Fair enough. I can see your point, but it doesn’t seem major enough to me to warrant a change. Besides, the only alternative title for a female knight is “Lady,” which to me is more of the equivalent to “Lord” than it is to “Sir.”
I somewhat like the idea of an above-ground Magmaria, but I’m not sold on the volcano trolls part. To me, trolls are just big dumb brutes (no offense to any trolls reading this), whereas Magmarians are more enigmatic, shamanistic, and peaceful.
Yes, that is quite true. Although I’m leaning away from the Psionicist option, as — despite them being in D&D — they are a pretty Science Fiction-y archetype.
However, I think that I have an idea for her that is based on her origin story, rather than her archetype.
The Idealist’s mother originally created her to use as a sacrifice in a necromantic ritual to resurrect her husband. That still works in the Realmverse; just make Miranda’s mother a straight-up necromancer instead of the necromancy-mad science thing she had going on in Universe 1.
The Idealist was a clone of her “mother” in the main timeline, but clones don’t really work in fantasy. So I think she’ll have to be some sort of flesh golem instead. And not a Frankenstein’s Monster-style flesh golem, but one that looks more or less human. Hmm . . . Flesh golems are kind of Biomancer’s deal, so why don’t we just go ahead and say that Mrs. Fischer commissioned one from Biomancer for this express purpose.
And then the magical ritual went wrong, blah blah blah, she was rescued and because of her unusual nature and said ritual, she developed magic, with a special aptitude for conjuring objects.
Agreed. I think that the simplest way to go about that is just making her like reading stories.
True. I think that what I’d do with him is make him an alchemist who created and then drank some sort of “shadow elixir,” which imbued him with dark magicks. Or, to go a bit further, perhaps it transformed him into a shadowy wraith- er, I mean specter- no, um, a phantom.
Eh, I’m not overly concerned with that aspect. I’d just call him a “healer” and be done with it.
True. Although I don’t think it’s impossible. He could be some sort of wild horseman — basically a highwayman but without the thievery. A hooligan, if you will.
He rides across the countryside and gets into tavern brawls, etc. Or one can make him vikingesque, although I’m not entirely sure about that.
I don’t think that he needs a mechanical horse; I believe that a traditional one would do. And he can still have spiked leather armour.
I think that just “Nickolas” or “Nicholas” would work.
Ah, but you are forgetting that C&A have explicitly said that the Nolan Generator is a Fixed Point, thus something like it must exist in all realities. But what would its fantastical counterpart be? I’m thinking some sort of mystical fountain high up in some undiscovered mountain peak that was created by the Wizard Gregory. Every so often, a trickle of enchanted water from the font finds its way into a river and flows down into the wider world, where someone may be bathed in it and find themself with a magical gift.
So, Gregory’s Fountain does exist in the Realmverse, but I don’t think that it is the source of any of the SW Sentinels’ powers.
As for your origins for Dr. Medico’s* and Mainstay’s powers, @The_Justifier, they are good, but probably not what I would do. For Jackson, I think I’d just make him a completely mundane warrior, who just happens to be stronger than most. Maybe explain it by him having some “nonhuman blood.” Reason being, Universe 1 Jackson’s superpowers aren’t all that spectacular, and I don’t think that they need an explanation in a fantasy universe. In fantasy, you can just have normal folks be at the same level as magic-users. (Just look at D&D.)
Nickolas, though, definitely does need an origin. I do like your Djinn idea. Yeah, we can say that he found a magic scroll, and uses it to transform into a Healing Genie.
As for the team’s Void Guard phase, I haven’t decided what to do with Fort Adamant, but I figure that one way or another, the four find four magical artifacts containing Oblivion Shards: Nickolas gets an amulet, Jackson gets a flail, Miranda gets a ring, and Eugene the son of Wilken gets a circlet. Nickolas, Miranda, and Eugene often use their relics to enhance their magical prowess, whereas Jackson only rarely uses his flail’s ability to transform into an earth elemental.
Now, what is the team called? I suppose the Sentinels of the Southlands could work.
*When I typed “Dr. Medico,” my autocorrect replaced it with “Dr. Mexico,” which sounds like his less politically correct alternate.