Subject: MYSTARA-L Digest - 1 Sep 2003 to 2 Sep 2003 (#2003-214) From: Automatic digest processor Date: 03/09/2003, 17:00 To: Recipients of MYSTARA-L digests Reply-to: Mystara RPG Discussion There are 5 messages totalling 170 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. Mystara's Mystics/Monks (4) 2. Years of Fire Campaign Setting (Long) ******************************************************************** The Other Worlds Homepage: http://www.wizards.com/dnd/OtherWorlds.asp The Mystara Homepage: http://www.dnd.starflung.com/ To unsubscribe, send email to LISTSERV@ORACLE.WIZARDS.COM with UNSUB MYSTARA-L in the body of the message. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 11:27:30 +0300 From: Eyal Fleminger Subject: Re: Mystara's Mystics/Monks IIRC there's also one somewhere in Thyatis. Eyal -----Original Message----- i remember reading that there was a monastary in Glantri, high in the mountains... Thibault Sarlat. ICQ 16622177. Personal homepage http://www.mystara.fr.st thibault.sarlat@wanadoo.fr ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ramses Ramirez" To: Sent: Monday, September 01, 2003 8:51 PM Subject: [MYSTARA] Mystara's Mystics/Monks > HELLO! > > Would anyone happen to know which mystaran nations have mystics? AFAIK, Sind (from Champions of Mystara) seems to be the only country that has mystics but I could be in error. > > Lancer > > > --------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software > > ******************************************************************** > The Other Worlds Homepage: http://www.wizards.com/dnd/OtherWorlds.asp > The Mystara Homepage: http://www.dnd.starflung.com/ > To unsubscribe, send email to LISTSERV@ORACLE.WIZARDS.COM > with UNSUB MYSTARA-L in the body of the message. > > ******************************************************************** The Other Worlds Homepage: http://www.wizards.com/dnd/OtherWorlds.asp The Mystara Homepage: http://www.dnd.starflung.com/ To unsubscribe, send email to LISTSERV@ORACLE.WIZARDS.COM with UNSUB MYSTARA-L in the body of the message. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 10:56:48 +0100 From: Colin Davidson Subject: Re: Mystara's Mystics/Monks ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ramses Ramirez" To: Sent: Monday, September 01, 2003 7:51 PM Subject: [MYSTARA] Mystara's Mystics/Monks > HELLO! > > Would anyone happen to know which mystaran nations have mystics? AFAIK, Sind (from Champions of Mystara) seems to be the only country that has mystics but I could be in error. > > Lancer There's a community of mystics on one of the Ierendi islands, and it's not inapprporiate to place cloisters of mystics wherever you feel is most appropriate. In my own campaign there's a small cloister in Norwold, in the mountains above the Regent Pass, there's a community in the mountains between Glantri and Wendar, there are some in Thothia, Sind, Blackheart and Ochalea (amongst other places). ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 09:35:24 -0400 From: Chris Cherrington Subject: Re: Mystara's Mystics/Monks > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ramses Ramirez" > > > > Would anyone happen to know which mystaran nations have mystics? AFAIK, > Sind (from Champions of Mystara) seems to be the only country that has > mystics but I could be in error. > > Mystic orders are found on the Isle of Dawn, these spider worshipping Thothian mystics could also be Araena or a good introduction to a form of spider lycanthropy. Mystic orders should be in remote hard to get locations, usually found with ruins of ancient times that have past from memory. If placing a monastery in the mountains between Glantri and Wendar, have it built on the ancient Gnomish capital mentioned in the Dragon Lord trilogy. High up in the Glantrian Alps is a stronghold of clerics from Ethengar, The Ten-Thousand Fist of Kahn. This could also house a healing order of Mystics, possibly not clerics at all, and kept in secret to heal unfortunate afflictions by the Ethengarians’ knowledge gained from dealing with the Land of Black Sand. I also believe the Sindhi order of Mystics is located in the remote mountains that border Sind and Glantri. Both the Sindhi and Ethengarian orders should be a highly spiritual or spirit world order of mysticism. Thyatian based Mystic orders can be more medieval in contrast to the other “Eastern” beliefs of Thothia and Ochalea. They should also be located in the country sides outside the capital, as a type of fighter retreats or gladiatorial training compounds. I beefed up the Rahasia module for some Companion level play by making the Siswa an elven order of peaceful healing Mystics. