Diaemus Project - Biology

[Clockwork he/him]

There are enchantments in this, right?

 

So, there are these 12 gemstone, all of them are emerald- they are enchanted with wind magic that thickens the air on the island, allowing humans to breathe. This means Gauldur Boretha are more active, though.

The stones feed on the magic of nearby green lumuoles. Each of the 12 cities of Rústir Forfethra Okkar- The Ruins of Our Ancestors- have one.

[Mckeedee123 he/him]

.   Guys, This is confusing. Those time periods are pretty far apart. Are the technology levels simply drastically different in different regions?

 

Apparently. I thought that 1500-ish would be a good place to stop, technologically, both because that's where East Asia stalled for a few centuries, and because it allows for greater communication between regions without having any of the things that fantasy settings think are yucky, like massed gunpowder units or solid nation-states.

 

I want to default to Kobold, though. After reading about him worldbuilding with his siblings, I sort of see Diaemus as his "thing," and I don't want to usurp it. If he thinks 1200's or 1300's European-level technology is best, I'll go with that.

 

EDIT: There aren't "enchantments," per se. It's not like Tamriel or Middle Earth or Alegaesia or whatever. It's usually more like "a god decided to make it like this, so now it's like this."

Edited February 26, 2016 by Mckeedee123

[Kobold King he/him]

I want to default to Kobold, though. After reading about him worldbuilding with his siblings, I sort of see Diaemus as his "thing," and I don't want to usurp it. If he thinks 1200's or 1300's European-level technology is best, I'll go with that.

 

 

Whoa there. I've probably been one of the less active members of this project, especially here lately. I don't lay claim to project jurisdiction in the slightest.

 

Speaking as a regular participant...

 

My own civilization, which is currently holed up in the mountains woefully underdeveloped, is capable of harnessing a degree of steam power through magical water manipulation but does not often mingle or share technology with the surrounding lands.

 

 

As for enchantments: depends on what you mean by the word. Technology that harnesses the power of lumuoles is certainly possible. It's not like animals can use the lumuoles through some sort of spiritual life-connection or anything.

Edited February 26, 2016 by Kobold King

[Mckeedee123 he/him]

As for enchantments: depends on what you mean by the word. Technology that harnesses the power of lumuoles is certainly possible. It's not like animals can use the lumuoles through some sort of spiritual life-connection or anything.

 

I was mostly referring to the "enchanted emeralds", or whatever, that were helping the humans to survive on the floating island. That could be a thing, certainly, but we don't necessarily need magical objects to have magic. It was sort of an unnecessary clarification.

 

I don't know... I'm sort of afraid that part of the reason the threads haven't been getting much love lately is that people felt disenfranchised after we decided on the ground rules for the world. That's really probably not the case, though, is it? It's just more like there wasn't much left to discuss, so the actual worldbuilding moved to the wiki (which was removed enough from the scene that it's easy to procrastinate putting stuff on it.)

[Clockwork he/him]

OK. My people's technology is mostly in the medieval stages, except for pyrotechnics. They have almost modern explosives/fiery weapons, including gunpowder, gasoline, napalm, and small amounts of nitro glycerine (extremely rare because of the danger it poses to the person making it, only used on Mikill Einn- about a liter a year is made.)

 

Also, by enchanted, I mean that a wizard actually set a constant spell on it. Is this allowed?

[ChickenPlague he/him]

 

Also, by enchanted, I mean that a wizard actually set a constant spell on it. Is this allowed?

Well, you see the magic is passed down from someone who ate a great Lumuole. It makes much more sense if the emeralds were enchanted by the 1st person. Unlike the other, latter mages, he becomes a god after death. He could then, as he dies, enchant the stones. Otherwise enchanting emeralds to provide air would have to be a power. Which... actually doesn't sound so weird anymore.

Also, I'm gonna edit something in about gasoline and napalm here when I can.

[Mckeedee123 he/him]

Also, by enchanted, I mean that a wizard actually set a constant spell on it. Is this allowed?

 

Well, you would have to have wizards exist, which was what I was getting at earlier. There aren't generic "wizards" or "warlocks" or whatever in this world, just gods and bloodlines of demigods. The exception is Rachnyx, which are weird and can have unique magical abilities based on race. Dromeans have natural magic too, but to a lesser extent. Any humanoid races would presumably have appeared recently enough that they wouldn't have natural magical ability, unless a god gave it to them. I guess yellow bloodlines could manifest wizard-y stuff, but you'd have to make sure that that magic, and the effects of that magic, were regionally contained, since having the ability to export gear that's "enchanted" would be pretty influential and world-affecting, and... well anyway, I think it'd be easier just to have some spirit make the whole air thing work, but giving bloodline the ability to, or having a god grant the ability to a race to "enchant" stuff to do certain stuff is possible, though I strongly suggest making the gear only function in that particular region, if that's how it's going to work.

[Clockwork he/him]

God gave people some shiny green stones, and there was much rejoicing.

Now that that's done, I'm hoping this post will get other people to post.

About the Gaulder being OP...

Because of certain adaptations, Mikill Einn cannot journey to the surface at all (they would implode), and normal Gaulder can only journey to the surface if they are "bound" to a human...

And so it was said, and so it will be.

[King's wit he/him]

Hello, i recently joined and i was thinking of creating a marine crustacean species that could also cultivate on land, i wanted to know if anyone else was already planning something of the sorts, so that i could eother change my designs, or discuss allying my species with theirs in a mutual relationship.