(07-22-2013, 12:17 PM)Teardrop Wrote: I really enjoy reading the cultural rituals and symbolism you've used in your background, Eva.  I delved quite a bit into that sort of development as an Elin in Tera, to take them away from the simple cutsie-character everyone took them as .Â
At least with Elin we had the lore to back up that they weren't supposed to be cutsey moeblobs, even if most folk didn't pay attention to it. Actually, you know what? Let's just forget most of the Elin RP in TERA ever happened. xD
(07-22-2013, 03:10 PM)Asyria Wrote: So, while today's society may influence our perceptions, I firmly believe our characters have a right, as unique individuals, to see things a bit differently. Or even a lot differently. Our characters are not the majority and don't have to be representative of the masses.
Oh, yes, definitely. I'm completely behind people RPing their characters however they want. But when someone is more tolerant than the norm of the world around them, I'm going to react ICly as if that is strange, not as though it is typical. It'll be notable. I'm also hoping to encounter other points on the spectrum of prejudice, from the norm (which sets itself against Duskwight) to the extreme (where one refuses to tolerate a Duskwight's presence). I think it would be best if there were characters in the community representative of each point.
Catching up on this thread took me forever. >_< Mostly because I haven't had the time to really sit down and read it in the past few days. At least it was a great read when I finally sat down to go through it. I love how much time and thought y'all have put into your Duskwights, and I'm looking forward to seeing them each IC. For this reason, I'm liking the idea of an IC LS for Duskwights. I'm not sure how much honest use my character would make of it, since he'll have his primary LS in the Commerce Regulation Agency, but anything that keeps me connected to people in a way that leads to RP is most welcome.
It's nice to see that most folk are RPing in a way that agrees more or less with the backstory I've got set up for Megiddo. Just so you don't have to go back two pages for a refresher: Megs is an elderly Duskwight who was the patriarch of a small family group (think like twenty people) who lived in shallow caves in the Black Shroud. So I guess we're calling them clans? I don't know why that word hadn't occurred to me before. So Megs was the patriarch of a clan.
I think the way I'm seeing this set up is that Duskwight society is greatly fragmented and spread out. The various clans found deep places in the earth, but didn't stay together, and didn't necessarily stay in intimate contact with one another. Over time, these split clans developed different ways of coping with life in the dark, with the peoples that lived above, with one another and with themselves. Some of them grew cruel (like Megs' clan), some of them became resourceful (teardrop's miners) and some of them developed deep-held traditions (Eva's very strong and tragic culture). Each of these flavors are fantastic and vivid, and now that we've moved into the overland again, we get to roleplay reconciling with one another as well as handling how the overland peoples perceive us.
I doubt SE is ever going to put out lore that tells us anyone one of our clans is wrong. Even if they eventually add an entire ancient Duskwight city full of lore for us to explore, they will always have been outliers from that culture.
So here's my idea:
What I think would be great is if we all accepted the existence of one another's clans and accepted each of them as canon (within reason. As long as nobody does a werewolf-vampire-angel clan, which I don't really expect to ever come up xD). We should attach labels to our clan -- probably based off of location and the name of the original progenitors -- and then describe and define their believes. We can attach them to our wiki articles (my own is forthcoming, so I can just tack it in there). The reason I think this would be awesome is because Megiddo is an Elder, more than sixty years old; he's traveled a lot, met a lot of Duskwight, and knows a lot. I would like him to have incomplete IC knowledge of different clans, and it would be interesting to try and attach his heritage to a few different clans.
For instance, Megs' family group would have been Clan Desfosse of the Black Shroud. Their culture would have emphasized family relations, reverence of one's ancestors, and surviving at the expense of overlanders. Nothing was sacred except for one another, and everyone was equal in responsibility, but clan leadership fell upon a single patriarch. Of course his clan is dead, now, but I plan on rolling up a full family tree and, if I go crazy, may go back several generations. In the process, I can connect his ancestry to some of y'all's clans.
What do you guys think of that? *is super excited to be back in the conversation*