[OOC] Stories from Idumea: Children of Avveel

[taistelusopuli]

The lore section is now finished in the extent I consider it relevant for the scope of the game. If there is anything anyone feels that I should open up, unravel or explain in regard to the lore of Idumea, just make a sound and I will look into it.

[Lord Santa]

This isn't really about the lore, but I'm just wondering if anyone else is gonna show up. I assume some are making their sheets as I type, but can't hurt to ask for some presence.

[taistelusopuli]

@Lord Santa Patience is a virtue ;) Not everyone makes it to be here every day. Even for me it is unlikely that I make it everyday. Now I've been lucky that I don't have that much happening at work.

[Lord Santa]

@Lord Santa Patience is a virtue ;) Not everyone makes it to be here every day. Even for me it is unlikely that I make it everyday. Now I've been lucky that I don't have that much happening at work.

@taistelusopuli

Weeell, I guess since I'm on holidays now, I have too much free time on my hands or something :\

I can wait, though.

[taistelusopuli]

@Lord Santa Yah, wait is all we can :)

[Jozarin]

Also, folks, I won't be able to post until friday night at earliest, or monday morning at latest, due to a camping trip and subsequent visiting of a hermit friend of mine.

[BytheSpleen]

Name: Shteivel / "Lyra" Leevva
Age: 45
Gender: Female
Race: Pure Mountain Elf
Shteivel is the child of two artificers of enchantments, who were both exiled and later assassinated for making enchantments that would steal the magic potential from Mountain Elves specifically.

Nature: Lyra is quite a motherly individual, to the point where she almost coddles her comrades. She brings stricture and order to any sort of lodging, but is extremely susceptible to fall for seemingly vulnerable things. She's rather easy to trust (as she easily trusts just about anyone), provided no one's taking advantage of her kindness...

Looks: Lyra would be, by the hedonistic standards of lords and ladies with the time to spare, a beautiful creature to pry apart at with one's eyes. She stands at a comfortable 5'6, which isn't too terribly tall nor short, except for the fact that people usually think she'd be a half-elf. She weighs 125 lb., which explains her rather average (but again, comfortable!) curves. Despite her given age, her face seems devoid of wrinkles and blemishes - a sign that the beginning of her near-eternal clock has begun to tick.

She is slightly bow-legged, which slightly causes her hips to naturally spread a little wider, and like all elves, she has tipped ears. Her hair, like most Mountain Elves, is a flaxen hue so devoid of color it may be likened to the unpicked grains of wheat in the winter. Her hair is usually tied in a skewered bun or a loose bun, whichever works better. Her eyes are quite beautiful and gentle, as her irises are an incredibly soft and matte powder blue. They are so matte that they refuse to shine sunlight, but instead leave only an ever-soft color to lose one's self in. Her skin is deathly pale with a soft pink twist, as her rigorous mountain-side lifestyle has breathed at least a small burst of life into her cheeks (which are, most times, quite thin). She has slim lips and a cute button nose to boot.

Her only adornment is a brilliantly blue earring on her left ear. A tattoo of what appears to be half of a gear fans out from her tailbone, though what purpose it serves is unknown.

Class: Necromancy
Lyra is a genius at necromancy, especially in the art of manipulating corpses to do her bidding. However, she isn't a terribly skilled spiritualist, which means it's harder for her to talk to spirits and clearly make out their requests and contracts. That's why she refuses to sign any, and instead relies on her own power, which includes death rays alongside her manipulation of corpses.

Story:
Shteivel was once part of the highest of the Mountain Elves, via her family. Most of the people who lived up on the peaks were master artificers; the Leevvas were no exception. Their trade was the enchantment of various objects, and so they were renowned even among the Mountain Elves as among the most precise enchanters of their time. Clocks, compasses, and other instruments of measurement gain unparalleled accuracy. Industrial saws were strengthened to outlast even the most well-maintained of swords. It become a point of controversy, then that the Leevvas began to dabble in innovations, not improvements. Strange tools, though far inferior to that of the magic-imbued instruments, were produced and made cheaply, as they were powered by the sun. For a time, the Mountain Elves enjoyed this dubious technology...only to realize that an entire generation of their children were talentless - stripped of magic.

The one thing the Mountain Elves could call their strength was briefly taken away : magic. These tools did not capture the sun's light for power - they ripped the futures from the wombs of children unborn. Thus, borne in a time of uncertainty and fear was the Vile generation. The weak ones were tossed and disposed of; the stronger ones, however, were exiled and sold into slavery.

