(01-16-2014, 11:23 AM)allgivenover Wrote: Would you mind sharing any of those ideas? ... I'm only interested in how others would or have done it.
Gladly. Â I was hesitant to proffer such because it's probably more meaningful to come up with this sort of thing yourself and I didn't want to step on your toes in that regard. Â Please bear in mind these are just a few basic archetypes thrown together over a few seconds' time and are little more than skeletons/framework that you could flesh out with whatever background the character already has coupled with whatever directions you may want to take the character going forward. Â The sky's the limit there:
1. Scholarly researcher type who has read of A-Towa-Cant and was intrigued and pursues knowledge of the history.
2. Conventional doctor (mundane medicine and first aid and such) who is driven to help a patient and needs to go behind his usual skill set.
3. Carefree spirit who is interested in the Padjal as a people, either historically or perhaps even physically attracted.
4. Born "hearer" who seeks to know more about who he/she is, why they hear the elementals, etc. Â Could spin on this and treat it as a curse rather than a blessing - "I don't want this talent", etc.
5. Tribal shaman type (would probably work even better for miqo'te given racial similarities however that makes certain assumptions in and of itself) who uses this sort of magic without realizing that it's even aetherial in nature.
6. Student of shaman type from #5 who is more modern-thinking and questions these traditional values and such.
I don't see anything wrong with any of these approaches, and you can draw upon different aspects depending if you wanted to focus more on the Padjal as a people and a character fascination with that, or the magic itself, or the "how and why" behind the magic. Â It all boils down to what you want to do and what's the most fun to you. Â
"One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth doing is what we do for others." Â ~ Lewis Carol
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