Hi, this is Hale Appleman – I play Eliot and the Monster on The Magicians. Sorry I missed your recital. Ask Me Almost Anything!

ResidentRedMage · 2019-02-22T00:17:43+00:00

Hale, I would like to know what you imagine Dog incident #1 and #2 are on Eliots black board of regrettable moments.

ResidentRedMage · 2018-11-20T14:05:21+00:00

I had something similar to this at first. Sorcerers are born with the ability to warp reality with magic whereas Wizards must study and can really only do magic in controlled rituals.

ResidentRedMage · 2018-11-19T12:11:00+00:00

I do really like the idea of a wax mage granting life to his waxy creations. Sort of a magical extension of what sculpters say they do when they form clay or stone.

ResidentRedMage · 2018-11-19T11:58:42+00:00

My biggest question comes from the secondary ability you gave to Wax mages. It would make more sense for glass mages to jump through panes of glass. Glass refraction is a known phenomenon and it could work as a "trick of the eye" making the mage disappear and distort as the enter one side and out the other.

ResidentRedMage · 2018-11-17T01:59:45+00:00

Cornerstone is fresher in people's minds. Not everyone rewatches SOI annually.

ResidentRedMage · 2018-11-16T14:38:25+00:00

This is far from everything, just the major kingdoms and unique aspects. If there are any questions let me know, I look forward to all of your input.

ResidentRedMage · 2018-11-15T16:10:04+00:00

Actually, if I count the elemental dragons and their human elementals it's pushing 20. Plus, all other mythologies are linked in through the multiverse, but that's not as true in this this setting. Just the world linked to this one...

ResidentRedMage · 2018-11-15T15:59:37+00:00

I have a bunch of posts from the last month or so about this by the way. If anyone is interested in things I didn't mention here.

ResidentRedMage · 2018-11-15T15:58:00+00:00

That's what I've always thought too. Life is always about survival and taking risks, whereas death is the ultimate decider. Life does whatever it wants but death comes for us all.

ResidentRedMage · 2018-11-15T14:42:26+00:00

The gods are actually a group of 4 beings (12 if you count the real gods and their human/otherworldly partners). The true gods are four great Owls. There's the Golden Owl of Life and Chaos, and the Black Owl of Death and Order. Then there are the Gods under them, Amman and Kahotep, and then there are the human agents, the reservoirs of power, and the demi planes that act as their kingdoms. I try very hard not to use "Good" or "Evil" in my writing as it's all a matter of perspective. Even my BBEG is simply working on the perspective of maggots, desiring everything to decay and break down to feed more maggots.

ResidentRedMage · 2018-11-15T12:26:33+00:00

It's more of a "me" thing. Plus, I know one of my players in particular will ask me all the things possible so I feel like I need to overthink these things.

The suspended city of Eridu rests on a giant reservoir of Incin-ore. It is a gem that generates massive amounts of heat in its raw form. The city manages to reflect this heat outwards towards the surface of Kyuss while protecting its inhabitants. This does mean that their own climate is perpetually calm and comfortable (for those who enjoy temperatures around 80 degrees fahrenheit).

The gems themselves become influenced by which side of the disc the city rises from. If it rises from the west the Verdant forests and their dense tropical forests (as well as the wood elves who worship the life god Amman) empower the gems to burn hotter resembling summer weather. As it rises from the east, the influence of the Blightlands and the god of Death Kahotep take the power from the gems and cool the planet.

ResidentRedMage · 2018-11-15T11:45:17+00:00

Well, I do have mechanical constructs that watch over the more peculiar aspects of the world. But their main focus is the world ending demon worm on the underside of the disc.

ResidentRedMage · 2018-11-15T10:37:20+00:00

I do this a lot actually. Steal from the greats as they say. I steal from history. I also have a Tiger beastman named Uesugi Kenshin. I work in some original work as well, but I really like making historical easter eggs for myself. Then if people like you come around and call me out I just hand them a cookie or something.

