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Lysander
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GAME MASTERS: Hunter
ACCEPTING NEW CHARACTERS: YEP!
POSTING EXPECTATIONS: Expected to post at least once a every three days and with a minimum of 300 words per post. First post in thread should be much larger. If you are gone for a week or more and their is no explanation why you will be kicked from the RP until you can fulfil your posting expectations again.
RATING: R - Gore, Violence, Swearing, though sex is preferably fade to black.
GENRES: Adaptive*1 Adventure Sci-Fi Fantasy
ATMOSPHERE/MOOD: Serious and Dramatic with Comedy sprinkled in all the time. With varying shades of Grey Morality.
PLOT FLOW: Open World, Character Driven, Arc Based
SETTING TIME FRAME Pre-Historic - 1900
BASIC PLOT/IDEA/CONCEPT: A roleplay based around the characters lives and experiences in the world around them. Set in a more varied and unique fantasy setting with some more SciFi elements mixed in like Magitech and Steampunk. Though the technology may reach almost Sci Fi like uses the style will definitely be Steampunk or Magitech-ish. The characters may or may not get caught up in different plots at different times in the world. Very Open World based, with some restrictions usually pertaining to location, current plot, and group consensus.
INTEREST CHECK THREAD: http://www.iwakuroleplay.com/showthread.php?t=19064&p=504101#post504101*2
IN CHARACTER THREAD: http://www.iwakuroleplay.com/showthread.php?t=20185
1. The RP's genre will be very flexible depending on the characters situation and plots they are involved in.
2. If you want a more detailed but confusing explanation of the concept check the interest check thread.
ACCEPTING NEW CHARACTERS: YEP!
POSTING EXPECTATIONS: Expected to post at least once a every three days and with a minimum of 300 words per post. First post in thread should be much larger. If you are gone for a week or more and their is no explanation why you will be kicked from the RP until you can fulfil your posting expectations again.
RATING: R - Gore, Violence, Swearing, though sex is preferably fade to black.
GENRES: Adaptive*1 Adventure Sci-Fi Fantasy
ATMOSPHERE/MOOD: Serious and Dramatic with Comedy sprinkled in all the time. With varying shades of Grey Morality.
PLOT FLOW: Open World, Character Driven, Arc Based
SETTING TIME FRAME Pre-Historic - 1900
BASIC PLOT/IDEA/CONCEPT: A roleplay based around the characters lives and experiences in the world around them. Set in a more varied and unique fantasy setting with some more SciFi elements mixed in like Magitech and Steampunk. Though the technology may reach almost Sci Fi like uses the style will definitely be Steampunk or Magitech-ish. The characters may or may not get caught up in different plots at different times in the world. Very Open World based, with some restrictions usually pertaining to location, current plot, and group consensus.
INTEREST CHECK THREAD: http://www.iwakuroleplay.com/showthread.php?t=19064&p=504101#post504101*2
IN CHARACTER THREAD: http://www.iwakuroleplay.com/showthread.php?t=20185
1. The RP's genre will be very flexible depending on the characters situation and plots they are involved in.
2. If you want a more detailed but confusing explanation of the concept check the interest check thread.
CHRONICLES OF FATE
Our story begins in a remote dungeon at night. Our protagonists awake as helpless prisoners; pitiful wretches. Physically they are thin not so thin as to look completely anorexic, but with only enough muscle to do basic function, but are not very strong, fast, dexterous, etc. This may have been caused by starvation, malnutrition, or maybe just a very bad illness and then beings nursed back to basic health. They have lost all skills or power they may have had, and they may even have some minor wounds here and there; a few scrapes and bruises, but nothing that will cause any permanent damage or scarring.
Their weakness is not just restricted to their physical; they are amnesiac. Any memories they once had are now lost and they may or may not have lost their sense of identity. When they try to think about it their mind feels like it hits a wall. Along with their episodic memory, much of their basic knowledge such as facts of about the world they live in is gone. Especially any knowledge that could be considered useful. From there it is up to the characters. What are they going to do? They are helpless wretch's in a world you know nothing about, or if you did once have memory it is gone. Prisoners of unknown people for an unknown reason.
Now as they explore the world something will start to become evident or revealed. They are Fateborn, Fatelings, Destiny Born, Luckling, and many other names. These beings have odd effects on chance and luck, though some would call it fate, but there is no proof that fate exists. Fateborn cause the improbable to happen, but not the impossible, and the rules of this are that for every good effect there is an equally bad effect, and vice versa. There has never been this many Fateborn together before, and it now becomes apparent that Fateborn are drawn to each other and that their own "powers" will push them together. A Fateborn may leave another Fateborn for a time, but they will eventually come back together. It is simply a fact, though the time on how long varies.
