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Roleplay Etiquette
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You can not roleplay unless your character has been added to the Character Roster. If you need to update your character profile (which isn't required but would be helpful to other roleplayers) you can submit a Character Edit Request Form. Reviewing and adding a submitted character to the Roster can take up to one week or seven days. Maybe longer if there were any issues with the submission form or if the submission breaks our lore.

The amount of characters you can create are up to you. Everyone who first joins the forums can create and submit one character of each available race. Every time a new race is added to the forums, all current and future members can also create a character of that race. 

Hybrids, Dragon Class, and Rider Class characters, or if you want to create multiple characters of the same race, you need to have a temporary license. These can be bought from the Emerald Shop or earned as a prize from winning first or second place during one of our Quiz Nights. You can earn Emeralds by posting responses in our roleplay.

1. All of your roleplay posts need to follow our Terms of Service. Breaking the Terms of Service in roleplay posts will grant you the same consequences listed in Fair Usage.

2. We have a word count requirement for replies on our roleplays. This isn't anything personal, it is just so the roleplayers involved are reassured to have enough material to give you a valid response in return. Our current minimum is 85 words and there is no maximum - though please be courteous of others involved! We've a plugin that counts all words at the bottom of our text box for your convenience.

3-A. You need to state where your character will be located at the top of your first post or indicate somewhere in it where you are (until you move to a different location). This makes it so characters in the same/similar area can easily find and socialize with yours and eases up confusion later on.


3-B. If you plan on moving your character to a new thread for your next post, you will need to include a link (to the thread that you are moving to) on your current post, at the bottom of it. Once your character has been moved, for your first post in the new thread, you need to include the link to the previous thread at the top of your post. This allows people to know where you're coming from to create a new opportunity for interaction or if you're leaving to avoid others accidentally trying to communicate with your character that isn't there anymore.

4. Roleplaying more than one character is allowed but please make sure your responses are kept orderly so we're able to tell the two apart, either by posting individual paragraphs for each one and/or putting a divider between the two. We want to be able to give every character the attention they deserve.




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The Classes
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A person born on Nouva will fall under one of three classes: The Magulis Class, which is the most common class of Nouva, the Rider Class, which are powerful magic users but are restrictive on what race they can be, or the Dragon Class, which are people who can transform into a dragon but are also restrictive on the races.


The objects chosen by a magic user of the Magulis Class does not inherently have to be magical, nor do they have to have an enchantment or be magic-based. The magic comes from inside the magic user, they just use the object to channel their magic outward as they can’t do it without one.

There are restrictions on what can be used to channel magic. It mostly has to do with size but in some cases, it also has to do with weight. The smallest size that can be used to channel magic would be equivalent to a wand. This means that if you have a large wooden spoon, the magic user can use it to channel their magic. However, they would not be able to use a small spoon used for eating soup.

The object also needs to be able to be stored or carried on the magic user themselves. Depending on the race, this can vary in size and weight. But it should either be able to be stored in a pocket, a satchel, or carried upon the magic user’s back when not in use. When in use, they must be able to hold it while casting their magic. They can’t cast magic unless they are holding the object in their hands/claws.

They can use S, A, B, C, or D Rank Magic Studies or even a combination of them. Each type of Magic Study, whether race exclusive or not, can have consequences to using the magic. Using magic over a prolonged amount of time or using too much that the Magulis individual can handle can result anywhere between sudden dizziness and lightheadedness, passing out, or even death. See Magic Studies for more info.


Riders are strong in magic, sometimes even more so than the strongest of Magic Scholars. Studies from the Mewah (of pregnancies and births that lead to Riders and Dragons) show that Riders have strong magic in part of two reasons:

• They were going to be born with really high amount of magic to use prior to becoming a Rider while still in the womb,
• and, at some point before birth, half the soul of a dragon (not the dragon class, but the dragon creature that had become extinct) had attached itself to the Rider’s soul after being attracted to the powerful magics.

Magic Studies do not go hand-in-hand with the Rider Class. A Rider can be of any Magic Study or even have a Race Exclusive Magic should their own race line up with it.

A Rider can have special magical abilities that reflect what their dragon partner would have but only if they typically study either B, C, or D Rank Magic or don’t study magic at all. The abilities will take a while to show, most likely through practice and training of regular magic studies or from random outbursts and fits from the Rider even at a young age. The possibility that they are a Dragon Class exists until they discover their powers. These can include the following:

• Underwater breathing and/or Underwater Vision (if their dragon is Water Aligned),
• a loud roar that can make the earth shake,
• spitting acid or releasing toxic gas from the mouth (if their dragon is Poison Aligned),
• elemental breathing (think fire breathing but based on the elements of the dragon as a creature and not as the Class),
• night vision, etc.

