General Q and A

gt500x wrote:

itsmeyouidiot wrote:

Are succubi capable of having children with other species?

...Just felt like asking this for no particular reason whatsoever. No reason at all.

I guess if my feet were held to the fire I would still say no. Besides, I don't think the world could supply the demand for condoms if Succubi were capable of having children with other species.

Succubi having children would probably involve using some sort of special magic.

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Well, now that you mention it, Vivian does have a lot of succubus traits. Karbo's probably been alluding to that for a while. The design on the staff she carries makes more sense now. But we should still assume the two species can't reproduce until Karbo eventually explains things. I'm not sure when he will though. It could be years later.

When do fairies mature, age-wise? I can't remember...

Archmage_Bael wrote:

When do fairies mature, age-wise? I can't remember...

There is no official information on the subject.

You may assume either a human timeframe, a predator timeframe (multiply by 3), a timeframe fleeting and ephemeral as the glow of a shooting star (but I've only seen that outside Felarya, in Petite-Emi's Calabi-Yau forest, where fairies hardly survive their first month, so there's, like, no way to know how long their lifespan is)... make up your own.

We've seen both fairy children and fairy larvae, not to mention they're crazy 'nuff to breed outside their species and magical in nature- I'd say it varies from family to family.

I actually talked about it with Karbo out of sheer curiosity. Apparently, one year and a half for a human is one year for a fairy in terms of aging, and two years for a human is about one year for an elf.

I'm still wondering a bit how the blatant biological impossibility of Felarya's giant-sized life works.

Does Felarya have an intrinsic property that allows geometrically impossible anatomy despite the square-cube law? Or is it something the creatures themselves have?

Would a giant-sized Felaryan die if it went to another world where the square-cube law works like it does on Earth?

To be honest the square cube law is something that make Felarya or any world with giants impossible to start with and there is no real way around it. This is why trying to find a logic behind everything there is a bit pointless I think ^^;
I actually had the idea to make a picture of a personized square cub law attacking Felarya once , titled " worst enemy" or something like that

Yeah, Karbo is right.
One of the points of fantasy and science fiction as opposed to other types of fiction is that fantasy and sci-fi take certain rules, laws, etc of the real world and disregard them. The more they disregard, the 'softer' it is. There's no point talking about those laws, because by definition they are not part of the setting. (I like to think that Felarya is relatively 'hard' compared to other fantasy worlds.)

Felarya has a few of these; giants are a postulate of the setting and thus the square cube law is not a law.

Exactly. in our world the square cube law is a law, and it would be a problem. In Felarya, it's not because of the setting.If it is still a law there, I think creatures would need to stand far taller than 100 ft, because 100 ft I think would be our 6ft on earth.

Point is it works, because Felarya has it's own rules and limitations that it obeys to keep itself working.

Even though everyone already answered it, I feel the need to bring up this quote from CRACKED which pretty much sums it all.

CRACKED wrote:

"We don't ask that you stay within the bounds of physics, but at least follow the rules you freaking made up."

I myself assumed that the creatures themselves have some sort of supernatural property that allows them to ignore the implications of the square-cube law. After all, we've seen giant-sized life outside of Felarya, so it couldn't just be an intrinsic property of the world.

Would this be a reasonable assumption?

No. It's called: just nod your head and roll with it because trying to come up with a logical justification is only going to bring up more made up "science" and is all around unnecessary as it won't affect them in any shape or form.

I really don't see what the big deal is. Just say that giant creatures are somehow supernatural and can be giant-sized because of it. I really don't see how that would make anything more complex, it's pretty much the barest explanation possible.

Just like the whole languages thing, really. It's not much of an explanation, but at least it's an explanation.

If you want to go that way, be my guest. I'm just gonna disregard that "explanation" entirely since it's not gonna change anything. Explaining the lack of language barrier has a certain modicum of pragmatism (though I think just being a natural effect of Felarya instead of one giant spell would feel more organic) and has been explained in quite a number of fiction. Explaining gigantism, however, is picking at every detail possible, thinking it's more important than it really is.

We often talk about how fairies have societies and towns and such, but I'm not sure what their houses look like. Does anyone have an idea? Is it like a bunch of tree houses, or trees that were hollowed out somewhere in the trunk? Or in some other kind of building?

About the square cube-law things, it's a very old point debated in this forum and was, is, and will be always bring in a discussion. It helps to develop some good idea like how fairy can change size, give a good estimation of the weight of the giant predator but the law works to some extent to the predators but not completely. We cannot apply it at 100% and handwaving by saying saying it's supernatural can be simple at the first sight but it will raise more questions than it answers. The degree of precision to answer completely to this point it's to have a real life and functional giant hybrid which means without suffering any of the complications predicted by the square cube law despite its size and a community of scientists who will make all the analyse of the debate to answer that problematic and even that we will be more confused in the end. Unless we have real case to study no matter what the explanations we can give it will be only speculative because they are pure fictional creature and the fact it's resolved or not won't change anything as it was with the size issue where the size established didn't match with the size they were depicted.

