Bloody Nine

Name: StarkadSpecies: ToaGender: MAppearance: Of Metru build, Starkad wears white and icey blue armor, along with a mask shaped like the Noble Huna. However, age has caught up, and it shows. His armor is not grandly pristine, looking a bit battered, with dull, sort of rusty patches.Powers: Elemental power of ice. Great Mask Trythi, mask of Arms. Its power is to turn anything Starkad picks up into a weapon that he owns and masters, if it can be conceived as such. For example, if he picks up a tree branch, it would be conceived as a sword/dagger, reinforcing its basic capabilities, thusly capable of clashing against other Toa Tools, instead of snapping like... well, like a tree branch. Furthermore, due to his incredibly advanced age, to the point that it's sort of catching up with him, he has less elemental energy than the average whippersnapper, but he's also incredibly skilled in all forms of arms.Weapons/Equipment: He never had a Toa Tool.Bio: Starkad is a ridiculously old Toa. He's been working since the Great Disruption, doing Toa-y stuff. To be honest, his destiny probably already has been fulfilled, really. However, the thing is, he refuses to acknowledge that. As far as he's concerned, he'll keep on doing his stuff, til the end of time, if need be, til he dies. He's drifted from team to team, watching them achieve their destiny. Eventually, he cut off ties from other Toa, working by himself. of course, loners and wanderers are never missed, a fact exploited by the Shepherds. He's a grumpy old man who has seen alot. Though this doesn't change the fact that he's a very proactive person, with a strong sense of justice. Why else would he refuse to retire, if that were not the case?

Well, I'd figure that it would depend on how religious it is. Otherwise, Santa Claus, being Saint Nick, would also be sort of taboo, but... yeah. Looking up Aquinas, though, it seems that he would be a bit too tied to the whole religion part. Since he's based his philosophies and whatnot on religion, given the whole 'is absolute truth absolute truth' and how God figures into that. Though, imo, if you were to do Mother Teresa because of the work she did, then that would be fine. Basically, there's a difference between venerating a guy who happens to be a saint, and venerating a saint. Though I would probably make the question more specific next time, so people can help sooner.

Depending on the reader, yes. But generally, most readers would respond the same way. I mean, if I wrote about eating a baby in exquisitely grotesque detail, most people would go 'ewww, that's sick!' If you're a writer who writes for other people as much as you write for yourself, the trick is to touch said response. Sorta like what Legolover did with his examples. Both of them describe the same scene, though one brings to mind me waking up because I have to go to school, whereas the other is reminiscent of 'lazy sunday afternoon rargh I want to nap'. Good examples, these.

Armyofspacewhales.jpg?

Vak, that's actually what I was planning to do, should I write this medieval thinger up. Player Characters does the wetwork. So if Faction X wants Leader Y assassinated, he'd call for players in his own faction instead of calling up Generic Commando Team 2.

Well yeah. Which is why I asked instead of popping it on a profile. However, I did remember something about said masks being disallowed, not necessarily because of power, but because of the immorality endemic to rotting stuff away, even if said note was mentioned before the fora went on the hiatus - or perhaps it was my faulty memory. Hence me asking. I mean, some, like the Crast, which repels EVERYTHING, or Mohtrek, mask of ZERG RUSH KEKEKEKE, I get. But Silence and the like seem a lot more tamer.

Right, also what's the status of the 'immoral' masks like the Jutlin? Toa aren't allowed them because they're that, 'immoral'? Because I'd think that Toa who already ARE immoral, aka the Daedra, wouldn't really care.

That... Do it. Wysp, be sure to loot his body after the obligatory fanfare dance.

Because personality and character don't matter.

I'm not talking about naming your king. But more like a guy striking out and making his own buddies. Otherwise, if you're just playing Heads of State, then your friendship options are pretty much limited to only people that you play with, since realpolitik is a tricky and vicious thing. Which does get sorta boring after a while and would just end up in bickering if your only relationship with other players is as foes/tentative armistice.

Since different societies would be coming in, there should be a 'develop your own magic school' system? I mean, there's quite a big difference from Norse Galdr / Seidr to Shinto-ism and whatnot. There'd be sorta concrete rules, of course, like "No magic system is going to teleport" or whatever. perhaps also 2 levels of gameplay. One on the 'grand' scale where you move armies and heads of states, another on the character scale. Problem with IL was that there were no 'characters' so to speak, as much as 'mouthpieces of their collective nations.'

I think we're talking about two very different things.

Aye. Though my personal feeling is that magic should be something a bit more special than 'derp I make fireballs', socially speaking. I mean, if you're in 'medieval' ages, then it'll be at least a millennium before you can even make fire portable with your bic lighters.

Nobody wants to work for a stiff. Where's Robert? Dude was the steel to your iron. And cooler.

Well, it depends on how you want to go about it. Closest way to a 'from scratch' situation is a colonial expansion-y thing. Then the question would be why the people with ambitions and from all sorts of races and species would want it. So a universal commodity that's valued by everyone. Then stuff like how much you want to limit magic. Will it be treated like the nuke it is, or will everyone and their mothers be able to toss fireballs? And why am I filling in the blanks as I ask these questions

So regarding the Daedra, who's taken who?

That's Superboy you're seeing, Kraggh. And yeah, from what I've seen (which is not much), it's looking kinda decent so far, though since this is Greg Weisman, not surprising. I'm just waiting for it to get into a fullblown myth arc, though.

To be sure we're talking about the same thing, that is, talking about that, and not this?

Shearing the cool out of a cat just reminds me of sheep. Using strange metaphors is fine, so long as the resulting image fits.

'grats, you reminded me.

Oh, you're one of these.

...Don't make me spoiler all of FMA for you just to spite your tree-killing ways, then.

Bah, read manga on the internet. Get them before corporate folks do a subpar translation.

Which is why you get a desktop for geaming and whatnot while the cheapest wifi capable netbook is for when you have to be mobile, ie college campuses.

'Cept portability... though I guess that's what a netbook is for.