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NorseQuest (A Norse Xianxia)

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I just thought it would be interesting to let it be a flaw of Halla's instead of striving for all-round excellence, if the dice keep leaning that way.
 
Ripley said:
I just thought it would be interesting to let it be a flaw of Halla's instead of striving for all-round excellence, if the dice keep leaning that way.
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The thing is, we're never actually gonna wind up bad at Poetry in the long run. Even with a zero, we're gonna inevitably be Hugr focused enough that we're at least an average poet. Like, if she doesn't have Hugr at least 6 by adulthood, I'll be shocked, and that winds up mechanically identical to the guy with Hugr 4 (the average) and Poetry 2 even if her own Poetry is 0. Which is enough to average decent poetry off the cuff.

And we're a xianxia protagonist using magic to, near as I can tell, literally enhance ourselves physically and mentally. Being good at everything by reasonable standards is sort of inevitable, even if some of them you're below average at by xianxia standards.
 
Imperial Fister said:
I will give you a small hint.

The Crow-Mother is not Norse in origin.
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…Is the Witch Irish/Celtic?

Crow Mother sounds like a face of The Morrigan/The Three, and she has a habit of kidnapping girls and "tutoring" them if memory serves?

Edit: Seems like there's already been discussion along those lines.

Also thank you to whoever quoted the hidden text, the witch scenes were becoming very confusing to me, with her freaking out and fleeing for seemingly no reason I could discern. I felt as confused as Halla.
 
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Hm. I wonder if the spirit knows any magic? I know he's not a woman, so he it would be somewhat unusual for him to know magic, but it's not like it's impossible, since Odin is a thing. Actually, he does know seidr - he taught us the healing palm spell. I'd rather try to learn from him than the witch - from what we've seen of her so far, she can't be trusted at all.

Can't really follow up on that line of thought, though, since we can't even communicate with the old man right now. I don't trust the witch to help us with that, either, since the old man is clearly trying to stop her from doing something to us, and if we're able to hear the old man it'd be much harder for her to do whatever she wants to do.
 
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Constenanto said:
Hm. I wonder if the spirit knows any magic? I know he's not a woman, so he it would be somewhat unusual for him to know magic, but it's not like it's impossible, since Odin is a thing. Actually, he does know seidr - he taught us the healing palm spell. I'd rather try to learn from him than the witch - from what we've seen of her so far, she can't be trusted at all.

Can't really follow up on that line of thought, though, since we can't even communicate with the old man right now. I don't trust the witch to help us with that, either, since the old man is clearly trying to stop her from doing something to us, and if we're able to head the old man it'd be much harder for her to do whatever she wants to do.
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For non-seidr there's also whoever taught our brother Eric, since he has elemental magic. The difficulty there is that we aren't actually aware of that fact, as it was only revealed OOC, so we can't readily ask him. The kind of person who can teach that might even be able to spot and/or communicate with our patron spirit...or not. I'm honestly not sure what magic falls under 'acceptable for men' and which is 'women only' or even whether whoever taught Eric is a man or a woman (though his knowing it almost certainly means such elemental magics are acceptable for men).
 
DeadmanwalkingXI said:
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Perhaps it was Steinarr who taught him? I can't really think of any other noteworthy warriors we've met, and we only know the Hading Witch. However, that's not really saying much - we don't really spend much time in the village from what I can tell. Not to mention that Eric might've just learned it from somewhere outside the village.
 
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Perhaps it was Steinarr who taught him? I can't really think of any other noteworthy warriors we've met, and we only know the Hading Witch. However, that's not really saying much - we don't really spend much time in the village from what I can tell. Not to mention that Eric might've just learned it from somewhere outside the village.
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It's very possible, though if so I suspect it's a different enough discipline that it won't help with our spirit issues (Steinar has not shown any great spiritual insight). Still, if we show off our fylgja for dad when he gets back he'll probably at least talk about whatever magic he is familiar with. Possibly moreso if we've raised its level a bit.
 
Just a reminder, but if we can push Eric in a spar or see warriors really going at it the magic searching will be added to our journal.
 
