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Monks for Hallifax?
I"ve noticed that there is no monk guild for Hallifax.
The D&D player in me find that wrong, as it associates both Hallifax and Monks with Law/Order.
And in game, it does seem like they would be a natural fit.
If a Kepheran Queen Monk with trancendant guild skills from Celest or Seren wanted to found a guild in Hallifax, would that work? Or is it trickier than that?
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Estarra the Eternal says, "Give Shevat the floor please."
Estarra the Eternal says, "Give Shevat the floor please."
Who is going to do the testing?
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Estarra the Eternal says, "Give Shevat the floor please."
The recurring theme for loboshigaru monks is that they're trying to control their violent urges. Any city whose monks are connected to the lobo tradition could be reasonably be expected to derive their teachings from that focus on self-control.
And of course, self-control is something that both Hallifax and Gaudiguch care about. Hallifax wants people to control themselves so they can suppress and remove their flaws. For loboshigaru, this is their blood lust. They meditate to try to remove their violent instincts to the greatest extent possible. Generalized to other races, they're trying to remove whatever flaws are holding them back from serving the state to the greatest extent possible.
Gaudiguch cares about self-control, too. All of the Gaudi ideas about changing perceptions ultimately come down to changing oneself in some way, or forcing the external world to reflect the perceptions which a person has chosen to experience. Gaudiguch is a lot more individualistic about it, and is way more open to using tools like drugs to help in the process, but ultimately it differs from Hallifax more in the goals than in how those goals are attained. A Gaudimonk that was attached to the lobo tradition would be more likely to change his instincts than remove them. If he doesn't want his first impulse in most situations to be violence, then he's going to meditate until his first impulse is something else which he does want. This can be similarly generalized from loboshigaru to other races in the same general way as Hallimonks.
To put it differently, the lobo response that they're both trying to change is as follows:
Stimulus-->Impulsive Response-->Violence
The Hallimonk tries to cut out the second step entirely. If he doesn't have an instinctive response in the first place, if he's a creature of pure reason instead of impulse, then he can't progress to violence and the problem is solved.
The Gaudimonk tries to change the third step into something else. He doesn't really see much of a reason to get rid of impulsive responses all together, he just wants to change violence into something more useful.
They come from the same tradition, and they have similar goals, but they differ in how precisely they think those goals should be achieved. This is fairly representative of the differences between Hallifax and Gaudiguch themselves, and thus is a good thing.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why Hallifax and Gaudiguch could and should get their monk teachings from the same ultimate source.
Looks like we got our conflict!
Or you can be the awesomes stealth ninjakari monk in Hallifax like me