A realm that has been established between all the rest. Somewhere that anything and anyone can be by magical properties, grounds, and regulations. This is a world where the mythical amongst the austere humans and beasts have lived side-by-side for centuries.
Ephae is assembled by five documented empires. These empires are Yukar, Kitaston, Phesian, Raitish, and Basen.
Yukar is known as the world's trading landmark; it derived from a marketplace in the middle of nowhere in the early stages of life on Ephae. Becoming an epicenter within the first few generations of life, the kingdom of Yukar has sprouted into a beautiful, bustling lifestyle in the skies. The majority of people that come out of this grand city are mainly humans with the career preferences of steampunk engineering, artists, merchants, scientists [mainly weather-based or beast weather-related], and orphanages looking for adventure.
This domain has the highest orphanage rates in all the kingdoms, yet the only orphanage ran in Yukar is by Princess Akoia Gyasi, a known saint of the kingdom. She was adopted by King and Queen Gyasi years ago. She generously made Yukar a better place, influencing the habitat to increase school graduation rates, overall higher ages of morality, and greatly needed laws to lead structure.
Princess Akoia Gyasi is known as the "Poor One's Saint," she is the founder of the Otok Orphanage and the hybrid school system Yukar Institute for the gifted. This hybrid school includes all races and abilities from the ripe ages of three to fifteen.
Kitaston is known to have the largest population out of all the kingdoms, possibly combined? Records are never up-to-date or received on time, so the world may never know... or will they? Not only known for the world's largest population, but Kitaston is also known for being the most prominent academic community and meeting area for the council of Ephae.
Every meeting is held in Kitaston with the gathering of every ruler of the united kingdoms (with drawbacks).
Phesian is located near a rainforest, a desert, and the oceans of Ephae. One of the only kingdoms that are not landlocked is a fisherman's dream or sushi lover's utopia; anyone can find any type of sea creature on a vendor's table.
A beautiful tropical paradise set in a medium-humid climate with a heavy rain season in the spring. This kingdom is known for its cultural build-up and vibrant colors.
Raitish is known as the Fae empire. This city is known to have the most diverse species living within it. If you are looking for the unique, rare, or even utterly strange guidance of whoever resides in this kingdom. You are in the right place to get your Oobra taken care of.
Basen is the city under the mountains, an ancient place that once allowed the beasts from the nether to escape its gates. In the deepest caves of the town, one can find a city far under the earth and portals that link this world to others. This is only a fairytale, right?
Fairytales are hard to come by when one tries to thrive in Basen, only the strong live, and the weak perish. Basen is rough around the edges, just like it's people who have no time, nutrients, or patience when it comes to beggars or someone asking for a bit of help.
This is the kingdom of warriors, laborers, and the strongwilled. The ones who fought to survive.
Yukar - NPC(s) King and Queen Gyasi, main face is Princess Akoia Gyasi Kitaston - Phesian - Raitish - Basen - Discussing with @Dark Cloud
Name - What is your name? - Examples include Thog from the Southern Coast, Bennet Kumbache, Rosa Lee Jenkins, etc... Titles - Are you a king, queen, or leader of some sort? - A knight? - Higher rank in society? Aliases - Nicknames, what do friends call you? - What do you go by so people don't know your real name? Species - What are they? Normal human? Fairy?Demon? God? What are we talking about here? Age - Actual age or estimate - Appearance - For example, Tony is 50, but he looks 25. Gender - Female, male, genderless, multi-gendered? Sexual orientation - Usually what somebody likes romantically. Aka, the opposite sex, the same sex, etc... Height - Make this reasonable with your species. - For example, on average, humans are 5' - 6'2 -- Do not make a human 7' unless there is a great reason. Ordinary humans do not need to be 7'+ or 1' tall. Weight - Same with height, make it make sense. Do not have a 1' tall fairy character that is 1000 lbs or a 6'2" human that is 10 lbs. This should be medically impossible. - Actual weight and feel are way different. Your character could only weigh 5 lbs and feel like 1000 lbs to someone. Why is this? Are they a god and highly dense in muscle mass?
