Thinking about in-world introduction profiles?

Funny you should bring up this post! This actually reminds me of a thread that did exist at one point during TMP, around the time I originally joined the Forum, and it was this thread I was primarily thinking of when I wrote out this explanation. I’ll link it here for reference.

A caveat about the above thread. We knew very, very, very little about the canon universe and how Magiq worked at that point (intentionally, as part of the TMP narrative), but as a result, a lot of things we wrote were, if not outright incorrect, at least pretty unlikely within the bounds of what we now know about magiq - adepts are rare, significant magic isn’t usually performed by only one person, etc.

With that in mind, is something like this at all similar to what you’re proposing? If not, please correct me, but if so, I think something like this thread could be a really neat idea to help people get into the world of MAGIQverse when they’re not quite ready to engage with big story beats (which is how I used it at the time). Although we’d probably want to consider a little more how best to present “background” stuff like this in a way that is consistent with what we know canonically about Magiq and doesn’t invite us to make the story of Magiq about our personal protagonists, which I think is one of the harder aspects to grasp about the Forum.

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