If you do not see an ability that you want your Rider to have, please contact our Forum Manager for any questions. You may end up helping expand our repertoire.


All dragons have the power of telepathy while in their dragon form so that they can speak to their Rider. Their Rider can’t speak with telepathy unless they have the psychic magic study, so often the Rider responds out loud.

Like Riders, there have been studies from the mewah (of pregnancies and births that lead to Riders and Dragons) to answer why Dragons are less capable of magic or can’t use S, A, or B Rank Magic, and are naturally physically stronger even when not in dragon form and how the dragon soul had become attached to them.

1. They were going to be born with really high amount of magic to use prior to becoming a Dragon while still in the womb,
2. and, at some point before birth, half the soul of a dragon (not the dragon class, but the dragon creature that had become extinct) had attached itself to the Dragon’s soul after being attracted to the powerful magics.
   
3. However, unlike Riders where they gain more magic due to the attraction of the dragon’s soul, Dragons lose their magic. It is believed to be because their dragon form takes up a lot of their magic so that they can be ready to transform when needed.
   
4. The half of the dragon’s soul that attaches to the Dragon individual is also believed to be it’s pure physical form. This means any physical abilities it may have will be gained through transformation of the dragon. This also leads the mewah to believe that the individual, when not in dragon form, is often so strong.
   

Dragons also have a whole range of powers they can possibly have if their physical structure allows it. These powers can stem from physical attributes such as gills, claws, wings/fins, and a gland or bladder deep in their throat or chest that can produce all sorts of element-aligned breathing. An individual’s dragon form can only have one of each: One fastness ability, one biting ability, one scale ability, one eye ability, one tail ability, and one claw ability (all of which have to be under their chosen Elemental Alignment).

The dragon form will take a while to discover, most likely discovered from random outbursts and fits from the Dragon even at a young age. The possibility that they are a Rider Class exists until they discover they can transform into a dragon. Sometimes they are perceived as a Dragon Class at an older age but this only happens if they never figured out how to transform.

All dragons can have night vision, which allows them to see clearly in the dark as if it were during the day, have very loud roars and strong jaws. Like the extinct creature, Dragon Class individuals align with the elements when they are in dragon form, which includes the following.

• Fire Alignment: Powerful Wind Creation (Wings), Fast Flying (Wings), Fire Breathing (Inner Gland/Bladder), Hot-to-the-Touch Scales (Scales that can burn people should they touch them without protection), Powerful and Unyielding Jaws for Biting (Mouth/Teeth), etc.
• Water Alignment: Fast Swimming (Fins instead of Wings), Underwater Breathing (Scales), Water Spitting either Hot or Cold (Either a mouth to hold the water or an Inner Gland/Bladder), Water Vision (Eyes to see underwater clearly and without pain), etc.
• Air Alignment: Powerful Wind Creation (Wings), Fast Flying (Wings), Tornados and High Winds (Wings), etc.
• Poison Alignment: Spit Acid (Inner Gland/Bladder), Breath Smog or Toxic Clouds (Inner Gland/Bladder), Scales Toxic to the Touch (Scales), Venomous Bite (Mouth/Teeth), Toxic Claws (Claws, but the toxicity of the claws will only take effect if they open a wound with their sharpness first), Toxic Tail Spikes (Tail, either with Spikes or a Barb at the tip), etc.
• Earth Alignment: Fast Running (Four or More Legs), Immovable or Tank (Large Body), Stomping Mini-quakes (Forelegs), Powerful Ramming (Hard Head or Large/Tough Horns), etc.
• Lightning Alignment: Fast Flying (Wings), Fast Running (Two Legs), Lightning Breath (Inner Gland/Bladder), Shocking Scales (Scales that shock people should they touch them without protection), etc.
• Shadow Alignment: Fast Flying (Wings), Silent Flying (Wings), Onyx Sight (Eyes), Fast Running (Four or More Legs), Smokey Scales (Scales that shed to cause a smoke), Camouflage (Scales that can change color to help them blend in with their surroundings), Stealth (Scales that allow you to blend in with the shadows), Black Smoke Breath (Inner Gland/Bladder), etc.
• Light Alignment: Fast Flying (Wings), Powerful Wind Creation (Wings), Blinding Scales (Scales that are so bright they can temporarily blind), Breath Hot Air (Breath that is so hot that it becomes a bright light that can temporarily blind, required to have the Inner Gland/Bladder), etc.
• Ice Alignment: Icy Wind Breath (Inner Gland/Bladder), Icy Bite (Mouth/Teeth that can either be super cold when biting or create an icy cover where they bite), Icy Scales (Scales that you would either need a glove to touch because they’re so cold that they turn the immediate environment cold, or scales that are just simply cold to the touch with or without protection), Icy Claws (Claws that are either super cold or create an icy cover where they strike/touch), Icicle Tail (Tail with icy spikes that shoot icicles), etc.

