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melannen ([personal profile] melannen) wrote in [community profile] fictional_fans2020-03-21 05:37 pm

Sorting!

So, everyone at this point knows about Sorting characters by the Hogwarts Houses from Harry Potter (I think at this point even people who have never read or watched Harry Potter know their Hogwarts House.)

But of course that's not the only option! There are lots of other ways to sort.

You can sort your characters by:

What am I leaving out? What other fictional canons have built-in Sorting?

(Me, I keep trying to put MDZS characters into Heptarchate factions, but I always run up against the fact that Nirai Wuxian would inevitably agree to be one of Hexarch Kujen's backup hosts, and then I just get sad.)

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[personal profile] longmagpieroads 2020-03-21 11:40 pm (UTC)(link)
All the World of Darkness books have built in Sorting. Werewolf, Mage, etc.

The Nine Houses of the Veil from Ninth House (Lethe, Skull & Bones, Scroll & Key, Berzelius, St. Elmo’s, Book & Snake, Wolf’s Head, Aurelian and Manuscript)

Also DnD classes could be fun.


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[personal profile] eleanorjane 2020-03-21 11:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Along the lines of World of Darkness, my first thought went to Exaalted - each type of Exalt has sorting mechanisms, but as personality indicators I think Dragonbloods are probably the best.
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[personal profile] longmagpieroads 2020-03-22 12:02 am (UTC)(link)
That's true. I'd forgotten about the Dragonbloods.

Actually pretty much any TTRPG has classes and races and sorting mechanisms.