Winter of Premara

Well artificial intelligence is granted through sophisticated magic, not any artificial means, again think 17th-18th century for the Golden Summer.

How can you be in two places at once when you're not anywhere at all?

I just potholed a robot trope and used robot terms for descriptive purposes, because that was the closest fit, but he's 100% magically born. Not trying to pull a Shannara here, where he was actually made in a lab in Texas before the nuclear wars or something.

I forgot that I had most of those hottips regarding that in that backstory I nuked - by the way, Daltar, if you happened to read that backstory, try to forget it, because I might file off a few serial numbers and use something similar in that other fantasy RP.

And I really want to see Colonial's Ork character already, because I like that running gag he mentioned where he keeps on trying to steal my character or something along those lines.

edited 7th Jul '12 2:12:51 PM by nman

I am highly amused at the mental imagery.

Hmmph.

Oi suppose Oi oughtta git ta work on dat sheet already.

Here's a one-week bump, because I like this RP's idea too much to let it fade into obscurity.

Working...

Alright new species!

The drow.

A long, long time ago... long before even the Winter came, a split came on elven society. The victors, were the elves we know today and those defeated were the ancestors of the current drow. The drow remnants retreated below the ground where the victors would not chase them and where they could grow on their own.

With the pass of time their new environments, belief and their own magic changed these remnants until they no longer could be called merely another group of surface elves. The drows of today have skin in colors which go from the lightest of grey to jet black. Their eye color range from amber, red, purple, grey and pure blue. Their hair is mostly completely white, though tones of silver and some lighters tones of blond can also be observed. On average they are shorter than their surface cousins, though in a particular way. The females of the species tend to be the stronger and bigger of the two sexes, so this makes the female drow about as tall as a surface elf woman instead of a male one and the male drow shorter than all three mentioned before.

The drow live, as mentioned before, in the dangerous underground environments of the world. There they carve their cities and settlements, with only a few small enclaves being near or on the surface. Even more so than their surface cousins, the drow are a secretive and isolated people. They rarely interact with the surface races and when they do it tends to be on their means. In case contrary they try to their hardest to flee back into hiding. If a traveler wanders too near their enclaves to the point where discovery becomes and issue they tend to assault and drug the traveler only to dump them somewhere far away.

Drow society is a strong matriarchy, with the females quite clearly the dominating sex. It is the drow women who hold most important positions of state and it is a drow mother who holds great control over her own household. Men on the other hand, tend to submit to the general direction of their mother's or spouse's wishes. Men are valued by the society by showing great wit, gentle manner and charisma, by allowing strong clans and families to build ties with one another through marriage and the sort. Still, there are some males who are naturally rebellious, dislike being controlled by the wishes of their mothers or for some reason or another are unhappy with their lot in life. These might escape the wishes of parents by marrying a woman they actually like against the wishes of their mother or by going away to work and live on specialized guilds or the military. These men tend to be seen by society at worst as gruff, ungrateful, ill tempered and the sort. Some do not mind them at all.

To be continued...

If I'm sure of something it's that I'm not sure of anything.

So in essence, they're like D&D drow except that their society isn't batshit insane?

The Danse Macabre Codex

Is your character going to be an orphan human girl raised by the Drow in their ways of frost magic as she learns how to be a huntress, and then goes off into the wilderness alone as she carves out a living as a sort of hermit?

My thoughts exactly.

The voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground

Oh good! You guys are familiar with this! :D

Yup! I'm not very original in this sense, so they are mostly D&D drows but not crazy. They do have a bad reputation since well... they lost the war so the surface elves wrote the story and since they are isolationists and tend to drug and drop off people who come too close to them they don't have the best reputation.

Still, while they can be pragmatic and certainly capable of ruthless things, they are not Insane Evil. Not even regular evil. They are just people.

If I'm sure of something it's that I'm not sure of anything.

Siyo, udos jal zhaun d'lil olath darthien.

I'm wondering whether or not to contribute to this. Maybe I'll drop a race into it.

So if the Drow were an underground society before Winter even came, are they still using, making, repairing, and improving what everyone else assumes to be Lost Technology in an Advanced Ancient Acropolis?

Yes and no. The drow are isolationists so by the time the Winter came their technology was lagging way behind that of the surfaces races. To date they are ahead of everyone due to how much was lost to the Winter, but not to the point where their technology reaches a too impressive point.

If I'm sure of something it's that I'm not sure of anything.

I can't help but wonder if this RP is stillborn*

, since the GM hasn't posted here*

or anywhere else on the site

for almost two weeks.

I'm not the GM here. Just a worldbuilder.

I should have noted from the previous thread;

The first two have agreed to be GMs since I feel myself not up to the task. I can make RPs, but I'm really bad at running them.

edited 20th Jul '12 11:48:08 PM by SOCR

How can you be in two places at once when you're not anywhere at all?

I'm still around, and I've an idea for a profile, but it's only half-written, and since I'm staying at my grandparents', I can't access that file.

The voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground

Hey guys, am I welcome to join?

edited 27th Jul '12 9:44:49 PM by tvtropesnoob

"Your Sig is now charmingly out of date" — Vox, 7/6/2016

Whip up something and lets see!

Can do!

I was thinking about possibly contributing a species. The concept is creatures that are immune to extreme cold, and live mostly in the chilliest sections of the tundra where hardly any other species ever goes to. That's all ive got for now, but I'm thinking along the lines of the others from a song of fire and ice; ice demons, in a word

edited 27th Jul '12 10:48:18 PM by tvtropesnoob

"Your Sig is now charmingly out of date" — Vox, 7/6/2016

Will seriously suck for them if they ever get Summer rolling again.

There will always be the far north. Heat isn't lethal or anything to them, just uncomfortable. They're made for cold, but can withstand warmth. Hey, their food requires heat like everyone else. Before the ice fell, they were used to very cool climates, and have adapted well to freezing

edited 27th Jul '12 11:16:36 PM by tvtropesnoob

"Your Sig is now charmingly out of date" — Vox, 7/6/2016

And they can't attend this year's Olympics.

But they will be beasts in the winter Olympics!

We have those? Sweet. Actually they may have their own version. Who knows

Hmm....Alright, 2 different ways I could take this; the human-ish way where they are like humans but tolerate the cold and want summer again, or completely eldritch ice creatures that could serve as antagonists, seeing as how summer would probably be something they'd like to prevent. Could the GM's use a species for an antagonist force?

edited 28th Jul '12 1:05:08 PM by tvtropesnoob

"Your Sig is now charmingly out of date" — Vox, 7/6/2016

Antagonists have already been planned. I'd go for Idea 1 if I were you.