i guess i have two questions on how things are gonna work out.

1) if you do opt to use faceclaims, how strictly will you be structuring the requirements? ie, will it be that gerudo have to have red hair and golden eyes? do they have to be female if someone's already apped in a male? can gorons have a more humanoid appearance? heck, for that matter, can any of the less humanoid races have a more human appearance? ........ i know this all sounds kind of specific, but i've just seen so many loz sites get so uptight about face and species specifics that i've learned to ask for what kind of wiggle room i'd have.

2) is the site more going to be based around "site canons" emulating the original game roles (ie, the royal family of hyrule, a link, etc, etc) or is it more going to be open world, everyone's a hero and can contribute, do what you want? i've seen a lot of sites do it either way, and it sounds like you're going for the latter, but i definitely wanna check in on that just for confirmation.

I'm game. I think this would be a lot of fun, and working off existing lore, building into the world proper, and having things be coherent would be a lot of fun.

Plus, hurray for not having needless edginess. A+

Hi I’m phone posting while getting ready for work

Kuroya
Super general outlines. Gerudo *mainly* have red hair and yellow eyes, but they also commonly have pink hair and orange eyes, or blonde with red eyes. They may dye their hair because they saw a Rito and loved their colours. Maybe one of their parents was really good with water magic and their kid was born with blue hair.

Gerudo can be any gender or sex I do not have time for that bullshit. They have a massive inclination to be femme but I really really do not have time for that ‘this race of brown females are all evil man hating and fearing thieves’. They love their male and nonbinary and gender nonconforming children.

FC wise, make up a reason why your race is more humanoid looking. Maybe your Zora has a distant gerudo uncle, or their affinity for fire magic took some of their fishness away. Or it’s a curse, Magic is always a Valid Reason. Or you can go ‘this human face is just a vague representation because I like having pretty images along with my posts and having nice things is nice’.

“Canons” I am... up in the air about. That’s one of the reasons I have this thread. What do the people want? I am leaning more towards no canons in the sense you apply and boom you have a strict activity check and role? If someone wants to set up and organising a royal family of this new world they can. If someone wants to make a leader of a merchant guild or a legendary knight claiming to be the champion of the goddess they can. I’m trying to keep things as open ended and player decided as possible, not go ‘we can only have this one master merchant and that’s it.’

If everyone wants to be royal zora princes then I guess we have a big group of fish boys giving out jewels and royal titles. If that’s what members want, you can talk about and plan it with each other because that’s what YOU want to do and write about and play with.

I’m here to mediate and help with the book keeping and pinning threads and making boards. If something really becomes an issue and we need a more strict set of rules or a system, then we talk about it as a community and find a solution that helps the majority and moves the site forward.

ani thank. I have my copy of hyrule historia to reference haha, and the only edginess will be what the members want to interact and create (within reason, still got the no no things like rape and such).

okay admittedly I love the BOTW world but Skyward Sword is suuuuuper close to my heart so this is kinda neat. I like that it's post-SS 'cause I don't think I've ever actually seen that and it gives you lots of chance to expand and build as you see fit.

I guess the only thing I'm wondering is, I like the idea with the map slowly being explored (although I'm also a fan of just... having it all there to begin with so I can yeet my characters out into the world) but if someone did want to play a Zora or a Goron etc, they're obviously not going to be in the same areas. So would those just automatically be found already, or connected to the original area?

I'm v happy about what you wrote in terms of Gerudo though, that's a refreshing change of pace and much-needed tbh.

Personally I'd say just no canons at all to keep things easy, and let people take the roles they want as long as it fits/doesn't conflict with what's already been established.

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Some good questions in there! Let’s start talking about how we can set up the world map, every one please feel free to toss in your own thoughts. You’re going to be the community of the site, let’s byuld something you want to play in!

My main thought on how to tackle this is to have a few strong established territories for the various races or at least some of the major ones (so a zora capital, a rito capital etc.), with at least one main well known mostly safe road between those places. A zora would totally have a good knowledge of their local area but while they may have a map of the gerudo desert they don’t KNOW it??

