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Alveos Adventure Academy

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Alveos Adventure Academy

I'm still working on filling out my character sheets and I don't have an initial IC post up yet (might be a couple of days, hopefully not), but I do have the OOC and the character skeleton posted here if you want to get started learning about the world and making your character. Thanks again for the interest!

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Alveos Adventure Academy

Jorgle Shalewater

Name: Jorgle Shalewater
Gender: Male
Race: Halfling
Age: 115
Major (Primary/Specialization): Headmaster, History Professor
Appearance: Jorgle looks unremarkable for a halfling. He is about 4' tall with deep blue eyes and short curly brown hair. He often is seen smoking a pipe or snacking on a pastry.
Bio:
Personality: Jorgle is a friendly, laid-back fellow. He enjoys company, particularly if they have good stories to tell. To most, Jorgle comes across as a fairly average halfling, but to those who get to know him, he can be surprisingly cunning and crafty. He has a hidden intellect and wisdom masked behind his geniality. He does truly want to do good for the world and he truly believes that the Academy can be a force for that cause. Per her request, he retains a relatively professional relationship with Vella while on business, but he is a devoted loving husband to her. In his more mischievous moods, he likes to drop hints and there are plenty of rumors about the true nature of their relationship.

Vella

Name: Vella
Gender: Female
Race: Beastfolk- Rabbit
Age: 140
Major (Primary/Specialization): Secretary to the Headmaster
Appearance: Tall and graceful, Vella commands attention when she enters a room. She often wears masculine formal clothing to further accentuate her air of authority. Her long rabbit ears further accentuate her height and her skin is covered in very fine brown fur. She has long white hair she keeps in a very neat bun. She wears glasses that accentuate her piercing brown eyes.
Bio:
Personality: Vella is a very serious and strict person. She likes thing organized and well planned, which means she has been known to but heads with Jorgle on more that one occasion. However, she deeply respects him and his vision. He came to her aid numerous times during their adventuring days and has always had an open ear for her concerns. Though he annoys her with his lackadaisical attitude, she deeply cares for him and knows that he cares for her too.

Siofra

Name: Siofra
Gender: Female
Race: Human
Age: 18
Major (Primary/Specialization): Mage (Alchemy-Potions, Elemental-Wood, Illusion-Charm)
Familiar: Itchy, a mischievious weasel with wind magic.
Appearance:
Bio: Siofra's story starts a few months before her birth. Her father, a rugged hunter and adventurer, had been tasked with taking out a hag from a forest by a nearby town. The local dryad was thrilled to have help in removing the stain on her forest. The two swiftly took down the threat to the realm. One passionate night and nine months later, Siofra was born.
Personality: Siofra has a very mischievous streak inherited from her mother. She's not above slipping people love potions to see what happens. But at her core, she wants to use her talents to help others, which is why she is constantly brewing potions and experimenting with different plant-based concoctions. When truly offended, though, she can become quite toxic, both figuratively and literally.

Alveos Adventure Academy

Dear applicant,

We are delighted to inform you that you have been accepted into the Alveos Adventure Academy. When I founded this place of learning all those years ago, I had a few goals in mind. I wanted to prepare the next generation to be ready to face the dangers of the world around us. I wanted to bring peace to a troubled land. Finally, I wanted to create a place where the varied inhabitants of our beautiful home could learn to coexist and settle disputes before violence needs to break out. You have been chosen to join that legacy of peace and a brighter world. It will be a tough road, but we are all grateful for who you will become along the way. Welcome.

Headmaster Jorgle Shalewater

Alveos is a world comprised of elemental planes fused to create a single realm of natural splendor. There is one realm for each element (water, earth, air, fire, wood, metal, lighting and ice), as well as a central neutral realm where the central ruling powers reside. The realms sentient inhabitants include elementals, beastfolk, elves, halfling, and humans. The elves serve as the primary ruling and diplomats while the elementals control each individual realm. Beastfolk serve as the link between higher species and the creatures found throughout the world. Halflings are a short race who promote peace and simple pleasures. Finally, humans, though shortlived, are numerous and house the most religious individuals on Alveos.

