ALWAYS OPEN OUT OF CHARACTER The King's Ball ♕ OOC

[TheDoorMan]

For context with what I just did:

-Diego is not magically talented by any means, but he is the son of the dark lord, giving him some innate power
-None of the candies on the table are actually infused with the magic of a Direwolf. Diego can handle a bit of dark magic for the reason stated above. The magic did affect him, but he more or less just tanked it.
-"Alurainian Delight" is Turkish Delight
-I will not reveal Diego's scheme, but I will say that he barely has one. He has a few concepts and a goal, nothing more

also some notes:
"Direwolf Magic" is a curse similar to lycanthropy

Whenever I speak about Diego's senses, I mean quite literally. He has supernatural senses. More will come with his character sheet when I finish it.

House Hawkonen are the only ones who can wield the magic of The Wingblade and have built a cultural identity around it. They're a Fantasy Viking-like clan, but Diego himself is from a part of the world similar to Spain.

Princess Kauri and King Erdominus can be controlled by nearly everyone, just no permanent character changes (ie: getting in a relationship, death, serious injury, etc) without my permission

Anyone can include Diego in their interactions and write for him, but I will slightly edit the events and dialogue when I write his PoV

Also, will there be other rps in this universe? it has expanded massively and randomly lol

Also also, would you guys be chill with me making a map?

You could totally make a map if you'd like. o: Also, there's a possibility that we'll expand on this universe since yeah this rp has already grown. It would be fun to do some more stories with these characters~

Perfect! I do have a few questions though:

1) How many continents?
2) How many kingdoms? Are Aluray and Valla the only two?

 

[Princess Rose]

Heir apparent to the duchy of Roca Noche
Sylvina Mavka Puerterrae

-Syl was born under the full autumn moon on the autumn equinox.
-Her birth was blessed by the gods of the forest
-She is considered a Divine Maiden
-Has abilities that let her influence nature due to her divine status.
-The aura of her powers are light pink, gold and white, with small tinges of green entwined.
-Withdrawn to a fault, doesn't really like having people that close to her.
-Kind-hearted, she puts the people and nature first. Only thinking of what benefits her last.
-Lost her mother when she was young
-Has silver eyes
-A fae(elf)

 

[TheDoorMan]

anyone wanna continue the rp soon?

 

[AnimeQueenVAVR]

me! :D

 

[TheDoorMan]

perfect! i have a long post already up on the ic thread whenever you're ready

 

[AnimeQueenVAVR]

kk!

 

[TheDoorMan]

i really wanna continue the rp, can somebody reply to my post? I dont want this to die lol

 

[AnimeQueenVAVR]

oop okay!
sorry about that!
I was busy doing training with my new dog... ^^'

 

[AnimeQueenVAVR]

@TheDoorMan Just replied to your post! :D

 

[Fluffy]

Don't worry, this totally won't die. :D I can take a little while to post sometimes because I homeschool my kid and that takes up a lot of my time. But also I have been crazy busy this month.

1) How many continents?
2) How many kingdoms? Are Aluray and Valla the only two?

1 - So there are 3 main continents as well as an isle that sits at the center of them. Zeigh (which is another kingdom I touch on in your second answer) is to the North, Aluray is to the West, Valla is to the East, and at the center is the isle where the High King lives. There are also islands way up North of Zeigh that are long forgotten but have a lot of history.
2 - We only brought in 2 of them but there is 1 more. It's called Ziegh. Ziegh is a very inhospitable desert land with a few mountain ranges, an oasis or two, and a LOT of mines for namely jade and heavy metals. It's also the most ancient land with a lot of mysterious ruined cities.

Sorry that it took me a bit to get back to you on that. It's been busy over here, homie.

 

[TheDoorMan]

Don't worry, this totally won't die. :D I can take a little while to post sometimes because I homeschool my kid and that takes up a lot of my time. But also I have been crazy busy this month.

1) How many continents?
2) How many kingdoms? Are Aluray and Valla the only two?

1 - So there are 3 main continents as well as an isle that sits at the center of them. Zeigh (which is another kingdom I touch on in your second answer) is to the North, Aluray is to the West, Valla is to the East, and at the center is the isle where the High King lives. There are also islands way up North of Zeigh that are long forgotten but have a lot of history.
2 - We only brought in 2 of them but there is 1 more. It's called Ziegh. Ziegh is a very inhospitable desert land with a few mountain ranges, an oasis or two, and a LOT of mines for namely jade and heavy metals. It's also the most ancient land with a lot of mysterious ruined cities.

Sorry that it took me a bit to get back to you on that. It's been busy over here, homie.

Don't worry about the time! Stuff's been crazy on my end too lol.

I'll get working on the map soon! I found a cool map generator with tools that let me limit continents and kingdoms and whatnot. I od have a few more lore questions though, if that's alright.

1) Are each of the Houses in control of a certain part of the kingdom(s) or a piece of land?

2) What level of magic is common? Diego and Kauri are generally written for a middle-high level magic setting.

3) Am I allowed to flesh out Diego's genetic father, Dark Lord Archeyon, or should I keep him more vague?

