A few in game questions

[Schwarzbart]

Any news on this question: "Is there a common term for people of "Asian" heritage in the Academagia setting? (I ask because of my Heritage: Eastern background)" because I probably start to do my mod today or tomorrow

 

[Rhialto]

@Legate of Mineta: 1. Not that I am expecting any such thing to occur in game, but have there been any efforts by scholars to discover phemes that would correspond to individuals (akin to the True Name Concept)?

2. Are there confidence artists or charlatans who claim to have discovered such phemes?

3. Are there any phemes that, while not gates or mastery related, are so potentially dangerous that they are banned or restricted from general knowledge?

4. Any update about my question about reptilology?

[Legate of Mineta]

Rhi;

1) [Redacted]

2) Kinda.

3) Oh yes.

4) Not yet, but there is an update for Schwarzbart!

Schwarzbart;

Generally speaking, it would be "Esteri" for a group, and "Estero/Estera" for the individual masculine and feminine.

[Schwarzbart]

Thanks, "Heritage: Esteri" sound good

[isadorbg]

I believe "Corrode" and one another pheme which name escape me (the one that is suspected to have played a role in the destruction of Monteon) already fit the restricted pheme part and exist in year 1 already.

[freespace2dotcom]

Does the Academagia occasionally show glamours of terrible Gates accidents to scare their students away from experimenting?

[Legate of Mineta]

Free;

No, but that sounds...educational.

[Rhialto]

@Legate of Mineta: How famous is Baron Midian in Mineta? And was he one of the characters whom a member of the Team played in an RPG?

[Legate of Mineta]

Rhi;

That must remain [Redacted].

[freespace2dotcom]

So, here's a really awkward question from a real life discussion I had recently.

Are boys circumcised in setting at all? Given the vastly different religious background, I'd have to guess no. But then again, given the existence of magic, that particular operation has the potential to be a lot less painful and squeamish than it is in real life, so I am curious. I'm pretty sure we never asked that question yet, Probably because of the empathetic pain it almost brings with such discussion. haha.

[Legate of Mineta]

Free;

I'm not sure *that* question has ever made the rounds. I'll ask.

[Rhialto]

@freespace2dotcom, @Legate of Mineta: One can be circumcised for reasons related purely to medical health rather than religious or cultural practises. I, for example, was circumcised - and I am and was a Buddhist - a few years ago because I had phimosis and wanted to avoid the increased risk of penile cancer associated with phimosis. I remember that the night after the operation, I was so much in pain that I could not sleep, so I played Academagia. I hope that these remarks are appropriate.

@Legate of Mineta: Of all the the things to be redacted, discussion of Baron Midian was the last thing that I would have expected. I guess that I should read the lores about him in more detail then, in order to find out why he is so special. Speaking of religious or cultural practises, here are some questions.

1. Are there any strands of Millenarianism within the Empire of Man? By this I mean religious beliefs that society is corrupted or evil at a certain level, but a divinely appointed transformation will improve it.

2. Are there any strands of Apocalypticism within the Empire of Man? By this I mean religious beliefs that there will be, possibly very soon, a clash between the forces of good and evil in which good will triumph.

3. If a scholar were to do research about the Oursouki religion and conclude that it is not about worshipping/serving dragons, would it be legal for this work to be published?

4. Do dragon worshippers hope to restore slavery under the dragons with themselves as vilici (overseers of slave-owners' slaves)?

[Drakov]

According to the Lore, Baron Midian is the son of Baron Midvis of Hattingdon, he was a spoiled child, but forced to do several apprenticeships in his youth, after his father's death, he became the baron of the province.

[Legate of Mineta]

Rhi;

More the second part of the question was [Redacted].

1 & 2) Definitely, both are present in aspects of the worship of the New Gods.

3) It would be legal in civil law, but likely illegal in canon law.

4) You'd have to ask them.

[freespace2dotcom]

I only commented on religious aspects, because I kind of felt that given the time period of the setting, the beneficial health aspects of doing so would be unknown or understated. I'm not very knowledgeable in the subject and I'm not especially interested in dwelling on it more than is strictly necessary. It's just a subject of a momentary mild curiosity.

[Rhialto]

@Legate of Mineta: A question that I have long wanted to ask - how common is it to encode spells into poems or stories, as with The Tale of Sir William Hopkins (Spell)?

[Legate of Mineta]

Rhi;

It was much more common in the past, but it is still often seen these days.

[Rhialto]

@Legate of Mineta: Would I be correct in thinking that the decline of this type of spell is due to an increase in formalized, literate, education?

[Legate of Mineta]

No, it was primarily do to breakthroughs in Glamours, which made them a bit easier to cast and did away with some of the physical needs the spells had.

[Rhialto]

@Legate of Mineta: So can only glamour spells be so encoded in poetry and stories?

[Legate of Mineta]

Rhi;

Oh no, not at all- but there are some advantages, since the reader is presumably already prepared to use their imagination.

[Rhialto]

@Legate of Mineta: 1. Are there any places within the Empire of Man whose inhabitants can be described as having almond eyes?

2. Is Feng, the owner of Feng's parlour, an Estero? [parenthetically, the term Estero should be Esterus in Latin/Eluminian - unless it is a non-standard noun, which in fairness it might be, as with leo].

[Legate of Mineta]

Rhi;

1) Kind of- Sung is.

2) Yes.

[Rhialto]

@Legate of Mineta: If Sung has an Earth equivalent, what is it? Tocharistan/the Tarim Basin? And since Oan Sung is from Sung, does it have no surnames?

[Legate of Mineta]

Rhi;

No...it is mostly underground. It doesn't have a specific real-world equivalent.