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It says medieval fantasy so I'd assume we're dating between the 12th and 14th century. That's what I was rolling with anyway ^.^
 
I'd get it confirmed with the boss lady first, though ;) If I give mis-information then she may see fit to take my hands.
 
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Indeed! We've got 20 slots to fill in total so it's more than open still!
 
Also, is the RP placed solely in the court and palace or can we have characters operating in other parts of Vanqland?
 
Name: Alys ( Pronounced Alice)

Title: Knight(ess)

Age: 21

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Heterosexual

Relationship Status: Single

Species: Human

Appearance:
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Weight: 125 lbs
Height: 5'6
Clothing:
Armor
Normal outfit (A little more feminine though)

Distinguishing Features: Alys has a fairly large scar going across her cheek.

Holdings: Alys is a knight, she does not own any of her own land.

House Emblem: A gryphon gripping a sword and shield

Notable relations: N/A

Military Might: Alys, as a knight, poses no threat to the kingdom. Saying she does help protect it.

Loyalties: Alys is fiercely loyal to the crown.

Bio: Alys was born into a rather rich family. However, her mother and father had hoped for a boy. So they treated her as such. Made her dress like a boy, act like a boy, etc. Her father was ex-military and trained her himself. She learned the basics: marksmanship, fighting with a sword, and hand to hand. She was good, for a girl. When she was sixteen, bandits raided her house, killing her family. In rage, she managed to kill one of them, and the rest fled. Her courage did not go unnoticed. An older knight approached her within a couple weeks. Telling her that she was a good fighter, despite her gender. He began to train her himself, and became a new father figure to her. When she became nineteen , many people were beginning to notice her excel in combat. The Knight that had trained her, became sick. In his last breath he asked Alys to take his place, and become a knight herself. Alys swore to him that she would, and then he died, a faint smile on his face.

To this day, Alys does not forget that smile. After a year of hard training, Alys became a knight. She swore the Knight's oath, yes, but she had made an oath of her own. To be the best there was. Not for the fame, not for bragging. She wanted to do it for the one's she had loved and lost. She was going to prove herself. ​

Religious Views: Alys was Catholic as a child, but now she believes in nothing. She refuses to believe in anything that would take away her family like that.

Combat abilities: Alys is an expert swordsman. When she fights, she becomes one with the sword. She doesn't move the sword, it moves her. That is how she views her fighting. She is also decent with a bow, but she is much better with a sword. She is also known for her manipulation she uses against her enemies.

Skills: Riding, Singing (in private), and she is very manipulative.

Other: N/A

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(Sorry if this sucks, I haven't been in a serious RP in ages)​
 
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Áleifr Jusse-Salmund Alvarsson


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Title: Captain of the Royal Guard; Margrave of Velkysa

Age: 28

Gender: Male

Sexuality: Straight

Relationship Status: Married; Brynja Sólveig Rikvaldsdotter

Species: Human

Height: 5' 11"

Weight: 222 lbs

Clothing:
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Distinguishing Features: In remembrance of the Guntish Sagdjur Ravens mercenary band he fought with during his early adulthood, Áleifr has a massive tattoo of the viking raven on his back. He is also the proud owner of numerous scars all over his body as a result of the numerous battles he fought under the direction of Lars Nilsson, the Earl of Östergötland, against Danish invaders from the south and Swedish conquerors from the north.

Holdings: After the death of his father, Áleifr was handed control of the Sagdjur Ravens band. Other than the mercenary band, who have followed him from Östergötland to Vanqland, Áleifr also rules over Velkysa, a small march on the northwestern border of Vanqland that controls the routes leading into Germany.

House Emblem: Since Áleifr is not of royal, or even prominent military, heritage he has always utilized the Sagdjur Raven Company's banner as his identifying emblem.

Notable Relations: Áleifr is the second cousin of Lars Nilsson, the Earl of Östergötland and Regent of the Kingdom of Svealand. During their childhoods, Lars (30) and his father would often visit Áleifr, his father, and the Sagdjur Ravens band for summer training regimens.

Military Might: As the leader of the Sagdjur Ravens band, Áleifr is in command of an intensely loyal group of men who have, since its founding by Áleifr's great-grandfather, Vallmar Aalberg, fought in battles all across Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and in Livland. Numbering 885 men, the Sagdjur Raven Company is a crack assault unit that specializes in breaking through enemy lines and destroying the enemy's morale. Other than the mercenary band, Áleifr also commands a small standing army of 1,500 Vanqman peasants. While ill-trained now, Áleifr has had the Sagdjur Ravens train them in order to transform them into a professional and capable army.

