The Abentures of Sebs

This is a project I’ve started for the purpose charting the Realm of Arborea as expanded upon by myself, as well as roleplayers. As I like to imagine and construct many locations myself, I thought it would be nice to get them out of my head and have a place to put them all on display when I take people there with me.

There will also be a separate OPEN forum for TERA RP. You may link corresponding locations to these threads and vice versa. You are free to utilize them at any time. No restrictions, you can go ahead and ERP if you like. I know I will. While I don’t expect this forum to be used by anyone but myself and a good friend, I am opening it to the public, because I feel it be beneficial to the roleplaying community. This will be a place to describe settlements, your guild’s “hall” or headquarters, establishments and attractions to be visited within the existing cities, and much more. Even the location and interiors of your character’s home. While I’m sure many people have threads akin to these within their own guild’s forums, you might consider reposting it here. It would be handy to share with an outsider who wanted to RP happening upon your location, and take some of the burden of description off your shoulders.

It’s not just a geographical endeavor, I aim for an anthropological one as well as I enjoy pondering the cultures of TERA’s other races.

Elin Exclusive

If you’ve ever been to the Free Trader’s Hall, there’s a small plant sticking out of the ground in the walkway between the hall and courtyard. You can only see it on the way out from the hall. Sebs comes by once a week to give it a drink of water from the fountain since the gardeners don’t pay it any mind. It’s just a little weed growing in the cracks of the pavement, but he loves it all the same. Check it out sometime.

But i saw “boy Elin”… Thats a whole different ball park, on my end.

…alright. I’m one of those people who are 50/50 on Melin, atm. I have RP’d with them and it’s…it’s alright, I suppose. BUT. That’s not the point.

Here's where things become non-canon. My head-canon, really. As a lot of RP will be. Lore in TERA is pretty vague, minimal, and often scarce. Everyone fills in the blanks somehow. I feel bad for purists, because they don't have much to work with.

Many people RP their Elin as "recycled", holding memories and knowledge from previous lives, and I like to accept that Seren decides whether or not to filter some things, or give Elin a clean slate entirely. Either for the sake of nature, or for the individual Elin themselves. Sebs is one such "clean slate". Meaning, he had to learn things from scratch. He required an education. One that he didn't get far into before fleeing Pora Elinu when faced with constant discrimination by his peers. He's not the first male Elin, and certainly not the last, but they're rare enough to be regarded as a pariah by the general population. Looked down upon by most Elin, and especially purists who consider them a perversion of Elinu's vision. As he's a runaway, he didn't finish his education, and isn't keen on reintegrating with Elin culture. He's spent most of his years wandering and living in the wilderness with nature. Most of his contact has been with other races, who would perceive him differently from how Elin typically would. Given that he's only existed for a few years, and all he has and hasn't been exposed to; developmentally, he's not very different from a regular child, and the fact he resembles one so much to others has been instrumental in how he's learned to conduct himself and influences his behaviour. I like to think that this was Seren's design for him. That she was inspired by a young boy with hopes and dreams, and a kindness that might not've come easily to one so immersed in Elin culture. Perhaps she felt that nature needed this kind of approach.

If you've ever been to the Free Trader's Hall, there's a small plant sticking out of the ground in the walkway between the hall and courtyard. You can only see it on the way out from the hall. Sebs comes by once a week to give it a drink of water from the fountain since the gardeners don't pay it any mind. It's just a little weed growing in the cracks of the pavement, but he loves it all the same. Check it out sometime.

This is what 50 tabs of random tumblr blogs sounds like.

New weaponskins i found in the files~

But I’m too shy to even start o<—————————<