Mail in Zenderael is delivered by faerie dragons. These dragons are about the size of a six-month-old kitten, and they travel through a combination of flight and warp magic.
Dragon post, as it is called, employs trained faerie dragons as post dragons. There are post offices in any town large enough to have one, maintained by mages who handle complaints, questions, and sales.
In order to send dragonmail, one simply needs to write a letter addressed to a specific person and affix a special dragon post stamp to it. These stamps, when used, will summon a post dragon to take the letter and deliver it.
If the recipient sits down to write a response immediately after receiving the letter, post dragons will wait and will deliver the response without any need for a stamp to be used. In this way, long chains of letters can be sent back and forth with only one stamp, though it is customary to tip the dragons every so many letters with a few coppers.
If the recipient is asleep or otherwise incapacitated, the dragons will deliver the letter instead to whatever place that person has mentally designated as their "home base."
All letters are automatically signed with the name of the sender UNLESS signed using a different name. (For example, "Marlene Reliace" would be automatically attached to all her letters if she didn't sign them, but if she signed a letter "Lena" then that's all it would say.)
Letters must be addressed using EITHER a full name, a unique alias, OR a first name/alias with some other identifying name.
"Marlene" would not work. "Marlene Reliace" would work. "Duncan" would not work. "Heimdall" would work, and "Duncan, player of Marlene Reliace" would also work. This is because faerie dragons locate people based on a combination of name and the person you have in mind when you're writing it.
Mail cannot be delivered to deceased parties. Faerie dragons simply won't accept the letter.
DRAGON MAIL
Dragon post, as it is called, employs trained faerie dragons as post dragons. There are post offices in any town large enough to have one, maintained by mages who handle complaints, questions, and sales.
In order to send dragonmail, one simply needs to write a letter addressed to a specific person and affix a special dragon post stamp to it. These stamps, when used, will summon a post dragon to take the letter and deliver it.
If the recipient sits down to write a response immediately after receiving the letter, post dragons will wait and will deliver the response without any need for a stamp to be used. In this way, long chains of letters can be sent back and forth with only one stamp, though it is customary to tip the dragons every so many letters with a few coppers.
If the recipient is asleep or otherwise incapacitated, the dragons will deliver the letter instead to whatever place that person has mentally designated as their "home base."
All letters are automatically signed with the name of the sender UNLESS signed using a different name. (For example, "Marlene Reliace" would be automatically attached to all her letters if she didn't sign them, but if she signed a letter "Lena" then that's all it would say.)
Letters must be addressed using EITHER a full name, a unique alias, OR a first name/alias with some other identifying name.
"Marlene" would not work. "Marlene Reliace" would work. "Duncan" would not work. "Heimdall" would work, and "Duncan, player of Marlene Reliace" would also work. This is because faerie dragons locate people based on a combination of name and the person you have in mind when you're writing it.
Mail cannot be delivered to deceased parties. Faerie dragons simply won't accept the letter.