In order to use the selected abilities, your dragon must have the corresponding physical attributes. However they don’t need the physical attributes if you don’t want to give them the abilities. This means you can have a wingless Fire Aligned dragon or even an Earth Aligned dragon that can fly (just without any special abilities that come with it since they would be too slow of fliers). However, you can’t have a scaleless dragon. If you don’t want an ability to go with the scales, you can opt out of the ability, just not the scales. Claws (unless you choose to have an armless/legless dragon), tails, and eyes work the same way.

That being said, a Dragon in their dragon-form can be any size compared to their Rider. This includes but is not limited to pocket sized (guardian of your coins), small enough to be carried on their Rider’s shoulder, too big to be carried by the Rider but not big enough to be ridden (but can follow their Rider around), just big enough to be ridden, or even as large as a four-story artrune house (we’ve put a restriction on Dragon Class compared to the dragon creature, as the creatures could be as big as mountains).


If you do not see an ability that you want your dragon to have, please contact the Forum Manager for any questions. You may end up helping expand our repertoire.


Both Dragons and Riders have markings that are located anywhere on the body so long as it can be seen through the clothing when it glows (it can not be seen through armor). These markings are typically called, no matter which Class has them, the Mark of the Dragon. Markings vary in color when not glowing and can also have any color of glow, including a different color than the marking itself. Markings between partnered riders and dragons will be the same in design, color, size, location, and glow.

Markings on Dragon Class individuals can only be seen in their non-dragon forms but can appear in their dragon form should they use one of their Elemental Aligned abilities. Should the Mark of the Dragon be on a Pursa’s tail (for whatever reason), they will automatically be partnered with another Pursa with the same exact marking. This is because no other race available has a similar and permanent tail.

Aside from being partners, dragons and their riders can have other relationships. They can be best friends, lovers, siblings, parent and child, or even rivals. Some can be multiple categories depending. Once a partnered dragon and rider find each other and have bonded (i.e. a relationship of some kind forms) both of them will become immortal. Unless they are mortally wounded or suffer an illness which can kill them, they will live forever.

If a dragon or rider dies, whether they've found each other and bonded or not, their partner will be reincarnated and the frozen clock of immortality starts ticking again for the reborn partner (aging in the same way they had prior to bonding with their partner). The ticking of this clock will continue even after bonding with a dragon but will stop, bare minimum at age eighteen. In rare cases, the partner of the reincarnated will find the reincarnation too early when their partner is still a child, but the presence of the partner affects the growth rate of the reincarnated magically, allowing them to age quickly. However, loss of childhood in these cases can sometimes cause mental instabilities in the reincarnated.

Whether someone is a rider or dragon, using magic (either through Magic Studies and the magic consequences, Race Exclusive Magic and the magic consequences, or the special magical abilities that aligns with their Dragon), or transforming into the dragon form can be physically and emotionally exhausting. Often the rider or dragon will need rest to recover. Over time, one can train themselves to withstand a longer duration.

Dragons and their riders are actually rare compared to the Magulis Class, which are often common townsfolk. Villagers and the likes, however, often respect dragons and riders due to their rarity and their power. Despite the fact that townsfolk put both dragons and riders on pedestals since birth, some people hold the belief that Dragons are somehow owned by Riders and are therefore lesser in status. Some will even opt to talk to known-riders over their dragons, even going so far as to ignore dragons or give them a look that tells them they better keep quiet if they’re talking.

At a very young age, recognized dragons and riders may be pampered and/or trained, depending on where they lived, until they were old enough to set out on their own to find their partner. Family members of the riders and dragons will sometimes set up special parties (called Partner Ceremonies) to try and fit dragons and riders to their appropriate partner by inviting those of the opposite class to the ceremonies to meet them, often ignoring whether or not they are rich or poor for the sake of their loved one.

The Professions
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Professions are what your character does as a job to earn money or get hired to do. Some professions are more of ‘what you are willing to do to get coin’ rather than an actual job. Other professions are vague and can be an umbrella for multiple. If you can not find a profession that you wanted, but only after reading all the professions listed (the one you want may be under a different name), then please contact the Forum Manager.

Professions are optional. Your character doesn’t need a profession, especially if they’re a child or homeless. There will also be one or more professions that are only available for a certain race so please keep that in mind. You can also have more than one job so long as they work well together. For example: a Practitioner that is also a Pirate > Surgeon. Or even a smith that is also a scavenger. You would do well to keep in mind what kind of Magic Study your character has, if any, and how that would help in the profession you chose for them.

Accountant
This profession requires the individual to keep, inspect, and analyze financial accounts. They also act as a treasurer if they are hired to be one, which means they also dictate and plan how the coin under their care should be used. They can work for a bank, be hired by a specific business, or even work under or as a business partner to another individual, sometimes even a shady individual.

