[@DegenerateThree] If you want help or background information on Adanion, please feel free to reach out. The RP isn't going to be starting any time quick, I have other outside work I need to do and also some more lore and set up (chiefly I need to write out the Council positions that some players can start with, a map for everyone so we aren't using amorphous blobs in our heads and ideally a description of what the capital is like plus some NPCs.) I also just got both a booster shot and a flu shot today and considering how fucking hard the first shot hit me, there's a 50/50 chance I'm going to be out of action for at least a day as I pray to 7 different gods to end my pain (true story).

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Since this is also the first post of a new page, this is more directed at everyone. Here is what I have planned so far in terms of a plot (posting for thoughts and feedback).

1) The RP will start with a royal funeral for the King and (mostly) the Crown Prince. Since this is a huge event, everyone is invited and the Great Houses are sort of expected to come. Character meetings and introductions will be here and any initial plotting or gossiping can be done.

1.5) Free area for people to send letters, ravens, or messengers/meetings to other characters.

2) Everyone will then get an invitation to a tournament by an NPC/Grand Marshal/important figure as both something to take everyone's minds off the death and to try and convene to pick a new King of Adanion. Both of the claimants will be there and Sharles will even take part in jousting to try and show he has martial skill. A pro-Anyamara opponent faces off against him and in the process severely wounds him by accident but Sharle's supporters will cry bloody murder and say it was an attempt at assassination. Sharles is promptly withdrawn from the tournament and the whole thing goes south after that.

2.5 ) Free RP. Sharles will attempt to bring the still neutral Royal Guard to his side to protect him after the "assassination attempt" but the Captain of the Guard refuses and after contemplation, declares that he will stand for Anyamara as she at least has some direct royal blood in her which Sharles does not, prompting Sharles to create his own Guard and the basis of a his own council and army.

3) One of the Royal Guard actually tries to betray Anyamara and cut her down when they're alone, proclaiming "the throne will not have two mad dogs!" only for him to be killed without killing Anyamara. No one actually knows why the Guard did it, but just like with Sharles at the tournament, Anyamara's supporters think Sharles obviously put the man up to it despite not really having proof and things only escalate from there.

(There will be light time skips in the free RP sections, mostly so there's a balance of realism about messages and meetings not happening instantly and of expediency since we probably don't need to RP every single day. These are also just major plot points used to keep the story moving and not meant for railroading, you will still be free to politick and plot and build relationships as you wish.)