Sythyry placement and displacement

[sythyry]

Sythyry is not quite canonical World Tree! Canonical World Tree is defined by the RPG sourcebook. I've generally been trying to keep quite close to canonical. But I have drifted away from it in a few respects. Here's what I can think of just now:

1. Transaffection is far more despised in Sythyry's version of World Tree than in the canonical one.
2. Vae is far more dangerous and brainwarped than the baseline nendrai in the rulebook, though that is explained in-story.
3. Sythyry is using some as-yet-unpublished rules to enchant things fast.
4. Sythyry is not perfectly reliable on some topics, like how well Cani read emotions -- they read them far better than a human (or Zi Ri) does, but not the near-mindreading that Sythyry sometimes seems to think.
5. Oh, and not many people but Sythyry, Kantele, and Inconnu actually agreed with Sythyry's previously-held, now-abandoned theory of transaffection.

[Poll #1593581]

Comments

Re: Departures from canon

[shurhaian.livejournal.com]

On the other hand, the greater issue there could well be the treatment of a trans-species relationship. Lighten up the perspective on that sufficiently, and you have it at "it's a bit odd, but okay" levels.

I think I do see your point, though. Even in the species which could be expected to care more about such things(Rassimel being the chief one involved in Sythyry's journal), that seems to be getting quietly ignored. Cani marry in large, mixed-sex units and Orren families are all over the map, so either of them being intimate with someone of the same sex is hardly of note. (Not that all Orren family partnerships are intimate, even.)