Maina's Excessive Lore Questions - Culture Edition
Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2022 12:30 pm
Just giving myself a thread since I ask a lot of these and don't want to spam the forum with multiple threads. The new VC is at a time I cannot reasonably attend, so I will ask here instead.
This first batch is born of playing a Nuumic character but there being no wiki page for them yet:
How much, if any, of the other game's Nuumic lore is still valid? I have been referring to the old wiki thus far.
Elemancy is no longer a thing, yes? I believe I've heard you mention they (Nuum) are focused on Arcana now?
Is the "we don't need no immortals" attitude still a thing?
There was mention previously of an in-character theory (as evidenced by one of the shelving books) that glyphs draw power from eldritch horrors; how does this fit with the Nuumic "we don't need no immortals" attitude? Do they have a different theory?
Tying in to my previous question (some weeks ago) about cosmetic magic, are the Nuumic still super pretty with fancy eyes due to magic? Or some other cause?
What do they think of other forms of the occult, particularly sorcery and bardic words? Assuming the 'we don't need no immortals' thing is still in-place, I imagine they don't care for Druidry, but the Nuumic philosophy seems to have some overlap with Rhun's 'we are the immortals now' teachings?
Perhaps more controversially, are slaves still a part of their culture? Is the little 'trivia' bit about bad students being made into slaves and pretty-eyed slaves being elevated true?
This first batch is born of playing a Nuumic character but there being no wiki page for them yet:
How much, if any, of the other game's Nuumic lore is still valid? I have been referring to the old wiki thus far.
Elemancy is no longer a thing, yes? I believe I've heard you mention they (Nuum) are focused on Arcana now?
Is the "we don't need no immortals" attitude still a thing?
There was mention previously of an in-character theory (as evidenced by one of the shelving books) that glyphs draw power from eldritch horrors; how does this fit with the Nuumic "we don't need no immortals" attitude? Do they have a different theory?
Tying in to my previous question (some weeks ago) about cosmetic magic, are the Nuumic still super pretty with fancy eyes due to magic? Or some other cause?
What do they think of other forms of the occult, particularly sorcery and bardic words? Assuming the 'we don't need no immortals' thing is still in-place, I imagine they don't care for Druidry, but the Nuumic philosophy seems to have some overlap with Rhun's 'we are the immortals now' teachings?
Perhaps more controversially, are slaves still a part of their culture? Is the little 'trivia' bit about bad students being made into slaves and pretty-eyed slaves being elevated true?