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@Rin Rad! Sieglinde's pretty heavily based on Nordic myth, so I was kind of urging my buddy in that direction for her erstwhile locale. We weren't entirely sure (small chance of it being, like, Russia), though, so he kept it vague in the end. Excited to see what you've got in store— everyone loves them some Vikings.
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Okay. I guess I can have her at rank 4.

But yeah, that's going to be Jane's main problem in this RP. Trying to stay anonymous versus helping people to the best of her ability because she's a good person. I imagine her problems snowballing once someone suspects something.

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Moving on, I'd like to make it abundantly clear that the issue here absolutely was one explicitly based in setting continuity. Dark Elves live underground in a Scandinavia-based region of the setting, therefore they are pale.

I absolutely do not want the fear tactics on display here to discourage anyone. If you want to sign up with a dark-skinned character, feel free to. There's plenty of regions that someone with dark skin could have come from, such as the more Middle Eastern-inspired regions to the east. @TheFake's character from a former iteration of another RP in this setting originated from there. Because he asked me about them. Asking me will get you a lot. I want people to ask me about the setting. Dark Elves just aren't dark-skinned. Honestly it kind of came off to me as racist to make "dark elves" have dark skin anyway, it's kind of always bothered me a little.

If you want to make a dark-skinned elf, wood elves are known to develop tans from being the outdoorsy type. Not all of them, but some of them. There's probably naturally dark-skinned elves on another continent or something, but I haven't fleshed that out yet so it went unmentioned.

Part of this is I simply don't know the cultures I'd be using as a basis as well.

Please don't let fear tactics stop you from using your idea. Just ask me about it first before you write up a full bio.

I'll be getting to some backlogged characters soon. Sorry for the delay.


You're fine. I've been keeping out of this to not add any fuel to the fire, but neither you nor @Raineh Daze have behaved anything other than appropriately for the behavior being shown. And not knowing enough about something is a fine reason not to write about it.

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There's not-vikings there too! Which is hopefully what my character will be once I get some more stuff sorted out with Vita but we'll see how that turns out.


@Rin Rad! Sieglinde's pretty heavily based on Nordic myth, so I was kind of urging my buddy in that direction for her erstwhile locale. We weren't entirely sure (small chance of it being, like, Russia), though, so he kept it vague in the end. Excited to see what you've got in store— everyone loves them some Vikings.


Absolutely awesome. Sieglinde's a Nordic myth gal by design, at least as much as I could figure out how to put in here. I'm excited to see what you come up with. Should've thought to ask specifically about a Nordic equivalent myself.
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@Vec Okay, sorry to take so long to get to you, but your character's fine. There's one minor background problem in that Estival is landlocked. A map will at some point be forthcoming since we're more likely to leave the country here than in Iron Roses, but yeah, that's otherwise fine. If you wanted to stick to an eastern coastline, though, it'd be Ithillin.

@Derg2 So without the slavery, it's more... tonal things? Like it's just plain off to take what is a shorter than human race, apply malnourishment, apply only being 16 and a guy, and come out with a 6'5 wall of muscle. Something here doesn't add up.

Apart from that, if he's a Hundi dead set on following traditions, it might be advisable if the journey was actually concluded by the time he reached Estival. Weird engagements would otherwise be a risk. Though that could still be a thing in play, it's worth acknowledging.

Also, given the sheer number of people who have already posted a bio or expressed interest (here and in PMs), I think it's best if the roleplay stops accepting more people who have yet to say anything, at least until it's started and the stable player base is clear.
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Even if it's me?
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Hmm, for my knight mage, I was thinking of being from a disgraced noble/rich family. Any suggestions on how to go about that lore wise? I can post up what I've got of my sheet if that helps, just mostly musing over the backstory atm.
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@Raineh Daze That's no problem. I'll change it to some border village then.
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hell yeah smithy bros \o/

we're in business
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@Derg2 So without the slavery, it's more... tonal things? Like it's just plain off to take what is a shorter than human race, apply malnourishment, apply only being 16 and a guy, and come out with a 6'5 wall of muscle. Something here doesn't add up.

Apart from that, if he's a Hundi dead set on following traditions, it might be advisable if the journey was actually concluded by the time he reached Estival. Weird engagements would otherwise be a risk. Though that could still be a thing in play, it's worth acknowledging.

Also, given the sheer number of people who have already posted a bio or expressed interest (here and in PMs), I think it's best if the roleplay stops accepting more people who have yet to say anything, at least until it's started and the stable player base is clear.


In light of the recent issues with following setting, I think it's best I knock move him up to 18 and call his journey done. I'll say he went to estival, and decided adventuring was dope or something and stayed there.

Malnourishment wasn't an issue in the backstory. Between meals at the orphanage and food bought from working (which rex didn't have to share because orphans are mean) I imagine he ate quite well. Generally, the idea started off as "turbo big dog man" so I kinda want to stick with that if anything. I mean, what's life (or fantasy rp) without a couple outliers ;).
If you have any suggestions as to make this tonally better please lmk otherwise I'll probably scrap Rex and try for another character.

I made a post earlier but it kinda got swallowed. One of the first post's qualms was with the shirtless wooden sword thing being too weak for rank 4. This saddens me greatly, but I conceded that I would let him wear some armor and have a better sword. Say leather armor and a bronze sword. Would this satisfy the requirements for rank 4?
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I made the aforementioned changes @Raineh Daze
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@Derg2: It was more that he was completely untrained(unless I missed something), so being shirtless and wearing a wooden sword seemed kind of incongruous to being high enough rank to do more serious jobs. As I said, the shirtlessness is fine if he's actually a good enough fighter, I'm not trying to be super realistic here or something.

As for the age, as stated it's more or less because hundi culturally marry the first person who defeats them in an honorable one-on-one duel during their coming of age journey. So like, if you wanted to deal with that potentially happening given your hundi is trying to adhere to their traditional culture, you can keep his age just fine. But that could potentially occur is the thing.
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And feigning ignorance would be hard with Corinne and Liliane around. xD
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@Derg2: It was more that he was completely untrained(unless I missed something), so being shirtless and wearing a wooden sword seemed kind of incongruous to being high enough rank to do more serious jobs. As I said, the shirtlessness is fine if he's actually a good enough fighter, I'm not trying to be super realistic here or something.

As for the age, as stated it's more or less because hundi culturally marry the first person who defeats them in an honorable one-on-one duel during their coming of age journey. So like, if you wanted to deal with that potentially happening given your hundi is trying to adhere to their traditional culture, you can keep his age just fine. But that could potentially occur is the thing.


I am happy to change things so he gets training/experience then. Especially cause it means he can keep his shirt off.

As far as the journey thing, if that's everything then I am confident that my monkey-esque brain won't screw that up in terms of setting, so if it's alright with ya'll it's alright with me.

I'm in class rn, but once it's out I'll make the necessary changes.

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@Derg2: Alright, happy to hear it!

@Vec: Accepted.
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I don't think the IR timeline would allow for this, but it'd be a tragic irony if it turned out that Rose wasn't wanted for treason because the soldier who interrogated the bandit chief ended up getting killed by Jeremiah in a subsequent skirmish before they could report Rose's cooperation.
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Have you guys thought about making a discord server?
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Alrightyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

I've made the aforementioned training edit. At this point, I've made so many edits that I went ahead and bolded the major changes.

There is still the issue of his stature which I have yet to hear a consensus on, but y'know like if you want to just not say anything about and just accept me that's pretty epic too.

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@Derg2: Accepted.
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