 

[TheDoorMan]

I think I may bring in new characters as well

 

[AnimeQueenVAVR]

I'll add in my character's familiars! :D

 

[AnimeQueenVAVR]

Seiko Vârcolac Zephyr Hoshiko

• 
  
  (Queen Miracle's familiar)
  Race: Dove
  Magic Type: Holy (Healing Magic)
  
• 
  
  Race: Demon Wolf
  Magic Type: Hell (Demonic Magic)
  
• 
  
  Race: Wind Dragon
  Magic Type: Wind (Elemental Magic)
  
• 
  
  Race: Starry Sheep
  Magic Type: Star (Celestial Magic)
  

 

[AnimeQueenVAVR]

these are the Rosebreeze family's familiars (Familiars are spirits that grant them magical powers)!

 

[Zarko Straadi]

Hello everyone! Here's a little more background on the Palaikastrian Empire and my characters:

The Palakastrian Empire:

The Empire is aesthetically and culturally on Ptolmaic Egypt, but its recent history is closer to that of the Late Roman Empire. Once its Legions had been seemingly invincible, brutally conquering and imposing its will on a vast region east of Valla. The Westermarch (Valla would have their own name for it, since it would be somewhere on their eastern border) is a rugged, mountainous region that is basically unconquerable, or at least so difficult to conquer that the juice isn't worth the squeeze for either side. Thus, it provides a buffer that made both hostilities and allegiance or extensive trade impractical--until the prospective union between Valla and Aluray opened the possibility of a way around.

My idea for the relationship between Aluray and Palaikastria would be similar to that between Macedonia/Greece and Ptolmaic Egypt. Long ago, a brilliant king named Palaikast the Conqueror exploded out of what is now Aluray, conquering everything within reach and beyond. When he died, his sprawling, overstretched empire died with him, divvied up among his generals and courtiers, anyone strong enough to grab a piece. This conquest spread Aluraean (sp?) culture far and wide, but Palaikastri ended up becoming the larger imperial capital, expanding primarily to the East, since the Westermarch and the Aluray's Navy blocked Western expansion.

Its reign of successful conquests turned its culture more aggressive and patriarchal, but in recent centuries it has fallen into decline. A string of civil wars and military defeats shrank its territory and bled out its wealth. Zosime's father sought to rebuild the Empire with a new campaign of conquest that ended in disaster (see Zosime's bio, linked in her post).

Zosime has inherited a once-great, teetering empire, but she has managed to keep it teetering instead of collapsing altogether. The other characters might not know that much about its current state or politics as it is a remote and exotic place, but they would know it is not what it was at the height of its power--about the way someone from medieval Western Europe might have thought about Byzantium.

Also, I'm thinking that Aluray and Palaikastria (or at least Palaikastria) would technically retain ancestral claims to Palaikast's throne and ostensibly to the vast territories he conquered, though neither is remotely in a position to translate the claim into practical reality, in the same way that neither Greece/Macedonia nor Ptolmaic Egypt could restore Alexander's empire.

I hope this works for everybody! If not, I will edit where needed to make it so.

Additional Notes: Zosime's bio ends with the idea that she needs to hunt and kill a Riverdrake (a large, powerful predatory beast that lives in the great River that runs through Palaikstria's core territory) in order to legitimize her right to rule. She succeeded in this quest recently, and that story will probably come up at some point as a flashback.

Meryt is a native Kemya'ti, a Priestess-Magician of the ancient, mystical culture that Palaikast conquered near the start of his reign. As part of her reforms, Zosime re-opened their temples and has sought to preserve their knowledge and language, which have come close to being lost and forgotten under Palaikastrian rule.

Zosime is trying to save both cultures from destruction and build something new and better than her father's crumbling empire, though she doesn't know exactly what that new thing should be yet.

 

[TheDoorMan]

Hell yeah, incredible cookage as always Zarko

Kauri and Erdominus will soon talk with their distant cultural relatives and try to form an alliance (and Diego will likely talk to Zosime about hunting)

 

[AnimeQueenVAVR]

@TheDoorMan
Permission for Stella to unknowingly and unconsciously use her psychic powers to learn about a bit of history between both Diego and Kauri?
It's okay to say no, though! :3
I just wanna cause some suspense and/or drama...!

 

[AnimeQueenVAVR]

Btw, what I mean by that is I want Stella to learn a bit about Kauri and Diego's relationship...

 

[TheDoorMan]

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@TheDoorMan
Permission for Stella to unknowingly and unconsciously use her psychic powers to learn about a bit of history between both Diego and Kauri?
It's okay to say no, though! :3
I just wanna cause some suspense and/or drama...!

Sure!

So Diego and Kauri used to be a thing, like wildly, madly in love with each other. They originally met when Diego was sent on a mission to hunt down a cult to his mother, the bride of the Dark Lord who was posessed by a servant of an evil goddess. They kidnapped Kauri and tried to make her a host of that spirit, Diego killed them all and saved her, they fell in love, yadda yadda, this whole time Kauri has had a tie to the evil posesed servant spirit that's still clawing at her body and it's being held off by a potion made by one of Diego's alchemist buddies that she keeps in her locket, and she's running out of potion.