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TheCount said:
Just a reminder, but if we can push Eric in a spar or see warriors really going at it the magic searching will be added to our journal.
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Fair, we probably are actually getting good enough to potentially push him into using spells. Maybe next turn. Sparring with Eric would pair well with going into the hills to look for meteor related stuff, since those are separate action categories.
 
Given the spirit's association with fire ("you will burn" and the fire imagery in the confrontation with the witch), I'm guessing it's either derived from Loki or a fire giant. Both of those would be good reason not to be bound by Norse gender stereotypes.
 
KreenWarrior said:
Given the spirit's association with fire ("you will burn" and the fire imagery in the confrontation with the witch), I'm guessing it's either derived from Loki or a fire giant. Both of those would be good reason not to be bound by Norse gender stereotypes.
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Imagine if we were contracted to Surtr of all spirits. Cause when you think Norse and Fire it's surtr that comes to mind.
 
KreenWarrior said:
Given the spirit's association with fire ("you will burn" and the fire imagery in the confrontation with the witch), I'm guessing it's either derived from Loki or a fire giant. Both of those would be good reason not to be bound by Norse gender stereotypes.
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I'm doubtful, mostly because of its reaction to her assuming it was associated with Jormungandr. That reads to me like it's something opposed to the World Serpent in some sense which neither of those options are.
 
And voting is now closed.
Scheduled vote count started by Imperial Fister on Feb 16, 2023 at 5:49 PM, finished with 47 posts and 14 votes.
  • [X] Plan More Witchcraft And Feelings (but without the Witch)
    -[X] (Seasonal) Help prepare the yearly offering to the gods.
    - [X] (Abjorn's Feelings) You have come to a conclusion about Abjorn, but his thoughts are currently unknown. You need to find out.
    --[X] Tell him in a straightforward fashion that Halla is interested and explain why as clearly as we can
    -[X] (Visit) Go visit...
    --[X] Runby, Aki's Farm
    -[X] (Training) Hamr (15 successes to rank up)
    --[X] Train Shields 1d6
    -[X] (Training) Hugr (7 successes to rank up)
    --[X] Train Poetry 1d6
    -[X] (Training) Fylgja (2 successes to rank up)
    --[X] Train Fylgja Itself 1d6
    --[X] Train Command 1d6
    -[X] (Orthstirr Usage)
    --[X] 4 Hamr
    --[X] 4 Hugr
    --[X] 2 Silver-Tongue
    --[X] 1 free for tricks
    [X] Plan: A good warrior prepares carefully.
    -[X] (Seasonal) Help prepare the yearly offering to the gods.
    -[X] (Personal) Ask Randi to tell you some stories
    --[X] as Randi for advice on poetry and boys
    -[X] (Visit) Go visit...
    --[X] Runby, Aki's Farm
    -[X] (Training) Hugr (7 successes to rank up)
    --[X]Train Poetry 4d6
    ---[X] topic: how cool her friends are
    -[X] (Orthstirr Usage)
    --[X] 4 Hamr
    --[X] 4 Hugr
    --[X] 2 Silver-Tongue
    --[X] 1 free for tricks
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KreenWarrior said:
Alternately, something *more dangerous* than Jormungandr, which Loki could qualify for, as Jormungandr's father.
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Odin is Thor's father, too, but I wouldn't call him more dangerous per se. Frankly, given that Jormungandr is the one to kill Thor during Ragnarok I think calling just about anyone more dangerous in terms of raw power is probably deeply incorrect...Jormungandr is one of the single most powerful beings in existence.
 
DeadmanwalkingXI said:
Odin is Thor's father, too, but I wouldn't call him more dangerous per se. Frankly, given that Jormungandr is the one to kill Thor during Ragnarok I think calling just about anyone more dangerous in terms of raw power is probably deeply incorrect...Jormungandr is one of the single most powerful beings in existence.
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It is also worth noting that Jormungandr was once kept as a pet cat by another Jotun.
 
I would almost say Surtr is more dangerous than Jorgumandr since he is the source of Ragnarok with his sword. Plus his whole being the king of Muselpheim aka the place constantly on fire. Really all the sources of Ragnarok are dangerous anyways.

Plus no offense but I would count Loki as the father of two of the threats aka Fenrir and Jorgumandr but he himself isn't as dangerous as them. Dude is a trickster and not outright fighting power after all.
 
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