User blog:Jacksper/Generations and Families

The way I see it. There needs to be a clearly defined way to understand where a character fits in terms of birth and relation to other characters. Families are loosely acknowledged thus far on this wiki, but as the wiki is growing and people are doing more role-playing. More in depth family role-playing and legacies are inevitable. I will give a bief but in depth look at Generations and families on the wiki. And this will grow over time.

Generation
Each generation has its own defining method. In this I won't attempt to label players but rather their characters as they are much simpler to categorize as putting individual players into a generation such as first, second or third is disputed and hard to pinpoint do to everyone's own opinions.

The Originals
The very first generation of characters is of course the player's very first character. EVERY original character (regardless of whether or not time capsules are used) are apart of generation 1. If a character formerly belonged to another player and was given to a second player, they are still original characters regardless of what their actual age is. Generation ones are the most numerous and as of now still the most powerful characters on this wiki, though the second generation seems to be destined to surpass their predecessors.

Heralds
Of the originals their are heralds. The heralds are the originators of families. They are part of or leaders of a prestigious group of relatives.

Notable Heralds are:

Ultimate Tre and Collie of the Ultimate family Tsurugi, Shintaro and Naosho of the Yuji clan Gianor of the Gianor Family Natch of the Natch Family Tenchi of the Tenchi Family Aaron of the Xorous Family

These are the founding members of the respective clans or families, these families represent the first and largest of the many families on the wiki.

The Successors
The children of the originals are the members of their families and also tend to overcome their parents in ability. The primary thing that sets the second generation apart fromt he first is taht they are the direct descendants of the Original characters made by the player. This means that a character must get married to another original or child character and then have a child of their own in order for a child to be labaled second generation.

The Grand
The third and final generaiton thus far are the grandchildren of an original character. Their are too few of them to label this group as the Ultimate successors as many are about the same strength as the second generation was during their respective levels of power. It is projected (by me at least) that eventually the grandchildren may rise to a level above their parents, though as of now the first of the grandchildren are not as special.

Notable Exceptions
Now I know that this whole generation thing has flaws. Some characters such as Aiko Miame or Shi who could fit into either the second or third generation because they are both results of the union between a first generation and second generation character. It is generally accepted that they are the first of the third generation.

Families
WIP