Celtricia, World of Factions-First Look, Collegium Arcana Online Game

[LordVreeg]

i mean, i can get lvl 1 with less than the bonus exp i get, so was wondering if i can use the surplus to enhance other skills

Nope.  It represents real-life exposure.  Sorry, but good question.

[LordVreeg]

Moving on from questions about Stenron, I've got a couple more, mostly for background stuff for my character. What's viticulture like in the Grey March? It's pretty northerly, right? Where's it done? Is it set up like an Old World winemaking area, say, modern Bordeaux with highly specific rankings for geography and historical quality, or more like a New World winemaking area, where wines can certainly be of differing qualities, but little regulation or even recognition (outside of those in the know) goes on? Or is it like an Old World winemaking region back in the day, where people simply drank what they grew, and sold surplus if it existed? Finally, who is involved--at least in the Grey March? Do humans have a monopoly? Elves? Hobbyts? Or are there a large number of different families in control? I was thinking of having at least one side of my character's family be from one of the wealthier vintner families, but that may depend on the answers to these questions and the next one.

It is sort of in between.  This is an old world, and with Magic taking some of the place of technology, so we have more advancement in economic, social, and political areas than makes sense in the real world for the technology level.  The development of a trading economy was critical in the Cradle area and others, which is based on the ability to transport goods.  

The Grey March is old, especially near Stenron (formerly Winterloo).  Winemaking is similarly old, practiced here as far back as in the days of the Suprosian Kings.  Vneersberry is the primary Winemaking grape in the Grey March, as it grows well almost anywhere, but most any area north of Stenron only makes good white wines, except in a few cases. In the western Coriel Valley, as well as in the areas close to the Igboniat Plains, red wines of some quality are made.
It is important to note that huge Vineyards don't exist, and that almost all winemaking is in small batches, even for the big, guild-supported vintners.  This is just due to the nature of the world, in that there are few areas immune to the introduction of dangerous beasts (Though the Coriel Valley may be the one of those exceptions).  Castel Ellis, in the North areas, makes a few great wines, as well as the western wines of the Hopiton area (near the old Igboniat areas.

There is almost ne regulation on the wines and viniculture, though wine is very popular.  Racially, the Omwo~ and the Hobyts in your area do the larger share of it, as there is still some leftovers from different families that owned property or companies, though they are all allied to different Guilds.  I will try to cement down some of those guilds in the next few days.  

[LordVreeg]

...And we will be on tonight, to get the character creation stuff all lumped I together.

And maybe to answer LT's last questions.

[LordVreeg]

So right now, we have llum, who is still making a character, lt, basmati, and rincewind.  I will be on tonight on roll20 , for the end of charges, then next week we have some rules and intro, followed by  the real intro the week after.

Group play will be every other week, but much of the play will be in between sessions in one on one with the gm

[LordVreeg]

Could I get just some more information about Imo (High Elves) in general? Specifically, I'm looking for what role in the last few centuries (if any) they've played, and more importantly, where this has been. Are there many Imo around? Are they scattered around or do they have a specific area they all hail from? It's surely the case that you'll find a little of everything in a city so large as Stenron, but what about in the wider Grey March

"Imo Omwo~ (Race) 'High Omwo~', descended from the Omwo~ that moved to the Silverwood in -6194. Almost are taught in the Scholar of Logic Method."

The Omwo~ were created as the first servants of the Planars, over 9 millennia earlier.  They were one race, then, and powerful.  The Imo, the Huet, and the Vanir are the Omwo~ that are closer in form and spirit to their ancestors.  Other Omwo~ that do not display as many of the older characteristics have more mixed blood, and probably lots of non Omwo~, as well.  Once the prime servants, Omwo~ make up 17% of the population of the Grey March, though about 7% of the world's population, and are very aware of their very diminished role in the world, despite their genetic gifts.
As the Imo are less than 10% of the world's omwo~, they are a percentage of a percentage.

The Imo are descended from the Omwo~ that settled in the Silverwood in -6194, where the population is still 75% omwo~ and 30% Imo.  So your character's history is that at some point  the family migrated to Stenron.  The Imo, Huet and Vanir all actually ran Stenron until -105 RON, when the Suprosian Family was finally deposed (after nearly a thousand years of running the city).
More later.

[LordVreeg]

Some basics on the world of Celtricia


The Calendars


There are actually dozens of active calendars, most following the 6 month fashion of the elder Omwo~, or the 12 month House Wastri calender.  There are 366 days in a Celtrician year, which the Omwo~ originally separated into 6 even 60 day months, with a Lithe day in between each.  As is common in the world, things change and usage slurs terminology.   The Westic Word for month is Gosi (Go-See).  This is from the Omwo~ term Goesi,


Months used in the Reckoning of Nebler (RON).



