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Sa_sara
Posted: Feb 24 2004, 01:45 AM
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...Amayar Optics Master (make eyeglasses, telescopes, etc)
...a Kaensada tribesman (those guys in Seanchan who drink from skulls)
...a Sharan Ayyad or silk merchant
...a Far Maddinger (sp?)
...a Madman?

Your chance is coming...
I'm trying to write up backgrounds for everything...I mean everything
It's not going to be 100% perfect but it gives people something to jump off of.
Why am I doing this? Because I thought that characters drinking from human skulls, making telescopes and porcelain, etc. were just too cool not to have their own backgrounds. Most people probably won't allow them, but eventually some people might want said things...
like I said, I'm actually quite into the work on it and here's what I have work on so far
-- Kaensada
-- Amayar
-- Sharan
-- Mayener
-- Madmen
-- Far Madding
-- Unclaimed Lands (small but necessary because Haddon Mirk and Caralain Grass are lightly inhabited and I'm trying to do absolutely everything)
If anyone has anything to contribute to a Backgrounds of the world type dealie, you can email me...any suggestions or things you'd like to tell me or see...again, email me.


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Posted: Feb 24 2004, 02:48 AM
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I like this idea, especially since my upcoming campaign will likely feature some or all of these. I plan on having a brief stop in the Land of the Madmen but only as a brief interlude.

Of course I may also have my players go to an as of yet undiscovered continent for awhile as well. The good thing with wheel of Time is the fact that we know there is more out there then the Westlands, the Aiel Waste, Shara, Seanchan, Sea Folk Isles, etc. Or at leats it's quite implied. Of course the setting of the books is enough to occupy anyone for years, and the cultures only mentioned at are intriguing as well.


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Posted: Feb 24 2004, 02:54 AM
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Hmm...you want a map? I know of a good one...it shows what the world is supposed to look like...and there aren't any extra continents besides the land of Madmen that we haven't at least glimpsed...but there's about a million islands! And the Atha'an Miere really didn't inspect the Land of Madmen very closely.
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I'm basically giving backgrounds on what I'm given...it's not thorough, but it's better than nothing.


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Posted: Feb 24 2004, 03:01 AM
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maynene (sp?) doesn't really need it's own background, it's part of the Tear background if i'm right.


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Posted: Feb 24 2004, 03:24 AM
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The problem with that is that Tear thinks it controls Mayene...but Mayene is autonamous, has a different way of life (well yeah, since they're the ones who live right by the drowned lands filled with deadly beasties), and controls its own affairs.

They live in a different environment, they have a different attitude, and they're just a little heartier adventurers (since to go out their front door they're going to have to kill venemous serpents)...
That's just my logic...it's totally up to everyone what they use or don't...I see a difference so I run with it. But these are house rules so no one has to use them all.


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Posted: Feb 24 2004, 09:03 AM
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I wrote up a Two Rivers background, because they've got a similar situation to Mayene. I also wrote an Amadicia background, just because.


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Posted: Feb 24 2004, 09:18 AM
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post them here guys and we're tear them to shreads "mix with a little water stick in a frying pan and you have instant pancake mix"

seriously (biggrin.gif me never). post them here we can give our opinions and then you can get Eosin to post them on the Call of the Horn

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Posted: Feb 24 2004, 06:10 PM
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QUOTE (Sa_sara @ Feb 23 2004, 05:45 PM)
...a Kaensada tribesman (those guys in Seanchan who drink from skulls)

Steven Russel wrote up a very groovy Kaensadar Background for Age of Illusions. You'll see it, soon. wink.gif


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Posted: Feb 25 2004, 01:42 AM
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*shrugs*
I didn't know anyone besides me ever cared...
but hey...the more the merrier!
I'm making the Amayar kick because I personally like them quite a bit...but yeah...not posting yet wink.gif
I don't have the file up presently


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Posted: Feb 25 2004, 04:30 PM
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I'll be happy to put together all of the backgrounds in a new Backgrounds netbook, which would compile all of the backgrounds from individuals and the other netbooks in a single alpabetical list. If you want me too, I'll start compiling it as the backgrounds posted here are finalized. I can also do it as a constantly updated doc file. This time I probably won't make contributions myself; except to include starting occupations from the AoD/MSRD as other generic backgrounds (with modifications for non-AoD/AoL time periods and un-modified for AoD/AoL).


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Posted: Feb 25 2004, 08:23 PM
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Posted: Feb 25 2004, 09:41 PM
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ok, considering that at least some of us run campaigns in homebrew worlds seperate from the world of WoT, would anyone mind having a submission from one of these worlds, provided its interesting and unique?


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Posted: Feb 25 2004, 10:02 PM
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Nah, at least I wouldn't mind. I'm sure that I at least may be able to convert/use it for just a different time period. Such as AoL or Trolloc Wars maybe even for during Hawkwings reign or immediately following.


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Posted: Feb 25 2004, 10:28 PM
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I actually have all the officially published material for wheel of time Sa_Sara so no worries on the map. :-) what I meant was you can basically tell that those maps probably still don't represent the world in it's entirity (especially since we know this is suppossed to be Earth in the far future/past).


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Posted: Feb 25 2004, 11:46 PM
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It's supposed to be Earth? Is that a fact or a belief? Like, did Robert Jordan say it's supposed to be Earth in the past/future? Or is that something that's believed to be true?
Sorry, I know this sorta distracts from the subject. I was just curious, then we can get back to talking about backgrounds and all their goodness.


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Posted: Feb 26 2004, 12:46 AM
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*laughs*
very cool to have a background netbook...I was actually going to ask you if you would help me (and all these fine people who've been making backgrounds)! But you volunteered! All the better!
So...when/how can I start sending you stuff like this Amayar goodness?


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Posted: Feb 26 2004, 12:51 AM
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i would say, when you are personally happy with it. Or when its been discussed enough to make you happy with it.

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  Posted: Feb 26 2004, 08:16 PM
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QUOTE (Two Rivers Wolfbrother @ Feb 25 2004, 03:46 PM)
It's supposed to be Earth? Is that a fact or a belief? Like, did Robert Jordan say it's supposed to be Earth in the past/future? Or is that something that's believed to be true?


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Posted: Feb 26 2004, 08:44 PM
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Huh.


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Posted: Feb 26 2004, 09:59 PM
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My prefered method on sending them is in .doc or .rtf format (primarily becouse it is easier to format them that way, but .txt is also fine. As straight email text, it is a pain in the butt to reformat and remove every newline that gets entered in html to format it to an email program.


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