Areador Medieval RP

[The Nexerus]

So what's going to be happing to Pinecliff...?

[LJCOMICS]

I perhaps worded that poorly. He seeks his father's approval so much that he questions his Task very little. He really has yet to have his morals tested. He is not an aberration, but he draws power from the same place as them. And while I don't want to reveal everything right away, Luka was mostly tricked into making the Star Pact; "harboring evil" as you say was not his conscious choice. Saying that his powers are inherently evil is particularly preposterous. How more evil are any of his spells (I implore you to look them over) than a wizard that kills his foes by melting their flesh with arcane fire? Or a warrior that caves in the skulls of his foes with a hammer?

I insist that alignment is determined by action. What has Luka done so far to make him Evil?

[makiaka]

How evil is a rogue that ends it quickly or steals from those, who have more then they need, to survive, to help guide others. Compared to a warrior who brutalizes enemies for glory.

And if you are in fact a enforcer of the law yet you say "Fuck the police." on a daily basis does that make you chaotic.

[Ellri]

I perhaps worded that poorly. He seeks his father's approval so much that he questions his Task very little. He really has yet to have his morals tested. He is not an aberration, but he draws power from the same place as them. And while I don't want to reveal everything right away, Luka was mostly tricked into making the Star Pact; "harboring evil" as you say was not his conscious choice. Saying that his powers are inherently evil is particularly preposterous. How more evil are any of his spells (I implore you to look them over) than a wizard that kills his foes by melting their flesh with arcane fire? Or a warrior that caves in the skulls of his foes with a hammer?

I insist that alignment is determined by action. What has Luka done so far to make him Evil?

That was our impression, that he did not know the star pact was essentially the highway to evil. That was also why we suggested going with a fairly mild alignment for him, say chaotic neutral, then throwing in a spatter of evil that is trying to alter his aura. At start now, if he's hardly used the pact, it'll probably be hardly noticeable. A character with long training of sensing evil and/or reading auras might notice that something is 'off' about him, but most anyone else will not notice anything evil.


A person with a pact with evil, even if he has no idea the pact is evil, generally can't be truly good. But at the same time, if it is unknowingly, he probably isn't evil himself. Lawful doesn't really fit the style of yours, as he seems to have "whatever means possible"-attitude towards gaining fatherly affection. That is in our impression, the sort that places him in chaotic alignments. (there are many heroes that are chaotic neutral or chaotic good)



oh, and we liked how you used the fire in your post. Was the excess heat from it meant as a result of Thora's playing with fireballs within it?

[makiaka]

sName:Masera Satera
Age:31
Race:wood elf
Homeland: The forest of her people was her place of birth, but it wasn't her home as she would say was the desert.
Appearance:
There are generally blades around her body, as well as pointy ears. Most wood elves consider her a insult to her race due to the lack of civilization even for her. There is also a slight aroma if you get to close to her.
Class:
Slayer-Generally similar to a rogue who has been trained to hunt beast. They have a much higher perception then even a rogue especially threw smell. There ability to analyze weakness's and hit vital areas are drastically increased. As well as having a more spiritual attack form, derived from a spirit animal. The spirit animal is gotten from the slayers natural bond with predatory animals allowing them to be blessed by a animal spirit leader who is in tune with there nature. In particular it grants the slayer the ability to do things a normal human couldn't or just enhance some of there natural traits. Some even allow the slayer to tap into there more mystic powers to cast spells.
Skills:
100 fang style- The name is only a exaggeration of the number but it is a style of combat she has learned to love based off impaling the target with poisoned knifes then drawing new ones at rapid speeds. The implantation of the blade can be done many a ways thrown or stabbed.
Poison craft-Can make poisons her favorite is paralysis poisons for combat, tranquilizers, and if shes in a good mood laxatives. She currently has trouble crafting acids and air born poisons.
Traps making and disarming- Her ability to analyze her environment well comes in handy for this a lot, but at current her skill is that of a boar hunter at best when it comes to making traps.
Resistance to poison-Stab your self enough times it hurts less, the same seems to be true for ingesting toxic plants.
Iron will-Can shrug off most mental attacks such as fear without a problem. It's half way will and half way stupidity in some cases though.
Theft-A skill from birth she is always had a knack for taking things that didn't belong to her even if she was
Animal agility-She can walk on all fours and climb well compared to a average humanoid as well.
Traits of her spirit animal
Cunning-She can predict the enemies movements with a bit of instinct.
Scavenger-She can pick up and use just about anything as a weapon.
Nocturnal- A extra grant to perception and magical abilities derived from them or there equipment are boosted by about 10%.
Situational camouflage-Can be very hard to detect or very hard not to notice depending on what she wants.
( i felt it would be hard to tie these all together in a paragraph)
Spells:
Jolt-Causes her weapons to electrically connect zapping the opponent.
From her spirit
Deterrence- A spell that coats herself in a very strong smell able to distract and even make it hard to get near her, luckily it washes off. It's great for combat against mages and animals.
Dark pounce-A demonic aura surrounds her blades as she strikes with all she is holding at once after striking the targets blood rushes out of there body rapidly.

