yooo for the wip folder thingy!! gimme something pirate-y from Lost Sea Symphony!
and also i wanna know about "void & its creatures" pls 👀
(also how long did it take you to prep that fancyass post 😭😭 i'm very impressed)
heya!!
something piratey from Lost Sea Symphony, ay? well i have a couple totally not relevant facts for you
whether they started out as privateers that then didn't get paid or were pirates from the get-go, it was very unusual to have a big ship, like a galleon. those are merchant ships, and they're big and slow and difficult to maneuver in bays and coastlines, and they require quite a number of people to operate it. those are long travel ships
instead, most commonly pirates operated from (sometimes overcrouwded) sloops. those do come in a variety of sizes, so anything from 20 to 200 crewmembers is fair game. for Lost Sea Symphony, i'm aiming at 60-80 people on the ship, but i'm only naming people with a role
speaking of, my gods were there a lot of roles. you have your captain, sure, but that's not your top authority all the time, only in battle and during chases. the one managing the crew, settling feuds, dividing the bounty and all that is the quarter master. neither of them is necessarily the smartest either, because that should be the navigator and that one is extremely valuable. prime kidnapping target if they're skilled. and all of them need to work with the botswain (who manages cargo and the ship itself) and the master at arms (who trains the crew and takes it on raids). and then you need a medic/surgeon for sure. you want a carpenter to fix the boat. you want a cook. it's so much more complicated than "follow the captain's orders"
also, you know how the military has callsigns? pirates do the exact same shit, with the exact same method. do something embarassing once, have a defining feature, get in trouble for something specific, doesn't matter. if it can be shortened to one or two words, be ready for everyone to forget your name. you are now Slipper
as for the Void and its creatures, i do have interesting stuff
for starters, the Void is well known in both the Other Side and the Veiled Earth, but where in the Other Side people are aware of its legends and myths and dangers it's in the Veiled Earth that it is actually studied
by lore, the Void is both its own (extremely ancient) deity and the place where the elder gods of Order and Chaos were banished for destroying parts of the universe with their fighting. so where the Void was originally purely neutral, it's now a three-point scale on order-chaos-neutral. and no, neutral is not the midpoint of chaos and order, it's a third point. this is very important
within the Void there are mostly three types of creatures. as classified by the Harbingers and then by the Institute of Arcane Research and Defense (the "heir" of the Harbingers), these are: the blights, the walkers and the warped
the blights, known in the Other Side as the Void Gods, are an extremely rare sight. standard procedure if one is identified is to run. they can identify a source of magic within milliseconds, and will consume almost any type of it to make themselves stronger. people have noticed differences and patterns in their forms, but what those mean and what their abilities are is almost entirely unknown, because no one (in recent times) has been stupid enough to try and fight one
the walkers, known in the Other Side as Voidborn, are somewhat humanoid and fully sapient. luckily, they don't tend to operate in large numbers, at most two or three. they way more common than blights, but most Harbingers will not fight them if they don't have the rank and/or specialized training for it. because they are much more common though, they have been studied more, and it's been noted that they fall on a three-point scale: the three corners have been called Hollows, Mayhems and Chains and their appearances have been theorized but never confirmed, because no one has ever seen a pure Hollow, Mayhem or Chain. every walker that's been sighted fell somewhere on a middle ground
and lastly the warped, known in the Other Side as Void Beasts. they are sentient but not sapient, have no rhyme or reason to their form, barely have any commonly repeated traits and work in packs always. and mind you, two warped in the same pack can look wildy different. one may have seven legs and no neck, another may be a legless flying two-headed worm. they don't make sense by conventional biology, they don't breathe, they don't appear to have a digestive, reproductive or immunitary system but they do seem to be able to communicate so. go figure
all three of those are made of magic made solid (???) but of a completely different type from any other magic. aka, what in the Other Side is known as corrupted magic, or just corruption, or magical decay if you wanna be fancy. they look extremely fuzzy, like a cross between bad tv static and a glitch, aka like this:
[note, these are examples of people infected with magical decay, not of any of the Void's creatures]
so that's very fun :D
(also that formatting only took about an hour, but only because i'm used to working with invisible characters i fear ;-; )
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