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In a world where religion and magic are the same things, it is known that all of Creation is made up of the five elements of Earth, Air, Water, Fire, and Spirit. All things are made up of a complexity of these elements, the more elements that they are made with, the more powerful they tend to be. Even humankind is made up of only three of these elements; Earth, Water, and Spirit. Because we are only made up of three, we are imperfect and require heat from the sun, air in our lungs, and food and water to survive. Throughout the eons since the creation of this plane of existence, many a Mage has attempted to combine all five elements to create a superior form of life that transcends all of the restrictions on the human body. Most of these attempts failed terribly, but the worst of them succeeded in creating life, though not the life that was intended. Demons have been born into this world created by those who would wish to push human life into purity, however, these broken, twisted forms come out tainted with the pain of their existence and rampage and destroy anything in their path. So a technique was developed to seal away the demons and the Practice of the Five, as it was called, came to become taboo.

The technique for binding a demon, which works on many other life forms as well, involves binding the spirit of the demon into a living thing and further binding that living thing with elemental bands of each of the five elements. Humans have been used, but the impurity within their own spirit drives them mad, making it improper to use as anything but a very temporary last resort. The ideal vessel is a tree. They naturally live long lives, they grow slow enough to make maintaining the bindings easy, and they are generally not capable of going mad.

This story takes place in this world, where you are students of the order tasked with maintaining the bindings on these Hallowed Trees in order to keep the demons contained. There will be a brief flashback period at the very beginning of the roleplay to when you are all children, between the ages of five and seven learning of this awesome responsibility that you will all one day have. Then we will jump ahead to your graduation date, where you will all be between 17-19, and hijinks will ensue. Members of this order are conscripted amongst the very rare Mages that are adept at Spirit. Four of you will also have a focus on another element (one each, first come first serve). It is possible to have sub-elemental focuses, such as metal for earth, but this will be later down the road, for now, focus on the five main categories.

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So you guys know as you look at the first post, you are children, and would barely grasp at the fact that you are more or less permanently removed from your family. You barely understand that you are capable of magic, and you have absolutely no idea what you just saw. Have fun!
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@Mr Rage
How many years prior is this. (What's our age?)
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Approx 13 years. You are between five and seven.
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:D One whinging six year old brat coming up.
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@Skwint@Kaalee@Queentze@Dark Light@NobodiesHero (preaching to the choir for some of you), just wanted to draw your attention to this thread, to make sure that you saw that we are starting. If you haven't already, throw your character sheet into the CS tab and get working on your first post! I am eager to get started!
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My apologies, I never saw the post for the OOC, I’ll get to work right away.
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@Kaalee No worries! I never tagged anyone when I put it in the interest check for some reason.
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Well, I am going to guess that Skwint isn't as interested as they initially projected and will fill the role of fire and get us moving on. Sorry for the hold-up.
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@Mr Rage No worries friend. You have no control over people who flake out. There's special place in hell for the ones who leave a small group with very specific character roles. At least their character wasn't established already. I've seen that a lot.
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Ok, so long post introducing Krissy the Fire Mage and making the segway to 'current' events. Not much of a prompt to react to, but feel free to flush out character relations, specific spells/techniques that you may want to use, reflect on the years behind you and your hopes and aspirations for the years ahead of you. Free interaction with anybody who wants to interact for a bit.
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@Mr Rage in this world what's a festive event that children enjoy?
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Take your pick of any festive events that we enjoy in our world, just put a little spin on it. Bonus points if it is a Japanese tradition, or can be spun to be more Japanese. You might have noticed I am using a little soy sauce to flavor the story a little bit.
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Like this dance festival en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awa_Dance_Fes…

However, in a world of elemental mages, dancing can have extra... flare, shall we say?

I was planning on using this later, but it is fine to use now if you like.
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@Queentze Are you still interested in this RP?

Everyone else, if queentze is no longer interested, do you want to hang out while I find one or two more players, or do we want to call this quits?
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@Mr Rage I'm still interested.
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I am still interested!
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I'm still here.
Just NPC it until someone wants to fill the role.
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Yeah, I guess I can do that, I'll give Oscar another 12 hours and then I'll start working on finding a replacement and working on the next post.
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Shoot, wrong tab. I'll fix that either today or tomorrow. I'm so tired.
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