Sshamath School of Ancient Arcana

[raenir]

School of Ancient Arcana:

Current members:
Archmage Salazar
Apprentice Cel'lith Morcane
Venduril
Sebel - Borton
G'rinide' Gatebreaker - LordDyrian
Sleip'nyr Reyln'Rey - Bolverkin

Who I think want to Join:


Goals: The studying and attaining of Arcane Knowledge of the magical phenomenon known as 'the Weave' and to unravel its mysteries and thereby first and foremost gain a mastery of the Weave, and thus apply this power to the protection of Sshamath and Drow and Sshamath Allied Arcane Magic Users.

Symbol:
A Blue Dragon encircling a Crystal Orb on a red and black background.

Colors: Black with silver linings/runes or shades of purple robes permitted.

Location
Tentative need to explore UD more.

Rules
1) Aid each other in unlocking the secrets of the Weave.
2) Promote responsible use of the Weave..
3) Destroy planar breaches to the Material Plane if it would harm the Weave, the School, Sshamath, or the Drow.
4)


Mystra's Law: All mages are brothers and sisters in the guild, all guilds are brother and sister in the power.
Azuth's Law: The places of High Sorcery are held in common among all guilds and no sorcery is to be used there in anger against fellow mages.
Shar's Law: The world beyond the walls of the towers may bring brother against sister and guild against guild, but such is the way of the universe.

Guild Culture
1) Proper addressing of titles will depend on the rank in question, simplicity and convenience is the foremost principle for example an Archmage is referred to as "Archmage" + Last Name. Same thing for Apprentice, Researcher, Record Keeper etc.

Rankings:

Racial/Class Outlooks
All core Arcane Spellcasters are to be treated with respect, the non pure practitioners in the art you may respect as you please but if they should become a member then Mystra's law applies.

Surface Elves and their derivatives are to be treated as spies and captured for interrogation, if they resist kill them and all magical equipment are to be brought to the school for examination. (OOC since you cant loot PCs this doesnt have in ingame effect side from RP with nonexistent items effect)

Any surfacer intruding into the Underdark who hail from the "Weavemasters" a guild dedicated to the Weave treat them as very dangerous and handle with caution and with respect, if they interfear with you or intend on harming or spying on Sshamath capture them if this is impossible kill them or drive them away. If not ignore them for they are of no consequence.

Ranking Guide:
Council Members: By Appointment only

Arch Mage : 70000 reputation points/guild master and epic lvl spells
High Mage : 50000 reputation points/guild master and 9th lvl spells
Elite Arcanist : 30000 reputation/guild master and 8th lvl spells
Elite Magus : 15000 reputation/guild master and 7th lvl spells
Arcanist : 8000 reputation points/guild master and 6th lvl spells
Magus : 4000 reputation points/guild master and 5th lvl spells
Journeyman: 3000 reputation points
Adept: 2000 reputation points
Apprentice : 1000 reputation points
Initiate : 0 reputation points

Reputation Point Guide:
Spell Related:
Power level: (highest lvl spell cast * 500)
Every 5 ranks of Spellcraft: (100 rep)
Every 5 ranks of Lore: (100 rep)
Every feat listed under the Wizard bonus feat list: (100 rep)
Every spell taught to a member (no charge) : (lvl of spell * 200 rep)
Every spell sold to a member (base cost to make scroll - 100 gold) : (100 rep)
Every school of magic mastered (ALL spells from lvl 1-9): (1000 rep)
Every epic spell learned: (500 rep)
*Note that Gate and Vampiric Feast summon Balors and Greater Shadows respectively


Event Related:
Every in-character forum post (must be a plot line or story) : (100 rep)
Every DM event (named by DM in DM Realm thread) : (100 rep)
Every adventure spent with a fellow member: (100 rep per 1 real day)
Every Balor, Horned Devil, or Pit Fiend destroyed/banished : (100 rep)

Guild Related:
Aiding a member reach Magus status (member can only name one primary master. i.e the one that helped the most) : (2500 rep)

Guild Donations:
Every item donated (given to other guildmembers or to guildmaster to distribute) :
+(100 rep for every +1 attribute or magical enhancement)
+(100 rep for every +5 skill enhancement)
+(100 rep for every spell bonus level. I.e. One bonus lvl 3 spell is worth 300 rep. A bonus spell for both sorcerer and wizard count as only one)
+(100 for every 5 points of damage reduction.)
+(100 for every bonus feat)
+(100 for each scroll level. This is different from "teaching" someone a spell. Teaching someone entails the other member not knowing the spell in the first place.)

((once crafting/enchantment is implemented))
Every free enchantment to a member (components provided): (500 rep)
Every free enchantment to a member (components not provided): (2000 rep)

((You'll notice that role-playing is just as important as gaining levels. You can be a level 20 wizard and just be a Magus. Guilds tend to be built for role-players although all are welcome))

((Go ahead and track your reputation points yourself and notify me if you think you've gained a new rank. I will verify and RP your promotion))

Hope I have permission to plagarize these Cephas

[raenir]

Uum, when one gives suggestions it is courteous to explain the why of.

