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* TheGadfly: Orren are mercurial and passionate by nature, and are constantly flitting from interest to interest and obsession to obsession. A typical Orren may obsess over a particular thing and let it consume their time for a week or so before moving on to another equally engrossing interest, and then another and another and another. They even change their names with considerable frequency once they grow bored of their current ones.
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* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: While most primes possess the typical colors of their real-life counterparts, it's not uncommon for some to sport fur in much more vivid and unusual shades. This is especially prevalent among the Rassimel, among whom pink, purple or metallic-hued fur is far from unknown, and the Sleeth, who are often dark blue or green.
* AnimalJingoism: The Cani and the Sleeth tend to get along very poorly, as per traditional cat-and-dog rivalries. Cani are intensely social, obsessed with social standing, and like people neatly sorted between leaders and followers; Sleeth find their social structures repugnant, and hate taking orders. Sleeth, alone among all primes, can detect the smells the Cani social cues depend on; they also uniformly ignore them, which infuriates the Cani. The Cani's tendency to challenge each other and other Primes over authority also tends to induce violent reprisals from the much more high-strung Sleeth. Perdithorne, a species of lynx-like monsters, also dislike Cani more strongly than they do other primes.
* AnimalStereotypes: The Prime species play fairly directly into their associated animals' stereotypes -- the dogfolk are social, loyal, community-minded and obsessed with pedigree, the otterfolk are playful, fun-loving and fond of water, the bearfolk are gruff and fierce but honorable, the talking panthers are cunning, amoral and fond of hunting, and so on.
* AnimalJingoism: The Cani and the Sleeth tend to get along very poorly, as per traditional cat-and-dog rivalries. Cani are intensely social, obsessed with social standing, and like people neatly sorted between leaders and followers; Sleeth find their social structures repugnant, and hate taking orders. Sleeth, alone among all primes, can detect the smells the Cani social cues depend on; they also uniformly ignore them, which infuriates the Cani. The Cani's tendency to challenge each other and other Primes over authority also tends to induce violent reprisals from the much more high-strung Sleeth. Perdithorne, a species of lynx-like monsters, also dislike Cani more strongly than they do other primes.
* AnimalStereotypes: The Prime species play fairly directly into their associated animals' stereotypes -- the dogfolk are social, loyal, community-minded and obsessed with pedigree, the otterfolk are playful, fun-loving and fond of water, the bearfolk are gruff and fierce but honorable, the talking panthers are cunning, amoral and fond of hunting, and so on.
* BarbarianHero: Gormoror consider this a dramatic ideal to live up to, and tend to fancy themselves might Beowulf-style heroes in the making. A typical Gormoror is very focused on building himself up as a fearsome warrior of great renown, and will enthusiastically engage in raids for treasure and glory, fight horrific monsters and enemy armies, swear mighty oaths, and preferably die nobly in a dramatically lopsided battle.
* BearsAreBadNews: Gormoror, bear people, downplay this -- they're aggressive and barbaric, but easily enough reasoned with. Churshash, however, play this entirely straight -- they're very aggressive, bear-like animals driven into constant pain and rage by [[WoundThatWillNotHeal Wounds That Will Not Heal]], their blood induces mindless fury in anyone it touches, and are generally a fair match for four well-armed and prepared warriors.
* BeastMan: With a few exceptions, the Prime species all look like anthropomorphic animals of various sorts. The degree of anthropomorphism varies between species -- Cani resemble furred humans with dog heads and tails, Rassimel have the bodies of bipedal raccoons but also have human hair, and Gormoror are simply upright bears with opposable thumbs.
* BearsAreBadNews: Gormoror, bear people, downplay this -- they're aggressive and barbaric, but easily enough reasoned with. Churshash, however, play this entirely straight -- they're very aggressive, bear-like animals driven into constant pain and rage by [[WoundThatWillNotHeal Wounds That Will Not Heal]], their blood induces mindless fury in anyone it touches, and are generally a fair match for four well-armed and prepared warriors.
* BeastMan: With a few exceptions, the Prime species all look like anthropomorphic animals of various sorts. The degree of anthropomorphism varies between species -- Cani resemble furred humans with dog heads and tails, Rassimel have the bodies of bipedal raccoons but also have human hair, and Gormoror are simply upright bears with opposable thumbs.
* BigCreepyCrawlies: Some creatures resemble outsized arthropods of various sorts. Zonn, for instance, are essentially grasshoppers the size of cattle.
* CallASmeerpARabbit: A lot of World Tree creatures are given the names of Earth animals with similar social roles for the sake of expedience. Horses, for instance, are named such because they're domistacated for use as pack and riding beasts despite actually being nine unrelated genera of animals, some possessing claws and feathers or bony plates or the like.
* CatlikeDragons: Zi Ri behavior is often described in feline terms, particularly concerning their intense sense of self-worth, their love of hunting, their love of cuddling and attention, and their tendency to purr when happy. It's no accident that they're one of the few species that can consistently get along well with the Sleeth.
* CatsAreMean: Sleeth are the most innately amoral primes, with little concern for things like morality, duty, honor or kindness. They enjoy hunting and toying with their prey, and possess an innate tendency for cruelty -- a kind Sleeth is one who is only cruel to foes and small animals, and being indiscriminate in one's cruelty is seen as a minor vice at best.
* CatlikeDragons: Zi Ri behavior is often described in feline terms, particularly concerning their intense sense of self-worth, their love of hunting, their love of cuddling and attention, and their tendency to purr when happy. It's no accident that they're one of the few species that can consistently get along well with the Sleeth.
* CatsAreMean: Sleeth are the most innately amoral primes, with little concern for things like morality, duty, honor or kindness. They enjoy hunting and toying with their prey, and possess an innate tendency for cruelty -- a kind Sleeth is one who is only cruel to foes and small animals, and being indiscriminate in one's cruelty is seen as a minor vice at best.
* {{Cumulonemesis}}: Accanax, the god of destruction, periodically manifests in the World Tree in the form of a thundercloud, and terrifying things happen in his shadow.
* ElementalEmbodiment: Each of the noun gods brought along some number of lesser spirits, referred to as anything from angels to demons to fairies but most commonly as elementals, to help manage and oversee their element. By far the most common are the air elementals, who perform the constant work needed to keep weather predictable and livable in the setting's bizarre universe, but comparative handfuls of water, fire, time, location and other elementals exist as well. Other elemental types are rare -- the god of animals prefer to use mortal knights as servants, and it's not all that clear what difference would exist between a plant elemental and regular if active vegetation.
* FantasticFlora: Plants are generally as likely to be magically active as animals, and several species exist that do things like power fire magic, produce [[{{Mana}} cley]], inhibit one's ability to sense magic, heal wounds and sicknesses, and so on. Other plants grow metal nuggets, stones precious and non, salt and other minerals in their leaves, stems, flowers, fruit and so on, which are often the only sources of these things on the Tree.
* FantasticRacism: Prime society is ''fantastically'' racist. Sleeth and Khytsoyis can expect to be routinely denied entrance into guilds and high society, and for that matter much in the way of respect -- a Khytsoy archbishop and duke was expected to feel honored for being allowed to sit among the day laborers at her own retirement banquet. Non-primes get it even worse, and are lucky when they're treated as second-class citizens and allowed to enter cities without being lynched -- more commonly, they're considered monsters or non-entities whom the primes can conquer, displace, rob and kill with little consequence.
* FantasyMetals: In addition to regular iron, copper, silver, gold, mercury and so on, the World Tree contains a number of fictional metals with various properties:
** Branzinion is blue, hard as iron and much heavier. It's mostly used in blunt weapons and axes.
** Hezarion is deep red and very ductile. It's favored by Herethroi, who use to make inlays on their exoskeletons.
** Mnerorzion is dark purple, veined with lighter stripes that slowly shift. It's most popular as jewelry.
** Yulexion is dark and aromatic, and mostly favored by Cani and Sleeth because they like its smell.
* FeatheredDragons: Zi Ri are very varied in appearance, and often possess avian traits. A given Zi Ri may simply possess avian wings, may have a fully birdlike head, or may outright resemble a scaly, mildly draconic bird.
* FleetingPassionateHobbies: The Orren have this as one of their [[PlanetOfHats hats]]. They are stereotypically described as having many interests that they flit between and learning new skills easily, the latter of which is represented in the rules with a chance to gain extra skill levels.
* FantasticRacism: Prime society is ''fantastically'' racist. Sleeth and Khytsoyis can expect to be routinely denied entrance into guilds and high society, and for that matter much in the way of respect -- a Khytsoy archbishop and duke was expected to feel honored for being allowed to sit among the day laborers at her own retirement banquet. Non-primes get it even worse, and are lucky when they're treated as second-class citizens and allowed to enter cities without being lynched -- more commonly, they're considered monsters or non-entities whom the primes can conquer, displace, rob and kill with little consequence.
