Letter Bee

Intrigues of Venedig - High Fantasy Mature RP

@Landaus Five-One, All right, I can accept that.

Intrigues of Venedig - High Fantasy Mature RP

@Letter Bee It's a good thing her father is the last of the old traditionalists within the family since the old traditions were based in the past really far in the past like centuries old traditions that didn't change with the times of the Major Nations.

@Landaus Five-One

Venedig is 1000 years old and has been part of the Reich since its founding. The Reich itself is 2000 - 3000 years old. The tribal peoples who came before the Reich revered 'Gods' who were in fact Mortals empowered by Magic. Hatred for Magic is not a major thing in the world and would be seen as a form of madness.

It's all implied or even stated in the OOC OP, in the 'Reich des Goldenen Grahles' hider.

Edit: Okay, it's implied that the Reich lasted for a few centuries and not a millenium before the formation of the Great Inland Sea and the founding of Venedig. But there was still a full millennium after those events.

Intrigues of Venedig - High Fantasy Mature RP

@Landaus Five-One, Anti-Mage feelings are seen as boorish and barbaric everywhere in the world, and Magic is revered as the gift of Existence/The Dragon's Tears/Xul's hard work in the major nations.

Intrigues of Venedig - High Fantasy Mature RP

@IAmKnight, I will be satisfied with one or two paragraphs as long as they are understandable and well-written.

Intrigues of Venedig - High Fantasy Mature RP

@IAmKnight, How so?

Noble Arms: Restoring Hope - With Gratitude to TheHangedMan

The Ship

Pablo smiles at Shion dropping his mask, then says, "This transport ship has a surprising number of rooms, but an earlier use of my power has given me the location of the Agents and the Torture Equipment - It's in a hidden chamber beside the kitchens. That said... I don't think they're torturing anyone now, yet, so I think that the best plan would be to take photos of the equipment, then destroy said equipment, and then get the CIA Agents expelled from the expedition and ship so that we don't cause an incident by 'terminating' them."

Eliza nods at Shion's shift in mood before she said her next words, "Investigator Dias, Shion really is serious about... Not being serious. He's allowed to be unorthodox. Either way, give us the orders and we can move out to apprehend the Agents - Assuming that the CIA don't have a person here keeping tabs on us." She then looked at Shion and Pablo and said, "It is very much possible that this could be a diversion from the actual CIA activities in Operation Symbiosis as they are not blind to Pablo's power and its potential."

She looked at everyone, certain that Shion was still putting up a 'Cone of Silence', and said, "I watched Pablo use his power on the waters around the entire expedition earlier, just before we met with Ein and Andre. The objective was to see the Operation's possible futures, as well as any secrets that can potentially disable them. However, despite this gain in information, there's only so much that one person can do, which is why we need your help - If I were the CIA, I'd toss literal hundreds of distractions at Pablo Legazpi so that he won't be able to stop their real agenda. That or just kill him and damn the consequences."

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"We do," said the commanding officer to Callie. "We have plenty of mine-hunting drones, mostly Chinese models 'willingly' - Note the quotation marks - given by their higher-ups. But be warned, the Disablers have Humvees, six to ten Main Battle Tanks, and dozens of Technicals as well as three to ten Mortars and six pieces of artillery. Even with Noble Arms, even with ressurectives," a reference to Ishaq, "This battle won't be easy."

Kagami's Location

N/A

@Smike@MagusDream@Argonaut@rawkhawk64@Bob the Grunt@Nimbus@Chi@o0V0o

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I did until the last few episodes. I have watched more than a few of the Isekai anime.

Anime Isekai

Overlord
Log Horizon
KonoSuba: God's Blessing On This Wonderful World!
The Rising of the Shield Hero
The Philosopher's Grandson
How NOT to Summon a Demon Lord
Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody
That time I got reincarnated as a slime
In Another World with My Smartphone
.hack//Sign
Sword Art Online

I know I have seen more but I'm too tired and lazy to list them all.

@Aqutanama

I see. I don't really like most Isekai works, as they waste perfectly good story ideas.

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@Aqutanama, You like Re: Zero?

Intrigues of Venedig - High Fantasy Mature RP

@Smike@Stern Algorithm@Overlord Thraka@Aqutanama@Solaris@Rune_Alchemist@Random Kitty:

Fair warning to all once more - I don't want this to turn into an Isekai, so any characters who come from another universe are going to be prohibitively rare and if they are allowed, are going to suffer. A lot.

