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Welcome to Casdora

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In the beginning there was only The One God, an omnipotent being of pure energy who existed before time and matter. The One God then looked into the empty void and sought purpose, but saw none. He then split himself in two and from his halves the twin gods Euros and Meros came into existence, and their purpose was to give meaning to the void. Although Euros and Meros were born of the same spirit, they were different halves of the same piece and so both were different, and neither could see the universe in its entirety as The One God could.

Meros believed in order and absolutes, and thought the universe should exist in spirit and be eternal. He also thought the future of the universe should be predictable and set in stone, and thought all things should have a purpose, or a destiny. Euros however believed the world should be ever changing and nothing should exist in absolutes.
So the brothers went to work, each creating their own vision of what the universe should be. Meros created the heavens and hells, realms of pure spirit, to represent his belief of two ideals: a constructive force and a destructive force to oppose it, and the two equal forces would balance the void between them.

Euros, however, desired a physical world, one which would give meaning by literally filling the void, and so Euros created the stars and made them ever changing. The void gave birth to the stars, and in time the stars would return to the void; the stars would return to nothing, but be born again in an endless but ever-changing cycle. In this Euros gave the void purpose, as all things that come from the void so too return to it.

When the brother's looked at each others work, they scoffed, both believing their workings to be the superior. However, both of the brothers agreed that to finish thier work, they must regain their omnipotence. They decided that to do so, they would have to see things through many eyes, just as their own. Meros, believing everything could exist in absolutes, created the spirits of angels and demons to represent the constructive and destructive forces in the universe: good and evil. He gave them homes in heaven and hell, and called his work complete. Through their eyes he could see the good or evil in all things.

Euros saw his brothers creations, and then went to work creating his own. Euros desired a material world, a new world of senses, and so he gave the stars their warmth and allowed them to grow brighter, other stars however he allowed to dim, and once they dimmed Euros created life from from the dust of the star. He watched as the warmth from the brighter stars gave energy to his creations, and then he went to work molding and shaping them into all assortments of things. He created trees, fish and deer, but finally he created humans. Like his brother, he created humans to represent the destructive and constructive forces of the universe, but unlike his brother he gave his creations the ability to understand both good and evil, but be bound them to neither. Instead he gave humans the capacity for both great good and evil, so that they might never be bound to one or the other.

When Meros saw what his brother had created, he could not comprehend them, and the chaotic and unpredictable nature of humans disgusted him. So he struck out against his brothers creations and began to kill them off, believing humans because they were tied to neither good nor evil, upset the balance. Angered by his brothers actions, and sympathetic for his creations, Euros sought to protect his creations, and so Euros gave them the ability to reproduce, so that thier kind may never die out. Euros then created a barrier between the physical realm and the realm of his brother, and finally the god sacrificed his divinity and fell to the Earth as a human, so that if his brother wanted to kill his creations he must kill him as well.

Meros watched his brother fall, but being only a half of The One God, he could not restore his other half nor cross the barrier Euros had created. Struck with grief Meros sacrificed his own divinity to create a bridge between the physical and spiritual realms, and he gave every human a spiritual counterpart, so that even as humans might die their souls would live forever, and in this way Meros would never truly lose his brother.

A Crown of Bones


__________________________________The Inciting Incident _____________________________________

Twenty-four years ago Necromancy was born into the world, as Malfear began his rise to power. The exact origins of Malfear, and the cause for his war against the Five Kingdoms Is known only to the few mages whom survived the initial onslaught.

It is rumored that Malfear was once a mage in service of the tower with a lover, but Malfear grew dangerous and destructive with corruption, believed to have tampered in the arts of demonology. The Mages of the Tower were forced to act against Malfear, and skirmish Malfear came out victorious, but his lover lay dead. In grief, Malfear stabbed his own heart next to the corpse of his lover, wishing to end his life. Yet somehow, the mechanics of which are unknown to even the Archmages, Malfear did not die, yet instead was the first man to wade the river Styx. He returned from the river a necromancer, but unable to save his lover. From this point forward he took on a vendetta against the Tower and Arch mages and began to slay his former companions, raising them as minions to do his bidding.

Unable to deal with the growing power of Malfear, the Circle convinced the Valean king of this new threat, one which the king himself had first failed to comprehend, and the king dispatched an army to deal with the necromancer. The army quickly caught Malfear's small force, easily dispatched them and burnt the corpses, but Malfear's own corpse was nowhere to be found.

Five years later (19 years ago) Malfear reemerged, this time he marched from the Caspian mountains with a massive army of both undead and uncivilized brutes from the tribes beyond the mountains. He easily laid waste to all in his path, and as he met with the Valean forces he brutally overpowered them, and after each battle his forces only grew stronger as he gave new life to the fallen by the thousands.

Malfear fought his way to the Ivory Tower and laid siege to the ancient tower. Within three days the great tower was reduced to rubble and slew its occupants, with only Archmage Lyana, Tyleal, and a handful of mages and guardians escaping his wrath. He then set his gaze upon the Valean city of Oslo and the royal throne. Valean armies tried relentlessly to halt his advance, but Malfear proved too powerful. King Aleas of Valeal recognized he alone could not stop the advance, and so he sent word to his Gorgon allies, to which the Gorgon King, King Garren Blackwater, responded with an army which rivaled Malfear's own. In two years (17 years ago) The Gorgon and Valean kings pushed Malfear back, and as Malfear began to remove his armies into the Ferronian homeland victory seemed a hammer stroke away.

