“Not through fire, through endeavour, nor through the power of the Fae shall any device perpetuate the Human condition. No building, no transport, no weaponry shall be made in this image...”
Laws of Industry, Article 693
Unlike many other fantasy-like systems, Thracia has been through an Industrial Revolution. More than 2,000 years ago Humans began to experiment with Alchemy and the manipulation of Fae through foci. This eventually lead to the development of Human that could manipulate Fae through sheer will - the existence of Mages. Until then, Humans could only manipulate Fae through the power of faith - something very few other races could do as easily as a Human.
The development of Mages and the expansion in technology lead to the existence of conglomerate trading guilds and factories - and the creation of Machina, the machine. These guilds started the first true City States and eventually, the Guild War - a war with the power of Machina to back it up. Fae focused through massive machinery rained death upon the common populace, and whole areas of land were scoured.
Today the Guild War is something of near myth, and the Church of Six barely keeps a lid on the development of technology. Once again Humans are looking at exploring the possibility of Fae confinement. Once again, Humans are turning to the creation of the machine once again...
Remnants of the past are all over the world of Thracia, decaying relics of a long distant memory. But, as memories come back to haunt you, so too does the past echo in the values of the present...
The Dark and the Light, from a racial point of view, have spent more that four thousand years separate from one another. Try not to think Dark means 'evil' or Light means 'good', for the nature of Thracia is moral ambiguity. What is good? What is evil? As such, the Dark currently occupies Ithaca and all the North, whereas the Light occupies everything south of the Wall. For this reason Dark and Light cannot mix, though it might be possible for them to mix later as the story of the game develops: we never pre-write endings so it depends on how you interpret the game!
You should read these sections first to familiarise yourself with how we operate in the Thracia LARP system. The 'Getting Started' manual will show you all the Weapon Calls that you might need to know for you to play the game.
The general histories are a good idea to read as they will get you started on your LARP journey into Thracia. It will provide your character with enough background so that you are aware of what has gone on recently - giving you and your character a firmer understanding of their position within the game-world to be getting one with than simply turning up to a game without a clue what is going on.
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Dark Alliance General History
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By reading these section you can see the types of Guilds that exist within the game system. As the game grows there will not only be tents for Groups (see the Forums page) but there will also be tents for Guilds themselves. A Guild is where a character can go to find a teacher and begin to learn things during IC time.
These sections cover the basic cultures, theories and philosophies of Erna, the world that Thracia is set in. Reading this should help improve some of your role-play experience, as well as help with some of the concepts, such as how magick in thracia works, which should inturn lead your to discover what is potentionally possible to achieve with this system.