Brief Personality Keeping this brief, believing that personality comes with the length of roleplaying the character out and intertwining them into a story. A few words, maybe bullet points or up to two paragraphs explaining what they are like. The main thing to think about or declare is what alignment they are? Are they are hero-like characters, anti-hero, anti-villain, villain? Where do they land on this scale? Morals? Ethics? Strength(s)/enjoyment(s) Bullet point or briefly explain Weakness(es)/displeasement(s) Bullet point or briefly explain
Abilities Again keep it sensible. If you have a plain old human character, Tony most likely cannot shoot lasers out of his eyes. If he can, explain why (you better have a good reason Tony can do this). Abilities can never undoubtedly kill someone else's character(s) without permission from the owner. Background - Where did your character come from? Do they even remember? Are they initially from Ephae, or did they appear one day? - What are some prominent situations that lead up to who your character is? Are they depressed? Do they only see the good in people? Why are they annoyed by cheese all the time? - Who is this person we are talking about? Because I doubt it is Tony this time.
Notice - Questions, concerns, and confusion can occur while filling out, submitting, and processing through approval. You may receive more than one question or none; who knows till you try?
The Great War began and ended over 300 years ago. This marked the prominent council of Ephae to take the reigns on most of the social, cultural, and structural areas in the land.
This war began because the leaders did not understand and feared dragons. Not only did dragons widely roam the land of Ephae, but they called a once magical place their motherland, Aicosha.
Aicosha was the most significant geographical region that held magic. Every creature, being, and the thing created amongst the walls had some mythical power. The motherland's influence was so strong that humans born here formed abilities.
At the time, the United council of Ephae decided that it was better to try and wipe out the land of Aicosha than reason with the unreasonable dragons. The rebellion of the united Kingdom caused dragons and other beasts to strike back even harder out of retaliation. Both sides didn't realize at the time, they were fighting for nothing, and they only discovered the problems they created once the ashes paved the surface of Aicosha.
These issues are still relevant today because ancient trees are beginning to die, and everyone can agree that the tree of life looks duller with every passing day, for her lands cannot sustain her enough.
⁌ One, Site Rules: Always follow the site rules, or why be on the site? ⁌ Two, Death: This rule is to protect everyone's characters and owner permissions. You always have to ask for permission to kill someone else's character(s) and vice versa. The only time a character will die without permission is at the owner's or moderators' discretion, which will probably never happen (this will be a discussion between the character owner and staff). ⁌ Three, Treat others how you want to be treated: This is an OOC rule, mainly. Please express kindness, patience, and understanding because everyone is trying their best to enjoy the roleplay and out-of-life lives. ⁌ Four, metagaming, godmodding, etc...: I understand this roleplay is power-based, but you cannot control another person's character unless permission is given. You should not make a character do something that should or cannot do, for example, die.
⁌ A side note: some form of leveling might be introduced to allow fighting against other characters and increased outcomes that do not have bias or arguments attached.
⁌ Consequences: If your character starts murdering people, destroying cities, etc... Whatever they are doing, this is where rule 2 comes into discussion. We will have characters that are considered Purple, Pink, and Red. If you decide to choose the path of a red character, you will experience consequences. ⁌ Purple characters can never die unless permission is granted. ⁌ Pink characters are in that in-between where they cannot pass without permission, but they are becoming red because of their IC actions. ⁌ Red characters, you have chosen such fate by your actions. Hopefully, you are prepared for the bounty and who is coming after you. ⁌ More coming soon ⁌
Beast levels will be: Green - Completely unhostile (you can walk right up to it and pet it unless it gets scarred) Yellow - These creatures are usually delicate, but they are prone to biting, scratching, etc... if they feel threatened. Orange - These creatures are more likely to attack people or other animals the closer the other gets. Be careful approaching these beasts. Red - These creatures tend to be predatory, dangerous, or easily hurt you without even trying. You probably do not want to try and befriend these creatures, no feeding the red beasts, please. Black - If you see this creature, it is probably already too late for you. These beasts do smell fear and will not hesitate to end you.
