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she/her pronouns. I'm interested in a wide variety of roleplays, but I tend toward prefering High Fantasy and High Sci Fi settings (think Elder Scrolls or Warhammer 40k). Whether it's a Nation Roleplay (I love digging into fictional politics) something on a smaller, individual scale, or something in between, there's a good chance I might be interested! I especially enjoy fantasy setting with weird, esoteric fluff - up to and including the nonsense that happens in Elder Scrolls, or, occasionally, Age of Sigmar.

Fave settings /period/ are Warcraft, and Golarion. WH40k and AoS are close.

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Consider your app accepted!
Added some explanatory blurbs to the apps.


consider your Dalaran app(s) to be accepted, though I need you to talk about map stuff with @Erezrim/MuscleWizard

Edit: Something else i noticed. Sorry for the walkback. Will msg you on discord.










Please read the below story vignettes.





Welcome to the OOC for Tales of Azeroth: Flames of Chaos, a character-focused grand scale roleplay set in another Azeroth, three and a half years after the failed Scourge Invasion of Quel'thalas. Many things are similar, but others are very different, all because a single Elf decided to right the suffering of her people.

The Burning Legion, stripped of much of its leadership by its violent disappearance, is wild and leaderless. Fel corruption ravages Desolace from Mannoroc Coven and Thunder Axe fortress, threatening the Night Elves to the north.

The Scourge, likewise, ails -- its back was broken by the offensive against Quel'thalas; met by constant Farstrider harassment, it was unable to penetrate deeply into the Eversong Woods, its rapid expansion turned into a brutal, gruelling quagmire at the impenetrable Elfgates and the incredible might of Silvermoon's Magisters. Deprived of Kel'thuzad, there was little they could do aside from shallowly penetrate into the Eversong before being forced to retreat and consolidate in Lordaeron, scheming to subvert the Quillboar in an attempt to make inroads on Kalimdor, all at the behest of the new Lich King, Arthas, who was forced into his position by the sudden weakening of Ner'zhul as his connection to the Shadowlands vanished.

The Old Gods, however, still threaten to awaken, their masters, the Void Lords, hardly impeded by the gulf of emptiness separating them from this reality.. The titan watchers are thrown into chaos, granting them further opportunities to spread their admittedly weakened influence, this shard's Algalon halted from purging the planet only by the fact that the true Azeroth exists elsewhere, thus making re-origination unnecessary, though the threat is still monitored closely.

The Broken Isles -- and the Shal'dorei -- stand on a dangerous precipice, Elisande having potentially discovered through her time magics that her city is finally safe from the Legion, free to spread her influence without worry of being obliterated by the demons.

The Mists of Pandaria -- the final black mark on Emperor Shaohao's legacy -- have abruptly faded, blown apart by the enormous release of magic created by the violent discorporeation of the Legion's most powerful commanders, leaving Pandaria exposed to the rest of the world for the first time in ten thousand years.

The Dark Portal, exposed to the very same release of magic, has abruptly re-opened, wrenching an equally unintended fractured Draenor into being, offering whole Tempest Keep and its Draenei inhabitants an unexpected lease of life.

This Azeroth's Nozdormu, having realized the unintentional nature of this Azeroth's existence, wrestles with the reality of whether or not he can allow it to exist -- and the Dragon Aspects, still as powerful as they ever had been, return to the Dragon Isles decades early, convening on the nature of their duties, Malygos's role still in question, the Aspects grappling with their role in this false world.

Everything else (and the specifics of the above) are for the writers to decide, barring what I specify. In essence -- I'm providing a framework for the state of Azeroth, but only that -- a framework. Think of this as a pseudo-nation RP where you control organizations and nations through important people like Maxwell Tyrosus, Go'el, or people who might have taken their places. Multiple players can fit into a faction, of course, and are encouraged to do so -- Cairne and Thrall, for instance.

Writers will be heavily encouraged to take on roles of great import, to fill out the essential spots in the world, ar least at first. Some -- even many -- will be canon characters, but you're more than encouraged to field proposals for OCs and where/how they'll be involved. Either way, I expect decently hogh-effort applications. This doesn't mean you need to give me an essay for each character (frankly, I'd prefer to not need to read a novel!), of course, but I reserve the right to reject applications when the time comes for the full RP. Currently, the plan is to start approximately four years and six months after the start of the Third War, and about three and a half years after the Scourge was forced out of Quel'thalas by the High Elves, having failed to penetrate the first Elfgate.










