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User:Wizboy777

2012-09-04T04:44:51Z

Wizboy777: Got Rid of Personal Info

Category talk:Magic

2007-10-22T19:57:19Z

Wizboy777: Added My Clarified Opinion

We should better define the scope of this category. We have been putting Mages in here for a while, which is a little questionable. Also, should it include magic-users who are not categorized as mages -- say, Khoth? Also, some magical creatures are here but not others -- nagas but not dragons?!
--[[User:Slartucker|Slarty]] 07:31, 18 October 2006 (PDT)

We still need to figure this out. I'm going to propose that the category be limited to include only topics strongly pertinent to magic itself. Articles that are already in other top-level categories and are only incidentally magical would not be included. My reasoning is that magic is pretty darn widespread in Ermarian, and the category would become pretty useless if we put everything magical in it. A huge chunk of the Bestiary category would go here, most of the Items category, the entire contents of the Mages and Priests category... it's not useful.

This would leave the category containing "core" magical articles such as: Alchemy, Antimagic Field, Blessed athames, Crystal Souls, Crystals, Curses, Dread curses, Familiar, Forcecages, Guardian runes, Liches, Mages, Magic, Magic barriers, Magic in the Empire, Mass teleporter, Mindduels, Null bugs, Onyx scepter, Quickfire, Rakshasi, Redmark College, Schools of Magery, Scrying, Skylark School of Magery, Soruharva, Summoning, Surface Portal, Teleportation, The Five, Tower Colony, Tower of Magi, Triad, Undead

Any comments and/or objections? -- [[User:Slartucker|Slarty]] 19:14, 19 October 2007 (PDT)

== Wait a Bit ==

I think we should wait a little bit more to do this until we get the opinions of a few more people. I'm personally torn between what to do. I like the category the way it is, but I also think it's a good idea to "better define the scope of this category." So yeah, wait like a week or two until starting.
<center>[[User:Wizboy777|Wiz]] 23:20, 20 October 2007 (PDT)</center>

Yeah, it's always a good idea to gather consensus before making a change that is organizational (as opposed to factual). That said, my original comment dates from one year ago, so there has been lots of time to comment. Wizboy, how would you define the scope? -- [[User:Slartucker|Slarty]] 06:30, 21 October 2007 (PDT)

A year ago... Ahhh... I see. I mistakened the original comment for this year (the dates are nearly the same). But still, after I thought about this, I believe that we should leave the category as it is for now. When I first came to the Encyclopedia Ermariana, I was interested in the magic of Ermarian. I actually liked how broad the category was because it showed me that there was A LOT of magic in the world of Ermarian. I don't know if this makes sense or not to you, but that's the best that I can explain it.
<center>[[User:Wizboy777|Wiz]] 12:57, 22 October 2007 (PDT)</center>

City of Dawn

2007-10-21T06:23:21Z

Wizboy777: Placed Into Geography Category

The City of Dawn is the capital of [[Provincial Avernum]], the first city established in the land ceded to the Avernites by the Empire.

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[[Category:Geography]]

Category talk:Magic

2007-10-21T06:20:57Z

Wizboy777: You Know What? Forget What I Said About Time...

Category talk:Magic

2007-10-21T06:09:14Z

Wizboy777: Clarified My Statement

We should better define the scope of this category. We have been putting Mages in here for a while, which is a little questionable. Also, should it include magic-users who are not categorized as mages -- say, Khoth? Also, some magical creatures are here but not others -- nagas but not dragons?!
--[[User:Slartucker|Slarty]] 07:31, 18 October 2006 (PDT)

We still need to figure this out. I'm going to propose that the category be limited to include only topics strongly pertinent to magic itself. Articles that are already in other top-level categories and are only incidentally magical would not be included. My reasoning is that magic is pretty darn widespread in Ermarian, and the category would become pretty useless if we put everything magical in it. A huge chunk of the Bestiary category would go here, most of the Items category, the entire contents of the Mages and Priests category... it's not useful.