Alveos is a world rich with mana that fuels the magic of the realm. Most people can use at least a little magic. Adventurers often pick up magic to help supplement their other skills. Some even choose to go so far as to specialize in using magic and becoming great mages.

However, not all is well in the world. Monsters swarm the world threatening to to destroy the delicate balance that has been maintained. There are also rumors of something lurking in the shadows, looming a threat over the future of Alveos. Though each realm has its own military, many choose to become adventurers to be free to help without obligations to national interests.

The roleplay will focus on young individuals learning how to deal with the world around them and their instructors try to train and encourage the next generation.

*Please post characters here for me to review before posting them in the character section.

Races

There are five core races available to play for this RP. There is a variety in the midst of these core races, however.

Humans: Humans in this world are similar to humans in most settings. In Alveos, they are the most short-lived of the races. They supplement their relative brevity with faster breeding times and strong convictions. Most humans are a part of the Church of the Twelve Stars. The religion states that there is one creator deity, who mediates the world through the angels represented by the twelve zodiac. See below for more information.

Elementals: Elementals are creatures made from pure elemental energy. The most primordial race found on Alveos, the race was originally represented by four subraces: fiery salamanders, airy sylphs, aquatic undines, and the down-to-earth gnomes. However, when their four separate realms fused in the distant past, four new races and planes were formed at the boundaries. The border of water and air founded the plane of wood and their elementals the dryads. Likewise, water and earth created the realm of ice, inhabited by the Yuki. Earth and fire created the plane of metal with its denizens, the dwarfs. Finally, fire and air fused to create the plane of lightning and it's people, the Rai. Elementals can live to be nearly 1000 years old and rarely die early unless they are actively killed. While in their home, they take the forms of beings made of pure elemental substance. However, to travel from their designated locus, they take on humanoid forms with skin tones, hair colors, and markings giving away their true nature. Dwarves have hair made of different metallic filaments, such as copper or gold. A dryad might have dark tan skin and green hair mimicking a tree. A gnome might have grey skin tones and amethyst crystals for hair.

Elementals tend to embody the extremes of the personalities of their elements. Salamanders are passionate and emotional. Undines are contemplative. Sylphs love freedom and having a good time. Gnomes are stable and dependable, though they can also be stubborn. Yuki are stoic and blunt. Dryads are nurturing and protective. Rai are full of life and energy. Finally, dwarves are determined and diligent.

Elementals of opposite energies often struggle with each other and never form long term romantic relationships and are unable to produce children. Here are the opposing pairs:
Fire Vs. Water
Earth Vs. Air
Wood Vs. Metal
Lightning Vs. Ice

Elves: The elves were divinely created to serve as the ruling class and the mediators for the races of Alveos. They hail from the central plane of Elwyn, where the Academy is located. Elves are divided into four different subraces based on the seasons, as well as associated with certain elements and aspects of a person. Spring elves mediate for the elements of air and wood and represent the spirit. Summer elves moderate the elements of fire and lightning and represent the heart. Autumn elves advocate for the elements of earth and metal while representing the body. Finally, winter elves govern the elements of water and ice and represent the mind. An elf's subrace is determined by the time of birth and not by the parents' subrace. Elves can live for hundreds of years.

Beastfolk: Beastfolk are the race that serves as the link between the sentient, humanoid races of Alveos and the animal kingdom. They are varying levels of bestial, from simply having different ears and a tail, to fully anthropomorphic animals. They often mimic attitudes of the animals they share kinship with. Some examples include kitsune, merfolk, melusines, and butterfly folk (similar to faeries and pixies that you usually see.) Beastfolk live about twice as long as humans.

