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It started long before me, I never saw it coming
The distance, the promise, a state of isolation
And in my darkest nightmare, things that I can't remember
The answer, is drowning, this pain will last forever
The promise, the breaking
Rejection, deception, reflection, conception
The missing, the torture, the madness, the sadness
Can this be, or is it?
You awaken. It is dark, a darkness darker than dark, and a heaviness seems to weigh on your skin and your soul.
Is this hell? Or it beyond hell?
Seven others around you awaken at the same time as yourself, the soldiers for the coming war. Each of you is marked with a sign that you never saw before, one for each, unique in all the world. The one who will guide you has not arrived, an angel of death to breath beyond the last.
A landscape darkened by oppressive clouds is all around you, a crumbling city at a base of the tall mountain. It hasn't been inhabited for decades, and cut through it are forests and jungles, climates that couldn't possibly exist in an urban environment, but cutting through it as if the very hand of nature was striking back against the modern world.
As you watch, the natural environments shift and move slowly, an organic living creature devouring the world. It cuts through the dark clouds above, and in the wake of it's passing the city and the darkness reassert themselves.
A battle between forces unseen and unknown are fighting in the city, and the seven Masters are at the heart of it without ever knowing.
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If you can see this blog, then Welcome to the Silent War. You've been invited to a fandom based post apocalyptic urban fantasy where dark monsters lurk behind every surface and the truth always seems to be just a step behind the lies.
Seven Masters awaken at the base of a mountain with a command seal on their hands and no memory of how they got there. The world is long since destroyed, and ancient forces seem to tug at them at every turn, to manipulate or destroy them. Only a single clue is left for them, a name, "Lordan".
The game will have an unusual player system in the fact that duos are required, but your second characters will not be immediately playable and will not appear as often as your primary character.
Every player will choose a Master and a Servant to play. The stronger of the two characters will be the Servant, and the weaker will be the Master. Each pairing of Master and Servant will have a single casualty over the course of the game, leaving seven characters to remain. Whether the Master or the Servant dies will be up to the individual player, and the winner of the Grail War is to be decided completely IC.
There are a few things worth noting when choosing a set of characters.
-Servants cannot be ludicrously overpowered. This is a very firm rule, and any apps that I deem to be too powerful will be rejected. No Accelerators (A Certain Magical Index) and no Fall Maidens (RWBY). Using the same scale however, playing Kuroko (A Certain Scientific Railgun) or Nora Valkyrie (RWBY) would be encouraged.
-Masters, while needing to be weaker than their Servants, can still be incredibly skilled fighters and low powered combatants, such as Felix (RvB) or a Misaka Sister (A Certain Scientific Railgun).
-No characters from any of the Fate series are allowed as a Master, simply due to needing to maintain the mystery of the markings on characters hands IC. However, a character from the Fate series could be played as a Servant.
-Not a rule, but it is heavily, heavily, recommended you play as a character that is a team player, or can put aside their personal attitude to work as a team. Despite a Grail War being part of the setting, characters are largely going to be in the same boat and going to need to work together.
If you have any questions or comments, feel free to ask since numerous questions asked have already helped me solve problems I hadn't even seen coming.
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Note: The ability to use your Noble Phantasm will only come once a game at a very, very steep cost, so it can be incredibly OP.
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Example CS
Master
~Appearance~
Connor has dark hair, cut unevenly as if hacked off with a kitchen knife or a tomahawk. He has piercing blue eyes, inherited from his mother along with pale skin and sharp features. Slim but well built, with a runners physique, Connor of all temporal periods can be characterized by a variation on a simple outfit that he began wearing when he began work in the field. A dark leather jacket with a stark white beaked hood that he will wear when trying to disappear or entering a fight. Pulling it up before a fight is not for the simple cool factor, but rather the fact that the original Connor, his eventual namesake, grew accustomed to fighting with it, and thus Connor II feels bothered without it in his field of view.
Offsetting the more gaudy biker motif of the jacket, for leggings he wears simple jeans, having grown accustomed to the small limiting effect on movement it has, and performance sneakers.
Occasionally he can be seen with a black (what else would a emo have -_-) backpack with a Templar cross on it, with a flap that goes over it that can hide the symbol.