* FantasyMetals: In addition to regular iron, copper, silver, gold, mercury and so on, the World Tree contains a number of fictional metals with various properties:
** Branzinion is blue, hard as iron and much heavier. It's mostly used in blunt weapons and axes.
** Hezarion is deep red and very ductile. It's favored by Herethroi, who use to make inlays on their exoskeletons.
** Mnerorzion is dark purple, veined with lighter stripes that slowly shift. It's most popular as jewelry.
** Yulexion is dark and aromatic, and mostly favored by Cani and Sleeth because they like its smell.
* FeatheredDragons: Zi Ri are very varied in appearance, and often possess avian traits. A given Zi Ri may simply possess avian wings, may have a fully birdlike head, or may outright resemble a scaly, mildly draconic bird.
* FleetingPassionateHobbies: The Orren have this as one of their [[PlanetOfHats hats]]. They are stereotypically described as having many interests that they flit between and learning new skills easily, the latter of which is represented in the rules with a chance to gain extra skill levels.
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* FleetingPassionateHobbies: The Orren have this as one of their [[PlanetOfHats hats]]. They are stereotypically described as having many interests that they flit between and learning new skills easily, the latter of which is represented in the rules with a chance to gain extra skill levels.
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* FleetingPassionateHobbies: The TheGadfly: Orren have this as one are mercurial and passionate by nature, and are constantly flitting from interest to interest and obsession to obsession. A typical Orren may obsess over a particular thing and let it consume their time for a week or so before moving on to another equally engrossing interest, and then another and another and another. They even change their names with considerable frequency once they grow bored of their [[PlanetOfHats hats]]. They are stereotypically described as having many interests that they flit between and learning new skills easily, the latter of which is represented in the rules with a chance to gain extra skill levels.current ones.
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* GrowsOnTrees: Played with; while the grand examples are absent, there are plants that grow small amounts of metal or other hard materials in their leaves, nuts, or so forth. In a setting without much metal, this can be invaluable to harvest and refine. Also, due to their {{Magitek}}, Primes can do quite a lot with certain types of nut.
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* GrowsOnTrees: Played with; while the grand examples are absent, there are plants that grow small amounts of metal or other hard materials in their leaves, nuts, or so forth. Some grow gemstones, although not many; bushes that deposit salt in their leaves are more common. In a setting without much metal, this can be invaluable to harvest and refine. Also, due to their {{Magitek}}, Primes can do quite a lot with certain types of nut.nut.
* HaveYouSeenMyGod: A downplayed example with Lenhirrik, the goddess of plant life. She's currently in the shape of a wooden Herethroy statue, completely unresponsive, and has been for thirty years. This isn't the first she's done so, but every previous occasion lasted a day or two at the most. There's currently a lot of worry and no hard information, and speculation ranges to her having fallen victim to another deity to just being in the middle of a god's equivalent of a nap.
* HeinousHyena: Cyarr, the setting's primary enemy species, are centauroid hyenas. They're noble, civilized and highly moral in their own societies, but they're also obsessed with waging constant war against the primes and eventually eradicating an entire prime species to take their place.
* HaveYouSeenMyGod: A downplayed example with Lenhirrik, the goddess of plant life. She's currently in the shape of a wooden Herethroy statue, completely unresponsive, and has been for thirty years. This isn't the first she's done so, but every previous occasion lasted a day or two at the most. There's currently a lot of worry and no hard information, and speculation ranges to her having fallen victim to another deity to just being in the middle of a god's equivalent of a nap.
* HeinousHyena: Cyarr, the setting's primary enemy species, are centauroid hyenas. They're noble, civilized and highly moral in their own societies, but they're also obsessed with waging constant war against the primes and eventually eradicating an entire prime species to take their place.
* LazyDragon: Merklundum Harnispundum, a god who favors draconic form, is the most inactive deity in the World Tree, and spends the vast majority of his time sleeping in a cave somewhere in the World Tree's distant reaches.
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* MagicPoints: Justified as part of the world's physics. Primes get distinct units of "cley" (perceived magically as keys), and spells usually cost one unit, with more contributing more power if the caster is able to shove them in / if a spontaneous spell happens to use them. On the flipside, you can try to cheat, getting a weak spellcast without actually using a cley - but you need (and risk) one cley to make the attempt.
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* MagicPoints: Justified as part of the world's physics. Primes get distinct units of "cley" (perceived magically as keys), and spells usually cost one unit, with more contributing more power if the caster is able to shove them in / if a spontaneous spell happens to use them. On the flipside, you can try to cheat, getting a weak spellcast without actually using a cley - -- but you need (and risk) one cley to make the attempt.attempt.
* TheMagnificent: When two Gormoror are called the same, they keep themselves distinct by attaching a moniker after their names. This is generally either a physical descriptor or, by preference, something grandiose and bombastic.
* TheMagnificent: When two Gormoror are called the same, they keep themselves distinct by attaching a moniker after their names. This is generally either a physical descriptor or, by preference, something grandiose and bombastic.
* MushroomHouse: Dullogs are large, dome-like mushrooms that grow up to a few hundred feet around and forty high. Their insides are spongelike networks of interconnected chambers, which people -- usually non-primes, as most prime species have better options -- often use as living spaces. While windows can be cut into the outer cells to let in light, people living further in depend on the fact that dullog flesh glows orange when wet.
* NayTheist: True atheists are very rare in the World Tree -- it's a difficult view to hold when the seven creator gods are visible in the sky at all times and there are multiple reliable historic records of the thirteen lesser ones interacting with civilization throughout history. Instead, atheists tend to take the view that, real as they may be, the gods aren't inherently better or more "divine", whatever that may mean, than anything or anyone else -- they're just bigger and more powerful. The sourcebook notes this to be a defensible position.
* NayTheist: True atheists are very rare in the World Tree -- it's a difficult view to hold when the seven creator gods are visible in the sky at all times and there are multiple reliable historic records of the thirteen lesser ones interacting with civilization throughout history. Instead, atheists tend to take the view that, real as they may be, the gods aren't inherently better or more "divine", whatever that may mean, than anything or anyone else -- they're just bigger and more powerful. The sourcebook notes this to be a defensible position.
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* NotCompletelyUseless: Sythyry regularly casts "The Raven's Beak," which does practically nothing, but gives experience in every magical element.
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* NotCompletelyUseless: Sythyry regularly casts "The Raven's Beak," which does practically nothing, nothing but gives experience in every magical element.element.
* OurCentaursAreDifferent: The cyarr are a form of hyena-centaurs, with the lower body of a giant hyena and the torso, head and arms of a humanoid one.
* OurDragonsAreDifferent:
** Zi Ri are a species of small, hermaphroditic dragons who are often very different, even from each other -- Zi Ri are very physically varied, and can range from regular if miniature Western dragons to bird-winged and/or -beaked versions of the same to reptilian birds. Some even look like tiny griffins or lizards, although deliberate self-mutation is probably at play there.
** Merklundum Harnispundum, the god of water, typically appears as a dragon made out of woven brambles.
* OurCentaursAreDifferent: The cyarr are a form of hyena-centaurs, with the lower body of a giant hyena and the torso, head and arms of a humanoid one.
* OurDragonsAreDifferent:
** Zi Ri are a species of small, hermaphroditic dragons who are often very different, even from each other -- Zi Ri are very physically varied, and can range from regular if miniature Western dragons to bird-winged and/or -beaked versions of the same to reptilian birds. Some even look like tiny griffins or lizards, although deliberate self-mutation is probably at play there.
** Merklundum Harnispundum, the god of water, typically appears as a dragon made out of woven brambles.
* OurSphinxesAreDifferent: Kaimiri, the god of time, is said to resemble a great sphinx locked in a state of sleep-like mediation, endlessly contemplating mysteries known only to itself.
* PaintingTheFrostOnWindows: The World Tree's natural systems are anything but natural, and to ensure that they'll keep working the gods created vast numbers of elementals to oversee them. Between the universe's weird shape and weirder physics, for example, habitable weather wouldn't naturally arise on it. The reason it does anyway is due to the endless armies of the air elementals, who constantly work to push clouds around, squeeze them for rain, make the winds blow, keep the air clear, arrange the seasons and the like.
* PaintingTheFrostOnWindows: The World Tree's natural systems are anything but natural, and to ensure that they'll keep working the gods created vast numbers of elementals to oversee them. Between the universe's weird shape and weirder physics, for example, habitable weather wouldn't naturally arise on it. The reason it does anyway is due to the endless armies of the air elementals, who constantly work to push clouds around, squeeze them for rain, make the winds blow, keep the air clear, arrange the seasons and the like.
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* ScrewDestiny: The cyarr (hyena-taur) race of non-primes believes it can achieve prime status and become one of the gods' favorite races, if only they exterminate one of the existing prime species.
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* ProudWarriorRace:
** The Gormoror are in many ways a parodic exaggeration of this. They mostly live in small tribes on the edges of civilization, and they're obsessed with a Bronze Age sense of honor focused mostly on fighting grand battles and performing mighty deeds. They occupy most of their time with living out their personal heroic legends, generally by challenging one another to dramatic duels, fighting monsters or rival tribes, swearing and keeping honor-oaths, or raiding and sacking other species' settlements for treasure and the glory of killing a few farmers, stealing their stuff and hightailing it before the army arrives.
