Creative RP and Settings

[Akkaido Kivikar]

As far as Royalty goes I don't think it's appropriate for new Royal Houses (especially Enkidukai) to emerge. With RHoP, they were around before such information was released to make Royal Houses inappropriate... and it's now apparent that they're working on remedying their pull away from Settings. I do wonder to what extent this will be done, and what effect it will have on the guilds that associate with them.

[Rigwyn]

Who's to say that today, an ambassador from an unknown Kingdom doesn't sneak though a portal in the stone labyrinths and settle somewhere in Yliakum ? Perhaps he's got some political reason for being here. Perhaps he intends to expand his kingdom into Yliakum and recruit local citizens and guilds, offering them titles and positions in this new establishment ? This kingdom might have a very rich history that newly recruited members might wish to read about or they might be extremely secretive about their origins.  Perhaps they have some very different customs, stories, parables, greetings, and superstitions ?

I thought It might be fun to start something like this. A rather mysterious empire so to speak. Yes, it would need to be careful not to attract the wrong type of attention as piss off the Octarchy.. and No, it would not drag in things that conflict with the settings like unheard of beasts, a different magic system, etc..

Perhaps this remote land is populated with the same creatures and races and knows of the same gods and has the same glyphs ? Perhaps when they cast spells they do it a little differently.. Perhaps due to the way they handle the glyphs they cast the same spells but with small variations in appearance and effect ?

Does this sort of thing sound unreasonable or out of setting ?
I think it might be fun if enough players thought so and if it was ok to do settings-wise.

Whether or not such an enterprise would succeed or fail is another story..

[Akkaido Kivikar]

Sadly I'd say it's out of settings, as afaik according to settings the portals closed centuries ago.

However, there's nothing that prevents other kingdoms from existing somewhere within the Stone Labrynths, we know OOC of Kadaikos, I imagine there would be dwarves in the dark tunnels mining massive veins of precious metals, and perhaps a few Kran settlements who don't need plant life for food...

[Rigwyn]

It does give an account of Laanx becoming aware of one portal opening up. From this I take it that portals open and close on their own or as a result of forces unknown to Laanx itself. Perhaps this ambassador died and found his way to Yliakum via a strange passage in the death realm ?

Perhaps this mysterious ambassador traveled here though a portal at the same time that other creatures passed though... it may have already started such a community and its descendants are only now starting to make their way into town ?

On second thought, It might be less intrusive to use a lower level instead of a remote kingdom... But so little is known about the lower levels .. it would be easier to write a new history than to invent something that might conflict in the future.

[Akkaido Kivikar]

The portal Laanx became aware of was the Klyros portal, which is now closed. The portals all opened around the same time, as the one of the higher gods promised Laanx and Talad that he would send creatures to Yliakum.

[Sarras Volcae]

royal house of purrty has no power. just a family of fancy furries. completely ic guild. royalty doesn't necessarily come with power. if you're the head of a little tribe of enkis and migrate to the capital city of a dictatorship, you become something like a pretentious gang of wealthy citizens. you can say you're royalty, but that means nothing where you don't own land, especially in a foreign country that doesn't recognize your tribe/nation/clan/whatever it is.

@bilbous, sir is a title for knights

[bilbous]

Sir is a title for knights and knights were of the noble classes, generally born into the position although sometimes elevated from the common folk. As far as I know there is no such class system in Yliakum. It just seems to be one of the internal inconsistencies but I am certain I am making too much of it.

[Akkaido Kivikar]

No reason why there wouldn't be a Yliakumic honour system for citizens similar to modern knighthood by the Queen of England. Generally musicians, movie directors and famous people get knighted these days.

[bilbous]

yes we all know how much knights like their fancy embroidered hankies I'm positive Sir Elton has a whole closet full of them. =P

[Sarras Volcae]

No reason why there wouldn't be a Yliakumic honour system for citizens similar to modern knighthood by the Queen of England. Generally musicians, movie directors and famous people get knighted these days.

rather, completely useless people who lack all sense of chivalry and would hide behind a damsel when facing a dragon. then they'd write an angsty song or movie about their cowardice.  

[LigH]

royal house of purrty has no power

... in Yliakum.

But there is a Kingdom of Printh (a.k.a. Lolitra's and HoodedOracle's home).

[Akkaido Kivikar]

royal house of purrty has no power

... in Yliakum.

But there is a Kingdom of Printh (a.k.a. Lolitra's and HoodedOracle's home).

Do note this is fanon, not official PlaneShift settings... sort of a large factor of which I allude to about the origins of Enkidukai, the fact portals are now closed, etc.

[Rigwyn]

If a kingdom's members give a kingdom's leader power, then that kingdom does in fact have power over its members.
Its not recognized by the Octarchy .. But so what.

As for portals, I'd like to know where it says that *all* portals closed up and that none would ever open again.

This opening of portals was not controlled by laanx and from the way it was worded I think laanx was. Bit sprprised.. It even studdies the portal for a while.. And studdied the strange creatures that passed though.
Did laanx know how many varieties of creatures would pass through ?
Did she know what they would be like in advance ? ( No, it appears not )

Given this I would say that there should be some wiggle room for other unknown portals so long as new races are not rp'd in.

[Akkaido Kivikar]

You must also remember that the game is in pre-alpha and that Settings information is not finished/made public.

[Under the moon]

The Portals all closed over 400 years ago. Most were only open for a short time. Aside from Kran and Lemur (and Ynnwn, debatably), NONE of the races are native to Yliakum. Kadiakos is not unknown to the races, it just can't be reached anymore. Don't make up anything about the home worlds. It is all written, a very good story, and there is a reason why no one remembers them or has anything written about them. You just have to wait for the unveiling.