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Post by beets on Aug 27, 2015 16:10:25 GMT -5
Are 'half-elves' looked down on by society at large if their parentage is known, even though they aren't genetically half-elf? It seems a given that Antiquos elves wouldn't like them, but what about humans? Would it be considered shameful in Ginean human society to be descended from a non-human even if you're genetically human?
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Post by Fuzz on Aug 27, 2015 16:32:41 GMT -5
If you're a human with an elven parent, people might look down on you slightly, moreso in a place like Ur or Saderia than in Calidor. Calidor, despite its racism, takes most things at face value, so people wouldn't really give a shit about your parentage unless it came up. Or if you were human but had an elven name for some reason.
If you're an elf, no one cares. Elven breeding is such an exercise in desperation that most elves wouldn't care if you had a human ancestor, and if anything amongst the Clamor Antiquos you'd be seen as having a particularly potent strain of elven blood, and you (or rather, your elven parent) would be sought after to have more children. The Domus Divini would probably look down on you if you had some human (or even worse, Dwarven) parentage, especially if you were trying to claim you were from one of the 6 families.
Dwarves wouldn't give a shit, assuming you were born in a Dome, and it's actually not that uncommon (at least for SOME Domes, 90% of these would be Dvergerhove) for Elves and Humans to be allowed in if they are married to a Dwarf. However, if you were born outside a Dome and your Dwarven parent didn't have strong ties to their home Dome, you'd be considered Domeless and basically an untrustworthy outcast, since the extended bond of your Dome means a shitload to Dwarves.
So yeah... elves would vary based on what kind of elf they're talking to, humans mostly wouldn't care, at least in Calidor, and Dwarves it depends on their Dome and if they had a tie to it.
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Post by Fuzz on Aug 27, 2015 17:02:46 GMT -5
One thing to note:
Although a half-breed would come out being of one race or the other, they might retain some features of the other race. So a human that has a dwarven parent might be shorter and squatter than the average human, with a thicker beard than most. An Elf with a human parent might be taller, broader, and a little hardier (which lends itself to the Antiquan viewpoint of more potent blood), while a Dwarf with an Elven parent might not be able to grow much of a beard and be a little reedier and thinner.
And no, no matter how many Elves borne of Dwarves there have been, not a single one has ever had facial hair. Go figure.
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Post by fuzziebunny on Aug 27, 2015 17:52:06 GMT -5
Does the lack of elven children seem to be mostly that female elves can't get pregnant?
Do male elves seem to be able to get human or dwarven women pregnant? I guess I am trying to see if the lack of elven children seem to effect only female elves having children or if this is an all encompassing issue with elves in general.
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Post by scarlet on Aug 27, 2015 17:59:11 GMT -5
I have a question.
Orphanages in Calidor? Are they a thing or would that be just something more handled by the church?
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Post by Fuzz on Aug 27, 2015 17:59:39 GMT -5
They're equivalent. There's a level of detail that's really not needed to tell a good story, that's one of them, and it could engender a lot of sexist nonsense as part of the RP, which we're trying to mostly avoid on this server.
Race matters and is a contentious point.
Gender does not and is not. Men and women are basically equal.
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Post by fuzziebunny on Aug 27, 2015 18:10:26 GMT -5
My question was more in line with researching a way to help boost elven birth rates for the whole science journal thing. It wasn't really about gender equality but I guess I can kind of see the third party effects on this. Sorry!
The plague:
Is the plague in wards something new? Or have plagues like the black ear been seen before, like in the last hundred years?
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Post by Fuzz on Aug 27, 2015 18:23:22 GMT -5
A lot of this stuff should be found out ingame.
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Post by explosiverunes on Aug 27, 2015 18:31:48 GMT -5
Supposedly gnomes are technically advanced, but in what way? Are there any areas in which they particularly excel (Firearms, electricity, medicine, etc.) and areas in which they may be behind say Calidor? What's the general quality of life in Xin Xiwang?
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Post by Fuzz on Aug 27, 2015 19:25:05 GMT -5
They're far behind Calidor in terms of medicine and chemistry, mainly because their own physiology is so different from the other races and they just operate differently. They're also far behind in the social sciences and concepts like democracy and such.
The one field in which they vastly surpass everyone else is in shipbuilding (they use steam ships) because the main force of technology in the mainland is the Dwarves, and most Dwarves aren't that into sailing, though Dwarven mining machines are far better than anything outsiders would have seen with the gnomes.
Gnomes in general are very secretive of what tech they have, and will not disclose the full breadth of their technology with the other races, some say out of a paranoia after being slaves for so long and seeing what they did to the Orcs.
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Post by beets on Aug 27, 2015 22:19:27 GMT -5
Have there been any major wars since the advent of current firearms? Do battles resemble the American Civil War where soldiers still organize in rank and file and march onto the field, or have SMGs and the like led to skirmishing/'guerrilla' methods of long range engagement as we see in modern warfare?
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Post by Kitsunenotsume on Aug 28, 2015 12:06:43 GMT -5
Two questions on a similar topic: What is the most advanced method of telecommunication (courier, sephamore-tower, manual electric telegraph, automated printing telegraph, etc.)? What is the most common method of telecommunication for various distances? (for reference, transatlantic telegraph cables were successfully run by 1866)
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Post by Psionic-Entity on Aug 28, 2015 12:31:14 GMT -5
Generally:
- Physics in engines doesn't work exactly the same as it does in real life, especially with regards to electricity. If it did things would be kind of boring. - People have figured out that there's a connection between magnetism and electricity. This is how Tesla Coils in firearms work. - The simple electric motor, telegraph, and speaker all exist in some capacity. - Electric communication isn't widely used because of how quickly the signal sent through a wire gets dissipated as heat. - Some inventors envision big copper braids connecting cities but practical science suggests that they'd melt from all the heat or simply rust and fall apart.
On Communication:
- Printing presses and typewriters to create paper documents, runners to send them. - Longer distances covered by steam train, airship, horse, etc. - Sephamore towers have been figured out but they aren't widely used. Some say the gnomes use a setup of mirrored dishes for similar purposes.
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Post by sparky on Aug 30, 2015 4:38:58 GMT -5
Alright, I've got a question: What are the different genres of music in this setting? Given that there's a jukebox in the Sink Hole, is there in fact a music industry, or at least musical groups that are widely known, even if they're only known in certain areas, like a roving band only really known in the Emerald Isles?
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Post by Fuzz on Aug 30, 2015 7:46:16 GMT -5
Alright, I've got a question: What are the different genres of music in this setting? Given that there's a jukebox in the Sink Hole, is there in fact a music industry, or at least musical groups that are widely known, even if they're only known in certain areas, like a roving band only really known in the Emerald Isles? Probably. Most music would still be classical, but acoustic jazz and lounge music would be a thing at this point. The electric guitar isn't a thing. In terms of groups and singers and such, we figured players would just make up that sort of stuff to pad things out as necessary, since it's a minor detail.
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