Discord Link: discord.gg/4s7JKBMf

Claimed Entities: Scarlet Crusade/Argent Dawn, Gnomeregan, Red Dragonflight, Gilneas, Dalaran, the Kaldorei and Green Dragonflight, Quel'thalas, Khaz Modan, Ogrimmar (note, leaders of the Horde other than Thrall are still playable!)
Discord Link: discord.gg/4s7JKBMf
I've played all the RTS games and WotLK but I'm somewhat ignorant of the new lore (though I have skimmed through the wiki to try get a base idea), but since most of the point of divergence seems to be "higher level" so hopefully I should be fine sticking to just what was depicted in Reign of Chaos for Dalaran

EDIT: By the way, how many "creative liberties" could we take, particularly given its an alternate timeline/universe? I.e. a lot of the characters that would be important to the story of Dalaran i.e. members of their council have rather barebones, unclear, or even conflicting lore.


That depends on the given character, I guess. I'd encourage you to fill in gaps, that said!

Edit: to clarify, yesz feel free to fill in backstories that aren't, well, filled-in.
Ah I see, there were multiple references in the post suggesting that things were happening faster than they did in canon (like returning to the dragon isles) so presumed it hadn't been that long since the divergence. Given that the events of Legion have already happened in the main timeline I suppose this now makes more sense. I'll admit it's a bit of a shame for me because I feel like the masters of the Legion could be interesting characters to still have bumping around but I get the decision.

I'm thinking I might combine the elf idea with the dragon idea to play something of a more formalised alliance of Kaldorei and Green dragons protecting Kalimdor from the new arrivals of the Alliance and Horde, as I would imagine the orcs and humans that fled the North would still have ended up there.

Also interested in something to do with an alternate group of Sunfury Elves and/or Kul Tiras but I'd be happy to wait to see what other people want to write or maybe even collab those with someone. Don't want to hog all my favourite bits right from the bat.


I'llbe sure to clarify those things when the actual OOC goes up, but for everyone else, be aware that things are happening CONCURRENTLY with Dragonflight; eg. This pocket dimension was created by a time traveller from "present" day.

Don't see any issues with either of those concepts, though. I'm a bit dragon-biased, admittedly! I'll likely be doing a few things myself -- Alexstrasza, most likely, plus a more traditional nation. Perhaps Gilneas, or Gnomeregan, an all-time favourite of mine.
Let's go!

I imagine I'll do something dragon related, but I am also a big fan of all shades of Warcraft elf and then also Kul Tiras.... decisions decisions.

The removal of the Legion as a unified body brings up the question of if fel magic/demons are still a thing at all? I think cutting them entirely out wouldn't be ideal, I find warcraft demons and fel a pretty fun play on the usual fantasy demons/corruption tropes and it would be a shame to completely remove them. Blood elf vibes for the win.

EDIT:

Collecting my thoughts a bit more on this, I'm not sure why the One Legion thing would mean that the Legion in this timeline would be cut off, as we see in WoD and both Karazhan instances its not that the Legion is only interested in main Azeroth its that they are pan-reality. Until the Legion is defeated on Argus in the main timeline surely they would still be a substantial threat?


Thanks for bringing these things up -- this is a good opportunity for me to clarify a few things.

Fel Magic -- and the Twisting Nether -- are still absolutely things, and considering what you've said, I do think I'll amp up the threat level of demons somewhat, though my intent IS that this takes place concurrently with Dragonflight, timeline-wise. My bad for not making that clear in the OP.

In essence, what you have here is a WoD situation -- a pocket dimension that is concurrent with Azeroth rather than being an independent timeline. A number of the more important demons are still alive -- Detheroc, for example. Any demon that wasn't slain in finality in the true timeline.

This is my longwinded way of saying that demons are still a threat, particularly the Dreadlords, but they don't have some of the big guns backing them up or giving them orders.
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