Background:Removed by force from the elven society at a very young age of 20, for her accidental taking of things that didn't belong to her even if she didn't intend to steal.Though this was not the only reason it was finally solidified when she entered a rage after a hunt from her animal spirit and slaughtered two of her fellow huntsman.She never wanted to kill them it was just the blood splattered across her body made the spirit restless and she had murdered them in cold blood. She had been exiled to the desert to the east were they thought she would die. At first she took this as a sign of death being without her parents, but had eventually stabbed a cactus realizing there was water inside she found a will to live off the land by eating lizards and birds she had killed with her carving knife. She slowly learned both to hide and kill the beast that thought of her as a meal, and learned to raid the ruins and caverns of the desert. It's unknown to most how she got were she was today, but most can verify she still is unused to bodies of water larger then a puddle.

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Personality: The most important part of her character is being brutally honest, about everything. Other then that she is rather uncivilized and has a few problems with right and wrong in the eyes of the normal human being. Her speech is a major flaw and positive to some degree as she is able to easily explain battles, but the choppiness of her sentences makes her seem dumb. In her mind all of this is untrue though she just gets her wisdom from how she has seen nature. The only trait that most people commend her for is her ability to control herself from killing something till absolutely neccesarry.

Equipment and armor: 10 bronze daggers all tipped with her paralysis venom there shape resembles that of flatter katar. There are 2 on each hip, 2 on each side of her abdomen, 2 hidden in her pants, and 2 hidden in her shirt.(location can vary.)
Silk Suits-Generally a all purpose outfit that she wears things over, and depending on the day under.t. It also is good in most temperatures the way it's designed. In the summer it expands and the holes let air in winter it shrinks and keeps the air in due to its shape. She found most these off dead bodies. She finds it bothersome to go to the bathroom in these but it looks good at least.
Over guards- Her gloves and boots are made out of thicker material made from animal hides,
Paralyzing venom-She has about a good 13 ounces of the stuff. How many snakes it took the world will never know.
Mouth cloth-Helps protect her from breathing in troubled air and keeps the stench of the "superior" races from hitting her too strong.
Some undergarments- Just because she doesn't always use them doesn't mean she doesn't have them.
Smoke bombs-She has 2 and would rather use these then deterrence as there is less having to touch water after.
5 gold dales
A cooking pot
3 dead rabbits and 2 fish.
A leather bag-It carries things.

Strengths-Great if she gets the jump on you.If caught she can switch to ranged combat.Multiple ways to disengage.Shes very friendly..Is female.

Weaknesses-She has trouble with fair close range fighting. She has a low casting limit. Non biotic enemies.Social interaction is trouble if the person is stuck on her speech. Is female.

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Sorry i kinda gave her a lot but rogues are supposed to be utility characters are they not.