Our story shall follow these characters through their lives and the world is open to them. War, politics, action, romance, morality, philosophy, and religion. A world that corresponds to ours from Pre-historic to the Victorian Age with magic, technology, science, and gray morality abounds. They will get involved in all of this and more all different types of adventures. Our story is really a multiple stories intertwined into one; the Chronicles of Fate. So let the story begin...
-RULES-
[ 1 ] All Iwaku rules apply.
[ 2 ] The GM (Hunter) reserves the right to change or modify the rules at any time and the GM is also exempt from some of them. Except of course number one.
[ 3 ] The GM (Hunter) has the right to kick people from the RP at his discretion, but I am not unreasonable and won't do this unless it is necessary and all other options have been explored.
[ 4 ] No meta-gaming. Which basically translates is stay in character and think as your character, don't mix IC knowledge with OOC, and definitely don't abuse OOC information for your own gain. For a GM (Hunter) this also means to keep your GMing fair/unbiased for everyone, especially if you have a character in it too. If OOCly are worried for your character you can tell the GM (Hunter) and I will try to fix it for you.
[ 5 ] No power-gaming/god-modding. Which means no killing, harming, or controlling another's character in anyway without permission. Also don't play your character as invincible and/or as a Mary Sue/Marty Stu.
[ 6 ] You should post once every 3 days and they should be at least 300+ words, they should be as detailed as they can be so as to give lots for people to go off of. We will wait up to a week, but after 3 days I will start to contact you to remind you.
[ 7 ] If you are gone for a week or more and there is no explanation, then you will be kicked from the RP until you can fulfil your posting expectations again. People who are busy and need to go on hiatus may do so, just tell us beforehand and tell us how long.
[ 8 ] All lore for the world needs to be approved by me before being used in the RP and I will use the Lorebook to keep track and organise it.
[ 9 ] This RP is rated R in Iwaku ratings. Anything that could be considered unsuitable for teens should be put in spoiler warning tags as is said in the Iwaku Rules, but keep in mind that these things are expected to come up in the RP, but if you do not want to read them it will be completely fine.
[ 10 ] Your characters should be detailed and deep, no shallow characters.
[ 11 ] You are allowed to have multiple characters, but they all must be as detailed as they can be.
[ 12 ] You are allowed to make more minor characters that are less detailed, but they should be minor; like minions, companions, summons, etc.
[ 13 ] Keep in mind this RP will go for a while so your character needs to hold your interest so make sure to use a concept that intrigues you or maybe use the a archetype that you play the most and never get tired of.
[ 14 ] You shouldn't join this RP if your planning to be gone any time soon. Only people who know for the foreseeable future they will be able to take part. This RP has no planned ending.
[ 15 ] You may leave or join any time you like, but whenever you are re-joining you must think about the rule above. IC reasons shall be explained for your absence.
[ 16 ] This game will have a limited amount of members/characters at any one time. I haven't decided on the number yet.
[ 17 ] This RP is focused on Intermediate to Advanced RPers, though I will allow more newbie RPers join if they show a willingness to learn and preferably quickly.
[ 18 ] While this RP is for fun, it will also be about helping each other with our own writing so giving each other constructive criticism will be appreciated and should be received and given both freely and respectfully.
[ 19 ] All RP post are expected to have a summary on the bottom, explaining what happened exactly just for ease of new people to read what has happened and for people who are just lazy.
[ 20 ] Players will be allowed to plan out and run plots at time if they want. With GM's (Hunter's) supervision.
[ 21 ] Players are expected to keep their character sheets updated and truthful.
-CHARACTER SHEET TEMPLATES-
-CAST-
Player 1 - ACTIVE
Character 1 - ALIVE
Character 2 - DECEASED
Player 2 - INACTIVE
Character 3 - ALIVE
Character 4 - DECEASED
-THE STORY SO FAR...-
N/A
-LOREBOOK-
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Eventually I'll Finish It...Player 1 - ACTIVE
Character 1 - ALIVE
Character 2 - DECEASED
Player 2 - INACTIVE
Character 3 - ALIVE
Character 4 - DECEASED
-THE STORY SO FAR...-
N/A
-LOREBOOK-
The Riftstorm. Nobody knows why it happened or even how it happened. It is believed that their once existed many physical planes all connected by the spiritual plane. Something caused the physical realms to merge and if that was as cataclysmic enough the resulting plane of the physical now named Ordaen, the tears into the spiritual realm opened all across its surface. So a plane that has had the catastrophic effects of so many worlds crashed and fused together caused so many natural disasters and with the rifts into the spiritual realm open.
