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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shayuri" data-source="post: 3935198" data-attributes="member: 4936">MewHee, sorry. Sometimes I forget that I don't share a brain with the entire fantasy community. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Steampunky, in this context, refers to a sort of quasi/alternate reality Victorian age appearance and attitude, where alchemy and magic have led to a sort of pseudo-industrial revolution. You have your spectacles and waistcoats and properness, combined with armored zeppelins and giant, cannon-bearing humanoid 'robots' controlled by human pilots frantically operating clockwork levers and ratchets as steam from the main engine hisses in gouts from joints and gaps in the brass superstructure...Clearly those things may not exist in the campaign world...that's just the flavor I'm trying to evoke. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Alexandra would have that sort of look to her, with glasses and so on. Her theories would revolve around gears and clockwork and magical interactions therof, and probably would be written in a sort of hyper-formal Victorian style. If you're a Pratchett fan, consider also some of the latter-day Discworld novels, for a similar take on "magical modernness." Kind of like that.</blockquote>

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