[OOC] The King is dead, long live the King! [5/5]

The king is dead, long live the king!

There once was a grand Empire by the name of Torivian. This land was ruled by the beloved king Andèris. He ruled with justice and cared for his subjects. While he was beloved by most, every powerful man has enemies. King Andèris was no different in that and at one point, he was no more. Stabbed in the back by his most trusted adviser, who betrayed his friend and liege for some petty baubles and trinkets.

Luck would have it that the king had a healthy son by the name of Elendin and he was quickly appointed as successor. Many realized that an eleven year old was not really fit to rule an Empire. Thus an old tradition was brought back from the books. The grand provinces would each send an adviser who would help and train this new king into managing the grand empire of Torivian.

But who was to say these advisers were trustworthy?

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Welcome to The king is dead, long live the king!
This RP will be a nation RP of some sort, but with the focus on one character instead of the nation as a whole. You players will be taking the role of the adviser and are send as an ambassador by a province that you yourself create. When creating your nation/province you must think of plenty of things. But we'll get to that later.

The court of a grand king isn't nice, and every adviser wants to influence the king into favoring his/her province. There will be alliances, rivalries, backstabbing, bribes, plots and much more behind the back of the wee king. Of course there will also be external threats and stuff that will be happening to the land, and the advise that the players give to the king, one way or another, will influence what happens to the grand Empire of Torivian. Maybe your province breaks the chains and becomes an independent state? It's all up to you!

History of Torivian

Torivian used to be one of many small kingdoms. But due to clever military strategies and political marriages managed to grow into a vast spanning Empire. The conquered realms weren't directly integrated into the ever growing Empire, but rather ruled by an appointed vassal. Each vassal had control over one Grand Province, as people started calling these conquered areas. Minor Provinces dot the map of Torivian as well, but play no part in the theater of politics.

Location, location, location

Torivian borders a great sea on the east. To the south of the Empire lie the Badlands. Nothing grows there and it is said nothing lives there as well. To the north the Empire borders a grand mountainous expanse. Westwards lay other kingdoms and empires, ready to be conquered by the ever growing Torivian Empire.

Magic

Magic exists, but it is small. Nothing big and flashy. It takes a lot of time and energy to perform even the simplest of tricks.
It mostly exists in the form of shamanism, voodooism, spirits, etc. Most of the people saying the are able to perform magic are simple charlatans. Just a tiny amount of people is actually gifted.
The views on these people are mixed. Some lords value their powers, others shun them. Emperiat itself has no specific laws for magic users.

Religion

The Grand Provinces were allowed to keep their own religion at first, but had to assign a leader of the Emperiat Faith in their court, as to make sure that certain rules weren't broken.
The religion the Province of Torivian follows, is the Faith of Man. Which basically means that great, important people, can be elevated Paragonship, so to speak. (Think Dwarves of Dragon Age if you will)

All Paragons are equal, apart from one. There is one above all! Sindoras: Creator of Eldas (What the people of Torivian call Earth)
No one really knows who he was or what he did, but according to the title he created the world, which raises questions for many theologians, since how can a man... create a world?

Of course there will be two character sheets. One for your personal character and one for the nation/province you create. Here is a simple template of what that might look like. If you want to spice your character/nation up some more with some extra bits and bops, be my guest.
Just PM your ideas or throws them in the OOC. When I give the okay sign, you can put it in the Character Tab.

Character Sheet

Name:
Age:
Appearance:
Known for:
Dirty little secret: (Doesn't have to be public)
Skills: (smooth talker or stealthy assassin?)
Motto:

Nation Sheet

Name of the Province:
Name of your liege:
Position: (I will be making a map in the near future)
Specialty: (What is your province good at? Does it deliver the strongest soldiers? Or is it the home to the best scholars? Maybe it is the supplier of food for the entire kingdom? Who knows!?)
History: (A short history of the province and it's relation to the previous king)

Oh, one last thing. Character can die. Now this does not mean you're out per se. Your province will send a new ambassador, but you'll have to restart all your little alliances and stuff like that. This doesn't mean that you can go on a freakin' murder spree. If you're going to do that, I'm gonna send the guards to get your ass.

If you have any questions, don't be afraid to ask them!

Map of the Empire

[Flynn]

--MOVED TO THE ZEROTH POST--

[Penseel]

I would like to reserve a spot !

[Flynn]

Sure you can!

[Tortoise]

Would also like to reserve a spot, since I won't be able to work on anything until tomorrow

[6slyboy6]

@Flynn Ah, I see you restarted the RP again! Suffice to say I'm interested.