Magical energy poured out of that realm ripping up physical world creating, destroying, and warping in equal measure. The population of the world, the population being the population of every world that crashed together was decimated swiftly those that survived hid in safe areas, those that didn't where mutated and warped by the storm of magic. Myths and legends a plenty exist from the time before the Riftstorm, and ruins abode all across the world.
For three generations the Cataclysm raged, and finally when the upheaval calmed, they emerged to a world changed, a dangerous world; filled with bizarre monsters and strange magic's. Wild and chaotic the land is dangerous and those who emerge have to fight to survive. On the continent of Strome those that emerge turn to a life of nomadic hunter-gathering, having to spend every day of their lives fighting for survival. Occasionally a group might even turn to cultivating or settling in a more semi-permanent matter. Some were content with their harsh but honest lifestyle, but others were not.
Groups started to gather and attempt to build settlements. Now this brought with it new problems; with so many people together they were a larger target for monsters, though there was safety in number, and what many didn't take into account was the problems of so many people in one place. Some left because of these problems, but many stayed and build settlements which eventually became cities.
For two more generations they built their cities, every day just as big a fight as those who lived in the wild, but slowly their populations started to increase and their cities took shape and form creating new cultures. The cities themselves started to stake out land around the cities cultivating it and becoming city states. Even the barbarians who lived in the wilds population grew. With the city states growing bigger, the need for constant survival was lessened, which allowed for excess and with excess civilisation grew.
A new generation was born of those who could create and think, the city states truly began to take shape as nations in their own right. It was at this time that exploration became very prominent. The cities sent out the strong among them as explorers and those few that survived would return with the knowledge, and eventually even gained contact with other cities. Trade opened up, but was not reliable, so each city had to be self-sufficient though more exotic merchandise might be gained through trade, but trade through the world is dangerous and not reliable.
With other cities having resources and many cities having problems with others on many different lines including race, religion, morality, etc. Fighting had of course existed for longer than people can remember, but actual warfare. The idea was jarring to many. Their concept of battle was a skirmish with around 100 people at the most. They had heard legends of warfare and even had kept traditions and teachings about it, as many things from the time before the Riftstorm.
Legends and ruins are all that remain, and mortals learnt from them. Most anyone with any common sense knew that total warfare was not an option, with the wilderness pressing in on all sides any army would be decimated long before it reached its destination. So they hired best mercenaries who would travel to other places and act on that cities behalf, and many liked this idea. And war existed, though in a more covert form where groups of mercenaries would fight short battles over different key things, even going exploring or hunting down treasures.
Time passed and so did the young become old, and four generations passed like this. Civilisation continued to grow, and the city states grow to become powerful. Though they wilds had not become any less expansive and dangerous, only mortals had changed to combat it. City states expanded their borders creating minor settlements around them. Magic, technology, and science expands, but has always been treated with disdain and fear at best by most, but slowly society accepts some parts of it. Bandits started to become more common, while some where the barbarians who had continued to live their harsh lifestyles, some where people from the cities that peeled off to turn to a life of thievery, violence, and wilderness survival. Many die, but also many live and their lives are just as harsh as the barbarians.
Trade routes are mostly cleared kept at a much less dangerous level so travel and trade become much easier, and so does warfare. The mercenary business flourished, but with the building of roads trade routes, the demand for mercenaries lessens as people start to see that warfare can be done by the standing armies of the city states. Some mercenaries turn to banditry, or join army of city states. While a majority have turned themselves into their own minor alliances and are starting to carve themselves out small nations in the wild, but with so many of them they are constantly fighting with each other.
Magical energy poured out of that realm ripping up physical world creating, destroying, and warping in equal measure. The population of the world, the population being the population of every world that crashed together was decimated swiftly those that survived hid in safe areas, those that didn't where mutated and warped by the storm of magic. Myths and legends a plenty exist from the time before the Riftstorm, and ruins abode all across the world.