Artificer
An individual that creates jewelry and weapons to channel magic outside of what a smithy can do. Weapons they are known to create that a smithy can't would include staffs, scepters, tridents, and foci which are often created with or without the need of metal. Some artificers also study enchantments and can give each individual item they make unique spells that can activate when needed or triggered.
 
Artist
An artist is someone engaged in an activity related to creating art, practicing the arts, or demonstrating art. In this particular case, the Artist focuses on the Visual Arts. If you wish to focus on the other forms of art that aren’t listed below, check under Performer.

• Architect: An individual who plans, designs, and oversees the construction of buildings. For the sake of simplicity, we’re also including interior designers under architects. Some buildings created by the architects of Nouva look something out of a dream.
• Novelist: A novelist is an author or writer of novels of different genres, fiction or nonfiction. They basically write stories to entertain those who are able to read. It is hard to become a well known novelist on Nouva as they have to have connections to someone of the upper class if they’re not one themselves. They can help publish their book and get their name out there.
• Painter: A person who specifically paints with different forms of medium on different kinds of surfaces. Paints used are often acrylic, oil, watercolor, gouache, and encaustic. They’ll also sometimes paint with pure ink. They are often hired by the rich to create portraits.
• Poet: These are people who create poetry in their written form. They either express their ideas through their words either literally or metaphorically (or sometimes both). Poems do not need to rhyme. Haiku are included. For those who sing poems, please check Performer.
• Sculptor: Someone who either carves beautiful statues out of stone, wood, metal, etc. or uses clay to make small models or ceramic pieces. They get paid a lot to create religious sculptures or statues of gods by other people.
  
• Sketch Artist: A person who specifically draws or sketches on and with different forms of medium. This can be charcoal, chalk, graphite, and pen and ink. They typically draw on smooth surfaces like that on canvases, paper, sketchbooks, and sometimes even walls or floors.

Authority
A government job in which these individuals have the power to give orders, make decisions, dictate punishments, and enforce obedience. Authority figures can work with detectives, tacticians, coroners, and sometimes shady individuals to impose the law of whatever city they work in. Despite being a part of the government, existing to help their citizens, they can be corrupted and cruel. They can have any number of roles and sometimes even hold special titles depending on the cities. Sand Guards are the authority of Gyllene Sand and Alver's Hollow has the Hollow Guards.

• Jailer or Warden: A profession in which the individual finds themselves in charge of a jail/penitentiary/prison or the prisoners inside of it. They typically dictate the rules of the prison and dish out punishments for disobedience. However, they may leave a prisoner in charge whether it's due to laziness or corruption.
• Judge: A judge’s job is to uphold the law in a courtroom in the proper manner dedicated by social rules and government laws where they are implemented to help decide an accused’s fate. They are to make sure everything in the courtroom is in order and that the accused receives fair judgement. Participating parties to be judged can include entities or individuals. Judges can only judge in specific courtrooms in which they have been allowed by the government that owns that courtroom.
  
• Law Enforcement: These are the individuals who are called to the scene and go on patrol. They are the ones who apprehend criminals and bring them in or have to make an important decision that could cost a life if they find that they have no other choice in dangerous situations.
  

Chef
An individual who cooks for a living. They sometimes travel for the soul purpose of hunting down new ingredients or obtaining ingredients on their own, working as a hunter or fisherman as well as a chef, and they'll sometimes invent new dishes to sell as a travelling merchant. Often they have their own restaurant or work in a tavern, working as a keeper as well, where they often buy ingredients from travelling merchants or specifically hire people to obtain the ingredients they need instead of going out themselves. This job also goes hand in-in-hand with the farmer or gardener professions, as growing one's own ingredients is beneficial to a chef.

Detective
A detective is an individual who investigates deaths and other crimes and help solve them. They work hand-in-hand with authorities of the city that they are currently working in. They will also work with tacticians, should a tactician be hired, and will even work with coroners to try and solve a crime if the crime is high-profile enough. Detectives of Nouva are given any evidence collected by authorities or other government officials and even let into crime scenes should they prove their occupation through identification.

Engineer
These people are the inventors of Nouva. Inventions can range from novice, such as the carriage, or to something more advanced like a hover disc. It is widely believed that if someone is good at problem solving and finding solutions, then they’d make a great engineer regardless of race, religion, or background. These are the people who make the world easier to navigate and make it an overall better place to live.

Farmer
Farmers usually have their own farm including livestock and crops. They’ll sometimes have help from other farmers, friends, or family when tending their farm. Anything produced from their farming could be sold to others who don’t know how to grow their own food or simply don’t have the time to. Without a system in place for how much they sell things and when, a farmer could even lose their farm and plot of land, either through higher authorities or having to sell it just to survive.

