The Council of the Damned: Anathema (Magic and Gods and Technology!) Still Recruiting!

[Deaddlife]

YEEEEEEESSSSSSS

My Hider

Name - Geros
Gender - Male
Birthday - He doesn't talk about it much
Age - 314 (Or so it is believed to be)
Height - 174 cm
Weight - 64 kg
Affiliation - CotD
Species - Human / Demon Blood

At times its as if the whole world is blind, people believing that their meaningless lives will continue in this doomed existence. Well in the land of the blind the one eyed man is king, and we the council can see. But I am not sure, I have done this dance before and found my partners to be lacking. They thought they knew me, no one truly knows me. Many will make the claim that they do but in truth they only know my earthly shell. My soul is between myself and the Reaper. But I digress. I was raised in the company of mercenaries, not very successful ones at that, they did however give me the right ideas when it came to power. So, I sought power. And no where does power run more freely than hell, it was simply a matter of being more clever then the current demon rabble, once I had power it was a simple matter of keeping it. All real challenge behind me I looked to the long term, that's where this new council came in. My fellow council members can see the inevitable that this blind world does not, what we do now we do not just to survive, but to flourish. The past has its place, do not ask of mine.

[Dead Cruiser]

In any case, is my request to contribute the order of divine artificers acceptable? I can contribute as many as, hmm, twelve or so characters quite quickly, mostly "heroes" but with some "villains."

[Carnevile]

@Dead CruiserGo ahead, but I'm rather skeptical about the "Mechanical God" thing... it's a bit far fetched. Though it's best you wait until all of the Lore is released, there's alot of things that are still yet to be introduced, Behemoths for example... gargantuan 50ft-250ft elemental beings that roam the planet, incredibly dangerous things.

[Dead Cruiser]

They aren't literally mechanical gods. They're essentially massive techno-magical constructs capable of battle on a divine scale.

[Carnevile]

Fair enough, proceed.

[Dead Cruiser]

Just a couple of questions before I start:

About what time period are we working with? The characters I am about to post have a late 19th century/early 20th century sort of aesthetic, though it's not especially noticeable.

Do you take issue with guns? With the characters or their machines?

About how much Lovecraftian influence, or Howardian influence is there in the setting?

[Carnevile]

@Dead Cruiser

1. Guns are fairly new, they're not that advanced; as powerful as they are, they are rather vulnurable to malfunctioning. As of right now, only the Council of the Damned has advanced far enough to have guns, though they're not used that much, only by non-magic users.

2. Mid to late 1800's.

3. There's ALOT of Lovecraftian influence in this universe. Lotsa dark stuff... Arkus is heavy magic-based, even the air you breathe contains it.

[ActRaiserTheReturned]

@Dead Cruiser

1. Guns are fairly new, they're not that advanced; as powerful as they are, they are rather vulnurable to malfunctioning. As of right now, only the Council of the Damned has advanced far enough to have guns, though they're not used that much, only by non-magic users.

2. Mid to late 1800's.

3. There's ALOT of Lovecraftian influence in this universe. Lotsa dark stuff... Arkus is heavy magic-based, even the air you breathe contains it.

@Carnevile

But a scientific genius can wield superior weapons right? I mean, if Leonardo can make schematics for machine guns in the 1400-1500's, why can't a genius like Markus carry around Uber weapons?

[GummyCat]

May I create a race?If you want you can do whatever you want with it when I'm done xD

From Another RP / Needs to be Edited for this Lore / Im a bit too lazy lol

Maxwell is a Miraluka, who are a near-human race who were said to be born from the stars and cursed without eyes and instead have used mysticism to allow them to see the world in their own unique way. How they are able to use farsight without a sightstone is a mystery but it is known that everyone of the Miraluka are capable of at least the most basic form of Far-Seeing as it is their only way of looking in the world. Using mysticism in nearly every moment of their day, the Miraluka have refined and developed a way of 'seeing' the essence of magic. Allowing them to see how they are formed allowing them to weave spells of magic with unique effects on the physical world. Their civilization was a trading kingdom who traded magical ingredients and was a place that was filled with magical energy as many experiments were carried out in their land. They were the historians and record-keepers of magic being able to see magic, they recorded many forms of magic that have been lost but recorded in case the resurface such as Runic Magic, foreign magic such as Planar magic and the many variations of Occult magic.

