Wildstar rp/ lore discussion- feel free to add and discuss ideas !

[Rumze]

"We have no roots.

We have precious few possessions.
Our treasures are largely in our heads — our culture , our lore.


Our history has been one of concealment, of moving from place to place at a moment's notice, staying out of the reach of those who would abuse us.

Even Attilan, even our city, was built to be impermanent.

We are all we have, always moving on to seek the next shadow. 

Not so much nomads as perpetual exiles."

Crystal of the Inhumans - war of kings storyline.

So I'm reading or rather catching up on the Inhumans - one of my favorite comics after fantastic four - and this passage really reminded me of the plight of the exiles but mainly the chroniclers - the human exile equivalent of story tellers/priesthood ( although priesthood is not the right term ).
Looking forward to working in the chronicler aspect into my rp in some way!


What are some good lore tidbits you've seen or rp ideas you had for your characters ?

[voxov]

Ah, a very humanist perception; interesting!  However, I'd like to take a decidedly different interpretation to our state:

We are specks of coal, tossed upon the blank canvas of a planet near-untouched.  Our every action, whether through nurturing agriculture or the jagged scars of war, will be our legacy to these lands.  We cannot move but leave our mark, we cannot act but affect the world around us.   How best to plan?  Do we survive for ourselves, or stand ground for our generations to come?

Inaction is no option, but should we set forth with burning passion, we may soon have naught but ashes of opportunity lost.  Our enemy finds these lands more dispensable, but still wishes to lay claim to their potential.  Would we hold the battle in our homes? Or harness our holdings hostage, in prayer we need not disprove a brutal bluff?

This world is our home, our future, and our weapon, but cannot be all at once.  How best to plan... how best to survive?

[Rumze]

Ahh interesting take ! Sort of bleak but gives me a victors write the history vibe.

I really like it !

[voxov]

Thanks!  And bleak, quite possibly.  Yet it's within the darkest places where even the dimmest of lights may shine.  I said coal upon a canvas, but instead, perhaps we're solvent upon a slate of coal; the story may be illuminated by our paths, and where our hearts shine strongest, so will we bear witness to an aurora of our dreams~!

Or maybe that's just corny..  All I know is, playing through the Aurin starting area, they make the dominion look like a pretty ominous and ever-closing shadow...  Just trying to keep in line with that ^_^

[Lunarin]

Entirely unlinked to the Chronicler role, but more on the Mordesh lore. This is not an idea I'll be using for Lunarin directly, but the Mordesh best friend she used to have.

See, Mordesh, due to the Contagion, are undying, but also sterile. They were also on Grismara for around 80 years once the Contagion struck: 50 years fighting the Ravenous, and 30 years after that since the Exiles starting sneaking them out through the Dominion blockade set around their planet.

There is a wide-spread opinion that there are no child Mordesh. Firstly, even though the Everlife Elixir was distributed and consumed all over Grismara, any child who drank it and survived 80 years since then are now adults.  Any child who didn't drink it are now, well, dead. Secondly, the Contagion prevents procreation, so there aren't any baby or child Mordesh, not even if you desperately want kids.

Anzhelina wants kids. She's wanted them since before the Everlife Elixir, and only took the Everlife Elixir because that means she'll always be young and healthy. She'll never grow too old or too frail. Her body will never face the issues all females face with age: menopause.

What she hates the most about being Mordesh, is not the loss of her beauty, or the threat of turning Ravenous lurking on the other side of her daily Vitalus Serum intake. It is not the memories of ripping, tearing, killing that she locks behind her eyes every day as she wakes and unlocks as she sleeps again. It's just the fact the the Contagion prevents procreation. And the Contagion is what makes them Mordesh.

(Links in with Lunarin's story as Anzhelina treats Lunarin more like the child she will never have than the best friend that Lunarin's been treating Anzhelina as. It doesn't help that Anzhelina's at least a century old, if not older, even though she still looks, well, young-ish. Indeterminable age, but young-ish.)

[Rumze]

It's true that in the darkest hours , the. Lights that would shine , shine the brightest and that great heroes are made .