For three generations the Cataclysm raged, and finally when the upheaval calmed, they emerged to a world changed, a dangerous world; filled with bizarre monsters and strange magic's. Wild and chaotic the land is dangerous and those who emerge have to fight to survive. On the continent of Strome those that emerge turn to a life of nomadic hunter-gathering, having to spend every day of their lives fighting for survival. Occasionally a group might even turn to cultivating or settling in a more semi-permanent matter. Some were content with their harsh but honest lifestyle, but others were not.
Groups started to gather and attempt to build settlements. Now this brought with it new problems; with so many people together they were a larger target for monsters, though there was safety in number, and what many didn't take into account was the problems of so many people in one place. Some left because of these problems, but many stayed and build settlements which eventually became cities.
For two more generations they built their cities, every day just as big a fight as those who lived in the wild, but slowly their populations started to increase and their cities took shape and form creating new cultures. The cities themselves started to stake out land around the cities cultivating it and becoming city states. Even the barbarians who lived in the wilds population grew. With the city states growing bigger, the need for constant survival was lessened, which allowed for excess and with excess civilisation grew.
A new generation was born of those who could create and think, the city states truly began to take shape as nations in their own right. It was at this time that exploration became very prominent. The cities sent out the strong among them as explorers and those few that survived would return with the knowledge, and eventually even gained contact with other cities. Trade opened up, but was not reliable, so each city had to be self-sufficient though more exotic merchandise might be gained through trade, but trade through the world is dangerous and not reliable.
With other cities having resources and many cities having problems with others on many different lines including race, religion, morality, etc. Fighting had of course existed for longer than people can remember, but actual warfare. The idea was jarring to many. Their concept of battle was a skirmish with around 100 people at the most. They had heard legends of warfare and even had kept traditions and teachings about it, as many things from the time before the Riftstorm.
Legends and ruins are all that remain, and mortals learnt from them. Most anyone with any common sense knew that total warfare was not an option, with the wilderness pressing in on all sides any army would be decimated long before it reached its destination. So they hired best mercenaries who would travel to other places and act on that cities behalf, and many liked this idea. And war existed, though in a more covert form where groups of mercenaries would fight short battles over different key things, even going exploring or hunting down treasures.
Time passed and so did the young become old, and four generations passed like this. Civilisation continued to grow, and the city states grow to become powerful. Though they wilds had not become any less expansive and dangerous, only mortals had changed to combat it. City states expanded their borders creating minor settlements around them. Magic, technology, and science expands, but has always been treated with disdain and fear at best by most, but slowly society accepts some parts of it. Bandits started to become more common, while some where the barbarians who had continued to live their harsh lifestyles, some where people from the cities that peeled off to turn to a life of thievery, violence, and wilderness survival. Many die, but also many live and their lives are just as harsh as the barbarians.
Trade routes are mostly cleared kept at a much less dangerous level so travel and trade become much easier, and so does warfare. The mercenary business flourished, but with the building of roads trade routes, the demand for mercenaries lessens as people start to see that warfare can be done by the standing armies of the city states. Some mercenaries turn to banditry, or join army of city states. While a majority have turned themselves into their own minor alliances and are starting to carve themselves out small nations in the wild, but with so many of them they are constantly fighting with each other.
A plane of insubstantial energy, where all form of spiritual beings live. It is also the place of all afterlife's, the realms of gods, and a multitude of other things. When mortals die their souls go to this place and can either go into an afterlife, return to the world to be reborn, or eventually some just disappear; no ones quite sure what happens to them.
The physical plane and the spiritual plane borders each other, but what separates them is known as many things; the veil, ward, etc. It allows a filtered amount of energy into the physical world, but if the ward rips the spiritual energy pours through and allows for all manner of spiritual beings to spill through, though they must stay within the energies range, or risk being stranded. The nergy that filters through spills through the physical world and clings to substances within it. some things retain more power then other such as precious minerals, or living things being the things that retain the most.
The spiritual realm is always chaotic, because of its denizens and its connection to the physical world; if it had neither of those it would be completely calm. The physical world sends echoes into the spiritual world which then creates currents of spiritual energy and changes the types of spiritual energy. Spiritual beings do this, but at a much higher level as they live within that plane.
The physical plane and the spiritual plane borders each other, but what separates them is known as many things; the veil, ward, etc. It allows a filtered amount of energy into the physical world, but if the ward rips the spiritual energy pours through and allows for all manner of spiritual beings to spill through, though they must stay within the energies range, or risk being stranded. The nergy that filters through spills through the physical world and clings to substances within it. some things retain more power then other such as precious minerals, or living things being the things that retain the most.