Loyalties: Despite being the captains of a mercenary band Áleifr and his ancestors have always been fiercely loyal to whatever fief they happened to be contracted to fight under. As of right now their loyalty has been bought by the King of Vanqland, Maximus Fairway.

Biography:
Áleifr was born on a blazing summer day in a tiny village a dozen or so kilometers south of Visby, the largest city on Gotland, to Alvar Haroksson and Maja Erlingsdotter. The eldest son and second-oldest in his family, Áleifr assumed a lot of responsibility at an early age as his family kept growing and his father campaigned with the Sagdjur Ravens mercenary company during the spring, summer, and early fall. Rarely allowed to shirk his duties and play with the village children Áleifr had to stay home and help his mother on the family's small farm by tending to the few crops the family could grow and to the pigs, goats, and geese they raised. As a result Áleifr spent most of his free time either playing with his younger siblings in the nearby woods or listening to the martial tales of his bedridden and progressively ailing great-grandfather, Ragvald Sigarsson. A few months after Áleifr turned seven, Ragvald Sigarsson died. More than anyone else, Áleifr mourned the death of his great-grandfather. He grew so depressed that whenever he heard anyone speak of Ragvald he would tear up and run away. Needless to say, this activity brought about harsh punishments from both his mother and father who believed that a strong Swede didn't cry over the death of a loved one. As time went on, though, Áleifr adjusted to life without his great grandfather.

A month after his eihgth birthday, as was common practice for boys with fathers in the Sagdjur Ravens, Áleifr was taken by his father from the family farm to the Ravens' training base in a once abandoned castle along the road from Gothenburg to Stockholm. There, for the next four years, Áleifr trained to join the Sagdjur Ravens mercenary company that his great grandfather had founded over seventy years before. Subjected to strict, all-day training regimens, Áleifr quickly became well known for being a tough, no nonsense trainee who was blunt and didn't mince words. He repeatedly impressed his instructors with both his martial prowess and quickly rose to the top of his "class". Of course, Áleifr's efforts didn't impress his father, the second-in-command of the mercenary band, who believed that all of Áleifr's successes were the minimum for a legendary warrior. Áleifr, used to his father's exceedingly high expectations, was unperturbed by his father's lack of praise and continued to work and train hard. The day he turned fifteen Áleifr was inducted into the mercenary band and given command of the Sagdjur Ravens' fourth company. The ensuing celebration would prove to be the last time Áleifr saw his father be so filled with pride for him.

A month later Alvar and his two brothers, Salmund Haroksson and Jusse Haroksson, left the base in order to negotiate a contract with Folkmar Skaldsson, the chief of the nearby village of Litenström. In route the three were surrounded by two companies from Kjell Jakobsson's Knut Raiders, a rival mercenary band who the Sagdjur Ravens had often found on the opposite side of the battlefield. The ensuing ambush ended with Alvar and Salmund dead, Jusse mortally wounded, and the death of over fifty of the 200 ambushers. When Jusse arrived back at the castle, bleeding and barely alive, and told everyone of the news, the Ravens were outraged. Áleifr, now the captain of the Sagdjur Ravens, called for calm, knowing that the pissed off mercenary band would lose if they attacked Jakobsson in such a state. Instead he told them that they would wait a month and consolidate their strength before engaging with Jakobsson's men. Although there were grumbles over the seeming weakness of the plan, the outraged Ravens accepted Áleifr's plan and waited. After the month passed by, and funerals were held for Alvar, Salmund, and Jusse, who had died shortly after arriving back at the castle, Áleifr led the Sagdjur Ravens into battle and ambushed the Knut Raiders. The ensuing battle ended with the scattering of the Raiders and the capture and beheading of Kjell Jakobsson by Áleifr.

For the next seven years Áleifr would lead his brethren into successful battle after successful. His reputation across Svealand and Götaland quickly grew to a level his father, a right competent warrior himself, never knew. Whenever enemy troops heard the name Alvarsson, the legends said, they would scatter for fear of being massacred and tortured by Sweden's newest legendary warrior; like the once famous Kjell Jakobsson had allegedly been. Of course, as one's popularity and reputation grows, enemies and opponents are always quick to appear. One particularly powerful enemy who feared Áleifr's growing power was none other than Ivar II Ulfriksson, the King of Svealand. The relationship between Áleifr and Ivar Ulfriksson went back to the days when he was still a young Ravens trainee. The story goes that then-Prince Ivar was scouring the Swedish countryside for an opponent who would fight Ivar Ulfriksson the knight-in-training and not Ivar Ulfriksson, the Prince of Svealand. Ivar, who was well known for his skill with a sword and shield, fully expected to quickly defeat the younger Áleifr. The ensuing beatdown that Áleifr delivered to Ivar proved to be a scarring event for the young prince. He withdrew himself from his family, ignored his knight training, and surrounded himself with beautiful foreign women and massive amounts of food and drink.

