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Flames of War [0/12 — Accepting]

@Kuro
I want to specialize even more but I don't know how to word it. How does one specialize in ritual magic including long cast high powered spells, magical trap placement/disablement and plot rituals like whatever the BBEG's doing and how to stop it? What I'm specifically asking for is if I can be the magical traps expert without skilling into Runic or if there's no choice since I want to super-specialize without going into too many fields? I don't think that's possible since most rituals/traps seem like they'd have a need for runes written into a surface. Also I'm salivating at the thought of long cast high powered spells while having a general magic skill, school specialization and ritual specialization.

L'Mordryn Academy

Simon

— Room 4, 4th Floor, House Phantasma Tower —

Simon looked back at himself on the mirror, his bloodshot baggy eyes exhausted from a week of heavy studying. He couldn't believe the figure that looked back at him, the once joyful and excitable boy looking like a haggard stranger. None of it was in vain however as yesterday he was finally able to summon his first elemental. The images of his family pushing him on to try his best in an art he'd barely even known about not weeks prior finally paying off. Mixed emotions filled him, guilt, fear and anxiety being ones he'd gotten accustomed to but finally, a tinge of warm pride welled up in his chest at what he'd been able to achieve. Simon looked back at himself and smiled, for the first time since he left his home the boy finally seeing a glimpse of who he once was.

He promised himself that for just this one day, Simon would try to enjoy himself. He could never forget the people he cared about nor if they'd still be waiting for him but for that one day, he'd resigned himself to be happy if only for his promise to Grandpa Peter. The young boy held his head up high, following the throngs of students aiming towards the cafeteria with a confident walk and proud gaze. Instantly he lost a tinge of his confidence for a moment as he awkwardly tried to follow behind the crowds without stand out.

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The Rorie League, a Pokémon Trainer RP (always open for more players)

Could you expand on the character form? Specifically what ages are the max/min or what age range you're looking for and which pokemon we're allowed/which are usually the starters. Also most people usually start their pokemon trainer career at 10 so If somebody wants to start their career they'd need to wait like 6 years just to be able to compete. Any preferred length for the backstory? Also for appearances, are we allowed to use/do you prefer we use pictures or descriptions?

L'Mordryn Academy

Simon no last name

Name | Simon
Age | 15
Gender | Male
Level/Tier | Tyro
House |
Appearance/Attire |

Appearance/Attire

Because he grew up not always knowing when the next meal would come and because of a childhood illness, Simon grew up frail looking and thin. His skin is pale and white, due to spending most of his spare time doing chores indoors but his hands are callused from all the housework he used to do. Aside from his almost sickly looking body, he exerts a happy aura and a bright smile as if constantly happy.

He dresses casually in a thin hoodie and white shirt or a baggy sweater but somedays when he wakes up earlier than usual or he feels like that day's a special occasion he takes a few minutes to plan out an outfit that looks nice on him. This makes him partially self-conscious and internally he carries an awkward feeling when dressing up, hoping to all that is holy to not make him look like a tool or to stand out too much. Sometimes wears glasses but prefers contacts.

Alignment | Companion

Personality/Habits | Simon is a very friendly and curious individual. He can easily become excited when seeing new things and he finds the academy an incredibly fantastical place that fills him with wonder. Simon's just happy being alive and tries to enjoy his life to the best of his capability while making as many friends as he can. He dearly values the people close to him and even if he doesn't know them, is always willing to help other people while getting to know them. To Simon, strangers are only friends he hasn't met yet. Hobbies mostly include reading (mostly high fantasy fiction), cooking and animal petting.

Background | Born an orphan at a young age, Simon never knew his parents what he knew was that he has family and that he was loved. He grew up with a dozen other brothers and sisters where they were raised by a kindly old man that took in young strays from the large town. Simon loved his family and most of all he felt deep admiration for his grandfather for raising them lovingly as his own children. Even at a young age, Simon knew life wasn't easy. At times hunger would plague the orphanage and rarely did they have money to spare for proper medicine when somebody got sick but they made do with what they had. Simon would try his best to help, always cleaning around the house, collecting herbs from the forest or making food from whatever the orphanage could gather. At times he would read stories to his younger siblings teaching them to read and write, at times his heart would ache to look at the thin, almost emancipated children who went hungry even when the older children gave them extra shares of food.