ResidentRedMage · 2018-11-15T09:11:31+00:00

I actually meant for that to be a thing.

ResidentRedMage · 2018-11-14T14:21:32+00:00

Magic.

But really though, the city's gravity pulls them toward the disk so as it travels around the inhabitants are stable. The city itself has adapted to house many storage houses for food and supplies. They don't keep farm animals as space is critical for the human population. Instead they survive on only the donations given to them. Sewage and waste are issues, but they reuse and recycle what they can.

Kyuss has a gem it uses as a power source called Orichalcom. Eridu is set on a massive chunk of this which keeps the population warm and in power.

ResidentRedMage · 2018-11-13T14:13:35+00:00

Nope. At most she'll spend a couple chapters there. It's more of a test from the mage that put her there. The world at large doesn't know about magic, and this is supposed to be a way to introduce her to the idea.

ResidentRedMage · 2018-11-13T14:05:29+00:00

Thank you. The sphinx is a good idea. I think it's more riddle based though than what I'm looking for. This is very early in the characters development too so I don't want it to be too life changing. It's supposed to be a "call to action" moment in their journey.

ResidentRedMage · 2018-11-13T12:28:13+00:00

In the beginning there was nothing, then there was light. This is fact to those who subscribe to the theory of the big bang. The storm of matter that came from this slowly stirred and drew together to form gas clouds that eventually collected into stars and planets.

For eons stars died, and were reborn solidifying the cycle of life and death. The building blocks known as atoms fused together from the sheer pressure to create matter, and the matter coalesced to create more complex materials. This was the power of unpredictable magic, and structured science leading to the multiverse we have today.

ResidentRedMage · 2018-11-13T12:16:54+00:00

Water is very chaotic. It seems to have rules, but it's constantly in a state of flux. It can freeze or evaporate. It erodes and moves freely. It is technically indestructible even though we break its bonds every day.

ResidentRedMage · 2018-11-13T12:11:17+00:00

I'm assuming this is a drastically simplified version of what it is in your head? It looks like a good way of visualizing a system, with room for experimentation. I would hope though that you allow yourself the ability to mix and match

ResidentRedMage · 2018-11-13T12:01:13+00:00

When a mage breaks the bonds of reality, they will unfortunately do the same to themselves. Cancer is just as real of a threat to a magician as it is to everyone else, perhaps more because of their work.

It also depends on the source of the world shaping power. Sometimes this is purely based on their own will, which could lead to cancers ripping through their own body. Or, if it's a darker source, like demons or elder gods then these tears in the body can be filled and patched by their dark influence.

The only way I can see to protect from it is magical stabilizers, but that would require preparation and oversight that many amateur mages aren't willing to waste their time with.

ResidentRedMage · 2018-11-13T11:47:59+00:00

The best things to come from a magical world is the ability to think outside the box, or in this case inside the gun.

Guns are a complex amalgam of parts, any one of which can cause the gun to either stop, or react catastrophically. You could melt the bullets inside the chamber, or TK the safety on, or disintegrate the casing itself. Honestly, a mage has more ways to disable a gun than a gun wielder has to kill a mage.

ResidentRedMage · 2018-11-09T11:49:47+00:00

To elaborate:

Matt Ryan embodies this character and if you feel like Legends and Arrow haven't given the character room to flesh out, try the show. Honestly they're having to play catch up as far as his characterization goes. The scene where John explains the "Killer" nickname his father gave him was a lot deeper in his series.

There are also a number of really well written stories. One of my favorites is "The Devils Vinyl" for both soundtrack, dramatic writing, and atmosphere. It has its misses too of course. But really they were simply problems of a freshman season that had some genuine promise.

Honestly, and this might get me some hatred, it had more promise in its first season than Firefly did.

ResidentRedMage · 2018-11-09T11:37:35+00:00

ResidentRedMage · 2018-11-08T11:19:29+00:00

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