Legion02

The Darkness Descends (Fantasy Conquest RP)

((Narrative coming soonish))

My Actions

Garrison
Province 58
- 5 Units of Heavy Infantry
- 5 Units of Light Cavalry
- 5 Units of Magi
- 9 Units of War-Magi
- 2 Units of Bombers
- 4 Unit of Fighters

Province 59
- 3 Units of Light Infantry
- 6 Units of Heavy Infantry
- 5 Units of Light Cavalry
- 5 Units of Magi
- 13 Units of War-Magi
- 2 Units of Bombers
- 3 Unit of Fighters

Province 60
- 2 Units of Light Infantry
- 4 Units of Heavy Infantry
- 5 Units of Magi
- 12 Units of War-Magi
- 2 Units of Bombers
- 4 Unit of Fighters

Province 55
- 2 Units of Light Infantry
- 8 Units of Heavy Infantry
- 5 Units of Magi
- 9 Units of War-Magi
- 2 Units of Bombers
- 4 Unit of Fighters

Province 53
- 18 Units of Heavy Infantry
- 5 Units of Magi
- 7 Units of War-Magi
- 2 Units of Bombers
- 4 Unit of Fighters

Province 52
- 23 Units of Heavy Infantry
- 3 Units of Light Cavalry
- 5 Units of Magi
- 7 Units of War-Magi
- 2 Units of Bombers
- 4 Unit of Fighters

Province 57 (Orngat)
- 16 Units of Magi
- 11 Units of War-Magi

Troop movement
From 46 to 41
- 2 Units of Magi

From 41 to 36
- 3 Units of Magi

From 36 to 34
- 1 Unit of Magi

Production
Ground forces
Province 58: War-Magi
Province 59: War-Magi
Province 60: War-Magi
Province 55: War-Magi
Province 53: Heavy Infantry
Province 52: Heavy Infantry

Airforce
Province 58: Fighter
Province 59: Fighter
Province 60: Fighter
Province 55: Fighter
Province 53: Fighter
Province 52: Fighter

Research
Dark magic

Turn 13 (This is a personal counter of turns I use)

The Darkness Descends (Fantasy Conquest RP)

@Legion02 Still need to see a post from you this turn, whenever you find the time

@BlackRose If you don't get a post up, I'll take executive control of your actions so you don't sit idle as I understand you're having issues

@Bright_Ops Just get it up when you can

@Romero

I'll try to get the numbers up as soon as possible. But would you be okay if I didn't write a narative for it? At least not for now. There has been a lot going on real life.

Mid/High Casual - Divinus: The Deity Roleplay Mk.II

@Dawnscroll It's a good idea. Though would you think writing in the perspective of just animals would be good enough too?

Mid/High Casual - Divinus: The Deity Roleplay Mk.II

@Legion02When're you going to make that order? Sentient Hain exist now; you could make stone-age hunters trained to kill those that will not die...

Hell, you could make some of the order from the elementals.

@Fabulous Knight

Only sentient things with a soul will be in his order. And when more sentient creatures are being created, he will try to compose his order out of all beings. Also, so far there aren't really any monsters or people that won't die. Yet, when those things spawn (the elementals seem to be the first ones, he doesn't mind White Giants because they don't have a cycle) he may start making the Order, lead by his first hero.

Mid/High Casual - Divinus: The Deity Roleplay Mk.II

Look guys! I'm already on a roll! (Don't expect it to last )

Here are two sheets that are rather overdue:

Flickers

Creation:
Magical

Name:
Flickering Sparks; Flickers

Description:
Created when Zephyrion combined his primordial power of Change with Astarte's raw magic ever so slightly so as to alter existence, Flickers are a natural phenomenon that can occasionally appear in places frequently in the presence of Zephyrion's power. These tiny, minuscule sparks of power are enough to animate the air that they touch (or perhaps other substances as well) into a being known as an elemental, after which the Flicker will gain some level of sentience and serve a role similar to a soul.

