance with the guy saying “Three months to know…” Obviously Beaumont was already there for 8 years, doing who knows what, but he definitely knew the place pretty well after 8 years. It raises the question of what he spent the three months actually doing? Checking the books, making calculations, what? And why would they choose him? If he comes from outside the work site, and the consultation is the first time he’s actually inspected the site, seen the books and made the calculations it makes a bit more sense. Especially given that “…they’d both been simple masons on the cathedral in Roche-Verte a quarter of a century ago.” It makes it sound like Arnaud and him are work always working together, but if Beaumont is not the master of the site, and hadn’t risen to master previously, how could he keep his right hand man around for all that time? I think you should just drop that whole sentence.

I was re reading through the intros in order to write the GM bit, but now I got a bit sleepy, so I don’t know how much I’ll get done tonight.

I got some ideas which I can share here:
I intend to write a bit about the border area and the situation going on there, give a description of veil sight and what he can see so we have a better handle on it, and maybe have him actually cross the border into the first Queendom there. My thought is to have him aiming to skirt around the Black Lakes, and try and head in the direction Songsands Pass which will allow him to travel down through Gobbarg Pass to the rest of the Squeendoms on that spur, or he can head up towards Averi, and go either left and explore the High Mountains, or try and go right and make his way to the smaller mountain islands, fjords and crags.

@Quint said:
We Venge are precious few,

The White Council are not Venge, they are also not altogether human, but keep themselves shrouded hooded or their bodies and faces otherwise hidden from plain sight. So, in their speech to Beaumont they might use “you Venge” or “The Venge” or “Venge” etc. The Powder Cumulate is in fact a kingdom of living beings, ‘normal’ humans, being formed in the midst of the Venge and the lands the Venge come from (also the Amerelian Nightmare happens to border the Vampire Thrones).

With regard to him being able to see in the dark, I think I’d propose that perhaps he has some sort of low grade and constant Veil Sight? Other than being able to see the life threads of living beings I don’t think most undead have any particular advantage in vision over what they were naturally equipped with. I doubt most of them are veil sighted either. Vamps being the obvious exception, they can see (as cats do) in night, and they all have some level of veil sight. Venge of course are completely individual, it’s possible he came back with reflective cat eye mechanics, but seems unlikely.

‘Frere’ actually works for me without the connotations of ‘brother’, probably because I’m not French and it’s different enough from our form of it ‘friar’ for my brain to not actually form the connection. I wonder how I feel about having a French flavour for Amerele’s language, it was never my intention. I’m not sure if it colours them correctly or not, except that feudal France from Charlemagne on really forms the medieval chivalric archtype.

I like the kind of informal titles for the small vignettes.

Ah, I remember why I started responding; in the first paragraph there is a reference to 18 years, but it makes very little sense, was it supped to be “eighty and ten”?

It depends on your goal. You like to have far more directed stories and plots. So if that is the case it would make sense to share, but if you are trying to get something more ‘flow state’ and unpredictable sharing your plans would obviously subdue that side.

Haha yeah I saw that too and couldn’t help having the same thought. Also, most of those little Queendoms are eponymous. Only I think that I was thinking it’d be said closer to ‘sigh-lean’ rather than the normal pronunciation of Celine.

Literally the only thing set in stone is Eglephron (our campaign map we used) which is located in the SE coast of that big continent in the middle. My thoughts on the surrounding areas and what they are is also there. The blue line is the equator. The other planet parameters are all as on earth except this planet has a very slightly larger volume. And some obviously different geological events going on.

Blackloft (the Vampire Thrones) and the Spider Queens are located North East of Eglephron on that land spur that sort of sticks out. Menthalum (the Majikar capital) is located almost directly North of Veriegn, and very close to the equator, where the rainforested jungles run down into the ocean. Beetlemen live even farther to the North, basically covering a large area centered on and a bit above the equator.

The greyish area is ocean (Right side land, left side Ocean).
I note that I actually have the Powder Cumulate carved out a bit here. I thought I put it somewhere else. It may remain here or go back to the middle of Amerele.
Also North East South and West are not used. I forgot what their equivalents are called, I’ll have to make up new ones, but I do remember some of the ones I did make up were pretty damn good, so it’s frustrating… The prime direction by which people tend to orient themselves is sunward (the direction the sun rises), not North.

Yes, I know all of those. I shall write a GM section as well as prepare a description package of the area and things happening (at that time period, what year is this set? 9XX?).

Quick overview: The Spider Queendom’s, or the territory they go on to occupy, is an area with chains of immense sharp, mountains that march far out into the ocean. These mountains are garbed in towering forests of giant old growth trees, never cut by man growing in deep dark valleys. There were subsistence tribes occupying the coasts of these lands, no one has any idea what became of them. The borders are guarded from without against expansion and escape of the Queens or their servants.

Think British Columbia on tons of serious PED’s and a fully equipped million dollar home gym.

