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<blockquote data-quote="Clay_More" data-source="post: 4409945" data-attributes="member: 9813"><p>Hiya Knightfall. About the alignment of Thakulion, I haven't decided between lawful-neutral or lawful-good. I'm actually trying to avoid alignments as far as possible in the setting, except for the creatures who "embody" an alignment, such as angels or devils. I'm not allowing spells or items that detect alignment.</p><p></p><p>Thanks for the comment on the deity by the way, sometimes a bit hard when you have a "concept" of a deity in your mind to make sure that those who reads the description get the nuances and full meaning. Glad you like the elves as well, I'm altering virtually all the base races in one way or another to make them fit better into a more gritty and sinister setting, and standard goodie elves running around in the forest with bows just didn't fit. And yeah, the orcs are a liability in addition to a boon, the biggest military defeat suffered throughout history by the elves was at the hands of a rebelling orc army (the rebellion occurred as a result of a conflict between the elves and the dwarves, a conflict the dwarves lost but only after they assassinated the majority of the elven nobles who led the slave army). The common orcs are still considered a liability amongst the elves, but the red hand orcs are fanatically loyal. The red hand orcs have virtually no reason to rebel, they are given lavish estates with their own slaves, having a quality of life that they would never achieve outside elven lands. </p><p></p><p>By the way Knightfall, do you paint your maps by hand? Or do you use some program to do them? I have recently acquired CC2, but I haven't quite mastered it yet, and I'm still wondering if its the best way to make maps. Could you possibly provide a link to where you have your maps posted? Thats actually one thing I'm missing at times in this forum, a thread about general setting design instead of the threads dedicated to specific settings, to share general ideas and concepts. </p><p></p><p>Anyways, next up is my description of the various orders of the Thakulion church.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Clay_More, post: 4409945, member: 9813"] Hiya Knightfall. About the alignment of Thakulion, I haven't decided between lawful-neutral or lawful-good. I'm actually trying to avoid alignments as far as possible in the setting, except for the creatures who "embody" an alignment, such as angels or devils. I'm not allowing spells or items that detect alignment. Thanks for the comment on the deity by the way, sometimes a bit hard when you have a "concept" of a deity in your mind to make sure that those who reads the description get the nuances and full meaning. Glad you like the elves as well, I'm altering virtually all the base races in one way or another to make them fit better into a more gritty and sinister setting, and standard goodie elves running around in the forest with bows just didn't fit. And yeah, the orcs are a liability in addition to a boon, the biggest military defeat suffered throughout history by the elves was at the hands of a rebelling orc army (the rebellion occurred as a result of a conflict between the elves and the dwarves, a conflict the dwarves lost but only after they assassinated the majority of the elven nobles who led the slave army). The common orcs are still considered a liability amongst the elves, but the red hand orcs are fanatically loyal. The red hand orcs have virtually no reason to rebel, they are given lavish estates with their own slaves, having a quality of life that they would never achieve outside elven lands. By the way Knightfall, do you paint your maps by hand? Or do you use some program to do them? I have recently acquired CC2, but I haven't quite mastered it yet, and I'm still wondering if its the best way to make maps. Could you possibly provide a link to where you have your maps posted? Thats actually one thing I'm missing at times in this forum, a thread about general setting design instead of the threads dedicated to specific settings, to share general ideas and concepts. Anyways, next up is my description of the various orders of the Thakulion church. [/QUOTE]
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