** The Cyarr are highly militaristic, expansionistic and devoted to their personal ideals of honor. They're in a state of constant war, either hot or cold, with the primes, for the sake of honor, revenge for past slights, and territory, and are ruled by warrior-nobilities who hold themselves to incredibly strict moral standards. This lifestyle presents something of an issue for them, however, as they have no access to healing or metal-shaping magic, which gives them serious disadvantages in protracted battles and campaigns -- the associated gods plain don't like them and deny these gifts to the Cyarr.
* RatMen: Scawn are a non-prime species resembling humanoid rats about four feet tall. Because each Scawn can alter its shape once or twice in its life, and these changes usually breed true, many tribes and bands sport various additions to the basic bodyplan -- they may be rat people with stinger tails, or with wings, or with horns, or so forth. Insofar as other species are concerned, they're mostly minor annoyances, petty thieves and would-be brigands. They have a peculiar obsession with the feline Sleeth, believing that they will reincarnate as a Sleeth if they're killed by or if they themselves kill one. Both beliefs are false, and greatly irritate the Sleeth.
* {{Reincarnation}}: All mortals reincarnate after death, although all memories are removed between lives. The Gornazzits, a non-prime species resembling furry slugs, are an exception to this -- they remember all their past lives, and some can clearly recall the time before primes existed.
* ScrewDestiny: The cyarr(hyena-taur) (hyena-centaur) race of non-primes believes it can achieve prime status and become one of the gods' favorite races, if only they exterminate one of the existing prime species.species.
* SexyDimorphism: Gormoror are the most sexually dimorphic Prime species. Their men are, for all intents and purposes, bipedal bears with opposable thumbs; their women are much more anthropomorphic, with flatter faces and breasts.
** The Gormoror are in many ways a parodic exaggeration of this. They mostly live in small tribes on the edges of civilization, and they're obsessed with a Bronze Age sense of honor focused mostly on fighting grand battles and performing mighty deeds. They occupy most of their time with living out their personal heroic legends, generally by challenging one another to dramatic duels, fighting monsters or rival tribes, swearing and keeping honor-oaths, or raiding and sacking other species' settlements for treasure and the glory of killing a few farmers, stealing their stuff and hightailing it before the army arrives.
** The Cyarr are highly militaristic, expansionistic and devoted to their personal ideals of honor. They're in a state of constant war, either hot or cold, with the primes, for the sake of honor, revenge for past slights, and territory, and are ruled by warrior-nobilities who hold themselves to incredibly strict moral standards. This lifestyle presents something of an issue for them, however, as they have no access to healing or metal-shaping magic, which gives them serious disadvantages in protracted battles and campaigns -- the associated gods plain don't like them and deny these gifts to the Cyarr.
* RatMen: Scawn are a non-prime species resembling humanoid rats about four feet tall. Because each Scawn can alter its shape once or twice in its life, and these changes usually breed true, many tribes and bands sport various additions to the basic bodyplan -- they may be rat people with stinger tails, or with wings, or with horns, or so forth. Insofar as other species are concerned, they're mostly minor annoyances, petty thieves and would-be brigands. They have a peculiar obsession with the feline Sleeth, believing that they will reincarnate as a Sleeth if they're killed by or if they themselves kill one. Both beliefs are false, and greatly irritate the Sleeth.
* {{Reincarnation}}: All mortals reincarnate after death, although all memories are removed between lives. The Gornazzits, a non-prime species resembling furry slugs, are an exception to this -- they remember all their past lives, and some can clearly recall the time before primes existed.
* ScrewDestiny: The cyarr
* SexyDimorphism: Gormoror are the most sexually dimorphic Prime species. Their men are, for all intents and purposes, bipedal bears with opposable thumbs; their women are much more anthropomorphic, with flatter faces and breasts.
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* ShoulderSizedDragon: The Zi Ri resembles dragons not much larger than a hawk.
* StrangeSyntaxSpeaker: Sleeth always speak in the present tense, even when discussing events firmly in the past or future, and use "the" instead of "a".
* TalkingAnimal: While most primes are either anthropomorphic or fully fantasy creatures, the Sleeth are simply panthers that can talk.
* ThoseMagnificentFlyingMachines: Travel between branches of the World Tree by necessity involves crossing enormous gulfs of empty air for anyone who doesn't fancy the long trip around through the trunk, and skyborne vessels are consequently common and, as they're explicitly magical in nature, very elaborate. Airborne ships, chariots pulled by birds and giant kites are among the more common of these contraptions.
* StrangeSyntaxSpeaker: Sleeth always speak in the present tense, even when discussing events firmly in the past or future, and use "the" instead of "a".
* TalkingAnimal: While most primes are either anthropomorphic or fully fantasy creatures, the Sleeth are simply panthers that can talk.
* ThoseMagnificentFlyingMachines: Travel between branches of the World Tree by necessity involves crossing enormous gulfs of empty air for anyone who doesn't fancy the long trip around through the trunk, and skyborne vessels are consequently common and, as they're explicitly magical in nature, very elaborate. Airborne ships, chariots pulled by birds and giant kites are among the more common of these contraptions.
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* WickedCultured: Nendrai, large reptilian monsters greatly feared by primes, thoroughly enjoy the benefits of civilization and surround themselves with the best creature comforts that they can. Their floors are covered by fine rugs, their libraries hold all the classics, and their cellars are stocked with rare vintages. They're personable and educated as well, and can be engaged in perfectly pleasant conversation, as long as they can convince the Nendrai that it wants a chat more than it wants lunch or a new slave.
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* WoundThatWillNotHeal: Chursash -- bear-like venomous creatures -- have a rather nasty variant of this, in that five gashes open on each of their cheeks at adulthood and remain there, dripping blood, for the rest of their lives. This serves to render them constantly angry and aggressive, and thus a constant challenge for primes to deal with. Their one saving grace in this is that, being simple animals, they're not intelligent enough to truly bemoan their fate.
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* FateWorseThanDeath: "Doorwaying", letting a non-prime into a city, gets you ''multiple'' executions. With an equal number of resurrections if it was an angel sent by the gods, or otherwise did no real harm. Healing magic is cheap enough in general that corporal punishment is not seen as a great thing - and getting killed and resurrected is just an extreme form of such punishment.
* ForceField: Via magic using multiple methods. Perhaps the most interesting is literally creating [[AlienGeometries extra space]] between yourself and the incoming attack
* ForceField: Via magic using multiple methods. Perhaps the most interesting is literally creating [[AlienGeometries extra space]] between yourself and the incoming attack
* ForceField: Via magic using multiple methods. Perhaps the most interesting is literally creating [[AlienGeometries extra space]] between yourself and the incoming attack
* FleetingPassionateHobbies: The Orren have this as one of their [[PlanetOfHats hats]]. They are stereotypically described as having many interests that they flit between and learning new skills easily, the latter of which is represented in the rules with a chance to gain extra skill levels.
* FleetingPassionateHobbies: The Orren have this as one of their [[PlanetOfHats hats]]. They are stereotypically described as having many interests that they flit between and learning new skills easily, the latter of which is represented in the rules with a chance to gain extra skill levels.
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* HitPoints: Though the units are different than those in the game rules, primes have discovered there really are distinct health units that lead to death when depleted, and that practicing having your spirit hang onto an injured body raises your injury tolerance. Adventurers have volunteered for scientific "titration" (''i.e.'', "death by a thousand cuts") to get this practice. These units aren't exactly quantal - that's a gameplay abstraction -- but it's still quite measurable how well a spirit can hold onto a damaged body.
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* HitPoints: Though the units are different than those in the game rules, primes have discovered there really are distinct health units that lead to death when depleted, and that practicing having your spirit hang onto an injured body raises your injury tolerance. Adventurers have volunteered for scientific "titration" (''i.e.'', "death by a thousand cuts") to get this practice. These units aren't exactly quantal - -- that's a gameplay abstraction -- but it's still quite measurable how well a spirit can hold onto a damaged body.body.
* IntelligentGerbil: The Sleeth, for all intents and purposes, are panthers that can talk and do magic.
* IntelligentGerbil: The Sleeth, for all intents and purposes, are panthers that can talk and do magic.
* LongerThanLifeSentence: "Doorwaying", letting a non-prime into a city, gets you ''multiple'' executions. With an equal number of resurrections if it was an angel sent by the gods, or otherwise did no real harm. Healing magic is cheap enough in general that corporal punishment is not seen as a great thing -- and getting killed and resurrected is just an extreme form of such punishment.
* PhysicalGod: Many of the world's creator gods appear in physical form on the titular World Tree with some regularity. Some of them blatantly reveal their identity and openly display their omnipotence (indeed, some of them lead guilds and other organisations, and one of them in particular, Birkozon, the god of telepathy and mental magic, rules an entire realm on the Tree). Yet others prefer to stay hidden, walk in disguise, or not get physically involved much with the world they created at all.
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* ShapeShifting: Orren naturally shift between anthropomorphic and small, feral otter forms, and can adjust transformation spells cast on them. The spell "Cloak Of Another God" turns one prime temporarily into another and is moderately easy.
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* {{Xenofiction}}: The game is superficially about {{Funny Animal}}s, but each of the Prime races has its own specific instincts, drives and feelings that make them distinct from humans and strongly impact how their societies, or lack thereof, work, even ignoring their magic and other powers.
