Worldbuilding Questions and Discussion

[yhlee]

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[venndaai]

My questions:
-How many years does it take to train to be a Rahal?
-Can Rahal scry the signifiers of people who aren't Hexarchate citizens? Do people outside the Hexarchate have signifiers?
-Can one Rahal scry someone on their own (not that effectively, I'd imagine), or does there need to be at least three of them to create the exotic effect?

Thanks!

[yhlee]

- Four to six years is typical (this holds in general for the faction academies), depending on how hard your specialty is and how hard you work/how smart you are.

- Rahal scrying is an exotic effect. It will work on a non-hexarchate citizen as long as they're in high calendar space. Someone [from] outside the hexarchate will manifest a signifier if they enter high calendar space. A signifier is sort of like visual shorthand for a personality quiz--scrying will "sort" anyone into what seems the most appropriate to describe their personality.

- One Rahal can definitely scry someone, but the effect is strongest with more people (up to six).

Hope this helps!

[venndaai]

It does, thank you.

[venndaai]

Does scrying always involve the kind of mind inception that happened to Brezan in RS, or can a Rahal look at someone and get a general read off of them?

[yhlee]

A Rahal can look at someone and get a general read off of them, preferably from in person and reasonably close up (same room, let's say). The trippy mind-trip thing that happened to Brezan would take a full hex digging around someone's brain for the deep stuff. Does that help?

[venndaai]

Great, thanks. And yay, this is going to be fun. :)

[vass]

"the explicit goal of destroying the hexarchate by going back in time and preventing its creation"

Does this mean preventing the creation of the hexarchate specifically (as distinct from the heptarchate), or the heptarchate too?

I guess what I'm really asking is, if my character was born during the heptarchate, are they preventing a dark future, or are they preventing the society they live in from coming about?

[yhlee]

Great question. I think realistically I could see disagreements among the rebels about this. The heptarchate is not a great society either, but it's better in some regards than what follows. I saw the premise as more "preventing a dark future," perhaps with a side of "let's seed some reform from the beginning so the h*archate doesn't end up so awful," but I wouldn't rule out people with a philosophy of "let it all burn."

Does that help?

[vass]

Yeah, it does, so long as my application can be from a perspective of "this is what they think is happening at this point".

[yhlee]

That's fine, yes--you can always use the 500 words of "tell me anything" to clarify any divergences between "this is what they think" and "this is what's probably actually going on" if you feel that's helpful.