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It Belongs to a Museum

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AsuraAtlas said:
The prophecy of demise bit is really fun, but I've seen this more than a few times now so I want to reiterate that Aenureir uses They/Them pronouns. I'm not sure if the prophecy would apply to them, or any gendered terms would- I know of nonbinary people that are comfortable referring to themselves under some gendered terms and nonbinary people that aren't, but at least in the case of pronouns we definitely shouldn't be using He/Him when talking about them.
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Prophecy is delivered from the perspective of the Seer not the subject. Whoever gave it to him could well have misread their appearance, what with all the terrible beasts and dark magic involved, that would probably be the focus.
 
AsuraAtlas said:
I'm not sure if the prophecy would apply to them, or any gendered terms would- I know of nonbinary people that are comfortable referring to themselves under some gendered terms and nonbinary people that aren't, but at least in the case of pronouns we definitely shouldn't be using He/Him when talking about them.
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Do you think Morathi or Malekith respect people's choice of pronouns? Especially when it comes to things as important to them as the Prophecy of Demise?

I don't. I'd suspect any dark elf who isn't cis is de-facto just as banned from magic as the men are.
 
[X] Mental

He's living in one of the Death capitals of the world, he'll get there. I think pushing him a bit towards scholarship will result in the most interesting results overall though.
 
YARRGHH
[X] Death

TIS A BONEY QUEST MATEYS! YE VOTE WHAT YE WISH TO SEE!

This one will be trained to raise more Tombs for the Citadel of Dusk. I wish not to see capital N Necromancy (necessarily), but a lowercase n necromancy like the Tomb Kings practiced prior to Nagash (including Magical Constructs~~) is where I want to see things head.

May those that fall and wish to serve still have grand statues of their gods to pilot and prance around in (elves like prancing, right?). I wish to see this strange and pious place so far from Ulthuan. I wish to see Tiranoc be explored by stone and soul sunk/swum to the sea floor. I want to see a strange Nehek-Ulthuani fusion rise.

To that end I also don't mind Mental or Life.

BUT I VOTE FOR THE LICHE PRIEST FROM ULTHUAN! YIPPEEE!!
 
[X] Physical
[X] Life
Being a great necromancer is a good step towards being the Pirate prince but not as good as being an actual sailor and navigator, and life just seems like it will help the kid become actually stable and have some social skills.
 
Aw, they seem like a good kid. A bit self-absorbed, like teens are, but determined and observant. And it seems like they're genderqueer, as well? I wonder if awakening has a necro-LGBT community center anywhere...

[X] Death
[X] Life
[X] Mental
 
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One of the things to note, the only way they become our student is if we teach them death. Mental will have them be mentored by someone else in something else. If we want to embrace our role as teacher, then Death is the way to do that.
 
Boney said:
They had thrown off the shackles of who they had been told they were and were still working on who they had been taught they were. So thorough would the purging have to be that even the word 'they' was merely being used as a least bad identifier. Nothing of what they thought they knew can remain for the despair of entrapment to cling to, lest it refoul the new beginning they seek.

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One passenger on an Elven ship that visits your museum catches your attention for being younger, more brooding, and better dressed than the Elves you've met before.

They retreat once more, timid as a desert mouse, and you turn back to your work with a smile. You have a feeling that this one will be just as tenacious as the desert mouse; over the years you've developed something of a sense for those touched by greatness, and just as there's something within such people that calls out to you, there seems to be something in you that calls out to them. Destiny is like water: its flow can carve the world, but refusing to obey it forces the entire current to shape itself around you, leaving eddies that others can find shelter in.

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Ulthuan is the land beloved by the Gods, shaped into a paradise for their favoured children. To live there is to see their fingerprints everywhere you look, to be constantly surrounded by the reminder that the dictate of the Gods outweighs even something as basic as that a continent of stone should not be floating above the surface of the ocean. In such a place, the idea of avoiding a God-touched destiny is barely conceivable.