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* TheDarkArts:
** Mind magic is treated as this in the eyes of Prime civilization. This is due to the generally intrusive or controlling applications it's put to; there are legitimate uses, but even then it's considered suspicious, and "mind mage" has the same ring as "necromancer" in other settings. The negative reputation is played up more in some in-character journals than in the sourcebook; in the book, merely being good at mind-magic generally won't get you shunned, so long as you don't use it (in however benign a manner) on anyone but yourself. Given that Birkozon's stated ambition is total, if indirect, control over the Tree, anyone who meddles in mind-magic (Birkozon's domain) may be thought some degree of stupid, but so long as you keep it to yourself, everyday people have better things to worry about than your personal damnation. (Though there ''are'' those - in the Healers' Guild and knightly orders - who are more vehement about it.)
** Necromancy does exist on the World Tree, but is at most viewed as "Rude" rather than "Evil" by those not related to the animated. Family? They might sue you... or worse. Compounded by a spell that creates a dead copy of a subject.
** Mind magic is treated as this in the eyes of Prime civilization. This is due to the generally intrusive or controlling applications it's put to; there are legitimate uses, but even then it's considered suspicious, and "mind mage" has the same ring as "necromancer" in other settings. The negative reputation is played up more in some in-character journals than in the sourcebook; in the book, merely being good at mind-magic generally won't get you shunned, so long as you don't use it (in however benign a manner) on anyone but yourself. Given that Birkozon's stated ambition is total, if indirect, control over the Tree, anyone who meddles in mind-magic (Birkozon's domain) may be thought some degree of stupid, but so long as you keep it to yourself, everyday people have better things to worry about than your personal damnation. (Though there ''are'' those - in the Healers' Guild and knightly orders - who are more vehement about it.)
** Necromancy does exist on the World Tree, but is at most viewed as "Rude" rather than "Evil" by those not related to the animated. Family? They might sue you... or worse. Compounded by a spell that creates a dead copy of a subject.
* NotCompletelyUseless: Sythyry regularly casts "The Raven's Beak," which does practically nothing, but gives experience in every magical element.
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* TheDarkArts:
** Mind magic is treated as this in the eyes of Prime civilization. This is due to the generally intrusive or controlling applications it's put to; there are legitimate uses, but even then it's considered suspicious, and "mind mage" has the same ring as "necromancer" in other settings. The negative reputation is played up more in some in-character journals than in the sourcebook; in the book, merely being good at mind-magic generally won't get you shunned, so long as you don't use it (in however benign a manner) on anyone but yourself. Given that Birkozon's stated ambition is total, if indirect, control over the Tree, anyone who meddles in mind-magic (Birkozon's domain) may be thought some degree of stupid, but so long as you keep it to yourself, everyday people have better things to worry about than your personal damnation. (Though there ''are'' those - in the Healers' Guild and knightly orders - who are more vehement about it.)
** Necromancy does exist on the World Tree, but is at most viewed as "Rude" rather than "Evil" by those not related to the animated. Family? They might sue you... or worse. Compounded by a spell that creates a dead copy of a subject.
** Mind magic is treated as this in the eyes of Prime civilization. This is due to the generally intrusive or controlling applications it's put to; there are legitimate uses, but even then it's considered suspicious, and "mind mage" has the same ring as "necromancer" in other settings. The negative reputation is played up more in some in-character journals than in the sourcebook; in the book, merely being good at mind-magic generally won't get you shunned, so long as you don't use it (in however benign a manner) on anyone but yourself. Given that Birkozon's stated ambition is total, if indirect, control over the Tree, anyone who meddles in mind-magic (Birkozon's domain) may be thought some degree of stupid, but so long as you keep it to yourself, everyday people have better things to worry about than your personal damnation. (Though there ''are'' those - in the Healers' Guild and knightly orders - who are more vehement about it.)
** Necromancy does exist on the World Tree, but is at most viewed as "Rude" rather than "Evil" by those not related to the animated. Family? They might sue you... or worse. Compounded by a spell that creates a dead copy of a subject.
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* UsefulUselessSpell: Sythyry regularly casts "The Raven's Beak," which does practically nothing, but gives experience in every magical element.
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* AboveGoodAndEvil: Several Zi Ri are not only immortal, high-powered sorcerers, but have been around since roughly the beginning of the universe, and may adopt this attitude. The sourcebook comments that this is "probably a bad thing".
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* AboveGoodAndEvil: Several Zi Ri are not only immortal, high-powered sorcerers, but have been around since roughly the beginning of the universe, universe and may adopt this attitude. The sourcebook comments that this is "probably a bad thing".
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* AlienSky: Compared to the terrestrial sky, certainly: multiple moons that move somewhat erratically, the sun is a rolling crystal orb which ignites at dawn and is extinguished at dusk, stellar objects that wind about and fence each other, or move stars around, and the seven creator gods looking down on the tree. And all of it but the stars are visible during the day.
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* AlienSky: Compared to the terrestrial sky, certainly: multiple moons that move somewhat erratically, the sun is a rolling crystal orb which ignites at dawn and is extinguished at dusk, stellar objects that wind about and fence each other, other or move stars around, and the seven creator gods looking down on the tree. And all of it but the stars are visible during the day.
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* BenevolentArchitecture: The gods designed the world for habitability for their favored races, and filled it with inhabitable land and other resources for the primes.
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* BenevolentArchitecture: In theory. The gods designed the world for habitability for their favored races, and filled it with inhabitable land and other resources for the primes.primes. In practice, they also ended up filling it with monsters and natural hazards both for the hell of it and as a result of various design flaws.
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** Mileage Varies within the species: if they behave like one of the two genders that combines within them, they're tolerated (if they aren't killed as eggs), if they act like the other, they're hated.
* GodIsInept: Any number of questionable design foibles were put into the world by the gods. The Khtsoyis origin story, the origin of the seasons (in particular, the season of "Surprise"), and so on.
** The gods in concert would be omnipotent, but have never cooperated that much since the world was first made, if then; any of the gods can find the answer to any question it wishes, but they don't always know what questions need to be asked.
* GodIsInept: Any number of questionable design foibles were put into the world by the gods. The Khtsoyis origin story, the origin of the seasons (in particular, the season of "Surprise"), and so on.
** The gods in concert would be omnipotent, but have never cooperated that much since the world was first made, if then; any of the gods can find the answer to any question it wishes, but they don't always know what questions need to be asked.
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* HitPoints: Though the units are different than those in the game rules, primes have discovered there really are distinct health units that lead to death when depleted, and that practicing having your spirit hang onto an injured body raises your injury tolerance. Adventurers have volunteered for scientific "titration" (''i.e.'', "death by a thousand cuts") to get this practice. These units aren't exactly quantal - that's a gameplay abstraction - but it's still quite measurable how well a spirit can hold onto a damaged body.
* JerkAssGods: It appears the universe was created as a form of entertainment for the gods and their various otherwordly friends. So the constant misfortune heaped upon the Primes is purely because the gods find it amusing to watch them deal with it.
* JerkAssGods: It appears the universe was created as a form of entertainment for the gods and their various otherwordly friends. So the constant misfortune heaped upon the Primes is purely because the gods find it amusing to watch them deal with it.
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* HitPoints: Though the units are different than those in the game rules, primes have discovered there really are distinct health units that lead to death when depleted, and that practicing having your spirit hang onto an injured body raises your injury tolerance. Adventurers have volunteered for scientific "titration" (''i.e.'', "death by a thousand cuts") to get this practice. These units aren't exactly quantal - that's a gameplay abstraction - -- but it's still quite measurable how well a spirit can hold onto a damaged body.
*JerkAssGods: JerkassGods: It appears the universe was created as a form of entertainment for the gods and their various otherwordly friends. So Consequently, the constant misfortune heaped upon the Primes is purely because the gods find it amusing to watch them deal with it.
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** This is played up more in some in-character journals than is really stressed in the sourcebook. Mind spells may be hard to acquire, but the ones that only affect you are generally not held as evil in the sourcebook. Unwise, perhaps, but not evil in themselves.
* LostTechnology: Much of society was wiped out during The Holocaust Wars, which means that ancient artifacts are frequently found by adventurers. However, the trope is notably subverted in that magic theory has advanced significantly over time. So while the artifacts may be valuable for their historical significance, their effects tend to be crude and trivial by modern standards. The sourcebook mentions a famous enchanted weapon that would be considered a homework assignment for second year students at most academies. Holocaust War artifacts may be especially potent because nobody would dare make such destructive things anymore, but probably not because they're beyond the reach of modern enchanters to make. On the other hand, the gods ''did'' get more personally involved in the old days; god-touched artifacts are ''much'' less common now (and were never exactly plentiful).
* LostTechnology: Much of society was wiped out during The Holocaust Wars, which means that ancient artifacts are frequently found by adventurers. However, the trope is notably subverted in that magic theory has advanced significantly over time. So while the artifacts may be valuable for their historical significance, their effects tend to be crude and trivial by modern standards. The sourcebook mentions a famous enchanted weapon that would be considered a homework assignment for second year students at most academies. Holocaust War artifacts may be especially potent because nobody would dare make such destructive things anymore, but probably not because they're beyond the reach of modern enchanters to make. On the other hand, the gods ''did'' get more personally involved in the old days; god-touched artifacts are ''much'' less common now (and were never exactly plentiful).
