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[[https://anaxasdiaries.com Thorns: Uprising]] is a mature, self-hosted play-by-post RPG, set in an original Victorian-esque steam-era fantasy world called Vita. The opening Kingdom of Anaxas is under the strain of impending civil war, but there are nine other kingdoms in development that will all have their unique struggles. In Anaxas, the ruling class, known as the galdori, are becoming increasingly fearful that their stranglehold on the lesser races is weakening, and a burgeoning resistance has cropped up in the capital city, threatening to undermine the government and endanger anyone in its path in the pursuit of freedom.

This RPG focuses mainly on plot/character development and story building rather than combat, and players are encouraged to make realistic characters rather than awesome, unstoppable heroes. Amid social drama and political intrigue, crime and violence, their struggle could be to topple the galdori, quash the resistance or merely to survive.
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!!Provides examples of:

* AlternativeCalendar: 10 months, 40-80 days each. And the days are ''really long''.
%%* BazaarOfTheBizarre: Hollow Street. Old Rose Harbor is practically one big one.
%%* BoardingSchool: Brunnhold and all other galdori-run institutions of education that teach mundane as well as magical subjects
* BusmansVocabulary: pretty much every social group; the Resistance have their own code words, the pirates and mob have their slang, and the wicks have Tek. Even the galdori students have their own slang terms.
%%* CodeName: everyone in the Resistance gets one.
%%* CrapsaccharineWorld
%%* CulturePolice: censorship of the media is rampant in Vienda.
%%* DragonRider: the drake tamers of Hesse.
%%* ElaborateUndergroundBase: the Citadel in Old Rose
%%* EvilTeacher: Freja Lux seems to be one of these.
* FunctionalMagic: Magic is a genetic ability, and spells are cast by speaking to the mona (sentient particles that make up the universe).
%%* GorgeousPeriodDress: galdori are just plain fashionable.
%%* GreyAndGrayMorality
%%* IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace: Soliloquy Lane, Hollow Street, and Old Rose's "Rape Alley"
%%* LaResistance: Lots of these; the Freedom Fighters. The Drain. To some extent, the Roek fighters.
%%* LowFantasy: apart from the "magic is evil" bit.
%%* MagicVersusScience: inversion. Magic is studied scientifically.
%%* ManOfWealthAndTaste: Silas Hawke. Also, some galdori men.
%%* {{Motifs}}: notably clocks, birds and roses.
%%* NewNeighboursAsThePlotDemands: These crop up every now and then.
%%* {{NPC}}: the game has a huge cast of these.
%%* OpiumDen: The Toy Lantern, most bars in Old Rose
* OhMyGods: "Oh my gods" is not specifically used, but the variation "godsdamnit" and "good goddess" as well as many other god-specific curses are.
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: Ghosts are souls that refused to go into the afterlife and sort of, kind of, literally destroy the other soul from the inside out when they take over their bodies in possession.
%%* PurelyAestheticEra: No one's quite sure what this time period is supposed to be, even the creator.
* {{Reincarnation}}: the afterlife leads to the antelife, which leads to another life. A tenet of both Vitanism and Circlism.
%%* SkyPirate: a lot of these operate around Old Rose.
* SteamPunk: some have accused Thorns of being this, but it's just sort of "not quite." Lots of [[CoolAirship airships]], lots of Victorian-era technology, and LOTS of clocks. Vita seems to be hovering between SteamPunk and ClockPunk. With other stuff.
%%* TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized
%%* TheProfessor: several examples at Brunnhold, notably [[PartTimeHero Professor Devlin]] and [[NerdsAreSexy Professor Moore]].
* UniverseBible: the [[http://wiki.anaxasdiaries.com Thornswiki]], also known as The Lore.
%%* WizardingSchool: Brunnhold University, which also teaches the usual subjects.
%%* WrongSideOfTheTracks: Old Rose Harbor
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