Also the mordesh are incredibly interesting and love that story angle !
Mordesh have a very sad story , in part because they flew to close to the sun so to speak and were their own downfall .
Although it didn't help the dominion turned it's back on them as well ( exile biased outlook because some would argue they contained a new threat while an exile would argue that they should have helped and figured out a way to help cure them since they were allies but couldn't be bothered to waste resources )

[Lunarin]

To be honest I can understand (to some extent) why the Dominion was so eager to get the hell out of dodge when it came to the Contagion, especially when everyone was Ravenous and there was no inkling of a control method or a cure in sight. Still doesn't make me think very well of their diplomatic training if they can just dump a candidate race that quickly and continue to blockade their planet for over 80 years without bothering to try and figure out if anyone's still alive down there and if anything has changed since.

...I mean, the Dominion's this galactic empire sort of thing, right? Don't tell me they're sending negotiators and, you know, ships out with such shoddy engagement and tactical protocols.

Might just be that they put their foot in their mouth with that knee-jerk reaction to the Contagion and have never figured out how to get it back out since 

[Rumze]

And let's not forget that thy have the robotic mechari and drones that shouldn't have been affected by the contagion but yeah i can for sure understand why they did what they did !

Makes for very interesting lore that is shades of colours rather than black or white good evil

[Lunarin]

Yeah, Mechari and drones... well, then again no one knows who was calling the shots at that time (if it was a Cassian highborn, then disgust could be an entirely viable reaction, but Mechari?)

One thing I take from this is the Dominion's attitude towards, well, things in general. They must be of use. If they are not of use, they are thrown away. Definition of 'of use' is subjective, but I guess you can't justify the remnants of the downfall of a race you've seen at their peak as anything useful in that sense.

Not to say that the Exiles did it out of the kindness of their hearts, either. Most likely a chance to spit in the face of the Dominion is their motivation more than anything solidly good-intentioned as a whole.

It's hardly likely that anyone on the Exile side has experienced what the Mordesh were like before the Contagion, and so don't exactly get the depths they've fallen to. It disgusts them, of course. Doesn't stop them from adding the Mordesh to their members, since the Mordesh are useful to the Exiles, in the "keep far away and do not touch" kind of way.

[Mixxi]

I find it quite interesting that one would be hard-put to tell a Cassian from a human exile by sight or sound. And really, how do we know how each of us landed on Nexus, really....   

(Just a bit of Dom's perspective.)

[Alys]

Never mind the horde of ravening space zombies, never mind the plague of undetermined virulence... the worst thing the Exiles released from Grimsara is Lazarin himself. The man thought he could defeat death, and laid waste to his world... but his ambition remains unchecked. Do you think there is anything he would balk at, any step he would not take to realize his dream, regardless of the consequences of failure? And here at the hearth of the galaxy, with the power of the Eldan at his disposal, how much more disastrous will his next mistake be?

Someone has to stop him.

[Lunarin]

Victor Lazarin... Now that's one complicated character. His motives for seeking a cure to the Contagion can be taken as an attempt to fix what his mistake caused, but it is true that a great portion of the responsibility for the Contagion lies on his shoulders.

But the fact that he is trying to fix what his mistake caused doesn't change the fact that he is still pursuing the dream of flawless immortality, to the point that in his priorities, eliminating the downsides of having taken the Elixir is more important than possibly neutralizing the effects of the Elixir altogether. Eek.

Why is he the so-called leader of the Mordesh anyway?

[Alys]

Why is he the so-called leader of the Mordesh anyway?

Because he knows how to make Vitalus. I don't know if there's any instances of another mordesh (besides possibly Lucy) making it. Which means he can blackmail his entire race into doing whatever he wants.

((I am painting him especially dark, but only to point out that characters might view him that way.))

[Lunarin]

Hmm. Then that raises questions on the logistics of providing Vitalus to all Mordesh on Nexus on a regular basis and things like the shelf life (expiry dates) on it. Might have been easier on the Arkship, not sure how they're going to work it on a planet with people running every which where.

I think too much when it comes to worldbuilding