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Parchments have been tacked up around the various settlements on Gobaith, Briar, and Vanima (excluding only Nordmark). They read: ATTENTION, ALL ELDAN WORSHIPPERS I seek to found a guild to bring together all those who worship Eldan. This would not be a church of Eldan, since there would be no doctr...

They stay in the mule's depot.

Name : – Elethua Ornorak Race : – Elf Gender : – Female Age : – 820 Mage/Battlemage : – If those are my only two options, battlemage. (( NB: Elethua has mage stats. )) Subjects to be followed : – Elemental Magic – Battle Magic & Tactics – Magic Theory Old language / New language : – New language

I can wait. No hurry. Thanks!

I'd like to second the Llama's request for a synopsis. In fact, a broad-strokes recounting of the whole quest would be aces. I tried on a couple of occasions (admittedly not very hard) to get in on the action but never figured out a way in.

The Union is in flames! Come quick! Bring buckets! Bring mages!

Some great RP the last couple of days. Thanks to: Yvanna; Saigwin; Tak; Daisy; Weasel; Lesska; Tinuviel; Enaya; Jerem; Drakon; Raina; and the incomparable Mel. And special thanks to: Kawako Tao, for KEL and HEPT and some quality RP along the way; and Ssar'ney, for the lesson on Lizardic culture. To ...

Elethua always enjoys interactions with Orlog. Sorry you had to cut this one short.

The Union has generally been a good place for RP of late. Thanks to everyone Elethua has spent time with there over the past few (dwarven) days.

As a grasslander, Tikir was a creature of Findari, and so they burned his body and let Findari’s wind carry his ashes away. Thig kept the charred skull, though. He needed it, he said, to remind him of a lesson learned: that no code is perfect, that every rule has its exceptions, and that sometimes w...

Thig administered the poison that evening. They had carried Tikir down to the bedchambers off the tailoring workshop and endeavored to make him as comfortable as they could. The only elf among them who managed to muster any good cheer was Tikir himself, who cracked jokes and took advantage of his pr...

Someone must have carried Tikir out to the Garden. That is where Thig found him, propped up in a chair, eyes closed, enjoying the soft, early summer sunshine on his face. The face that was once a rich, dark brown and now looked almost charcoal-gray. Everything about the once lively and good-humored ...

It started with a bit of stiffness in his joints. He didn’t think much of it at first: it’s just some lingering effect of the fever; it will dissipate in time. But the stiffness didn’t go away. It only got worse, until eventually he could barely move his elbows and knees, and his shoulders and hips ...

To step back and define what these things mean extrinsically, as players, seems somehow to undermine the very life that our characters have given it. Sorry, I wasn't looking for a decisive definition OOC. My characters and I already had opinions as to what, if anything, the distinction between Vani...

I just realised that if you look at the Map of Gobaith - it clearly shows "TOL VANIMA" to be the island, with "Vanima" inside it. True 'dat. Still, it's ambiguous just which part of the island is supposed to be Vanima proper. It might not be a proper part (in the technical, mere...

A question about usage: Are these terms just synonyms? Or does anyone else also understand there to be a difference between Vanima and Tol Vanima? I somehow got the idea that Tol Vanima is the island and Vanima is a political entity (not quite a city or even a town, but that sort of thing) that sits...

I realise that you can't write this word since non-German keyboards lack the ü and ß. However, you can write it as "Gruesse". You can get the umlaut and the ß on a non-German keyboard. You just have to know how. On a Mac, the umlaut is OPTION + U and then the vowel you want the umlaut to ...

I often have a D&D alignment in mind when I create a character, but it never quite sticks, and the characters become harder to categorize as they take on personalities of their own. I myself am pretty obviously Neutral Good (a fact confirmed by a Facebook quiz I took once), as is/was Tikir. (In ...

Were you ghosted in the interim? Alternatively, have you been reading certain scrolls in the Druidhouse?

I use my sickle on plants but i always get messages like i got lice on my hand or something. All i can get stuff from is the hedge. and all i get is red elder berries. is there something wrong here because as far as i know you cant brew with berries... The problem is that it's winter . Come spring,...

I'll take care of the nails. And the "nails and wedges," or "pins & cotters" as we call them in the New Language.

~Tikir

Thig: I'm always drawn to nature-magic in any sort of fantasy context, so it was fairly inevitable that I'd start with a Druid. I chose an elf and made him >2000-yrs-old because I liked trying to imagine how different the experience of a person who lives for thousands of years would be. Initially, h...

One word: Lesska!

Thigmophiles P'terrun ist ein Druid. Er lebt auf Tol Vanima. Aber er spricht nicht der alten Sprache.

I abstain. I would be quite happy to call either Elfess my Elder.

~Thig

One further point, regarding the representative of the Druids on the Council of Ministers: the person most obviously suited for this job is Brother Azuros Tjime, Elder of the Free Druids. The second most qualified candidate is, unfortunately, me. I hereby nominate Azuros to be Minister of Druids. If...

First, I must apologize for missing the last Elven meeting. My investigations had sent me far afield, and I could not make it back to Tol Vanima in time. Happily, given Idrandal’s account of what transpired, the meeting turned out more or less as I might have hoped, despite my absence. I have only a...

1. Elven Druid, male. My first character, still going strong. 2. Dwarven smith, male. Defunct. 3. A big, fat male human who wanted to be a mage but wound up being little more than a pain in the ass until he ultimately fled the island. Defunct. 4. A male elf who still aspires to be a mage, though he ...

Idrandal and I made a pilgrimage to the Altar of Ushara in the north. We brought Vanima honeycombs and wholesome vegetables to offer to the goddess. We hope this will motivate her to return the mine to its former bounty. But time will tell.

~Tikir

Two days in a row now, I have descended into the Vanima mine to find not a single vein of ore or coal worth the tapping. The probability that this has just been a matter of bad timing on my part is, by my calculations, vanishingly small. Something is wrong with our mine, and I intend to see the prob...

A note is pinned to the door of the Zzyathis gatehouse: Where have my dear, dear friends, the Lizards of Zzyathis, gone? I haven't had a nostril-full of fish breath in altogether too long. Come back to me, my scaly brothers and sisters. (And, yes, Lesska: it's you I miss most of all.) Tol Vanima ow...