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Esei said:

Assuming They don't have magical cleaning powers somehow, how would your god approach chores? Would They be particularly picky about how to do something (like folding laundry), get it all done at once, procrastinate, etc?

Maylea would probably pick a chore to do and get really into it.

Several hundred years later, someone comes by and finds She has done many different iterations of that one chore and only that chore, and because of that has missed many many dinner parties and a few centuries of gossip.

But She's doing just fine and didn't realise it's been that long.

Esei said:

Assuming They don't have magical cleaning powers somehow, how would your god approach chores? Would They be particularly picky about how to do something (like folding laundry), get it all done at once, procrastinate, etc?

Ignore it right up until you hear Dynara pulling into the driveway. Then panic-complete as many as possible.

Terentia said:

I will answer my own questions too (and maybe some of the AMA questions--as long as they are OOC-ish).

1. My favorite emote right now is the one I made last night to mess with @Lantra.

I would like to revise my question to #9: Why did you do this to me.


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I will answer my own questions too (and maybe some of the AMA questions--as long as they are OOC-ish).

1. My favorite emote right now is the one I made last night to mess with @Lantra.
2. More broadly, I am a fan of "simplenod." There is something so useful and stunning about "You nod your head." I would even cut it further down: "You nod." Nod to what? For what? Assent? Nerves? The minimalism is what I love the most.
3. I agree with racial emotes, but I do think there should be more class emotes. I think this requires a stronger sense of what the classes do "culturally" though.
4. I've already posted about some of my favorite library books here!
5. I've talked about how I believe my writing is sparer. I really love people who can make really lush emotes: @Lantra can, so can @Maylea and @Nocht and @Carakhan. Player wise, I really like @Rancoura's writing, the thickness of both @Falaine and @Avaris, but I also really enjoy several of the Skydrifter's, @Calioliahali for instance. I also have enjoyed reading @Uzriel and @Sapphira's writing. Everyone writes so well and beautifully!
6. Mournful. 
7. For Terentia the Character, it would be one of Her crechemates likely (the only known one gone--so it would be some sort of miraculous intervention if that wasn't so!). 
8. I am a lover of the Holy Celestine Empire, the Nature Wars especially. Maybe it is because I am more interested in how mortality exists without the presence of Elder Gods. Although, I have increasingly become fascinated by the Vernal Wars.
9. ... well, I don't know if I can actually answer this one, haha.
10. You all are so silly. The action is clearly "splintered" which creates shards. Sometimes the action doesn't always correlate to the noun. 

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

• I do want to release "the Book of Terentia" (whatever that might mean). I have so many notes about it that it is still in the stages of finalizing. Interestingly enough, I have debated on making it more "public." If only because it aligns with how Terentia currently engages with mortals.

@Coraline OOC: How do you pronounce "Terentia"? Teren-sha, or Teren-tee-a, or something else?

• I think it is actually more like "Teren-shee-ah." I was surprised to realize that Terentia was the name of Cicero's wife (I am not a Ciceronian, but I have read his work on friendship for my academic research), and I think that is how you pronounce her name. I think I more commonly say "Teren-sha."

@Coraline IC: Hmm, I wonder if Terentia's militant nature is only through weapons, or if there is any "Words are my Weapons" tenet?

• Although you preface this as an IC question, I think you would be surprised at how Terentia understands militancy or what She would find to be a weapon.

@Tyrus 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. [O]r a second question: If you could make two of one person by cleaving them in twain, who would that person be?

• I think this would be a harder question to ask IC, so I'll answer(ish) it here, haha. From my own drafting of Terentia's history and personality, I do think that Her shards would be a bit different than what we expect. Though something warrior-y will still be there. To the second question, if that person is Terentia, (and here is an ambiguous answer), they would be the person she could have been and the person she is now.

@Tau Who was the most important Elder to You in Your life, Who is now gone

• I am not answering this question, but I really like this question! Who indeed! Especially if there have been hundreds, thousands of Elders!

@Everiine When we getting Hajamin back

• Never! That loser's gone.

Terentia said:

I have come back to reclaim my title as Quizmaster.

1. What is your favorite org-specific (city/guild/clan) emote and why?
2. Making it a bit broader, what is your favorite emote and why?
3. What is an emote you think we clearly need and why?
4. How often do you make use of the libraries? What is your favorite book (scholarly or literary) to read from Lusternia? 
5. Which of your fellow players do you think has a very lovely writing style? 
6. 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? 
7. Say a player from your past suddenly returns. Who are they and why are they important to you?
8. 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? 
9. If your character could ask one question to Terentia, what would it be?
10. Why do you all use "sharded" when the correct term is "splintered"? 

Stealing from @Terentia in the player AMA thread!

1. Probably all the Divine "bloop" emotes the ephemerals made in the havens during their emote training. We were making hamster hunt squid for Celest and they were inspired.
2. The holy trifecta of PEARLS, NAILS, and ASKANCE.
3. Always on the lookout for good racial emotes. They can be tricky to brainstorm, though!
4. I love checking out player writing submissions. It's come up a lot recently, but Niralahi's "The Spy Who Loved the Sea" is very cute.
5. Maylea! (And several ephemerals that you need to trust are amazing.)
6. Repressed. Someone in Celest has to be.
7. What I wouldn't give for some Lantra and Malmydia RP.
8. I love the concept of ocean Awakeners. Give me more of the Keltari and Li-varili lore.
9. Why don't you return my calls?
10. Because it's funny to see "Terentia is typing..." knowing I'm going to get a caps lock spiel about how I'm offending you.
    

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.

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