World-Wide
Storm Whales
Storm Whales are known for creating and taking away most natural disturbances like rain, tornadoes, thunder, lightning, etc... They are giant creatures that fly through the medium levels of the atmosphere to the lower levels of space.
People assume they go onto the side of mountains and can hide within the ground from their armored backs during their time sleeping. They have been found in caves, burrowed deep underground while sleeping. Their sleep schedules tend to me from a few days to years; sometimes, you will not see one for a whole year which causes droughts.
If you see them constantly, you better be preparing for a flood.
Iridescent Pisces (Freshwater)
Iridescent Leviathans (Saltwater)
Iridescent Pisces tend to be more green, except they are powerful; they might accidentally hurt someone if they are close. These aquatic species only roam in the fresh waters of Ephae and, if you see one out in the oceans, swim as fast as you can.
The saltwater Iridescent Pisces are considered hostile, and they are typically called Iridescent Leviathans. This subspecies is extremely dangerous and fits into the black danger levels.
Male OObra can grow up to 22 points for antler size and usually are rode because they are the bigger size in this species. Females have horns and can be confused with young bucks; they do not grow past four points on their antlers. They tend to not be ridden by adult humans either.
A height and weight for riding Oobra are over 350 lbs and stand over 3.5 at the shoulder while fully mature. The recommended weight they can carry is up to 300 extra pounds. That is either two fully mature adult humans weighing 150 each for reference or a human with luggage.
Notice: Male Oobra's are considered danger level orange, especially around mating season. They do not tolerate individuals at this time (unless trained), and they cannot be fully trusted even then.
Yukar
Kitaston
Phesian
Komodo Snakes
Komodo snakes will not go out of their way to interact with humans, other species, or even one of their own. They tend to be very solitary creatures unless it is mating season. They are categorized as orange because they are poisonous and venomous. Komodo snakes are only deadly during mating seasons or ultimately threatened, allowing them to secrete this clear liquid from their skin. Most creatures cannot handle either toxic, but they both have cures if activated within the hour of contact.
Size: 7 feet from the tip of the nose to the end of the tail. Weight: Max 150 (gender does not have fixed sizes in this species.) Clutch size: 10-15 Survivability: Komodo snake eggs are considered a delicacy in Phesian, so they are sought out. Out of a max clutch of 15, an average of 5-8 usually grow into adulthood.
Raitish
Basen
Long-legged Snowball spider
Longlegged Snowball spiders look exactly like snowballs, except they have long black legs and many eyes. These creatures tend to be very anti-social, but they do not mind social interactions every once in a while. Many people recommend not holding them for too long since they will bite out of pure irritation of too much attention or if they do not like your natural scent.
They are only harmful if you are allergic to the liquid compound in their bite. Other than that, it feels and swells like a bee sting. Causing the whole area to be highly tender for a few hours to days.
Fun fact! They love eating snow, especially ice crystals.
Crystal Boars
Crystal boars are called exactly what they are: boars with ice crystals protruding from their backs. Boarlings do not have giant crystals like the mature individuals in the species. These crystals, along with the tusks, have penetrated and killed many in the lands of Basen. The Basenites find these creatures to be the most enormous population among species in their land, and they gladly hunt them for many uses.
Their fur and hide can be used for many different sewing, bedding, and clothing projects. Their hooves and horns have been used to make jewelry, weapons, jewelry boxes, horns, and many more. Their meat it said to be one of the finest in Basen's lands.
These creatures can have up to ten boarlets per litter which causes them to be quite destructive. Mature boars can weigh up to 1000 lbs and stand no less than 6'5 at the shoulder. A whole party of humans (around 12) can take one of these boars down, but they are always tricky to take down, no matter the numbers. They will bulldoze through crowds of people without any issues.
Hexa-goats (Tamed) Hexa-goats (Wild)
These goats are six-legged riding goats and are highly used by the people of Basen to get up and around the steep mountains. Weighing up to 800 lbs and naturally standing at 5'5"-6' at the shoulder.
Basenites have been raising these creatures for traveling purposes for centuries. They are used to riding and plowing snow, sowing gardens, and moving heavy items. Hexa-goats can pull up to 1.5x their weight without any trouble. Think of the land you can move if you have a whole herd?
