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Shamus does that a lot, but he also has read memories. His thrall/wraith and minds are often "linked," it's a pretty neat rp idea that I would steal (borrow) if Liz and Reynold didn't have such animosity.

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What sort of Relationship would the Paladins and Fae have?

Jason wrote:What sort of Relationship would the Paladins and Fae have?

I actually asked David that when i was playing Eze for a possible story line, and basically? Fae are pretty much on their own and don't really like humans persay.

Robert Pratt wrote:Question on wraiths....

How are they connected to their 'master'?

As in - would it be legitimate RP for them to be having a convo with someone on one side of the city, or in the SR, and for their 'master' to be able to hear the answers or see through their eyes somehow so they can know how the convo goes?

I've heard various answers, though I believe David said once it was writer's choice.

Asher has had multiple thralls with different kinds of master/slave relationships. The human he had most recently, he could do all the above. Human before that, was an enthralled individual that still retained free will, and Asher couldn't - he just followed orders.

I like to mix it up.

Wolffyn wrote:Do you still plan on naming important npc's to the town, like the Mayor? And are there any plans to give names to the streets?

Yes to the important people. There might be a chapter in future which deals with important city officials (including the mayor).

Plans to give names to the streets isn't really a canon question, but yes it was planned from the start, I just never ended up doing it. Yet, at least.

Wendigo wrote:Thank you for addressing the previous questions about Wraiths. I suppose the next logical question would be, "Were there Wraiths in the world before the opening of the Veil?" In other words, were the Wraith Guides able to manifest in the real world between the time of the Holocaust and the Veil Tear, or were they trapped in the SR that entire time?

Yes, wraiths were able to appear in the real world, and always have been. In older times, this was mostly due to raise wraith powers being used, or the ritual which returns a wraith to the real world. However, some of the more powerful wraiths have always been able to manifest in the real world.

ETA: I saw Ripper's post where he linked to the wiki where it says no vampire has ever returned to life, but that wiki article doesn't mention returning as a wraith. If I've contradicted myself on this point in the past, please let me know. But to me right now, if there's a tome to raise wraiths, it would suggest that wraiths have been around in the real world pre-sundering.

Asher wrote:Is there any way to access real-world information from the Shadow Realm for Paths other than Telepaths? Maybe remnants or pieces of it, anyways? Just little... fragments that echo into it, if that makes sense.

There are occasional "windows" in the shadow realm which give dead vampires the chance to see pockets of reality, though they can't usually interact with that reality. This isn't yet reflected in gameplay, but it will be soon.

David wrote:So the thing about the Crow and the bounties and vamps connecting to it.

1. How do vamps know for flat out that humans like Blood Thieves cannot connect? As pointed out to me. 200 years ago the Elders had no computers so the knowledge didn't come from them. Whose to say it's not something connected to the web but like magic blocked from humans?

It is connected to the web, partly, but something blocks those without permission from compiling the fragments of crownet data into a coherent code (in contrast, a vampire looking at a computer screen connected to crownet will stay connected).

How do vampires know this? How did they find crownet in the first place? Haha. I'd have to talk to the first gens to come up with something which makes sense there. I'd imagine that one of them was automatically connected to crownet the first time they started understanding computers. Perhaps Isabella, seeing as she was given messages directly from Crow in the past? Maybe one of those first vampires to connect to the site Crow made got one of their human thralls to try it, and found that the human was unable to even load up the site.

Think of Crownet as something of a "ghost in the machine" and it starts to make a little more sense.

2. If it is his brain that vamps connected to. Then Telepathic powers are ' jacking' into his brain what's keeping yet again something else with powers from doing so. Are we basically see thoughts then when they do that? Shouldn't that stuff not be so... clear? You know a memory pop in and there type of thing? Brains don't function in single mode is the Crow then removing it? If he is how does know that other noise isn't wanted? Clearly they aren't connected via a computer so shouldn't CrowNet stuff ( bounty list, chats, forums be under telepathic messages not computer based one? )

I don't believe I've ever confirmed or denied that Crow's "brain" was part of the crownet network. Nor will I, until the chapter reveals such twists.

Just in case there's some confusion: Crownet is indeed a website.

3. Why would the Crow reward anyone who learned either of those abilities to connect to the CrowNet when he is pro masq and likely want them to be punished for being bad so they don't do it again.

You mean dead vampires? Perhaps there's a clue in the fact that he / she doesn't restrict them from accessing Crownet. Or perhaps he /she can't restrict dead vampires. One of the many mysteries which will be revealed in time.

4. Same based questions why would a powerful Telepath who can build several brain functions allow a Telepath the ability to do anything from the shadow realm?

You're assuming Crow is a telepath, and a vampire, and that it cares about things like that. You're also assuming he / she has the power to stop a telepath from using telepathic powers at all. Surely, if he / she was so powerful, he / she would simply destroy vampires with bounties on them?

Dex wrote:Now that new characters can start as Blood Thieves or Paladins, I was wondering: Do all Blood Thieves currently in existence ultimately originate from Broussard's rediscovery of the path, or is there any possiblity of some other Blood Thief "tradition", even if it's just a character discovering the path themselves?

Along the same line of thought: Do all Paladins owe their origins to the Order of St. James, or are there other sources of paladinhood?

Blood thieves: It's possible that some blood thieves exist elsewhere in the world. I only just now noticed that the RP article for blood thieves is just a bunch of chapter updates, which is weird because I remember writing lots about the blood thief turning process and such. But anyway, right now there are only the blood thieves who were either Broussard, or they learned from Broussard.

Essentially, there was nobody around to teach anyone how to become a blood thief, because vampires had been gone for 200 years. They'd be very, very unlikely to discover the ability by themselves, as it requires a lot of training in terms of how much blood you take in, and how often, before your body changes and you start being able to steal power from the blood. Accidentally drinking vampire blood once is only going to either kill you or make you very ill.

As for paladins, there are indeed other ancient paladins elsewhere in the world, but so far none have come to Harper Rock, because the truth about vampires returning is a secret, and not all paladins hunt vampires anyway. So right now the only way to become a paladin is by being trained by the sorcerers and paladins in the Order (or by those who were taught from them).

Hariasa wrote:I was thinking about it this morning, and I don't remember being answered. I think of weird things while I brush my teeth.

If a woman dies and is raised back as a zombie, and happens to have been pregnant and also ingest vampire blood, she would have a fadeling corpse in her womb. If a vampire gets pregnant after becoming a vampire, she'll give birth to a fadebeast.

What would happen if a woman was sired while pregnant?

Not a super-pressing question, just curious.

I've not thought about it, but asked for my opinion, I'd say that the child would most likely die. Fadebeasts aren't babies turned, and "fadelings" (the zombie ones) aren't true fadebeasts, or vampires, or zombies.