Back when dinosaurs ruled the Earth, I got started with writing online on the Spore forums. Man, those were the days. We're talking like 12 years ago 2010-ish!
I've been here on and off for almost as long, and have GM'd a bunch of different things to varying success.
You know this cow joke is olllllld. I remember sending it to a friend a few years back. ;p
Your picture seems go be missing a few, like the Mormon farmer who has 10 cows and marries them all, or Nazism where they shoot you and take your 2 cows, or Maoism where they demand you milk yur cows for steel...
What if we go the other way? If I'm not wrong, Galbar having those temperatures predates Djinns, so what if those deadly temperatures are avoided because of the Djinns' power of change? It would make things far more problematic for most gods when Jvan attacks the djinn.
Clever. The crazy seasons indeed do predate djinn.
Today we learn that comic relief characters are above all accusations of anachronism. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Can space djinni be a thing? I love the idea of certain asteroids/comets actually being wandering spirits of metal, water or carbon monoxide, especially given how chaotic orbits tend to be long-term. All those collisions are actually elemental battles spread over a different time scale.
ed: Even the idea of gravitionally dominant orbits kinda sounds like a bunch of spirits subjugating one another...
Djinn manifest in large numbers wherever Zephyrion's magic is strong, but a few stray ones can pop up more or less anywhere. Sentient space djinn would be a somewhat rare sight, only in the largest of comets.
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I have metal djinni in a WIP post. Laying official claim right now before it's too late.
That's just another sort of earth djinn ;p
You know, I wasn't going to do much with the wiki but I might write a page on djinn just because I suspect it's a major topic of confusion
@Cyclone I think the Codex of Creation makes it so the laws of physics apply. At most, the djinnis have control over these things alongside natural physics. Arcon, for instance, doesn't have djinnis (due to the Realta being very effective at immediately destroying them wherever they come about), but Arcon still has natural disasters and weather.
That part of the Codex falls under one of Zephyrion's two contributions (forces of Change and dynamism themselves), the other lesser contribution being his creating reactivity in gases. There's admittedly some overlap between Logos' physics and the idea of Change that Zeph added, but like the multiple types of magic I think this can coexist.
Anyways, what I am getting at is that Zephyrion made Change autonomous and almost mechanical. That way not every single entropic reaction must be willed to happen by Zeph. However, both he and the djinn can control this force, and so if djinn exist in an area then Change isn't just a mechanical and mindless force and things are not just left to mundane physics.
Edit: I realize that's wordy, so just think of djinn as an override. Yes, it's normal physics like on Earth and natural disasters could still happen if no djinn are around, but if they are, then the natural disasters and forces of nature aren't entirely natural. They're controlled by the local djinn.
Whether or not there are any djinn on Arcon hasn't been canonized because I've had nothing to do with the place. It could be that they exist in lesser states (after all, for every lord that you can see there's hundreds of almost invisible lesser djinn) but that the Realta ensure that there are no sentient lords.
(Correction to my previous post. Coldest temperature ever recorded on Earth was -89.2C, which is closer to -90 degrees than -80.)
@Kho I'm aware of the extreme seasons of Galbar. That is why I haven't commented on the upper temperature. However, I can tell you that refrigeration is much harder than heating. A lowermost extreme of -100 degrees Celsius is more reasonable.
Though it isn't canonized in the context of this refrigeration, realism with that sort of thing can be thrown out the window with the simple explanation of, "The djinn down there keep it cold." If we want crazy -150 degree weather we can have it.
On that topic, I think it's important to note that natural disasters are 100% controlled by djinn and not mundane geological processes as on Earth. Even things like the wind are largely controlled by the whimsy of djinn rather than heat/pressure differentials. I like this because it allows for these spectacular and magical violations of physics environments. And it keeps that fantasy feel to the RP.
Dag knew that a fair few of the giblins had escaped the caves, and in truth that made him uneasy. He had half a mind to send men to hunt down those stragglers, not because he felt the need to have even more of the things as thralls so much as because he feared vengeance. In the end he decided against hunting down those fugitives. The giblins had seemed like cowardly creatures so the tribe likely had nothing to fear. Perhaps the giblins would crawl to some other cave far away, or find more of their kind. Dag presumed that this land had more giblins and skraelings than just those that had been hiding in the mountains.
Dag acquiesced when the elders suggested a feast in honor of the goods and their blessings. There was good cause for it, and for the first time in many years the tribe had good mead and an abundance of food. So they had their feast in the great mead hall that gave Dagshall its name, but then the next day Dag went farther.
In a small clearing near the village there was a boulder. Dag decreed that this boulder be turned upright and raised as a runestone that would speak of this victory, and in time be engraved to speak of new victories as well. Near that monument Dag asked the holy men to create shrines to Kjorn and Father Frost. The Godis, as the holy men were called, helped craftsmen make idols in the gods' image. Then the Godis consecrated the ground and laid the first offerings at those new shrines.
When the Godis and the High Chieftain went to sleep later that night, they all half expected the gods to appear in their dreams.
E) Explore
In time Dag indeed wanted to use the Giblin thralls to help make way for the shipyard, but for now he was more eager to mount an expedition as soon as possible. Though there wasn't much of a shipyard to see or work with, he nonetheless ordered that a single longship be built immediately. With so many hands at work upon it, building a boat wouldn't take long. Dag had selected one man named Yngvar to lead an expedition as soon as the longship was seaworthy. Yngvar was to take a crew with arms and supplies and sail the longship to explore further upriver, for the Iceborn currently knew nothing of what lands were beyond their logging camp.
-Dag has the feast to honor Kjorn and Father Frost, then also has his holy men shrines to those gods. Both he and the holy men half expect the gods to appear in their dreams. -Even though the shipyard isn't finished yet, Dag has it delayed so that the tribe and the giblin thralls can build a single longship. A man named Yngvar is to take an armed crew and sail the boat to explore further upriver.
Also I see an error already but I CBA fixing it right now. Looking at your morale/growth, Cyclone. :^)
Yup that was the plan all along. Getting everyone drunk so lots more babbies appear.
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Question, is greek fire a thing? Fuck going in that forest, I want to burn it to the ground.
If it's a thing, it's gotta be my thing. Do you know how badass it would be to build a dragonship and shoot Greek fire out of the dragon's head on the prow? So badass that Total War: Attila decided to piss on history and let the Danes do just that!
Back when dinosaurs ruled the Earth, I got started with writing online on the Spore forums. Man, those were the days. We're talking like [s]12 years ago[/s] 2010-ish!
I've been here on and off for almost as long, and have GM'd a bunch of different things to varying success.
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