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<blockquote data-quote="Lord Sessadore" data-source="post: 4745407" data-attributes="member: 57255"><p>I like the idea. Might need some refinement for the setting ... personally, I'm a little unsure about guaranteed communication regardless of distance or location in this setting. To me, at least, the whole setting has sort of a general mystery and vagueness, and the existence of such magic diminishes it somewhat. Perhaps if it wasn't quite so easy? Maybe a ritual, so they could perform it in their bases of operations, but not in the field? I dunno, maybe I'm just going overboard <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /> I also like them being pervasive - that you could find them almost anywhere of significance - but I'm not sure I want them to be <em>totally</em> pervasive. Again, with the inherent vagueness of the setting, I'm not sure I want to have an organization that is widespread and well-established enough that they could steer the events of the entire world, when it's a crap shoot to even travel from place to place. (That is, not that it's any more dangerous to travel in this setting than in others, but that ... places move, and you're not actually guaranteed to get to where you're going if you follow the same path twice, sort of thing.) Also, islands and even continents occassionally appear and disappear, which makes a totally pervasive organization ... very tricky, to say the least <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p><p></p><p>The other tricky bit I see is their Goddess of Secrets. We've got sort of a mirror of the ancient Greek/Roman pantheon for the setting, and I think the existence of a god who is outside of that is something we'd like to avoid. I do have a few ideas for this goddess, though. The first is Hekate - this would definitely give them a much darker twist, but could jive very well with some of the recent developments people have made to her and her cult. The other is ... dum dum duuum ... Athena! (Or Mireva or Palladys, as she's known in the setting.) As the goddess of wisdom, she's the one that jumps to the fore of my mind when thinking of knowledge, though the sneaky bit might not jive with her very well. But I think it would be a really interesting twist that these Ravens are a secret offshoot cult of Mireva, haha. You could maintain the sectret-goddess bit in that it's a secret that they actually worship Mireva. Or, the third idea is that she could be a demigod of some description - there's plenty of them in Greco-Roman mythology <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p><p></p><p>Thoughts?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lord Sessadore, post: 4745407, member: 57255"] I like the idea. Might need some refinement for the setting ... personally, I'm a little unsure about guaranteed communication regardless of distance or location in this setting. To me, at least, the whole setting has sort of a general mystery and vagueness, and the existence of such magic diminishes it somewhat. Perhaps if it wasn't quite so easy? Maybe a ritual, so they could perform it in their bases of operations, but not in the field? I dunno, maybe I'm just going overboard ;) I also like them being pervasive - that you could find them almost anywhere of significance - but I'm not sure I want them to be [I]totally[/I] pervasive. Again, with the inherent vagueness of the setting, I'm not sure I want to have an organization that is widespread and well-established enough that they could steer the events of the entire world, when it's a crap shoot to even travel from place to place. (That is, not that it's any more dangerous to travel in this setting than in others, but that ... places move, and you're not actually guaranteed to get to where you're going if you follow the same path twice, sort of thing.) Also, islands and even continents occassionally appear and disappear, which makes a totally pervasive organization ... very tricky, to say the least ;) The other tricky bit I see is their Goddess of Secrets. We've got sort of a mirror of the ancient Greek/Roman pantheon for the setting, and I think the existence of a god who is outside of that is something we'd like to avoid. I do have a few ideas for this goddess, though. The first is Hekate - this would definitely give them a much darker twist, but could jive very well with some of the recent developments people have made to her and her cult. The other is ... dum dum duuum ... Athena! (Or Mireva or Palladys, as she's known in the setting.) As the goddess of wisdom, she's the one that jumps to the fore of my mind when thinking of knowledge, though the sneaky bit might not jive with her very well. But I think it would be a really interesting twist that these Ravens are a secret offshoot cult of Mireva, haha. You could maintain the sectret-goddess bit in that it's a secret that they actually worship Mireva. Or, the third idea is that she could be a demigod of some description - there's plenty of them in Greco-Roman mythology ;) Thoughts? [/QUOTE]
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