I'd just like you to know that your immigration triggered something in my brain that caused me to spend three hours arguing with myself about various aspects of Shirithian culture. I was originally going to post at least something of a treatise on how a system of magic could work out in Shireroth, but I'm frankly tired of doing that today - I spent too long telling about it to myself already
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It's just as well, though, since I don't think it could have *really* worked out anyway. We're not particularly interested in a roleplaying system such as the magic in Tokidoki (which, by the way, I see you've invested quite an impressive amount of effort on). The reason is that Shirithian roleplaying really takes two forms, neither of which really has a need for them:
- one is the everyday "mundane" functioning of the Shirithian state. There's actually a somewhat deep and difficult-to-understand principle at work here, that of keeping the actual microstate apart from the fantasy world of Micras and suchall. You don't really see that principle at work most of the time, but for what it's worth we do follow it on a level... introducing "rules of magic" for the fantasy world would unnecessarily complicate handling the life of the actual microstate.
- the other is dedicated storywriting, which is usually simply in the form of stories written by single people, sometimes in story threads. In our tradition of story threads, each post is generally several paragraphs long and often involves different people's characters interacting - here, if you're concerned about putting words into other people's characters mouths (you can often avoid this in imaginative ways, though) you can just run your story submission by the other authors before publishing it. There's not really a need for rules - the stories just work out... well, until they die of inactivity
So, now, with that said, let's get down to the real meat. Yes, Shireroth's fictional history has magic in it. Lots of magic. You need to go no further than
SSHIT (yes, I know) to find what's been done so far. Tales of Khaz Modan (well, I guess I should say "Tale of Khaz Modan" in this case..) and The Ages of Shireroth should be of special interest. How about you read that stuff and tell us what you think of it so far? Erik kept purposefully silent about the history for years so that someone would step up to the plate and be free to make what they wanted out of Khaz Modan. Shyriath did a lot, but there's so much more that can be done by someone with your imagination...
No-one should be without a parasol, Sirocco.