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 10:15:27 -0400 From: Geoff Gander Subject: Re: Years of Fire Campaign Setting (Long) > > Below is an idea for a campaign setting which connects > Mystara and Blackmoor. Let me know what you think! > > Mystara Campaign Setting: Years of Fire This is *very* good - an interesting twist on what can be an overdone genre (post-apolcalyptic scenarios). In fact, an entire campaign could be developed - one between a faction of the survivors who might try to rebuild civilisation, and another that tries to start over again. It's up to the PCs to decide which side they want to back, but perhaps the followers of newly-resurgent Immortals might try to inspire the PCs - one way of the other. Speaking of cults, another group that might be resurgent in such an unsettled time would be followers of the Outer Beings. During the time of Blackmoor's heyday, most such cults would be hidden, and prey upon those who live outside of society (remote regions, homeless folk, etc.), or they might attract the attention of the truly jaded. By the latter case, I mean those who are so decadent, and whose senses are so dulled by drugs and whatnot, that they seek whatever thrills they can find - even if it means committing unspeakable acts. With everything in ruin following the GRoF, however, some maddened cultists who survived the destruction might think that the current period of misery is the appointed time to try to release their masters. Just a thought. Geoff -- Geoff Gander, BA 97, MPA 02 Carnifex Loremaster/Mad Roleplayer Master of the Elemental Plane of Bureaucracy au998@freenet.carleton.ca : www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Realm/2091 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 11:47:15 -0400 From: Chris Cherrington Subject: Re: Mystara's Mystics/Monks A Brief Overview of Mystaran Mystical Orders. Many of the ancient beliefs of the monastic orders of mysticism can be based from 2 families of thought, Mythraism and Cypricism. The latter being the most popular in Eastern trains of thought, both in Ochalea, and on the Isle of Dawn. Before the fall of the Ancient Empire of Alphatia, they had conquered the nearby civilization of the Cypric peoples. For many years the Cypric peoples were not allowed to bear arms, nor did they show any aptitude for magic. A philosophic race of people, they turned inward on their beliefs and created the first monastic orders of mystics. These orders learned the use of turning normal everyday items into deadly weapons, and advanced orders actually turned their bodies into lethal weapons. Many of the first orders disguised themselves as clerical centers and as they advanced in thought, many of these first orders did gain immortal or outer being sponsorship. At the fall of Ancient Alphatia, many of the Cypric orders of mysticism settled in Ochalea. Here the orders advanced in peaceful clerical orders, and boast a huge variety of fighting styles, techniques, and unique weapon masteries. The orders influenced by the outer beings rapidly diminished, as the unique propertie s inherent to Mystara severed the ties of mysticism with the outer beings. The only orders of these types that survived usually will have a dark secret hidden well from the prying eyes of outsiders. The Mystics of Thothia, with their spider worship are one such group that mixed well with the Thothian populace and nobility. The Mythraism branch of mysticism has 3 major sub-groups. All seem to stem out from the Sindhi branch. The fighting orders of mystics in Sind tend to belief in thousands of separate incarnations of the immortals, and as such will have many such orders tending to each of the incarnations’ train of thought. The eastern branch of this belief has only survived in Ethengarian lore as spirit worship and the spirit world; but it can also be assumed that much of the original beliefs could have been brought over by humanoid raids on earlier Ethengarians and brought westward to Sind, where spirit worship advanced into immortal incarnations. While early contact with Sindhi travelers and Traladaran merchants brought over a form of wrestling that endured with the Thyatian tradition of gladiatorial combat. Although in Thyatis, only a very few of the core beliefs of Sindhi Mysticism exists, and many new and modern philosophies abound, especially with a recent influx of Cypric/Ochalean core values of weapon combat. Most modern day Thyatian Mystics will align to one core thought and not mix in the beliefs of spirits, immortals, or incarnations. ------------------------------ End of MYSTARA-L Digest - 1 Sep 2003 to 2 Sep 2003 (#2003-214) **************************************************************