So i figure knowing a lot of things balances. for the ability to shoot fireballs

[LJCOMICS]

I wouldn't consider Luka to be chaotic. He follows True Neutral to a tee: he'll do exactly enough to get by. Bend a rule hear, follow it there, help somebody, hurt somebody else. But only ever enough to accomplish his goals. No more, no less.

You ever been near a fire-pit-sized bonfire? They tend to be hot, regardless of what you put in it. You really wouldn't be able to get closer than a few feet from it and stay comfortable.

[Ellri]

The deserts are west of the elven forests, not north.

A bit hard read with some of the layout, but we manage to do so. a few spaces around the dashes (-) and perhaps a bit of bolded text would make it far easier to read. (but that is convenience only)

appearance:
It doesn't really make sense for:
a. an 8-year old to be exiled (no amount of stealing will convince anyone except the most cruel of peoples to exile a child for such, and wood elves aren't typically so cruel)
b. for an 8-year old to survive in such a climate. Elves are long-lived, so an 8 year old is probably closer in level of development to a 3-4 year old human.


why would she be able to shrug off mental influence? There's nothing written in her background or personality that would explain how she learned that, or why she'd even need to have it. Other predators generally don't have capability to influence minds.

Poison/venom - those two are very different. the former will hurt or even kill if ingested. the latter, provided there are no prior internal injuries where it could seep into the bloodstream, can be harmless. If she's a desert-liver, then getting any food would be a challenge. Poisoning it would make it inedible, thus it doesn't stand to reason that she'd have any use for poison. Venom on the other hand, would quite possibly be useful.

cunning/animal agility/scavenger/nocturnal/situational camouflage:
all those could be mixed into about one paragraph...
Something like this:
animalistic predator - She behaves in many ways like a predator. Stalking her prey/victims, utilizing the environment to hide, using any means at her disposal in a fight and moving in ways reminiscent of animals. More at home during the night than day.
she'd probably be able to see behavior as an animal predator would, making her decent at predicting how/when opponents might attack. Other behavior would not be as predictable.

oh, and on weaknesses...
If she were to have grown up without any real humanoid contact, then social interaction would be more than merely troubled, it would be outright difficult. Most likely her speech would not be far above that of a child, if above it at all.
You could make her stand out more if she should happen to eat her food raw. (most likely sources of fire would be rare in the desert, so cooking would be difficult)
Also, someone used to being alone will probably be quite skittish around people, easily feeling threatened.

It might be a good idea to add some details on how she came to join the sentient society. Why would she leave the desert at all?


@LJCOMICS: Chaotic doesn't have to mean to the point of insanity and beyond. Someone with a fair disregard for rules, whatever the reason, will be chaotic.
The one source we've seen that is clear about the alignment of warlocks defines that it is either evil and/or chaotic. The only form of good available to them, is chaotic good. only lawful is lawful evil. Only neutrals would be chaotic neutral or evil neutral, never good neutral, lawful neutral or true neutral.

[Irean]

Looking at your spells, I can't see you as kind. I'll go over them.

The first one is a cruel, deadly trap. Enemy is in pain. To stop pain, kill warlock. Approch warlock, more pain. Touch warlock (from my understanding), die. Mages dont have spells that work like this.

The second one, is unclear. Does it act like a fireball, scortching through the body? Or like the dark magic Inknow, and inflict a masive amout of pain, and more internal oriented damage. If fireball, then its fine, otherwise, no mages dont have magic like this.

The third. How can he know such a dark secret, that even the evil guys reel with terror at the mention of just one word of it, and not be evil himself? Or at least crazy. Yah..mages won't know one-word-and-you-run-away-secrets.

The forth. "Pierce the mind", is that painful, or just describing the idea of no resistance? Sounds like it forces the enemy to be reckless. Is Ulban the guy he got his magic from? Seems he is pretty willing to use this magic if he will call directly. And no mages I know of have magic that makes people crazy.

The fifth. Okay, no complaints.

The sixth. How come he is not insane from yet another dark secret thing? He knows two things that makes even crazy, evil people terified? What sort of childhood did he have? Was someone murdered daily where he lived, right in front of his eyes, in the most painful way possible or something? How else can he not be terrified of this stuff?

