Hello everyone, I am very curious about this World and I am tempted to join, but I must confess I have some questions based on the setting that reading the background information that I have found.
Magic!
Magic is fun, colourful to role play and it allows for all kinds of stories to be told. I am aware that members can come up with their own forms of magic, but I am curious as to the extent of magics ability. I ask this because I want to make a character that fits with the setting. Standard magic is fun, its stuff like throwing balls of fire or making people fly.
Greater magic involves power that can change politics of countries. A wizard at their pinnacle of power can destroy entire buildings with enough focus on doing so. Stuff like summoning falling rocks from the sky and blizzards which coat entire blocks of a town in frost.
Epic magic is something only a handful of people on an entire world could do, but those specific people can change global politics. Epic magic can literally change the dynamic of a world. A single person could change the direction of a war by turning the tide of an entire battle by himself.
(An example of this is cutting a mountain off the face of the world, making it float up into the sky, and building a flying city out of it.)
I've not had a chance to go over many other characters, so I was curious about the general ability of those gifted with magic. In short, is there limitations to what powerful wizards can do? For designing my character.
Monsters!
Monsters! Everyone who likes action plots loves a good monster. I've noticed a few monsters in the bestiary, along with a nasty one that can suppress magic. I assume players are free to create their own monsters, my question isn't about that. My question is how much sway do monsters have in the world?
In some settings there is a reason why cities are built with walls, and have guards manning them. Its because something hungry and nasty might make a snack out of normal people without that sort of protection. How often are monsters around in the wilds?
A good method of understanding this is travel. Do merchants who travel the lands go in heavily armed caravans because they know monsters are out there? Or do they travel light because monster attacks are more rare?
The Gods!
The most important question I have is concerning the gods. I have done reading on the background and I will be using Inima as my example around my question. My question is annoyingly complex for how simple it is.
Are the gods "Real?"
I say this because the debate if the gods are real in character is always a fun one. But in a fantasy setting the gods have uses. My example is this.
A demon of death, decay and rot is summoned by a wizard and approaches a town in Thanatos. This creature stands for the destruction of souls and everything the god hates. The people call to a priest of Inima and the priest calls upon her goddess to protect the town. The demon then has three potentials.
A: Explode from Inima's wrath being channeled through the priest into the demon.
B: Explode from the magical essence of the priest, and the question if it was the god is unanswered.
C: The demon giggles a little at the priest before devouring the poor sod.
Or is it something else? Is it public knowledge that priests can do some pretty cool feats.
Thank you for your time! Answers to these questions will help define how my characters interact with the world!