Halfling: Halfings are the shorter, more stable cousins of the humans. Halfings love nothing more than the simple pleasures in life. One might think this would make them poor adventurers, but the halflings also have a deep appreciation for a good story and the desire to experience them sometimes drives the simple folk to travel to see the world. Halflings live about twice as long as humans and eat about twice as much as well.

NPC Races
Monsters: Monsters are the preeminent problem on Alveos. Chaotic and destructive, they seek nothing short of destroying the life that is maintained on Alveos. A key role of the Academy is learning to use your talents to fend off these beasts. Variations include savage chimeras and manticores, cruel hags, mindless goblins, and a plethora of other foul and offensive creatures.

However, the most feared are the Hara. These monsters were once the very inhabitants of Alveos that make up the playable races. However, at some point, a powerful curse plague was unleashed upon the inhabitants of the world. It transformed the inhabitants into bloodthirsty creatures of the night. Shortly after their discovery, the angels were forced to intervene and quarantined the creatures to a separate plane. Whenever spotted, they are quarantined until heavenly help arrives.

The corruption affected each race differently. Elves were transformed into graceful but bloodthirsty vampires. Humans decayed into zombie hordes. Their cousins the halflings transformed into gluttonous ghouls. The elementals, so tied to the land, became ghosts that haunted their homes and corrupting the very earth around them. Finally, the beastfolk transformed into lycanthropes, forced to separate the civilized sapient forms and the savage animals underneath. Lycanthropes transform under the new moon, when the angel Selune's power is at its weakest.

Angels: The divine servants of the creator, their home is the heavenly realm of the stars. They serve as the mediators between creation and creator. They are represented by the twelve zodiac constellations. The two most powerful are the king and queen, Solarion and Seluna. Solarion controls the sun and is the head of the angelic hosts. Seluna rules the moon and has made it her mission to contain and hopefully cure the Hara.

Major

Warrior: Warriors are fighters who focus on strength and melee fighting. They may supplement their attacks with magic, but they primarily focus on strong, straight forward melee attacks. Examples: Fighter, Paladin, Samurai, Dark Knight

Light Armor: This includes classes that prefer dexterity based approaches, either through ranged attacks or strategic precision attacks. Examples include: Rangers, rogues, archers, monk

Mage: Mages specialize in utilizing magic to its fullest extent. Most mages choose to specialize in one of the primary magic types. Some types, such as elemental magic, may produce even further specializations. See the magic section for more details.

Magic

Magic is pervasive in Alveos. The leylines of the plane stretch everywhere and mana is abundant. To utilize magic in Alveos, people take the raw mana of the leylines and channel it through their souls, refining it into the desired form, before releasing it back out. Magic in Alveos falls into eight categories as follows:

Elemental: Elemental magic draws from the elemental powers surrounding the plane. Created by the elements, the magic is divided amongst the eight elemental types: water, air, earth, fire, wood, lighting, ice, and metal.

Cosmic: Cosmic magic manipulates space and time. One of the two magics created by the angels, it is very difficult to achieve advanced ranks that allow for large scale manipulations. However, spells that affect very local areas can include speeding up or slowing down time for an individual, inverting gravity in a small area, or teleporting a short distance.

Divine: Divine magic contains the primary healing magic as well as the holy offensive spells used to fight of the monsters and evil forces of the world. This is the second of the two magics created by the angels.

Summon: Summon magic was created by the beastfolk to call for their animal allies in their time of need. This magic allows the user to conjure beasts and beings for a short time while giving the ability to give limited commands.

Arcane: Created by the elves, arcane magic is the purest form of magic. Arcane magic abilities include countering other spells, enhancing other spells, and blasting foes with pure mana bursts.

Alchemy: Alchemy is the magic of materials. Created by humans and halfings, it includes transmutation, the enchantment of magic items, and even the enhancement of one's own body.

Illusion: Created by the Hara, but since adapted for general use, illusion magic manipulates the mind and feelings of the target. this includes creating false sensory experiences, charming a foe, or even reading someone's mind.