However, before the final blow could be stroke word reached King Garren of treacherous nobles in his own lands, that they had claimed the throne for themselves and slain the royal family. Furious King Garren abandoned the campaign, against the advising of King Aleal, deal with the traitors in his own lands.

King Aleal dare not pursue Malfear now that Malfear's force once more outnumbered his own. Instead the Valean king issued a warning to the King of Ferros and withdrew his forces, unwilling to commit his own armies for the sake of a rival kingdom. It was Ferros that waged a bloody five year war against Malfear, and only Kain came to their aid, though at great cost of both gold and land. Eleven years ago the last remnants of Malfear's forces were crushed, Malfear was proclaimed dead. The war became known as The War of the Blight, and in the aftermath of the war tensions between the kingdoms has never been higher, and the fear of magic has never been more widespread.

Most believe Malfear dead, but there are dark whispers of Malfear's return, and now more then ever the Five Kingdoms are divided. Can the Kingdoms put thier squabbles aside to face a bigger threat, or will Malfear's undead armies tear them apart.











Accepted Characters:

Vendican Reinhardt
Abraham the Deaf
Tegan
Elisa Blackwater
Ashkante Nakesha
Balor Whiteoak
Solomon of the Dusk
Adune

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I just noticed that the capital of Kain is Able...

Edit: And The capital of Gorgon is Zola...
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and the capital of Gorgon is Zola.
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You beat me by one minute, haha.
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I somehow didn't notice the Gorgonzola one. Hah. Smooth, Brand. Smooth.
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Just the bare bones of Vendican's history in the biography. Intend to flesh it out a bit more.
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We get to pick up superpowers, magical items and hordes of followers too?

I suppose I might as well stick my character sheet here while we're still on the coveted first page.



@Free Faller: I'd rather have my own guardian, truth be told. I think my character's most likely to get involved with the struggle against the order of the Rose, if that's of any interest. If they're going after legitimate mages, it seems about time to show the bastards who's boss. Seems like a problem that would need sorting before that necromancer guy can be dealt with.

I could see some in-character conflict arising from our characters' views clashing, however - the social status of women is apparently very different in Valeal and Ferros, and Ben is a nobleman on top that. I don't think I have to tell you that he's not a very diplomatic man. That may not be the kind of game you want to play, so I thought I'd point it out ahead of time. Now, I don't plan to have him deliberately provoke her, and I think it could be fun as long as long as I don't go all "make me a sandwich, bitch" all the time, and you don't go all Captain Janeway (or Jirel of Joiry, or Polgara the Enchantress, etc) all the time. But, we're all adults here - I'm sure we can depict a relationship with a bit of friction to it without it devolving into a fist fight.
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Maxwell said
We get to pick up superpowers, magical items and hordes of followers too?


Pays to be famous (And magical)
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Lucian's character is acceptable. He used the context of the world to create his character (aka his father dabbling in demonology led to Vampirism), plus I was toying with the idea of adding more supernatural elements to the RP. Although I had initially intended to save these new elements until Demonolgy was introduced to the characters in the RP, I think having them present, but rare, in the beginning is fine. I'm giving all of you free reigns on your characters, the only stipulations is that you keep them human or mostly human, and that you use the context of the world to create them, as Lucian did with demonology and vampirism.

I'm giving all of you a few liberties as you create your characters. Don't feel like you're confined to the world as it is, but I do ask that you don't stray too far from it. You want your character to be part of a league of assassins? Cool, do it. Want your character to be a famous war general or pirate? Do it. Chances are the better you write and the more down-to-earth you keep it the more likely I'll allow it.

As GM I'll be the one keeping all of your characters on level ground with one another; I don't intend for characters being able to steamroll one another, so don't worry about that. Just remember, anyone can die.
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Here it is!

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I need to know the divisions of magic and their subdivisions.
like, are you saying a necromancer can't use destros or restros?
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Wraithblade6 said
I need to know the divisions of magic and their subdivisions.like, are you saying a necromancer can't use destros or restros?


A necromancer can't use Restos. They can use the other branches.
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Ok. So a necro mancer gets 3 schools from either mystos or destros. What school lets them raise the dead, and how is that done? Do they have to go to the river every time?
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Wraithblade6 said
Ok. So a necro mancer gets 3 schools from either mystos or destros. What school lets them raise the dead, and how is that done? Do they have to go to the river every time?


Click on the Hider called The Ivory Tower, Mages and Guardians. Then scroll to the very bottom. You'll see a list of the three branches and the schools under each branch. Yes, they go to the river each time to bring back a soul, but you don't have to go into detail every time you visit.
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Hm. Then it seems it takes a lot of effort to call just a single undead servant. How does a necromancer do that on the battlefield? ...or do they amass their army of minions months beforehand?
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Yeah, it's supposed to take a shit-ton of effort to bring back a soul. The reason Malfear was so dangerous was because he could pull thousands of souls back on the spot. Personally I would recommend you have an undead minion just follow you around throughout the RP, and treat them almost like a secondary character. Minions are allowed to have as much or as little personality as you wanted them to have... of course they still won't have free will since they're bound to you.
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Ok. That's fine. Are there any other cool necro powers? Can I make some up? If I need to, I could write some elaborate backstory to justify it.
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Sure, you're welcome to make something up as long as you can write a decent story that justifies it. However if I feel it's too over-the-top I may not allow it.
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