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Re: The Lusternian Bookclub

Here's a recommendation to get the ball rolling, I'll add more later:

Libellus Geomancie by Aiakon. Anybody who rolls a geomancer should read this book to get an idea of the flavor of playing a geomancer. Really anything by him is great.

Uzriel

The Lusternian Bookclub

Based on some comments, I actually thought this might be a good place for people to post books or authors that they want to share. Recommendations could be something like I really enjoyed this story, I love their writing style, its a very interesting philosophy/the definitive guide to something, or if you're a new member of a certain guild/city this book you should read to get your roleplay in the right place.

The point of this is largely to let people give awareness to good authors or books that might otherwise be lost in the annals of finding things in the library system.

Feel free to include library searching tips you might have. For instance, searching by subject isn't a failproof way to find books. It is entirely subjectively assigned by the librarian at the time and you can thus have multiple subjects that are similar yet with different books - and then many books with no subject at all assigned. Instead, search for title using single keywords and search by author when you find one that you like.

Uzriel

Re: Lusternian AMA

Avaris said:

Also I don't know if it's a setting I'm missing, but the titles never stretch out to where the rest of my wordwrap goes to, so I can never see them properly, it's maddening. 'Studies and Research On S-' On what. ON WHAT.

If you do "Library Info <number", like "Library Info 19500" for example, you can see the whole title of the book in question!

Coraline

Re: Lusternian AMA

Terentia said:

I have come back to reclaim my title as Quizmaster.
What is your favorite org-specific (city/guild/clan) emote and why?
Making it a bit broader, what is your favorite emote and why?
What is an emote you think we clearly need and why?
How often do you make use of the libraries? What is your favorite book (scholarly or literary) to read from Lusternia?
Which of your fellow players do you think has a very lovely writing style?
This one might be one already mentioned before, but if you could sum up your character's current status or disposition in one word, what would it be?
Say a player from your past suddenly returns. Who are they and why are they important to you?
A perennial question, but similar to @Lantra's "headcanon" question, what is some lore that you are currently perplexed or puzzled by? What is some lore you want to know more about?
If your character could ask one question to Terentia, what would it be?
Why do you all use "sharded" when the correct term is "splintered"?

1. Lantra's ordermote is a favourite. It's just so pretty.

2. Honestly I don't uh. Tend to use emotes at all, so I'm not really sure!

3. See above - I'm likely to suggest something we already have.

4. Frequently enough! Mostly for research, though I read Climanti, the Jewelled City by Nihmriel lately and it is lovely. Echoing the others in that the library system is not exactly the most user friendly in the world, though, it can be a pain to use/find things in. Also I don't know if it's a setting I'm missing, but the titles never stretch out to where the rest of my wordwrap goes to, so I can never see them properly, it's maddening. 'Studies and Research On S-' On what. ON WHAT.

5. Illyria, for sure, and I've read some logs of Elexia and been very impressed.

6. Bereft.

7. Too new to answer this!

8. Changelings!

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5020142/uploads/editor/6x/fu1fp4lburx2.png

I think we've crossed that bridge already.

10. Lack of reinforcement of the correct term - I wasn't really aware, consciously, that there was a correct term.

Avaris

Re: Lusternian AMA

Terentia said:

I have come back to reclaim my title as Quizmaster.

I really like the butterfly emote the Seekers inherited from the Illuminati, it's just pretty!
I'm super duper fond of entwine, extra cute.
There are so many emotes I don't think I've ever used, I'm sure some of my best ideas already actually exist
Like never. The updated browse syntax annoys me to no end, I probably haven't checked a book out in over a hundred game years.
@Coraline, @Jolanthe, @Thayan and @Zacheah are some of my favorite designers, everything they make is just so effortlessly lovely.
Brash.
Morshoth! He was the only one of Eri's spouses that was very 'like' him, and I feel that as characters we complemented each other in an awesome way, and always had ideas and wacky plans springboarding as a result. A huge deal of my character development came out of the time we played together, stuff that still carries RL years later.
Despite falling out of favour with Mysrai and the Cool Kids' Club, I will always have an attachment to Iklaran lore. There's so much left unsaid there, and I still get chills when I go back and read the logs of Mysrai and Zvoltz's epic battle. As far as I'm concerned that was the pinnacle of Lusternian storytelling!
Pass! I'm not sure Eri has ever interacted with Terentia, or longed to. Two different worlds! (though he would probably nose around for the hot goss on Terenikai (Kalikentia?) and get bisected as a result)
Cause then we'd have to toss around being called splinters instead of shards, and splinters are nasty

