I have two rpg related questions, and two that I was just wondering about and don't need to be answered at all - 1) How common are signifier shifts, and what type of life event/change might prompt them? 2) How deeply garish are the official uniforms for Shuos assassins (bright red :|||)? and 3) What kind of shift occurred to the Shuos during the wake of Hellspin Fortress? 4) What persuaded Zehun to make that call about Mikodez? (Mikodez in game is not going to know, but I've been trying to figure out what about Brezan reminded Zehun of Mikodez/why they decided to mess with him during Purple Paranoia, or if it's just the sight of a novice Kel coming up with this kind of solution.)
1) Signifier shifts happen occasionally through early adulthood (around mid-twenties). Bio/psych people feel free to correct me but basically the brain is still maturing through that time, at least according to the Adolescent Development course I had to take for teacher ed forever ago. They're not terribly common after that, especially radical shifts, although not unknown either. For example, if you saw a personality shift due to trauma or dementia, that could be a thing, but the later hexarchate also has better medicine available, so...
2) Official Shuos uniforms are blood red, more or less military in style, with gold trim. In the field, when actually at work, Shuos assassins are generally avoid being caught in actual uniforms at all costs and wear sensible things to fit in.
3) The only reasons the Shuos didn't take an even more massive prestige hit (and the one they took was pretty big regardless) were: a) Heptarch Khiaz essentially kicked Jedao out and gave him to the Kel as fish food (hawk food?) pretty much at the first opportunity, which was considered a pretty big deal, and b) Khiaz, while one of the more despicable people in the heptarchate, was a really top-notch propagandist and she PR'd her heart out.
4) I'm going to defer answering this question on the grounds that it is a possible story for the hexarchate collection. (It might or might not happen. I make no promises.)
Thank you for answering! 3) That explains the slightly fixed way people always talk about Jedao (including himself) and 4) !!!!! it would be really cool to see any of them on page again, but I can already imagine Brezan's profound annoyance at dealing with more foxes.
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1) How common are signifier shifts, and what type of life event/change might prompt them?
2) How deeply garish are the official uniforms for Shuos assassins (bright red :|||)?
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3) What kind of shift occurred to the Shuos during the wake of Hellspin Fortress?
4) What persuaded Zehun to make that call about Mikodez? (Mikodez in game is not going to know, but I've been trying to figure out what about Brezan reminded Zehun of Mikodez/why they decided to mess with him during Purple Paranoia, or if it's just the sight of a novice Kel coming up with this kind of solution.)
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2) Official Shuos uniforms are blood red, more or less military in style, with gold trim. In the field, when actually at work, Shuos assassins are generally avoid being caught in actual uniforms at all costs and wear sensible things to fit in.
3) The only reasons the Shuos didn't take an even more massive prestige hit (and the one they took was pretty big regardless) were: a) Heptarch Khiaz essentially kicked Jedao out and gave him to the Kel as fish food (hawk food?) pretty much at the first opportunity, which was considered a pretty big deal, and b) Khiaz, while one of the more despicable people in the heptarchate, was a really top-notch propagandist and she PR'd her heart out.
4) I'm going to defer answering this question on the grounds that it is a possible story for the hexarchate collection. (It might or might not happen. I make no promises.)
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