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Storylines

The focus of our storytelling efforts in this world revolves around storylines. Storylines are intertwined subplots fashioned to drive characters into high-stakes situations. They are meant to be collaborative role playing experiences, but guild members can also create content individually to flesh out characters and plot points.

Characters who are created with the intention of leading storylines - literally "lead characters" - are expected to have a higher level of activity than those who don't. Non-lead characters can still participate in storylines, but progression will not be delayed for them.

IDEAS:
- modify subplots to have definitive quests/endpoints for characters?
- categories: magical subplot, political intrigue subplot, family subplot
- create a new subplot about a library / magistracy of phenomena faction, fold the silver edicts into it. make it a conflict about magical progress.
- fold fall of the minotaur into the bloody succession; make solving the murder one of the subplot goals
- make the shattering about exploring the peacock palace?

The Silver Edicts

House Yinjian assumed control of the Magistracy of Phenomena via the new Magistrate Lei Yinjian. Lei passed a series of edicts meant to control the usage and exposure of khaos, including:
  • All naturalists, alchemists, reckoners, and seers must be in possession of a charter of khaosic practice issued by the Magistracy of Phenomena, which permits them to handle and study khaos but requires practitioners to report their findings to the state. Those found meddling in khaos without a charter or doing so "inappropriately" are subject to punishment ranging from fines to imprisonment.
  • Obtaining a charter requires passing both written and practical examinations. Training courses are provided by the magistracy, or students can find a private tutor who is already chartered.
  • Suppliers of obsidian, pandoroi, and other select khaosic items must be presented with a valid charter to sell. Naturally, there is an emerging black market.
  • The Edicts were passed as a response to The Shattering of the Peacock Palace, a magical disaster in which a pandoroi broke and caused khaosic destruction. Read more about this event below.
  • Something with a rebellious house ie Greyjoys

Notable Participants

Ask to have your character added to this list if you wish to have them associated with this storyline, so others can collaborate.
  • Character Name: Role / actions taken

Get Involved

Any character who has a khaosic vocation or has an opinion on the Silver Edicts can participate in this storyline. In particular, we are looking for characters who are actively working for or against the Edicts. Some scene hooks and possibilities include:
  • Scheme to change or destroy the Edicts. Maybe the Magistracy of Phenomena can be bargained with or removed from office. Would your character try to achieve this through legal or illegal means? Would they forge charters? Participate in the black market?
  • Conversely, plot to enforce the power of the Edicts. Treat with House Yinjian to convince them to expand them, or turn in lawbreakers. Do you support the edicts because they're the law, or do you believe it's best to have limitations on magic?

Gain a Token

  • Contribute to the Silver Edicts: either by ending, changing, or introducing one or more laws
  • Spend 2 or more scenes actively pursuing an agenda either for or against the Silver Edicts

Fall of the Minotaur

The long-awaited wedding of Seraphim Tycheon and Fayruz Ul-Attar was meant to unite two rival houses, but peace is never long for this world. In the dwelling of their rival in the midst of the wedding feast, Minoru Tycheon was poisoned, and died violently in front of hundreds. Members of Ul-Attar deny responsibility amidst mistrustful rumors. And they may be truthful — Minoru's web of influence extended over much of Lyre, and gained no shortage of foes. Enemies are said to even exist within the house of Tycheon itself: perhaps it was their spouse, said to be scorned, or even their own children, said to thirst for the power they were denied.

The Bloody Succession

Minoru Tycheon's death has left a power vacuum in Lyre. Each of their children is eager to assume that role, but with no named heir and a bevy of adopted progeny purposely educated to navigate Lyrian intrigue, House Tycheon has fractured spectacularly. Each potential inheritor scrambles to gather powerful allies, knowing one terrifying truth — if any of them wishes to solidify power as the true heir, they must destroy the others.

Characters can gain a Fortune Token by participating in this subplot if...
  • They find evidence or conclusive proof of who poisoned Minoru Tycheon


The death of Minoru Tycheon, Magistrate of Knowledge, has inflamed long-standing sibling rivalries in House Tycheon
CONSPIRACIES!!!!!!
murdered by someone from house yinjian for what he knew about their underground practices?
murdered by someone from house sovrana for vengeance over The Affair?
murdered by his wife for his ill treatment of her?
murdered by one of his children, who certainly had bones to pick?

The Shattering

A pandoroi, the recent technology allowing magic to be stored and used for energy, was demonstrated before Miramatra's elite in the Peacock Palace: before the demonstration's end, however, an accident caused the pandoroi to crash to the blue-marbled floor. Its shattering sent an uncontrollable, khaosic shockwave through the crowd and the palace.

Those present were immediately altered by the khaos. Some turned into terrible monsters, recognizable in their misery but terrifying in their new forms. Others, it was said, turned inside out or were sucked into the stones of the palace, which seemed to come alive around them. It fashioned a staircase in the hole where the Pandoroi had fallen, which went down, down, down...But the staircase had not existed there before, and the palace now measures slightly bigger on the inside than the outside. Those who survive (few unscathed in some magical way, though some with blessings instead of curses) say that afterwards the palace seemed to change overnight, developing new doors and hallways within.

The incident shocked the aristocracy of the republic, already in the midst of a heated debate about the merits and safety of khaosic practices, and whether humankind should limit itself in meddling. House Yinjian, cautious in its estimation of magic, campaigned for Magistrate of Phenomena with the promise that it would introduce the Silver Edicts to prevent future disasters.

This storyline is about...
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This storyline will conclude if...
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Characters can gain a Fortune Token by participating in this subplot if...
  • They spend 3 or more scenes dealing with the effects of the Shattering
  • They enter the Peacock Palace and experience weird things idk
Participating characters...
  • Here

The Kidnapping/Elopement

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