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Like the one here?

To be honest, I had only ๐ŸบDeutschland๐Ÿบ in mind when I was designing Millie, any other territories that's not part of Modern Germany is extra fluff lol


Yes, that was the sort of map I was looking at actually. Though.....that makes sense. Okay maybe I'm overthinking this a little bit. Maybe.

The reason I had the idea I had was because I thought there was like a full-on HRE that made it to modern day or something. Definitely am overthinking again on my end then. So I am definitely going to rethink this now, and find something else then. XD

Thanks for the clarification! And sorry for the sudden ping there.

Also Millie is 10/10 cool, tbh!
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Yes, that was the sort of map I was looking at actually. Though.....that makes sense. Okay maybe I'm overthinking this a little bit. Maybe.

The reason I had the idea I had was because I thought there was like a full-on HRE that made it to modern day or something. Definitely am overthinking again on my end then. So I am definitely going to rethink this now, and find something else then. XD

Thanks for the clarification! And sorry for the sudden ping there.

Also Millie is 10/10 cool, tbh!


At least, you're not overthinking in the part where most monarchies in this Not!Earth survive and thrive to the modern day (also magic existing, etc.) unlike IRL. But who's to say that the HRE has to remain that size permanently? OOCly, as long as it has Modern Germany, I'm good, anything else is extra, nice to have but no skin off my back if not.

Also thanks!
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The truth is that the HRE is a shadow of its former self, and the real world power is the Mongolian Empire, who has swallowed up almost the entirety of Eurasia.

And in true anime fashion, this is the current Khan.

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Hm, thinking it over, I actually probably don't have the time to do this RP after all. Dangerous thing to be juggling so much when I need to be job hunting instead.

Good luck with it though, y'all!
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Hm, thinking it over, I actually probably don't have the time to do this RP after all. Dangerous thing to be juggling so much when I need to be job hunting instead.

Good luck with it though, y'all!


Awwww, shucks, alright then, good luck hunting those jobbers, fam!
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Hm, thinking it over, I actually probably don't have the time to do this RP after all. Dangerous thing to be juggling so much when I need to be job hunting instead.

Good luck with it though, y'all!


Good luck with your job hunting!
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@HylianRose My Knight's CS is up for review!

For the benefit of everyone, I wish to reiterate that he's an optional PC, only to be made official if there's a need for us to double up. If there's not, then Millie will be my (only) PC.

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@HylianRose My Knight's CS is up for review!

For the benefit of everyone, I wish to reiterate that he's an optional PC, only to be made official if there's a need for us to double up. If there's not, then Millie will be my (only) PC.



Alpheus is gonna fu*k with this man so hard. Hopefully, the blind boy never figures out his dislike for wasps. smirks
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I updated the skills/talents to Journeyman or lower.

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I believe that I have filled out everything.



Updated all to Journeyman or lower levels.


Looks fantastic! Consider him accepted.

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Sounds interesting! Can't wait to read~

I think I'm going for a runefencer route, so probably gonna combine nordic runes with either italian or spanish swordfighting... or both... and probably add in more since the guys writing italian and spanish swordfighting manuals were actual lunatics...

the stuff La Verdadera Destreza made or the stuff fiore di batagglia made were kinda wild.

I can probably also drag in numerology, thinking about it.


I like your fancy words, little man. Lol. Jokes aside, the idea of runefencing is really intriguing. I'm eager to see what you mean by that!

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I'm excited to see it!

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Take your time friend! Good things take time and I'm not in any sort of rush. While I'd love to go ahead and get this going, I'd also rather spend the time making sure we have a good cast and connections between those characters.

This looks interesting. Do you all have world building down? What are the limitations of magic? I did see it mentioned that it was spells and such like from 5th edition. Someone had also mentioned that the gods could be powerful mages. Sounds like Mage: The Awakening or Ascension. We did try doing some custom stuff to our game like adding the zodiac as gods chosen. If the gods are a thing are consolation other god like entities? Is this a specific pantheon or mixed?

Sorry for all the questions. I will probably read along with this one. If you would like help creating teachers and other students/families please let me know.


