Dice A Time of Monsters - OOC

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Grey Apologies I haven't cleaned up my character into a finished product. In trying to convert the outline into prose, I keep bouncing off things like not knowing what culture to belong to, how to choose a name (should we be germanic? I think the game is set in the fantasy HRE, so probably a germanic name? I also see a lot of french names thrown around, though), which city if any plays the role of Paris or Vienna (city of coffee houses, enlightenment, erudition), what minor noble family (I assume minor, because it doesn't seem we have a way to invest in major in character creation) my character should descend from.

Mechanically and in broad outline my character is, I think, complete. I can clean up the formatting to look pretty like Meredith, and I can convert the history to prose if I stay very vague about everything I don't know about the world.

 

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Grey Apologies I haven't cleaned up my character into a finished product. In trying to convert the outline into prose, I keep bouncing off things like not knowing what culture to belong to, how to choose a name (should we be germanic? I think the game is set in the fantasy HRE, so probably a germanic name? I also see a lot of french names thrown around, though), which city if any plays the role of Paris or Vienna (city of coffee houses, enlightenment, erudition), what minor noble family (I assume minor, because it doesn't seem we have a way to invest in major in character creation) my character should descend from.

Mechanically and in broad outline my character is, I think, complete. I can clean up the formatting to look pretty like Meredith, and I can convert the history to prose if I stay very vague about everything I don't know about the world.

Specific questions will help me help you, so ask any you have. To help with what's here, though:

I'd suggest based on the outline going with a cadet house of Maerlyn, so a French-ish name. I'm open to them being from the main house, honestly.
Maerlyn have a long reputation for erudition and piety, juxtaposed with often being on the wrong side of the Church throughout their history. They control a hilly southern province with Gatewood on one side and the Sleeping Sea to the south, and Blackwood on their northwest border. Their land isn't great for farming so they've historically relied on fishing, learning, and highly specialised refined exports, and their paper mills. They fostered the inventor of the printing press.

The city of Illim, in the west, is one of the two most Paris/Vienna-like cities in the setting right now. It's near the mouth of the Erbor river, the main seaport of the Empire and the biggest trading hub as it sits at the perfect intersection of sea lanes, river travel, and controls the border with a valuable trading partner. It's also been the site of a generational conflict between two houses, Thiah and Videme, who have heavily invested in merchant guilds as a kind of proxy for direct conflict so the city has a bustling black market and surfeit of coffee houses (it's the first place any coffee entering the Empire lands).

 

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Perfect, thank you! Where does our game begin, and what relation does it have, if any to Illim? How far away is it? I presume the Stonecutters have a presence here, as Meredith's character is also assocaited with them.

 

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I plan to start each person's pact scene in their last known location, and it looks like the game will start in and around Illim because Bone2Pick's character is from a closeby town, so if your character is in Illim Meredith's character might likewise be for convenience.

We'll likely rove around the country a lot pursuing various plans and evading authorities. Perhaps, after a point, some of the indirect consquences of your powers, too.

 

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Ah, one more question about languages. What are the languages of erudition? The world equivalents of French, Latin, Italian, Greek, whatever's in vogue for scholars of the day? I assume the native tongue of the Maerlyn is one of them.

 

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You'll want Kelene for your native tongue, which is spoken through the Empire in various dialects.
Old Imperial is the equivalent to Latin, inherited from a long lost precusor Empire. Most existing writing is in this language.
High Hrothgaard would be a trendy foreign language to know. Kaeri would be very in-vogue for Humanists since a lot of Humanist philosophical terms don't yet have solid translations (think about how often there's some fuckery around translating German philosophers to English).