So the site would start with a few major hubs and the roads between them, and then we can have all this wild unknown land for both potential future races to have as their home area and for players to decide what new junk they wanna encounter. I want to try and get a nice base line of world knowledge while leaving plenty of mystery hexes to fill in and for people to talk and develop together!

I work at a botanic garden and it’s really exciting to get to talk about the area to visitors and hear all the volunteers talk about their part of the garden they take care of. I’m hoping that we can make a community of members and characters that will enjoy showing their part of the world off to each other and exploring different areas and events.

ahhh okay major hubs makes sense. I like that a lot!! And it'd be an interesting setting to have everyone like... meeting each other for the first time. Not to mention friendlier to any non-zelda peeps.

what races are important to have as starting ones? This is super self indulgent, but I really wanna play a zora somewhere that actually looks like a (breath of the wild) zora. Of course, I'm pretty busy atm, so I suppose it doesn't need to be a starting race that much as long as I could pop in later.
you got a fave skin or layout options? (this will be on proboards) I have trouble with dark sites, but I don't really have much of an opinion other than that. :') I'm not great and a super beginner at skinning, but may be able to help out a bit if you need I dunno
OOC accounts? I personally don't like them.
would you like me to tag you for future things in this thread? I lurk in the recent posts pretty often so it's probably not needed, but I don't mind either. 

what races are important to have as starting ones?
I'd say Hylian, Zora, and Gorons at least to start. But I'd really love to see Rito and Gerudo ofc eventually.

you got a fave skin or layout options? (this will be on proboards)
I'm not too picky as long as it's not clutteed and easy to read

opinions on sorting character profiles/groups?
by race/class I suppose?

OOC accounts?
no opinion

would you like me to tag you for future things in this thread? sure!

what races are important to have as starting ones?
definitely human + hylian. i'd say goron + zora would also be good ones to start too so then you're covering the "common" bases. personally i'd also add in fairies + kokiri as well off the bat, but again, that's just me. also i'd be biased in admitting i'd want a twili really early because i love them but.

i'd maybe do shiekah + gerudo + twili + yeti (since yeah that's a thing) and any other species as kind of. a purchase thing. let people be able to go into debt if they want it but basically. "hey you gotta explain why they're here and take a penalty for it but if you want them go hecking nuts" since imo people are gonna want what they want, so you might as well admit to it ahead of time and just work it in constructively rather than lock it out hard.

you got a fave skin or layout options? (this will be on proboards)
ew proboards it's proboards so already i'm gonna be a bit iffy (i just really prefer a lot of the template options on jcink, leave me here with my dohtml), but as long as it's not terribad, whatever works i guess.

opinions on sorting character profiles/groups?
i'd maybe do it by species but that's just me? idk since you have a point on species getting messy but province would too since like. imo the original four are easy but then you get into some of the other stuff and it gets messy. could do it by those character classes but. hnggggggggg my soul is just not here for heavy combat stuff to track, i'm not a fan.

OOC accounts?
i have no idea. i'd say yes if it were jcink but proboards doesn't really give you any benefits to it so. i do not care.

would you like me to tag you for future things in this thread?
i have no idea my dude.

would you want character classes? What would those do?
no. the closest i'd like to see would be more or less kind of. tank (more hearts, no magic) / support (more magic, less hearts) / noncombat (basically won't participate in things so does not matter).

OOC money, y/n? What would that sort of thing buy?
yes. i'd say for actual weapons + hearts + magic if that's gonna be a thing. maybe a few ooc things but like. nothing that's gonna be major make or break.

Discord servers are the hip and happening thing, we want one of those?
i dislike them but i am old and biased so. yeah.

Splitting member groups based on home province is neat, and would keep things simple. That's a good point, there might end up being too many species to track. But like Kuroya said it does depend on how many provinces there are, too.

Classes I'm really eh on, I appreciate the freedom to let characters kinda do as they please. That said it's not to say that I wouldn't be interested if there's classes. If anything, I'd at least want it to be v simple.

OOC money as in, there'd be IC and OOC money? I'd rather just have IC I think. In terms of OOC shops like, coloured names etc, maybe people could just use leftover IC money for that.

Discord servers are nice but I think having a full and active cbox on a site is really warm and welcoming and fun, too. But I appreciate the different channels in a discord server. I feel like it's kinda inescapable haha.