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So, i am not qaying the objective is to retain knowledge ( readen things, for exemple ) better, but to channel myself into feeling more attraction towards it. I thought that magic could be an interesting way ( plus it cannot hurt to try, and it’s really cool ).

I thought of using the figure of Hermaeus Mora ( daedric prince in TES, whose sphere revolves around knowledge ), which i am really familiar with as a concept ( as a big TES nerd ), as a sort of intermediate figure for this.

Now, the thing is that i really don’t know much about magic in general, except some really small bits and pieces i gathered some time ago when i was more curious about it. So i would need some ideas on how to actually make something from that.

I am really sorry if my question seem stupid, but i thought that if there was one thing that would be interesting to try magic about (from how i live, and what my live currently revolve around ) it would be this.

Thanks a lot for all answers that may come !

I (20, amab) am like 80-90% sure i would prefere being in a woman’s body rather than in a masculine one. I always felt good when linked with femininity ( except for the few insult i got sometimes ), and i only recently accepted that. I look, dress, etc, in a classic masculine manner, even if i want to change that.

Yet, i don’t think it’s the main thing in my life. Yes, i would prefere myself to be a woman, ok. But most of the time i don’t think about that, and when i do, i don’t feel like it’s a reality-ending kind of feeling. I think more often about what i want to eat or what game i want to play than what body i would rather have. I sometime feel indifferent about it, and to be honest, when i see so much stories of people that habe super strong emotions about that, i end up asking myself if i really am feeling anything.

But maybe i am just tired and have hard time feeling anything lately, which makes me unable to understand what is in my brain. Probably a mix of all that

I think about buying it there, and i am not sure if it’s a good idea or not, so i wanted to know beforehand if there is mods on it like there is on the mobile or PC versions

I lost my capital to the eldritch horror. After beating it, the god emperor wanted to make it a trophy for our people to admire. When things started to smell bad, we kept it. When everything showed us it could be a very bad idea, the priest told us that stopping there would be the worst choice.

There were all wrong.

Now, our beautiful Pryktia is gone. Thousands of years of history, our birthplace, where our beloved protectors, the sacred guardians, found us and showed us the path. Now, our science have lost most of its abilities to innovate. We are but a shadow, and the only thing keeping us up is our military power. We ended the war that happened. And now, all united in the system where we once lived, we cry. The demonic horrors we refused to worship destroyed everything we loved and cherished, billions have perished. There is no place for weakness anymore. The god emperor decreed war upon everything unholy : we will stand strong and fight against what hides in the dark. Today, we find ourself a new name. Today, we all chosed a new name, and as one psyonic voice, we scream it into the abyss, as a warning for the foul abominations that look at us from there.

"We are the hope of a dying galaxy. We are the chosen recognized by the old ones. We are the sons and daughters of the God emperor. We are those who inhreited of the will of the sacrificed. We are the Martyrs : and you will be no more. Tremble, enemy of the God, for we do not fear you. Wait cowardly : soon we will be there. You will learn to flee as the name of Pryktia, homeworld of the Martyrs."

Edit : ok an aspiring crisis empire is sending a sun devourer on me, all my fleet are really far away, and i am very afraid rn. I think i will let some of my territories to die now, and go to my old chokepoint because now things are going crazy bad

Pure genuine curiosity, i am just curious, like is it something that took a lot of work or was it more "damn it really is natural" ? Asking because curiosity only, nothing else

Like damn, i don’t understand lmao

Among all known species, humans are neither the strongest, the more intelligent, or the more advanced. In truth, nothing about them is really impressive...

If not their sheer weirdness. If you leave them with a suspicious liquid, they will drink it. If another specie with a totally different alimention process is eating something, they will try to eat it. And if something is obviously dangerous and potentially hurtful to them and others. They. Will. Do. It.

The result : more than the two third of the galactic community laws come from attempts at regulating their madness. And those who guards prison world knows that it never stop them from doing it anyway.

As i am trying to enlarge my vision, i want to know if some of you would have some subject of learning to recommand, that might be quite fun to learn. To give you an idea, i am from a philosophy study background, haven’t touched math with a stick in five years, like learning things about history and geography, and trying to git gud in arts. I am still quite bad at it however .-.

Don’t be shy on subject that really have nothing to do with what i said btw ! And if you have recommandation on where to begin learning about what you talk about, it would be really cool !