Don't apologies for questions! I'm happy you're interested enough to ask them! I haven't considered too deeply the limitations of magic. I was hoping we could just sort of do what feels right story-wise. But I am following DnD 5e ideas so to speak for the actual magic. I could, alternatively use rules like Fire Emblem where literally all the character needs is the spell book and possibly some components or maybe the spell book has limited uses? I just wouldn't be sure how that would work realistically? Hmm...

I'd be interested to hear your take on how magic should be handled! I just don't want to get bogged down in all the nitty gritty details that we miss the "cool/fun" factor of our story.

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A Duke's daughter sounds fantastic! Feel free to drum up a knight as well if you'd like, but just know that we may not ask everyone to double up, only if needed.

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Part of the background lore I'd been designing involved Germany being invaded and occupied by Poland (mainly because that amused me and I'm not a history person). If you, as the person running the princess of Germany don't mind that, I can keep going with it. Otherwise, I can choose another set of countries to do silly things with.

Hm, thinking it over, I actually probably don't have the time to do this RP after all. Dangerous thing to be juggling so much when I need to be job hunting instead.

Good luck with it though, y'all!


That is absolutely fair! Proud of you for realizing that. Best of luck on that job hunt, I know from experience how much that sucks ass. If you ever find yourself with more time, and hopefully a job, please know that you're always welcome to join us!

@HylianRose My Knight's CS is up for review!

For the benefit of everyone, I wish to reiterate that he's an optional PC, only to be made official if there's a need for us to double up. If there's not, then Millie will be my (only) PC.



I will look him over later if I have time since he's a secondary PC. Might still use him as an NPC even if we all only need to make one, if that makes sense.

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Okay, I think I responded to most everyone. Again, if you have ideas for plot, our magic system, etc and would like to write up a section for it, you will be credited for that work in the OP! We are creating this story collaboratively. I'm just the one who makes the final decision because.. well.. because I suppose that makes the most sense. Lol.
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Looks fantastic! Consider him accepted.


Awesome, thank you! I moved him over to the character page.
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@The Savant@Izurich

I would go ahead and start drumming ideas for character ideas/connections that might be related to your characters. This could help other writers design characters around those ideas or say "hey, my character could probably do that with yours!"

As an example;

Connections Wanted
- Old Childhood friend who knew Character A back when they were in the institute, someone who knows about his past but likely doesn't know that they're actively trying to hide it.
- A rival from their home town that used to bully them when they were younger.
- A Cousin/Sibling
- Someone that Character A is currently betrothed to via political marriage.

If that's a silly idea and you don't think it would be helpful, please feel free to ignore. That's optional but I think would help others know what you want for your character and the roles that they can potentially fill for them.
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@The Savant@Izurich

I would go ahead and start drumming ideas for character ideas/connections that might be related to your characters. This could help other writers design characters around those ideas or say "hey, my character could probably do that with yours!"

As an example;

Connections Wanted
- Old Childhood friend who knew Character A back when they were in the institute, someone who knows about his past but likely doesn't know that they're actively trying to hide it.
- A rival from their home town that used to bully them when they were younger.
- A Cousin/Sibling
- Someone that Character A is currently betrothed to via political marriage.

If that's a silly idea and you don't think it would be helpful, please feel free to ignore. That's optional but I think would help others know what you want for your character and the roles that they can potentially fill for them.


Izurich and I have already spoken a little about how our characters might have met before since Alpheus will only know what people look like, pretty much, before 14 and before. We got down that his family probably visited her family at least once. I bet a few times in all honesty because of how political-governmental-and social challenges and connections would go.

So, Alpheus knows what Millie looks like from when they were younger.

However, Alpheus was starting to be hidden by his parents when deterioration happened, so I don't know if Millie would have any idea that he went blind. He got shoved into the shadows of the family and the whole wealth realm because of it, so she probably assumes that he can see because he could when they were little.

What do you think Izurich? If they knew each other when they were children (or were forced to be around each other during parent visiting each other) and then he just kinda disappeared and wasn't talked about much. Would Millie know that he went blind? Knowing Pran as his dad, he probably only told everyone that "Alpheus is extremely sick," and just left it at that because Alpheus is definitely the curse/embarrassment of the Hoel family.
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Part of the background lore I'd been designing involved Germany being invaded and occupied by Poland (mainly because that amused me and I'm not a history person). If you, as the person running the princess of Germany don't mind that, I can keep going with it. Otherwise, I can choose another set of countries to do silly things with.


