Site IC Races and Countries

[Ryan - Loki]

This thread is specifically for any and all conversations in regards to the revamp of the IC Races and their residing countries.

Here is a list of all the countries and the races common to them:

Ithroia – The country of the Arcane Order; a mixture of races from those countries on friendly terms with the Order reside within this country.
New Civea –
Zeilo – The Zelios.
Menith – The Nethians.
The Void –
Keldrach –
Brada – The Rajorans.
Leiversa – The Leiversians.
Raoush –
Illasa –
Runedare –

The races Pariahim, Mekleor and Rellians I can’t seem to see or remember what countries they came from out of the remaining. I also remember that there was talk for two new races, a draconian type race and a lava golem type race (who lived in Runedare and supposedly arrived in the huge meteor catastrophe that shaped this new world), but this was never completed.

Starting with the few areas you mentioned already, which of the races do you think should be cut down – this will directly link to their residing countries, of course, so we need to decide what countries/areas we're going to keep/start with. We have to remember that Ithroia is the home to the magic order, thus there will be a mixture of races present – though this can be circumvented by just having them as background NPC’s and not allowing new members to access those races.

The other point of call is the respective unique racial abilities, for the races we decide to start with. Which ones we’re going to keep (that are already on the profiles), what ones need editing and what new ones do we have in mind? When doing this I suggest we go race-by-race.

[Kaworu - Horatio]

Well I can tell you that the Rellians come from Raoush as I just checked the profile of my other character Horatio whose a Rellian but as for cutting down I'm not really certain, I figure forgetting about those other two races in the works would be a good start.

But it's getting late here and I'll come back tomorrow and look over the races again to see what else I can think up.

[Aion]

What's the plan? Are we going to keep each continent inhabited by the respective race, but focus on Ithroia; or put them all in a single place?

Really depends on the situation, but if I had to make a choice...lock the Pariahim and Mekleor away for now, unless former members want to use their old characters. I have to admit though, I'm having doubts about this now lol. The Mekleor offered an interesting alternative to the Mage's council. And the thought of having a society of cyborgs survive such a catastrophic event was a cool idea. Perhaps we could try and work this out somehow...

I do have an idea for the Rellians and Nethians, though. Since the Nethians tend to live on and off the coasts of Mentih, give the Rellians the forest. I always thought it'd be interesting if they had a special relationship with eachother as well. Trading partners, as well as helping build eachothers strength through a game or something.


Just had an idea.

What if the Rellians and Nethians had a coopertive "coming of age" ritual for their young? Thought the idea of sending them into the wilds of Menith would be interesting, but the premise is too similar to Naruto. I'd like to use it if we could think of something to make it good deal different.

[Kaworu - Horatio]

I've got an idea for your coming of age/fellowship idea because you guys remember that my first guy Kaworu built a house on Raoush or whatever it's called now, and it's very likely that much of it survived the catastrophe so maybe we can have it say over time turn into like either an artificial cave or there's stairs in it that lead to a cave of some sorts.

In this cave would be all manner of beasts etc for the kids to survive against and of course there's water running below the cave as their often is and use that area as the location, but to make it different why not have one of the elder people had something deep within the cave that the young ones have to get in order to pass this ritual.

I know it still sounds a little Naruto-ish but if you add natural untapped magic locations, tribes of strange beasts and general natural obstacles then it's kinda different also they have to bring back proof of how they survived like say hides that kept them warm and feed etc. Not to mention maybe adding a few detours along the way like a fake version of the item they're after and other such things like that, makes it different to Naruto and also quite challenging as well.

[Aion]

Jul 17, 2010 7:52:33 GMT Kaworu - Horatio said:

I know it still sounds a little Naruto-ish but if you add natural untapped magic locations, tribes of strange beasts and general natural obstacles

That's exactly how I thought Menith would be. I love the idea, though I would want it to be more open than a cave. We could say a small region of Menith became overrun by magical monsters, traps, and such, was sealed off by elders of both races; only to be used as a training ground after a majority of the most violent beasts were killed off. Kaworu's house, like you suggested, could act as the source of the monsters, and have some sort of item the children had to retrieve.

As a reward, whoever is deemed successful could get some kind of special racial ability....

By the way, I'm willing to throw some of Aion's abilities in for "new" racial abilities for the Nethians.

[Ryan - Loki]

I like the ideas that you’re both coming out with.

I’ve never seen Naruto, so I’ll take both of your words on that. But I like the deepening history and culture aspects that are linked to the two races. I think we should do similar things for every race that we keep for the site – the more depth we give to their histories and cultures the more realistic they become.

However, I think what we need to do first is focus on the country/s that we’re going to start with – they’ll be the main focus, along with the information and races that go with it.

Does anyone have any suggestions or ideas?

[Aion]

This is actually pretty hard to think out....

I'd say we keep all countries, but focus heavily on Ithroia to begin with; seeing how it's Noria's melting pot. What bothers me is that New Civea is home to the Mekleor who, from what their description says, is a small population. Their area is too big. However, if we really wanted to make sense of that we could do as I suggested months ago and play up the tension between the Arcane Order and Mekleor as a sub-plot. Basically, having the order constantly expanding into Mekleor territory.

The problem with that idea is that it places the world against the Mekleor, if a war broke out. I have an interesting solution to that though...

I know we call Ithroia a country, but isn't it ruled by a council who are looking out for their respective countries interests? Meaning it's more of an alliance than anything else. Let's simply make it an independent nation. There would be no default race, but those from outside countries who swear allegiance to Ithroia. they could remain on friendly terms with everyone, but use The Arcane Academy as cover for training their military.

If you think about it, they'd hold everyone by the balls, with the exception of the Mekleor, Nethians, and Pariahim; who as far as I know, were independent from the start.