Necromancy: It is unknown who created the dark magic known as necromancy, but this forbidden magic is rarely performed by the average citizen of Alveos. It can be used to siphon life force, debilitate foes, or most heinously, spread and manipulate the Aracht curse plague that creates the Hara.

Familiars

Familiars are magical pets that bond with their owner. They can range from regular creatures with some small magical capacity to mythical creatures like phoenixes. Some familiar users enter tournaments where they pit their companions in friendly contests to determine who is the strongest.

Character Sheet

*For teachers and staff, place subjects that they teach or their role in the major role as well as the word Staff in front.

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Gender:
Race:
Age:
Major (Primary/Specialization):
Familiar (optional):
Appearance (Pictures and/or descriptions are acceptable.):
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Alveos Adventure Academy

To answer your questions RabidAnubis

1. For humans, around mid teens to early twenties is average. It's not exactly age locked, more like college. The other races tend to live longer, so proportionally they go at the same time of development. I'll go into more detail in the actual write up.
2. It's feudal for the most part. Nobility are very much present. The elves have a council for international decisions that is meant to prevent war. The academy's vision is to train individuals to aid the people of the world from dangerous threats, promote a sense of unity from diverse cultures, and serve as a place of general teaching and academics.
3. The academy is fairly new considering the lifespans of most creatures involved. Also, some factions don't neccesarily agree with the balance that the main capital has set up. Each nation has people who want more say and influence for their nation over the others. Thus, an academy promoting balance may not be looked well upon by those individuals. The main things preventing conflict between nations are the elves, who have been divinely arranged to serve as arbiters and the increasing threat of savage monsters whose only purpose is to destroy and kill.

Hope that answers your questions. Also, I thank all of you for your interest. I am out of town for the holidays at the moment, but I'll start working on the main forum when I get home. It might take me a few days to get it up, but I hope to have it ready by Thursday.

Alveos Adventure Academy

Dear applicant,

We are delighted to inform you that you have been accepted into the Alveos Adventure Academy. When I founded this place of learning all those years ago, I had a few goals in mind. I wanted to prepare the next generation to be ready to face the dangers of the world around us. I wanted to bring peace to a troubled land. Finally, I wanted to create a place where the varied inhabitants of our beautiful home could learn to coexist and settle disputes before violence needs to break out. You have been chosen to join that legacy of peace and a brighter world. It will be a tough road, but we are all grateful for who you will become along the way. Welcome.

Headmaster Jorgle Shalewater

Alveos is a world comprised of elemental planes fused to create a single realm of natural splendor. There is one realm for each element (water, earth, air, fire, wood, metal, lighting and ice), as well as a central neutral realm where the central ruling powers reside. The realms sentient inhabitants include elementals, beastfolk, elves, halfling, and humans. The elves serve as the primary ruling and diplomats while the elementals control each individual realm. Beastfolk serve as the link between higher species and the creatures found throughout the world. Halflings are a short race who promote peace and simple pleasures. Finally, humans, though shortlived, are numerous and house the most religious individuals on Alveos.

Alveos is a world rich with mana that fuels the magic of the realm. Most people can use at least a little magic. Adventurers often pick up magic to help supplement their other skills. Some even choose to go so far as to specialize in using magic and becoming great mages.

However, not all is well in the world. Monsters swarm the world threatening to to destroy the delicate balance that has been maintained. There are also rumors of something lurking in the shadows, looming a threat over the future of Alveos. Though each realm has its own military, many choose to become adventurers to be free to help without obligations to national interests.

The roleplay will focus on young individuals learning how to deal with the world around them and their instructors try to train and encourage the next generation. Let me know who's interested. I'll have more details about the world if we get enough interest to start.

Erstwhile School ~ Fantasy Board School RP

Marea was surprised to see her representative land on the stage. She expected someone a little more humanoid and not a bird. A bird person, maybe, but not an actual bird. She was a little uncomfortable with how fiery he looked, but assumed the heads of the school wouldn't pick a representative if such things as elemental affinities would get in the way of duty. She resolved herself to meet up with him once the entrance ceremony was done.

