Welcome Prospective Students
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You are invited to enroll or apply for a teaching position in a school designed to make you into a spell caster who can have a place in society.
You can choose your specialty, be part of a research project, just as long as you don't challenge or question those in power.
Displays of emotions are strictly discouraged, as are romantic relationships, and following the traditions is the only way to succeed. Or is it? There's more than meets the eye going on within these castle walls.
Come see what you can endure and what you can get away with at the University of Sonder.
This is a Nordic Larp, and our games usually feel a bit more sandbox than some others, we will have plot based within factions and an over arching plot.
Players can have an excellent time without engaging in the main plot or they can choose to be very involved and influence the direction of the story. We do not have a set ending and it will depend on the character's choice what happens.
There will be classes in the form of workshops (or lectures) and although this game will have a competitive element- that is not the primary way of derriving enjoyment from the setting. Winning under a twisted system is not a complete victory. We will be striving to play to lift within an oppressive system and the levels of oppression which will be use in play should create an environment where it feels fun to break the in game traditions and rules, and see what your chaacter can get away with
What to expect from this kind of LARP?
The flavor of this LARP is dark fantasy academia.
It will take place in a world called Sipio at a place called the University of Sonder.
Player will embody characters who are there to study magic, usually to become powerful- but also to survive.
In this world, if people use magic it can often lead them to insanity- thus it is highly controlled.
Emotion is also seen as weakness, and expression of it is strictly discouraged.
Possible schools of study include: Alchemy, Anatomy, Arcane Didactics, Astronomy, Energetic Expenditure, Engineering, Herbalism, Illusions, Influence, Psychology, Scrying, Summoning and Symbology
This is one of our darker LARPs, as it's set in a realm where distrust in common, but the game play will not only focus on suffering or oppression- but also potential for change.
What to expect from this setting?
What inspired this game?
This game was inspired by these books:
Babel ((RF Kuang): From here we drew a school which studies a strange system of magic, which punished failure highly- but the students had the chance to resist
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (Susanna Clarke): We were inspired by the impact of a fource likethe fae- a source of power but at a high cost and moral dilemna
Some HP Lovecraft: While we do not condone his racist undertones, we drew from this author the effect of magic deteriorating one's mind over time
The setting was originally written by Carnelian King, 15 years ago as a Dungeons and Dragons game, and has the setting for 6 of our past larps and over a decade of players
Elements from the genre of the "New Weird": These can be described as works that have: an unconventional deeper meaning that's shown in atypical ways, melding magical realism / sci-fi / fantasy, with bits of darkness and symbolism.
A definition for this genre : New Weird is a type of urban, secondary-world fiction that subverts the romanticized ideas about place found in traditional fantasy.
New Weird has a visceral, in-the-moment quality that often uses elements of surreal or transgressive horror for its tone, style, and effects
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