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 Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2006 8:58 am
Ummm... question. Please forgive me if it's a dumb one, but I want to make sure this thought is acceptable before I start the fleshing out since it would have an effect on how I work things.
Fa'e need a reason / desire to be reborn, right? Well, would it be acceptable for my concept (Simorgh) to end his own life- not for anything grandiose or tragic, but because he's bored and wants to be reborn into a life where he can experience things instead of sitting around watching everybody? He wouldn't have done it knowing that he was going to become a Fa'e-- just got caught in that net before becoming a normal human or bird or whatever.
EDIT: Oh, hrrnrnngh, I asked this in the wrong place, didn't I? D: S'what I get for skimming. xx;
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Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2006 12:14 pm
No, this is the right place. ^^
This isn't an official answer, but I'd say no. Mind you, I don't know much about Persian mythology, but I didn't think they believed in reincarnation. Plus, the desire to be reborn has be pretty strong because it's enough to keep a mythical creature/person/place's soul floating around in this world long enough for Airi to bring them back. If he killed himself just "because he was bored" I doubt his spirit would have hung around.
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Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2006 12:27 pm
Alright, I'll keep that in mind. Thanks. :3
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Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2006 8:38 pm
Actually -- though it was changed since then -- Lethe's original concept had her committing suicide because she wanted to be human. So it's acceptable, though as Chibichi pointed out, may not be entirely appropriate.
(Though I think suicide, of all possible deaths, would be the one most likely to have the soul hang around, personally... But that is my opinion.)
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Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 5:31 pm
... I would say it's they "I'm bored" part that makes it different from the I want to be human. If the focus is boredom instead of wanting to be something else, there might be a bit of a question as to what keeps you around. Now if the character has a reason to believe that they will be reborn somehow, and really wants to be able to do something instead of just watching, you have a reason to stick around. I usually think unfinished business, or something along those lines.
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[Edit]I got my question answered.[/Edit]
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Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 6:02 pm
I probably worded it wrong-- it's more of an "I'm stuck" than "I'm bored". The Simorgh is a creature with infinite knowledge, and the way I have it figured out he can't really do anything with it-- so even if Persian mythology doesn't have anything on reincarnation, I think his powerful desire for experience would bring him back?
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Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 9:55 pm
Two Questions!
My Quest is for Ifrit Thread here
One: I read somewhere that culture is imporant for a Fa'e but as a Djinn I wouldn't think that Numair would know very much about the culture. He wasn't always out and about. He came out, granted wishes and went back into his lamp. So my question is: How would I make culture apart of Numair's life if he never learned Arabic culture in the first place?
Two: I also read somewhere that Fa'e would need to learn English but again, as a Djinn, he'd have to know many langauges so that he could talk to anyone who happened to rub the lamp. He can't grant wishes if he can't understand his "Master". So my question is: Is already having knowledge of many langagues bad? Or Is it possible to limit this?Question answered in main thread.
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Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 9:10 pm
I dont have a question so much as a suggestion:
Would it be possible, to get a mock rp area in the questers guild so that we can brush up on our RP skills?
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Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 10:49 pm
caffinated_tulip I dont have a question so much as a suggestion: Would it be possible, to get a mock rp area in the questers guild so that we can brush up on our RP skills? I second this suggestion.
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Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 11:41 am
Radiant Rain caffinated_tulip I dont have a question so much as a suggestion: Would it be possible, to get a mock rp area in the questers guild so that we can brush up on our RP skills? I second this suggestion. It could help people flesh out personalities, and fix them too.
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Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 10:37 am
I'll bring this suggestion up to the appropriate people, though I can't make any promises. 3nodding
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Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 7:51 pm
Cerena I'll bring this suggestion up to the appropriate people, though I can't make any promises. 3nodding Thanks Cerena! heart
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Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 10:17 am
hoho D8~
quest thread~: http://www.gaiaonline.com/guilds/viewtopic.php?t=6084727
soo. i need to revise Ogo's story, I think. There are numerous versions of the story, but all of them involve ogo coming from the cosmic egg. could perhaps amma be like, a part of chaos?
right now, it says that amma created the universe and was the universe, and that ogo created the imperfect humans. could i say, alter this and make it so that amma == world, and so is the creator god within the universe set up by chaos?
i am no good at this thinking thing. xD but i do want to change it so it matches with the fa'e story! 3nodding
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Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 10:43 am
I just thought I'd stick my two cents in for the mock rp idea, sorry if I'm butting in here. ^^; I don't remember when, most likely about two or so years ago, another quester brought this up, and people jusmped all over her. While I think it would be a good idea for fleshing out, a few people brought up some other points that I would have to agree with also. Main point being, it's might be hard or some people who do get their Fa'e to draw the line between mock and real. It's possible, and I think it would be fun, but I just wanted to bring that up.
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Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 1:17 pm
I think the way we officially have it, Astra, is that Earth/Gaia is composed of many "multiverses" all occupying the same physical space, and... Each culture's gods are responsible for the creation of the universe, depending on what the person believed in?
Err, ok, that sounds kind of confusing. Let me think of an example.
Ancient Greek mythology holds that everything emerged from the womb of Chaos, so it is directly and indirectly responsible for the creation of everything else. This is true for Lethe for as long as she believes this: the Greek gods act as if this had happened, she acts as if this had happened, to their mind this is the only 'true' way that the world -- at least the world that believes in them, Greece -- was created.
On the other hand, you have Xo and her crazy Aztec world-creation beliefs, so in her mind and in the mind of the gods, that is the only true way that the world was created that they will acknowledge. Lethe and her Greek gods may claim to have made Mexico, and Xo and her gods may claim to have made Greece, and this may be true in their minds but who really knows because it's ultimately subjective oh god this is so confusing
The only problem with doing it your way -- making Amma the world and the creator god within the universe set up by Chaos -- is that it'd be overriding and negating the mythology and beliefs of everyone else, and would probably give your Fa'e the definite advantage, being that apparently he's the only one actually descended from the "True creator god".
You could very definitely have something where your Fa'e is sent to reclaim the world back from everyone else and their heretic religious beliefs, to try and convince everyone that the world really was created by amma, but you can't actually say definitively that the world was created by amma when there are so many other Fa'e going NO IT WASN'T.
Does that make sense?
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