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Post by Ϛ Christopher Nightingale on Mar 1, 2010 20:28:34 GMT -5
Short answer is that Demons are the opposite of Humans xD If you wanted to be more accurate, you might call them Legians, originally from a plane very similar to our Earth. They eat normally there, and have no traits. It's only when they're here that these things manifest. Long answer is that my back is too screwed up to concentrate enough to read that right now, but I'll let you know what I think when I feel better  |
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Post by Kirien Melantha on Mar 1, 2010 21:43:55 GMT -5
I realize that angel characters are often in high demand, so we've discussed angel characters in the past. We decided against implementing them. Firstly, we are very against creating any sort of species with religious connotations, to prevent members from feeling we are promoting one religion as the "right one." Angels, even as you described them, are the ultimate in religious connotation. While we do have demons, our demons are in no way associated with religion, evilness, or the devil. Demons are beings from another plane called Legia, and they are no more evil than anyone else. The name "demon" arose when they were encountered by mortals, who like to name everything they encounter as evil. A better name for them would probably be something like "Legians."
Secondly, Angel-like characters can be achieved with the species we already have. If you want an inhumanly beautiful character, you can create a faerie, vampire, or demon. If you want a character with wings, you can have a faerie, dragon, or demon. If you just want to fly, a Gifted One with Gravitational Rejection may suffice. Demons, faeries, vampires, and djinn are immortal. If you want a character who is associated with mysterious, cosmic power, djinn are for you; djinn are more likely to be mistaken for "angels" than any of the other species. The only problem with djinn is that they're so rare and powerful that they're restricted, meaning that if angel characters are in high-demand, not everyone can roleplay one if they're using djinn as a base.
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Post by ajora on Mar 1, 2010 22:09:17 GMT -5
Angels, even as you described them, are the ultimate in religious connotation.
Wait wait, we're saying that my Angels are in some way religious? o.o? ??
Because these aren't the Angels of religious folklore. These are beings from another plane, called Angels for their wings and nothing more.[/Font] |
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Post by Jared Howard. on Mar 1, 2010 22:22:56 GMT -5
Angels, even as you described them, are the ultimate in religious connotation.
Wait wait, we're saying that my Angels are in some way religious? o.o???
Because these aren't the Angels of religious folklore. These are beings from another plane, called Angels for their wings and nothing more.[/Font][/quote] LOL. I don't know if you meant that to be smart/funny, but I laughed haha. Ugh. I hate it when this thing comes up. I don't like commenting on it for reasons that may only come to fruition after butttttttt. Dunno. Maybe people in North America and stuff are just more sensitive about these kinds of things. I'll give that Angels are strongly insinuative of a religion, but as a Catholic, I'm not gonna get offended that they're being used on supernatural/fictional site. And as a person that just doesn't care about these kinds of things and all their hidden meanings/suggestions/promotions - I rly just don't care :/ The topic of bringing in an Angels species has honestly been talked to death though, and I'm so over speaking on the religious side of things. It's gonna be a no go. *Not because I don't like the idea, I do. |
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Post by ajora on Mar 1, 2010 22:28:14 GMT -5
Ahh see, I didn't really know that they had been so heavily discussed prior. I had figured maybe someone had brought it up, but not with all the detail that I just put forth.
Oh well. It was only a suggestion to be considered, nothing more. :]
Figured if my ideas work well on one site, may as well try another. xD[/font]
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Post by Ϛ Christopher Nightingale on Mar 1, 2010 22:32:43 GMT -5
It's not a terrible idea, it's just something we've moved away from. In fact, Travis Sivart's wife (Angela Wingrose's mother) was originally conceived as an angel on the site us oldbies came from.
I don't think it will happen, though, yeah.
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Post by ajora on Mar 1, 2010 22:35:42 GMT -5
Well if you had said it was a terrible concept, I would have just laughed at you and called you a nub anyways. (:
But I see what you mean. And I guess this site isn't as [/font]"KILL SOME BITCHEZ" as I'm used to, or as much as this concept demands. D:
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Post by Kirien Melantha on Mar 1, 2010 22:54:30 GMT -5
I don't mean to say that your angels are very religiously-associated, but that it's not clear to me that they aren't religiously-associated. Your angels are from an angel city/multiple angel cities, correct? What's to say that the angel city isn't up there with whatever head religious figure? Our demon thing goes pretty far to say they're not evil/religiously-affiliated.