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* {{Magitek}}: Magic ''is'' the technology. Why use expensive glass to make a crude tool that imitates an off-the-shelf microscopic-vision spell?
** Though there are some reasons to use such things, especially where information-gathering is concerned - information-spells are inherently unreliable. Sometimes you'll know they went wrong. Others, you won't - and that's when they're most likely to be ''horribly'' wrong.
** Though there are some reasons to use such things, especially where information-gathering is concerned - information-spells are inherently unreliable. Sometimes you'll know they went wrong. Others, you won't - and that's when they're most likely to be ''horribly'' wrong.
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* {{Magitek}}: Magic ''is'' the technology. Why use expensive glass to make a crude tool that imitates an off-the-shelf microscopic-vision spell?
**spell? Though there are some reasons to use such things, especially where information-gathering is concerned - -- information-spells are inherently unreliable. Sometimes you'll know they went wrong. Others, you won't - -- and that's when they're most likely to be ''horribly'' wrong.
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** Merklundum Harnipsum The Dog Who Killed A Fish (Water)'s only known miracle is to show up and scold a scholar who abbreviated zir full name, and that only happened once. And even ''that'' may be apocryphal. Zie is similarly resting, and advanced water magic (the sort which usually gets a god's direct, if brief, attention) tends to be underwhelming for this reason.
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** Merklundum Harnipsum The the Dog Who Killed A a Fish (Water)'s only known miracle is to show up and scold a scholar who abbreviated zir full name, and that only happened once. And even ''that'' may be apocryphal. Zie is similarly resting, and advanced water magic (the sort which usually gets a god's direct, if brief, attention) tends to be underwhelming for this reason.
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* OurGodsAreDifferent: The gods, referred to collectively as the seven-plus-twelve are divided into two categories:
** the seven verb gods, known as the creator gods, which each had a hand in the creation of the world itself and a prime species (or two), and each manage a magical Art related to how a things are affected; a Verb. Among them are creation, destruction, knowing, changing, sustaining, healing, and controlling. They generally sit in the sky and watch, rarely intervening in mortal affairs; two of them are known to visit on a frequent basis, but say and do nothing of consequence.
** the twelve noun gods, who live on the tree itself and manage an element, a magical Noun. These gods are much more active in the affairs of mortals. The twelve nouns are fire, water, air, stone/metal, plant matter, animal matter, time, space, mind, spirit, sensation, and magic itself.
** the seven verb gods, known as the creator gods, which each had a hand in the creation of the world itself and a prime species (or two), and each manage a magical Art related to how a things are affected; a Verb. Among them are creation, destruction, knowing, changing, sustaining, healing, and controlling. They generally sit in the sky and watch, rarely intervening in mortal affairs; two of them are known to visit on a frequent basis, but say and do nothing of consequence.
** the twelve noun gods, who live on the tree itself and manage an element, a magical Noun. These gods are much more active in the affairs of mortals. The twelve nouns are fire, water, air, stone/metal, plant matter, animal matter, time, space, mind, spirit, sensation, and magic itself.
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* OurGodsAreDifferent: The gods, referred to collectively as the seven-plus-twelve seven-plus-twelve, are divided into two categories:
**the The seven verb gods, known as the creator gods, which each had a hand in the creation of the world itself and a prime species (or two), and each manage a magical Art related to how a things are affected; a Verb. Among them are creation, destruction, knowing, changing, sustaining, healing, and controlling. They generally sit in the sky and watch, rarely intervening in mortal affairs; two of them are known to visit on a frequent basis, but say and do nothing of consequence.
**the The twelve noun gods, who live on the tree itself and manage an element, a magical Noun. These gods are much more active in the affairs of mortals. The twelve nouns are fire, water, air, stone/metal, plant matter, animal matter, time, space, mind, spirit, sensation, and magic itself.
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* TheDarkArts: Mind magic is treated as this in the eyes of Prime civilization. This is due to the generally intrusive or controlling applications it's put to; there are legitimate uses, but even then it's considered suspicious, and "mind mage" has the same ring as "necromancer" in other settings. The negative reputation is played up more in some in-character journals than in the sourcebook; in the book, merely being good at mind-magic generally won't get you shunned, so long as you don't use it (in however benign a manner) on anyone but yourself. Given that Birkozon's stated ambition is total, if indirect, control over the Tree, anyone who meddles in mind-magic (Birkozon's domain) may be thought some degree of stupid, but so long as you keep it to yourself, everyday people have better things to worry about than your personal damnation. (Though there ''are'' those - in the Healers' Guild and knightly orders - who are more vehement about it.)
** Necromancy does exist on the World Tree, but is at most viewed as "Rude" rather than "Evil" by those not related to the animated. Family? They might sue you...or worse. Compounded by a spell that creates a dead copy of a subject.
** Necromancy does exist on the World Tree, but is at most viewed as "Rude" rather than "Evil" by those not related to the animated. Family? They might sue you...or worse. Compounded by a spell that creates a dead copy of a subject.
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* TheDarkArts: TheDarkArts:
** Mind magic is treated as this in the eyes of Prime civilization. This is due to the generally intrusive or controlling applications it's put to; there are legitimate uses, but even then it's considered suspicious, and "mind mage" has the same ring as "necromancer" in other settings. The negative reputation is played up more in some in-character journals than in the sourcebook; in the book, merely being good at mind-magic generally won't get you shunned, so long as you don't use it (in however benign a manner) on anyone but yourself. Given that Birkozon's stated ambition is total, if indirect, control over the Tree, anyone who meddles in mind-magic (Birkozon's domain) may be thought some degree of stupid, but so long as you keep it to yourself, everyday people have better things to worry about than your personal damnation. (Though there ''are'' those - in the Healers' Guild and knightly orders - who are more vehement about it.)
** Necromancy does exist on the World Tree, but is at most viewed as "Rude" rather than "Evil" by those not related to the animated. Family? They might sue you... or worse. Compounded by a spell that creates a dead copy of a subject.
** Mind magic is treated as this in the eyes of Prime civilization. This is due to the generally intrusive or controlling applications it's put to; there are legitimate uses, but even then it's considered suspicious, and "mind mage" has the same ring as "necromancer" in other settings. The negative reputation is played up more in some in-character journals than in the sourcebook; in the book, merely being good at mind-magic generally won't get you shunned, so long as you don't use it (in however benign a manner) on anyone but yourself. Given that Birkozon's stated ambition is total, if indirect, control over the Tree, anyone who meddles in mind-magic (Birkozon's domain) may be thought some degree of stupid, but so long as you keep it to yourself, everyday people have better things to worry about than your personal damnation. (Though there ''are'' those - in the Healers' Guild and knightly orders - who are more vehement about it.)
** Necromancy does exist on the World Tree, but is at most viewed as "Rude" rather than "Evil" by those not related to the animated. Family? They might sue you... or worse. Compounded by a spell that creates a dead copy of a subject.
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* UselessUsefulSpell: There's a listing for the spell "Destroy the World," along with other mighty spells likely way above anyone's skill level.
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* UselessUsefulSpell: There's a listing for the spell "Destroy the World," World", along with other mighty spells likely way above anyone's skill level.
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* VillainBall: Used with some of the gods. We're told that Gnarn (Change) would have been Goddess of Destruction, but let her "brother" Accanax have the job.
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* WorldTree: Explicitly, with literal branches and leaves and amber.
* YinYangBomb: An interesting example, the spell The Infinite Grenade uses a combination of destructive, healing, and sustaining magics to repeatedly detonate the titular grenade.
* YinYangBomb: An interesting example, the spell The Infinite Grenade uses a combination of destructive, healing, and sustaining magics to repeatedly detonate the titular grenade.
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* WorldTree: Explicitly, with literal branches and leaves and amber.
amber. The setting consists chiefly of a civilization built on the topmost branches of its central trunk; the World Tree goes on much further beyond that, with additional trunks and layers of branches extending much further beyond that and potentially forever.
* YinYangBomb: An interesting example, the spellThe "The Infinite Grenade Grenade" uses a combination of destructive, healing, and sustaining magics to repeatedly detonate the titular grenade.
* YinYangBomb: An interesting example, the spell
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* TheDarkArts: Even knowing Mind magic is suspicious. Using it is frequently criminal in and of itself.
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* TheDarkArts: Even knowing Mind magic is suspicious. Using it is frequently criminal in and of itself.
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* ForbiddenKnowledge: Even knowing Mind magic is suspicious. Using it is frequently criminal in and of itself.
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World Tree is a tabletop role-playing game set on [[WorldTree a tree thousands of miles tall]], whose branches are fifty miles wide and hundreds of thousands long. Eight "prime" species build a civilization with extremely widespread magic under the visible influence of [[strike:nineteen]] seven-plus-twelve gods. Other intelligent races live in their shadow; the primes know that the world was created for the primes' benefit with the non-primes as part of the backdrop; some non-primes disagree. The world is very different from ours, from basic physics (no electromagnetism, no air pressure) to materials science (lots of wood, little metal; it's a tree), to cosmology (seven meddling gods visible in the night sky). The game focuses on adventurous primes who face monsters, intrigue and other parts of life on the Tree.
