12-06-2015, 07:46 PM
(12-06-2015, 10:54 AM)TheSphinx Wrote: Thanks! But now this raises another question: what relation and attitude do people on the Islands have with this magic? A huge spell that shields the archipelago, humans that live centuries, extreme climate variety... do people know about its presence and just acknowledge it as trivial? Or they don't know about it? Basically, how would a generic character react if he were told about all this? Do we know about the existance of magic itself? Since we're not allowed to play magical characters, I feel this could be a useful information to define a character's behavior and knowledge about his/her own world.
A generic character might know that long lived humans and climate controlled islands are 'off' but it is also all that the character has ever known so it wouldn't be that strange or different. Most people on the islands know that their origins were from a 'mad wizard' and the islands were this wizard's playground originally. The wizard is gone but he made the islands to last and function without him. (Some say the natives rebelled against him, some say he ascended and gave the islands to his creations, some say he's still around)
So to a generic character? That's just how it goes. Unicornis on bicycles? Eight foot tall carpenter ants? A winged snake? Sure... whatever.