I mean no offense. I think it's a very well-thought-out species thing. Lots of detail. I just don't think it's loud enough in saying they're not the kind of angels most people usually envision. Even if they seem very...combat-oriented. I hear ye olde Bible references angels and head religious figures as rather revengeful.
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Post by ĸara вelova★ on Mar 6, 2010 19:44:18 GMT -5
New Gift: Dream Walking It's like a mixture of mind-reading and telepathic projection. It's limitation is that it only works on people who are asleep, so it's not a very practical offensive weapon in battle. It's more like a sneak-attack for cowardsninjas. Could be used in plots...  ? I sort of just got inspired as I finished the Kleo fanfic. Could be fun |
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Post by Kirien Melantha on Mar 6, 2010 19:46:37 GMT -5
It's like a mixture of mind-reading and telepathic projection. Exactly. High-level telepaths or Demons of Mind have this ability. |
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Post by ĸara вelova★ on Mar 6, 2010 20:02:22 GMT -5
It's like a mixture of mind-reading and telepathic projection. Exactly. High-level telepaths or Demons of Mind have this ability. Lol yeah. Maybe it's only accessible when the person using it is asleep too? |
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Post by Kirien Melantha on Mar 6, 2010 20:13:49 GMT -5
Exactly. High-level telepaths or Demons of Mind have this ability. Lol yeah. Maybe it's only accessible when the person using it is asleep too? I don't think that's necessary, and would a telepath be able to consciously choose a target and read their mind/project thoughts to them while also asleep? |
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Post by ĸara вelova★ on Mar 6, 2010 20:17:42 GMT -5
Lol yeah. Maybe it's only accessible when the person using it is asleep too? I don't think that's necessary, and would a telepath be able to consciously choose a target and read their mind/project thoughts to them while also asleep? Hmm, yeah. Lol it was just a spontaneous errant thought, I didn't think it through very thoroughly. >.< But it does give me ideas...! |
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Post by Karmine de Arcadia on Mar 9, 2010 21:50:24 GMT -5
Request: Addition to my own 'Open RP Rules' under Laws of the Land. To include.
"Open RPs are just that, open to anyone. If you'd like to take up an open RP, but do not have the time to write a response (Or a response of the length/detail you deem needed.) then please make a short OOC post in the thread stating that you are working on a post for the topic.
EG: 'OOC: I'm writing a post for this, but I need some more time.'
This informs other members that the topic has been 'claimed' as it were, and we won't have four different members writing replies to the same topic, and getting frustrated when the conflict happens. When you are ready to post, simply edit your placeholder and continue as normal.
It should be considered poor form to claim a topic and then 'forget' about it, so please treat it as a normal RP topic when you claim it."
A little suggestion to release a lot of stress.
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Post by Dorian Wilde on Mar 11, 2010 21:46:12 GMT -5
Hmm, while looking for gifts for Dorian, I've stumbled across a couple cool ones we haven't looked at. Maybe we considered them a while ago, but I missed them. Here are a few cool ones.
Astral Projection: Instead of controlling your astral body on the astral plane, we could make it so you can mentally 'see' your surroundings from whatever vantage point you want. Like through walls, over a mountain, another city, country. It would all be real time, so you could see what's going on at your friend's place instead of texting them  (trying to modernize its use here haha) JUST read Clairvoyance >.<
Possession: we just did puppeteering. Maybe we could combine the first two stages and make the third stage more internal. I can totally see killer plots from this one, but I also realize the risk of godmodding, and the similarities between puppeteering and telepathy... do we have a mind control gift?
Mind Control: rendering the target unable to think for themselves, therefore more susceptible to mental influence/suggestions.
Psionic Overload: Ability to overwhelm another's mind causing pain, memory loss, lack of consciousness, vegetative state, or death after having established a psionic link to that individual's mind.
Lucky: Probability manipulation. I can see the magician pwning this gift at the casinos.
That's all I got. Dunno if any of them sounded interesting enough to turn into something here. Again, not really thought out completely, just stolen off Wikipedia.
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