Raineh Daze

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@Billsomething

I was planing on having Marduk orcs use the LOTR method when it comes to reproduction.

@rush99999

... never defined and regularly self-contradicting because Tolkien couldn't make his mind up?

World Building Project

@Rin also i am just really like the idea that two people of different species can fall in love (I am a huge romantic)

@Billsomething

Falling in love doesn't necessarily mean babies.

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I honestly find that to be stupid

EDIT: Okay maybe that bit harsh from me but i do find it to be it to similar to the Orks (or because i really want to have lady orcs(Who say pointy ears and hotness only belongs to the elfs)

@Billsomething

I think similar to the orks is intended (and I don't recall much mention of female orcs in normal Warhammer either... though they might just be absent). As for pointy ears and hotness: indeed, it can also belong to various fey. Orcs, however, are characterised by very much not being hot. :P

Though hey, they could still asexually reproduce somehow. Or display even less sexual dimorphism than dwarves.

Black Moon, White Night: A Visual Novel-inspired Urban Fantasy RP

@Raijinslayer If I might interject, I suggest that you talk to the GM about your ideas before writing them up. Trust me, I did not do this vampire in one go. You seem to be just... writing multiple bios when getting an idea that will work and then slightly adjusting it would be much easier.

World Building Project

Honestly, my thought on the grey orcs--and interspecies hybrids in general--is 'scrap the lot'. They never really made sense the way they get presented, and making everything so closely related that anything can make babies with anything is just... eh. Only times I've ever liked it in D&D, really, are things like half-dragons. Because they're ridiculously magical and can shapeshift.

Think I mentioned that I don't like the origins. Because it's just... weird. It isn't a race suggestion, it's also cosmology, setting backstory, decides the divine. It overreaches beyond a forgotten race to the point of just being... confusing? Seems better to not stick everything in concrete terms when it removes later options.

And I still have no idea what the Soul Contract thing actually entails, only that the random language mixing is a bit odd. And that it comes out looking like Latin for some reason. @_@

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Seeing as I wrote a lot on three of the others, I am not sure I should say anything on them. Also still in favour of tiny desert people and four-fingered steppe nomads. :P

Black Moon, White Night: A Visual Novel-inspired Urban Fantasy RP

@Raijinslayer,@VitaVitaAR, can we talk in the New Link I gave ya?

@Letter Bee

Can you please stop saying things like this? It's unsettling.

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Um, think they should maybe be a bit more unified, at least enough that they're more willing to fund a standing military. If all they really have is a calvary then they miss out completely on some of the cool stuff we talked about before.

@VitaVitaAR

By 'standing military' I mean 'there is no unified army across the whole empire'. The military situation is very much based on the HRE's decline (though in this case it's just that there was no real unity to start with), with the 'elite' stuff coming from being based on the ERE.

Plus standing armies as a whole went out of fashion in Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire for the most part and didn't come back until after the medieval period for a variety of reasons, so it's not unreasonable to have the interesting stuff without a permanent force.

World Building Project

Since no objections... I started with the original idea, but may have embellished things a bit. We have... let's see, elements of the ERE, HRE, the Empire from Warhammer more directly, Venice, and Holland.

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Humans occupy a large, geographically varied area, touching on the lands of almost every other race in Marduk. They also have a considerable population advantage over essentially everyone else, though their attempts to present a united front are constantly brought down by internal strife. Still, the threat of so many people being united under one banner alarms their more militant (or paranoid) neighbours, especially those who still remember the old elven empire.

The most significant portion of the realm, in terms of both political and economic influence as well as geographic importance, are the lowlands leading to the coast, and the innumerable rivers that cross through them. Many of the lesser rivers merge into one vast swathe passing through the human’s capital, a trade nexus without peer due to the ability to head upstream to virtually anywhere—or downstream to the ocean and the opportunities therein. With substantial work alongside the dwarves, the original river system has been augmented by canals stretching the breadth of the realm, particularly in the capital—to the point that it’s generally more efficient to get around by boat than walking, though the bridges over the central river are a stand-out feature.

Politically, the empire couldn’t get any more disjointed. Though theoretically united after their first emperor broke free of the elves under the shadow of Edel Athran, the divisions of the numerous scattered tribes persist to this day as political divisions fighting in the realm, sometimes in open conflict, but more commonly in political scheming to get their puppet or actual ruler onto the imperial throne itself. More often than not, however, the original bloodline that ruled the capital and its surrounding lands finds itself at the top of the fragmented pile.

Militarily, humanity as a group favour a balanced approach, as well as adopting new ideas and technologies when they’ve been proven, but they aren’t entirely above a ‘drown-it-in-bodies’ solution. Though having the ability to fund a professional army, the already-fractured political landscape means that nobody is willing to trust a single person with that level of force, with only the theoretically-loyal heavy cavalry being standing forces. Instead, each of the various princes maintains their own troop organisation, whether carrying on their traditions under the elves, conscription, a feudal system, or simply funding mercenaries. Despite all forces ultimately having to answer to the Emperor, short of the high elves getting uppity again, they seem disinclined to answer a call to arms en masse.

In order to protect against a coup from the scheming political factions, one of the past emperors arranged a standing contract with the Dark Elves: they would provide an elite regiment with a size corresponding to the nominal force of the Empire, and alongside the pay, trade agreements with the north would be more generous than otherwise allowed. Said regiment has a terrifying reputation as agile berserkers with a preternatural ability to avoid taking an injury, capable of cutting down even a group of knights with nary a casualty. Whether due to valuing the original contract, inability to provide a better deal, or just taking the long view of things, this group has yet to betray anyone yet… though they’re hardly received well in high company, despite their captain holding a rank equal to any of the princes.

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Minor point: the coastline mentioned isn’t the North. It’s probably the Western or Eastern, since I imagine that elven lands would be the closest to the actual dark elves. It also explains why they’re politically disconnected, due to distance. And that way it still has a Mediterranean climate.

Black Moon, White Night: A Visual Novel-inspired Urban Fantasy RP

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Ok, thanks for the elaboration and sorry for taking up some of your time. I'll refurb the app on the spot and make it to which the magi performed the spell incorrectly; I'll get back on it soon enough.

Also, I am totally not going to have Arata steal a car from our resident vampire if he gets accepted and run onver Magi before eventually crashing into a shop.

@Savo

You do realise how ridiculously hard it would be to steal a modern, high-end sports car? It's not happening. You'd just pick another fight for no reason. :P

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I mean, allies later on, in your Vampire Character's case.

@Letter Bee

I refuse to plan future roleplaying. :P