Discord
01-18-2022, 06:35 PM
[STATIONARY_FRICTION]:
I'll address the second point first. To put it briefly, player characters and their pasts are implicitly important parts of the universe and thus the giant plot monsters will slap people who try to fuck with their pasts and it will not work. (Exception: If OOC permission is asked from the player that owns the character and me, and then is granted, you're good to go.)
Anyway, about species.
As mentioned, any that used to be the original species left would technically be considered 'Ancient Construct' by this point, as the only remaining ones had to change sufficiently to not get faded away years before Beacons came to exist. I figure a very small portion of the overall ancient construct population would be of this sort. It'd be quite rare to find one. Nobody is quite sure how Beacons came to be called beacons, but it is generally the most common adoption by most creatures. A few isolate ancient catalogues might have their own names, but they likely differ between a few factions who haven't even tried to talk to a beacon before let alone each other. Epigone is probably a name one of those isolate catalogues has for the species.
Votary is fun, but is a bit overly generalized. Note: origin stories among ancient archives vary heavily and some posit that gods as they know it are not responsible for their creation. Also, there are quite a few ancient factions who downright disliked divinities. One of the most prominent factions shot the god of apocalypse with a giant cannon. I think it might be a secondary name, perhaps? Or a name that some factions applied to the species but others object vehemently to.
I'll address the second point first. To put it briefly, player characters and their pasts are implicitly important parts of the universe and thus the giant plot monsters will slap people who try to fuck with their pasts and it will not work. (Exception: If OOC permission is asked from the player that owns the character and me, and then is granted, you're good to go.)
Anyway, about species.
As mentioned, any that used to be the original species left would technically be considered 'Ancient Construct' by this point, as the only remaining ones had to change sufficiently to not get faded away years before Beacons came to exist. I figure a very small portion of the overall ancient construct population would be of this sort. It'd be quite rare to find one. Nobody is quite sure how Beacons came to be called beacons, but it is generally the most common adoption by most creatures. A few isolate ancient catalogues might have their own names, but they likely differ between a few factions who haven't even tried to talk to a beacon before let alone each other. Epigone is probably a name one of those isolate catalogues has for the species.
Votary is fun, but is a bit overly generalized. Note: origin stories among ancient archives vary heavily and some posit that gods as they know it are not responsible for their creation. Also, there are quite a few ancient factions who downright disliked divinities. One of the most prominent factions shot the god of apocalypse with a giant cannon. I think it might be a secondary name, perhaps? Or a name that some factions applied to the species but others object vehemently to.