This would leave the category containing "core" magical articles such as: Alchemy, Antimagic Field, Blessed athames, Crystal Souls, Crystals, Curses, Dread curses, Familiar, Forcecages, Guardian runes, Liches, Mages, Magic, Magic barriers, Magic in the Empire, Mass teleporter, Mindduels, Null bugs, Onyx scepter, Quickfire, Rakshasi, Redmark College, Schools of Magery, Scrying, Skylark School of Magery, Soruharva, Summoning, Surface Portal, Teleportation, The Five, Tower Colony, Tower of Magi, Triad, Undead

Any comments and/or objections? -- [[User:Slartucker|Slarty]] 19:14, 19 October 2007 (PDT)

== Time? ==

Okay... Maybe that would be a good idea... But still, there's also the matter of time. Do you or anyone else have the time to do this? Barely anyone edits anything anymore here, so I guess you would be doing this by yourself. I myself am still new to this whole thing, so I won't be much help. Plus, even if I could help, I barely ever go on. And to clarify, by work, I don't just mean removing all the articles that don't belong in this category. I also mean putting all those articles into other categories. Some of the articles in here just belong to this category, so I want to find new categories for them. (I believe all articles should fall into at least one category. <---This could be a newbie belief.) This may be not a lot of work (remember, I'm still new at this), but if it is, then you need time...

And no offense or anything, but does anyone even visit this website anymore? Fine, maybe a few people, but still... I'm just trying to be realistic here.

Oh, and I think we should wait a little bit more to do this until we get the opinions of a few more people. I'm personally torn between what to do. I like the category the way it is, but I also think it's a good idea to "better define the scope of this category." So yeah, wait like a week or two until starting.
<center>[[User:Wizboy777|Wiz]] 23:09, 20 October 2007 (PDT)</center>

Category talk:Magic

2007-10-21T05:54:45Z

Wizboy777: Added My Opinion

We should better define the scope of this category. We have been putting Mages in here for a while, which is a little questionable. Also, should it include magic-users who are not categorized as mages -- say, Khoth? Also, some magical creatures are here but not others -- nagas but not dragons?!
--[[User:Slartucker|Slarty]] 07:31, 18 October 2006 (PDT)

We still need to figure this out. I'm going to propose that the category be limited to include only topics strongly pertinent to magic itself. Articles that are already in other top-level categories and are only incidentally magical would not be included. My reasoning is that magic is pretty darn widespread in Ermarian, and the category would become pretty useless if we put everything magical in it. A huge chunk of the Bestiary category would go here, most of the Items category, the entire contents of the Mages and Priests category... it's not useful.

This would leave the category containing "core" magical articles such as: Alchemy, Antimagic Field, Blessed athames, Crystal Souls, Crystals, Curses, Dread curses, Familiar, Forcecages, Guardian runes, Liches, Mages, Magic, Magic barriers, Magic in the Empire, Mass teleporter, Mindduels, Null bugs, Onyx scepter, Quickfire, Rakshasi, Redmark College, Schools of Magery, Scrying, Skylark School of Magery, Soruharva, Summoning, Surface Portal, Teleportation, The Five, Tower Colony, Tower of Magi, Triad, Undead

Any comments and/or objections? -- [[User:Slartucker|Slarty]] 19:14, 19 October 2007 (PDT)

== Time? ==

Okay... Maybe that would be a good idea... But still, there's also the matter of time. Do you or anyone else have the time to do this? Barely anyone edits anything anymore here, so I guess you would be doing this by yourself. I myself am still new to this whole thing, so I won't be much help. Plus, even if I could help, I barely ever go on. And no offense or anything, but does anyone even visit this website anymore? Fine, maybe a few people, but still... I'm just trying to be realistic here.

Oh, and I think we should wait a little bit more to do this until we get the opinions of a few more people. I'm personally torn between what to do. I like the category the way it is, but I also think it's a good idea to "better define the scope of this category." So yeah, wait like a week or two until starting.
<center>[[User:Wizboy777|Wiz]] 22:54, 20 October 2007 (PDT)</center>

Category talk:Magic

2007-10-21T05:42:14Z

Wizboy777: Time?

We should better define the scope of this category. We have been putting Mages in here for a while, which is a little questionable. Also, should it include magic-users who are not categorized as mages -- say, Khoth? Also, some magical creatures are here but not others -- nagas but not dragons?!
--[[User:Slartucker|Slarty]] 07:31, 18 October 2006 (PDT)

We still need to figure this out. I'm going to propose that the category be limited to include only topics strongly pertinent to magic itself. Articles that are already in other top-level categories and are only incidentally magical would not be included. My reasoning is that magic is pretty darn widespread in Ermarian, and the category would become pretty useless if we put everything magical in it. A huge chunk of the Bestiary category would go here, most of the Items category, the entire contents of the Mages and Priests category... it's not useful.

