Welcome to Gaia! ::

Yes, unfortunately, that fact is known...
It would appear my mother had a new child so I now have a new sibling...
I'll put up a picture eventually...
His name is Trevor...

hurray! a new baby! blaugh *hearts kids.*

and oh? sweatdrop you didn't know? well, it's in my intro i think... but yeah, i have Klinefelter's syndrome, which means i hae XXY chromosomes. and i swear to th egods, i have p***s, testes AND ovaries, cause damnit, i can FEEL THEM! gonk and my hips are freaking abnormal, which is more evidence. plus, the fact that i have monitored my emotions for a year to find that i do n fact have a 28 day cycle of my emotions becoming more violent and then less violent, and then more, and then less, and so on.

Well in the Dragonlance world I believe gnomes and dwarves came from the same source. One descended from the ones who followed the greygem and the others from something else related to this artifact. Which BTW was a gem that imprisoned the father (I think it was) of all the current gods in that realm. They worked together to imprison him in this artifact so they could run things. Tell ya how bad-a** he was that all the others had to gang up to keep him down... atleast for a while. He was eventually released and caused all the gods to leave the realm and what became the second age I think it was called.

Back to your post... I think Orcs shouldn't be by themselves, but more like a combination of two other races originally. Maybe their ancestor was a descendant of one from each side of the Sidhe.

So you're like a male cailco cat? XD

That does suck though.

RE biggrin ragonlance: Gnomes were the first race. Some found the Graygem. Those who wanted to keep it for greed became dwarves, those who wanted to see inside became kender, and those that weren't around stayed gnomes. Then gnomes and dwarves tried to breed, and we got gully dwarves.

i feel very strongly about Orcs being a standalone race... they come across to me as a very primal, pure species. ya know?

and so i take it the general consensus is Gnome-Dwarf relation? you guys all seem comfortable with DL.

anywho, Chem, what about the Naga are you wondering in particular?

Note to self to watch future competition for elimination when they get too close to my goal... twisted




I think he's wondering where they fit in the scheme. We have most races coming from the Sidhe, but orcs are different and I assume nagas would be as well? Or do they spring from the Sidhe as well? Course we can always have Exo-solar or Exo-dimension possibly, but then it gets complicated.

I have a question jumping the guns a bit, so do we allow chronomancy amungst the magi? I think it's a very tricky subject to deal with and maybe should be left out. If it is in, it should be severely limited and 'watched' by the TimeKeepers.

well, i don't realy exactly know the real-world mythologies behind Naga origins, so i woudl say let's look into that first.... i would think they seem more like either a standalone race; a race descended of the same that spawned the Sahuagin, Merrow, Merfolk, Lizardfolk, Trogladites and Dragons; or some kind of descendant of Demonkin. but as i said, let's look into it first.

i do like your idea of it alot Nola. it reminds me of Dragon, Extraterrestial, and Extradimensional being theories i have encountered on the paranormal and occult. perhaps then, that race was origionally either some kind of space alien or god of some kind, they would have made nagas as hybrids of their own race and humans, meant to be slaves or perhaps proxies ruling over human cities for them, and modern day dragons are merely a less powerfull form of their godly ancestors (which wold explain why dragon magic is so powerful and ancient, and perhaps mean that some of the oldest dragons may still have a spark of divinity).

as for Chronomancy, yeah, i don't think we need to make it a standalone magical discipline... confused that can get way out of hand... keep it simple and short, like along the lines of what you see from currently created Mage spells, or psionic powers of the Psychoportation discipline. messing with Time and Space is serious business. i think Slow/Stop spells, Haste spells, dimensional travel and short time-jumps (like the one that steals yourself from 1 round in the future, causing there to be two of you at once one round, none of you the second round, and then one of you again after that) are already interesting enough, and a good limit to time-magic.

thusly creating unnessasary headaches. xp if it won't realy matter anyway, why complicate it? it's so much simpler to just say that there are limits to what the spells and abilities that mortals possess are capable of.