Re: Emoria: World-Building OOC

[Sighlent]

Ok so I think I finally got this! At least I'm hoping that I did. You have no idea how many times I've hit the 'Delete' and 'Backspace' on this thing...it's ridiculous. Anyway here she is. XD

Username: Sighlent
Character Name: Aeren Sretin
Species/Race: Breale
Physical Description: Aeren is a petite woman with an enviable hour glass frame who stands shorter than most women at 5' 3". She has brilliant red hair that spills down her back well past her waist and exotic bedroom eyes of the warmest shade of brown all of which complimented by her oval shaped face that emphasizes strong cheek bones whenever she smiles. She wears an outfit composed of intricate layers of clothing all centered around the bright color pink and with the white and gold accents that further detail the outfit it looks quite becoming and fitting upon her. The brooch, and centerpiece of her attire, is a family heirloom that signifies status and power and has often been said to amplify and compliment one's spiritual energy. Due to the Breale being beings of peace who oppose all things violent, weapons included - save for the Guard - Aeren has never had the need before to carry such trash and doubts that she ever will however as one of status she does know how to defend herself if the need ever arises.
Age: 23
Gender: Female
Occupation: Daughter to the High King of Sretin, representative to her people, and devout follower of Mira.
World-space: A born blessing of the four elements, the Sretin Providences are among the organically richest in the world and thus far the leading suppliers in fruits, vegetables, and livestock. With wide scale farmlands that lead from the edge of the capital city Zin, which is located towards the very east upon a cliff overlooking the Talonian Ocean, further in towards the mainland stopping just along their border leaving the landscape otherwise flat with only one attributable feature; the Noir River (aka the Divided River). The River, the source of irrigation for the Breale, runs straight through the Providences with several small forks and then one larger fork that curves south of Zin and north of the cliff that Zin resides upon flowing directly into the Sea.
There are currently only three cities within the Sretin Providences and of those three the capital, Zin, is by far the most beneficiary as the head factor to the Providences. The other two, Aom and Candridge are typically the working hands that keep the Providences so wealthy. Aom is home to the largest livestock ranch in the known world, wherein Candridge is home to the largest produce farm.
Racial Breakdown: Saying Breale is as easy as saying "bre-ail" only difference being when you pronounce the "bre-" roll your tongue lightly as you would in a Spanish course. It makes it sound more exotic in my opinion. Ok now further into who and what the Breale are! A Breale is first and foremost a healer, and secondly they are gifted with possessing great abilities bestowed upon them through nature. Now I know you're probably thinking, "Huh?" but trust me I'll explain in do time, I'm kinda making it up as I go along.
If you will, think them as the hippies of this world, in that they're devout beings of peace, and yet still festive and bright and yes they are quite famous for the herbal weed known as 'flor' - the 'r' is practically silent - and it is often used typically as a medicinal herbs by the Breale. Flor is very well known across the map and the usage of it for pleasure is quite often however too much of it is ill advised due hallucinatory side effects...among other things.
Abilities: Able to heal the simplest wounds by using the earth to extend one's own life force and transferring it to another in need. It is very dangerous however, the Breale are taught since birth how to harness this power and know well enough of their own limitations.
Religion/ Deity: They do worship a single deity whom they call Mira but Mira is more or less the spirit of the earth, mother nature herself. As there is no specific term for their religion those who do refer to Mira are often known as simply the Divine.

And here is my otherwise ridiculous map. If you have any questions or just don't like the names I've chosen for the bodies of water, than please feel free to state so:

Spoiler:

[Guest]

That's great, Sighlent! I'm putting it up now. And that is a wonderful map

[Sighlent]

Pffft hahaha.

[Guest]

@ Sighlent: My culture is very militaristic, since their lives depend on defending the last of their territory. But they can't get their own food or wood. The only thing they have to trade is precious metals mined from the volcano and mercenary services. Would your culture trade with mine, or would their differences be too great to overcome. Because my people need to get food from somewhere... (they already trade a little with the sorceresses...but there are a lot of people in Spire)

[Sighlent]

@ Sighlent: My culture is very militaristic, since their lives depend on defending the last of their territory. But they can't get their own food or wood. The only thing they have to trade is precious metals mined from the volcano and mercenary services. Would your culture trade with mine, or would their differences be too great to overcome. Because my people need to get food from somewhere... (they already trade a little with the sorceresses...but there are a lot of people in Spire)

The Breale don't care what you get yourself into just so long as it means that the Breale are able to avoid war at all cost, or even conflict, then yes it would be fine for them to be allies. The only thing they would perhaps go for though would be the precious metals.