Flickers are something entirely different from souls. This makes the elementals more like forces of natural than even 'unnatural' lifeforms, means that they do not go to the Primordial Pool or Wraith Stones upon death to be reincarnated or manipulated, and makes them immune to the White Giants' ability to detect souls and life (and likely somewhat resistant to those with the magic of Soul Manipulation). Upon an elemental's defeat, their Flicker may manage to escape and reconstitute itself over time, allowing them to resurrect themselves in a much weaker state. Alternatively, if more care is taken to thoroughly kill an elemental, their Flicker will suptter out and simply cease to exist, consigning them back to the eternal nothingness that preceded their birth.

Appearance

Elementals

Creation:
Being (More like forces of nature than living creatures)
Name:
Elementals; Spiryts; Djinnis

Lifespan: Immortal (Experience no aging or sickness, can be slain but sometimes manage to resurrect themselves)

Description:
Elementals are beings made of anything from an eddy of wind to an entire cliffside, animated by a Flicker and brought into sentience. The first of these kind were the air elementals, animated when Zephyrion unleashed the first Flickers into the winds. As more Flickers spawn into existence, time will show that these spiryts of air are not the only beings that Zephyrion brought into the world. Beings of primal earth, fire, and water are also common, and sometimes there exist 'bastard' spiryts that wield power over some odd combination of two primal elements, like djinnis of steam or mud.

To any elemental being, size is everything: they exist in a rigid hierarchy where the largest are the most powerful and also the most intelligent. Rarely a mighty Flicker is spawned and the elemental that it creates starts off large, but the vast majority are minuscule and must cannibalize other elementals, age for countless centuries, or draw power from worship and offerings if they ever wish to grow. The smallest air elemental might be a spiryt too weak to be seen or sensed that takes the more of a tiny eddy of wind, perhaps not even strong enough to blow out a candle. The most powerful would be tremendous, cloud-sized beings that can smite lesser beings with lightning. Worth noting is that the elementals exist in a sort of feudal system in which each lesser one owes it allegiance to a greater one. There might be billions of lesser elementals so weak and insignificant as to warrant neither a name nor any more respect than that for an ant, a few hundred thousand 'regular' spiryts that can be easily seen and possess of near-humanoid intelligence and power, a few thousand lords whose magical power is to be reckoned with, and then perhaps a dozen so powerful that they answer only to Zephyrion.

Like hiveminded insects, the greater elementals exert a sort of telepathic control over their lessers. Those of regular strength have some degree of free will, but the billions of lesser ones are essentially mindless slaves. In great numbers and coordinated by a few lords, millions of these lesser spiryts could work together to create something formidable like a hurricane.

While they do not often directly mettle in the affairs of living beings, the elemental lords are tasked by Zephyrion with maintaining Change and a crude notion of 'balance' on Galbar, and they bring some some semblance of control and predictability to the primal and chaotic force of Change that Zephyrion first wrought. This sacred task is done through controlling (to a large extent) the weather, erosion, volcanic activity, water movements, and even the movement of the earth. In general, through their constant battling with one another and whimsical displays of power, they manage to maintain a balance and prevent life from becoming too idyllic, stagnant, or boring for Zephyrion's taste.

It is worth noting that elementals long for worship, but whether it simply is a part of their egotistical nature or somehow empowers them the mortals will never know. The Djinnis, as the elemental lords are sometimes called, can shift their appearance, gift a great deal of knowledge, and offer various boons or jinxes. For these reasons, many of the elemental lords are powerful enough to be plausibly seen as deities by the uninformed mortals, and their more direct and reliable influence on worldly affairs means that the local elemental lords might be worshiped even more than Zephyrion or any actual gods. Through prayer and offerings, mortals can often curry enough favor to have the more benevolent elementals gift them with rain or rich earth and bountiful harvest, or convince the crueler ones to show mercy and restraint when wielding their power over natural disasters.

Elementals are usually merciful or aloof enough to not disturb defenseless mortals unless somehow insulted or provoked, but when the inevitable fight does occur, men will witness the terrible power of the spiryts. Often even a spiryt of only mediocre power is extremely resistant if not outright immune to attacks by physical means, but magic will eventually become an equalizing force. It may one day even be possible for mortals to learn the magic of the elemental lords and use that sacred power to dominate and bind spiryts to one's will...