Oh damn, should've told me that before I-... nah, nevermind, what has happened has happened. Let's focus on the now.

As things stand, as outlined in her CS, particularly in the personality and history sections, doing that will destroy:
- Millie's background of being the princess of the most prominent country in the European continent.
- Millie's core motivation and goals because it's intrinsically tied to her background.

Obviously, that's not ideal. Though I do agree that such a notion is very hilarious, but perhaps for a different reason than yours, but I'm not going to bother you with it, because...

Ultimately, regardless of my preferences, you have the ultimate authority since you're the GM and this is your world, so if you insist on doing that, then consider Millie cancelled and I'll shift to Maximillian as my primary PC.

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Oh damn, should've told me that before I-... nah, nevermind, what has happened has happened. Let's focus on the now.

As things stand, as outlined in her CS, particularly in the personality and history sections, doing that will destroy:
- Millie's background of being the princess of the most prominent country in the European continent.
- Millie's core motivation and goals because it's intrinsically tied to her background.

Obviously, that's not ideal. Though I do agree that such a notion is very hilarious, but perhaps for a different reason than yours, but I'm not going to bother you with it, because...

Ultimately, regardless of my preferences, you have the ultimate authority since you're the GM and this is your world, so if you insist on doing that, then consider Millie cancelled and I'll shift to Maximillian as my primary PC.


You could always have Millie see the kingdom falling and everything like that which makes her feel obligated that she has to slip into another royal family to take control of that country. I feel like you could do many things with Millie even if the above was to happen to her country and her family. It would be a power-struggle story for Millie tho.
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Oh damn, should've told me that before I-... nah, nevermind, what has happened has happened. Let's focus on the now.

As things stand, as outlined in her CS, particularly in the personality and history sections, doing that will destroy:
- Millie's background of being the princess of the most prominent country in the European continent.
- Millie's core motivation and goals because it's intrinsically tied to her background.

Obviously, that's not ideal. Though I do agree that such a notion is very hilarious, but perhaps for a different reason than yours, but I'm not going to bother you with it, because...

Ultimately, regardless of my preferences, you have the ultimate authority since you're the GM and this is your world, so if you insist on doing that, then consider Millie cancelled and I'll shift to Maximillian as my primary PC.


Oh, no, not at all. I'm not married to the idea. I can absolutely shift to something else. It's just flavor and not like.. a super important or well thought out plan? Lol. So, no need to cancel her at all! I'm just dumb and didn't realize HRE was Germany. If that tells you anything about how historically naรฏve I am. I'll make that change and it won't affect much at all!
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Highly recommend checking out the Zeroth post on the IC tab to make sure I'm not royally (pun not intended, but I did chuckle) screwing up your character's background in some way. That stuff is still subject to change and just my attempts at giving the world some background noise.
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@The Savant@Izurich

I would go ahead and start drumming ideas for character ideas/connections that might be related to your characters. This could help other writers design characters around those ideas or say "hey, my character could probably do that with yours!"

As an example;

Connections Wanted
- Old Childhood friend who knew Character A back when they were in the institute, someone who knows about his past but likely doesn't know that they're actively trying to hide it.
- A rival from their home town that used to bully them when they were younger.
- A Cousin/Sibling
- Someone that Character A is currently betrothed to via political marriage.

If that's a silly idea and you don't think it would be helpful, please feel free to ignore. That's optional but I think would help others know what you want for your character and the roles that they can potentially fill for them.


Oh, that sounds neat, yeah. Savant and I are already doing it, but I'll continue to do that as we get more and more CS.

What do you think Izurich? If they knew each other when they were children (or were forced to be around each other during parent visiting each other) and then he just kinda disappeared and wasn't talked about much. Would Millie know that he went blind? Knowing Pran as his dad, he probably only told everyone that "Alpheus is extremely sick," and just left it at that because Alpheus is definitely the curse/embarrassment of the Hoel family.