[Guest]

Sorry I'm logged on as Silv, but I had to in order to update map!

I (Ryona) updated the map and put it on the first page. Bird of Hermes doesn't have an X because of where she lives, correct? Do we need to marker a portal?

I also pmed ImmortalSin and Elric so that they may choose their land. Deadeye mentioned joining in the interest check, so he needs to choose a bit of land too.

A few of you mentioned switching lands (I believe plaguewalker & Raptorman). Everyone else is happy with their locations, but if you would like each others, or a different bit, go ahead and let me know.

[Guest]

It turns out where I had placed myself is fine.

[Gabe]

When I get dismissed from drill today I will put a mark on the map for where I'd like to put my home province. I will also make my character sheet and racial/cultural/etc data for my people. Right now my phone is almost dead and I don't have any image editing applications to work with, so please bear with me

[Gadreille]

No problem. We are glad to have you!

Edit: Sigh, when I make the overall map...I don't know if I will be able to make your area as pretty as you just did! You don't happen to have photoshop, do you ^_^

[Guest]

AAAAHHHH! I stopped getting emails for this! Holy freaking crap!

[Guest]

Spoiler:

That's the area I'd like to claim, my character sheet is back on page one

[Bird of Hermes]

Bird of Hermes doesn't have an X because of where she lives, correct? Do we need to marker a portal?

The Portal will be located in the Library. I believe Kathryn wanted the library in the center of the map somewhere.

The "castle in the sky" I mentioned would be floating in a kind of orbit and only the infrastructure would be visible, so I don't know how you would even put that on the map.

[Gadreille]

No it wouldn't be on map.

Elric, I'm on a different computer right now but as soon as I get home I'll update your information.

I'm starting to wonder if I will be able to make a map of the whole world...I mean, I'm not that great. Is anyone here an excellent map maker, or are we going to work with my mediocre skills?

[Bird of Hermes]

I'm starting to wonder if I will be able to make a map of the whole world...I mean, I'm not that great. Is anyone here an excellent map maker, or are we going to work with my mediocre skills?

I am not a good map maker either, but I could try and draw one up and see if my scanner will take it if you want.

[ImmortalSin]

Sorry guys! I've been quite ill for the past few days, so I've been bed-ridden.

Thanks Ryona for the PM. I'll mark my land/country thingy on the map soon.

[Gadreille]

I hope you feel better, ImmortalSin! I'm glad you appreciated the PM, I didn't want to seem pushy!

Alrighty cool, Bird of Hermes. I will make my own version of the map, but if anyone wants to make maps of their land or the whole world, you are more than welcome to! All versions can be posted up in the first few posts.

[Kalon Ordona II]

I can help with a rough drawing of the whole world if you like, Ryona. I made the one for Aura: Daughter of Light and Sephiris: The Price of Peace totally on the fly. Map-making with just the pencil-feature in MS Paint is loads of fun! xD Alternatively, there's the tried-and-true method of rendering clouds in photoshop, messing with the threshold, and then drawing a path around the landmasses.

[Gadreille]

Well, the way I made a map before was by following your paint instruction with the sharper photoshop tools. Mostly it's a matter of deciding how I am going to mark cities, mountains, hills etc, as well as creating the physical geography in world spaces that have no description. (I.E. if you haven't described any mountains, rivers etc, I'm going to have to make it up myself.)

When I work on it, I will start with Silvone and my area, as well as Sighlents, because I have physical examples. After that, I will work on everyone else's.

This is where you would be most helpful, Kalon. But there is no need to rush on it, it will be a work in progress for some time.

[Sighlent]

@Ryona Uh yeah I have Photoshop, why?

