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DakkaMania said:
Btw, any ideas what's up with this?

Actually, thinking about it, he should really get his work done simply so that the next king might be able to review the surveyors around Gulvalley. The maps never looked right with what was known of the place, and he suspected something had gone wrong at some point.
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#AcademiaNutHatesCartographers

This is a well established concept.

*cries*
 
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Potato and Chip said:
From the sound of it we have yet to find any complete dinosaur skeletons. We know from earlier that the pride of the temple is a single dragon skull not a dragon skeleton. The quarry isnt providing full fossils.


Our priests probably had a bunch of bones and decided to ask Khemetri if they had ever found something similar and the Khemetri compared what we found to their own belief in a giant reptilian demon snake.

Personally I'm of the belief that as we increase the temple levels on the Dragon Temple our people will excavate more thoroughly and possibly find actually complete fossils, changing their minds as to what dragons looked like.
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Would our people actually have the needed rigour to excavate a complete skeleton in its complete form? I imagine everything gets just scrambled together, partially because of how long an excavation with our current tools probably takes and also because a dude who finds some awesome skull will run off without caring much about what else could await him nearby.
 
Legion0047 said:
i'm currently re reading the thread and very early there is a mention(and a action) to go to a strange cave to ask the spirits for help(not the spirit talkers).
what happened to that?
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That was a good time. Yeah, the thread thought that cave was a volcano. There is a volcano nearby, so the Thread was probably right.

Anybody know where the civilization started from? Not the valley we ended up in. I mean the original place we left due to a village forming.
 
Marlin said:
That was a good time. Yeah, the thread thought that cave was a volcano. There is a volcano nearby, so the Thread was probably right.

Anybody know where the civilization started from? Not the valley we ended up in. I mean the original place we left due to a village forming.
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sounds like a natural wonder and AN said that every civ had at least one, this being haths.
it's either in gulvalley or it dissapeared and i wadn't sure which one.
 
Academia Nut said:
Ymaryn Dragons

Reptilian demons have long been attested among the People, but since the discovery of the Dragon Graveyard the systematic study of them has increased incredibly. While the Graveyard contains many strange creatures and sorting out what belongs to what has puzzled the priests for a long time, the striking skeletons of dragons has obviously been a major feature of the site, and has given inspiration to numerous other institutions. Discussion with Khemetri priests and study of Old Xohyr texts upon knowledge of the demonic has further refined the People's knowledge of what dragons must have been like in ages past.

From the study of skulls, the largest dragons must have been serpentine creatures upwards of a hundred strides in length. From discoveries of smaller specimens and disarticulated bones, they were likely winged somewhat like bats, with large wing claws like the talons of an eagle, only scale to monstrously huge sizes. When not in the air they likely slithered like snakes, but could rear up and stomp forward on their wings. While only their bones are known, it is speculated that at that size they must have required great magic to maintain themselves, and may have likely had scales of iron for protection against the teeth of other dragons. There is also some speculation that they were feathered, or at least had a feathered crest behind the head, but that given their supernatural origins those feathers were made of razor sharp purple-black obsidian.

For a long time it has been speculated about how the bones became encased in solid stone, but discussion with the Khemetri about their knowledge of dragons has revealed the fact that they spit fire - or rather, as the People know from their more advanced alchemical knowledge - vitriol. Being powerful supernatural beings from the dawn of time, it makes sense that they would have access to such powerful magic. Further refinements in knowledge in fact suggest that they did not 'spit' water-borne vitriol but pure elemental vitriol of the sort that alchemists cannot isolate. While not an orthodox opinion, many now suspect that lightning is in fact the purest form of vitriol available in the material world. In either case, it is believed that the dragons and other skeletons became encased in stone because of this ability to spit pure vitriol. The transformative effects would turn bone to stone and flesh to liquid mortar, which would settle into great pools that would solidify into solid limestone and shale.

It is believed that most dragons were destroyed by the gods in ages past, with perhaps only a few left in wild places far beyond the borders of the People. There is a vaguely heretical idea that dragons in fact predate Crow, who unmade the world in order to destroy them all and make it fit for gods and humans, but it is generally more accepted that dragons were a breed of demon that followed Crow out of the Dark Beyond Dark at behest of the Great Tyrant Arxin.
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What gets me is how matter of fact this is all stated.
"Why did dragons have obsidian feathers?"
"Obviously because they have supernatural origins."
"I see and how do we know they had feathers?"
"What part of obviously did you not understand?"
 
Dark as Silver said:
What gets me is how matter of fact this is all stated.
"Why did dragons have obsidian feathers?"
"Obviously because they have supernatural origins."
"I see and how do we know they had feathers?"
"What part of obviously did you not understand?"
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"Crow's like a sort of demon-thing, right?"
"Sort of, yeah."
"So demons might have Crow-like features?"
"Some, probably."
"Only, like, more awesome because they're demons and shit?"
"Obviously."
"So, like demons should have like obsidian feathers, right?"
"A reasonable proposition. Statues of Crow certainly do."
"Sweet."
 
Academia Nut said:
"Crow's like a sort of demon-thing, right?"
"Sort of, yeah."
"So demons might have Crow-like features?"
"Some, probably."
"Only, like, more awesome because they're demons and shit?"
"Obviously."
"So, like demons should have like obsidian feathers, right?"
"A reasonable proposition. Statues of Crow certainly do."
"Sweet."
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Truly we are masters of Biology!

There is nothing more we can learn.
Academia Nut! Please remove the Study Health option for it is now useless.
 
Academia Nut said:
"Crow's like a sort of demon-thing, right?"
"Sort of, yeah."
"So demons might have Crow-like features?"
"Some, probably."
"Only, like, more awesome because they're demons and shit?"
"Obviously."
"So, like demons should have like obsidian feathers, right?"
"A reasonable proposition. Statues of Crow certainly do."
"Sweet."
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The scientific method at its finest.
Also,
Academia Nut said:
"You raped my daughter, son (who is also the local leader of the militia), time for an execution!"
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Is incest particularly common in Ymaryn? We might be more Welsh than I thought:V:V:V
 
Academia Nut said:
"Crow's like a sort of demon-thing, right?"
"Sort of, yeah."
"So demons might have Crow-like features?"
"Some, probably."
"Only, like, more awesome because they're demons and shit?"
"Obviously."
"So, like demons should have like obsidian feathers, right?"
"A reasonable proposition. Statues of Crow certainly do."
"Sweet."
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That chain of logic makes me want a head banging into a brick wall smiley.
 
I just realised something:

A theoretical Servant Arxin's Noble Phantasm would be tearing a whole in the world and letting loose a swarm of Dragons.

Good grief, why couldn't this be a High Magic setting where shenanigans like that are possible?
 
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