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I'm going to hope, very emphatically, that you are not asking someone to copy and paste an existing story and simply change characters and a few minor details. We consider that plagiarism here, and we frown on that sort of thing.

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I think my frustration here is a result of your asking for factual backup of what's largely a fictional concept. The Orc shamans from WarCraft 3 and WoW don't have any resemblance whatsoever to a real-life shaman, nor do the goblinoid witch doctors have any grounding in reality. Hence my frequent advise to you to make it up and stop looking for factual references for something when factual isn't what you want anyway. Just read the WoW Wiki instead and go from there to avoid getting sued.

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If you need to contact a member and don't have a forum account, you can email the staff and we can forward a message to that member. We don't give out contact information that isn't made public by the member, but we have forwarded messages in the past. That way, the member can contact you and set up a way of communicating directly. Our staff email is tos_team@adult-fanfiction.org

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Just dressing in skins does NOT a shaman or witch doctor make. Keep in mind that all shamans go through a near death experience, with some actually dying and coming back. This is absolutely essential to become a shaman. A witch doctor, on the other hand, doesn't go through the same spirit journey. And voodoo is a whole other kettle of fish. You need to either invent something that fits, rather than try to force the square pegs into the round holes, or revise your basic premise to fit these concepts since they really don't work otherwise.

We have had a couple of reader-directed stories posted here, and we do allow them, within certain parameters. The voting and discussion does need to take place here on the forums, but if you use the threads where we have review replies, guests can read and respond to your post. This gives everyone a chance to vote and discuss the story. The basic premise of the story can be treated as a prologue, I believe, which would make it story content. An author's note of no more than 600 words explaining how this works, with the url for the forum thread, is fine. We don't have a specific tag for a reader-directed story, but we do ask that you tag for what content you think will be included, and if anything unexpected comes up, you can tag that specific chapter with the additional warnings as an author's note. In short, we'll work with you to make this story work for you and the readers, within our ToS. We're good at that.

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Witch doctors are largely African, rather than Native American. Shamans have their roots in the steppes of Mongolia.

Just because I need to pick nits a little, shamans would probably replace witch doctors, or at least that would be the traditional role. And it's Archon, I believe...

Berserkers were shamans as well - holy men - and infused with the power of their totems. They'd be the male counterpart, or as close as one could come, to the Valkyrie, who were minor goddesses. The notion of celestial Asian warriors is non-existent outside anime, and wouldn't fit with the world you're building. LotR/D&D type lore is about as removed as one can get from Asian lore. But you always have the trump card of any writer... make it up. Imagination is the key here.

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http://norse-mythology.org/gods-and-creatures/others/berserkers-and-other-shamanic-warriors/

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