@ImmortalSin I totally know what you're going through! I have literally been sick for the past TWO weeks!!! But I'm just now starting to get over it. It got really bad for a while where I couldn't talk or anything. I was just coughing so much and ugh...so I understand EXACTLY how you feel hun. I hope you get better soon though.

[Dax]

A map of the wanted standards for this thread are a huge bonus!
I'd say we are going to have aourselves a very beautiful world once everyone is through putting their little personal touch.

[Gadreille]

@Ryona Uh yeah I have Photoshop, why?

@ImmortalSin I totally know what you're going through! I have literally been sick for the past TWO weeks!!! But I'm just now starting to get over it. It got really bad for a while where I couldn't talk or anything. I was just coughing so much and ugh...so I understand EXACTLY how you feel hun. I hope you get better soon though.

Your map was so beautiful I wondered if you could replicate those skills in photoshop using my outline But no worries, I'm going to do it. I just don't think it will look quite as good as I am hoping it will lol.

Dax you are right, this world is going to be beautiful!

[ImmortalSin]

Thank-you Ryona - and no, no, not pushy. A little reminder goes along way most of the time.

Ah Sighlent, that sounds terrible. I've been sick for about... 4 days I think? It just so happened that my worst day was the day when we went to a barbecue/party. I felt pretty off, but still wasn't expecting to be 'sick sick' there. Thank god I went to the bathroom.

I'm still on the mend, but doing a lot better than I was. I hardly ever get sick, so when I do it's usually bad unfortunately. Thanks and I hope you feel better soon too. Being sick is no fun at all!

Edit: Okay, here is where I would like to be situated. I'll try to get my character sheet finished asap.

[Kathryn Lacey]

I don't work tomorrow, so I'm going to be working really hard on finishing my character sheet. I'm going to describe the geography, and I even have pictures that show what the library looks like.

Hermes is right that the portal for the Material Plane is going to be located in the sub-basement of the library, and she's already stated that her character is going to be protecting that portal, so I'm assuming that means that her character and my character live in the same city?

Anyway, I'll be sure to describe the geography of the land at least around the Great Library if not within the entire country, so you'll have something with which to work.

[Gadreille]

Awesome Kathryn
I will post up the updated map asap, Immortalsin.

[Kalon Ordona II]

*raises hand*
I'd like to have the portal to the Light Plane, since no one seems to have one of those yet.

[Bird of Hermes]

I now present the map with everything I know so far. If I missed something, let me know. Ignore the cave drawings.

Spoiler:

[Kalon Ordona II]

Whoa, COOOOL!! xDD
Perfect spot for the portal of Light, too! xD
Gunneh and I are working on the island.

One question: what's the scale of this place? Are we talking... North America (north continent, Australia (south continent), and Europe (island)?

The way it looks now, I'm thinking the whole place is about the size of Europe. Maybe less.

[Guest]

Edit: Like you said originally.It is not all the size of Europe; more in proportion to Europe for the island, North America for the northern continent, and Australia for the southern continent, as you said.

Also, would anyone mind if the portal to the fire plane was located somewhere within or around the volcano of Spire? I would imagine that it would be long forgotten at this point, but might perhaps make an interesting story development for them to come across it again. I just thought that it would be fitting for the portal to the Plane of Fire to be located in the volcano that sits on the edge of the Bay of Flame

Edit: There is a problem with your map, Bird of Hermes. Vatienne should belong to Dax's world-space, not Plaguewalkers. I believe that is number 8 instead of number 9. Other than that, it looks pretty good I put it up in the geography section.

I also added Elrics profile.

Please, if I've missed anyone's profile, let me know. Also, if you need your profile updated, let me know so I can update it. Anything else you can think of that I need to do, just let me know

Great work so far everyone! I can't believe how far we've already gotten with this

[Gabe]

Still working on my profile sheet, but here's the spot of land I wanted. It's the itty bitty green circle (it's actually bigger than I intended) in the middle-right of the upper continent.
EDITED-Sorry! Didn't mean to be a thief!

[Guest]

Sorry, DeadEye, but that kind of intrudes into Ryona's claimed world-space. That area is a swampy part of her country west of the plains some of the sorceresses inhabit. She has claimed that whole peninsula-like area. Check of Bird of Hermes map for a more detailed look at the areas everyone has claimed so far, and what is left.

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