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My internet is acting weird, so If I can't post later I apologize. However, I'm responding to everything that is up right now.

@McHaggis Accepted! That's a very good character there! Post in the CS section!
@The New Yorker Accepted! Post in the CS section! Also, some very interesting gear.
@ancient dragon A fairly good character, and although her career is fruitful she is too young to fall into this roleplay. However, I did like how you kept mindful of the plot with your character's retinue. Consider increasing her age a bit. Also, she is a bit too similar to Fyldren. Can you think of some differences between you two?
@gloriousinfamy Thanks for the help, and I'll be glad to see it!
@SPAssemble Your character should be famous or legendary, but not a minor god. You should be in the top 10 of your class worldwide. Just keep in mind that these creatures we are going against ARE minor gods. I've played some D&D but I've never reached the late game.

For example, Fyldren is considered to be powerful enough. Personally leading a small army out of captivity, winning against unbelievable odds. Doctor Facsimile can become (if he combines his abilities) a giant made of stone or he can walk into a dwarvern fortress and become a giant inside of it.

Let's Say the powerscale/reputation is...

Mythic - You are the best in your class to ever appear on the continent, although you probably aren't put on the list because they want to avoid ranking an actual god. Peasants and kings may worship you, sorcerers call upon your power from another plane of existence long after your death, and the educated on other continents study you as an example. The only real difference between this and being a minor god is that a minor god is immortal where time concerns and slightly more powerful, although with enough power...
Legendary- You are the best in your class for a millennium. You would show up in a general history textbook, and are sung in songs throughout the world. Even the most illiterate peasant would probably know who you were. A large army would consider fighting you to be a serious challenge.
Grandmaster - You are one of the best in your class in the world. The peasantry from the lands you influenced the most would know about you, and the educated from other lands certainly would. Very few mortals would contemplate challenging you. A kingdom might consider you it's champion. Someone has probably given you a theme song.
Famous - You are one of the best in your class. Anyone interested in your profession would know who you were, and you are probably renown in the kingdom you reside in. While not the champion of your kingdom, you are on the hotline if anything goes wrong.

I would consider all the characters submitted to fall into the grandmaster category. I would be okay with going up to the legendary category.

A Saga of Frost (A Roleplay About a Low Fantasy Vikings Invasion)

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Acamen Hopsfield

Examplar of the Brilliant Gold

Acamen Hopsfield

Human White Mage

Appearance
While not wearing robes, Acamen appears to be flawless. That is not to say he is handsome, just to say that no blight or blemish or disfigurement has touched his body. Compared to most men, the white mage is smaller than his reputation, standing at a modest five-foot six and lean in build. However, that build is 145 pounds of pure muscle from his many years of traveling. His light olive skin indicates than he was initially from the south, but his recent travels up north have slowly drained away his native coloring. The white mages eyes and hair are both a brilliant gold, probably a result of an overuse of white magic.

Age: Fifty Six
Race: Human
Gender: Male

Rise to Power
Born into the peasantry, Acamen's was the son of a brewer. Acamen could be said to be part of the middle class, so being friends with some of the more well-off children was not uncommon.

The future white mage had been childhood friends with Maruna, the daughter of the local baronet. As they approached the early teenage years the two started to become more romantic and the baronet split them apart upon being informed that they had been holding hands and kissing. Despite the possibility of being executed, Acamen walked straight up to the lord's manor and accused him of being unfair. After all, this was true love. The local baronet, sympathetic to Acamen, stated that the reality of the world was that Acamen was the son of a high quality brewer while Maruna was nobility. The lady had already received a marriage offer from a thirty-something year old knight who had taken lands in a recent war.

Acamen stated that Maruna wouldn't be happy with the knight, which the baronet agreed to. So the baronet made an offer; if Acamen could prove himself more manly and bring along a larger dowry than the knight could offer, Acamen could take Maruna's hand in marriage. Acamen vowed he would be back by the end of the week. The future mage immediately went to the tavern his mother ran, the village laughing at the young man.

Acamen returned with five times the knights drowry at the end of the week. The baronet, surprised, asked how Acamen acquired so much gold. Upon summoning a golden staff of light engraved in draconic runes, it became clear that Acamen had defeated the dragon god of light. The baronet was glad to allow Acamen to join hands with his daughter. The village threw a party for them, singing praises to their new hero.

Two years later Acamen broke up with Maruna because she had become a bitch. Her reputation as the hero's girl made her gradually become insufferable. Acamen, wanting to avoid the fallout, left home at sixteen to explore the world.

The white mage immediately met up with an angel, also named Maruna, and after much confusion started traveling with her. Over time, they defeated the dragon gods of water, fire, and darkness. They acquired artifacts from each of them along with a ridiculous amount of wealth, on the sole condition that Acamen never explained to anyone how the pair defeated the dragon gods. The angel, although initially annoyed that Acamen had defeated one of her gods, eventually grew to appreciate the young man. Maruna started to cook the mage dinner, sing him songs, and take care of him.