The Marchand Academy of Sorcery

Carmina had her headphones on the whole ride into the academy. Her parents had sent her off with love. Even her personal servant said he would miss the young lady’s nightly concerts. But they all knew this would be for the best. She had a talent and perhaps the only way she would survive in the adult world would be to master that talent. To be fair, she wanted to go. She loved her home and her family, but they all knew she wanted to travel. She wanted to see the world and play the melodies of many far off lands. This was the first step in that journey. As she stepped onto the plane, she waved goodbye to England, her home, and her family.

Her lack of a voice left her a bit of an introvert, so she spent this trip like most of the ones in her past, watching the rolling landscapes go by as her headphones swept her away. It made the time go by much faster. Occassionally, on both the plane and the bumpy bus ride from the airport, she would get lost in the music and project her soundtrack onto the world. The confused looks quickly reminded her to keep her powers in check.

Carmina finally arrived at the school, collecting her luggage, which included her prized violin. She pulled out a pocket watch from the cloth compartment on her dress. She always blended fashion with function. She noticed she had arrived a little early, so she wasn’t in a particular rush to reach her destination. She decided an exploration of her new home was warranted. She strolled around the school grounds, taking in the massive campus, she knew that she it would take quite some time to discover every nook and cranny. She took another look at her pocket watch and decided it was time to head. She wanted to be fashionably on time, not tardy. She made it to the reception desk and signed in. She simply smiled and nodded at the less than enthused receptionist. She took a quick stroll around the front lobby before making her way to the common room.

Finally, she made her way to the common room. The decor was... eccentric, to say it politely. But, Carmina enjoyed eccentricities and the room's tonal disorder gave her a quick, but silent, chuckle. She noticed the food furst, then the other students. She quickly collected some breakfast and found an empty seat. Though she was starving, she maintained a dignified, but not offputting, air as she ate. While eating, she discretely placed two drumsticks she retrieved from her long stockings onto the table and awaited further instructions from the professors.

The Marchand Academy of Sorcery

Carmina

Full Name: Carmina Lancaster

Age: 16

Gender: Female

Primary: Trickery

Secondaries of Interest: Illumination, Magic Weapon Infusement

Description: Carmina wears her long black hair in a hime cut. She is thin and pale. She has an aristocratic air, but not to an off putting level. She dresses in elegant yet comfortable clothing.

Personality: Carmina has two selves. The outer self is the restrained, polite aristocrat. She knows when to curtsey, how to smile, and when to politely leave a situation. However, her inner self seeks adventure and to express herself. This was the part of personality that convinced her to sneak out of her house and hold private concerts at night. She considers both parts to be who she is, two sides of the same coin. Her goal is to learn to master her magic so that she can be a single person concert.

Crush: None

Skills: -Through playing music, she can generate auditory illusions, allowing her to indirectly speak to others.
-She can also create small visual and other sensory illusions.
-Competent in most musical instruments, though she has a preference for strings.

Weaknesses: -Zero Combat ability
-Even with her proficiency in magic, communication can be difficult sometimes.

Brief History: Carmina was born to a wealthy family with little known mage roots. She was developing normally as a young child, with one major exception. Carmina was mute. The doctors never could figure out why she couldn’t talk, but to this day, she is unable to vocalize her thoughts and feelings. However, she soon discovered her natural talent for music. Being in a high class family, she was trained in a variety of skills, but none came so easily or passionately as her talent for music. She quickly picked up instrument after instrument. She was soon performing shows, to the delight of her parents. During her early teens, she also developed a new talent. Through her music, she began to understand how to manipulate other's perception. This allowed her to more directly communicate using her magic. Despite her rigorous lifestyle, her parents didn’t want to cage their beloved song bird too much. During her free time, she often visited local music stores, listening to CD samples of popular music. When her parents discovered her illusory talents, they researched into the best place to hone those talents as well. She was soon sent to the academy.