Opening up the Amazons
Posted: 15 Jan 2017 09:03
On wizardly advice, I am posting (and expanding on) my suggestion from the in-game board for feedback.
In all writings I have found about the Amazons of the Silent Forest, their identity is based around being female, and I never noticed the word "human". Perhaps they came from a human tribe at some point in the distant past, but I could not find it, and Calia's history includes all races from the start. Given that the Amazons are few enough that Sister Ophelia has been willing to trust
anyone with a token, perhaps they would open their arms to females of other races? Recent times have been turbulent, and Caliana herself demonstrated what a non-human can achieve.
Greater tolerance among the Amazons would greatly expand options for female dwarves, hobbites, and gnomes (especially gnomes) while leaving plenty of human-only guilds. It would not solve the problem for the males, but the change seems simple and historically consistent.
On the other hand:
[*]Would an all-races female group be racial? Sort-of, if we call it a "race" of sisters. Members of the Amazon "race" are already adoptive out of necessity.
[*]There are already gender-based clubs, particularly Nisse Ohtar (https://www.genesismud.org/forums/viewt ... =27&t=1560). I've never met anyone from there, and know little about it. I do not know whether having two all-race warrior sistherhoods would make sense, only that neither is serving its purpose right now and that the Amazons are low-hanging fruit for expanding racial guild options.
[*]If more female players join the Amazons, there might be fewer in the other guilds. Of course, most interaction is through occupational and layman.
What do you think?
In all writings I have found about the Amazons of the Silent Forest, their identity is based around being female, and I never noticed the word "human". Perhaps they came from a human tribe at some point in the distant past, but I could not find it, and Calia's history includes all races from the start. Given that the Amazons are few enough that Sister Ophelia has been willing to trust
anyone with a token, perhaps they would open their arms to females of other races? Recent times have been turbulent, and Caliana herself demonstrated what a non-human can achieve.
Greater tolerance among the Amazons would greatly expand options for female dwarves, hobbites, and gnomes (especially gnomes) while leaving plenty of human-only guilds. It would not solve the problem for the males, but the change seems simple and historically consistent.
On the other hand:
[*]Would an all-races female group be racial? Sort-of, if we call it a "race" of sisters. Members of the Amazon "race" are already adoptive out of necessity.
[*]There are already gender-based clubs, particularly Nisse Ohtar (https://www.genesismud.org/forums/viewt ... =27&t=1560). I've never met anyone from there, and know little about it. I do not know whether having two all-race warrior sistherhoods would make sense, only that neither is serving its purpose right now and that the Amazons are low-hanging fruit for expanding racial guild options.
[*]If more female players join the Amazons, there might be fewer in the other guilds. Of course, most interaction is through occupational and layman.
What do you think?