Fisherman
This profession has the individual use a fishing rod, fishing nets, or even dive to collect fresh fish or other aquatic life, including underwater flora. Some elementalists who specialize in ice will often take this job as their ice magic can help keep the fish fresh for transport. Any catches they make can be sold at the market or directly to establishments to line their pockets with coin.

Gardener
Not be confused by the farmer profession; gardeners work with plants in a way that is visually appealing. They pull weeds, cut branches off bushes and trees, water flowers, and design a layout for their garden that could later include ponds, statues, and fountains. They get paid a lot in and around Esfandell and Gradina due to the mewah’s high expectations of upkeep and floral arrangements for personal gain in tourism.

• Keeper of the Garden: A sil'nyy or sil'nyy hybrid that lives in Home of Urukgar. They are gardeners whose specific job is to take care of the community garden. They keep track of seeds they currently have and planted, produce, and other flora of the garden. They also keep track of trades and/or give away some of their product to nearby establishments, other sil'nyy clans, or to visitors who are kind or it's beneficial liaise.

Hunter
Rather raising their own crops and animals for food, they hunt wild game for their meats and pelts and will even hunt down truffles, berries, fruits, and herbs. Whatever they don’t use, they sell for high prices on the market. Some hunters only hunt when they need to while others hunt just because they can. They’ll sometimes compete with predators for the rarest of meats and even kill predators themselves, upsetting the balance of ecosystems. They often make their own bows and arrows.

Keeper
These people usually stick to inns, taverns, or shops, for several years if not their whole lives. Sometimes they start as an apprentice and take over the business when the time comes and other times it’s handed down because it is run by the family. There could be those who work there just for coins and don’t become the keeper, but help tend the shop.

• Barkeeper and Innkeeper: These particular individuals run taverns across Nouva, mixing and serving drinks, sometimes with a snack on the side. They are the ones to determine if someone has had too much to drink and either cuts the patrons off or kicks them out depending on their behaviour. A lot of times inns or available rooms for passing patrons are available, which a barkeeper will provide for the right coin.
• Bookkeeper and Historian: These are the people who keep watch over the knowledge that has been written. Bookkeeps tend to watchover libraries full of fiction and nonfiction alike, touching all kinds of subgenres and stories. Historians prefer to keep the history of Nouva safe, by keeping watch over a vault that is either open to the public or needs special permission to enter. Sometimes a combination of the two if extra security is needed in a public establishment.
• Shopkeeper and Tailor: A shopkeeper is one who sells wares, either at a booth that they frequent day to day or inside of a building. They do not often travel and will either make their own stuff to sell or they are given the items, either by buying or simply for free, from other people who want to earn money from the sales. Tailors, in particular, are a type of shopkeeper that not only runs the shop that they sell their own clothes in, but the clothes in the back of the store in either an open area where others can see or a private room.

Mercenary
Mercenaries (or mercs for short) are people who are more concerned with making money at the sacrifice of morality and ethics. They are typically hired for ambiguous jobs or for very serious jobs that can cost someone’s life or freedom. There is really no limit to what a mercenary would do to gain coin.

• Assassin: This job requires one to kill or attempt to kill someone else. It’s a hard job and, if they’re caught, either in the act or if there’s enough evidence against them, the consequences are severe. Some assassins have even lost their lives by the hands of the government whom they impeded on. Assassins usually have to make contracts in secret or risk being discovered by the government, as killing another person is often considered illegal.
• Bodyguard: These people are hired to escort and protect individuals or other precious cargo if there is high enough pay. Unlike assassins who typically perform their job illegally and undercover, bodyguards are out in the open and can most often legally kill anyone who attempts to assault, murder, or steal their charge.
• Bounty Hunter: Usually a loner but will sometimes work in groups of other bounty hunters. They hunt down known criminals, often based on how much coin they'll gain through catching or killing them depending on the requirements of payment. It isn't typical that they are hired as they get paid for hunting people down on their own but sometimes they are hired by a shady individual or gang to hunt down an enemy, whether they are wanted by authorities or not.
• Poacher: Probably the most depraved of the talented mercenaries, poachers will go out of their way to catch individuals and either sell them to other people as slaves for profit or detach parts of the victim to sell instead. Sometimes both depending on the race. This can include but is not limited to: 1) Skinning a coxayli, machali, pursa, tambi hatari, and yangzi. 2) Selling a yangzi’s soul jewel. 3) Cutting off and selling the wings of a zephyr or clipping them so that they can’t fly. 4) Breaking off any horns or antlers on a coxayli.
  
• Scavenger: These mercs can be paid to scour the war zones and pick useful items off of dead people, either to sell for profit or by paid commission to do so. Crypt diving is also a side talent, where they will enter crypts and dungeons to hunt down treasures to sell or use for themselves. However, crypts are often full of deadly creatures, including the infamous gem cobras.
• Thief: Pickpocketing, breaking and entering, you name it, these people do it. These individuals often don’t have respect for others and will even go out of their way to steal precious items such as the soul jewel from a yangzi. Sometimes they can be hired to steal from another, making them a type of mercenary.