Ten years had passed, and the angel eventually gave up and simply asked the white mage what their relationship was. The white mage blinked, assuming they were just good friends, and she was simply being nice to him because she was an angel. After some violence and a little convincing, they were married. Acamen was twenty seven.

Years passed and the pair took down many beasts, great and small. They fought in the Schattenwald over the years. They healed the wounded. They cured great kings of ailments no other could. Eventually they had a child. After raising her for ten years the pair returned to adventuring, stepping up their game. Partially wanting to impress the other and partially wanting to impress their daughter, the parents would head into more and more dangerous quests. Their reputation grew. After confronting an entire undead army together in Schattenwald, Maruna died in Acamen's hands. The forty four year old mage ended his career on the spot.

Combat Skills
Acamen is a masterful white mage. Not just a simple healer, Acamen is adept at calling upon both his own strength and those in the heavens to smite those who stand before him. He can enhance allies endurance, allowing them to fight longer. He can cast heavenly chains upon those who he wants to capture or who are moving too damn much for him to be able to cast a major spell on. He can temporarily allow himself to fly, granting him a bird's eye's view of the battlefield. These are just a few examples of his white magic.

The Exemplar also has learned the spear well, but most of his strength is because of the weapon itself and not natural talent.

Hobbies
Brewing - Sometimes, Acamen wants to experience the nostalgia of his home town.
Singing - Having learned it from his wife, this is one of the things Acamen learned from her over time. He sometimes does it while he fights.
Games - Want to play tafl? Acamen will be your player.
Melee fighting - While having little talent in the area and incapable of acquiring divinity, Acamen has always enjoyed the tales of knights.
Reading - He is a Magician and therefore gathering knowledge is essential.

Your Gear
The Brilliant Gold - While normally a staff, the points can join together at the top to form a spear. This staff enhances white magic and is the sign that Acamen defeated the dragon god of light. He holds this weapon dear.
The Purity - The robes Acamen wear give him resistance against mind altering affects and combined with the small amount of armour beneath grant him protection against melee attacks. Somehow, they seem to weigh only a few pounds. Formally worn by an archangel, the dragon god of darkness granted these to Acamen
The Crusafix - A holy cross enhancing his abilities to call upon the heavens, this formerly belonged to Maruna. He holds it sacred.
The Crimson Flame - The legendary sword of fire granted by the fire dragon god. Having never actually used it, Acamen is looking to give it away.

Your retinue
Thirty Golden Lances - Heavily armored and riding white horses, these Paladins are loyal to Acamen after his deeds in the name of the dragon god. Many of these men were personally trained by Acamen.
Ezekala - Named after her grandmother, Ezekala is Acamens twenty five year old daughter. An angel, she wears her mother's robes and wields her sword. She has a special hatred for darkness and is somewhat immature (she is mentally sixteen due to being an angel). However, she is incredibly strong.

Retirement
Acamen's twelve year retirement rotated between his parent's tavern and the tower that he and Maruna lived in. At his parent's tavern he focused on raising his daughter and enjoying himself. The white mage learned to brew and how to run a buisness, and enjoyed life in a more casual manner. He remet with Maruna, and found out that she was happy with her marriage to the knight. After catching up, they rekindled their friendship. Maruna is somewhat of a mother figure to Ezekala, and advises her on life.

At his tower, the white mage continues to study and trains his daughter along with the next generation of Paladins and Lightcallers. Regarded as one of the best teachers, many of his former students are excited to see him in action and are eager to travel to the north.

It is rumored that sometimes he visits the dragon gods he defeats, but that is not certain.

Your family
With both his parents still alive (mostly due to being around a healing bulb) and his daughter, Acamen has his family that he loves. Many of his students are like children, and will visit him from time to time in order to tell him of their accomplishments.

The Accomplished

Just so it's clear, my Alchemist will need to make substantial preparations in order to stock himself up on materials, like a wizard might do. He would also have an expert knowledge of swordsmanship to supplement any lapses in preparation.

@The New Yorker

Totally cool.

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Here you go you scurvy dogs!

A call to arms

@ancient dragon@Enzayne@gloriousinfamy
@RyanTadashi@Hank@ThinkingInk@McHaggis
@Deadnaut@Hunter of Dreams@Dead Cruiser@The New Yorker

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The Accomplished

A call for the Heroes and Legends that still walk the Earth

Initially, people convinced themselves that this was just an exceptionally cold year. Rather than remaining for only a single month, the snow had stayed for three. Still, this must have happened before. There would be food shortages, but most people should survive. The blizzards were more of an annoyance than anything.

The tropical regions that were still able to grow food increased their prices dramatically, taking advantage of the decreased supply in the market. While the lower nobility were suffering, the peasants were hungry.

