[quote=@Liotrent]
[@Dinh AaronMk] The Dunfender and Karaki dwarves share a common linguistic ancestor, they diverged to form their own distinct versions of this language, but none the less similar.

Also, can you further explain how will of life and magic works? I just want to be perfectly clear on the rules so I don't muck it up later.

[/quote]

Gotcha. I'll do something with that then if Golem wants to chime in and make any pointers he has to me on this.

As per magic:

The basic idea is there's an energy in life in the world, or something closely related. You can think of it like Magicka or Mana or whatever magical-state pervasive in other fantasy titles but it doesn't really recover or not that much. It's not strictly associated with something like stamina where you might cast a bunch of fire-balls and just need to lay down and take a breath. At a basic description it saps a person's life in such a way depression might over extended use. Time-to-time spell casting might not do much for a person but sustained perpetual use would crash them spiritually and emotionally until they just sort of die.

You can read various implications into this and reasoning, like magic being directly tied to an individual's life energy or like experiencing something intangible while doing it that doesn't make the world seem any more exciting. It's a thing that ultimately demands something from the user.

Keeping it in thought and I'd be willing to advance the understanding of it, but over time. I'm not about to suddenly start haphazardly throwing exceptions on it right now. I think the only exception I have tossed into it was to help keep Drunken's nation in play on the suggestion that it's possible to figure out how to drain that energy from someone or somethings and achieve a sort of lich status. At the moment I would venture to say it's only faintly understood by the rest of us if known at all and I'm willing to give Drunken the liberty to explore it further in his posts should he chose to post.

By the way, I'm waiting for the rest of you to too.