Mortician
This profession requires working with dead bodies. Depending on the type of job, they may either be responsible for protection, placement and burial or they may be required to examine the body, especially if it's a case that's being investigated by detectives. This can include using sorcerer magic in a way that can produce x-ray vision or using elementalist magic to keep the body fresh or anything else that might be needed.

• Coroner: They are paid by authorities and detectives to examine bodies. Examination usually covers cause of death or even checking if there may be any DNA or environmental evidence that can give a new lead to ongoing investigations. Coroners keep these kinds of bodies separate from the funeral directors- bodies that are potential results of criminal activity are kept at their place of work until examination is completed and all leads are exhausted. They are then given to the funeral director.
• Funeral Director: If the coroner doesn't have the body, then the funeral director probably does. They keep it safe and prevent it from rotting using magic. They also ensure, should a funeral be paid for by the deceased's family, that there is a Calling Hours where friends and family can view the body followed by a Funeral Procession. This is when the friends and family follow the body to either the crematorium (where the body gets cremated) or to the gravesite to watch the burial. The funeral director is in charge of all of this.

Performer
These are people who earn money through performances, also known as the performing arts. This includes theater, music, and dance. Any of these can be done outside on the street for street performances or inside on a stage for an already-gathered crowd.

• Actor or Actress: These individuals perform plays or skits that have either been written by themselves or by someone else who is paying them to perform. This can also entail performing tricks such as what you would see at a circus or fair.
• Bard: Poets who enjoy retelling legends in rhyme or song. They’ll sometimes work with minstrels to give their tales an extra spin. Bards often tend to be overdramatic in their works, almost to an embarrassing degree. They can also make up their own stories to tell to the crowd for coins.
• Dancer: They earn money through dance performances that they or another choreographed to earn coins either in taverns, outside on the streets, or wherever their dancing takes them. These people are usually graceful in everyday life outside their profession. There are multiple ways to dance and these people know how to get it done. Sometimes dancers even know how to sing and will do so as they dance for an extra kick.
• Minstrel: These people are good with instruments and often hired by taverns to entertain their customers. Some minstrels can sing very well. They tend to take their performances to the streets for some extra coin when business is slow. Each minstrel prefers to work in specific genres for their music, sometimes coming up with a unique sound of their own.

Pirate
Known notoriously for their raiding and plundering of innocent villages on the shore, these people travel by boat, sailing from sea to sea. They are often dressed in tattered or faded clothing as they don’t usually bother with buying new clothes for themselves and prefer spending their newly ‘earned’ coin on other things like the company of others. There are multiple positions to be filled on a single boat:

• Captain: Pirate captains are selected because they were respected and not because they are feared. They are capable of commanding and navigating their ship and have a tendency to be good with the sword and pistol.
• Quartermaster: This is the person who is in the rank that is just below captain. If the captain was incapable of performing their duties, either because they were busy with something else or sick/injured/dead, the quartermaster would take over. They are also in charge of food and water supplies.
• Sailing Master: Officers in charge of navigation and piloting. An education on how to properly navigate the seas, with or without maps, are required for this position.
• Gunner: Those who worked and operated on the artillery. They are the ones who worked with the cannons and would also be in charge of ammunition and guns. They had deadly aim as well.
• Boatswain: These people supervise all activities on board. Duties also ranged from anchoring to naval provisions. They report either directly under the captain or quartermaster.
• Surgeon: Helps with diseases and wounds. They would also perform amputations in order to save a fellow pirates life if necessary. If the surgeon is absent, the carpenter would perform his duties of amputating.
• Cook: They’re in charge of making the food and trying to keep the crew eating healthy.
• Carpenter: These are the pirates in charge of making sure the ship is tip-top shape, including patching holes, sewing ripped sails, etc. They’d sometimes take over for a surgeon if they were busy or if there was none to amputate.
• Cabin Boy: This isn’t a gender exclusive role as any gender can become a cabin boy like the rest of the crew. It’s just a title. Cabin boys help with odd jobs like rigging and unfurling the sails, swabbing the decks, delivering gun powder, helping chop meats and vegetables for the cook, scrubbing dishes, etc. Some cabin boys are slaves bought at an auction.

Practitioner
Unlike the landare-only exclusive magic of mender that heals and mends broken or damaged plants, or the magic study healer that uses magic to help heal those in need, practitioner’s don’t need magic to get their job done. They can use medication bought and made from alchemists to help the healing progress faster but their talent lies in mixing herbs to create medicine without magic and to perform surgeries on those in desperate need of one.