Shteivel, the first of the Viles, was kidnapped and processed into this system as her parents became utterly destroyed. She was 10 then. There, she was picked up by no less a half-breed wizard, and became his test subject, apprentice, liason, and eventually confidant. Her final labor, which happened 6 years into her servitude of the wizard, was one last experiment, one that would scar her forever. She was to bind a spirit into her womb, so as to lock it inside the fetus. Only, this attempt was futile.

Although she did learn how to perform magic to an uncannily powerful extent, there was something inside her, a void that originated from her stolen power. The spirit rejected and fled Shteivel, and tore her from the inside out.

She awoke, weeks later, a barren girl. As part of the contract, she was christened "Lyra" as a free woman, though without a future, all things considered...except for what she was taught : necromancy.

Motive: Will PM.

[taistelusopuli]

@Jozarin Thank you for heads up! Then we can look into starting a game latest by the beginning of the coming week. I want to give space for real life too. Since - seriously speaking - it is the more important one ;)

@BytheSpleen A good character you have coming there. Thank you for the entry!

[Shikaru]

@taistelusopuli She only steals things that are worth stealing, no point in stealing something if it is worthless or has no use. She's a thief not a klepto :p.

[taistelusopuli]

@Shikaru Good! =D Just to be sure ;) Do you have any questions regarding lore that you could consider relevant for your character?

[Shikaru]

@taistelusopuli I'll have to read it first :p

[Baklava]

I'll be working on my CS tomorrow. I'd like to finish reading all the character sheets that have been submitted so far... just to make sure we have a good mix.

[taistelusopuli]

@Baklava Take your time. A good character is half of a good game ;)

[nrtashi]

Is there still a chance to join in? Here's the character I wrote:

My character

Name: Elisha Veer
Age: 22
Gender: female
Race: Human
Hailing from warm, southern lands where people are naturally more dark-skinned then their northen brethren.

Nature: A kind heart, ready to reach out to those in need, sometimes even at the expense of her own immediate self-interest. She doesn't like seeing innocent people get hurt, and holds altruism and noble "effort"(understood as self-sacrifice) as the highest virtue. And what higher kindness can there be, how better can she protect the good humans and non-humans of this world, if not by eradicating the evil lurking in the shadows?

Yes, this world is full of corruption, vice, depravity, ever-threatening the well being of innocents and sometimes, even very existence of Idomea. During her rigorous training in the Monastery she was taught the value of self-restraint and temperance. Righteous must be ever vigilant and ever observant, else the evil will go unnoticed and unpunished. She rarely speaks more then it is necessary, and she's always wearing an artificial smile to mask her true thoughts and emotions- a veil to cloud the minds of corrupt so to speak..or a shield to give courage to the innocent.

She also speaks with a slight, yet discernible accent, which marks her as foreigner in these lands.

Looks: Standing at 5'4 she's rather on the "short" end of the spectrum- especially compared to other warriors, most of whom are male and often, a foot or two taller then herself. Her short height and female gender sometimes makes a potential employer question her ability, especially if she's visiting someplace new where they didn't hear about her or her Order.

Like most southern people, she has an easily distinguishable tanned skin and sharp, edged facial features. What differs Elisha from her brethren, though, is her hair color-while most of her brethren are black, even "raven"-haired, she is a natural blonde-a sneaking suspicion that her ancestors might have been immigrants from the north. She usually keeps it no longer then at jaw-lenght, so that it won't interfere during combat.

First and foremost, she's a swordfighter, but she's also been trained in basic martial arts, wrestling and crossbow shooting. Her sword, like most of her order's equipment, is a masterwork of it's kind, forged deeply in the halls of the Monastery by expert blacksmiths who devote all their lives to the art and duty of crafting the finest equipment for the warriors of the Guardian.

Under the long, brown cloak, Elisha's wearing a studded leather armor, preferring it's relative lightness to heavy plate armors or chainmails usually associated with Paladins. Because she's working alone, and often, traveling alone, she can't afford not to be flexible.

Class: A warrior hailing from a Cult of Guardian Rose, a southern off shot from the main religion, that emphasizes physical combat as a best way of crusading against the evils of this world-with a strong emphasis on resisting, detecting and eradicating supernatural corruption, such a demons, undead, black magic....Famed for it's Paladins, who's mission is to travel the world, either alone or in small groups, working as mercenaries for the righteous causes and eradicating evil whenever encountered. However, sword and might alone often fail against magic-therefore, these warrior monks are trained in the art of Detecting and Resisting magical enchantments, psychic manipulation, and all other forms of body and mind altering powers that they might encounter. Elisha's abilities are especially potent against magically infused weapons and objects-both in the terms of recognizing such items and resisting their influence. This, however, has it's price-using such objects herself gives her physical pain, and might even be lethal in the long term. That's why she doesn't use any enchanted weapons or armors, nor potions, nor anything that might have even a slight drop of magic in it. All such items are extremly rare anyway.

