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[WillowLuman]

In writing terms, I think it could be better if there was more on what Selko was thinking if he's suppose to be the point of view character. Exposit a bit more so we know him and the things he encounters better?

But that's the thing. Since Mould are a hive mind, using one as a POV character doesn't work if you go about it in the usual way, because they're not individuals.

[Furtuka]

Ah, didn't notice he was a mould, twas directly responding to thes tory post. Actually, I had no idea that they were humanoid in any way, I must have missed that.

[kaian-a-coel]

((Note that I said the Elven KING would be dragged under, not all elves are pulled in by the dead. I see the dead souls as rather dormant until things start to go to hell))

Well...

An ash elf who dies is immediately dragged beneath the surface by the ghostly arms of his victims. The King of the Elves is so old and has slain so many, the ghosts of his victims swirl about his ship as a visible fogbank.

[bsnott]

I don't think I'm going to be continuing this anyway. The setting is too damn complex and is very difficult to do storytelling with.

[highmax28]

I don't think I'm going to be continuing this anyway. The setting is too damn complex and is very difficult to do storytelling with.

The world, I think, actually seems to be falling apart already, so why not write about it's last days?

[bsnott]

I have another novel that is in progress anyway.

[WillowLuman]

Is anyone else going to work on the tropes page? I think it will provide a good way to organize/summarize this thing.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WebOriginal/Ashworld

[Tack]

Well the front page is done.
Maybe we've packed about as much stuff as possible into this setting?

And it's only been 150 posts... Crazy.

[WillowLuman]

Well, here's just one more thing, since it's a very important one.

Compasses, whether made of Magnetite or Manaroc, always point towards the base of the Obsidian Spire, and so towards the spire people say is "North," which comes from the ancient Maggotman name for the spire, "Nirth." It is in relation to this that the other directions of navigation are defined.

[escaped lurker]

But that's the thing. Since Mould are a hive mind, using one as a POV character doesn't work if you go about it in the usual way, because they're not individuals.

(( Well, one would need something like a "Cerebrate" - One of the "Thinking Organs" of the Hivemind. But that would need even further fleshing out, of a setting that already is quite complicated. Either way, it was rather enjoyable to read and add some stuff of ones own, but it has gotten far too crazy by this point. ))

[WillowLuman]

(Or you could just tell the story from the POV of the hivemind itself, which works even better when there's only one Mould present amongst other characters, so that the Hivemind has just one representative through which to experience the situation.)

(I think that now that people have stopped throwing random things in, what we have currently sticks together well enough that we could flesh it out and get a nice, cohesive world. Even at this stage, some strong themes are already apparent in the setting: Music, Death, Rebirth, Revenge, Enduring against Hopelessness, The Search for Meaning, just to name a few.)

[crazysheep]

(I think that now that people have stopped throwing random things in, what we have currently sticks together well enough that we could flesh it out and get a nice, cohesive world. Even at this stage, some strong themes are already apparent in the setting: Music, Death, Rebirth, Revenge, Enduring against Hopelessness, The Search for Meaning, just to name a few.)

(( Yeah, further expansion here is quite tricky already :3 ))

[kaian-a-coel]

We could expand on the musical part maybe.

[LeoLeonardoIII]

There could be an Ash Elf emo breakup-song metal band called Enduring Against Hopelessness.

[kaian-a-coel]

There could be an Ash Elf emo breakup-song metal band called Enduring Against Hopelessness.

This is now canon.