About magical colourshifters and eight-legged horses

Today I will talk about LARP. More specifically, the Khaladani group I am with.
And I will do this because of ONE reason, they are so incredibly and utterly awesome that I found myself wanting to chatter about them, all of them, new and old. Silent on the background and those in the spotlights on the fore.

For those not knowing, the Khaladani is a race of magically gifted humanoids(very close resemblance) whom live on their home-world of Khaladan. They are divided into 4 sub-races, each one having a specific colour and an anti-colour. These four colours are Silver, Black, Green and Red. Green opposes Red and Silver opposes Black , it goes the other way around as well.

A Silver focusses on Serenity, Retaliation and Healing.
A Red focusses on Battle, Honour, Courage and the Red Haze.
A Black focusses on Hate, Destruction and Dominance.
A Green focusses on Knowledge, Wisdom, Curiosity and an Iron Will.

These racial traits or focusses are not mandatory, everyone is an individual, but it is encouraged to have these traits coming back in one way or another in your character.
Mixes of these colours do happen, often between the non-opposing colours, but sometimes(very rarely) it happens between the opposing colours.
In our group we have one true mix, me. I am a mix between Red and Green, which makes me unique amongst ‘my people’.

You see, EVERY Khaladani possesses magic, for our world is a magical one. And not one where Magic can do all, but one where it is used in everyday life, but with modesty. So think raising buildings, adjusting small objects, making life easier and fighting. But not defying the general rules of physics and such(although, you can use it to, say, jump a tad bit further)
And it is in this world that my character is seemingly without magic, he cannot use it, although he can(with concentration) detect it. This little fact creates some play and I intend to expand on it, but this is a rather tedious thing, for not everything can be done in the event/setting where we go to.

Furthermore we have a counsel, consisting of 2 people(well, 3, but it’s complicated). And then we have one or more advisers with us, a Silver Lady(read queen like persona, really frecking awesome!) along with a Silver Guard. 2 or more diplomats(whom can co-incidentally kick some serious ass if need be, both verbally AND physically). And the Silver Lady is in this equation the most interesting. You see, in LARPs everyone and their mother wants to be a noble, because you are generally found important(or so they tend to think). The latter not being as found as important is usually due to the fact that most of these ‘nobles’ don’t have a following as they would have in real life. Well, with 15 to 20 people(as of moment of writing) we do fit that bill. It’s very fun to see that one of the guards goes ahead to actually announce her coming to a place. Very fun to see. This also creates the effect that she is genuinely looked up too by most folks, this is also supported by her flawless white outfit and scary/awesome visage(silver wig, silver coloured skin and silver coloured eyes). That, and anyone actually stupid enough to touch her dies a long and painful death, either by her hand or by our group’s.

Back to our world, the world itself is 5 times bigger then earth(resulting in a total surface area over 25 times that of earth!) and contains lots of water, it looks out to 3 visible suns and 1 not so visible one. Seven sacred moons and a lot of magic.
Most of our critters are of the mythical kind(think Dragons(extinct), Hydra’s and eight-legged horses(which we dubbed Fu’Jin)) but are not seen by any outworlder. Due to a recent war our people are rather wary of outworlders, in fact, they are so wary of them, they built a special quarter(or city, if you like) around the portal to accommodate them. An outsider leaving the assigned compound is declared a fugitive and will be shot on sight(shot with a fireball that is). For a better explanation of how this would work, we based it on Dejima in ancient Japan, we pulled a Sakoku basically. With the exception of us leaving.

Coming weekend we have a(nother) meeting with the group, I can’t wait! The group has grown considerably and there are quite a few faces I haven’t met at all yet. There are also plans to talk about a variety of things and get our act a bit more tightly than the last time.

Now for the usual closing!
Music!

Let’s start of with a nice little song(don’t mind the video, it’s the only copy I could find…)
Marley’s Ghost – Sugar Trade