General Q and A

Silent_eric wrote:

CauldronBorn24 wrote:

Yes. There is only so much a machine can do, as Cliff said they are limited in function and operation. So they only realised Felarya was dangerous after the humans arrived.

Soooooo... Robots are around. I guess I should start coming up with some common robots you may see around Felarya. They probably count as Magical relics and treasure, ha ha ha. Technical wonders that they are.

I thought we might have a list of commonly used robots under "Practical Uses" on the Science and Magic page in the wiki. That was my intention, at least. I say you get the thread started S.E.

Edit: Now, I feel kinda silly for asking this because I just know the answer is staring me in the face but I'm too (fill in the blank) to see it. The question is; are humans and elves capable of cross breeding?

gt500x wrote:

Silent_eric wrote:

CauldronBorn24 wrote:

Yes. There is only so much a machine can do, as Cliff said they are limited in function and operation. So they only realised Felarya was dangerous after the humans arrived.

Soooooo... Robots are around. I guess I should start coming up with some common robots you may see around Felarya. They probably count as Magical relics and treasure, ha ha ha. Technical wonders that they are.

I thought we might have a list of commonly used robots under "Practical Uses" on the Science and Magic page in the wiki. That was my intention, at least. I say you get the thread started S.E.

Edit: Now, I feel kinda silly for asking this because I just know the answer is staring me in the face but I'm too (fill in the blank) to see it. The question is; are humans and elves capable of cross breeding?

I think the general consensus is yes. The reason you probably can't see the answer is that which races can or can't cross breed hasn't been nailed down yet. So far I think humans and elves are the only viable pair suggested.

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Edit: Now, I feel kinda silly for asking this because I just know the answer is staring me in the face but I'm too (fill in the blank) to see it. The question is; are humans and elves capable of cross breeding?

Yes.

Currently, it has been confirmed by Karbo that humans can breed with Elves and with Fairies. ...and Harpies as well, since Harpies HAVE to breed with other species to reproduce.

Keep in mind though:
- Human x Elf: The offspring would look nearly human. The amount that his/her ears are pointed probably depends on which parent he/she takes after more. If the child tends to favor the Elf parent, it can be assumed that they have great potential as a mage, given Elves' natural affinity for magic.

- Human x Fairy: There are two main possibilities.
1: The child will look nearly human. They will posses great magical abilites, inherited from the Fairy parent. They will not be able to use fairy size-shifting magic. They could live amongst humans, and pass for human (or a Human/Elf hybrid) with relative ease.
2: The child takes after his/her Fairy parent more. They are born with wings. Fairy wings act like magical superchargers/focusing arrays, so they will have more fairy-like magic, and may actually be able to use fairy size magic. Because they have wings, they'd never be able to be a part of human society.

- Human x Harpy: The child is always a harpy, and always female, since the mother's reproductive system manipulates the genetics to get that result.

Other human-like species such as Nekos and Inu are currently unknown.

The general consensus is that it would be impossible for humans to breed with any tauric species at all. So, no nagas, dridders, mermaids, and just about everything else besides Elves, Fairies and Harpies.

Yep, as a rule of thumb, tauric species are out.

The fairy offspring looks like sort of chaotic mix of possibilities... but that suits fairies and their chaotic nature.

An interesting idea could be that the child is influenced by the magic potential of their human parent - i.e. if a powerful mage reproduced with a fairy, the child would be very fairy-like, while if someone with low magic reproduced with a fairy the child would look more human. This sort of alludes to fairies reproducing with elementals and creating viable children.

As for neko's and inu's...

Well, it's still up in the air, but my guess would be a yes. The body structure is still similar. A child of such a pairing would likely water down the animalistic traits (so not so much of the fur in other areas of the body that some nekos are said to have, as well as no slit eyes or claws, if they were the sort of neko that has them.)

Heck, lots of Negavian nekos might have human ancestry due to the city's past... that would explain why so many seem to lack many animal traits beyond the tails and ears.

Do nekos and inus really have anything against each other, or do people just think that because of the animals they represent?

They don't. The Cat vs Dog is popular folklore. The whole reason is about territory. Any of the two will be angry at each other as they see the other as an intruder. If you raise a dog and cat together, they will play with each other.

So then, outside of their own territory, a neko and an inu could get along well together?

Nyaha wrote:

So then, outside of their own territory, a neko and an inu could get along well together?

They live within the same city.

I'd imagine Nekos and Inu get along well enough, especially since humans in Negav tend to be distrusting of demi-humans in general. The demi-humans would have more in common with eachother than with humans most of the time.

