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[Eldagusto]

I’m not a big fan of using Elves, Dwarves and Orcs just because they are DND staples.

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Exactly people really underestimate the impact of government and cultural incentives towards breeding. Seriously if you have a system that is stable enough to keep a solar system roughly unified ( remember a feat unachieved on even a planetary scale) growing the population when space, food and energy isn't an issue is a piece of cake....

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Except people will have a standard of living far above even the affluent have now a days, as well as plenty of societal safety nets. You really can't underestimate post Scarcity lifestyles, seriously when Energy and Fabrication are cheap and efficient, and when you have societal incentives to raise children and provided housing you don't have the same fears folks have now when they raise children. Aeon even mentions the reduced hourly work week and how longer hours are essentially hobbies or for the insanely driven. Your standard of living won't suffer for raising children, medical benefits,...

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Cool idea its like a mix of the Aegis idea, Lord Heru's thread on Prehistoric Psiads, and my ideas I am contemplating for an Aphelion setting....

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I would say sure why not, after the 6th Maelstrom you could have the Kingdom in Disarray especially if they fought the Ghost of Enoch and the Jade Kingdom before the storm hit and Gorool stirred.

Maybe find some sort of legendary Artifact of sovereignty like Siklos, or the Mask or Mantle of a God l really wish we had a mechanic to represent becoming a potent ghost....

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Thanks for taking point, good looking out....

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That's actually a clever idea!...

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2nd edition also states that White Jade is the only jade used for currency, as its optimal for the stabilizing effects of the Order Conferring Trade Pattern. They seem to ignore this though in 3rd ed, at least as far as pictures depicting currency is concerned.

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There is a big difference between second editions stance that the realm extinctified all predatory and dangerous beasts to 3rd Ed’s stance that the Dragon Blooded made the Blessed Isle more or less safe from being eaten by beasts as you travel but they still have wildlife reserves and dangerous forests you just don’t go to. And I would imagine mountain peaks in particular were low priority in genociding all life they didn’t agree 100% with. And not all pterosaurs would be an issue, some would be eating fish and animals hawks would eat.

Essentially we have wolves still on the...

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Nah we call them Leatherwings fam.
And I see no problem with Pterasaurs being on the Isle. Its a big continent with lots of Mountains and Valleys. They exist in my setting on the Isle, because there is a difference between governors ignoring Pteradactyls eating sheep and Governors setting up an Ambush to herd or Kill Tyrant Lizards next to the University....

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Ohh I didn't consider that the Director could be a hyper advanced Psiad! Maybe the Director is Immortal and the equivalent of a Hammersmith Survivor, so erupted in the past and worked in shadows to cultivate power. I do like the idea of flat out just having one 8+ Psi being.

Another option is to homebrew a High top tier Talent. I've explored the Idea alternate Versions of Mercer who travels between Universes rather then Time, and the idea of a Higher Tier Talent to represent certain depictions of super-geniuses like Mycroft Holmes so he makes accurate projections of geopolitical...

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Perhaps some beings have become Nameless Gods, so they choose an Iconic Animal Totem Sacrifice their name and they function as High Sekhem Arisen but without the urge to sleep or die, and maybe they are just Immortal unless killed? So they are freer and more powerful then a general Arisen but operate under similar systems of power. The main Gods probably were mightier than the individual Shaniatu, and either at the same level as the Judges a notch above them. So perhaps newer Nameless Gods are around Judge level until they get beefier.

You probably just need minimal changes to...

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I love these discussions, you always have such interesting Threads. I want Trinity to become bigger so we have a larger community because I really love the ideas that pop up for it! Can you explain to me plans you have for it being a Grand System? Any links I can read for Solar Systems with Seven stars, its an interesting concept I would like to look into. To colonists it would certainly seem auspicious, supremely so and I would imagine it would inspire religious reflection on how it seems to be perfectly designed, while other would definitely think about how much of the System was artificially...

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Okay that's fair if its a full on change to the setting. So are we wanting to have demons slowly leak out over the last century due to nuclear weapons? I would recommend that initial Godmachine Pain Prophet story in the 1st New World of Darkness book. Maybe the Manhattan project sealed the explosion as a ritual by stating I am become Shiva Destroyer of Worlds. I can see that being a ritual made to call upon the Final House in their role as Keepers of the Underworld to give each bomb a power to and authority to weaken the Seal of the Abyss. Maybe Lucifer or Archdukes slipped occult fundamentals...

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Yeah I really like that. Some people switched with others from the multiverse could be a seed bed of plots continuously, so much potential there, maybe even some instances of multiple of the same individual, and conflict on who is actually married to a spouse or owns property.

I also like the idea for big eruption events like this that some folks appear to die but exist as "ghosts", so astral being maybe like the Doyen, or maybe Quantum Wraiths. But I think its a good idea to introduce the idea maybe a lot of people died on the Journey. Maybe for instance the whole caravan/armada/colony...

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It wasn't just Nuclear detonations that freed the Fallen, it was because Ravnos and 3 Fate Heavy Bodhisattvas were blown away by Spirit Dampening Neutron Bombs and Sun Beams in the middle of a Storm of literal reality warping nightmare, while at the same time Enoch was blown away by a Relic Nuclear Bomb, Doissetep was eradicated releasing Archmage level energies, and a Mad Scientist traveled to the mouth of the Abyss through the Labyrinthe and detonated a bomb there for observation. All of this coalesced, and also I think it was implied Cappadocius' wraith was also performing rituals in the underworld...

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Way of the Spirits allows you to use powers through perception. I'm not sure what you are asking for as well though. Auspex has a kind of Psi attack, but I like the idea of Dominate/Auspex combo allowing you to stun different senses. Or use Potence and Presence to damage with your disdain.

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Wasn't it stated Horus didn't have Perfect Balance and that Anubis had more then him (I forget if Anubis is supposed to be the only one with Balance 10 or if even he was at 9 rather then 10)....

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You could just have it Arisen stay active until killed or decide to die. They naturally build up power, but if killed they die till the next Sothic Turn and they start over again having lost a lot of memories and powers. Simple and clean.

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Oh I was thinking that Psiads grew into the thousands too. I was just thinking it was a growth, and exponential growth at that. So they started with a dozen or so prejump Psiads. The Journey erupted a couple hundred psiads but by the time they start having Kids you get populations in the Thousands, probably with several factions theorizing on all of humanity becoming Psi users, but maybe some not wanting that out of fear, and others might even realize making Humanity a Noetic Species closes off the options for Talents and Quantum.


Hmmm maybe the Engines supercharged and...