[The Senate]

I would like to reserve a spot. Application will be up either today or tomorrow.

[Tangletail]

This looks fun... Might go full weird on the advisor and send a bard

[The Senate]

[The One]

Is this still open? If so I'm reserving a spot

[Flynn]

Is this still open? If so I'm reserving a spot

@The One

I’m sorry The One, I’m currently only looking for five people. But I’ll let you know if somebody falls off.

[6slyboy6]

I decided to make a new character instead of recycling the one from the OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLD thread. Enjoy.

Gasto Canalis, Duke of Saqquar

Gastó Canalis, Duke of Saqquar

Age: 32

Appearance:
Gastó Canalis stands at 1.87 meters tall. He has a strong physique and body that conveys a lot of inner strenght. His muscles can be seen stretching the exquisite drapes of his dress, somewhat hiding his true strength: intelligence. He has a brownish skin like the other people from the deserts of Saqquar. He also has plain brown eyes like most other Southerners, and has a similarly dark hair color to match the whole picture. His facial features cannot betray his Saqquar blood, and he is the perfect image of a strong, healthy man from the south, curtesy of the Royal treatement.

Known for:
Canalis is from the royal family of the Saqquarian people, the current lineage of vassals who run the southernmost regions of Empire. Just this can be enough to give a man fame, but Canalis is known for more than his lineage. An excellent tinkerer who was teached by master smiths and artificers of the Saqquarian people, he has a certain knack at dealing with machinery and architecture. He is also regarded as the best Pazak player in the Empire.

Known as an excellent strategist, Canalis has won many battles that his brothers would have claimed lost. His cunning on the field of battle has often lead the Saqquarian division of the Empire to surprising victories in many scenarios. With a plathera of unorthdox strategies used by him, he is known as an out of the box thinker.

Dirty little secret:
- There are questions and rumors circling around that question why a royal descendant of Saqquar would visit the new Emperor as an Ambassador.

Skills:
- Sword training. Skilled in swordsmanship due to royal training from an early age. While not particularly good at it, Canalis can hold itself against opponents of average skill.
- Excellent strategist. When it comes to the grandiose scale of a battle, or the overarching goals of political opponents, Canalis can hardly be deceived into making a wrong move.
- Tinkerer. Thought not particularly an artform of the royalties, Canalis often plays with different ideas and creates small constructs of various uses.
- Rational thinker. Canalis is known as a down to the earth kind of person who uses his head rather than his heart when making big decisions. Ruthlesness is replaced with "necessity" in his dictionary.

Motto:

Saqquar

Liege: Weigar Canalis, Grand Duke of Saqquar

Position: TBA

Specialty:
As a province ruled by arid climate, Saqquar has little in natural resources. Most of the nation population lives on the fertile riverside of the two large rivers of Ifrit and Granat, named after their unique gemstones formed in their riverbed. Though most natural resources are scarcely avaible, a plathera of exotic minerals and materials can be found in the province that catch an insane price on teh market. The province borders a small portion of the ocean to the east, where the Ifrit and Granat flow into it. These are busy trader ports where Saqquarian traders laod up their cargo and take it to north, towards the capital and other provinces.

Despite the lack of resources, Saqquar is known to be the best at utilising the already existing ones and providing hardy people for the Emprie. A Saqquarian breastplate can be trusted not to break in the heat of battle, and a fletcher hailing from the province will turn wood, not into a bow, but a piece of masterfully crafted art. The province has a long history of extensive use of siege warfare, and the province mostly provides craftsman and plans to create these terrifying machine beasts for the army.

History:
Before becoming a province of Torivia, Saqquar was very similar to the empire in the way it was built up. However, decades of infighting that ruined the lives of so many, led to the people in the area becoming hardy folks that would endure just about everything that nature could throw at them. After being subdued by Torivian, the people of Saqquar welcomed the peace in their lands and became faithful subjects to the empire. Saqquarian nobility was not a commonplace visitor in the capital that lied so far north to them, but their arrival always meant news of foreign lands and gifts of exotic nature. Many folks and royalties regarded the previous emperor as an honorary Saqquarian who brought peace to the war torn nation, and the entire nation mourned his death as hundreds of thousands took to the streets to honor his achievements.

[Flynn]

@6slyboy6 I like the theme you're going with. Double check the spelling a tiny bit (some letters are switched around), dirty secret is more like... rumors that are known to the common folk about your character. They don't have to be true per se and last, call it something else then Pazaak. I'm not going to use a card game from Star Wars in this world. Just change the name, and then it's fine.