Prospector
This is an individual that hunts for gold or other rare minerals either by panning or mining. Minerals found can grant the prospector a lot of coin if sold to the right person. Or perhaps they also have a job as an artificer or smith to get jewelry, weapons, tools, or armor made from those very minerals. If they also specialize in enchantment magic, then they can even enchant them and then sell them for a high price at the market! 

Religious Ministry
Positions filled by members of a religion, mostly believers of gods. These positions often require them to spread the word of their faith. Their faith does not always need to align with their race; they can believe in gods of other races and serve under their names.

• Acolyte: A follower or assistant of a religion that helps with services based on religion and other jobs that a priest would often have. Acolytes covers races that worship or believe in other religions, as a race that follows another race's religion and practices as a Priest or Preacher is often frowned upon.
• Preacher: A preacher takes their religion to the streets, speaking loud and clear for all to hear, to personally gain followers. They have been known to get into arguments with passersby who disagree with them and/or share different views entirely. They’re not exactly the most noble of religious men and women on Nouva either, as they have been known to do unspeakable acts when not preaching about their beliefs.
• Priest: In the case of the world of Nouva, a priest is a religious individual, whether they believe and practice it themselves, preach in an in-door congregation, most likely in a church or cathedral. They teach about the gods and religion they believe in. Priests are known to be caring and kind individuals, even if they disagree with other people’s beliefs.

Seraph
The Seraph are a group of individuals, exclusively zephyr, that either specifically train themselves to become archangels or find other ways to use their skills to protect the innocent. They have taken an oath to protect any and all who are in need, regardless of race or past transgressions. They are even willing to drop what they were doing, should it not be as important as someone’s life, to actually track down a lost loved one, whether that loved one is theirs or someone who begged them to find them. The Seraph have a uniform (see Races of Nouva: Zephyr) that can differ depending on what kind of work the zephyr does for The Seraph.

• Honorary Seraph: An honorary seraph is someone who is not a zephyr that has decided to take the oath of The Seraph and help out where they can. They also have uniforms, similar in fashion to that of The Seraph, but where a zephyr’s wings would be, there would often be a large insignia of a pair of wings.

Travelling Merchant
A travelling merchant travels from place to place, never staying too long in any particular city or inn. Some travelling merchants are thought to not even have a home to return to. Either way, they sell wares that they themselves have made or collected at reasonable prices. Sometimes they’ll even trade their items for another. They typically set up a booth, should there be a space available, in marketplaces across the globe.

War Martial
Someone who is prepared for war, either through fighting, ready to make weapons or armor or make repairs to them, perform surgeries when there's chaos all around them, or even someone who is the one who comes up with a plan to defeat the enemy. Those who fall under the war martial category aren't always in a war but are always at the ready no matter where they are.

• Field Doctor: A practitioner that always has everything they need as they travel. They also have the ability to fully concentrate on their patient even when they themselves are in danger, open to attacks from enemies or dangerous creatures, or have a multitude of distractions. They're also fast at what they do (not that practitioners aren't but there often not enough field doctors during war and with so many patients to tend that are often on the verge of death, they have to be quick). Field doctors also sometimes study Healer magic.
• Smithy: They often have their own forge and know how use the proper equipment, know the differences between metals, and even possess the knowledge to create tools, weapons, and armor. Sometimes they are also shopkeepers or travelling merchants, selling everything they make. They also sometimes take orders to make things in bulk and will also sometimes work with engineers for the purpose of making the best possible weapons of war.
• Tactician: Someone with this profession understands their surroundings, their enemies strengths and weaknesses, and knows what move to make next. Wars often have a group of tacticians helping out with plans and strategies and consulting them increases the chances of winning a war. Individual tacticians can be hired for numerous reasons including catching wanted criminals and even more shady jobs.
• Warrior: Usually garbed in heavy armor, this profession is often ready and willing to run into the middle of battle. Some warriors are bloodlust, some take pride in their strength, others do it for their loved ones to ensure their protection and bright future. Whatever the reason, they are trained in close combat and sometimes ride into battle on the back of a trusty steed. Warriors are not obligated to use their skills for war, however, and can find other ways to use them.