Dit comme ça, c’est assez curieux, je sais. On a plus tendance à entendre "j’ai besoin d’amour", et je ne vais pas nier que ça fait parti de ça. J’ai quelques amis, avec qui je suis assez peu proche, j’ai ma famille que j’aime beaucoup, donc je ne suis pas vraiment seul. Solitaire oui, mais pas vraiment seul.

Pourtant j’ai besoin d’aimer. J’ai besoin de ressentir cette folie dans mon coeur qui me pousse à chercher l’autre. J’ai besoin de ces nuits à me demander ce que la personne pense de moi. J’ai besoin de ces rêves idiots qui me laissent avec quelques larmes aux yeux, j’ai besoin d’aimer quelqu’un, même sans être aimer. Bien sûr j’aimerais trouver une personne qui voudrais de moi ( c’est une évidence ), mais j’ai besoin de trouver quelqu’un que je puisse aimer. Passer un temps fou à essayer de bien m’habiller, etc etc.

Je ne me suis jamais senti bien que lorsque j’étais amoureux. Pas que je sois le genre de personne à tomber amoureux sans passer par d’inombrables paniques, peurs et angoisses. Mais ça vaut le coup, si c’est pour aimer. j’ai 20 ans : j’ai eu l’occasion d’avoir des sentiments, et même d’en recevoir en retour. Je crois que c’étaient des periodes qui, sans être exempt de troubles, étaient un peu plus douce. Mais ça fait longtemps : autant dire que j’ai perdu totalement ma capacité à flirt ( d’ailleurs, j’ai toujours été terriblement mauvais à ça ) et que je ne me sens pas capable d’entreprendre quoique ce soit ( mais les sentiments ont tendance à me pousser à me contredire ) pour m’approcher de quelqu’un.

Désolé pour le post bancal btw, j’ai le cerveau en compote à vause de la fatigue

P.S. i don’t know if it’s the good tag for this so i will change it if it’s possible if it’s not fitting

For as long as i remember, i liked art. I am certainly not an artist ( yet ) but i always made a few things from times to times also. Still, it’s not as a maker that i am here, but as the title said, as someone who wish they could enjoy art a bit more.

I think i lack some sensibility. I can appreciate art, but the feeling of beauty is sometimes too... weak. I know there is more to it, i have that inner conviction that i miss so many things when looking at art pieces.

I hope you guys have some advices about that, or ideas on how to proceed to learn to be more sensible to art. I don’t have much more than this to ask, so i will just go on and send the post now

To be honest i wasn’t even that much into the community part of it for a long time, but in the 2018- 2021 ( and not 2022 as said before the edit ), i discovered it and honestly it was just super cool. You could chat with people for days, learn a lot of new things, make friends and stuff. Now, it feel bland. I remember back in 2018 when by just commenting on someone's post i began to talk with a bunch of person ( big conversation that endured for a week or so ) and it was really fun and interesting. Whatever you did there was people you could talk to, and social media were... i mean, social. Now it’s just a mix of scrolling and a overglorified SMS service. Really, it’s sad that it disappeared. Even the forums and website that were based around that ended up closing or just dying from no activity.

What’s even worst is that we are a generation that face big loneliness issue, but while we have the internet at our disposal, we just accepted that it couldn’t be this way anymore. And now some people even chat with an AI to feel less lonely.

I really hope that one day, it will come back : finding new people, laughing, sharing memes badly made, playing online flash games, having long discussion to rank the best song, and being able to forget how terrible life can be sometimes. Because who cares if the forums are ugly if they are user-friendly ? I mean, i miss that time and i kinda regret i haven’t appreciated it for how good it was.

This young ignorant have discovered the realm of martial scriptures a few years ago, and yet still lacking in wisdom, continued forth his journey. Now only do i decided to put upon myself the reading of true scriptures, going above the pitiful realm of child-imagery scriptures to enter that of pure words scriptures that are unbothered by the genius of one art, to concentrate upon the essence of martial art and understand the Dao.

Profound and wise elders, i seek enlightenment from you so i can learn to write scriptures myself. I lack knowledge, even after hours and hours of reading different scriptures myself, and need to learn the basic needs of a scripture writer.

Would any of those venerables tell me if they know of a wiki of some sort that could help me know and learn the clans of murim for exemple ? Or of the different genres of scriptures that exist, for there us a true difference between certain of those ?

If one of those divine-surpassing master were to bring me advices on my path, i would surely sing their sun-piercing glory for the next ten thousand generations, knowing how honored i am from being even looked upon by their soul-thrusting divine eyes.