Hexa-goats can jump about twenty feet and have a speed of 35 mph. This species usually only births one kid per live birth and sometimes two. When trained and raised in captivity, they are gentle giants to the ones they trust and are incredibly loyal. So loyal that they have been found frozen dead, starving, etc... by their owner who passed.
Wild hexa-goats are not as trusting and are pretty dangerous. Being extremely territorial, there is no sizeable wild population, or they stay high up in elevation where most do not go. If they can smell or see you within their territory, do not be surprised that they will try and headbutt you. Hexa-goats will do anything to get you out of their home. Stubborn creatures.
Aicosha (The Outlands)
Ash Anima Vulpes
Ash Anima Vulpes derived from the fallen of Aicosha, or that is what is believed. When the Great War was over, these creatures began to blossom like flowers, shaking the ashes of fallen Aicosha lives and habitat away and beginning to roam around the Outlands.
They are said to bring one luck if stared directly in the eyes. These tiny creatures can be found running around and even playing with each other.
Warning, if you get close. You are daring something you do not want to or do. Getting close to an Ash Anima Vulpes is asking to be put to bed, they will touch you with their noses, and you will be in a slumber for five minutes to five hours. These dreams are usually incredibly prophetic, even if you have never met the person or know who they are. These 'dreams' put you in a spiritual-like state where you can be found in a less physical form with that said person, animal, or thing in your prophetic dreams.
Symptoms of having this done to you include fatigue, nausea, headaches, migraines, and shakiness. This can last up to a week.
Notice: They have never been a reason for someone's death, yet.
⦾-Size-⦾ Estimated 2.5x bigger than earth [reference planet: k2-18b] ⦾-Percentage of total Water-⦾ Roughly 55% <10% Freshwater Everything else is salt water ⦾-Percentage of total Water-⦾ Surface area (land) 45% Discovered landmass, roughly 65-70% Undiscovered landmasses, roughly 30-35% ⦾-Stability-⦾ The gravity of this planet causes things to shift in and out of place. For example, the kingdom of Raitish is floating and has been for centuries. This has generated new ecosystems to use the land underneath in the big release that it left long ago. Stability would probably be 80% on estimate terms. ⦾-Number of moons/night planets-⦾ 3 ⦾-Number of suns/day planets-⦾ 2
In the beginning process of becoming a reality, this sandbox RP will constantly be updating in the bestiary, overall lore, rules, and more. Improvements will always be discussed to make this more friendly for everyone who wants to participate!
Feel free to DM about character ideas, creature ideas, race, etc... I will always consider ideas and try to intertwine them into the overall realm of Ephae, so you as a roleplay can feel more comfortable.
For the speaking of a sandbox, you can be pretty much anything in the world of in-between. You want to become a kingdom ruler, step before the United Council of Ephae to be judged. A shop of sorts is your dream? There are many established kingdoms and unestablished cities that you can intergrade yourself in! You are a magic-user and want to better your skills? Yukar and Kitaston are known for their lovely schools of advanced magic. This can go on and on and is all up to you!
In an OOC sense, I hope to see you around. Remember, if you have any comments, concerns, or questions. Ping me in the OOC or slide into my DMs!
I bet you Icarus would love to meet you and everyone else for IC purposes too!
@OddApproved Idea for another thing for Basen's beastiary; horned white rabbits, possibly a nothern species of Oobra that live at the mountains bottom. A sort of foxlike creature that is the rabbits main predator.
@OddApproved Idea for another thing for Basen's beastiary; horned white rabbits, possibly a nothern species of Oobra that live at the mountains bottom. A sort of foxlike creature that is the rabbits main predator.
They wouldn't be Oobra (Oobra are Cervidea while rabbits are Oryctolagus.)
Horned white rabbits can be very possible; I will look into pictures.
Foxes, very possible. Will look into that.
I do not think you meant Horned white rabbits would possible be a northern species of Oobra (but Oobra are worldwide. Meaning you can find them anywhere in Ephae.)
