Shards of Ichor Discussion Thread

Horns are indeed mamallian.

It depends on whether or not this is a CYOA or RP. There is an overall plot going on outside of the power struggles within and between the three races. and she is important in both the possible Ley arcs.

It's currently 2 to 2.

Anyway, I'll tell you what I can about the Ley Queen, who from now on, shall be called Galisa Frey. She is a powerful Ley with her Ley Mark directly on her face, the lines running horizontal over her eyes.

She is said to be a powerful alchemist, though she has never actually displayed her powers openly except in imperceptible ways. Ley don't like to think their leaders are manipulating them, so she does not display her powers often, even to protect herself. Instead she lets her bodyguard, and rumored consort protect her.

How did she rise to power to become the leader of one of the most powerful Ley civilization, and arguably the richest kingdom west of Bastion?

She came from nowhere. One day, she and her bodyguard entered a relatively small, city-state whose name was once called Salve, nestled between two rivers which open out to the sea. She walked right in and took the place within a day, exiling the ruler (who had no earlier than a week prior assassinated its previous ruler), and began to rule the town. Within a month, she discovered there were iron mines, just a few miles north of the town, rich and full. A treasure trove, capable of being made into tools and weapons, technology and building material, since it was the first mine so far east of Bastion that anyone had found, that was untouched by leylines. It made the town rich, and soon they began to expand, convincing other, smaller towns to join under her. Soon she carved out the Western mountains for herself, which she named the Frey Peaks. She created a capital there made out of steel, jutting out of the mountainside. And her luck continued to aid her, as she continued to mysteriously find small mines of iron and gold, and other precious metals in pockets between leylines (which steadily convert non-living matter into Lylitite). Now she seeks to form alliances, and chose the two most stable, most powerful Ley societies as her allies. They each have a kingdom in a corner of the Ley Lands. The two of them, a deceptive city built entirely underground, and sit on great pains, perfect for the growth of wheat (though is blue grain still wheat?) and whose territory continues into warm marshlands, and a kingdom which inhabits the wet, rainforest belt on the northern side of the Gray Belt, a mountain range which separates the Ley Land, from the Wastes, the official homeland of the Ware.

They plan on uniting all of the Ley people under them, and are currently in the process of constructing a capital city on the Isle of Dusk, a large island just off the coast of the western shore of the northern continent.

You could. Saying more would involve spoilers.

It's a tie.

Now I'm anxious...

Right. It goes from modern to slightly more than modern. Automated turrets, computer guidance systems in hand guns and rifles. Vertical take-off. the city runs entirely on electricity. I'm not used to sci-fi, so I'm working on it.

Guns have a disadvantage at close range. And modern tech is restricted to humans, the ones that don't shoot fire out of their hands.

Magically imbued tech has not been invented yet, though it will eventually be introduced. Ley and Ware are much more inclined to use melee weapons over guns. They don't have/can't use modern tech. Their best pistol is a flintlock at the moment, and will eventually can be a revolver, but really, Ley don't have as much need for guns. Bombs and grenades perhaps, but not guns. Melee weapons are also the tools of people without powers or money for a gun. The favored weapons of the incredibly hard-to-kill Ware. And the Ley, depending on their abilities

With how little I know about the world, all of them interest me.
Though numbers three through six interest me more than the others.
Though six seems off to me, making me wonder how it would go, or make for a decent story. But that's part of the intrigue.

When I said Bastion is the size of a large island, I was wrong. It's more like the size of one country. The city started from the center and was built outward constantly for 1,000 years, so the inner city is completely industrial, but as one gets farther out, it becomes more rural, with urban sectors dotting it, almost randomly. The closer to the center of the city one is, the better maintained they are. Those who are in the central ring of the city, are known as nobles, and are the descendants of those who have been great allies or friends of Aurelis in the past, as well as those who simply rose to the position through political alliances.

Well, when one of these nobles becomes a Ware, and transforms one night, not when he was a teenager, but in his mid twenties, into a Ware, things change for him.

The Patient Barbarian is the story of the female Ware, who has dedicated her life to leading her people out of the Grassland of Grey Skies and north to their former homeland. Unfortunately for everyone else, the Ware's former homeland is currently occupied.

The traitor betrayed is about the Ley bodyguard of a king, meeting with two other monarchs. When barbarians attack, chaos breaks loose, and in the aftermath, few are left standing. In under an hour, the balance of power in the Fey world changes, and it's up to her to decide whose side she is on.

A redeemed outlaw for me. Seems interesting.