The prime races and the gods that created them include:
''Common''
The prime races and the gods that created them include:
''Common''
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''World Tree'' is a [[TabletopRPG tabletop role-playing
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!!''World Tree RPG'' provides examples of:
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* BlessedWithSuck:
** Parents of different prime species can have a child, using complex magic. The hybrid kid gains the intellectual and magical benefits of both races at all times, and must shift between the two...painfully and involuntarily every hour (they can resist, but that hurts more) using the physical benefits of the current species, and dies young of debilitating illness. Theoretically, said parents could use even more magic to ensure the child comes out looking like only one of them. However, that's another ritual spell, and given their preparation times most people probably don't have time for that.
** Parents of different prime species can have a child, using complex magic. The hybrid kid gains the intellectual and magical benefits of both races at all times, and must shift between the two...painfully and involuntarily every hour (they can resist, but that hurts more) using the physical benefits of the current species, and dies young of debilitating illness. Theoretically, said parents could use even more magic to ensure the child comes out looking like only one of them. However, that's another ritual spell, and given their preparation times most people probably don't have time for that.
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* BlessedWithSuck:
**BlessedWithSuck: Parents of different prime species can have a child, using complex magic. The hybrid kid gains the intellectual and magical benefits of both races at all times, and must shift between the two... painfully and involuntarily every hour (they can resist, but that hurts more) using the physical benefits of the current species, and dies young of debilitating illness. Theoretically, said parents could use even more magic to ensure the child comes out looking like only one of them. However, that's another ritual spell, and given their preparation times most people probably don't have time for that.
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** Parents of different prime species can have a child, using complex magic. The hybrid kid gains the intellectual and magical benefits of both races at all times, and must shift between the two...painfully and involuntarily every hour (they can resist, but that hurts more) using the physical benefits of the current species, and dies young of debilitating illness.
*** Theoretically, said parents could use even more magic to ensure the child comes out looking like only one of them. However; that's another ritual spell, and given their preparation times most people probably don't have time for that.
** Nendrai have incredible Change magic talent plus immortality, but are designed to crave gifts from primes, have emotions like love and friendship, have a cruel streak and limited control over their powers, and cry tears of jagged glass. Oh, and they're specifically denied the painless healing of the official Healing element. This all appears to be due to Gnarn, the god responsible for nendrai, carefully crafting them to be a very troublesome monster for the Primes.
*** Except for their lack of access to Healing magic, most of these are not actually canon; the (co-)author's in-character journal has dramatized some things to make for an easier-to-relate-to character. As written in the sourcebook, nendrai are ''terrifying,'' and their lack of healing magic just isn't enough when they can twist magic and space around themselves to make good their escape from a nasty situation. They take what they want from whom they want, prime or otherwise. Fortunately, some of them have enough enlightened self-interest to realize that even they couldn't survive drawing the attention of all the great heroes on a given stretch of the Tree, and are happy to trade their considerable (and free) magic for whatever it is they want but don't have yet.
*** Theoretically, said parents could use even more magic to ensure the child comes out looking like only one of them. However; that's another ritual spell, and given their preparation times most people probably don't have time for that.
** Nendrai have incredible Change magic talent plus immortality, but are designed to crave gifts from primes, have emotions like love and friendship, have a cruel streak and limited control over their powers, and cry tears of jagged glass. Oh, and they're specifically denied the painless healing of the official Healing element. This all appears to be due to Gnarn, the god responsible for nendrai, carefully crafting them to be a very troublesome monster for the Primes.
*** Except for their lack of access to Healing magic, most of these are not actually canon; the (co-)author's in-character journal has dramatized some things to make for an easier-to-relate-to character. As written in the sourcebook, nendrai are ''terrifying,'' and their lack of healing magic just isn't enough when they can twist magic and space around themselves to make good their escape from a nasty situation. They take what they want from whom they want, prime or otherwise. Fortunately, some of them have enough enlightened self-interest to realize that even they couldn't survive drawing the attention of all the great heroes on a given stretch of the Tree, and are happy to trade their considerable (and free) magic for whatever it is they want but don't have yet.
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** Parents of different prime species can have a child, using complex magic. The hybrid kid gains the intellectual and magical benefits of both races at all times, and must shift between the two...painfully and involuntarily every hour (they can resist, but that hurts more) using the physical benefits of the current species, and dies young of debilitating illness.
***illness. Theoretically, said parents could use even more magic to ensure the child comes out looking like only one of them. However; However, that's another ritual spell, and given their preparation times most people probably don't have time for that.
** Nendrai have incredible Change magic talent plus immortality, but are designed to crave gifts from primes, have emotions like love and friendship, have a cruel streak and limited control over their powers, and cry tears of jagged glass. Oh, and they're specifically denied the painless healing of the official Healing element. This all appears to be due to Gnarn, the god responsible for nendrai, carefully crafting them to be a very troublesome monster for the Primes.
*** Except for their lack of access to Healing magic, most of these are not actually canon; the (co-)author's in-character journal has dramatized some things to make for an easier-to-relate-to character. As written in the sourcebook, nendrai are ''terrifying,'' and their lack of healing magic just isn't enough when they can twist magic and space around themselves to make good their escape from a nasty situation. They take what they want from whom they want, prime or otherwise. Fortunately, some of them have enough enlightened self-interest to realize that even they couldn't survive drawing the attention of all the great heroes on a given stretch of the Tree, and are happy to trade their considerable (and free) magic for whatever it is they want but don't have yet.that.
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** Nendrai have incredible Change magic talent plus immortality, but are designed to crave gifts from primes, have emotions like love and friendship, have a cruel streak and limited control over their powers, and cry tears of jagged glass. Oh, and they're specifically denied the painless healing of the official Healing element. This all appears to be due to Gnarn, the god responsible for nendrai, carefully crafting them to be a very troublesome monster for the Primes.
*** Except for their lack of access to Healing magic, most of these are not actually canon; the (co-)author's in-character journal has dramatized some things to make for an easier-to-relate-to character. As written in the sourcebook, nendrai are ''terrifying,'' and their lack of healing magic just isn't enough when they can twist magic and space around themselves to make good their escape from a nasty situation. They take what they want from whom they want, prime or otherwise. Fortunately, some of them have enough enlightened self-interest to realize that even they couldn't survive drawing the attention of all the great heroes on a given stretch of the Tree, and are happy to trade their considerable (and free) magic for whatever it is they want but don't have yet.
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* BadPowersBadPeople: Subverted with Mind magic. There are legitimate reasons for studying that element, not involving MindRape, but anyone who's good at it is automatically suspect. See the entry below on TheDarkArts. Subverted with some monsters as well; some generally benign monsters have rather dire abilities.
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* BadPowersBadPeople: Subverted with Mind magic. There are legitimate reasons for studying that element, not involving MindRape, but anyone who's good at it is automatically suspect. See the entry below on TheDarkArts. Subverted with some monsters as well; some generally benign monsters have rather dire abilities.
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* BenevolentArchitecture: The gods filled the world with inhabitable land and other resources for the primes...
* MalevolentArchitecture: ...And put all the livable areas on branches whose edges, up to twenty-five miles away, are filled with custom-designed monsters.
* MalevolentArchitecture: ...And put all the livable areas on branches whose edges, up to twenty-five miles away, are filled with custom-designed monsters.
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* BenevolentArchitecture: The gods filled designed the world for habitability for their favored races, and filled it with inhabitable land and other resources for the primes...
* MalevolentArchitecture: ...And put all the livable areas on branches whose edges, up to twenty-five miles away, are filled with custom-designed monsters.primes.
* MalevolentArchitecture: ...And put all the livable areas on branches whose edges, up to twenty-five miles away, are filled with custom-designed monsters.
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* MalevolentArchitecture: When they made the Tree, the gods quite deliberately put all the livable areas on branches whose edges, up to twenty-five miles away, are filled with powerful, custom-designed monsters.
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World Tree is a tabletop role-playing game set on [[WorldTree a tree thousands of miles tall]], whose branches are fifty miles wide and hundreds of thousands long. Eight "prime" species build a civilization with extremely widespread magic under the visible influence of [[strike:nineteen]] seven-plus-twelve gods. Other intelligent races live in their shadow; the primes know that the world was created for the primes' benefit with themselves as a backdrop; some non-primes disagree. The world is very different from ours, from basic physics (no electromagnetism, no air pressure) to materials science (lots of wood, little metal; it's a tree), to cosmology (seven meddling gods visible in the night sky). The game focuses on adventurous primes who face monsters, intrigue and other parts of life on the Tree.
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World Tree is a tabletop role-playing game set on [[WorldTree a tree thousands of miles tall]], whose branches are fifty miles wide and hundreds of thousands long. Eight "prime" species build a civilization with extremely widespread magic under the visible influence of [[strike:nineteen]] seven-plus-twelve gods. Other intelligent races live in their shadow; the primes know that the world was created for the primes' benefit with themselves the non-primes as a part of the backdrop; some non-primes disagree. The world is very different from ours, from basic physics (no electromagnetism, no air pressure) to materials science (lots of wood, little metal; it's a tree), to cosmology (seven meddling gods visible in the night sky). The game focuses on adventurous primes who face monsters, intrigue and other parts of life on the Tree.
