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Message: <blockquote data-quote="F5" data-source="post: 703555" data-attributes="member: 4607">Re: No psionics; monuments; lingering Jongan cultural influenceThat's why I suggested that Dr. Strangemonkey's scribe's "guild" (agreed...not the most accurate name for it) might start an Academy of sorts...and Arcane magic wouldn't be the only thing they'd teach there.  They'd teach the Jongan history, and way of life (to whatever extent was permitted by the Cresian authority).  Actually, we might see Jongan become the Lingua Franca of magical study, instead of draconic.  That's kind of funky...As for the Cresian cities, Ciaran kind of beat me to the punch, but with wood shape easily available, buildings crafted out of living plants is a definite possibility.  We've already seen something like this with the shoreline tree forts.  I see the Cresian cities as blending in with the environment.  Almost imperceptibly, the hedge-rows lining walls give way to buildings formed from those same hedges.  Living ziggurats, or maybe buildings with a stone core, but walls woven from Shaped tree limbs, sound really cool.  Even permanent stone structures could be covered with ivy and creepers, so they blend in.  A newcomer to a Cresian city might not realize just when he's passed from the fields into the city proper.  The heart of the city, the temples and whatnot, would be enclosed and protected by huge earthworks, but the rest of the city could be a sprawling metropolis of living structures.Oh, here's a wicked thought... the High Druid wood shapes his home, or his temple from a single great tree.  Then Awakens it.  Funky... Last, about the suggestion of the Rebels hiding out in the Hill People's caves...yeah, I figured Cresia would have expanded over the old Hill People territiry long ago, but the caves are still there.  Assuming they go deep enough, it's possible some of the Hill People may have been able to hide out in them.  Of course, 500 or so years of living in what would essentially be the Underdark would take its' toll...they might not even be recognizable as human anymore.  How 'bout we say they devovle into Grimlocks?  There was a suggestion way back when that they might become the first Dwarves; that could be cool, too.  Or not, just a thought.  Regardless, the caves make a good hiding place for our Jongan/Cresian seperatist rebels, if we decide to keep them around.[edit] how about Deeproot for the name of the Cresian capital city?  I like Heavenbloom, but I like that better for the main temple complex of the Field Father.  Kind of like a druidic Vatican.  Yes?  No?</blockquote>

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