#Queltrin

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Magic is...

To Arin, magic is a practice. Copy, memorize, understand, explore. Magic runs through her blood because she /put/ it there. When she casts a spell, it's like plucking a bunch of puzzle pieces from the very fabric of the world that most never learn how to see and putting them back together in new and familiar ways. Magic is a deep well of possibility and learning that she utterly submerses herself till she can see nothing else.

To Kaven, magic is an armament. Invoke, channel, wear, utilize. Magic flows through his blood because he wills it through his oath. When he casts a spell, it is with intent and deliberate action, to guard and protect, done with the pure knowledge that when he reaches out to affect the world it will acquiesce to him the same way it would his hammer or shield. Magic is Kaven, as much as his mind or soul or faith or responsibility.

To Queltrin, magic is a reward. Recieve, believe, record, demonstrate. Magic flows through his blood because he nurtured it. When he casts a spell, it's a recent and new feeling, invigorating him with the pride of his accomplishments and voracious need for the truth of the people, of the places, of the worlds that he can touch and see with his magic. Magic is the new but reassuring touch of divinity that has received his service and in turn believes in Queltrin's purpose.

To Gugri, magic is alien. To Garrett, magic is his entire being. Negotiate, Command-draw, exploit-push, merge. Magic flows through their blood because it is necessary. When he casts a spell, it is like a dance done instinctively; a series of movement and eldritch words and a surge of power done for the result without a care to understand the methodology. When he casts a spell, it is through understanding his own essence in ways he could never have imagined in life, pushing on the fabric of the world as one would push on a mattress and every time he does it comes with the reminder of the fact that the world has forced him to change irrevocably over and over and over again. Magic is an understanding that change is essential and you must be the cause, because you will suffer the effects regardless.

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The whole theme of the Drolegarn crew was about "what forms does faith take"

For Leevik, it's a careful, earned devotion that was born of a lifetime of hardship from Drolegarn.

For Queltrin, it's newfound purpose and a sense of duty.

For Kaven, it's a quiet responsibility and a mantle to be worn without question.

For Venri, it was a simple belief and alignment of values that paid itself back a million times over, in both directions.

October 13, 2021

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Card

0 The Fool - Flake

1 The Magician -Arin

2 The High Priestess - Venri

3 The Empress

4 The Emperor - Queltrin

5 The Hierophant

6 The Lovers

7 The Chariot -

8 Justice - Kaven

9 The Hermit - Ursa

10 Wheel of Fortune - Namet

21 The World - Althaea

11 Strength - Bright

12 The Hanged Man - Leevik

13 Death - Garret

14 Temperance - Raikas

15 The Devil - Gozak

16 The Tower - Bunny

17 The Star -

18 The Moon - Maria

20 Judgement - Scratch

19 The Sun - Kathra

Need to place:

Demanak memir

Based on https://www.tarot.com/tarot/cards/major-arcana

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God I'm watching a hollow knight randomizer and I'm just listening and I just

I have a lot of feelings about music in ttrpgs y'all

Grant makes liberal use of the HK soundtrack and I feel like it gives Bratum such a /fantasy/ feeling. I tend to lean towards the epic struggles, towards the old school Jeremy Soule and the dangerous. I want there to be a feeling of epic odds, of ever-present danger, and of sanctuaries where you can relax from the tense situations

But when we're lost in Grant's world, everything is so much more connected. It's almost like a painting, where the edges and details of the /game/ we're playing matter so much less than the story we're telling, and the focus is almost always on the characters. The settings aren't bright, vibrant places that I can picture as clear as a photograph, because they arent meant to be. They're backdrops where our imaginations can fill in the details, and the music provides so much inspiration for that. I can't picture every turn and corridor in Arin's Mansion, or the back alleys of Aah, or the twisted corridors of Kulanthar's tower, but I can feel the safety and comfort, the clandestine and cutthroat operations, and the horror and terror of an abomination and crime against nature far more acutely than I ever feel like I portray in my campaigns

My style has it's merits, for sure! I wouldn't do it if I couldn't. I love the established world of adventure in the Forgotten Realms, and I'm way too performative as a DM to not want to show off everything in the monster manual and tell y'all every detail I can wring out of the module and my head. But the reason I love writing long text chains about Bratum is because I Grant has created such an /atmosphere/ about Sixworld that t becomes so easy to immerse myself, and the background music that fills the heavy silence between Arin's outbursts, the tense strings that fuel every one of Kaven's hammer swings, the quiet music that punctuates ever Queltrin quillstroke, and the music so full of feeling that shows just how tragic Garret and Gugri's relationship is are just perfect

