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    A thought on why Seyunolu are discriminated against by both Humans and Uryuom beyond just simple racism: most Seyunolu are less able as spellcasters then humans and less able as shapeshifters than Uryuoms (able to shift only through various mixtures of their ancestral forms). Mist is potent in his dream/illusion magic largely because of the Unicorn part of his heritage.

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    Voltaire is definitely taking advantage of the trio’s ignorance of local Immortal law here. I’m fairly certain that the new Law still does not allow him to simply punish them unilaterally without them agreeing to some sort of bargain with him first, so his “you are mine” claim is largely intimidation.

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    10 hours ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

    So Immortals can observe dreams, but can't listen to waking thoughts? 

    Observing dreams seems to involve moving their own viewpoint “inside” the dream, so they possibly cannot be in “multiple places at once”—entering someone’s mindscape would take their focus over whatever their physical body was doing, and they would “space out” like Sarah’s body does when she is within her mindscape spell.

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    It’s neutral because it ends with the diminutive suffix -chen, which always takes neutral. Compound words in German always take the word gender of the last part of the word, regardless of the gender of the other parts. “Madchen” more or less translates literally as “little maid”.

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    12 hours ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

    In the good old days when the Danes ruled half of England, Earl was effectively the only noble rank after King.   That was true for centuries. 

    All that changed when the French corrupted Vikings seized England. 

    Is this just another attempt to blame everything on the French? 

    They didn’t have a hierarchy of ranks of Nobility, but it still worked out because you didn’t need to be a Jarl (Earl) or the blood relation of one in order to be a warrior in their society, so they could still field sufficient numbers of warriors without having to grant nobility to them all.

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    1 hour ago, mlooney said:

    This being EGS, got to wonder if the gender/sex is set.  Could Jerry have been Jeraldine, for example?  I mean either long term or for a party or something.

    For temporary transformations, it seems that a sufficiently experienced Immortal can take the appearance of anything which can be reasonably called “animate”—see how inhuman Pandora’s “chaos cloud” form was. An Immortal’s “core” form is apparently based upon their subconscious self-image, so if an Immortal who previously thought of themselves as being male were to start thinking of themselves as being female at heart, then their core form would presumably change to mirror this.

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    Ever since the time of Descartes, we have had the dualistic worldview in which the mental and physical realms are entirely separate, with the mental only able to influence the physical through our control over our own bodies. The whole “unthinking matter reacts to intent” is usually relegated to literal Divine Intervention.

    I think that the paradigm here is that Immortals are not actually beings of Matter, and are instead “made of” magic. Literally every action that they perform upon the physical world is not a matter-upon-matter interaction, but rather a magic-upon-matter interaction.

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    Yah, as far as we know, the only “government” that the Immortals have is their general council meetings, which is closest to an Athenian style direct democracy, with no assigned leaders or officers. There seems to be no formal authority of any particular Immortal over others.