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So first off, I want to say that this will be a small RP. I would love help designing it and making it intricate, having the characters linked somehow through histories or whatnot, etc. Here's what I have so far. (Thanks to CosmicWeinerDog for helping me with this so far).
The land once relied on skill and technology to grow and prosper, weapons to fight war. Then magic awoke and there was no need for physical weapons, no need for electricity and no need to know how to create things. The old skills were forgotten and prosperity reigned through magic, which coursed through ley lines in the earth. Weapons, seen as brutal and arcane relics, were disassembled or melted down. Only a few remain as relics in highly guarded displays.
One day, a scrying revealed an alternate world had come into alignment with our own. Eager to reach out, one astrologer channeled the power of the ley lines to open a doorway. However, the ley lines reacted too strongly, pouring magic through and ripping a rift between our world and an unexpected one. Pulling creatures through. Hurriedly, the dying astrologer closed the rift. But it was too late. The inhabitants of this strange otherworld had come through, and they were not nice. To make things worse, magic had fled, the ley lines drained of their power. The creatures tortured the astrologer before leaving him and hurrying off into the world.
With his last strength, the astrologer wrote a final entry in his journal and poured the magic that still coursed and shook through him into a paperweight on his desk. The note spoke of the location of the last magic, for he knew that those who found his body would know what to do with it. It also said the following:
"Use the last magic. Make Weapons."
So that's the plot. the idea is that the mages who find journal and last magic know that they cannot create magic relics that could fall into the wrong hands and that normal weapons won't be enough to stop the invaders. So instead they take the magic and imbue humans with the characteristics of weapons. Attitude and fighting style will reflect a weapon and each person will have certain strengths. This is the last magic in the world. The job of the living weapons will be to get magic back, but first to defeat the invaders. Meanwhile, the world has lost all ability to use magitech and is essentially post apoc.
NOTE: The people do not transform into weapons. However, they may have attacks that may cut or hit as hard as weapons, depending on what is decided.
Thoughts? Ideas? Interest?
The land once relied on skill and technology to grow and prosper, weapons to fight war. Then magic awoke and there was no need for physical weapons, no need for electricity and no need to know how to create things. The old skills were forgotten and prosperity reigned through magic, which coursed through ley lines in the earth. Weapons, seen as brutal and arcane relics, were disassembled or melted down. Only a few remain as relics in highly guarded displays.
One day, a scrying revealed an alternate world had come into alignment with our own. Eager to reach out, one astrologer channeled the power of the ley lines to open a doorway. However, the ley lines reacted too strongly, pouring magic through and ripping a rift between our world and an unexpected one. Pulling creatures through. Hurriedly, the dying astrologer closed the rift. But it was too late. The inhabitants of this strange otherworld had come through, and they were not nice. To make things worse, magic had fled, the ley lines drained of their power. The creatures tortured the astrologer before leaving him and hurrying off into the world.
With his last strength, the astrologer wrote a final entry in his journal and poured the magic that still coursed and shook through him into a paperweight on his desk. The note spoke of the location of the last magic, for he knew that those who found his body would know what to do with it. It also said the following:
"Use the last magic. Make Weapons."
So that's the plot. the idea is that the mages who find journal and last magic know that they cannot create magic relics that could fall into the wrong hands and that normal weapons won't be enough to stop the invaders. So instead they take the magic and imbue humans with the characteristics of weapons. Attitude and fighting style will reflect a weapon and each person will have certain strengths. This is the last magic in the world. The job of the living weapons will be to get magic back, but first to defeat the invaders. Meanwhile, the world has lost all ability to use magitech and is essentially post apoc.
NOTE: The people do not transform into weapons. However, they may have attacks that may cut or hit as hard as weapons, depending on what is decided.
Thoughts? Ideas? Interest?