I am not creating a guild that happens to be the rulers of Sshamath no, I am merely one of MANY magical schools of thought competing for influence, the name is a nod towards Q’arlynd Melarn from the most recent trilogy of novels by Lisa Smedman. A Drow wizard who by no means "good" however wished to be a part of something greater then himself, to be a part of a group of wizards working towards a common goal.

I have roughly 9 gb of src pdfs, I have Drow of the Underdark.

Now if the DMs allow me to Ild be happy to simply be the ruling Archmage of Sshamath and my "school" be the Conclave itself but if and only if the DMs let me.

My character who is founding the School is Lawful Evil, and is closely modeled off of Raistlin Majere from the Dragonlance D&D Novels and philosophically matches how the Orders of Magic work in that setting.

[DM Sir Carnifex]

Jan 3, 2009 18:37:19 GMT -5 raenir said:

Now if the DMs allow me to Ild be happy to simply be the ruling Archmage of Sshamath and my "school" be the Conclave itself but if and only if the DMs let me.

That place will probably be held by an NPC. So if anyone has a good chance of being the leading archmage of Sshamath, it's me. ;D

[DM Cephas]

Geez, SirC...

You have about a dozen PCs, and you're planning to run 3 guilds? What do you do for a living? LOL

[DM Sir Carnifex]

Jan 3, 2009 22:56:05 GMT -5 DM Cephas said:

Geez, SirC...

You have about a dozen PCs, and you're planning to run 3 guilds? What do you do for a living? LOL

I never, ever, said I was running another guild. I was just making note of the fact that being a DM can be... fun.

P.S. If these OOC posts that aren't helpful to the thread and you (Raenir) feel they just clutter it, let me know and I'll remove them.

[raenir]

im not yet at the administrative point where thread clutter is a probleb but thanks for the offer once im up and running and consolidated ill let you know.

Now start rolling drow wizards and join!

[adzling]

celith morcane is a first level faern ;-)

ill chat with you in-game about it raenir.

[venduril]

I would like to join

[raenir]

good good, hthings coming along nicely. I am thinking of having technically 3 wings, the Scholars/Researchers, the Field Agents and the Students.

[adzling]

instead of having it setup as an already existing school why don't you start it much as it was in the books (albeit with a different back-story).
i.e. as the principle raenir is attempting to start a brand new school of magic in sshamath.
this would be cool as it would give you (and the potential new members) something to do creating plots and ideas on how to increase the chance of the school gaining official recognition and a seat on the council.
you could even entice a dm to start some rp thread along this line.

could be fun raenir....

[raenir]

oh ya, its a different school, not one of the main schools its a new school and I'm IC trying to achieve a spot on the Conclave and gain official recognition, this would allow me to restore Clan Salazar to Nobility once more becoming House Salazar (this is in my backstory that I am not done writing yet) hence my alliance with one of my ambitious priestess cousins. By combining the resources of a restored noble house with an official school of magic I can start setting plans in motion.

So officially, I am inviting anyone into the School, non Arcane casters will serve as our primary merc force to support our mages. New members, as an added bonus can get a map of the Underdark to scale and detailed with loot drops, spawns, caves, etc.

[adzling]

xclnt plan, i likey.

given the probatory nature of the school/quellar i would suggest you start rping it from the bottom.
right now the school is you operating out of whatever rented quarters you can afford and with any two-bit noob you think is worthy.
makes it a higher climb but it's the journey that's fun not the end result ;-)

[whenwizardswar]

Your stepping on the toes of the cities command structure, just keep in mind they already have eight ruleing acadamys for each school of magic, and the archmages of the city run the whole shebang.

We dont prevent players from creating guilds, but just remember if you step on the toes of factions that were there LONG before you, someones going to get hurt.

[raenir]

technically there are more then 8 council members I only simply created my own guild a "lessor/minor" school of Magic, IC my plans are to gain recognition as a major School of Magic and sit on the council. It is the modus operandi of all drow to try to gain influence and power. As a powerful Archmage myself I do by default hold influence and power within the city hierarchy enough to make my own school on a whim and only really needing permission as a formality. This is my understanding of the background lore of Sshamath based on the Forgotten Realms novels and the D&D sourcebooks.

For now I am recruiting new members to act as a UD version of the Weavemasters and once ive gained enough power and influence with DM help in the form of events work on getting a spot on the council. IC the best pathj for me would be to ally with an already existing School who in return for my support would vouch for my school and work to bring the matter to the conclave and have me promoted to that position, this is roughly the course that happened in the Trology by Lisa Smedman with Archmage Melarn aside form certain events happening that redirected priorities.

[adzling]

yup, strcitly speaking the 8 existing schools (and 2 other appointed conclave positions) would pay little attention to minor schools such as the newly formed school of ancient arcana.

the challenge for raenir (and now celith) will be to drive rp that improves the school's standing in sshamath with the eventual goal of getting seat on the conclave.

which like you said may be a long time coming if at all.

alternately another path would be to ally with an existing school, operating as a vassal school of the more powerful and entrenched school.

who knows well see what happens eh?