~Name~
Connor Stillman
~History~
Grown as a weapon by the Templar Order, Connor Stillman was given no name, simply a number. Subject 5. When he became operational, he became known by his simple call sign, Wolf. Later, after his expulsion from the Order, he began calling himself Cross after his project file, Crossed Wolf.
He was raised in and out of an animus to retrieve key skills from his ancestors, though he had a low synchronization rate with them, and was forced to train to integrate these abilities to his muscle memory. Training sessions were often akin to torture, with sparring often becoming a beating when he failed, and free running courses failed would often dump onto the far off ground below.
The Templars got very good at putting him back together.
When his training was deemed complete, he was sent out on a mission to kill an old soldier. The soldier turned out to be something like Wolf himself, a clone made from a legendary soldier that had dared to change the world. He was a victim of advanced aging, something Wolf himself would have to face due to the Templar scientists not taking certain precautions. He was at such an advanced age he was likely to die in a few days anyways, but he still tried to go out fighting, managing to disarm Wolf with a martial arts style called CQC. He then warned Wolf to not spend his life fighting, or to at least not let himself be a pawn.
The old man then died, and Wolf fled the Templar Order, the lifelong mental conditioning being broken down by someone so similar to him having already been through to the end of his own problems.
He fell into the life of a vigilante in Starling City, clashing with the Starling City archer several times, acting as a bloodletting vigilante that dealt with the criminal element, misinterpreting the old man's words of fighting for himself or not fighting at all.
Eventually, after crossing paths with his biological father and traveling with him for a time when the former was on the run from the Assassin Order, he unraveled a conspiracy involving Templars, a major cybernetics corporation, and a multiversal third party, he began to let go of some of his darkness as Desmond began to fall into his. He eventually let go of his hate of the Assassins and Templars enough to claim a new, final name for himself, Connor. Shortly after this, he went to sleep one night, and woke up with a symbol on the back of his hand.
~Abilities and Powers~
Connor has no superhuman abilities, though his physical abilities might be considered on bordering superhuman in his own universe. However, coming from a universe with more grounded set of abilities, these feats may not hold up to world with altered physics.
He has the aforementioned combat and freerunning skills, as well as the ability to track.
Servant
~Appearance~
A middle aged white man, Marcus Roivas looks to be about in his forties, with a faraway distant look in his eyes that earth soldier's often call the thousand mile stare. He has a heavy beard that wraps around into a goatee, with dark eyes and pale white skin from a darkened sky, all topped off by a thick head of dark hair.
He wears the simple clothes of an Arellian soldier, the long dark coat just a few inches too short to be compared to an old west duster, made for a variety of conditions, most notably wicking the rain off yourself and repelling the cold.
Due to the theory of parallel development [note to self look up the real name before posting] that states that like conditions will develop on similar worlds, Marcus wears dark jean like leggings, his original combat issue leggings being ripped off in an encounter with a… less than agreeable bear that snuck up on him while he was relieving himself. Underneath his coat, he wears a very simple long sleeve thermal sweatshirt.
Additionally, he wears a very ornate but girly locket hidden underneath his shirt.
~Name~
Marcus Roivas
~History~
"The pain of an entire world child."
~Skills and Abilities~
Marcus was formerly an immortal, though his long lease on life has since been ended. Wandering the planet for centuries, he gained an incredible amount of life force from defending himself against Cursed and Hollow alike, each time he killed one of them they would not rise again for decades, most of their tiny fragments of souls flowing into his. It wouldn't be inaccurate to call him a demigod.
Marcus additionally possesses full knowledge of the shirt and second age of darkness, though his vast stores of information end with the relighting of the dragonfires in the second age.
Marcus has many undefined abilities including the ability to manipulate small stretches of time, telekinesis, and the ability to enter a state of heightened sensory perception, much like an Assassin's Eagle Vision. However, seeing most of these abilities in use is unlikely since he closely protects the amount of life force he harbors within himself, instead using more mundane weaponry like his very old but well maintained UPA (United Provinces of Arrelia) assault rifle.
~Canon (OC or Fandom)~
OC
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Servant
~Class~
Archer
~Noble Phantasm~
"Something I hope I'll never have to use."
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