Archmage_Bael wrote:

We often talk about how fairies have societies and towns and such, but I'm not sure what their houses look like. Does anyone have an idea? Is it like a bunch of tree houses, or trees that were hollowed out somewhere in the trunk? Or in some other kind of building?

I don't know about the material but what I remembered form an old discussion with Karbo, the size of the building are not constant A fairy can live in a doll hose as her/his neighbour live in a regular size building. I varies depending the fairy who habit the place.

How are peoples afterlife determined? (Heaven or Hell)
The only real one I've seen is what you did moments before your death...

From what I gather, Angels and Demons have an innate sense that lets them "feel" someone's morality.

Of course, since there are circumstances where there is no "right" or "wrong" thing to do, I'm guessing that it can get a bit muddy sometimes.

Archmage_Bael wrote:

We often talk about how fairies have societies and towns and such, but I'm not sure what their houses look like. Does anyone have an idea? Is it like a bunch of tree houses, or trees that were hollowed out somewhere in the trunk? Or in some other kind of building?

Well, I know my fairy lives inside a giant hollowed-out pumpkin. :3 Does that help?

Something on the wiki about Safe Harbor kinda stood out for me. That Jade went ahead with setting up shop close to the Giant Tree because it's impled that she REASONED with Crisis and struck a deal. Anyone care to elaborate on that?

Nyaha wrote:

Archmage_Bael wrote:

We often talk about how fairies have societies and towns and such, but I'm not sure what their houses look like. Does anyone have an idea? Is it like a bunch of tree houses, or trees that were hollowed out somewhere in the trunk? Or in some other kind of building?

Well, I know my fairy lives inside a giant hollowed-out pumpkin. :3 Does that help?

Nah I'm talking about a bunch of fairies, like a town of them, a society, like the Fairy Pond, or the Fairy Kingdom, or The Crimson Wood. I know what their respective areas LOOKS like, I just don't know what their homes look like, and what a fairy neighborhood would be like.

Greyman wrote:

Something on the wiki about Safe Harbor kinda stood out for me. That Jade went ahead with setting up shop close to the Giant Tree because it's impled that she REASONED with Crisis and struck a deal. Anyone care to elaborate on that?

Well, yeah. Crisis may be a predator, but that doesn't mean you can't reach an agreement with her.

It probably went something along the lines of "Don't eat anyone while they're in the village."

itsmeyouidiot wrote:

Greyman wrote:

Something on the wiki about Safe Harbor kinda stood out for me. That Jade went ahead with setting up shop close to the Giant Tree because it's impled that she REASONED with Crisis and struck a deal. Anyone care to elaborate on that?

Well, yeah. Crisis may be a predator, but that doesn't mean you can't reach an agreement with her.

It probably went something along the lines of "Don't eat anyone while they're in the village."

The thing is, Crisis is notorious for thinking of Humans & Demi-Humans as nothing more than snacks. To her, Jade going "You shall not eat any Humans" is like someone going up to us saying "You will not eat any of the dozens / hundreds delicious pastries I bring you. Because." Crisis would be going "What do you mean I can't eat them? Why are you bringing them all here then?"

If she can convince Crisis that they're people, similar to how Lea convinced her, that's something else entirely. I could actually see another Giant rather reasonably convincing Crisis "oh, these are people too", especially - as a Giantess - looking essentially the same but at a larger scale. "They're all my family but vertically challenged," "I can vouch that these are people," something along those lines might work with Crisis (She's not dumb, but by no means does she have a stellar education). "Oh, so they're just little family. Okay then, sorry for thinking you were food. Hey Jade, can you maybe give them something to mark them, so that I know which ones are food and which are people?"

Archmage_Bael wrote:

Nah I'm talking about a bunch of fairies, like a town of them, a society, like the Fairy Pond, or the Fairy Kingdom, or The Crimson Wood. I know what their respective areas LOOKS like, I just don't know what their homes look like, and what a fairy neighborhood would be like.

I would imagine their housing styles vary according to their area and level of technical development. Thus fairies around the Fairy Pond are likely to have simpler homes than those in Kortiki, which may be rather elaborate.

Malahite wrote:

"Hey Jade, can you maybe give them something to mark them, so that I know which ones are food and which are people?"

The wiki already says that the Safe Harbor is safe from Crisis, because Jade got her word that she won't attack it. So you don't have to worry about her there.