Story: Like most Paladins of this particular Cult, she has been sent off to Monastery-a huge, training complex serving also as Guardian Rose's HQ- at the age of 10. It wasn't a sad occasion-the locals hold the cult in the highest esteem and both she and her family were proud that Elisha has been selected as a potential recruit. There, she received a rigorous training in fighting-chosing a sword as her weapon of choice-strategy, Paladin's magic and anti-magic arts, literature, history and geography. And of course, a religious education in the spirit of this particular theological doctrine.

Unfortunately, she never saw her family again. Around two years after she left, her village was devastated by a plague, and everyone died. She was it as a divine omen -God, the Guardian, saved her life for greater purpose. Ever since then, she's been training her hardest, and when the day of graduation came several years later, she was on top of her class in almost all disciplines, hailed a prodigy and offered a rank and place in one of their famed mercenary corps.

However, Elisha refused, explaining that her calling is to travel the world alone. In fact, she was just sick of all the pompous formality surrounding her comrades and superiors-and feared that either she or the cult lost it's way. So she left, and like many other like minded Paladins, she traveled the North, enlisting as a mercenary, a sword-for-hire or an investigator, learning, observing, growing in character. Sometimes as a warrior of the Guardian Rose, sometimes incognito. However, during these years of adventuring, she always kept to the moral code that has been drilled into her along with the knowledge of the sword, and never stained her hands with the blood of the innocent- something not all of her friends can proudly admit to. Not long ago, she's met one of her classmates back from her training days-and to her disgust, discovered that she's now a renegade, a mage killer for higher. Their branch of faith does not condemn all magic-just the branches labeled as "evil"-and thus, killing all and any mages for anyone willing to pay was a heresy, and a betrayal of the order's most basic principles. And so, around 5 years since she left homeland, Elisha found herself traveling back south in order to report this and other disturbing news from the northern lands....

Motive:...when she was contacted by the messenger of King Gonagas...and given how Helsset is on the way south, decided to get sidetracked for her last quest.

I presumed the Guardian is a deity similar to Abrahamic God.

[Lord Santa]

@nrtashi There's probably spots available so don't worry. Your character looks pretty good, but I'm not the guy who accepts them :P

At any rate, there's only really 3 of us and the gm, so it should be fine.

[taistelusopuli]

@nrtashi You could say so, not as brutal though :) and yes, there is a spot!

actually! Since we have a good number of player who have come or are coming so I am going to close the application now. Instead of having to go through the trouble of dropping some one, we play among us.

[taistelusopuli]

@BytheSpleen, @Lord Santa, @Shikaru, @Jozarin, @Baklava, @nrtashi

You have been seen worthy to enter the world of Idumea. If you have not already posted your character to the Characters section, do that by Monday the 28th of the current month. I will post the first IC post about 12:00 (GMT +1). Only the characters that are in there at that time will be part of the game.

You have time to polish your characters until then if there is something you wish to tune or change.

[Zombehs]

Gonna have to withdraw this I suppose.

[taistelusopuli]

Then.. I think it would be good to take care of the boring part. Rules and form!

- Regular Guild rules apply, behave, play fair, no god mode, no playing other's characters and so on...
- All off-topic discussion should be colored gray

- The game goes in rounds where I begin by playing the setting of a round and the rest of you have one turn. I will give direction at the OOC of exceptions and play the environment/NPC turns as the game goes on.
- Once the game begins, don't use hiders in OOC discussion. I will use them to give information to characters that is not openly known.

- Two (2) paragraphs is the bare minimum of a turn. A paragraph to me is three (3) good phat sentences. Three (3) paragraphs is good and more the merrier.
- Watch your grammar! From reading you guys' input so far, I am not worried

- When the characters speak, use the individual assigned color. It makes things a whole lot clearer. Colors are
GM | gold
@BytheSpleen | salmon
@Lord Santa | coral
@Shikaru | khaki
@Jozarin | palegreen
@Baklava | bisque
@nrtashi | lavender

[taistelusopuli]

@Zombehs Will do! ;)