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* CthulhuMythos: Likely inspired the god "Here", if it's not [[AlienGeometries immediately evident]]. He's implied to be related to (or [[AFormYouAreComfortableWith actually be]]) Yog-Sothoth.
** Almost certain, given that it's highly recommended, rather than throwing in offworld horrors, to describe "Here"'s progeny in "crawling Lovecraftian terms" (and then top it all off by calling them "angels" since they do a god's bidding).
** Almost certain, given that it's highly recommended, rather than throwing in offworld horrors, to describe "Here"'s progeny in "crawling Lovecraftian terms" (and then top it all off by calling them "angels" since they do a god's bidding).
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The rules are largely skill-based, with most of what characters can do being summed up in their skills, together with ten stats and a point-buy attributes system. Magic is handled using an Arts system (similar to ArsMagica), with all magic made up of Nouns and Verbs combined in various ways. As the classic example, a fireball would use "create" and "fire".
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The rules are largely skill-based, with most of what characters can do being summed up in their skills, together with ten stats and a point-buy attributes system. Magic is handled using an Arts system (similar to ArsMagica), ''TabletopGame/ArsMagica''), with all magic made up of Nouns and Verbs combined in various ways. As the classic example, a fireball would use "create" and "fire".
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* OurGodsAreGreater: The gods, referred to collectively as the seven-plus-twelve are devided into two catagories:
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* OurGodsAreGreater: OurGodsAreDifferent: The gods, referred to collectively as the seven-plus-twelve are devided divided into two catagories: categories:
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* GrowsOnTrees: Played with; while the grand examples are absent, there are plants that grow small amounts of metal or other hard materials in their leaves, nuts, or so forth. In a setting without much metal, this can be invaluable to harvest and refine. Also, due to their MagiTech, Primes can do quite a lot with certain types of nut.
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* GrowsOnTrees: Played with; while the grand examples are absent, there are plants that grow small amounts of metal or other hard materials in their leaves, nuts, or so forth. In a setting without much metal, this can be invaluable to harvest and refine. Also, due to their MagiTech, {{Magitek}}, Primes can do quite a lot with certain types of nut.
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** Necromancy does exist on the World Tree, but is at most viewed as "Rude" rather than "Evil" by those not related to the animated. Family? They might sue you...or worse. Compounded by a spell that creates a dead copy of a subject.
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** Parents of different prime species can have a child, using complex magic. The hybrid kid gains the physical benifits of both races, and can shift between the two...painfully and involuntarily every hour, and dies young of debilitating illness.
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** Parents of different prime species can have a child, using complex magic. The hybrid kid gains the physical benifits intellectual and magical benefits of both races, races at all times, and can must shift between the two...painfully and involuntarily every hour, hour (they can resist, but that hurts more) using the physical benefits of the current species, and dies young of debilitating illness.illness.
*** Theoretically, said parents could use even more magic to ensure the child comes out looking like only one of them. However; that's another ritual spell, and given their preparation times most people probably don't have time for that.
*** Theoretically, said parents could use even more magic to ensure the child comes out looking like only one of them. However; that's another ritual spell, and given their preparation times most people probably don't have time for that.
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* Magitech: Magic ''is'' the technology. Why use expensive glass to make a crude tool that imitates an off-the-shelf microscopic-vision spell?
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* Magitech: {{Magitek}}: Magic ''is'' the technology. Why use expensive glass to make a crude tool that imitates an off-the-shelf microscopic-vision spell?
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* MundaneMagic: Most primes know spells with little adventuring use, for tasks like creating water or cleaning dishes. An in-book example shows an ordinary woman fretting over whether to study an obscure magic art to learn a better dish-washing spell, versus getting (expensive) clay dishes which the more common spell won't destroy like it would wooden ones.
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* MundaneMagic: MundaneUtility: Most primes know spells with little adventuring use, for tasks like creating water or cleaning dishes. An in-book example shows an ordinary woman fretting over whether to study an obscure magic art to learn a better dish-washing spell, versus getting (expensive) clay dishes which the more common spell won't destroy like it would wooden ones.
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* Shapeshifting: Orren naturally shift between anthropomorphic and small, feral otter forms, and can adjust transformation spells cast on them. The spell "Cloak Of Another God" turns one prime temporarily into another and is moderately easy.
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* Shapeshifting: ShapeShifting: Orren naturally shift between anthropomorphic and small, feral otter forms, and can adjust transformation spells cast on them. The spell "Cloak Of Another God" turns one prime temporarily into another and is moderately easy.
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* CthulhuMythos: Likely inspired the god "Here", if it's not [[AlienGeometries immediately evident]]. He's implied to be related to (or actually be) Yog-Sothoth.
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* CthulhuMythos: Likely inspired the god "Here", if it's not [[AlienGeometries immediately evident]]. He's implied to be related to (or [[AFormYouAreComfortableWith actually be) be]]) Yog-Sothoth.
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* HitPoints: Though the units are different than those in the game rules, primes have discovered there really are distinct health units that lead to death when depleted, and that practicing having your spirit hang onto an injured body raises your injury tolerance. Adventurers have volunteered for scientific "titration" (ie. "death by a thousand cuts") to get this practice. These units aren't exactly quantal - that's a gameplay abstraction - but it's still quite measurable how well a spirit can hold onto a damaged body.
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* HitPoints: Though the units are different than those in the game rules, primes have discovered there really are distinct health units that lead to death when depleted, and that practicing having your spirit hang onto an injured body raises your injury tolerance. Adventurers have volunteered for scientific "titration" (ie. (''i.e.'', "death by a thousand cuts") to get this practice. These units aren't exactly quantal - that's a gameplay abstraction - but it's still quite measurable how well a spirit can hold onto a damaged body.
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** Kaimiri, God of Time, has been sleeping since the world's creation, but left his servants with very detailed instructions as to every occasion; time gods can do that.
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** Kaimiri, God of Time, has been sleeping since the world's creation, but left his servants with very detailed instructions as to for every occasion; time gods can do that.
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* CthulhuMythos: Likely inspired the god "Here", if it's not [[AlienGeometries immediately evident]].
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* CthulhuMythos: Likely inspired the god "Here", if it's not [[AlienGeometries immediately evident]]. He's implied to be related to (or actually be) Yog-Sothoth.
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** This is played up more in some in-character journals than is really stressed in the sourcebook. Mind spells may be hard to acquire, but the ones that only affect yourself are generally not held as evil in the sourcebook. Unwise, perhaps, but not evil in themselves.
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** This is played up more in some in-character journals than is really stressed in the sourcebook. Mind spells may be hard to acquire, but the ones that only affect yourself you are generally not held as evil in the sourcebook. Unwise, perhaps, but not evil in themselves.
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* CosmicHorror: "Here," god of Space, appears as a skeletal Herethroy carapace with shifting holes revealing unspeakable things. Elementals of position can be all the more terrifying for not having even ''that'' much personhood in their structure, UncannyValley notwithstanding. Creatures from outside the universe sometimes break in, like a miles-long killer slug.
* CthulhuMythos: Likely inspired the god "Here", if it's not [[AlienGeometries immediately]] [[CosmicHorror evident]].
* CthulhuMythos: Likely inspired the god "Here", if it's not [[AlienGeometries immediately]] [[CosmicHorror evident]].
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* CosmicHorror: CosmicHorrorStory: "Here," god of Space, appears as a skeletal Herethroy carapace with shifting holes revealing unspeakable things. Elementals of position can be all the more terrifying for not having even ''that'' much personhood in their structure, UncannyValley notwithstanding. Creatures from outside the universe sometimes break in, like a miles-long killer slug.
* CthulhuMythos: Likely inspired the god "Here", if it's not [[AlienGeometriesimmediately]] [[CosmicHorror immediately evident]].
* CthulhuMythos: Likely inspired the god "Here", if it's not [[AlienGeometries
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World Tree is a tabletop role-playing game set on [[WorldTree a tree thousands of miles tall]], who's branches are fifty miles wide and hundreds of thousands long. Eight "prime" species build a civilization with extremely widespread magic under the visible influence of [[strike:nineteen]] seven-plus-twelve gods. Other intelligent races live in their shadow; the primes know that the world was created for the primes' benefit with themselves as a backdrop; some non-primes disagree. The world is very different from ours, from basic physics (no electromagnetism, no air pressure) to materials science (lots of wood, little metal; it's a tree), to cosmology (seven meddling gods visible in the night sky). The game focuses on adventurous primes who face monsters, intrigue and other parts of life on the Tree.
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World Tree is a tabletop role-playing game set on [[WorldTree a tree thousands of miles tall]], who's whose branches are fifty miles wide and hundreds of thousands long. Eight "prime" species build a civilization with extremely widespread magic under the visible influence of [[strike:nineteen]] seven-plus-twelve gods. Other intelligent races live in their shadow; the primes know that the world was created for the primes' benefit with themselves as a backdrop; some non-primes disagree. The world is very different from ours, from basic physics (no electromagnetism, no air pressure) to materials science (lots of wood, little metal; it's a tree), to cosmology (seven meddling gods visible in the night sky). The game focuses on adventurous primes who face monsters, intrigue and other parts of life on the Tree.
