Subject: A summary of things decided
From: Kaoru Shalamberidze (ttikka@icon.fi)
Date: Wed Dec 01 1999 - 21:38:08 EET
Contents of this mail are based on the majik 'pikkujoulu' con and a converstation that has involved atleast : Mandor, Yokraturr, Dazzt, Namhas, Harum, Beregar, Brethel, Mirithil, Malekith, some parts are also 'chatted straight' with Hook and Eleril. The purpose of this mail is to wrap up some decisions and give them the absolute final stamp of "approved". End of debate and bullshit. The stuff presented here : 1. Nature of magic / structure of reality 2. Spells 3. Events behind the creation 4. The elder gods 5. The new gods 6. The ancients 7. Men 8. War of gods 9. Power levels 10. Kinetics between gods 11. The sages 12. Divine points and power mechanisms 13. Avatars 14. Flying rooms 15. NPC's 16. Starting player list 17. The cataclysm 18. Timeline of events in Majik All this stuff here HAS BEEN DECIDED these are NOT proposals. --- 1. Nature of magic and structure of reality Just like in quantum physics, also the majik universe consists of very small parts. These are the parts that from reality. Also the basic idea and force behind magic. They can be called Vim, Vis, Magical Force, Prime Particles, or what ever you will. Lets you Prime Particles or PP in this description. Just like small quantum particles form quarks, protons, atoms etc. In the same way PP's form patterns and patterns from pattern groups. These patterns construct things like time, matter, energy, mind, spirit, space, soul, entropy, etc, etc.. all the spheres/symbols/domains or what ever you want to call them. Everything within the creation is based on PP's and patterns. They are building blocks of reality and existence. When the elder gods created the universe they designed it to work on these basics, there was no magic before this event. Thus elder gods created magic. And they know exactly how the universe works. They see beyond the normal illusion of existence, they know what is beyond. The whole concept of magic is mislead, since there is no such thing, magic is the same as reality. Same as our atoms and leptons, quarks and bosons. The only difference is that in the universe of majik the gods made it possible to see the patterns forming everyhting and they also made it possible for those with skill to manipulate the patterns. That leads us to: 2. Spells Also the concept of spells is a bit mislead. It is as obscure are things like "skill" "talent" "attitude" etc.. in real life. Magic is the act of manipulating reality, or to be more precise the act of manipulating the patterns that form reality. Almost none - NOT EVEN the new gods are able to manipulate everything by manipulating single PP's, that is a vast power usually only in the hands of elder gods. This is a meta-physical base level dealing directly with the base components of reality. Same magical effects can be generated by perhaps a 100 different ways, thus there isnt any one spell like "fireball" the effects similar to "fireball" can be generated by many different reality-manipulative ways, like : changing the energy patterns to create fire, transmuting matter to energy, transporting fire from future/past to the present, transporting fire from another place to this place.. etc.. Players have to able to create their own combinations and their own "spells".. a player mage can invent a comnination that changes reality and gives a fireball-like effect as a result and then he can label that as 'fireball' and cast it as suchs on later day. 3. Events behind the creation First there was Namhas alone in the void. After him came Aluna, Dalia and Sinister. Aluna being 'white' Dalia being 'grey' and Sinister being 'black' After them came their descedants, Dazzt, Mandor, Harum and Yorkaturr. Dalia got too close to Sinister and started being more black than grey, this resulted in Aluna killing Dalia. These events took namaless eons in the world of the void. Also while in the void the gods experiemented, created servants, did their doings for many millena. After eons of age Namhas decided that it was time for something greater, time to start the creation. Gods pretty much destroyed or abandoned their old affairs and servants, bahished them in the abyss. These 7 beings, namhas, aluna, sinister, dazzt, mandor, harum and yorkaturr constructed the universe and did the creation. They based the structure on prime particles and alloved them to be manipulated, thus creating magic (above) they built the whole creation based on similar rules - which however where on their own everchanging hands. The rest of this history follows in Majik time line. 4. The elder gods Elder gods are the most powerful beings in the creation - pretty much because its their own bloody creation :).. Their true forms can never exist in the creation, they always have their true forms in the world of the void. They always use avatars of projections to interact with the creation, thou they can manipulate the creation even from the void. Their true form can never be visible, material or anything alike. Their true forms cannot be touched by anything in the creation, and thus they never can be even harmed - except by each other. Only another elder gods can really harm another. New gods or other beings can destroy the avatars of elder gods, if they have enough power to do that - but just wait a while and that elder god you just killed is back with even meaner avatar :) with a venegance. Elder gods arent just only beings, but also forces that are at work in the universe. Yorkaturr the god of death IS death in every sense. When somebody dies Yorkaturr is there to take him away. The same thing goes for Mandor, when sun has set his presence fills the world in the form of darkness. The portions of elder gods overlap somewhat, but that is ment to be so. 5. The new gods New gods are the first servants and 'assistant powers' created by the elder gods to control and manage the creation. The new gods now in god-level power are the most promising ones of those ever made, they have managed to survive for a very very long time, and they have considerable power. Most powerful of them have about the same power and influence over the creation as do the elder gods - witch the exception that they are part of the creation, not outside it like the elder gods. They can be killed and they can never exist in the primodial world of the void. 6. The ancients The ancients are former new gods or beings who took the form of flesh. They avoided the war of gods by doing this. Their share in the order of things has become a smaller one over time. But they are the ancestors of some races that dwell the world today. Sages belong to this race of the ancients. Today after the cataclysm they are few in existence. 