I just wanted you to relish in the thought for a bit.
All and all good ideas and explanation. I'll probably incorporate some of the ideas, but I won't be able to fully realize them in order to stay consistent with, well, everything else. There are a lot of elements of the world that don't mesh well with a truly realistic take on religion. Though I do admit that having everyone suddenly start worshiping Ardectes after a period of only a few hundred years is a little strange even for the 'angle' I'm going for, though it's unlikely anyone would go back to worshiping the old gods because they were much into intervening with the affairs of the earthly plane and they simply don't anymore.
Indeed, while conflict between players is allowed and -even encouraged to a degree- that conflict is mostly limited to political, diplomatic or personal disputes. Remember that the council is consisted of a decent amount of people, players and NPC's both, and they would intervene in such an obvious plot.
No problem mate, hope you stick around, but if you don't I hope you find something you like.
Theoretically enchanting is simple, imbue a magic item with the properties of a spell. In practice this is much more difficult, to get any enchantment remotely useful the expertise of multiple magic-users and expensive reagents are required. Enchanting is physically draining and powerful ones can render cabals of magic users powerless for weeks. Needless to say, enchanting equipment is rarely seen outside the wealthy and powerful. When more common folk manage to get enchantments they are usually more cosmetic in nature, such as an unnaturally colored blade or perhaps a soft glow.
'Magic' beasts exist. Things such as unusually large bears aren't considered magic, just another sort of natural creature with slightly unusual proportions. Most actual magic creatures are unique and on the powerful side, many qualifying as 'small gods'. Their exact origins vary, but almost always involve some sort of magic fuckery. There are very few true 'races' of beings with natural magic abilities. One of these exceptions are dragons, which is more a genus of creatures than a single species. Regardless, almost all large, magical creatures have been pushed to the edges of civilized nations. Even the relatively remote area surrounding Rask would almost be completely tame. Dragons are again a bit of an exception to this, though that's a whole other can of worms that probably won't be too relevant to the RP.
I'm going for an experienced magic using character, if you'd like your character to start off with something useful, perhaps even renowned (but not game breaking, etc) perhaps we can tie in our backstories?