Years passed in the orphanage, the children would spend every day counting their blessings for whatever little they had. Sometimes the children wouldn't survive the winter, sometimes new siblings were added to their large family, at times the children grew into adults and left. They rarely ever returned to the family. One day their grandfather died and it was up to the older children, including Simon to support their family. They would work, forage and hunt in the nearby forest whenever they could and for a while, everything went well for a while and more often than not they had enough food. One day, a summoner on a mission in the nearby mountain met Simon by chance and identified him as having runic blood. The summoner listened to his tale then offered admission and training to L'Mordryn Academy to properly harness his powers. Simon was torn at the prospect of abandoning his family, but he knew that if he could become a high-class summoner he could make large amounts of money to provide for his siblings. After explaining the situation to his household, a screaming match broke out between some of the siblings asking him to stay with them but no matter how much they pleaded with Simon it could not change his mind. Sides were picked and midway through the argument, the young summoner decided to simply walk away without a word not knowing how to handle the situation. He took the bags he'd packed and left for L'Mordryn Academy, vowing in his heart to return when he'd have the strength and promising to always keep his family in his heart till the day he could help them have a better life.

Simon Summon

Crackling Elemental

Elemental May Flies, Crackling elementals are a mass of congealed electrical energy from the elemental planes. They're simple short-lived beings that exist in a state of chaos but this simplicity also makes understanding them so simple that even the least talented or least learned students can summon one with some practice. Don't let that their description fool you as when fully unleashed Crackling elementals are equivalent to the peak strength of lesser spirits. Crackling elementals only last about two minutes when unleashing their full power before weakly dissipating into energy causing massive exhaustion to the summoner. Even restrained, crackling elementals cannot last long in our realm unless in an environment so immersed in electrical energy that most living being wouldn't survive, for example a heavy thunder cloud. Crackling elementals can't even last long in THEIR own realm either as these sorts of elementals have a tendency to gain a form and conscious, then immediately dissipate back into energy into the air.

Flames of War [0/12 — Accepting]

@Kuro
Damn that was a pretty quick and well-written reply, thanks. I'll see you in like the 20th.

Flames of War [0/12 — Accepting]

@Kuro
Need questions

1.) Since I wanted a mage, I took one skill slot for general magic and one skill slot for his specialization. Is that alright or can I only take single schools? Like since I took general magic am I allowed to use the basics of all schools of magic and one specialization meaning I can be amazing in that one school or is it like magic's rare/grounded enough that I'd need to pick a specific school and just have the basic ability to perform that one school?

2.) I wrote in a magical college into his backstory, do those exist or are wizards in small scattered groups?

3.) How does magic work? Mana or slots? You said it causes exhaustion so I assume it's Mana based and people can just use mana energy to affect the surroundings/themselves. Like Shadowrun

4.) Can I get a measuring stick on what's possible to be done by mages/magic both in a general sense and when they specialize? Like generally what's possible with magic and how much stronger an evoker can use offensive/evocation magic than a generalist/non-evocation specialized mage

5.) Depending on how powerful mages are and the fact everybody can use magic, can knights/fighters can superhuman physical abilities by subconsciously manipulating their mana so they can keep up/keep improving when faced with a literal army of darkness?

6.) I realize I might have misunderstood magic descriptions. With there being Arcane, Rune, Holy and Nature magic, do schools of magic even exist?

Flames of War [0/12 — Accepting]

@Kuro

Jack The Mage

Jack

"Ohh cool are those wights? Those swords look like wight blades at least but they could just be skeletons. Don't touch those swords by the way... they're sharp as all hell and filled to the brim with grudges but it'd probably rot your hands if you aren't careful. ~ Jack after seeing a horde of undead"

_Name

Jack Tulenor

_Gender

Male

_Race

Human (Human Mage Variant)

_Age

22

_Role

Support Wizard, Arcane Expert

_Appearance

A figure cloaked in a red robe and ornate white mask, Jask is almost always fully covered. He carries a simple wooden staff with a blue jewel inbeded into it, although this is mostly a prop, the jewel just a plastic rock, since he can't afford a proper magical artifact.

_Personality

Jack's only real quirk is his love of magic. He has a passion in everything magical especially black magic however he's also happy learning anything he can like mythlogies and mundane skills. The mask hides his facial ques but he usually sounds incredibly cheery and laidback pretty much all the time, making random jokes or going into long topics about this or that. The only time's he's particularly serious is when arguing about magic and its uses, especially with other people that share his passion about the magical arts.

_Background

A talented but trouble making student of the arcane tower of magic, Jack applied for the tower at a young age after finishing his apprenticeship under his adopted father, wandering mage, who sent him to the tower with a letter of recommendation. He spent half his life in the tower, learning about the various schools of magic and blatantly failing his basic ethics classes. Mostly he couldn't understand why the study of forbiden magic would be forbiden. He felt that every magic had a place in the world and that every magic should be studied if only so that they could be countered when the time came. Even doctors studied viruses and diseases to find the best way to counter them so he didn't understand why mages shouldn't have free access to information on demonology and necromancy.

