Post by Gladia Seven Lawson on Dec 29, 2012 16:06:58 GMT
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Timekeepers live in tunnels already made for them. They are alone in these tunnels. With no enemies to fight except the very occasional badger or large mole, they have very little to do.
Thus they fill their time with learning. The Timepool is central to Timekeeper culture. Timekeepers go back in time and have visions of the past. Using these visions, each usually focuses on their own project, either one given to them by a Noble or one which they have a personal interest in, or a project to help a friend. They try and piece together stories, which they then tell.
The Timekeeper equivalent of a Gathering is a Storytelling, when each Timekeeper, if they have completed a story that month - if they have found all the relevant details, explored all the avenues, and are confident that the story is historically accurate - tells their new stories. Often cats also tell stories which have not been told in a while, or which are simply old favourites. In this way they preserve every bit of history.
Not all stories are ones that we as the Roleplayers would know. Although the stories we humans know are the ones explored in the books - the Clans and the Tribe - there are other stories too. Your Timekeeper characters can tell any story that fits within canon and seems a plausible part of the Warriors universe.
Ceremonies we need to flesh out
- The exact procedure at a Storytelling - are there any ceremonies, who speaks first, what happens?
- Is there any ceremony / special words they say at the Timepool?
- Ceremony for making a Little One into a Historian
- Ceremony for making a Historian into a Noble
- Ceremony for choosing the Teller and making a Noble into a Teller
- Others you can think of?