And then sometimes we get the StS shopkeepers music that PERFECTLY encapsulates the absurd situations we get into and I remember it's just a game with my friends, who I'm am eternally thankful for

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Man, I bet Holiday/Christmas/Legally Distinct Winter Festival at Bratum would be such a lovely affair. Christmas Eve you can find Arin and Garret running around finishing up Christmas shopping. In the late evening everyone meets at the Church of Helm for some kind of community event, cuz it's a massive central location. There's a float contest that's actually a sculpture contest, cuz it's a dwarven holiday. During Christmas Day the others show up to Queltrin and Odexa's place to exchange proper gifts (Garret brings most of breakfast except for the bacon, which Kaven brings too much of)

And then in the upper part of the city there's a winter fair that probably resembles an early kind of American State Fair(tm) with all kinds of absurdly dangerous contraptions and rides to celebrate, cuz like the dragonborn don't really get the religious or culture weight of the definitely dwarven holiday, but an excuse to have a party is an excuse to have a party

Forgotten realms holiday in Rime is probably basically nonexistent

Christmas-au in Rime tho is the coziest, cutest thing. Bunny makes everyone matching ugly Christmas sweaters, Bright spends two whole days decorating the most elaborate Christmas tree the Dale has ever seen, and Flake is bah-humbug throughout the entire thing but secretly enjoys the pictures of his wonderful little crew he's tripped and fallen into

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Maria obviously hosts and makes an elaborate Xmas feast

And does a yearly dramatic reading of "the night before christmas" in the middle of town

It's become a tradition for children (or really drunk people) to act out the story as she reads

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Bunny follows after her and does a dramatic reading of the entire script for A Nightmare Before Christmas immediately afterwards, complete with Bright acting out Oogie Boogie badly

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No one in town knows who they are but the storyteller is smiling and clapping so they quickly get into it

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I'm love

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It's also done at like, 3am so everyone is either gone to bed or too drunk to follow along

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It's actually bunny remembering two stories that maria told badly and thinking they were one thing

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I'm gonna go with the people who founded the city arrived in the first winter of the year and so there's a Christmas type holiday then.

And then three moons is kind of a new years thing that is weirdly enough a relic of the ancient cultures that somehow stuck around through everything

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I was mostly also kinda doing a Bratum Christmas au but it's nice to have OFFICIAL LORE™

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flake is my 'grew up in urban/suburban' insert so he knows All the typical traditions and is like what the fuck are y'all doing, where are the stockings

and Maria's like... on our feet? we wear socks??

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Just errand thoughts about Party Dynamics:

Short version:

Sward is a close knit group of best (gay) friends, Bratum is a group of Ride or Die coworkers, and Rime is Peak Sibling Behavior

Sward very much has the "You could show me your absolute worst and I'd still love you, because I've shown you my absolutely worst and we still choose each other every single day". It's not found family because the group still feels like they could operate independently from one another, they could go on to tell their own independent stories separate from Sward, but within sword they are fucking airtight

Bratum very much feels like each person was (mostly) whole and complete and while we're completely on board with each other when it comes to the main task at hand, each of us still has their own "at home" drama they're sorting through independent of the group. People are comfortable keeping things private and even want to keep some things entirely separate from the group. Queltrin still has his home life with Odexa, Garret has a whole internal monologue he doesn't share all the time, Kaven is content to just do exactly what is needed to save the world, and Arin puts on her best Work Face every single day to the point that Garret is the only one who knows she's breaking down. There's even workplace romance, peak Office Drama

Rime is a dysfunctional group of people who were forced together by circumstance and if circumstances had been different there's a good chance none of them would have even interacted because their personalities, interests, goals, and development are so divorced from one another, and because of that there is so much friction and infighting, but if fucking ANYTHING threatens the group externally they are instantly a fortified wall of collective 'FUCK YOU' to whatever is threatening them. So, basically Peak Fucking Sibling Energy

Sward has infinite patience for one another and deeply protective instincts

Bratum has deep respect for one another and sense of strong shared purpose

Rime has zero patience for one another, zero respect, and infinite defensiveness

February 4, 2022

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mana, poderia fazer users com o nome queltrin? é que é um nome muito, muito diferente e não consigo fazer nada legal, vlw aí

postei, se vc não gostar ou quiser mais me chama no chat ou no tt msm