After breaking into his college Library's forbidden section for the nth time to read about dark arts, the administration finally got fed up with Jack and put him into house arrest as they thought of a punishment for him. It was decided that Jack was to be banished into the world for a while and forced to write his thesis on the dark lord's army as well as anti-dark army measurements, joining the war directly to better study the dark army. More than a few people considered this an extended vacation, Jack included who saw this opportunity as a chance to learn directly about the dark army's exciting rituals and creatures. He joined the order with a letter of introduction written up by the college administration which introduced him to the order as a student in the arcane arts specializing in frontline support magic and magical lore.

_Skills

Magic In general: In the sense that he can actually use it and is all around proficient enough to use the basics of all schools as well as give basic information in most things arcane. The tradeoff is that he can only use incredibly basic beginner spells spontaneously and the heavy toll even the most basic of spells can take on his body when spells are cast spontaneously.

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Magical Rituals: The place Jack shines in the most. He's an expert at long cast, high powered spells both in the areas of creating and disabling prepared magical spells. This specific talent is what was highlighted in his letter of introduction, which not incorrectly described him as a support mage and arcane expert. Defusing and countering prepared magical traps being his most useful skill in the field while being able to give a basic idea of magical rituals happening in real time or ones used long ago.

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Necromancy: The magical school that Jack focused heavily on before being kicked out of the college library. He has vast information on even the most obscure undead, complex high-level rituals as well as how to best counter them both. Keeps the practical aspect of his skills a secret and is wary of using the necromancy's high-level spells or rituals both because of the school's dark nature and the dangers of literally summoning evil spirits and shoving them corpses.

_Weakness(es)

Voracious curiosity towards magic and all things magical. His pursuit of dark magic, partially due to his love of magic but also in an effort to best learn the ways to beat dark magic. Tea... Especially anything minty or with black pearls, will do pretty much anything if you add in any lemon based pastry like lemon squares or lemon tarts.

_Equipment

Magical Mask, Notebook and Quill, Ritual Dagger, Chalk, a Bone saw weirdly enough which he keeps in his backpack.

_{Dialogue Color}

Green/00a651

Might need edits

L'Mordryn Academy

Knight Tristan L. Melvin

Name | Tristan Saraceno
Age | 16
Gender | Male
Level/Tier | Adept 2
House | Dracona
Appearance/Attire |
Yes, he's always wearing platemail and carrying a zweihander.

Alignment | Judge

Personality/Habits | Raised to be an upstanding knight in the code of chivalry, Tristan does his best to uphold his personal code. The code in question is simply that he must find a person or ideal to dedicate his life towards. Until that day come he must hone his skills and body while upholding justice. Justice being a vague term nobody can really be sure about except Tristan himself. Aside from walking the path of a warrior, a true knight is also a scholar and poet so as such Tristan rarely speaks normally. He puts his thoughts into 5-7-5 syllable senryu poems for ease of speech however he is capable of forming larger speech using narrative or free form poetry.

Background | One of the most generic backgrounds ever created, Tristan was the third son of the Duke L. Melvin family who proudly leads a glorious knight order. He was raised with a sword in his, being trained to take down any enemy from large heavily armored creatures with a zweihander to smaller more nimble foes with his shortsword. Being of proud noble blood that contained magical power, he was sent to the L'Mordryn Academy to hone his skills while finding a true purpose to fight for while defending what(he thinks) is right.

Favorite Summons |

Justice The Loyal Steed

Tristan's loyal horse named Justice who ferries him into battle. He's had Justice even as a child and would often ride the creature through the fields, enjoying the wind on his face as they galloped about at high speeds. As a truly nimble and sturdy warhorse, Justice can quickly move his master across the battlefield or trample those too slow to get out of his way. Justice isn't simply another summon as he considers the horse to be one of his closest and dearest friend.

Devil's Brigade

Tristan's low loyal blooded retainers, something all great knights must have to wear down the enemy. The Devil's brigade are a squad of pike-wielding Kobold peasants who engage in glorious melee with the enemy, employing kamakazi charge tactics. Their lives are completely cheap and expendable somehow even more so than undead. At times Tristan will use his secret weapon of charging dozens of completely unequipped and untrained kobolds to completely wear down the enemy's stamina before charging in himself.

Still need more backstory

Ehh I'm taking up interest in too many games. I probably should see if I can handle one character before making two.

Pokémon Trainer RP in an Original Region

I'm interested, particularly in the academy. I want to play a pokemon breeder/whatever Brock was though since I've got this itch to be a supporting character recently.

UNFAIR MONSTERS: Never Give Up!

@IceHeartRight will rework I pretty much just riped off the backstory of another character anyway.