So i am painting on wood with acrylic, but the thing is that it is just terrible to touch ( it’s also small objects that sill probably be manipulated a lot ) because of the texture, and i wanted to try making it less harsh, and softer. Would anyone have recommendation about that ?

Bon je parles surtout de chanson française, mais si vous avez une chanson anglo ou autre en tête franchement ça le fait aussi !

Personnellement je pense pas que je pourrais juste donner une première place facilement par ce que j’en ai trois qui se bataillent dans ma tête : "à la faveur de l’automne" de tété, "la bohème" d’Aznavour, "ne me quitte pas" de brel. Maintenant que j’y pense il y aurait peut être aussi "la corrida" de cabrel...

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Et vous ? Classiques ou plus modernes j’ai hâte de savoir ( je profite de ces chaleurs pour écouter un peu de musique :) )

There is tales of a creature that roamed within the realm of oblivion belonging to the daedric princess of nightmares : Vaermina. This creature, by itself, is weak and unable to do anything. However, should a dreamer venture too far into their own slumber, they may find it, and lose their controle over their own body. Now able to act upon the awaken world, the mind parasite will unleash its will to control everything.

The two main skill trees you should worry about are illusion and conjuration ( only necromancy spells -> taking control of the minds or the dead, turning them into ash at first because you literaly grill their neural system ). Healing spells can be good too ( imagine if you change a bit your host to be able to have super regeneration factor, that would be cool asf ). Additionally, the main racial ability of your character are LOCKED until you reach 100 illusion, being the way for you to know you got full control over your host body, and are now able to take their ability as yours. It can make up for a lot of different playthroughs, while still being heavily illusion-centered.

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The doppleganger build may recquire a lot of first preparation. Because when you create the character, you have to make a double of a known npc. You will have to follow that npc’s abilities in your work, with the twist of maybe illusion or alteration magic as paranormal abilities. Your objective is to be a version of the character you copy, but better in every way. At the end, you make then slay the npc of which you are a double, and take their place. This build is mostly made for short-term experiences, but i think can be enhanced to fit longer ones, especially if you try to be the doppleganger of a really strong character. It can mostly be a way to roleplay this character, while having a reason for why he is so weak at the beginning.

Just wanted to share those, hope you like it

I know the idea is kinda weird but i find it funny to imagine Mr Afton going around in the lands between. Idk, the resurection of the tarnished brought me to that good ol' "i always come back" and i wanted to use it on the next level.

I thought of using daggers, but maybe death magic would be more accurate ? Or maybe even bestial claws with an occult infusion ( idk i feel occult could make more sens than just going for strenght or dex )

En gros, j’étais sur ma demande de DSE, et au moment de la valider je me rends compte qu’on ne me demande pas de pièces justificative particulière, et alors que mes parents sont mariés et ont tous deux un revenus, ne me demandent ceux que d’un seul de mes parents ( je n’ai même pas la possibilité de donner le revenu de l’autre ?? ). Pour le contexte je suis étudiant depuis 3 ans donc peut être qu’ils considèrent les infos inutiles ?

Je suis confus honnêtement

Des années. Des années que je me bat contre ça. Dans quelques années, j’aurai vécu plus de temps dans ce cycle continu de detestation de moi même que je n’ai vécu avant. Ça a commencé enfant, mes premières erreurs. À chaque fois, je crois m’en sortir, voir une lumière, puis la vérité me reviens en pleine gueule. Le fait que je ne suis qu’une pauvre merde, que je suis la seule et unique cause de mon propre malheur.

Honnêtement, ça fait depuis longtemps que je sais que j’aurais mieux fait de ne pas exister. Ça sonnait plus facile à dire quand j’étais plus jeune : maintenant, ma vue s’est élargie. Et l’espoir de voir un peu de lumière s’est éteint en même temps. La seule chose qui me fait tenir, c’est l’occasionnelle beauté d’un nuage, quelques moments de rires, qui réussissent à me faire oublier qui je suis. Mais évidemment, c’est temporaire, ça disparait vite, et à chaque fois que j’ai l’impression de m’en sortir, je me rends compte qu’on peut toujours creuser, et que là où je n’avais pas vu d’ombres, c’était tout un abysse qui se cachait, prêt à me dévorer.

C’est vague tout ça, je sais. Mais je suis incapable de m’ouvrir pleinement. Ça me tuerait.

