[OOC] The Fifth City

[KirayaTiDrekan]

Did you two have specific questions about the Corps of Magi or something else about the setting?

 

[Queenie]

Did you two have specific questions about the Corps of Magi or something else about the setting?

Everyone has to be registered with the Corp, right? Do we know why spellcasters are second class citizens?

 

[Scott DeWar]

Are you familiar with the 'social suspicians' of being a spell caster?

 

[Queenie]

Are you familiar with the 'social suspicians' of being a spell caster?

No?

 

[KirayaTiDrekan]

About two hundred years ago or so, the first arcane casters started emerging in the human kingdom. They were untrained and unable to control their powers and things got out of control quickly.

The Corps of Magi was formed by the King of the time for two reasons - 1. He recognized the potential power of magic especially after humans started encountering other races who had their own mages and 2. to keep mundane citizens of the Kingdom safe.

The Corps screens the populace and takes children who show magical potential from their parents to train them. This isolation has created something of an elitist attitude among arcane casters. They recognize that they are different from "mundanes" and that they are much more powerful. This also has the effect of keeping mundanes fearful of casters.

Technically, someone with magical potential can choose not to join the Corps, but the Corps forces them to take a special potion once a day that suppresses their magical abilities. Some mages also go rogue, leaving the human Kingdom and the Corps behind, seeking asylum on the island of another race or simply staying at sea. Rogue mages are hunted down and "re-educated" by the Corps more often than not, however.

 

[Queenie]

That. Is. Awesome. Great background stuff!

Scott, we don't have to know each other but if you go to "school" and not off on your own, we could know each other from there.

Either way I'm spending tonight working on my character and will post her soon.

 

[Herobizkit]

Peeking my head in here again, hullo! ^_^

So if I'm seeing things correctly, you guys now have two rogues, a barbarian, a mage, a sorcerer, and I think maybe a cleric?

How large is the group?

Are you still looking for *moar*?

Lemme know. :3

 

[KirayaTiDrekan]

Sure! Welcome aboard Herobizkit!

I tend to prefer to over-recruit to account for the inevitable player attrition that usually afflicts play-by-post games.

Just keep in mind, I'm sticking with a relaxed pace of recruiting and character creation since I am currently job hunting and won't be able to officially start the game until things settle down on my end.

 

[Scott DeWar]

I have settled on an Urban Barbarian, and will get him up as I get the chance.

But I do have a question MV, this Fifth city is artificial island. Is is floating, is is solid, does it have lots of little canals and wharfs (ala Laketown in Desolation of Smaug)? Just trying to get a visual on it.

I haven't fully envisioned what it looks like, but there is an under "ground" system of waterways, sewers, effectively, that provide the island with drainage and help keep it afloat. The Lurkers, the island's homeless and destitute, dwell there, having no where else to go.

You know, the lake town envision-ment would be really neat. There is an island full of swampy jungle in the Indonesian Archipelago that has the largest gold deposit ever found as its trait in real life.

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl...cMB8&iact=rc&dur=1621&page=2&start=27&ndsp=34

I saw a history channel documentary on it about a year ago.

 

[Fenris]

Peeking my head in here again, hullo! ^_^

So if I'm seeing things correctly, you guys now have two rogues, a barbarian, a mage, a sorcerer, and I think maybe a cleric?

How large is the group?

Are you still looking for *moar*?

Lemme know. :3

I think we have one rogue, one cleric, one fire mage, one sorcerer and one barbarian. And I was figuring on your previous thought of a dwarf ranger. But... we have all the bases covered so play what you would like!