The Day of Change is coming up soon (September 23rd), and to celebrate, we have a very special announcement.
With the in-world doors to Neithernor shut indefinitely, we wanted to find some way to keep the sense of exploration and wonder that Neithernor inspired in all of us alive here on the forum. So for the past couple of weeks, the leaders have been helping us play-test an in-world on-forum roleplaying experience that will allow you to explore the wilds of Neithernor and your respective guild homes as though the doors were still open.
Weāre calling it: Neithernor Reborn
Our fictional ādoorsā will open on September 23rd, but until then, we have a project for you!
We promised that on the Day of Change every year you would get to decide what your guild homes looked like for following year. That way veterans and new recruits alike could help shape their home. So, with that date fast approaching, now is the time to get together with the rest of your guild and discuss what you would like to stay the same from the previous years, and what you want to change.
Soon, your leaders will give you a brief overview of what the guild homes have looked like in the past, and the direction we want to take them this year, but the guild homes should reflect the people who occupy them, so whether youāve been here for three years or three days, your voice matters.
More info on the experience will come soon, but for now, weāre so excited to see what you come up with.
UPDATE:
Below are the six threads to help shape and imagine each of the six guild āhousesā to inspire and encourage you to create with your fellow guild kin.
I mean, indefinite isnāt forever; itās just undefined! But itās still super exciting to have something like this coming to the forums; I canāt wait to see what you all come up with for the Day of Change
I think Neithernor Reborn is something really special and exciting to the community. I remember in the early days of discovering Neithernor everyone figuring out their place in this big wide beautiful world we had discovered. I canāt wait to see those places made manifest, and some new places from some awesome new mounties
To address your points, there are a LOT of considerations that go into every major decision we make. For Neithernor Reborn being in-world versus out-of-world some of the considerations were:
Giving another strong incentive to increase your trust level on the forum.
Now that Neithernor is closed from us narratively, new readers donāt get the chance to experience it. We wanted to fix that.
Introducing play into the Magiqverse. Shouldnāt magimystics be able to blow off steam and play, and maybe their pretend is part imagination, part memory? What if pretend becomes canon?
And what if by honoring Neithernor by creating new tales about it, even without having access to it, you could shape it, help it, or maybe even find a way back in?
As for the āverbal ninjitsuā, there is none. Magiq is pretty much gone. Thatās why the doors closed. They no longer work. Thatās why you canāt just wait for it to be open again. This is our way of honoring that place, and allowing new readers to experience and play in it even though narratively itās been closed off.
I have a similar theory, @Augustus_Octavian. If we seed magiq with creative action, nurture it with our love of magiq, and protect it by not āharvestingā any in spells, perhaps we can regrow what once was lost. I mean, thereās a multi-nation effort going to un-desert the Sahara going on right now, so anything is possible. (Gotta use those nature metaphors, the Balimora in me insists!)
Regardless, Iām really excited to get to participate in-world, even if it is in an in-world RP. I like RPGs, this is funness squared.
It was real fun, but if i can be totally honest it felt too empty. There was too little to do, and too few interested parties. With this, i hope we can finally get the active group rp i was hoping for in the beginning.
this is going to be a fun ride. thats for sure.
and who knows. considering how the narrative shifts? we can see new things come on the day of change, and see some old things change.