Appearance

Regular elementals, comparable in strength to a sorcerer or several warriors

One of the most powerful ones in all its fury

A Djinni in form that it might use to interact with mortals

So to summarize, elementals (or at least the powerful ones) are sentient and more intelligent than any other lifeforms created so far. They're somewhat hard to fight/kill and if not thoroughly slain via magical means, they can sometimes manage to revive themselves albeit in a much weaker state. So they're something between living beings and forces of magic/nature, about as alien to animals as robots are.

Instead of souls, they have something called flickers. It's similar but the main difference is that these 'Flicker' souls are not under Reathos' jurisdiction and can't go into Wraith Stones or the Primordial Pool, be used for necromancy, or be reincarnated. Flickers just sort of appear in places where there is a lot of the energy that creates them (Zephyrion's Change and primal magic), so Galbar and maybe a few other worlds will start having Flickers but they won't just randomly appear on lifeless rocks all over the cosmos. Anyways, once a flicker soul appears it will animate the wind, earth, mud, fog, water...anything really, and become an elemental with traits and powers that somewhat reflect its composition and nature.

I know this all might be heavy and on the OP side, but their toughness is somewhat offset by how there are less than a million spiryts that are even remotely intelligent or powerful, and that number should stay pretty static on Galbar. Eventually I intend for a sort of shamanistic magic to be invented/taught/stolen by the mortals which would allow them to enslave and exploit the power of tons of lesser elementals just like the powerful ones do, which would effectively allow for a strange form of pyromancy, geomancy, etc.

@Legion02 I'm actually kind of interested in how Reathos will feel about these sorts of beings that don't properly die according to his rules, though I suspect he will hate them. For fairness I mentioned that @Frettzo Astarte's soul manipulation can be used to some extent on the elementals and flickers. And of course, other gods like Vestec could still corrupt or otherwise change flickers to make death elementals and all sorts of terrors; don't get the idea that I made the elementals conceptually different just so that they couldn't be messed with.

@Cyclone

Man will he be confused. Like at one part they are a force of nature. But on the other hand they are sentient. I think that in the end he will make sure his order holds a number of mages capable to dispatch these flickers. Sort of making an 'apex predator' for them so he has a hold over their 'death'. He won't hate them being, he'll probably just hate them for not dying.

The Darkness Descends (Fantasy Conquest RP)

Maybe. Don't assume the darkness plays fair. Doubtless as soon as I get familiars that'll get shut down too. >.< _{Just complaining to have fun don't worry XD}

@Eklispe

I have familiars for several turns now. Used fire familiars and water ones already. So far my familiars haven't been blocked.

The Darkness Descends (Fantasy Conquest RP)

Wait...Guys...If the Darkness somehow knows how to put down our necromancy and illusion magic...then we must have a way to like block the Darknes magic no? Elemental hasn't been affected in the slightest. Maybe that could form a pointer on how to battle this?

Mid/High Casual - Divinus: The Deity Roleplay Mk.II

Man, are we really going to make giant things now? Because if so I'll have to mod my Heraktati to become damn titans! You know what, no! Zephyr! Blow up one of those damn vulcanoes! Fill the sky with carbon! Let's kill these heavy breathing things!

Mid/High Casual - Divinus: The Deity Roleplay Mk.II

@Legion02 I noticed that you spent 1 FP on creating your Apex Predators. I fixed it in my stat file, you have 1 Might and 2 FP atm

@Kho

Yeah, that's basically because they seem so over-engineered to me. With quite complex poison, 6 legs and 2 sets of eyes for bothin the dark and light it only seemed honest that their creation did cost something.

Mid/High Casual - Divinus: The Deity Roleplay Mk.II

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I was up to it before sentient life, now its too late, will still talk with Zeph about tectonics. But no Siberian Traps or Atlantic Ridge will be proposed.

Though maybe Ilunabar (once she gets over her fear of death gods) could propose a few games to Reathos like "Bring this species from one side to another and lets see which ones will survive" or "Lets make this one bigger and see if it can overtake the current predato" or even "Lets block this river and see how the creatures of this region will react"

@Double Capybara

The problem here is that every time Reathos will ask: Why? Is it fated? Is it part of the cycle? But maybe Illunabar may dare to 'invent' a little story about her and Fate...