[Mkguild] MKGuild Digest, Vol 128, Issue 26

[kyle.vernon at gmail.com]

For what it's worth, Xhyz (Pascal's assistant in my stories) is from Fan
Shoar and practices Shamanstic magicks

On Sun, Nov 26, 2017 at 7:37 PM, <mkguild-request at lists.integral.org> wrote:

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>    1. Re: Fan Shoar (Bryce Glover)
>    2. Re: Fan Shoar (Bryce Glover)
>    3. Fwd: Fan Shoar (Bryce Glover)
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Bryce Glover <randomdsdevel at gmail.com>
> To: "Indagare ." <brenner.mike at gmail.com>
> Cc: MKGuild <mkguild at lists.integral.org>
> Bcc:
> Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2017 19:09:20 -0500
> Subject: Re: [Mkguild] Fan Shoar
>
> On Nov 25, 2017, at 10:17 PM, Indagare . <brenner.mike at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >Ooh, I was thinking about possibly using something along these lines of
> this Tigrest people you describe here in a story when I eventually got
> around to writing one for Metamor Keep!  (Well, I was if MK ended up as the
> setting the story landed in, of course.)  I’d be particularly interested in
> exploring the life of at least one individual with close relations in
> multiple tribes, to use the societal structure given here, and that
> regardless of whether and when I, personally, write such a story.  (I have
> a few other ideas, but I’ll save them for another time.)
>
> The Tigmest are based on the actual Northwest Native American tribes. …
>
>
>      That’s to be expected based on the real-world territory that their
> homeland is based on, of course.
>
> …But if you want to use mine, I’d be very flattered. Either way, it sounds
> like an interesting story potential!
>
>
> ⋮
>
>
>      Thanks, and you’re welcome in advance!  It’ll probably be *quite* a
> while until I get to putting anything together in this regard, though, as
> it’s been about three years since I promised those on the main TSA-Talk
> mailing list a somewhat major story arc in one of the settings discussed
> there — you may have seen me mention parts of it there once or twice and
> thus know which one I mean, but I won’t reiterate that explicitly here
> unless you ask since it’s off-topic for *this* list — and haven’t gotten
> much work done on it in that time at *all*, so I obviously have an
> obligation to post at least the *beginning* of that first.
>
> ⋮
>
>
> > I was thinking about involving a Keeper as something of a mentor, at
> least in magic, to the main character, but this would make it so that
> former individual wouldn’t have to hail from quite so far away, so thanks!
>
> I’m glad you like it!
>
>
> ⋮
>
>
>      Again, you’re welcome!  It’s always useful to be able to build off of
> pre-existing material, anyway.
>
> ⋮
>
>
> >>I made a rough map for the western continents:
> > Hey, that looks kind of like the British Isles!
>
> In full disclosure, it's just the other half of the political map colored
> in: http://transform.to/~ravenb/pics/mkworld_political.jpg I don't have
> whatever graphics were used to make the western half and I wanted to keep
> it simple in case anyone wanted to see changes.
>
> -Indy
>
>
> ⋮
>
>
>      Still, that’s an interesting coincidence or reuse of existing
> topology, whatever the reason behind it.
>
> Regards,
>      WhenCatsFoxesandWolvesFly/RandomDSdevel
>
> ⋮
>
>
> On Sat, Nov 25, 2017 at 8:57 PM, Bryce Glover <randomdsdevel at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>>
>> (*snipped…*)
>>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Bryce Glover <randomdsdevel at gmail.com>
> To: Indagare <brenner.mike at gmail.com>
> Cc: MKGuild <mkguild at lists.integral.org>
> Bcc:
> Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2017 19:35:18 -0500
> Subject: Re: [Mkguild] Fan Shoar
> One last thing, Indagare:
>
> On Nov 24, 2017, at 8:30 PM, mkguild-request at lists.integral.org wrote:
>
> ⋮
>
>
> Shamanistic magic is highly developed in Fan Shoar, though it is different
> from that of Galendor. It includes much more alchemy and the use of
> familiar spirits (generally small, elemental beings that take on the shape
> of an animal) is common. Shamans in Fan Shoar can produce a wider variety
> of effects than most in Galendor can accomplish because they can also
> detect raw magic and regularly treat with elemental spirits who are
> sometimes considered members of a given empire or tribe and who often align
> themselves in defense. Extreme care is taken when dealing with any
> extrapljnar being, however, particularly those from the Heavens and Hells.
>
>
> ⋮
>
>
>      You *know*, now that I *think* about it, a set of magic techniques
> like this bears a certain partial resemblance to the ‘furycrafting’
> <http://codexalera.wikia.com/wiki/Furies>system used in Jim Butcher
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Butcher>’s *Codex Alera* series
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Alera>, which I just started reading
> while eating for the next book in that same author’s *The Cinder Spires*
>  series <http://www.jim-butcher.com/books/cinder-spires>, though odds are
> that other franchises could have implemented something similar even though
> I don’t know about it/them personally.  In any case, have you thought about
> letting Tigmest magicians involve some of the totems, personal or
> otherwise, that are part of their culture when they cast spells?  I imagine
> they might be able to use them as mystical focal points and energy stores,
> similarly to how other settings might contain magical artifacts usable in
> one or both of those ways.
>
> Intrigued and curious,
>      WhenCatsFoxesandWolvesFly/RandomDSdevel
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Bryce Glover <randomdsdevel at gmail.com>
> To: MKGuild <mkguild at lists.integral.org>
> Cc:
> Bcc:
> Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2017 19:36:17 -0500
> Subject: [Mkguild] Fwd: Fan Shoar
> Whoops, forgot to CC this to the list:
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> *From: *Bryce Glover <RandomDSdevel at gmail.com>
> *Subject: **Re: Fan Shoar*
> *Date: *November 26, 2017 at 7:35:18 PM EST
> *To: *Indagare <brenner.mike at gmail.com>
> *Cc: *MKGuild <mkguild at lists.integral.org>
>
> One last thing, Indagare:
>
> On Nov 24, 2017, at 8:30 PM, mkguild-request at lists.integral.org wrote:
>
> ⋮
>
>
> Shamanistic magic is highly developed in Fan Shoar, though it is different
> from that of Galendor. It includes much more alchemy and the use of
> familiar spirits (generally small, elemental beings that take on the shape
> of an animal) is common. Shamans in Fan Shoar can produce a wider variety
> of effects than most in Galendor can accomplish because they can also
> detect raw magic and regularly treat with elemental spirits who are
> sometimes considered members of a given empire or tribe and who often align
> themselves in defense. Extreme care is taken when dealing with any
> extrapljnar being, however, particularly those from the Heavens and Hells.
>
>
> ⋮
>
>
>      You *know*, now that I *think* about it, a set of magic techniques
> like this bears a certain partial resemblance to the ‘furycrafting’
> <http://codexalera.wikia.com/wiki/Furies>system used in Jim Butcher
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Butcher>’s *Codex Alera* series
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Alera>, which I just started reading
> while eating for the next book in that same author’s *The Cinder Spires*
>  series <http://www.jim-butcher.com/books/cinder-spires>, though odds are
> that other franchises could have implemented something similar even though
> I don’t know about it/them personally.  In any case, have you thought about
> letting Tigmest magicians involve some of the totems, personal or
> otherwise, that are part of their culture when they cast spells?  I imagine
> they might be able to use them as mystical focal points and energy stores,
> similarly to how other settings might contain magical artifacts usable in
> one or both of those ways.
>
> Intrigued and curious,
>      WhenCatsFoxesandWolvesFly/RandomDSdevel
>
>
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