Aren't Aeromancers supposed to be scientists and what not? I don't think that the manipulation of Air requires laughing, leaping, dancing, and singing... Just the idea of Cririk doing any of this stuff makes me lol.

You say that like most other mages/druids don't look positively stupid when they cast their demesne effects.

I don't recall looking that stupid as an Aqua.

I have to say, that's a bit too silly for my emotionless little Lucidian. The thought of him laughing and leaping about is... well...

Okay, so give Hal 9000 a body, then tell him to do that. >.>

Lucidians are not emotionless. They're Half-Vulcans, not full Vulcans.

I've always been under the impression that the Trill are more the "aeromancer" sort, and the Lucidians the researchers or whatever they'll be.

I mean, it makes thematic sense given the two elders involved. Otherwise, it's less a partnership, and more "It's about the Lucidians, and their random bird people friends."

In that respect, the ability spam represents the Trillilial (sp) from the histories very well!

Okay, I put that wrong.

His emotions are shown via the color of his body. He doesn't show them outwardly with facial expressions and vocal tone.

I would make that assumption too.

My personal thought was that Lucidians would make better Mages while the Trill would be more Bard-y, seeing as Mages tend to be scholarly while Trill are more artsy. I'd also think Lucidians would make good... whatever the Guardian class is going to be called, seeing as it's based on Order.

@lehki: similar, but druids are more... primitive/tribal it makes some sense for them to do what you've quoted.

Aeromancers are part of a city where emotional control is expected, these abilities would be used at times when they are going into battle and so it seems wrong that they would be laughing with delight at the prospect. Yes, they might laugh with delight some times, but rarely when these abilities would be in use.

Clearly they're losing their minds at the thought of combat.

So... they're... Geomancers?

No wait. Our minds are already gone. ¯\\(º_o)/¯

Geomancers aren't that crazy. Every Geomancer I met was saner than myself.

Well, what about the other demesne effects? Maybe the trills developed those two aeromancy techniques and the lucidians developed the other less fanciful ones.

The sausage has a point. And they would make the standard procedure and Hallifax does not seem like the place where you would deviate from procedure.

Ahem. I'm only a sausage in a thai restaurant.

You sweep the air with your hand, allowing your spirit to merge with the clouds around you, becoming one with the location.

--

You reach out to your melded land and clap your hands, as the air fills with the smell of ozone.

You clap your hands, and the smell of ozone fills the air. The clouds darken and a loud thunderclap echoes in the air.

--

You reach out to your melded land and breathe softly.
A gentle breeze rises up, turning into a soft zephyr that blows warmly past you.

You breathe softly and a gentle breeze rises up, turning into a soft zephyr that blows warmly past you.

--

You reach out to your melded land and summon the winter wind. You hug yourself, while your teeth chatter from the sudden drop in temperature.
Snow begins to fall, quickly turning into a freezing blizzard.

Summoning the winter winds, the temperature suddenly drops, causing your teeth to chatter. You hug yourself as snow begins to fall, quickly turning into a freezing blizzard.

--

You reach out to your melded land and sweep your hands through the clouds.
Tiny rainbows begin to appear, travelling from cloud to cloud in a brilliant display of light and colour.

Sweeping your hands through the clouds, tiny rainbows begin to appear, travelling from cloud to cloud in a brilliant display of light and colour.

--

You reach out to your melded land and violently slash at the clouds, whipping them into a dark frenzy.
Clouds coalesce into a dark, boiling miasma which then explodes into a mass of twisting tendrils.

Slashing violently at the clouds, you whip them into a dark frenzy and send them forth. They turn into a dark, boiling miasma which explodes into a mass of twisting tendrils.

--

You reach out to your melded land and spin around as fast as you can. You summon forth powerful winds which whirl around you and wait for your command.
Strong winds rise and form into an enormous twister that hurtles high up into the sky.

Spinning around as fast as you can, you summon forth the winds and form them into an enormous twister that hurtles high up into the sky.

--

You reach out to your melded land and leap about the room, laughing with delight as you call forth a swift wind.
A great wind blows in with a great whoosh, sending clouds spinning in its wake.

Laughing with delight, you leap about the room, calling forth a swift wind. The wind blows in with a great whoosh, sending clouds spinning in its wake.

--

You reach out to your melded land and interlink your fingers and hold them aloft.
The winds above begin to howl alarmingly.

You interlink your fingers and hold them aloft. The winds respond and begin crisscrossing overhead.

--

You reach out to your melded land and dance about lightly, singing a melodious tune.
Pink clouds begin to coalesce and drift about in rhythmic patterns.

You dance about lightly, singing a melodious tune. Pink clouds coalese and begin following the patterns of your movements.

--

You reach out to your melded land and stomp around the room, calling forth an ill wind with angry curses.
A chill wind blows in, clouds freezing and dropping away as it passes.

With angry curses, you stomp around the room, calling forth an ill wind. The chill wind blows in, clouds freezing and dropping away as it passes.

--

Turning to the west, you reach out to your melded land and raise your arms.
A warm breeze rushes in, bringing a clean sweet scent.

You turn to the west and raise your arms. A warm breeze rushes in, bringing a clean, sweet scent.

It seems highly likely to me now that trills did develop most, if not all, aeromancy techniques. Come to think of it, they're more likely to be at home with manipulating air - given that they are shards of Trilillial. Don't quote me on this, but I vaguely recall reading somewhere that aeromantic engineering was developed mostly by trills, too. Also, Lucidians are more likely to be the ones who developed the cosmic specializations of Researchers given that the spheres in Continuum all reinforce 'the adherence to laws' belief of Hallifax. Halliguardian's cosmic spec might be something that revolves around such principle - and Lucidians are more likely to understand/ be at home with such thing. If we base it from the histories of the Elder Wars, it was mentioned (i think in the first ones, prolly Mug's or Tae's book) that it was a mystery how Trilillial and Xyl's relationship came to be since they were seemingly very different from each other. It was also mentioned that both Isune and Trilillial were artists, and if we look at the trill's development of aeromancy techniques, it could be considered that they deemed aeromancy as an art form and it could explain why aeromancy has no instakill(because trilillial seemed like a pacifist to me) and trills who developed aeromancy would prolly not consider killing as part of their art.

Eight of the twelve line groups read fairly neutral to me.

Of the others
Blizzard is a reaction not emotional
The two that caused this thread are odd
Illwind seems... opposed to the principles of hallifax as it appears to focus on lower emotions.