This would leave the category containing "core" magical articles such as: Alchemy, Antimagic Field, Blessed athames, Crystal Souls, Crystals, Curses, Dread curses, Familiar, Forcecages, Guardian runes, Liches, Mages, Magic, Magic barriers, Magic in the Empire, Mass teleporter, Mindduels, Null bugs, Onyx scepter, Quickfire, Rakshasi, Redmark College, Schools of Magery, Scrying, Skylark School of Magery, Soruharva, Summoning, Surface Portal, Teleportation, The Five, Tower Colony, Tower of Magi, Triad, Undead

Any comments and/or objections? -- [[User:Slartucker|Slarty]] 19:14, 19 October 2007 (PDT)

== Time? ==

Okay... Maybe that would be a good idea... But still, there's also the matter of time. Do you or anyone else have the time to do this? Barely anyone edits anything anymore here, so I guess you would be doing this by yourself. I myself am still new to this whole thing, so I won't be much help. Plus, even if I could help, I barely ever go on. And no offense or anything, but does anyone even visit this website anymore? Fine, maybe a few people, but still... I'm just trying to be realistic here.
<center>[[User:Wizboy777|Wiz]] 22:42, 20 October 2007 (PDT)</center>

Preface

2007-10-19T21:16:08Z

Wizboy777: Placed in History Category and Fixed Link

:''In 843 IE, the first version of the Encyclopedia Ermariana was published with the following preface written by one of its founders:''

It is, as of the fourth of [[Suncome]] this year, ten years after the [[reconciliation]] of the [[Kingdom of Avernum]] and the [[Empire]] of the [[Surface]] â€“ under King [[Micah]] and Empress [[Prazac I]]. Most of our nation have chosen to return to the surface and dwell here, although a great number preferred to stay in the caves; indeed, some citizens of the Empire have by now travelled down themselves, some to live with former family that got separated under the reign of [[Hawthorne II]] and [[Hawthorne III]], and some merely for the adventure: The surface has long been purged of most sentient species not human, and many beasts besides, though the [[Nephilim]] are returning, and several [[Slithzerikai]] tribes are also emigrating to the surface.

Yet, there is quite a large number of former [[Kingdom of Avernum|Avernites]] living in the Southeastern province of [[Valorim]], and its capital, named [[City of Dawn|Dawn]] by the first settlers in memory of the sunlight they lacked for so long, has grown into a large, prosperous city in these ten years. The Avernites have dwelt in the caves for well over a generation, and as the two cultures, the surface-dwellers and those born in [[exile]], clash, it is becoming increasingly obvious that the intimate knowledge of both the caves and the surface is limited to very few.

It is with this concern in mind that my learned colleagues and I, founders of the [[Redmark College]] â€“ named for the late [[Erika Redmark|incantatrix]] who perished in batte against the [[Vahnatai]] â€“ in the City of Dawn, have decided to initiate an ambitious project: We shall, in cooperation with the [[Tower of Magi]], the [[University of Valorim]] in [[Lorelei]], the [[Library of Valorim]] in [[Sharimik]], and with the support of countless travelling sages, begin to compile a compendium, an encyclopedia as it were, containing information on the history, geography, flora, fauna and the [[magic]] of all of [[Ermarian]], both the surface and the caves. Under the supervision of the three directors of the Redmark College, the mage [[Iola Kizante]], the historian [[Dorn Kaytar]] and the far-travelled explorer [[Daryl Mycroft]] â€“ one of the renowned heroes of Avernum â€“ shall be formed a work that will one day be a guide for the citizens of Avernum and the Empire, a tome containing all the basic lore of this world, of the Arcane, the Humanities and the Natural Sciences: The [[Encyclopedia Ermariana:About|Encyclopedia Ermariana]].

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Dorn Kaytar, Co-founder of Redmark College.
Written on the 26th of [[Remembrance]], 843 [[Imperial Era]], in the City of Dawn, Valorim.

[[Category:Encyclopedia]]
[[Category:History]]

Friendly species

2007-10-19T21:06:15Z

Wizboy777: Placed in Bestiary Category

For the purpose of the Empire's official census, two qualify as "friendly species". They are [[Nephilim]] and [[Slithzerikai]].

[[Category:Races]]
[[Category:Empire]]
[[Category:Bestiary]]

Smite

2007-10-19T20:58:03Z