The Arkhalea Wiki talk:Community Portal

Welcome all!

The Community Portal is the hub where we discuss the various projects that are ongoing here. If you have questions, comments, want feedback, etc., start a new thread, and everyone will be able to share their thoughts and ideas. Just click the 'leave message' link above, and you'll be on your way!

Welcome to the Arkhalea Community Portal!
I fully expect this to be an exciting, collaborative, and hotly-contested area where we flush out this world. Lets keep it civil, and make something awesome.

InternetSage (talk) 01:15, February 12, 2013 (UTC)

Talk Pages vs Bottom Comments
Hey all,

I'm an old-school wiki admin, and I'm not doing so well with this new skin that wikia is using. I hate it, so I switched over to monobook, but it turns out that there are things in this new skin that don't show up with it, and vice verca.

One of those things are the talk pages for every page. The default is to use bottom comments rather than the talk pages, which were the standard for only a decade or so in wikis.

I threw something in a talk page only to realize that only the monobook users would see it. I also realized at that point that I wasn't seeing the bottom comments. After a bit of thought, I've changed the site over to use talk pages. Why? I'm guessing we're going to have some substantial discussions on the content here. Paragraphs of discussion don't really mesh well with bottom comments, and I don't see that they can be easily archived either.

So for the time being, and barring any major complaints, we're back to the old standard of talk pages. This also means that any bottom comments you made are gone. Apparently they are not the same thing at all. Which I still don't understand.

If this is a huge issue, let me know, and we can discuss switching back.

InternetSage (talk) 03:01, February 13, 2013 (UTC)

Cause of The Falling
As I was writing on the Pantheon, a thought came up:

The transition between The Ten old gods and the New Gods was when The Ten began to separate and leave the spark of Arkhalea that their union had made. This allowed the New Gods to take the belief and worship that The Ten were getting, and use that to become gods themselves.

I wrote there that The Falling was the event that marked this change.

It was just spur of the moment. I'm not sure that it's "right". But the more I think about it, the more I like it. "The Falling" wasn't so much some thing done wrong by Arkhalea - it was The Ten leaving. That moment when they disengaged from each other, and headed back out into the cosmos. All of Arkhalea points to Redian as the cause. But it's much more mundane than that. The Ten had made the world - then they left it. Like a child makes a sandcastle on the beach with a bucket and a shovel. The tide comes in, and the foundations crumble. To the sandcastle, it's a disaster. To the sea, it is Tuesday. That's The Falling to The Ten.

C&C? Just a brain-dump after some great beer on a Friday night. InternetSage (talk) 03:43, February 16, 2013 (UTC)


 * I like this idea. My friend suggested the overarching theme that because The Ten left the world is slowly dieing, the foundations crumbling. This could not mean anything for many campaigns, but some could always decide to take it and roll with it if they felt like it.


 * Kirranos (talk) 04:33, February 18, 2013 (UTC)