Aujourd’hui, je l’ai senti avec plus de force qu’avant. Je me bat pour garder des valeurs, essayer d’avoir un minimum de dignité et garder de l’empathie. Mais à force de souffrir je désespère de plus en plus, et l’indifférence m’attire. Je suis pas un psychopathe. J’ai des sentiments, je compatis, et ma capacité à souffrir quand les autres souffrent, c’est la seule chose qui me raccroche à mon humanité. Si je perds ça je perds tout. Mais ça a quelque chose de séduisant. Parfois, j’aimerai ne plus rien ressentir. Je me dis que le vide me permettrait au moins de ne plus avoir peur. Mais si je bloque mes émotions, si je les refuse ( et j’ai la conviction, sans pouvoir l’expliquer que c’est possible ) j’ai peur qu’il n’y ait pas de retour en arrière.

Je me haï. Je me haï autant que je m’aimes. J’ai de l’ego, trop d’égo, et en même temps je me méprise. Comme si d’une part j’étais gonflé comme un ballon prêt à éclater, et d’une autre j’étais rattatiné, un rien.

Je veux être quelqu’un de bien. Je le veux tellement. Mais bon sang, abandonner toute morale, ça serait honnêtement beaucoup plus facile. Je ne peux pas. Je le refuse. Par égo. C’est presque drôle, l’orgueil est le péché qui me conserve. J’en peux plus de me soucier des autres, j’en peux plus de me soucier de mon avenir, j’en peux plus de me soucier du passé, d’analyser chacun de mes actes pour tenter d’y trouver de nouvelles raisons de me haïr. Je veux juste être heureux, et je suis persuadé que c’est impossible de l’être en étant une mauvaise personne. J’ai peur que ce soit trop tard, que je sois quelqu’un de mauvais. Est ce que tout est ma faute ? C’est ça le pire. Pas totalement. Il y a eut des évènements. Des personnes qui m’ont poussées. Des choses que j’ai subies. La seule chose à laquelle je me raccroche c’est de ne pas avoir causé de malheur aux autres, d’être la seule, ou du moins la principale victime de moi même. J’ai peur, je suis terrifié. Parfois la culpabilité deviens ridicule, presque risible : je me sens parfois terriblement mal, pour des choses que je sais être fausses, par ce qu’elles sont impossibles, et que ces peurs sont tout bonnement absurdes.

Je me demande si c’est mon destin. J’ai l’impression que cette lutte intérieure qui passe d’échec en échec est ma nature même, que même si j’avais été le parfait petit gars, quelque chose serait arrivé pour me niquer. J’ai milles choses qui me martèlent le crâne, et je me retrouve incapable d’en regarder une seule, car sans cesse elles me fondent dessus comme des vautours devant une charogne. Je ne me comprends pas. Pourquoi cette douleur ? Parfois j’en suis presque à l’accepter. À faire la paix avec l’abandon. Plus le temps passe, plus je suis tenté. J’ai toujours refusé de boire mais je commence à me demander si ça m’aiderait pas à m’oublier. J’ai jamais fumé mais peut être que je m’en sortirais. J’ai tellement peur. Je ne sais vraiment plus quoi faire. J’ai vingt ans, et l’impression que tout est déjà fini, que tout est bien, bien trop tard.

It is in seeking knowledge upon a daedra that i call upon you, dear scholars. I began my research some time ago, and while i encountered the really interesting studies of the famous daedrologist known as "Drewmora", i however desire much to diversify this peculiar aspect of knowledge.

The Daedric princess of Dawn and Dusk, Azura, is known for her link to love. As stated in "Invocation of Azura", she ask for love from her followers, and give love too. However as you know, Love is a domain that is often seen : Dibella, Mara, even Mephala, sanguine and probably others. While she is linked to vanity by some, or self love, how much is she present in this sphere ?

Could romanticall love be linked to her ? Maybe even "physical" one ? Is love named after attachment or appreciation ?

Also, is Azura opposed to her follower finding love toward someone ? In that case, could we think she have a relationship to her followers as a "harem of simps" ? The importance she put on Indoril Nerevar could eventually show that there is a difference in the nature of the love she gives to her followers : however Nerevar was married to Almalexia. Does it mean that Azura accept love for others than herself ? And could it be that worshipping Azura would be equivalent to the worship of love itself in a way that loving someone is giving into the sphere of the princess ?

I hope that you will be able to give to a student of daedrology from the College of Whispers, the answers he needs.

Sincerly yours,

Run-in-squares