It was rumored that the Miraluka people produced their seemingly endless amount of magical essence from a still buring star deep underground suspended in time by the use of an highly advance use of an magic-weave that stopped time. With this energy produced by this star, they ran many experiments and projects about magic into the past, viewing the events of the events that already have happened and recorded them in their many scrolls. While they denied it, the Miraluka have been said to be Mana Addicts as they are always constantly having a magical energy that didn't mind in their kingdom in amounts that are considered overwhelming to other people not use to it. Despite this, the Kingdom of the Miraluka was a popular place for people of all kinds as they sold many things ranging from enhanced Alchemical ingredients to magical trinkets for travelers. Their kingdom was also declared as a neutral standing to all conflict and refused to become a part in any war rather becoming the center of one if it must. They Miraluka's magical defense was beyond its age, creating a near impenetrable magical barrier that covered their entire kingdom. Their magical weaponry was also quite advance, but they never used it to its full potential as they created The Tree of Yggdrasil, an disturbing large tree that grew around their castle that was in the center of their kingdom. Making the tree loom over the entire kingdom, while it was still protected under the magical barriers. The tree was said to be able to shoot beams of light into the starry night sky, separating the clouds above the kingdom and collecting into a singularity before bursting in a shining bright light that shot out sharp crystals of light. It was only a small percentage of the tree's power but the warring kingdoms knew not to mess with the Kingdom after that and the Tree was then now a place for sightseeing but its was said it was always active, waiting in case anything happened.

This however was strange as one day, all the travelers that were coming to the Kingdom of the Miraluka were all ushered out with violence if it was necessary and closed its gates to everyone. Later in the day people outside of the Kingdom could see the Tree of Yggdrasil blooming golden figs that radiate warming light that fell into the kingdom. But still its gates remain closed and many of the travelers left leaving the kingdom up to what ever it was doing. However, the next day the kingdom was picked up and gone with no signs of destruction with the expection of the earth underneath the kingdom taken along with it. It was confirmed that all those who used Sightstones said that their medium was glowing in bright purple, crimson and violet light all night and any attempts to scry ended in painful feedback. Rumors in the mysticism and occult circles of magic said that the gods punished the Miraluka for creating a tree that produce something similar to what the creator Impes was able to done when he created the gods. They were saying that the Figs were able to bend reality depending on what the person wished when they ate the Fig whether they said it out loud or was inside their mind. This event happened several hundred years ago disappearing during Primus early years as the great wizard.

Only recently have reports of the Miraluka appeared in various locations around the world, some stripped of their magical ability to see and insane from the lack of something feeding their magical hunger. While others having their magical abilities present but were famished without something to feed their addiction making them weak. It seems what legacy of the Miraluka left remained back in the kingdom from all those many centuries ago in their golden age, as now the Miraluka are now just addicts who fail to preform the simplest of task without their 'fix'.

[edit: Honestly I just want to build more Lore vs Making a Character to Roleplay but I'll get something on if this is accepted soon.]

[Carnevile]

@ActRaiserTheReturned Yep, we do have such geniuses such as characters like Loremaster Abel Samuellson & that Incubus named Tenshi that likes to blow shit up, infact he was the one that first created the guns in the first place.

[Carnevile]

@GummyCat I'll consider it.

[GummyCat]

~Flips Table~ WHUUUUTTTT, Bitch Please!
Jk lol, if you need any help with lore making ask me, Im feeling a bit creative if needed but yeah character coming up :D

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[Carnevile]

@GummyCat I pretty much have all of the lore of the entire universe in a bunch of files on my computer, as of right now I'm just reshaping it to a more compatible state, but I'll try think of something you could do. :>

[Amphibious Assualt]

I am very interested in this. I see great potential in this roleplay. I just have one question. When will the complete lore be posted?

[Carnevile]

@Amphibious Assualt The full Lore will be released with the official post... there will be ALOT of it to read through, yaaay. The stuff you saw in this post is merely a fraction of the full compendium. x)

[Amphibious Assualt]

@Carnevile Oh, well. I am looking forward to reading it. I don't want to start making a character until I get a good look at the Races. I'm leaning toward the non magic faction though.

[Carnevile]

@Amphibious Assualt Finally someone that's actually gonna wait until the Full Lore is released to create a character. x)

[Amphibious Assualt]

@Carnevile I don't like to jump in head first without knowing what I am getting into. So I want to know all I can before I start. Also how are the Old Gods going to play into this? Are they going to be NPCs or?

[ActRaiserTheReturned]

It's me, Markus. . . I'm going to blow up the Demon Prince!!! This game sounds like Dragon Quest!!!

[Carnevile]

@Amphibious AssualtThough there are 18 Old Gods, not all will appear, and yes they will be NPCs, not entirely 100% on giving a Godly character to a random person.

Also, most Old Gods despise each other, especially the Evil side, and pretty much want to murder one another. And despite their immense power a majority of them are docile, they are bound by the Gods to remain so, even the most twisted ones such as Zul'kafh & Tor'qux are prevented from mass murdering the entire planet by a higher power.