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Note: ‘Black’ is for everything unchanged from the previous version. ‘Blue’ is a reserved color for unaccepted text. ‘Green’ is a reserved color for notes. ‘Red’ is for changes from the previous version. (Dont bother marking spelling corrections). Xenallure: A Tapestry of Hearts Game Design Document compiled by sunandshadowV1.9 revised 8/17/05 What is Xenallure? You begin the game as a human unexpectedly dropped into a foreign world where the human race as we know it does not exist. Instead you discover that you are on a heart-shaped island inhabited by three not-quite-human races: (Note: Visual descriptions can be removed from these paragraphs when concept art becomes available to replace them.) The magicals have a pre-modern culture with a ditheistic, dualistic, nature-focused religion. They have strong gender roles and strong clan-like families. They look human except for an assortment of animal traits e.g. cat ears and tails, bird wings. They have medieval-level technology supplemented by magic.The technos have a postmodern high-tech society with nanobots and artistic cybernetic additions to their bodies. All technos are hermaphrodites. They look like gothic/cyberpunk humans with Chinese or Egyptian eyes. Their culture is atheistic and has a non-capitalistic economy based on popularity, because with the ability to synthesize matter there is no scarcity, and no work except what people are self-motivated to do. The spirituals are powerful, mysterious, and rarely seen... The magicals and technos usually mutually ignore each other, so you would think any cooperation between the two races would be a good thing, right? But actually its a meddling techno folklorist seeking knowledge about spiritual powers who has recruited an abused, outcast magical to combine their technologies. They tried to summon the source of spiritual powers and got... a bakers dozen of confused humans from about the year 2150. Hmm. The other humans escape, scatt