With Áleifr's popularity growing among both the peasantry and nobles, Ivar, who was now the king, grew more and more paranoid over rumors that Áleifr was plotting to overthrow him and give the throne over to Lars Nilsson, the Earl of Östergötland, Áleifr's second cousin, and the third-most powerful man in Sweden after Ivar Ulfriksson and Vakre Ragnulfsson, the Earl of Västmanland. For years he became obsessed with taking out both Áleifr and Lars Nilsson. So much so that he manipulated many of the nobles into attacking Lars' capital of Linköping and the largely defenseless villages of Östergötland. As villages burned and bodies piled up, Lars, infuriated by his king's machinations, secretly called the six other earls of Götaland's seven provinces to a meeting in Linköping. There he called for a vote on rebelling against Ivar Ulfriksson and installing a new king in his stead. Of the six earls, five of them assented to Lars' request. They, too, had experienced some of the same terror that Ivar had prescribed to Östergötland and were tired of it. Of the two dissenting earls, one, Matz Pallsson, the Earl of Gotland, promised to stay out of the war while the other, Nikulas Kaspersson, the Earl of Dalsland, denounced them all as traitors and swore to crush them with his bare hands. The following month Lars contracted Áleifr and the Sagdjur Ravens and rebelled against Ivar II Ulfriksson, the King of Svealand.

The ensuing war, known as the Nilsson Rebellion, went poorly for the loyalists from the start. While Lars and the main rebel force marched slowly towards Stockholm from Östergötland, Áleifr and an army led by Marten Frostensson, the Earl of Västergötland, marched through and conquered the provinces of Dalsland, Värmland, and Närke. As the two armies marched toward Filipstad, the capital of Värmland, Frostensson's army was ambushed and defeated by an army led by Vakre Ragnulfsson. Ragnulfsson, who personally disliked Ivar Ulfriksson, but swore loyalty to the King of Svealand, called on Áleifr to surrender. When Áleifr, adhering to the lessons of contract loyalty his father had taught him a decade before, refused Ragnulfsson attacked. The following battle, known as the Battle of the Tät Skog, was bloody and contentious, but proved to be Áleifr's greatest victory and shifted the momentum of the war fully towards Lars Nilsson and the rebels. After news of Áleifr's victory over Vakre Ragnulfsson reached the ears of Ivar Ulfriksson, the king grew increasingly intransigent. When Ragnulfsson, who had escaped death at the Tät Skog, urged Ivar to abdicate the throne and surrender himself to the rebels, the deranged king had him and his retinue executed and Ragnulfsson's head placed on a pike outside of the Nyköping Castle Ivar had holed himself up in.

Ragnulfsson's execution galvanized the rebel forces and caused Grifkil Haldafsson, the Earl of Uppland, to join the rebel forces who had, by then, surrounded Stockholm and laid siege to the starving city. For three weeks the loyalists resisted the rebels. Whenever a rebel messenger offered surrender to Ivar Ulfriksson he was executed and tossed off of Stockholm's defensive walls. This, understandably, angered Lars, who couldn't understand how stupid Ivar Ulfriksson was being. With the death of the third messenger Lars prepared plans for assaulting Stockholm's walls and taking the city. Before he could do so news arrived from a loyalist soldier that Ivar II Ulfriksson, the man that had terrorized Östergötland and Götaland to a lesser extent, had been assassinated by Äsbjörn Linqvist, one of his bodyguards. Shortly thereafter, Sigfrid Svensson, Ivar's chief general, surrendered Stockholm to Lars and called for peace. Lars gladly accepted the offer and the next day the rebel troops, with the Sagdjur Ravens at the front, marched triumphantly into a burning and crumbling Stockholm, handing out scraps of food to the city's residents in the process. A month later, Ivar's nine-year old son, Eggert Ivarsson, was crowned the King of Svealand with Lars Nilsson acting as his regent until he turned fifteen and assumed the full powers and responsibilities of his position.