Prefixes and Titles
Os (Ahs)
Cir (Seer)
Gu (Goo)
Og (Ahg)
Ela (Ell-Uh)
Re (Ray)
Ila (Ee-Yuh)
Ke (Kay)
Mu (Moo)
Cha'Grathka (Chah Grath-Kuh)
Hognur'Gor (Hohg-Ner Gore)
Urukgar (Er-Oohk-Gar)
Ushmog (Oosh-Mahg)
Ogudar'gen (Oh-Goo-Dar Gin)
Baron (Bare-In)
Baroness (Bare-In-Ess)
Viscount (Vai-Count)
Viscountess (Vai-Count-Ess)
Earl (Uhrl)
Countess (Count-Ess)
Marquess (Mar-Quess)
Marchioness (Mar-Shuh-Ness)
Duke (Dook)
Duchess (Duch-Ess)

Deity/Historical Figures
Muhapta (Moo-Hap-Tuh)
Torpaq (Tore-Pack)
Feroce (Fur-Ohs)
Tacir (Tah-Seer)
Kitabcasi (Kee-Tahb-Kah-See)
Ana (Ah-Nuh)
Parilti (Par-Ill-Tee)
Asteria (As-Stair-Ee-Uh)
Iilioso (Ee-EE-Yose-Oh)
Fingario (Fin-Gar-Ee-Oh)
Mordicus (More-Deh-Kiss)
Hogald Thumak (Hoe-Gauld Thoo-Mack)
Drazar Cha'Grathka (Drah-Zar Chah Grath-Kuh)
Zennami Hognur'Gor (Zeh-Nah-Me Hohg-Ner Gore)
Borgorn Urukgar (Bore-Ghurn Er-Oohk-Gar)
Atmardur Ushmog (At-Mar-Durh Oosh-Mahg)
Magas Ogudar'gen (May-Gess Oh-Goo-Dar Gin)

Leaders and Other Important Figures
Zur'mia Cha'Grathka (Zur-Me-Uh Chah Grath-Kuh)
Fe’jurel Hognur'Gor (Fay-Jurh-Uhl Hohg-Ner Gore)
Lanidu Hognur'Gor (Lan-Ee-Do Hohg-Ner Gore)
Enoch Urukgar (Ee-Nock Er-Oohk-Gar)
Be'Noch Urukgar (Bee-Nock Er-Oohk-Gar)
Lemura Ushmog (Lay-Murh-Uh Oosh-Mahg)
Alexisa (Uh-Lex-Ess-Uh)
Tonioki (To-Nee-Oh-Key)
Diomidi (Dee-Oh-Me-Dee)
Costassoca (Cost-As-Soak-Uh)
Bulwark Davis (Buhl-Work Day-Vess)
Katrina Millers (Kuh-Tree-Nuh Mill-Urs)
Akihiko Oyama (Ah-Key-He-Koh Oh-Yah-Muh)

Races of Nouva
Pursa (Pur-Suh)
Artrune (Are-Troon)
Mewah (May-Way)
Mewahen (May-Way-In)
Zephyr (Zeff-Ur)
Yangzi (Yang-Zee)
Tambi Hatari (Tam-Bee Huh-Tar-Ee)
Landare (Lan-Dare)
Machali (Mah-Chee)
Sil'nyy (Sih-Nee)
Coxayli (Coze-Zay-Lee)

Nouvan Locations
Mt. A'meana (Mount Uh-Meen-Uh)
Crasmere Gulch (Crazz-Mere Gulch)
Gradina (Grah-Deen-Uh)
Esfandell (Ess-Fin-Dell)
Alver's Hollow (All-Vhur's Hallow)
Gheara Pence (Gear-Uh Pense)
Nouva (No-Vuh)
Selgamed (Sell-Guh-Med)
Chipululu (Cheh-Poo-Loo-Loo)
Mundag (Muhn-Dag)
Gyllene Sand (Jeh-Len-Ay Sand)
Caer Garreg (Kai Car-Reg)
Sungai Kelopak (Soon-Gay Kel-Oh-Pa)
Zelta Apdare (Zell-Tuh Ap-Duh-Ray)
Esfandell (Ess-Fin-Dell)
Pagoma (Paw-Goh-Muh)
Krymmenos (Kree-May-Noes)
Mageia (Muh-Gee-Uh)
Tuphiobax (Too-Fee-Oh-Backs)
Thumak's Domain (Thoo-Mack's Doh-Main)
Central City (Sin-Trell City)
Home of Cha’Grathka (Chah Grath-Kuh)
Home of Hognur’Gor (Hohg-Ner Gore)
Home of Urukgar (Er-Oohk-Gar)
Home of Ushmog (Oosh-Mahg)

Roleplay Threads
Vhurgliss Black (Vur-Gliss Black)

Creatures and Plants with Weird Names
Plu'leanock (Ploo Lay-Uh-Nock)
Zenbinaka (Zin-Bee-Nock-Uh)
Kirin (Kee-Reen)
Nekomata (Nake-Oh-Maht-Uh)
Perspicuus Vulpis (Pur-Spick-Us Vole-Pess)

Other Terms
Aquarian Plague (Uh-Kware-Ee-In Play-g)
Umbra (Um-Bruh)
Yux'sin (Yucks Sin)
Asa'sin (Ass-Uh Sin)
Magulis (Maj-Ill-Iss)
Parijakun Gothor Zot (Par-Ee-Jay-Koon Go-Thur Zaught)

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