I have a half finished map which I will upload in resources. Link to the Squeendom Map WIP
Also a link to the World Map WIP

I think DaVinci is a bit older in that portrait than the age at which your fellow died, but I was thinking along the same lines too, perhaps with a mouth not so wide.

Hmm… Alright. This requires some thought.

These are incredible and brilliant! I love them. I want to gush with praise, but am afraid to be taken as insincere if I do so, in partnership with the fact that I wouldn’t know how to praise them sufficiently at any rate. I was really moved by them. This character speaks to me. And I love the way you explained him through the perspective of others. You’ve outdone yourself Rocky!

And it was perfectly paired with the Ardbeg 10 year that I just so happened to want to try tonight.

I did leave some minor notes that I left in the topics themselves, but honestly I was so taken by the story I could have easily missed any other technical errors.

Where do you want to go from here? Did you want to write a formal chapter as well to begin the story? Or did you want a GM round to throw some sticks into your machine?

Also, I think i should move the Intros into the formal Chapters subcategory.

What are the open questions that are available to develop? It might be a useful question to ask beforehand. Such as the fate of Celine? Which, I feel, should be left entirely to you.

I posit that the hammer is being sent back and forth into the Gauntlet? Did you have any thoughts regarding where it is dissapearing to and how?

In regards to ‘Bishop’, I would rather a different word. No, I haven’t thought of one. It really drags it into highly Christian imagery. Which I would prefer to avoid. Esspecailly if we are considering Amerele to have proto-Monotheistic religion (which is up in the air, Im happy to hear any arguments).

‘Brother’ is somthing that could possibly be gotten away with, but definitely not paired in a peice with ‘bishop’.

@Quint said:

“Saints preserve us, we actually won.”

‘Scelu’ has been the term Ive been supplementing for saints/tzaddikim/holy people.

@Quint said:

Marcel fell back into step, unable to restrain the need to pick at .

Pick at what? His memories? The wreath?

Everyone knows there is a map in the atlas right? Here it is again:

This is what I got so far:

 family_line |     kinship_line      |       hierarch_order       | species
-------------+-----------------------+----------------------------+---------
 Baliot      | Cobalt High Families  | Imperial Royal Lineages    | Human
 Lorease     | Cobalt High Families  | Imperial Royal Lineages    | Human
 Auno Troa   | Cobalt High Families  | Imperial Royal Lineages    | Human
 Uelthon     | Cobalt High Families  | Imperial Royal Lineages    | Human
 Celase      | Cobalt High Families  | Imperial Royal Lineages    | Human
 Rasaes      | Merr Holy Families    | Imperial Royal Lineages    | Human
 Ard         | Merr Holy Families    | Imperial Royal Lineages    | Human
 Tharnyl     | Patriotes Agnoa Morfa | Avjunct Principas Imperius | Human
 Thalaestai  | Patriotes Agnoa Morfa | Avjunct Principas Imperius | Human
 Blevunoe    | Patriotes Agnoa Morfa | Avjunct Principas Imperius | Human
 Eblersoph   | Noth Fexo Goeish      | Majikar Lineages           | Human
 Vina        | Noth Fexo Goeish      | Majikar Lineages           | Human

Hi. I’m busy making a Lineage database and I’m wondering what people would call the basic levels I’ve got going on here:

| family_line |     kinship_line     |       region_line       |  species_line
+-------------+----------------------+-------------------------+----------------
| Baliot      | Cobalt High Families | Imperial Royal Lineages | Human Lineages

So it’s basically going from the specific to the general -->

So I think family line and species line are fairly straight forward for what to call them. But I’m not sure about kinship or region line. For instance even here it’s not really about the region it’s about a sort of vague grouping, and what if I wanted to use the same structure for a priestly line or something? Where that field would be something along the lines of ‘Cohanim’ for instance. Region line is even about the lines of connection so much as about their power base and legitimacy to control a ‘thing’.

Also I guess species can just be ‘species.’

 family_line |     kinship_line     |     hierarch_order      | species
-------------+----------------------+-------------------------+---------
 Baliot      | Cobalt High Families | Imperial Royal Lineages | Human
 Kagan       | Cohanim              | Priesthood of the Jews  | Human
 Strauss     | Levy                 | Priesthood of the Jews  | Human

So it would be something like that (just using an example we are all familiar with Except may it should be Tribe Levy instead of ‘Priesthood of the Jews’ and have Cohen and Levy as Kinship)? I think kinship_line is ok for a name to call it. What should I actually be calling ‘hierarch_order’?

Or perhaps it should be more like this?:

 family_line |     kinship_line     |     hierarch_order      | species
-------------+----------------------+-------------------------+---------
 Baliot      | Cobalt High Families | Imperial Royal Lineages | Human
 Cohen       | Tribe of Levy        | Priesthood of the Jews  | Human
 Levy        | Tribe of Levy        | Priesthood of the Jews  | Human