Hmmmmm... this just gives me an idea and a chance to practice that 'OOC consent' thing. I think Millie can find out the truth if you consent Pran being 'voodoo-eyed' by the princess, hahaha. Maybe he doesn't even remember about it, but Millie sure did make him slip out his secrets about Alpheus.

If not, then she'll likely be suspicious, but never found out the real truth, at least until they meet later at the academy.

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You could always have Millie see the kingdom falling and everything like that which makes her feel obligated that she has to slip into another royal family to take control of that country. I feel like you could do many things with Millie even if the above was to happen to her country and her family. It would be a power-struggle story for Millie tho.


Mmm, that's a fair alternative, but I'd rather make a new character designed from the ground up with that plot in mind rather than trying to fit a square peg into a round hole.

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Oh, no, not at all. I'm not married to the idea. I can absolutely shift to something else. It's just flavor and not like.. a super important or well thought out plan? Lol. So, no need to cancel her at all! I'm just dumb and didn't realize HRE was Germany. If that tells you anything about how historically naรฏve I am. I'll make that change and it won't affect much at all!


Oh, that clarifies things, alright then. Yeah, HRE was Germany (and Austria, and Northern Italy, and-... okay, it was a big empire), but just like the Soviet Union's 'main culture' was Russian, so too HRE's main culture was Germanic.

Highly recommend checking out the Zeroth post on the IC tab to make sure I'm not royally (pun not intended, but I did chuckle) screwing up your character's background in some way. That stuff is still subject to change and just my attempts at giving the world some background noise.


Okay! Doing that now, boss.
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Hmmmmm... this just gives me an idea and a chance to practice that 'OOC consent' thing. I think Millie can find out the truth if you consent Pran being 'voodoo-eyed' by the princess, hahaha. Maybe he doesn't even remember about it, but Millie sure did make him slip out his secrets about Alpheus.

If not, then she'll likely be suspicious, but never found out the real truth, at least until they meet later at the academy.

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Mmm, that's a fair alternative, but I'd rather make a new character designed from the ground up with that plot in mind rather than trying to fit a square peg into a round hole.


I fully understand not wanting to change characters that you have a set image for!

I could see Millie getting upset. They always bring Alpheus with them, and one day suddenly they stop, and they continue to not bring her "friend" to her. That all the adults are making excuses. I permit Millie to use her eyes on Pran. However, that might also cause Millie to figure out how much Pran dislikes his son for the disability even though it's a genetic issue where both parents have to have the recessive gene, meaning that it is Pran and Anuli's fault but Pran and the rest of the family takes it as Alpheus is cursed. Still, he's also the only one in generations that can use magic without it fully backfiring.

So, in short, Millie would know the surface darkness of the Hoel family, unlike others.
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I fully understand not wanting to change characters that you have a set image for!

I could see Millie getting upset. They always bring Alpheus with them, and one day suddenly they stop, and they continue to not bring her "friend" to her. That all the adults are making excuses. I permit Millie to use her eyes on Pran. However, that might also cause Millie to figure out how much Pran dislikes his son for the disability even though it's a genetic issue where both parents have to have the recessive gene, meaning that it is Pran and Anuli's fault but Pran and the rest of the family takes it as Alpheus is cursed. Still, he's also the only one in generations that can use magic without it fully backfiring.

So, in short, Millie would know the surface darkness of the Hoel family, unlike others.


Ohooo, now we're cooking some royally - heh - delicious drama here. Yeah, I think due to the nature of her personality and power, she's the type of person who holds many secrets, with a lot of them not even belonging to herself. Perhaps this was also a factor why she routinely writes in her journal, she may be many things, but having eidetic memory isn't one of them.

For this case, if you accept, sure thing. And to be clear, just in case, you decide how much information did Pran spill out. What you said so far is good though. It can serve as one of the events that fostered her particular hatred for the decadence and corruption that's so ubiquitous amongst nobility. But if she wants that to change, the best way to go about it is to be Empress, and voila, core motivation get.

On a related note, no one must peek into that journal of hers. The stuff inside there can start bloody wars I imagine lol ๐Ÿ˜‚

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