7. Men Humanity was created in the middle of the war of gods by new gods. They created humans to aid them, to ally with them, and to feed them power. Humanity worshipped the new gods and gave them power. Since the patterns of life, soul, spirit and mind are powerfulones, this would have been a good plan - it they ever would have had any change of winning the elder gods. Some of the mannish races were also created by the elder gods, but this was at a later date, after new gods created the first of men. 8. War of gods Some time after the creation the servants of elder gods (new gods) started to disagree with their masters, they even abandoned them in some cases. There were very many spirits/new gods in exitence and only those 7 old geezer gods. Some of the spirits started to gather knowledge and power, make war with each other and so on. When they finally got powerful enough they turned against the elder gods. They got very powerhungry and had severe delusions of grandeour. The war lasted a very long time. Partly because the elder gods had very little interest in it :).. and the end result was clear, new gods lost. After the war elder gods forced new gods to take responsibilities within the creation. And they did so partly by their own will too. World came to a new order and has stayed as such. 9. Power levels I elder gods - namhas II elder gods - sinister and aluna III elder gods - dazzt, mandor, harum and yorkaturr IV new gods - god level V new gods - lesser god level VI new gods - demigod level VII the ancients and the sages Within the levels there ofcourse exists quite view differences, but these are the major brakepoints in power. 10. Kinetics between gods Kinetics of power between mandor, harum and yorkaturr are interesting. They change almost constantly, since these 3 sons step on each others toes and partly overlap sinisters domain aswell. Yorkaturr also dislikes both his brothers, but doesnt dislike sinister. The 3 brothers rarely unite, rarely work together or towards a single goal. They even fight somewhat with each other to 'shake things out' There also exists a nice balance between Dazzt and the 3 brothers. Dazzt is the most powerful of elder god-level gods, He alone against any one single person of the 3 brothers and dazzt would win. But 2 brothers united can beat Dazzt. But since the 3 dont much do things together the balance stays. There also is link between Yorkaturr and Dazzt.. since there is no death without life and no life without death. All healing also requires dying and dying requires healing. This group of 4 gods tend to avoid each other alot. 11. The sages The sages are ancients who took the form of "flesh" the form doesnt have to exactly flesh, but it cant be that of celestial spirit either. Sages are ancient creatures all the way from the time before the war of gods. They watched and learned while others did war, and it was the sages who first predicted the loss of the new gods. The sages today interact with gods and other powers on daily basis. Sages help them, inform them, serve them etc.. or just simply hang around with them. Some sages are even older than some god-level new gods. And almost certainly older than any demigod in existence. Their knowledge is vast and their insight great. And they know the act of manipulating reality very well indeed. And they know gods, some of them even personally. 12. Divine points and power mechanisms Elder gods have _VAST_ number of dinive points and power. They dont need to be worshipped as much to get more of them either. An elder god might even step outside the creation and summon a huge pile of power and then come back - thus effectively generating power from thin air. But usually its too much of a hassle and they have enough power anyways. There also is a power mechanism behind the flow of divine points, much like a pyramid effect in network marketing or something. Eventually everythig will end up to namhas, all good to aluna and all bad to sinister. Elder gods can also draw power from beyond this reality (creating from thin air) Elder gods also have a huge number of woshippers. The power comes flowing from down to up. From the lowest demigod all the way up to namhas. New gods have more narrow domains than elder gods, and they DO NOT have the ability to drain power from cources outside this reality. But they are high in the chain-of-power mechanism, that means that they will get quite much power aswell. However even they can't never fully understand the creation and this reality as good as can those who made it (the elder gods). 13. Avatars Elder gods in the reality always use avatars. What is a true form to a new gods is simply just a prime-avatar for an elder god. Also the earthly avatars of gods exist in the world all the time. There are some nodes or places of power where the skeleton of Yorkaturr sits silently on his throne. When Yorkaturr takes that form it awakens. These avatars can be summoned by powerful ritual that tear reality apart and cause these things to happen. So it is possible to an avatar of Harum without the spirit of harum being inside it. Also death may come to avatars, as well as all other things in the creation. Gods are pretty hard to kill thou.. 14. Flying rooms There was 2 "flying rooms" but they were NOT at any point called 'flying rooms' instead in stories there exist names like 'celestial castles' 'floating mountains' 'celestial mountains' 'sky cities' 'places of origin' etc etc.. The 2 flying thingies were created by new gods in the mids of the war of gods. The other place contained all 'goodie' races like ordinary men, elves etc.. the other contained monster races, and evil ones like trolls. They were 2 huge flying inverted mountains that were kept in hiding from the elder gods and that crashed to the soil of the world. From these places of origin the races spread all over the world. 