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[CENTER][h1][color=#d5bcba]STEEL & CIRCUMSTANCE[/color][/h1]
[sup][i]A cutthroat fantasy of airships, dead gods, and two rivals made to break each other for a knight's oath.
Set in the world of Andermonde, created by [url=https://www.patreon.com/posts/148896897?utm_campaign=postshare_fan&utm_content=android_share]Ryan O'Connor of the Red Quills[/url].[/i][/sup][/CENTER]
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[h2][color=#d5bcba]❧ THE PREMISE[/color][/h2]
[quote][i]A tourney is called to make knights. Two of the hopefuls belong to enemies, each handed to a master who would sooner see the rival house shamed than see anyone take the oath. They are set in the lists to break each other. Then comes the last trial, and the one no true knight passes alone.[/i][/quote]
Every year the Chevaliers de la Monde send the call out across the world: come to Claireville, and prove yourself worthy of the oath. They are a stateless order, knights that kings defer to and no nation commands, and their word carries in every court in the Old World. So the world comes. For a fortnight the grey port city triples its population, the inns full to the rafters, the morning broadsheets running a fresh name on the front page each day. What looks like pageantry is two weeks of trials, oaths, and constant judgement, where steel is the least of what's measured.

No one is knighted without a patron, though, and the patron holds the other end of the leash. An old family, say, or a new-money house with a name to launder, takes a champion on to raise its own standing, and spends that champion to do it. Two such houses came to Claireville this year with an old grudge between them and a fighter apiece.

You are one of them. Your rival is the other.

The order will wave you both into the lists, then sit back to watch which of you breaks the other first.
[h2][color=#d5bcba]❧ ABOUT ME[/color][/h2]
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[*] I'm Antlers, she/her, 34, Canadian (MST). 
[*] Writing and roleplaying for almost 20 years now.
[*] Not currently working due to some health issues = ample time to post!
[*] Looking for something [I]long[/I] term. 
[*] I like to use actors for face claims, but descriptions alone are just as sufficient. 
[*] Will gladly write the male lead in MxF, no doubling required (though happy to double if you enjoy it.)
[*] If you are under the age of 21, please do not interact. 
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[h2][color=#d5bcba]❧ STYLE & TONE[/color][/h2]
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[*] [b]Craft.[/b] Advanced to novella, third person, past tense. Quality over word count.
[*] [b]Tone.[/b] Action-forward and mature, without taking ourselves too seriously: trials, duels, sabotage, the ugliness of empire and colonisation, grey on grey, gallows humour. 
[*] [b]Romance.[/b] MxF or MxM, medium to slow burn.
[*] [b]Where.[/b] Discord or PMs for OOC; Google Docs, Ellipsus, or Discord for IC. 
[*] [b]Just talk to me.[/b] I'll wait a day or a month for a post, as long as I know it's coming. 
[*] [b]Be a human about it.[/b] AI isn't cute. Miss me with that robot nonsense. 
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[h2][color=#d5bcba]❧ THE WIDER WORLD[/color][/h2]
The tourney is a complete story on its own, opening call to oath or ruin. But the world of Andermonde is enormous, and the oath only opens more doors: smuggling cartels, a New World bleeding magic into the old, the duties that send knights to the edge of the map. The full setting, the tourney in detail, and the lore all live in the server I've already built because I have no chill. 
[Center][h3][color=#d5bcba]Come take your oath.[/color][/h3]
[i]Discord: theveinbraider, or drop me a PM![/i] ✨[/center]
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