Raineh Daze

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

If we want interesting historical trivia, knights generally did (and are correctly in formal settings to the modern day) get addressed by their first name. Higher nobility are called by their title.

But strangely people seem not to like the pedantry about correct address. xD

Still, think about the Knights of the Round Table. Given names all. This is useful given Gawain, Gareth, and Gaheris are all full siblings.

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@Vec Okay, sorry to take so long to get to you, but your character's fine. There's one minor background problem in that Estival is landlocked. A map will at some point be forthcoming since we're more likely to leave the country here than in Iron Roses, but yeah, that's otherwise fine. If you wanted to stick to an eastern coastline, though, it'd be Ithillin.

@Derg2 So without the slavery, it's more... tonal things? Like it's just plain off to take what is a shorter than human race, apply malnourishment, apply only being 16 and a guy, and come out with a 6'5 wall of muscle. Something here doesn't add up.

Apart from that, if he's a Hundi dead set on following traditions, it might be advisable if the journey was actually concluded by the time he reached Estival. Weird engagements would otherwise be a risk. Though that could still be a thing in play, it's worth acknowledging.

Also, given the sheer number of people who have already posted a bio or expressed interest (here and in PMs), I think it's best if the roleplay stops accepting more people who have yet to say anything, at least until it's started and the stable player base is clear.

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@PaulHaynek I think it would be easier if you just had her use her actual rank; it doesn't add anything to try and be masquerading as a lower rank... honestly it's more problematic, because the whole point of having everyone clustered around rank 4-6 is that they're going to be doing the same jobs.

And consistently faking being an incompetent warrior is pretty difficult.

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

Tyaethe Radistirin

"It's the same sort of ball as any other," Tyaethe said, shrugging, "Or any other social event where the nobility and knights have to mingle. Vultures endlessly searching for something to pick at, in the hope that they can pull the knights a little bit more under their control and try to get a new way to show their prestige by flaunting control of a saint's relics and the kingdom's most famous order of knights."

Snagging some pastry or other from a passing servant, the white-haired paladin scanned the crowd once more for something going wrong, or about to go wrong, "Most of the knights have no idea something like this is happening; they lack the experience with the higher strata of the nobility to recognise it. It never helps that the searching only back down for a while when reminded of how strong we have to be to keep Thaln safe and how easily it could backfire... but Mayon would never accept knocking some sense into their heads every time we attend a social event."

Swallowing the pastry, she looked properly at Jerel, "Shouldn't you be enjoying this, anyway? There's only so many royal balls you can attend in a lifetime."

@jdh97

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@Caasicam It's just a troll, forget about it.

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Yup, banned from the thread. Get out.

To quote the forum rules:

GMs and Co-GM RP thread bans are up to them. Staff does not police RP thread bans.

Also, I will note that this sort of stupidity is why I generally ask people to leave pretty quickly when they start treating every setting point as up for debate. The policy here is: ask, then get answers; if there are undefined things then give suggestions. Not ask, suggest, argue when rebuffed.

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@Myrna Minkoff Please drop the argument. Even your own quote indicates a two-factor source: beginning with dark skin and diet to maintain it. The skin tone of dark elves is neither up for debate nor is this science remotely relevant.

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The paper you actually linked contains no such claim and contains absolutely zero occurrences of the word Inuit, albeit mentioning that the depigmentation of Greenlanders is much slower than might be expected due to alternative dietary sources. The web article at least does give fish as an alternative source of Vitamin D, but this only explains how a population would maintain its tone. Ergo, even in the absurd case of wanting to apply real-world biology to a fantasy setting, it's a moot point.

As for Dark Elves and snow... they live underground. This isn't an "they live in the north OR in caves", it's "they live in the north in caves".

Now, please drop the science discussion, I have to read papers often enough day to day without doing it when I'm looking at fantasy.

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The abstract for that paper clearly identifies the primary correlation with skin pigmentation as UV levels; furthermore the conclusion continues the same premise. Pages 72 and 73 identify the alternative reason for how both native Greenlanders and the Inuit maintain a darker skin tone in such northern climates (maintain, not develop) in the high degree of Vitamin D available in their diet. Therefore, if a fair-skinned population were to move north, there would be no overriding pressure to increase pigmentation, and thus they would retain a pale skin-tone. i.e. a darker skintone moving north is the baseline taken when assessing changes in relative melanin content in humans; increased Vitamin D in the diet would not have the same effect.

Otherwise, the mass domestication of chickens would have had a really strange effect by now.

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If you want to make a character and relevant information isn't in the first post, ask for clarification before making the bio.