[6slyboy6]

@Flynn Eyh, you know me bud. Typos are one of my most prominent features ;D

PS: I'll call it Pazak

[Flynn]

@Flynn Eyh, you know me bud. Typos are one of my most prominent features ;D

PS: I'll call it Pazak

@6slyboy6

Be a bit creative with the name at least :p

@Jeyma@The Senate@Tangletail@Penseel

All reservations accounted for. There is no haste needed with creating your characters/nations. Take the time you need.

[6slyboy6]

@Flynn

I hope this will suffice for "a wee bit more creative".

The royal game of Tarvak

Tarvak a popular dice game that is palyed throughout empire. Used both in gambling due to the luck factor, and in competitions thanks to the amount of trickery it needs, the Tarvak is a game that both peasants and royals play.

Rules:
Tarvak is a game easy to learn, but hard to master. Each player starts with six D8s (8 sided dice) that have the numbers 1-4 on them, with each number having two sides on the dice. Both players roll their die and then hide them from the other player, usually with their hands. Now that the dies are rolled, the game begins. The starting player states an amount of dice faces that he thinks are shared between both hands. For example, a player can say that "There are four 3 faces" or as we write it, 4x3. This means that he thinks that from the 12 dies, there are at least 4 that have the "3" face showing upwards. The other player then must decide whether he thinks that this statement is true or not.

In our scenario the die faces are as follows: 2x1, 1x2, 5x3, 4x4.

If he decides that the statement is true, then the player must "Raise". Any statement has more value if either there are more dies involved, or if the die faces are worth more. After the 4x3 in this scneario, the current palyer can only say 4x4 if he wishes to stay on 4 dies, otherwise he will have to state the faces of 5 dies, with any face values. Naturally this means that any statement that states that there are x number of 4 faces, forces the opponent to raise the amount of dies that they try to guess. The only rule of "Raise" is to not lower the value, but a player can always go from 2 dies to 5, or switch from the "1" face to the "4" face in his statement.

If the player decides that his or her opponent's statement is false, then he can "Call". When a palyer calls, both players reveal their hands and count the amount of faces. If there are more or equal dies with the desired face on them, then the calling player loses a dice, otherwise if there are less, then the opponenet loses a dice. In our example, the opponent said 4x3 and we called, however there are 5 dies with 3 faces, 5x3. In this case the player who called must sede a dice to the die pool. The die pool is where the lost dies are stored.

After a call the round ends, and the palyer who called will begin the next turn. Whenever a player has only one dice left, he or she will always be the one starting the round. If both players have only one die then the player who most recently lost a dice starts the turn. The game lasts until one player is out of dies, upon which the player with remaining dies wins.

It is a valid strategy to call out a true statemnt in a winning situation, and lose a dice in exchange for starting the next turn.

Variants:

Some variants of the game allow players to get back one of their dies if they call when there is exactly the same amount of dies with the desired faces as their opponent called. However, the tournament rules do not follow this rule.

Similarly, there are variants of the game where the starting palyer is determined by adding together teh values of their dies, and the player with the higher value starts. This is usually reserved for beginners as it gives away valuable intel.

A popular variant of Tarvak is when multiple people play. In this variant the same rules apply, and the turn order goes counter clockwise.

Through the ages many other, even stranger forms of Tarvak have popped up empire wide, some of which use different dies or have vastly different rulesets or goals.

[Tortoise]

Just wanted to drop in and say I'm still working on mine. I found a nice flag and everything!

[Flynn]

@6slyboy6
I said creative with the name, but this works just as well. Tarvak is a reality in Torivian now. :)

@Jeyma
Fancy looking flag that is.

[Flynn]

Alright, I'm going to put down a deadline for when I want everyone's Nations and Characters. 28-01-18 is the date I'm aiming for to start this RP. Does this mean you have to finish an entire Nation? No, only the important bits that are listed. You can always add to it later by adding more important characters, history, etc.

What does it mean if you do not make something before that time? It means I have to let your reservation go and that somebody else we'll be able to take your place.

Also, @6slyboy6, if you fixed those typo's, you can post your shizzle in the character tab. Do include Tarvak their too.

[6slyboy6]

@Flynn I'll be counting on you enforcing Tarvak as the game of royalty. At least 1 mandatory Tarvak story arc where players can show off their brawl. Mandatory as in "please GM-sama".

[Tortoise]

At least 1 mandatory Tarvak story arc where players can show off their brawl.

@6slyboy6

I fully embrace this idea. I'll lose, but I embrace it.