1. French, English, and German: how are they referred to in RP? What are they called?
Maybe they're dialects of a single common language/trade tongue, but divergent enough that many homins only know one? (There are cases IRL where speakers of one dialect can understand the language of a neighboring country more easily than they can understand a different dialect within their own language and country.)
2A. How do people envision the Old Lands?
2B. What has been learned about the Old Lands in the past few RL years, and what has taken place there?
One obvious fact is that homins still live there: refugees keep coming from there, and a lot of the roleplayed characters who disappear from the New Lands because the players left the game would have to be (and traditionally have been) explained as going back to the Old Lands for their own various reasons.
Another fact that can be inferred from the continuing flow of refugees is that life is hard in the Old Lands and offers few opportunities; many homins, or even most, make their way to the New Lands at some point in hope of a better life.
2C. I've always assumed, probably based on some lore I read but can no longer pinpoint, that Powers-provided resurrection is only available in the New Lands--do you share this assumption?
3. Are there any RP guilds around these days? Any groups of roleplayers that aren't guilds? Any player-made RP-oriented homin organizations that aren't guilds?
Maybe they're dialects of a single common language/trade tongue, but divergent enough that many homins only know one? (There are cases IRL where speakers of one dialect can understand the language of a neighboring country more easily than they can understand a different dialect within their own language and country.)
2A. How do people envision the Old Lands?
2B. What has been learned about the Old Lands in the past few RL years, and what has taken place there?
One obvious fact is that homins still live there: refugees keep coming from there, and a lot of the roleplayed characters who disappear from the New Lands because the players left the game would have to be (and traditionally have been) explained as going back to the Old Lands for their own various reasons.
Another fact that can be inferred from the continuing flow of refugees is that life is hard in the Old Lands and offers few opportunities; many homins, or even most, make their way to the New Lands at some point in hope of a better life.
2C. I've always assumed, probably based on some lore I read but can no longer pinpoint, that Powers-provided resurrection is only available in the New Lands--do you share this assumption?
3. Are there any RP guilds around these days? Any groups of roleplayers that aren't guilds? Any player-made RP-oriented homin organizations that aren't guilds?