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<blockquote data-quote="RealAlHazred" data-source="post: 6748656" data-attributes="member: 25818"><p><strong>Originally posted by Hellcow:</strong></p><p></p><p>Personally, I focus on Lamannia as being about primal nature: iconic entities and elemental forms. While the Greensingers would take issue with this, in my opinion the Fey of Thelanis aren't part of <em>nature... </em>not even the dryad. The Fey are the magic we wish was in the world. The dryad is the spirit we <em>want </em>the tree to have, when we see the slender willow and think of it as a beautiful woman. But again, there's nothing <em>natural</em> about a tree having a spirit that resembles a human woman; it's something magical, a story we want to believe. </p><p></p><p>For me, this is what Thelanis is. The realm of stories. The realm of the magic we want in the world. The Fey reflect hopes, fears, secret and subconscious desires. </p><p></p><p>By contrast, Lamannia is pure and inhuman nature. There is nothing <em>human </em>about the primal tree of Lamannia; but it is the healthiest, most vibrant tree of its type you can possibly imagine. Rather than attaching a naiad to a stream, I'll put a water elemental in there: sentient on some level, but completely inhuman. The first adventure I ran in Lamannia was when a group of adventurers were stranded there; the airship they were on passed through an airborne manifest zone, and when they entered the plane the bound elemental instantly broke free. They crashed in what seemed to be a sizable canyon. As they started to explore, the captain of the vessel was snatched away by a roc; the group sniped at it, but they were low-level characters and couldn't really touch a roc. As the roc cleared the top of the canyon, IT was snatched up by a lynx... a lynx that was over two miles from tip to tail, which just leapt over their "canyon" in a single bound. At that moment they realized just how small they were in this place... how small they were in the pure face of nature. </p><p></p><p>Needless to say, they dealt with the things on their scale in that canyon... the survivors of other crashed ships, a community of lycanthropes who escaped the Purge by fleeing to Lamannia, elemental forces, etc. But again, to me, the key to Lamannia is that there is nothing HUMAN or anthropomorphic about its native inhabitants; it's pure, primal nature. </p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RealAlHazred, post: 6748656, member: 25818"] [b]Originally posted by Hellcow:[/b] Personally, I focus on Lamannia as being about primal nature: iconic entities and elemental forms. [i][/i]While the Greensingers would take issue with this, in my opinion the Fey of Thelanis aren't part of [i]nature... [/i]not even the dryad. The Fey are the magic we wish was in the world. The dryad is the spirit we [i]want [/i]the tree to have, when we see the slender willow and think of it as a beautiful woman. But again, there's nothing [i]natural[/i] about a tree having a spirit that resembles a human woman; it's something magical, a story we want to believe. For me, this is what Thelanis is. The realm of stories. The realm of the magic we want in the world. The Fey reflect hopes, fears, secret and subconscious desires. By contrast, Lamannia is pure and inhuman nature. There is nothing [i]human [/i]about the primal tree of Lamannia; but it is the healthiest, most vibrant tree of its type you can possibly imagine. Rather than attaching a naiad to a stream, I'll put a water elemental in there: sentient on some level, but completely inhuman. The first adventure I ran in Lamannia was when a group of adventurers were stranded there; the airship they were on passed through an airborne manifest zone, and when they entered the plane the bound elemental instantly broke free. They crashed in what seemed to be a sizable canyon. As they started to explore, the captain of the vessel was snatched away by a roc; the group sniped at it, but they were low-level characters and couldn't really touch a roc. As the roc cleared the top of the canyon, IT was snatched up by a lynx... a lynx that was over two miles from tip to tail, which just leapt over their "canyon" in a single bound. At that moment they realized just how small they were in this place... how small they were in the pure face of nature. Needless to say, they dealt with the things on their scale in that canyon... the survivors of other crashed ships, a community of lycanthropes who escaped the Purge by fleeing to Lamannia, elemental forces, etc. But again, to me, the key to Lamannia is that there is nothing HUMAN or anthropomorphic about its native inhabitants; it's pure, primal nature. [/QUOTE]
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