Eritheyl

Re: Lusternian AMA

Terentia said:

I have come back to reclaim my title as Quizmaster.
What is your favorite org-specific (city/guild/clan) emote and why?
Making it a bit broader, what is your favorite emote and why?
What is an emote you think we clearly need and why?
How often do you make use of the libraries? What is your favorite book (scholarly or literary) to read from Lusternia?
Which of your fellow players do you think has a very lovely writing style?
This one might be one already mentioned before, but if you could sum up your character's current status or disposition in one word, what would it be?
Say a player from your past suddenly returns. Who are they and why are they important to you?
A perennial question, but similar to @Lantra's "headcanon" question, what is some lore that you are currently perplexed or puzzled by? What is some lore you want to know more about?
If your character could ask one question to Terentia, what would it be?
Why do you all use "sharded" when the correct term is "splintered"?

1.) I prefer ohman. Ohyeah is too ostentatious for me, but I have used that one too. It's nostalgic, and reminds me of different times.

2.) Perch. Faeling perch is so important.

3.) There are already so many that I have never used, I can't think of a single one

4.) This feels like buried feedback, but honestly never. I agree with what Ayisdra said, the process of looking up, checking out, and returning is tedious.

5.) Illyria.

6.) Wonder.

7.) It's a toss up between Janalon and Astraea. There's a lot of history with both, and I have been trying to find a way to get into Nightshade lately, but I miss Janalon something fierce.

8.) I mentioned this on the discord before, and I guess I've worked it out a bit for myself, but how did lots of the greater spirits avoid being consumed. E.G., What were Night/Moon/Sun up to while swallowing everything, how did they manage to hide their manifestation but also be like LOL HERE I AM AGAIN on a regular basis. Somewhat related, but planets vs. aetherbubbles???

9.) Who was the most important Elder to You in Your life, Who is now gone

10.) I think I've seen somewhere the description "sharded races", haven't I? Is that really just a player thing?

Tau Shee-Slaugh

Re: Lusternian AMA

Terentia said:

I have come back to reclaim my title as Quizmaster.
What is your favorite org-specific (city/guild/clan) emote and why?
Making it a bit broader, what is your favorite emote and why?
What is an emote you think we clearly need and why?
How often do you make use of the libraries? What is your favorite book (scholarly or literary) to read from Lusternia?
Which of your fellow players do you think has a very lovely writing style?
This one might be one already mentioned before, but if you could sum up your character's current status or disposition in one word, what would it be?
Say a player from your past suddenly returns. Who are they and why are they important to you?
A perennial question, but similar to @Lantra's "headcanon" question, what is some lore that you are currently perplexed or puzzled by? What is some lore you want to know more about?
If your character could ask one question to Terentia, what would it be?
Why do you all use "sharded" when the correct term is "splintered"?

1. Silverfire is pretty great, it's meditative to the user but looks like a display of power. Plus calling on Lisaera to judge people is fun heh.
2. Probably has to be softsmile, just fits Saran
3. -redacted for patron request-
4. Very rarely, Marcella's tribal necromancy is kinda interesting because of the self evaluation it can prompt within Serenwilde on how much necromancy actually goes on in the forest (though quite separate from the icky taint practices)
6. Hmmm... Nature?
7. Kalodan, I got to interact with him primarily when he was being really inspiring, Nature/Serenwilde first and foremost, etc.
8. Maeve. A lot of Seren history is about bad stuff that's happened to the forest, one of the biggest being the road which happened at the hands of mortals. Maeve seemingly managed to protect the forest against soulless gods throughout the aeons between her creation in the elder wars, through the vernals wars, and into the aftermath but at some point seemingly after the healing of the land had begun she can't protect against mortals which feels... weird and leads to questions about what she even does any more other than being a living load-bearing macguffin for Nature.
9. If feeling brave/wanting to die and shady ICly "Will you still protect them if Celest's hubris threatens the basin once more"? Or some other variation of, "ew cities we have wonderful nature right here"
10. I think because all the races have shards and the terms shard and shardling shows up all over the place. One of the meanings of sharded is also "Reduced to shards or fragmentary pieces"

