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<blockquote data-quote="Creamsteak" data-source="post: 7060902" data-attributes="member: 552"><p>Well first to be clear, the world at large does not believe it's real. It's very strange that certain events, devices, and people are coming out of Ashwell. Yet, most of it is attributed to found technology. While some people in the world at large might consider these things miracles or somehow the work of demons or something, most people attribute it all to devices they simply don't fully understand... not unlike a person who knows how to use their computer but not how it works on a fundamental level. And in some sense, even if you are a proficient user of these spells, you might be missing some understanding on some level. It might be a bit of a mystery to you.</p><p></p><p>Magic would generally work by the book, but the narrative and conceptual part of it is definitely meant to be a little different.</p><p></p><p>If you're a bard, you're someone that is just starting on the path of understanding something the world at large doesn't know about. Bards would "sing" or perform anagogic magic. Your actions exalt creation or destruction. It's not something most people would believe is possible. Your actions turn on the resonance between meanings and concrete things. It uses creative metaphors to implement spells.</p><p></p><p>If you're a wizard or similar type of spellcaster you're starting to scratch at the doors to fundamental truths hidden in reality. Your ability to cast spells is entirely "logical", and your spells are based on your understanding of reality is "gnostic" as in knowing the secrets of reality. Everything you do makes a certain kind of absolute sense. Of course, the world at large doesn't think this is possible, and it's very likely you're among the first people broaching this subject.</p><p></p><p>Sorcerers and Mystic (Psionic) characters definitely are calling on something from within. Likely tethered to emotion, theirs or others, or to something primordial and ancient buried inside themselves.</p><p></p><p>Warlocks and Clerics, characters with patrons more or less, are likely attuned to certain gods or demons or other entities that may either be commonly believed in by groups throughout the world, or known only to the character. Either way, the god, patron, or whatever it is calls the character to this place for some reason for some act.</p><p></p><p>Other characters, even martial ones, might have a taste for any of the above. A barbarian's totem spirits might refer to something inherent to them, or something outside looking in.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I'll likely be putting together a specific collection of races, and I do intend for darkvision to be more rare than it is in the core rules. I still think it might be available, but I want it to actually be "special" if it is.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>No modern day ones. I meant Cyclopean more in the sense of huge and of a certain kind of stonework. The precursors happen to have had two eyes. Cyclops don't exist in the known world, though they might exist in what's down below.</p><p></p><p>More questions are fine. I know it's hard to fully communicate a setting short of a book or something, so I'm trying to figure out what people would want to know, etc.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Creamsteak, post: 7060902, member: 552"] Well first to be clear, the world at large does not believe it's real. It's very strange that certain events, devices, and people are coming out of Ashwell. Yet, most of it is attributed to found technology. While some people in the world at large might consider these things miracles or somehow the work of demons or something, most people attribute it all to devices they simply don't fully understand... not unlike a person who knows how to use their computer but not how it works on a fundamental level. And in some sense, even if you are a proficient user of these spells, you might be missing some understanding on some level. It might be a bit of a mystery to you. Magic would generally work by the book, but the narrative and conceptual part of it is definitely meant to be a little different. If you're a bard, you're someone that is just starting on the path of understanding something the world at large doesn't know about. Bards would "sing" or perform anagogic magic. Your actions exalt creation or destruction. It's not something most people would believe is possible. Your actions turn on the resonance between meanings and concrete things. It uses creative metaphors to implement spells. If you're a wizard or similar type of spellcaster you're starting to scratch at the doors to fundamental truths hidden in reality. Your ability to cast spells is entirely "logical", and your spells are based on your understanding of reality is "gnostic" as in knowing the secrets of reality. Everything you do makes a certain kind of absolute sense. Of course, the world at large doesn't think this is possible, and it's very likely you're among the first people broaching this subject. Sorcerers and Mystic (Psionic) characters definitely are calling on something from within. Likely tethered to emotion, theirs or others, or to something primordial and ancient buried inside themselves. Warlocks and Clerics, characters with patrons more or less, are likely attuned to certain gods or demons or other entities that may either be commonly believed in by groups throughout the world, or known only to the character. Either way, the god, patron, or whatever it is calls the character to this place for some reason for some act. Other characters, even martial ones, might have a taste for any of the above. A barbarian's totem spirits might refer to something inherent to them, or something outside looking in. I'll likely be putting together a specific collection of races, and I do intend for darkvision to be more rare than it is in the core rules. I still think it might be available, but I want it to actually be "special" if it is. No modern day ones. I meant Cyclopean more in the sense of huge and of a certain kind of stonework. The precursors happen to have had two eyes. Cyclops don't exist in the known world, though they might exist in what's down below. More questions are fine. I know it's hard to fully communicate a setting short of a book or something, so I'm trying to figure out what people would want to know, etc. [/QUOTE]
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