Quick question. Did we ever establish a system of magic for Felarya?

And what I mean by "System" is this:

In Dungeons and Dragons there are spells cast by spell slots that are influenced by the attributes of the caster.

In Final Fantasy, spells are directly cast with MP, and you learn them by leveling up, buying them, what have you.

Or is it a case where there is no set system and you can use whatever magic you knew before coming to Felarya (in the case of humans)?

The wiki exist for a good reason. Do not deny its existence as it will prove extremely useful in both near and far future.

Question: just how much do elves hate Faires and is the feeling the same? I mean I've seen examples but some people have told me that wasnt the full extemt of the hatred the two have towards each other

luke112 wrote:

Question: just how much do elves hate Faires and is the feeling the same? I mean I've seen examples but some people have told me that wasnt the full extemt of the hatred the two have towards each other

All members of one species do not behave in the same way, since every species is composed of individuals, who each have a mind of their own.

I imagine that small elves aren't particularly fond of fairies, who might eat them, and there's some history between elven and fairy kingdoms (yet to be finalised in the official chronology), but I would think only a small minority of elves have any reason to feel anything as strong as "hate" towards fairies, and vice-versa.

ah thank you French snack for clearing that detial up.

Just to ask...I know Sirens are not in the wiki or anything...but since there are more than one type of Sirens is mythology like the mermaid form and then the humanoid land form...which would they be concidered as?...

Why not both?
As I see it, "siren" is something that could be applied to more than one species.
It's a classification that species fall into, rather than being a species itself.

For example, mermaid sirens would be a species of mermaid. Humanoid sirens would be a subspecies of human or whatever.

alright that make sense ^w^

What kind of damage would something like a M72 LAW do to a perdator?

Black Hole Fragment wrote:

What kind of damage would something like a M72 LAW do to a perdator?

This has been discussed before; the wound caused by an M72; loaded with a HEAT (High Explosive Antitank) rocket would be very serious or even fatal if you hit the correct spot. If you wish for further details PM me.

hey i was wondering, would the soil in felarya have an effect on someones mind? like say someone had a mental disease, would the soil effect that at all? (sorry if this has already been asked, but i looked with the search option, and i looked on the wiki it said it has alot of physical effects, but i was just wondering if there were any mental ones).

Iavlas wrote:

hey i was wondering, would the soil in felarya have an effect on someones mind? like say someone had a mental disease, would the soil effect that at all? (sorry if this has already been asked, but i looked with the search option, and i looked on the wiki it said it has alot of physical effects, but i was just wondering if there were any mental ones).

I think that would depend on the physical causes of the mental problem.

If you were born with a defect that affected your mind, then moving to Felarya probably wouldn't help. On the other hand, any sort of degenerative illness, with physiological symptoms leading to mental issues (physically affecting the brain), would probably be reversed.

ahh okay, thank you

French snack wrote:

I think that would depend on the physical causes of the mental problem.

Just to add to that, something like Alzheimer's would probably be cured, as it is a completely physiological defect. Something like schizophrenia or autism, on the other hand, probably would not.

Thank you as well

What is known about the Euril Mines? I can't seem to find any information about it on the wiki, and the nearby Vishmital outpost seems to have nothing to do with it, especially since its stated to be specifically be a military/recon outpost and thus wouldn't be well equipped for mining.

Did the Vishmitals build it, or is some other group/species responsible? Also, what is/was the major export of the mine (like was it built over a deposit of ascarlin or such that may or may not be depleted?) Finally, is their any word on it being abandoned?

rcs619 wrote:

TryMeIke wrote:

question: is it possible to have shapechange magic in felarya? as in, can a mage specialize in being able to change their appearence and powers, and so appear as a pred to other preds, and yet be a non-pred? like, a mage literally turns into a felaryan fairy, 100 feet tall, and has all their abilities.

No.

It is impossible to change your species through magical means.

Someone could create the illusion of shapeshifting through illusion magic (its how Dryads look like normal trees most of the time), but its still just an illusion.

Anna is probably the best example of a human turning into a pred. This happened due to a time-space anomaly. No mage possess the power to manipulate time, or the fabric in reality in those ways. The only known Felaryan who can is Notys, arguably the most powerful of the guardians.

There have been a small handful of other incidents, but they are always the result of a very rare, very unlikely accident. The effect is also irreversible for the same reason. No one can intentionally create the effect.

...Really?

Well there goes the main plot device of "Perverter's Tail"...