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* TheDarkArts: Mind magic is treated as this in the eyes of Prime civilization. This is due to the generally intrusive or controlling applications it's put to; there are legitimate uses, but even then it's considered suspicious, and "mind mage" has the same ring as "necromancer" in other settings.
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* TheDarkArts: Mind magic is treated as this in the eyes of Prime civilization. This is due to the generally intrusive or controlling applications it's put to; there are legitimate uses, but even then it's considered suspicious, and "mind mage" has the same ring as "necromancer" in other settings. The negative reputation is played up more in some in-character journals than in the sourcebook; in the book, merely being good at mind-magic generally won't get you shunned, so long as you don't use it (in however benign a manner) on anyone but yourself. Given that Birkozon's stated ambition is total, if indirect, control over the Tree, anyone who meddles in mind-magic (Birkozon's domain) may be thought some degree of stupid, but so long as you keep it to yourself, everyday people have better things to worry about than your personal damnation. (Though there ''are'' those - in the Healers' Guild and knightly orders - who are more vehement about it.)
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* WeatherDissonance: Built right in; a one-month-long season known as [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Surprise]] involves all nature of interesting and odd weather, in addition to typically being very hot or very cold for the entire month. The rest of the time the air elementals in charge of weather behave...more or less.
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* WeatherDissonance: Built right in; a one-month-long season known as [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Surprise]] involves all nature of interesting and odd weather, in addition to typically being very hot or very cold for the entire month. The rest of the time the air elementals in charge of weather behave... more or less.less, and getting a universe like the World Tree to have mostly temperate, liveable weather means those elementals are doing a great deal of work indeed.
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*** Except for their lack of access to Healing magic, most of these are not actually canon; the (co-)author's in-character journal has dramatized some things to make for an easier-to-relate-to character. As written in the sourcebook, nendrai are ''terrifying,'' and their lack of healing magic just isn't enough when they can twist magic and space around themselves to make good their escape from a nasty situation. They take what they want from whom they want, prime or otherwise. Fortunately, some of them have enough enlightened self-interest to realize that even they couldn't survive drawing the attention of all the great heroes on a given stretch of the Tree, and are happy to trade their considerable (and free) magic for whatever it is they want but don't have yet.
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* CosmicHorror: "Here," god of Space, appears as a skeletal Herethroy carapace with shifting holes revealing unspeakable things. Creatures from outside the universe sometimes break in, like a miles-long killer slug.
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* CosmicHorror: "Here," god of Space, appears as a skeletal Herethroy carapace with shifting holes revealing unspeakable things. Elementals of position can be all the more terrifying for not having even ''that'' much personhood in their structure, UncannyValley notwithstanding. Creatures from outside the universe sometimes break in, like a miles-long killer slug.
** Almost certain, given that it's highly recommended, rather than throwing in offworld horrors, to describe "Here"'s progeny in "crawling Lovecraftian terms" (and then top it all off by calling them "angels" since they do a god's bidding).
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* FateWorseThanDeath: "Doorwaying", letting a non-prime into a city, gets you ''multiple'' execution. With an equal number of resurrections if it was an angel sent by the gods, or otherwise did no real harm.
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* FateWorseThanDeath: "Doorwaying", letting a non-prime into a city, gets you ''multiple'' execution.executions. With an equal number of resurrections if it was an angel sent by the gods, or otherwise did no real harm. Healing magic is cheap enough in general that corporal punishment is not seen as a great thing - and getting killed and resurrected is just an extreme form of such punishment.
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* EmpathicWeapon: Weapons and spells can have semi-intelligent spirits, useful for setting trigger conditions on "bound spells".
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* EmpathicWeapon: Weapons and spells can have semi-intelligent spirits, useful for setting trigger conditions on "bound spells".spirits. "Bound spells" can be made to go off under particular conditions, though these are far cruder than instilling an item or spell with spirit.
** The gods in concert would be omnipotent, but have never cooperated that much since the world was first made, if then; any of the gods can find the answer to any question it wishes, but they don't always know what questions need to be asked.
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* HitPoints: Though the units are different than those in the game rules, primes have discovered there really are distinct health units that lead to death when depleted, and that practicing having your spirit hang onto an injured body raises your injury tolerance. Adventurers have volunteered for scientific "titration" (ie. "death by a thousand cuts") to get this practice.
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* HitPoints: Though the units are different than those in the game rules, primes have discovered there really are distinct health units that lead to death when depleted, and that practicing having your spirit hang onto an injured body raises your injury tolerance. Adventurers have volunteered for scientific "titration" (ie. "death by a thousand cuts") to get this practice. These units aren't exactly quantal - that's a gameplay abstraction - but it's still quite measurable how well a spirit can hold onto a damaged body.
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* LostTechnology: Much of society was wiped out during The Holocaust Wars, which means that ancient artifacts are frequently found by adventurers. However, the trope is notably subverted in that magic theory has advanced significantly over time. So while the artifacts may be valuable for their historical significance, their effects tend to be crude and trivial by modern standards. The sourcebook mentions a famous enchanted weapon that would be considered a homework assignment for second year students at most academies.
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** This is played up more in some in-character journals than is really stressed in the sourcebook. Mind spells may be hard to acquire, but the ones that only affect yourself are generally not held as evil in the sourcebook. Unwise, perhaps, but not evil in themselves.
* LostTechnology: Much of society was wiped out during The Holocaust Wars, which means that ancient artifacts are frequently found by adventurers. However, the trope is notably subverted in that magic theory has advanced significantly over time. So while the artifacts may be valuable for their historical significance, their effects tend to be crude and trivial by modern standards. The sourcebook mentions a famous enchanted weapon that would be considered a homework assignment for second year students at most academies. Holocaust War artifacts may be especially potent because nobody would dare make such destructive things anymore, but probably not because they're beyond the reach of modern enchanters to make. On the other hand, the gods ''did'' get more personally involved in the old days; god-touched artifacts are ''much'' less common now (and were never exactly plentiful).
* LostTechnology: Much of society was wiped out during The Holocaust Wars, which means that ancient artifacts are frequently found by adventurers. However, the trope is notably subverted in that magic theory has advanced significantly over time. So while the artifacts may be valuable for their historical significance, their effects tend to be crude and trivial by modern standards. The sourcebook mentions a famous enchanted weapon that would be considered a homework assignment for second year students at most academies. Holocaust War artifacts may be especially potent because nobody would dare make such destructive things anymore, but probably not because they're beyond the reach of modern enchanters to make. On the other hand, the gods ''did'' get more personally involved in the old days; god-touched artifacts are ''much'' less common now (and were never exactly plentiful).
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* MagicPoints: Justified as part of the world's physics. Primes get distinct units of "cley" (perceived magically as keys), and spells usually cost one unit, with more contributing more power.
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* MagicPoints: Justified as part of the world's physics. Primes get distinct units of "cley" (perceived magically as keys), and spells usually cost one unit, with more contributing morepower.power if the caster is able to shove them in / if a spontaneous spell happens to use them. On the flipside, you can try to cheat, getting a weak spellcast without actually using a cley - but you need (and risk) one cley to make the attempt.
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* MundaneMagic: Most primes know spells with little adventuring use, for tasks like creating water or cleaning dishes. An in-book example shows an ordinary woman fretting over whether to study an obscure magic art to learn a better dish-washing spell.
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* MundaneMagic: Most primes know spells with little adventuring use, for tasks like creating water or cleaning dishes. An in-book example shows an ordinary woman fretting over whether to study an obscure magic art to learn a better dish-washing spell.spell, versus getting (expensive) clay dishes which the more common spell won't destroy like it would wooden ones.
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** Merklundum Harnipsum The Dog Who Ate A Fish (Water)'s only known miracle is to show up and scold a scholar who abbreviated zir full name, and that only happened once. Zie is similarly resting, and advanced water magic tends to be underwhelming for this reason.
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** Merklundum Harnipsum The Dog Who Ate Killed A Fish (Water)'s only known miracle is to show up and scold a scholar who abbreviated zir full name, and that only happened once. And even ''that'' may be apocryphal. Zie is similarly resting, and advanced water magic (the sort which usually gets a god's direct, if brief, attention) tends to be underwhelming for this reason.
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** the seven verb gods, known as the creator gods, which each had a hand in the creation of the world itself and a prime species (or two), and each manage a magical Art related to how a things are affected; a Verb. Among them are creation, destruction, knowing, changing, sustaining, healing, and controlling. They generally sit in the sky and watch, rarely intervening in mortal affairs.
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** the seven verb gods, known as the creator gods, which each had a hand in the creation of the world itself and a prime species (or two), and each manage a magical Art related to how a things are affected; a Verb. Among them are creation, destruction, knowing, changing, sustaining, healing, and controlling. They generally sit in the sky and watch, rarely intervening in mortal affairs.affairs; two of them are known to visit on a frequent basis, but say and do nothing of consequence.