Saran

Re: Lusternian AMA

Terentia said:

I have come back to reclaim my title as Quizmaster.
What is your favorite org-specific (city/guild/clan) emote and why?
Making it a bit broader, what is your favorite emote and why?
What is an emote you think we clearly need and why?
How often do you make use of the libraries? What is your favorite book (scholarly or literary) to read from Lusternia?
Which of your fellow players do you think has a very lovely writing style?
This one might be one already mentioned before, but if you could sum up your character's current status or disposition in one word, what would it be?
Say a player from your past suddenly returns. Who are they and why are they important to you?
A perennial question, but similar to @Lantra's "headcanon" question, what is some lore that you are currently perplexed or puzzled by? What is some lore you want to know more about?
If your character could ask one question to Terentia, what would it be?
Why do you all use "sharded" when the correct term is "splintered"?

1. Wildeflame: You hold your bent arms to each side, palms facing the sky as you proclaim, "Basala'oren Seren!" Ethereal blue flames flare to life at your fingertips as you feel a connection to the spirits. You are never alone.

But I also really like tribalsalute: Proudly standing at full attention, you slam a fist against your body in a fierce tribal salute that reverberates throughout your body

I like the first because it's deeply meaningful to Serenwilde and all the connections it has to the Great Spirits and Ancestral Host and the commune members with each other. Plus the imagery is just cool! Who wouldn't want to call forth blue flames at their fingertips? The second emote is great when you have multiple people doing it at the same time, especially prior to some epic event. It gives me the image of those huge armies that beat their shields or stomp their boots in tandem and gets the adrenaline going.

2. I don't have a personal favorite emote and tend to fall back on really basic ones, but I've always been meaning to go through the emote list and really give them a try because I know there are some great ones I'm missing that I wouldn't need to emoverride. Grouphug is a fun one in a big group, though, and I think that's one of the more relatively new ones. Chefskiss is also a great addition.

3. If you mean we as in the players, I want to steal ALL the Divine emotes (custom and otherwise) 'cause you guys all have the best ones. But on a serious note, I think we need better human racial emotes. I'd imagine them to be one of the hardest ones to write though. I mean, just look at this example:

shard:

Go make like a shard and split!", you say, smiling to yourself.

It's bad.

4. I don't use the library everyday, but I do like to see what has been newly published and enjoy what other people have written and silently envy them. My favorite scholarly is probably Jolanthe's on herbs and its uses in alchemy. It's basically Tyrus's bible on herbs and very useful. For literary, there are so many great books, and most of them I see winning bardics and prestige, yet I can't remember the titles well enough. On the Divine side, I love Maylea's book.

5. This one is a tough one because there are so many great writers in every org and I'd feel terrible to leave out a name, so I'll just stick to Serenwilde and list just some of those who inspired me and even pushed me to be a better writer, so in no particular order:

Lief

Elexia

Faythe

Jolanthe

6. Droll. (Which I've always felt was a word that sounds like the complete opposite of its meaning--such a funny little word)

7. I haven't really been playing all that long relative to most oldbie players, and I guess I'd like to see Lief, Elexia and Faythe again. I'm not sure about Lief's playing status, but the latter two come around every blue moon, and Tyrus would count all of them among his first circle of friends. And not only are they friends and great writers, but they tend to make everyone around them even better with their enthusiasm and words of encouragement.

8. I want more fae lore, especially on the language and obscure fae like supposedly the sugar and spice fae, etc.

9. If you ever sharded (sorry, splintered) what do you think your shardlings (splinters, splinterlings?) would look like or be like? I'm not sure I would ever ask this in character though. Tyrus likes to have his head remain on his shoulders.

or a second question: If you could make two of one person by cleaving them in twain, who would that person be?

10. I, too, hate that word for obvious reasons!

P.S. Can someone please tell me why my posts keep double-spacing everything? I don't remember having this problem before!