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Name: Rote Kaufmann

Age: 18

Physical Description:


Important items: Slave Rags and Chains.

Short Bio:

Biography

The Kaufmann Family was a rich and prestigious noble house of the Reich des Goldenen Grahles, swollen with privileges granted by the previous monarchs of the Schwanhueter Dynasty. However, just before Rote's birth, these privileges were threatened not by the Throne or other members of the nobility, but by a more insidious enemy - The infertility of the current head of the Kaufmann family, who had failed to sire a child even after three wives. In desperation, said current head, Braun von Kaufmann, went on a personal trip to the Blackwald, a dark forest once dedicated to the 'Goddess' of Fertility, to find a cure for his sterility.

What happened there, only he knew, as he went with no guards. But when he came back to his wife, he managed to sire a son, who was named Rote (Red) due to the color of his hair. The baby was healthy, and the family was happy to finally have an heir - A setup for said heir's own happiness.

Rote was raised as befit his station, with a strong sense of his own privileges and how to prove himself worthy of them, not just in battle but in the intellectual field. It was rare that he played with others, as he was too busy training how to read, write, and fight. Nor was there many people who were his social equal, even among the nobility's children.

It was also a time of tension among the Reich des Goldenen Grahles, where the Crown's increasing assertiveness was causing waves among the nobility. Braun Kaufmann was among the opponents of Emperor Karl Maximillian as the latter sought to centralize rule, and Rote fully agreed with his father on that. But then one day, something happened to make the young man question what he had been told.

This was just two months before the Nobles' Rebellion, and Rote was unable to sleep due to anxiety about how the revolt was going to fare when it finally begun. So he decided to walk the halls at night and perhaps read a book in the castle study.

As he walked down, he began to hear voices, voices which belonged to his father and a stranger. He snuck into the study, hiding behind a bookcase as he listened to Braun indigantly talking to a hooded man who spoke of provoking the Emperor of the Reich Des Goldenen Grahles into an act that will ruin the Empire's reputation forever. In his anger, Braun revealed that if Rote's well-being was the cost of the bargain that was made in the Blackwald long ago, then he would not have had Rote in the first place. All the hooded man can say was that it was too late to stop the Rebellion - All they can do is try and win it for Rote to be safe.

And he said it in a way that implied that he knew Rote was there, even though Braun did not.

So when the rebellion finally begun, Rote desperately tried to ensure that his side won, fighting in several battles that paved the way to the final engagement at the plains before Kaiserstadt, where the Emperor unleashed his Gunpowder Army at a dry and rainless day. It was a massive slaugther for the Nobles and their armies, with the Crown's army crushing their opposition with almost laughable ease. Braun was mortally wounded in the battle, but not before whispering Rote his last words.

"I failed you - Do not let Prince Otto die, do not get sent to Venedig! The Old 'Gods'... They are planning..." And then he died.

It was only in the Imperial Dungeons when Prince Otto went to the prisoners to assure them of clemency, that Rote realized what his father meant. As the hooded figure from before appeared behind the heir to the Empire and his two guards (he had brought only those few), Rote raised his voice to warn the Prince but it was too late - With a gesture, the hooded figure had mystically incited the prisoners to riot and stab the hapless prince and guards to death with improvised knives.

And although Rote was not part of the murder, he knew this - That his life had been part of a pre-ordained series of events, a series of events that now culminated in the Iron Decree and his coming enslavement in Venedig.

Filled with resentment at how his birth had been part of a plan to bring back the Old Gods, and how they had toyed with his life as part of a plan to destroy the Church of Existence, Rote vowed this: That whatever humiliation and enslavement he experienced, that he'd bring down the Cult that caused all this!

Starting Faction: None.

Spell List:

Soulfire Enchantment (High) - Causes an object that one holds to burn with silver-white flames that burn Nonmagi (anyone without Spells) like ordinary fire but inflict damage unhealable by Magic (but not Ex. Skills) to Magi, Magical Creatures, and Magitech.

Exceptional Skill List:

Ex. Swordsmanship
Ex. Athletics
Ex. Academics.
Ex. Riding.
Ex. Endurance.