  Winterwane   Dumutoux (the month of Ice)   Dumotux
  Spring   Toqusuh (the month of Renewal)   Tokush
  Summerwax   Tan~os (the month of Promise)   Tanos
  Summerwane   Gosiuoni (the month of Flowers)   Gosun
  Fall   Hisieohum (the month of Leaf-fall)   Hisio
  Winterwax   Dumuquisneti (the month of Hardening)   Dumoktis



Obviously, the calendar related heavily to the weather in Celtricia.  But it is important to note that there is a different calendar used in the equatorial areas, developed by the Klaxik of Barstone and popularized by the nations originally settled by House Wastri.

In the North-Western cradle areas, there is a large range of tempuratures.  The Northern Grey March has flurries from the beginning of Dumoktis to the end of Dumotux, meaning 120 days of weather that is freezing or below, spending 6 days of that averaging 15-20 degrees and often dripping below the zero mark for hawaaks ata time.  The Argussians get no snow as often as they get any, and have weather below freezing for 60 days in the worst years. 


The year 895 RON (in the Reckoning of Nebler), translates to the ninety fifth year of the Ninth century of the Common Age in Argus.  In the Grey March, the Reckoning of Nebler is used exlusively, while in Trabler, you get both the Argussian and Neblerian.  In the Silverwood, 

In most of the Cradle area (Trabler, Orbi, The Bright Lands, The Grey March, Sembina, etc.) the RON is used, and year 0 (of the Common age and of RON) was the year that the Theocracy of Nebler was founded.  It has become more typical to use the term Common Age, and to count in terms of years and centuries, particularly by the merchant guilds.


Many Omwo~ mark the year 895 RON as year 7089 Since the Founding, as the Republic of Silverwood was founded back in the Age of Legends.

The eight day week known as the Hawaak is used throughout the known Celtrician world.  The normal work week in town is five and half days in terms of what people get paid for, and what the well-to-do put in.  Your nomal business owner puts in 7 out of eight days, and of course the poor folk generally work 8 out of eight days!  The work-week is supposedly Dunsak through Harvak working 10 hours a day, then 5 hours for Monak, as the moneychangers generally call it a done Hawaak right after noon.  Fasting is normally done every Fastak for the religious.


As for the hours and the day, As Celtricia has twin suns (Gerin and Tribin), the 22 hour day has three different phases. The Night, the Day, and the Sou (Siu, White Omwo~). The Sou is the red period in the beginning and end of the day when the weaker, reddish Gerin is the only light, the 'Red Dawn'. After 58 minutes, the brighter and more yellow Tribin starts shining, giving the day a more normal cast. As the binary suns spin around each other very quickly as Celtricia spins, the end of the day, dusk, is spent with 58 minutes without Tribin again, giving Celtricia a very Red dawn and dusk, the dusk Dou being called the Na Sou.  The hours of the day are counted from here as well (evening hours are called Na Sou, daylight hours called Sou.  7 hours after the Sou is called seven Sou, for example).

[Tangential]

Excellent summary.

[LordVreeg]

Scheduling is very hard.  This Thursday, as promised, should be the last day of character creation, so we can hopefully get Llum set up (though I still cannot see LC missing the chance to play a pubescent student in Celtrician Hogwarts...).
Next Thursday, I will now be in Vegas looking at new equipment... I apologize, but it must be.  We'll have session one on 9/26, at 8:45 on roll20.net

Meanwhile, see these new notes on the Godstraat of Stenron.  The players will end up visiting this a few times.

[LordVreeg]

Llum, can we get started on your student soon?

[LordVreeg]

oh, and yes, we are on tonight, on Roll20.net, for those who need character work.
for those who need a link-in, I will start on #celtricia.

Next week I will be in Vegas, but will be back the week afterwards for our first official session.

[LordVreeg]

i didn't understood exp that wll, so i'll connect tonight

Yo dude, you cannot make the fray?  Is that the deal?

[Lmns Crn]

Scheduling is very hard.  This Thursday, as promised, should be the last day of character creation, so we can hopefully get Llum set up (though I still cannot see LC missing the chance to play a pubescent student in Celtrician Hogwarts...).

Real life jumped me in an alley. What can I say?

Have fun, and I'll check in on the thread now and then.

[LordVreeg]

real life sucks that way...it really does.  keep track, it may turn out to be a game full of pubescent intrigue and inter colle politics.

i will be gone this week, in Las Vegas, but game session one is next thursday.   

[LordVreeg]

well, well, well.  This Thursday is the first real session for the CA game.  The players will start playing in the common room of Toad Hall, the Dexie dorm on the GQ, after their first day of classes.  my, we are ready to go.

[Humabout]

Good luck, my friend!  I look forward to reading the session log!