Raineh Daze

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There is a clear distinction between asking for information on something, and your current attitude of passive-aggressively insisting on filling in the blanks and how it fits in what you've been told. It makes it quite clear that even if the questions were answered fully, roleplaying with you would be a trying and extremely frustrating experience at best, one which I have no interest in GMing.

As for anyone else who might be interested in Dark Elves: living underground in a fantasy setting, the majority of their diet is carnivorous or fungal in nature, including those things that might otherwise get in from above. As the underground is as expansive as you might expect when an entire subclassification of elf has moved there, there are always a lot of geothermal or magical hotspots to provide the initial nutrition that feeds the food chain. Having their own access to magic both arcane and via beseeching deities, this tends to work out reasonably well, but does leave them quite poorly suited--like naga and some drider--to being accustomed to the cuisine of Estival.

As elves were ancestrally pale and have had no reason to consequently derive a dark skin tone to protect from the sun (along with long generations and agelessness), they're all to some degree pale, though the lack of sunlight tends to make the dark elves particularly pallid due to lack of tanning.

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@Myrna Minkoff I'm sorry, but since you're obviously dead-set on questioning every setting detail that isn't mentioned† and now trying to use (incorrect) science to insist on not having to find a more appropriate appearance, I'm going to have to say that this roleplay isn't going to suit you, please leave.

† You know it's an OP, not an encyclopaedia, right?

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@Myrna Minkoff ... why would you have a dark-skinned complexion when you live underground?

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@Myrna Minkoff This one is quite quick: no.

I feel I have to post this because somehow it hasn't occurred to everyone, when using one of the less-native races, to actually ask any questions:



Please, ask, don't just assume that because a setting has dark elves they're evil dark-skinned backstabbing lunatics who worship strange gods, or that you can randomly insert a large volcanic area into the damn country (which they aren't even native to).

The OP covers the generalities and the local area. At least ask if your idea fits the setting before writing an entire bio on a false premise!

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Well, everyone is already signed up as adventurers, so there's no reason they could all be strangers (especially with people being about the same ability level), but it's not like there's a fixed party requirement.

Damn, there goes that idea. My original plan was to create a sentient undead that woke up in a field a while back with no memory of their former life, not even realising their undead nature for the first few months after awakening, given sapient undead look like normal people as far as I can tell. The idea was to have their inability to find out who they were previously and the realisation that it really doesn’t matter be the basis for their personality and the lack of memories being their drive for becoming an adventurer. Unfortunately, that’s more of a character gimmick than a good reason to play a sapient undead, so I don’t suppose that’d be acceptable? Figured I'd check anyway.

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@TheMushroomLord

Not a good reason to be undead, no. Particularly as undead might not look undead but it wouldn't take months to realise "wait, I don't need food or rest".

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Sentient. Undead. Aren't. Predictable.

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To contextualise why former IR and paladins are pretty much out-of-rank:

• The Iron Roses are by and large made up of people who have already proven themselves. The order as a whole is much stronger than any military force of remotely comparable size. Even the people who get in for other weird reasons are probably Rank 6 at a starting point. Long story short? They're not comparable to average adventurers.
• Paladins, on the other hand, are both highly trained and supported by the church and the goddesses. Blessed equipment is ubiquitous, Reonites have literal flaming weapons... and as part of their duties they're often knights errant, who go out and do standard adventurer jobs which can be entirely unsupported. So maybe a paladin literally fresh out of training would be Rank 6 or 7.
• Combining both of them you have a paladin that was exceptional enough to be inducted into a selective knightly order. There is no way anyone of that rank would ever be able to masquerade as a novice.

I think the rank breakdown is like...
1-3: Total novices or those with no talent whatsoever.
4-7: The average competency one would expect, whether by lack of experience or lack of skill or lack of drive to push harder.
8-Knight: Experienced, strong, capable; generally at this point there's less and less jobs that you aren't ALLOWED to take (if any), just given a safety warning. Like, nobody's going to let a rank 7 go dragon-hunting. Page? Sure, just be careful... and ffs take friends.
Queen+King+Arcana: Congratulations, bards are writing songs about you.

Blades of Iron Roses: An Anime-Inspired Fantasy Knight RP

Tyaethe Radistirin

Over with the religious delegation, Tyaethe had run dry of much to talk about--by and large, matters of ecclesiastical jurisdiction rarely concerned her, and she was hardly one for scholarly debates or determining which temple particularly needed renovating or if there was a pressing need for some facilities to be replaced. Tyaethe still held that it would be a good exercise to send some paladins in training to the Iron Roses for practical experience and to reaffirm the order's character; but as usual was countered with the Order's expertise being too great to allow such green recruits. Which was annoying, what did they think she planned to do, use them as dragon bait?

Once everyone involved had confirmed whether anything had happened regarding the order's erstwhile saint (as ever, nothing on a practical or revelatory front) or her numerous relics (all accounted for, Tyaethe probably needed to dust them when there was nothing more important to do), the vampire had returned to drinking and watching the party. The princess seemed to be making a good impression on her compatriots, and they weren't embarrassing the order--that was a step up.

Elwen... it was a strange choice to invite her to the party, but on the other hand it was nice to have her under direct supervision. So long as she didn't drink half the court's wine and start a drunken brawl with real weapons.

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They're very much married though, it would not be appreciated. :P

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No flirting with the Hundi.