Tyrus

Re: Lusternian AMA

Terentia said:

I have come back to reclaim my title as Quizmaster.
What is your favorite org-specific (city/guild/clan) emote and why?
Making it a bit broader, what is your favorite emote and why?
What is an emote you think we clearly need and why?
How often do you make use of the libraries? What is your favorite book (scholarly or literary) to read from Lusternia?
Which of your fellow players do you think has a very lovely writing style?
This one might be one already mentioned before, but if you could sum up your character's current status or disposition in one word, what would it be?
Say a player from your past suddenly returns. Who are they and why are they important to you?
A perennial question, but similar to @Lantra's "headcanon" question, what is some lore that you are currently perplexed or puzzled by? What is some lore you want to know more about?
If your character could ask one question to Terentia, what would it be?
Why do you all use "sharded" when the correct term is "splintered"?

1. "Freedom" is a pretty fun emote. Can't think of anything else right now.
2. Gigglefall, and auntie. Oh, and I overuse impgrin like crazy.
3. Hmm nothing comes to mind at the moment, but I'm sure there are some. I'll edit this if I remember something.
4. I've been Librarian for most of my playing time, so I would say a lot! Usually when I submit something for prestige and then look at Gaudiguch's competitors though, teehee. There are many books that I love, but from the top of my head: Jolanthe's book about the perils of Overachievement, and Elexia's book about the Nature of the Host for Scholarly, and Afrit's "Death of Vortex" and Sotsepmet's "Flight of the Sugarplum" for Literary.
5. There are too many players to name, but one writing style that is unique and stands out is Thayan's, from both her designs and her letters. It's very fairy tale-like.
6. Energetic? She is 100% of the time on a sugar/black tea rush.
7. Avurekhos has recently come back. I'm not sure how much he realizes that his niece has now become just as evil as him.

8. A Soulless God made Skarch. Skarch is beautiful. Does this mean the Soulless are capable of creating beautiful things? Are all deserts created by the Soulless (there's no other admin-made desert in game yet)? Does this mean cacti are Soulless? Prickly pears? Sandojins? Desert wakabi? As for lore I want to know about, I would like to hear some stories/memoirs from ordinary people during the Vernal Wars. I feel like so much happened then but so little information is there in game.
9. OOC: How do you pronounce "Terentia"? Teren-sha, or Teren-tee-a, or something else? IC: Hmm, I wonder if Terentia's militant nature is only through weapons, or if there is any "Words are my Weapons" tenet?
10. I... did not know that the correct term was "splintered". I mean, I knew "splintered" was used, but I assumed it was a synonym for "sharded". Oops!

Coraline

Re: Lusternian AMA

Terentia said:

I have come back to reclaim my title as Quizmaster.
How often do you make use of the libraries? What is your favorite book (scholarly or literary) to read from Lusternia?
Say a player from your past suddenly returns. Who are they and why are they important to you?
A perennial question, but similar to @Lantra's "headcanon" question, what is some lore that you are currently perplexed or puzzled by? What is some lore you want to know more about?
If your character could ask one question to Terentia, what would it be?
Why do you all use "sharded" when the correct term is "splintered"?

I don't use libraries often because of a few reasons - using them is awkward. I would love an tablet Hallifaxian crystal link to the library that I could pull up any book. Secondly, looking up books is ...bad to say the least. No one uses subjects (this could be from how little people use the library, but also because it gets into that 'how specific of a subject should I use...'

Its hard to pick one player. Talan, Silferras, Emar, Moralis, Tajalli are all in the top spots. Talan, Tajalli, and Silferras are family and it would be great to see them again (although Talan is retired...). Emar and Moralis (and Tajalli) were all people around when I first started playing Lusternia years ago back in the Blacktalon guild.

Honestly, I would say most lore I would love to know more about. A lot of lore ends when it gets good and left for 'future possibilities'. Most recently, we learned of a second Hallifaxian Project that we didn't before during the pirate raid that just says "this is the thing when X happen" and doesn't give anything really beyond that.

When are you going to publicly release the Book of Terentia? (I'm guessing 'never pubicaly' is the answer)

Because we aren't splinters. We are shards.

Ayisdra