15. NPC's We dont want dumpass stupid NPC's to run everything. So they are used as little as possible. But they ARE used as assistants and servants by the players. A player own a bakery - he hires a few dumpass NPC's to run it while he isnt online etc.. We try to create as good AI as possible for NPC's and even better and heavier one for NPC monsters who play a much bigger role than assistants. Hopefully players want to run everything themselfs and hopefully we have enough players to do that. 16. Starting player list We decided to gather a list of maybe 500-2000 players that are COMITTED to play the game once it opens. The game starts right after the events of the cataclysm and these 500-2000 players are the ones that build the base of the world again. After they have done enough the game is really opened for everyone. By the time this happens the 500-2000 players will be respected elders, land lords or other old geezers or powerful heroes, helping newbies and perhaps dominating part of them - but hey thats the way it goes. We advertise alot and gather a good 500+ names for this cataclysm launch of events. 17. The cataclysm Events of the cataclysm went as follows : - The background events are deep in history. There existed several powerful beings and creatures that all developed towards this event with or without their own knowledge. - After countless years they started forming groups, one was sinisters covenant, and one the sinisters group of liches, there were others aswell, many others, no one really knows them all since all these groups were secretive and shady. Some smaller groups formed alliances and grew bigger. - They tested their powers against each others and played with great affairs. They battled over things like people, artifacts, knowledge, wealth.. etc.. everything. - This testing escalated into more serious competition and fraction. - By this time the different groups had much influence among humanity and the undead. They started to increase and abuse their power in a great scale of things. - The first negative effects hit the lesser new gods - The groups started an all out war and grew ever stronger in power - They started to attract a huge volume of devoted followers for their ideals, which were forexample atheism and satanism + others. People grew more ignorant towards the gods and more supportive towards their powerful leaders, the different wizardy cabals. Who gave them something of value and a sense of greater purpose. - As more effects backfired on gods they started to realise that this all wasnt a good thing - The cabals and their followers went offensive and started to really resist the gods and the old ways. - The new gods started to resist and fight back, only to find that the elder gods, mainly the evil trio of mandor, harum and yorkaturr were almost entirely behind all this. Mandor feeding hunger for power, harum waging for war and yorkaturr harvesting the dead. - Good gods like Dazzt and other lesser ones started a campaign to help humanity from falling apart. Their efforts were eventually lost however. - The ranks of new gods started to fall apart. Most of their worshippers were now gone or against them. Much of their support and power was gone from their reach. They tried even harder to do something about it but they had too much resistance from the evil elder gods, and the the 9 horsemen of evil. - The workings of the cabal lead to open war of demons and other beings the undead roamed the world and the 9 horsemen caused havoc. - World escalated towards chaos as the new gods abandoned their duties and because of that even more things started to go wrong. The powerhungry cabals had managed to destroy sages, ancients and even few new gods. The real destruction started about this time. - New gods whined beyond anything before. But it was the will of the elders that let humanity destroy themselfs - simply because they are such an assess. Conclave of gods decided to do nothing. Sit and watch as puny humans destroy themselfs. - All the evil creatures of the world finally came out of hiding and joined the symphony of destruction, also good paladins and great holy warriors tried to slay the evil ones. But it was the core of the people that was rotten and what caused the most of the destruction. - Chaos, disorder and madness swept throught the world. Apocalyptic events took place. - Humanity got their share of extreme natural phenomenon, diseases, madness and chaos. As en end result amnesia came. - After their leaders gone and the world in ruins the people still remember some of the old ways and might even return to those paths. 18. Timeline in the world of majik - Namhas in the void - Aluna, Dalia and Sinister - Birth of Dazzt, Mandor, Harum and Yorkaturr - Destruction of Dalia - Abandoning of the voidal life - The creation - Creation of servant spirits - The ways separate to new gods, ancients and sages - Plantlife and the world is created - Sinister freezez the world in his fate of the sun - Aluna defrobs the world, mostly - Sinister takes the great mirror - The new gods start to gather power and might - The war between gods start - Sinister brakes his great mirror, demons enter the world - New gods create humanity - Elder gods find out but dont care - Elder gods create few species of their own - The war escalates into a point where the new gods are powerless - Elder gods win, the world takes a new order - Prosperous times follow, humanity grows and life is beautiful - The powerhungry cabals start to get formed - Their struggle escalates into a war - The chaos begins - Gods decide to do nothing - The cataclysm takes place - Now This timeline is only a pretty quick draft =) this should be filled in more perfectly at a later time. But iv been writing this damn mail for like 2 hours now, id like very much to finish this. .mandor
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