The last one. How come he is not blind, has he never cast it? What does it actually do? How come we wont be blind when he casts it? Stars are very, very, bright.

I have looked at them. They are not average mage spells. They run in line with any number of black/dark magics. Two of them alone make it very, very, hard to convince me he should not be evil, crazy, or both.

[makiaka]

The deserts are west of the elven forests, not north.

A bit hard read with some of the layout, but we manage to do so. a few spaces around the dashes (-) and perhaps a bit of bolded text would make it far easier to read. (but that is convenience only)

appearance:
It doesn't really make sense for:
a. an 8-year old to be exiled (no amount of stealing will convince anyone except the most cruel of peoples to exile a child for such, and wood elves aren't typically so cruel)
b. for an 8-year old to survive in such a climate. Elves are long-lived, so an 8 year old is probably closer in level of development to a 3-4 year old human.


why would she be able to shrug off mental influence? There's nothing written in her background or personality that would explain how she learned that, or why she'd even need to have it. Other predators generally don't have capability to influence minds.

Poison/venom - those two are very different. the former will hurt or even kill if ingested. the latter, provided there are no prior internal injuries where it could seep into the bloodstream, can be harmless. If she's a desert-liver, then getting any food would be a challenge. Poisoning it would make it inedible, thus it doesn't stand to reason that she'd have any use for poison. Venom on the other hand, would quite possibly be useful.

cunning/animal agility/scavenger/nocturnal/situational camouflage:
all those could be mixed into about one paragraph...
Something like this:
animalistic predator - She behaves in many ways like a predator. Stalking her prey/victims, utilizing the environment to hide, using any means at her disposal in a fight and moving in ways reminiscent of animals. More at home during the night than day.
she'd probably be able to see behavior as an animal predator would, making her decent at predicting how/when opponents might attack. Other behavior would not be as predictable.

oh, and on weaknesses...
If she were to have grown up without any real humanoid contact, then social interaction would be more than merely troubled, it would be outright difficult. Most likely her speech would not be far above that of a child, if above it at all.
You could make her stand out more if she should happen to eat her food raw. (most likely sources of fire would be rare in the desert, so cooking would be difficult)
Also, someone used to being alone will probably be quite skittish around people, easily feeling threatened.

It might be a good idea to add some details on how she came to join the sentient society. Why would she leave the desert at all?


@LJCOMICS: Chaotic doesn't have to mean to the point of insanity and beyond. Someone with a fair disregard for rules, whatever the reason, will be chaotic.
The one source we've seen that is clear about the alignment of warlocks defines that it is either evil and/or chaotic. The only form of good available to them, is chaotic good. only lawful is lawful evil. Only neutrals would be chaotic neutral or evil neutral, never good neutral, lawful neutral or true neutral.

No venom actually just means it's taken from a animal by sharp body features.. Poison can be a variety of things including venom, which is a sub category of a toxin. Which is a biotic substance that's poisonous, and if you're just being skeptical on technicalities it's sort of rude. Anyways i never said she made the snake venom alright it's just something she has.

The age thing is a accident i didn't know, plus 10 years old is enough in some underdeveloped civilizations to be ostracized for less then stealing as much as she did but i will move it to 20 and she will be about 30 in age then.

That's why i put TBR if your character cares enough they can ask her. Would make a interesting story if they could understand it all.

As far as the mental resistance thing is more of a inability to be controlled mostly threw lack of a normal mind. I named it iron will, because it mostly applies to fear, attempts at control ect.... which in most cases requires a bit of raw mental force to beat.

Lastly that one thing with abilities would actually not sum it up, simply because those are actual traits of her animal, which need to be stated yet have a different affect on her body/min. Like nocturnal for example.... Not to criticize, but i feel you skimmed on that section, and then generalized it.

[Werther]

Just wait and something will happen next morning in the RP.
And, Durandal didn't actually steal anything from me, Ellri said that, so in my opinion he didn't steal anything from me nor elven woman, but he might have stolen something from random patron (NPC)