Sean Okotami wrote:

For shapeshifting, turning into something gigantic would be incredibly difficult. There could exist polymorph spells, but it's easier to simply transform into something of relatively similar mass and size, and most of the time, such spells would be used for infiltration more than anything if maintaining an illusionary disguise spell is too difficult. Shapeshifting at will is easily exploitable for inexperienced writers, which is why it is usually discouraged. While it would be awesome for an A-class mage to shapeshift into something 10 ft tall to repel a big threat, shapeshifting into a fairy would be impossible due to their weird physics, and shapeshifting into a giant would be beyond normal human capabilities.

Wait...
So what if a mage came into possession of an extremely powerful magical tome that boosted her abilities and granted her access to equally potent Transmutation spells?
Would that be fairly believable?

Silent_eric wrote:

Question I've never really understood:

Why aren't there robots and unmanned drones doing the adventuring so edible humans don't have to? Isn't that, like, a really smart idea? Obviously there are no robots, and there likely shouldn't be. So what would be the reason why fleshies do it?

Silent_eric wrote:

Jætte_Troll wrote:

@Eric -Not sure. Cost?

Cost of robots versus Ascarlin gains would imply SEND THEM BROBOTS.

So Cost can't be it I think. The potential gains would outweigh the cost. Besides, that would imply all groups in Felarya already would value monetary cost of robots over loss of human life from sending actual people.

Well it would makes sense to have automation handle most of the excavation process, but I think that, due to the distance the mined material needs to be transported and chaos of Felarya preventing permanent infrastructure like railways, all the hauling would be done with manned transports.

rcs619 wrote:

I think, in another thread, we agreed that we could see Negav having UAV's to help with aerial photos, map-making and such.

Actual robots though, they wouldn't be good. You need the human element to explore, especially over massive distances. You need the knowledge, experience and instincts. The only robots that would even be remotely useful would be sentient AI's, and its probably best if we don't start trying to bring in sentient robots to Felarya.

Indeed, due to the challenges presented by Felarya's various environments, any exploration drone would probably need a high level of autonomy.
While I personally wouldn't mind sentient or even sapient machines being inserted into the setting, it would probably be prohibitively expensive to use them as mere proxies for adventuring.

Silent_eric wrote:

CauldronBorn24 wrote:

Yes. There is only so much a machine can do, as Cliff said they are limited in function and operation. So they only realised Felarya was dangerous after the humans arrived.

Soooooo... Robots are around. I guess I should start coming up with some common robots you may see around Felarya. They probably count as Magical relics and treasure, ha ha ha. Technical wonders that they are.

Heh, Negav has ancient mythical Roombas.

Seriously though, most robots probably wouldn't be considered relics, but then again most of them would probably be things like automated inventory systems or defense turrets.

aethernavale wrote:

AIs are something 'prevalent' in my story, but the only one currently in existence in my writings is one of my main characters, Nyselyn. She was 'rescued' if you will from the AI wars of the multiverse realm that the Authority came from.

I think you probably wouldn't see too many advanced 'robots' in the generic sense of the design just because of the resources necessary to maintain them and the functionality they would require in operation in some of the more hostile environments of Felarya. Something more advanced like Nyselyn can easily accomplish it, but there are few societies that even have the potential to build something like her and on top of that Nyselyn is an anomaly anyway due to how her 'core' is 'contained'.

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I think you are probably more likely to seem golems doing such tasks. Sure, they may not be as intelligent, but they are far more rugged for their like-styled environments (ie rock golems for exploring mountains, etc) and less likely to attract attention to themselves or the master.

Wall-E does come to mind though, for handling menial tasks that one doesn't really feel like dealing with or expending energy upon. Negav certainly has the economy and reason for bringing in such trade through the portals. You can probably find a lot of disinherited robotic relics just in the underground of Negav, where their parts of those that fail/cease to function are sold off as trinkets and the like.

Yeah, anything complex enough to be able to navigate the jungle without external commands would probably be considered more of a character then piece of equipment.
Take Dick Drebin; thought he is a Bioroid, he's essentially just an intelligent sales interface for the muilti-reality spanning system that is the ArmaDense Corporation.

With Golems, you'd probably see some cross pollination between their "Traditional" crafting and the basic principles of Robotics, and I personally group the two together.
My Chick Jumper, for instance, would probably use a bit from both fields in its construction.

Of course, Golems aren't necessarily cheap ether, so they might be just as inapproprete to use as exploration drones as "pure" robots.