The spiritual realm is always chaotic, because of its denizens and its connection to the physical world; if it had neither of those it would be completely calm. The physical world sends echoes into the spiritual world which then creates currents of spiritual energy and changes the types of spiritual energy. Spiritual beings do this, but at a much higher level as they live within that plane.
Some myths tell of a Creator of omniscience, omnipotence, and omnipresence; though the myths can never agree if she is good or evil. It is she the Great Mother, the Creator of everything who created all the planes that made up Ordaen and even the spiritual plane. Though it is only myth and no proof is there to these legend, though it is suspect that a so many different cultures mention her, but what is absolute fact is that the Gods do exist.
The Gods fall into different categories; the Ancient Gods and the Ascendant Gods. The Ancients are as old as time itself, they are extremely hard to comprehend for anyone. The Ascendants are the most common type of gods and when one thinks of Gods; they think of them. Ascendants are those mortals who through many different means have transcended death, but that is not all, and Ascendant is not necessarily a god, just one who is immortal.
Immortals cannot truly die, they can be imprisoned, put to sleep, or even shattered; splitting them into many different shards which when put back together will result in them waking up just like they where asleep. To become a God one must first be immortal, then one must enter the plane of spirit, allowing oneself to become a spiritual being; it is a painful process as your body is ripped apart. This is also the time that the gods dominions become present, though they depend on the Ascendant's personality and which streams of energy they submerge themselves in.
Dominions dictate what type of powers they use. They're are plenty of gods who have the same dominions; for example multiple gods of lightning, etc. The Gods cannot enter or influence the physical world unless they spill through a tear, which has its own risk and limitations, or having sufficient following in mortals which allows them a certain amount of pull in the physical world, the more followers the more one can do.
(Keep in mind that while they are real, that doesn't mean everyone knows about them.)
The Gods fall into different categories; the Ancient Gods and the Ascendant Gods. The Ancients are as old as time itself, they are extremely hard to comprehend for anyone. The Ascendants are the most common type of gods and when one thinks of Gods; they think of them. Ascendants are those mortals who through many different means have transcended death, but that is not all, and Ascendant is not necessarily a god, just one who is immortal.
Immortals cannot truly die, they can be imprisoned, put to sleep, or even shattered; splitting them into many different shards which when put back together will result in them waking up just like they where asleep. To become a God one must first be immortal, then one must enter the plane of spirit, allowing oneself to become a spiritual being; it is a painful process as your body is ripped apart. This is also the time that the gods dominions become present, though they depend on the Ascendant's personality and which streams of energy they submerge themselves in.
Dominions dictate what type of powers they use. They're are plenty of gods who have the same dominions; for example multiple gods of lightning, etc. The Gods cannot enter or influence the physical world unless they spill through a tear, which has its own risk and limitations, or having sufficient following in mortals which allows them a certain amount of pull in the physical world, the more followers the more one can do.
(Keep in mind that while they are real, that doesn't mean everyone knows about them.)
Magic is very varied across the world and their is not much that unifies it, but their are some general practises that all mages use. The first two steps are finding a source and harnessing it. All magic must have a source of power, there are countless sources of power. Physical matter can be turned into magicka such as fire, or earth. Or you can harness energy such as heat or kinetic. You can draw the spiritual energy of the area around you from the substances of your very environment until they are drained. You can convert your emotions into energy. You can even take a living things life force and convert it into magicka.
Though the most common source is that of a sentient soul. Souls radiate pure magicka, and collect it around and in them, every sentient being creates magicka so many mages simple use the magicka they create and store up in their soul. After finding somewhere to draw the power from, they must harness it. These are just as varied, but usually depend on the source. Once one has magicka to use and has tapped into it they must wield it. Their isn't much uniform here so I can't explain without going into an individuals magic wielding system. All mages are different they learn techniques from experience and from teaching.
Now its not smart to relay entirely on magic as their are people and places that create Anti Magic fields which stops all magical effects. I will elaborate on this some other time.
Though the most common source is that of a sentient soul. Souls radiate pure magicka, and collect it around and in them, every sentient being creates magicka so many mages simple use the magicka they create and store up in their soul. After finding somewhere to draw the power from, they must harness it. These are just as varied, but usually depend on the source. Once one has magicka to use and has tapped into it they must wield it. Their isn't much uniform here so I can't explain without going into an individuals magic wielding system. All mages are different they learn techniques from experience and from teaching.
Now its not smart to relay entirely on magic as their are people and places that create Anti Magic fields which stops all magical effects. I will elaborate on this some other time.
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