Aenureir, parched of hope for years, eagerly drinks deep of the poisoned lesson of Nehekhara, where destiny was shattered by Nagash and the shards ground down into powder by Neferata and her coterie. Where ordination had so little remaining hold that a Priest and a Prince, with the blood of the Fourth Dynasty still flowing through his veins, could simply walk away. The place that taught the lesson that all things died; men and beasts, gods and fates, hope and doom. And that in all that death, there is freedom, and that when all things rust away to nothing, that includes the chains and shackles.

Two Princes talk long into the night, and when the Elven ship leaves the next morning, it is without the passenger that it brought to the island.

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Aenureir, by your measure, is a fifteen-year-old bundle of resentment and potential and doom.

Prince Aenureir of Korumel
That definitely isn't their real name. Whoever they are, their ancestor was Aenarion the Defender, and that means they are of the Line of Aenarion: a scattered bloodline that is the subject of all sorts of disparate and vague prophecies and omens.
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....younger, more brooding, and better dressed...
...timid as a desert mouse...just as tenacious as the desert mouse...
...drinks deep of the poison...
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Chuuni scion from another land coming to learn about desert power and escape controlling priest class? Takes new name, compares self to desert mouse? Trying to escape doom and prophecy? Wants to drink poison? Dripped the hell out?



Close enough, welcome back Paul Muad'dib Atreides.

[X] Death

HE WILL LEARN OUR WAYS AS IF HE WAS BORN AMONG DIED AMONG US
 
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EternitynChaos said:
Kinda disappointed to see people going for Mental rather than Death, why even be Uncle Heresy if we're not going to be teaching things people will get mad at us for -_-
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For me its a little Meta in I think Mental would be an excellent way for Boney to get into all sorts of wild lore as driven and smart youngin researches ALL THE THINGS

[X] Mental

AsuraAtlas said:
The prophecy of demise bit is really fun, but I've seen this more than a few times now so I want to reiterate that Aenureir uses They/Them pronouns. I'm not sure if the prophecy would apply to them, or any gendered terms would- I know of nonbinary people that are comfortable referring to themselves under some gendered terms and nonbinary people that aren't, but at least in the case of pronouns we definitely shouldn't be using He/Him when talking about them.
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As noted, Malekith has no way of knowing how much of an ally the prophecy giver is and defaults to murder to resolve ambiguity. Hey maybe thats why all the sorceresses have the tits hanging out "look at how VERY FEMALE I am!!!" :V (yes i know the real reason)
 
[X] Life
[X] Mental

We don't have to make every elf we meet into a necromancer 😂

Also we could use more experts in things and mental seems like the best bet for that. Or let them have a little socializing, as a treat.

DeadmanwalkingXI said:
Uncle Paht can rip out people's souls as easily as he puts on makeup, maybe easier. He does not need people to defend him from physical harm.
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Almost certainly easier. Good makeup takes finesse.
 
For those interested in the mechanical side of things, I do think it worth noting that 'the Amethyst Wind as taught by the Mortuary Cult' is something that Pahtsekhen already has (in the form of 'Knowledge: Magic - Death (Detailed)'). Not sure how Boney's going to treat overlapping skills but choosing [ ] Death means that Aenureir may not be any more useful to the museum than they are right now until more Goodwill is invested into them or possibly until more time passes. If that kind of long haul is what people are signing up for, then fair enough!

French Cowboy said:
One of the things to note, the only way they become our student is if we teach them death. Mental will have them be mentored by someone else in something else. If we want to embrace our role as teacher, then Death is the way to do that.
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I strongly disagree with this sentiment. [ ] Mental notes explicitly that Pahtsekhen will be serving as a teacher and guide to Aenureir in giving them fundamental academic grounding and then by introducing them to more people that they can learn from. That's exactly what a good mentor should do if a pupil wants to learn outside their own expertise - acknowledge that their own expertise has limits and then use their knowledge and contacts to guide them to sources and people who can help to fulfil and expand on their interests and passions. This isn't Pahtsekhen letting Aenureir go; it's introducing them to an academic network that he has, in large part, fostered himself over thousands of years and in which he will remain as a nexus.
 
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