History Roleplay / ThornsUprising

%%* TheLostWoods: Wraithwine Wood

%%* WizardingSchool: Brunnhold University, which also teaches the usual subjects

%%* WitchSpecies

%%* ItIsPronouncedTroPAY: The town of Muffey is pronounced "muh-FAY".

* SteamPunk - some have accused Thorns of being this, but it's just sort of "not quite." Lots of [[CoolAirship airships]], lots of Victorian-era technology, and LOTS of clocks. Vita seems to be hovering between SteamPunk and ClockPunk. With other stuff.

* AlternativeCalendar - 10 months, 40-80 days each. And the days are ''really long''.
%%* BazaarOfTheBizarre - Hollow Street. Old Rose Harbor is practically one big one.
%%* BoardingSchool - Brunnhold and all other galdori-run institutions of education that teach mundane as well as magical subjects
* BusmansVocabulary - pretty much every social group; the Resistance have their own code words, the pirates and mob have their slang, and the wicks have Tek. Even the galdori students have their own slang terms.
%%* CodeName - everyone in the Resistance gets one.

%%* CulturePolice - censorship of the media is rampant in Vienda.
%%* DragonRider - the drake tamers of Hesse.
%%* ElaborateUndergroundBase - the Citadel in Old Rose
%%* EvilTeacher - Freja Lux seems to be one of these.
* FunctionalMagic - Magic is a genetic ability, and spells are cast by speaking to the mona (sentient particles that make up the universe).
%%* GorgeousPeriodDress - galdori are just plain fashionable.

%%* IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace - Soliloquy Lane, Hollow Street, and Old Rose's "Rape Alley"
%%* ItIsPronouncedTroPAY - The town of Muffey is pronounced "muh-FAY".
%%* LaResistance - Lots of these; the Freedom Fighters. The Drain. To some extent, the Roek fighters.
%%* LowFantasy - apart from the "magic is evil" bit.
%%* MagicVersusScience - inversion. Magic is studied scientifically.
%%* ManOfWealthAndTaste - Silas Hawke. Also, some galdori men.
%%* {{Motifs}} - notably clocks, birds and roses.
%%* NewNeighboursAsThePlotDemands - These crop up every now and then.
%%* {{NPC}} - the game has a huge cast of these.
%%* OpiumDen - The Toy Lantern, most bars in Old Rose
* OhMyGods - "Oh my gods" is not specifically used, but the variation "godsdamnit" and "good goddess" as well as many other god-specific curses are.
* OurGhostsAreDifferent - Ghosts are souls that refused to go into the afterlife and sort of, kind of, literally destroy the other soul from the inside out when they take over their bodies in possession.
%%* PurelyAestheticEra - No one's quite sure what this time period is supposed to be, even the creator.
* {{Reincarnation}} - the afterlife leads to the antelife, which leads to another life. A tenet of both Vitanism and Circlism.
%%* SkyPirate - a lot of these operate around Old Rose.

%%* TheLostWoods - Wraithwine Wood

%%* TheProfessor - several examples at Brunnhold, notably [[PartTimeHero Professor Devlin]] and [[NerdsAreSexy Professor Moore]].
* UniverseBible - the [[http://wiki.anaxasdiaries.com Thornswiki]], also known as The Lore.

%%* WizardingSchool - Brunnhold University, which also teaches the usual subjects
%%* WrongSideOfTheTracks - Old Rose Harbor

Provides examples of:

* BazaarOfTheBizarre - Hollow Street. Old Rose Harbor is practically one big one.
* BoardingSchool - Brunnhold and all other galdori-run institutions of education that teach mundane as well as magical subjects

* CodeName - everyone in the Resistance gets one.
* CrapsaccharineWorld
* CulturePolice - censorship of the media is rampant in Vienda.
* DragonRider - the drake tamers of Hesse.
* ElaborateUndergroundBase - the Citadel in Old Rose
* EvilTeacher - Freja Lux seems to be one of these.
* FantasyGunControl - averted; guns are available, but are expensive, rare and illegal.

* GhostTown - a literal town of ghosts, called a phasmonia.
* GorgeousPeriodDress - galdori are just plain fashionable.
* GreyAndGrayMorality
* IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace - Soliloquy Lane, Hollow Street, and Old Rose's "Rape Alley"
* ItIsPronouncedTroPAY - The town of Muffey is pronounced "muh-FAY".
* LaResistance - Lots of these; the Freedom Fighters. The Drain. To some extent, the Roek fighters.
* LowFantasy - apart from the "magic is evil" bit.
* MagicVersusScience - inversion. Magic is studied scientifically.
* ManOfWealthAndTaste - Silas Hawke. Also, some galdori men.
* {{Motifs}} - notably clocks, birds and roses.
* NewNeighboursAsThePlotDemands - These crop up every now and then.
* {{NPC}} - the game has a huge cast of these.
* OpiumDen - The Toy Lantern, most bars in Old Rose

** All the [[OurMonstersAreDifferent mythic beasts]], too.
* PurelyAestheticEra - No one's quite sure what this time period is supposed to be, even the creator.

* SkyPirate - a lot of these operate around Old Rose.
* SteamPunk - some have accused Thorns of being this, but it's just sort of "not quite."
** Lots of [[CoolAirship airships]], lots of Victorian-era technology, and LOTS of clocks.
*** Vita seems to be hovering between SteamPunk and ClockPunk. With other stuff.
* TheLostWoods - Wraithwine Wood
* TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized
* TheProfessor - several examples at Brunnhold, notably [[PartTimeHero Professor Devlin]] and [[NerdsAreSexy Professor Moore]].

* WitchSpecies
* WizardingSchool - Brunnhold University, which also teaches the usual subjects
* WrongSideOfTheTracks - Old Rose Harbor

[[http://thornsbook.com Thorns: Uprising]] is a Web Original play-by-post RPG, set in a steam-era fantasy world called Vita, in a kingdom under the strain of impending civil war. The ruling class, known as the galdori, are becoming increasingly fearful that their stranglehold on the lesser races is weakening, and a burgeoning resistance has cropped up in the capital city, threatening to undermine the government and endanger anyone in its path in the pursuit of freedom.

* AlternativeCalendar - 10 months, 30 days each. And the days are ''really long''.

* BoardingSchool - Brunnhold
* BusmansVocabulary - pretty much every social group; the resistance have their own code words, the pirates and mob have their slang, and the wicks have Tek. Even the galdori students have their own slang terms.

** The drakes aren't exactly dragons. They have fur.

* LaResistance - Lots of these; the freedom fighters. The Drain. To some extent, the Roek fighters.
* LeftJustifiedFantasyMap - inverted.

* OurGhostsAreDifferent - Ghosts are about three feet tall and eat people from the inside out.

* SteamPunk - some have accused Thorns of being this.

* UniverseBible - the [[http://thornsbook.com/wiki Thornswiki]], also known as Vitapedia.

* WizardingSchool} - Brunnhold University, which also teaches the usual subjects

* {{Subculture}} - the wicks.

* EyesOfGold - some galdori have yellow eyes.

** All the [[OurMonstersAreDifferent} mythic beasts]], too.

* MagicVersusScience - inversion. Magic is studied scientifically.
* ManOfWealthAndTaste - Silas Hawke. Also, some galdori men.

*** Vita seems to be hovering between SteamPunk and ClockPunk. With other stuff.

* TheProfessor - several examples at Brunnhold, notably [[{{PartTimeHero}} Professor Devlin]] and [[{{NerdsAreSexy}} Professor Moore]].