User blog:QueenArasene/The Aura bore Alice

(I'll add/rewrite later, when it's not 2AM)

So guys, on the topic of mahjarrat roleplay once more.

It occurs to me, and probably many others as well, that the mahjarrat race-awareness is taken to an entirely new level within roleplay boundaries. Sensing other mahjarrat, a vague knowledge of power and whether they're dead or no? Sure, that's all in lore.

But where did the whole *Flashes aura so other mahjarrat may locate* thing come from? Frankly, I think we are taking it a step too far. The mahjarrat in Lore can't, to my knowledge, locate each other accurately through their race-awareness (Prove me wrong on this, and I'll draw my nonexistent hat (It might be proved wrong by whatever we now get to know abour Kharshai)). Of course, the very act of being second-rate mahjarrat might have changed this.

HOWEVER, I believe we are misinterpreting the whole aura business anyway.

(It also occurs to me that I may be repeating myself. Hilarious)

To my understanding, mahjarrat in lore can: And they will be confused if one of them is neither dead nor really alive, as was the case with Kharshai.
 * Feel if another mahjarrat is dead or alive
 * Have a certain understanding of how powerful another mahjarrat is

Meanwhile, Roleplay mahjarrat can (As far as I know) The problem occuring frequently when shapeshifted mahjarrat meet each other.
 * Know exactly whether or not someone is a mahjarrat (Exceptions apply)
 * Hide their "Aura" so other mahjarrat cannot sense it (Completely wrong according to lore)
 * "Flash" their aura so other mahjarrat may easily locate them (WHY?)
 * In one case, even manipulate their aura as a sort of magic power (???)

"I know what you are" vs "Lulno, my aura is hidden" - isn't this kind of pointless? It's just a debate on how closely attuned your aura is to your body. I haven't done RotM, but I don't think they say much about it there anyway (I just took it in for reference because it is one of the only instances of mahjarrat gathering we know).

Of course, the mahjarrat represented in lore do not meet each other often. However, if it were easy to track another mahjarrat's aura, wouldn't they have done so long ago? Zemouregal himself said he couldn't manage to catch Sliske.

Fellow Roleplayers, should we clear this issue once and for all, possibly before it does become a serious issue, which it does by the writing of this blog. (?)

- Should mahjarrat be able to trace each other via their auras?

- Should it be allowed to hide your aura?

- Should we settle down on the aura business and return to more lore-abiding realism?

-- Do we want to?

A relevant blog

Let the discussion commence.