While Sweden celebrated the ascension of a new king and a return to peace after two years of war, Áleifr's fate was decidedly less celebratory. Following Eggert Ivarsson's coronation, Áleifr was appointed to be the new king's personal bodygaurd. Almost immediately the earls who had remained loyal to Ivar Ulfriksson, some of the rebel earls, and both of the Bishops of Svealand and Götaland objected to Áleifr, who had developed a reputation akin to the one the ancient Romans had given to the German barbarians, being placed in such close proximity to the young and impressionable king who had begun to express some of the gluttonous aspects of his father's ugly personality. Lars, unable to resist the political pressure, relieved Áleifr of his duties and promised the nobility that he wouldn't place Áleifr into a position of power again. Unfortunately for Áleifr that action wasn't enough for the clergymen in the Catholic Church, who demanded that Áleifr not only be banned from the Court, but that he also be forced out of Sweden. Lars, still reeling from his prior political defeat, also acquiesced to the demands coming from the office of Christianus Baltasarsson, the Archbishop of Svealand and told Áleifr in person that he and the Sagdjur Ravens had to leave Sweden peacefully lest he be forced to call on the Earls to do the job using swords and arrows. Áleifr, understanding Lars' predicament, consented to the Archbishop's demands and left Sweden with his loyal mercenary band and their families.

For two years Áleifr and his comrades wandered around mainland Europe, contracting with numerous lords and kings along the Baltic coast. Wherever he fought victory for his contractor was sure to follow and chests of gold for the Ravens was guaranteed. Áleifr's travels soon brought him to service under Maximus Fairway, the King of Vanqland and scourge of central Europe. Under Fairway's patronage, Áleifr and the Sagdjur Ravens achieved even greater riches and a legendary reputation as extremely skilled warriors capable of deciding the direction of any battle they were involved with. Fairway, pleased with Áleifr's no nonsense way of running his mercenary band, named him the Margrave of Velkysa, a small strip of land that not only controls the northern roads leading to the capital of Vanqland, but is also rich in iron and other valuable metals. In addition to being the Margrave of Velkysa, Áleifr has also been named the Captain of the Royal Guard and is charged with protecting Maximus Fairway.

Religious Views: Áleifr and the Sagdjur Ravens practice a modified version of Catholicism that has Swedish and Guntish cultural aspects attached to it.

Combat Abilities: As a Swedish warrior who has been training for twenty years and fighting for nearly fifteen, Áleifr has become extremely proficient in using swords, spears, and axes. He excels in offensive warfare and achieves his best results when fighting on empty plains or battling it out in thick forest lands where surprise and ambushes are key.

Weapons:
Åska - A sword, name meaning thunder, that has been passed down since Áleifr's seventh great grandfather, Harik Karlsson, obtained it during a raid on an Irish church.
Järn and Hacka- A shield and seax, names meaning iron and hack, respectively, that Áleifr's father gave to him on his fifteenth birthday.


Skills: As someone's who's been fighting since he was fifteen and training since he was eight, Áleifr has developed a knack for tactical thinking and hand-to-hand combat. He is also fairly good at a variety of sports, both Swedish and foreign in origin.

Sagdjur Ravens Mercenary Band
Formed over a eighty years ago by Áleifr's great grandfather, Ragvald Sigarsson, the Sagdjur Ravens are a mercenary band originating from the lands of Gotland and Östergötland who are led by Áleifr Jusse-Salmund Alvarsson. An 885-man wrecking machine, the Sagdjur Ravens maintain an especially strict chain of command and training regimen. First instituted by Áleifr's father, Alvar Haroksson, the Ravens' chain of command divides the mercenary band into four 213-man companies and one thirty-three-man guard unit for Áleifr. Each of the four companies roughly consist of 40% light infantry, 15% heavy infantry, 15% pikemen, 20% archers and 10% cavalry.

Notes:
"Ah-lay-fur" is how you pronounce Áleifr's name.
If you are interested in following Áleifr's journey then I'd suggest looking here and here.
Also, I'd appreciate it if you all would tell me about any story and character inconsistencies, as well as typos, that you happen to find.
I hope you enjoyed reading about Áleifr. Thank you.​
 
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@Zeebo As my beloved players said it's around the 12th - 14th century. It will mostly take place at court to begin with but as the roleplay progresses there may be drama elsewhere.

@Melancholy Accepted! Only thing that needs to be in there is who she's currently serving. Is she under the King or a Lord or is she free lancing it?

Also thanks everyone for answering questions while I was away and thank you to both new people for the interest : D I'm glad the crappy banner I made is being helpful. I'll probably get the IC up and running tomorrow and we can get started.
 
Oh, oh, oh.

Not the only Blue star.

Get ready for the attack of gifs that don't have any reason to them. --
*Cough * Everyone * cough *

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So.. That'll be my last rage of gifs for a while. ;3 The second to the last one goes with that song!!!!!!
 
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@Jerelin XD Sorry! I would change it. But I can't :P So it has to stay like this for a while. ^^;
 
Woah woah woah woah

Does this mean


We start

Soon?


I CAN'T CONTAIN MYSELF! (And good morning. :) )
 
Good afternoon for me (online classes I sleep late x D ) but yes! I will have the IC thread up some time today.
 
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