However, when three months turned into five and crops could not be sown during any of the months that normally occupy spring, riots began. Rumors of invasion from the Northern Kings into the Southern Lands were starting to spread. These rumors were false. There was no possible way a feudal monarch could afford to launch an invasion and at the same time keep the growing rebellions in their own lands down. The grain of truth was that those cultures who were used to movement had started planning to move south, Cheifs and Khans alike starting to head to greener pastures with destruction in their wake.

Six months in, a letter was sent to all the sovereigns and nobles of the continent. Three great powers had unleashed a combination of divine might and genius magic to place the world under their control. While previously rivals, they had constructed plans to work together the decade before. Additionally, they also agreed to offer demands that were 'reasonable' so that there was a chance that the demands would actually be accepted with minimal resistance. This was done to ensure the possibility of people rebelling in their favor.

Hibernas, Dragon God of Ice
Guildamarch, Amour of a Thousand Winters
Nixla, Witch of Endless Snow

Their demands to lift the spell were as follows:
-1 Percent of fit men and women to be gifted as slaves each year.
-Expansion of personal territory.
-A Tithe as a gift to their new overlords.
-Hostages from every royal family to be kept as assurance of their new subjects loyalty.

Facing growing rebellion, a month later the monarchs of the world begged the heroes and legends that still walked the earth to answer their call for aid. Unable to afford any major offensive operation, this group would be their only chance at removing this problem and avoiding this settlement. Hopefully the accomplished would be able to finish one more task.

The Roleplay

There are plenty of sword and sorcery role plays out there, but most of them focus on a young crowds adventures and their ascension to legend. This roleplay focuses on those who have already reached the height of their power. The heroes who have gotten the gold, the glory, and the girl. How does one team up with those who were previously rivals, or maybe lovers? If your family is threatened, do you betray your new found allies?

Your Character

By normal roleplaying convention, your character should be overpowered. Just make sure that they aren't a walking god and refrain from making them over 800 years old. This is supposed to be their first apocalypse. Also, your character doesn't have to be a 'good' guy, they just have to have some reason to disagree with the ice gods taking over. Here's a sample character sheet but make your own if you want to.

A Title Your Hero has been given

Your Heroes Name

A Quick Description of what they are, Like a Human Fire Dragon lord or something like that

Description or Picture, Preferably both

Actual Age (Appearance/Mental Age)
Race (Angel, Dwarf, ect.)
Gender

Rise to Power (What the world knows about how you became a legend. If your history and the truth are really far off PM me your characters true story.)

Combat Skills, including any signature attacks.
Hobbies, useful to questing or not
Your Gear
Your retinue, (Are you bringing thirty loyal knights? Your family? An Apprentice? No large armies but these old men sure as hell aren't hauling their own tents.)

Retirement (What happened after your character got all of the above, where do you live?)

Your family. Your character has likely settled down.

Any extreme Personality quirks, habits, or maybe just their favorite foods

Lore

Not a lot of it, but just a bit of detail so that people have a place to start. The year is 5600

Might

The Universe created the gods, and not the other way around. This means that the universe can continue to grant power if it so chooses. The Primary ways to gain a piece of this power are greatness, partnership, and grants. These are not mutually exclusive. Also, when we are discussing divinity in humans we are discussing a fraction of it, not suddenly being a god.

Greatness can come from renown, accomplishing tasks, or being badass. Typical heroes like knights gradually gain this type of divinity. This is the most reliable form of divinity around, and those who wield it tend to be familiar with the benefits they receive.

You can also partner up with a divine or partially divine beings in order to gain their strength. Extremely powerful beings like gods will grant you power based on faith and an understanding of their philosophy. Paladins and Bishops strive to understand the greater beings of the universe. Lesser beings like dragons may join up with a person for any reason, and over time they will lend each-other both their divinity and some of their characteristics.

The last way to achieve some divinity is by being born or granted it by the universe. People with particularly prestigious or powerful bloodlines, gods, vampires, dragons, and other mythical creatures simply have some divinity upon being created. This type of divinity tends to interfere the least with magic. However, it also has the most weaknesses since the condition can be removed.

Some of the benefits

The only real cost of divinity is that it is hard to use with magic. No one knows why, but it just is that way. However, here are some benefits you could possibly have.
-Respect of great beasts. Things like dragons may decide to talk to you.
-Faster and stronger
-Legendary weapons tend to synchronize themselves with divinity, amplifying their effects
-Rage can become strength, unlike magic where a constant calm is required.
-People who follow you may gain some of your attributes. So if you are able to run fast, they will gain the ability to run fast as well. But not quite as fast.
-Simple luck

Magic

Magic is fairly rare in this universe. Among a standard human medieval kingdom, only one in a thousand would be born with the gift. Some others can find tomes that allow them to achieve it and have it granted upon themselves. Some places and peoples have a very high concentration of it.

There are four major categories of magic wielders. The higher up the list, the more divinity interferes with the ability for it to be wielded. People can wield multiple types of magic.
Mages - use mana derived from their soul in order to wield power created by oneself. Due to the limitations on a mortal body, this is best used for smaller spells. It's main benefit however is that your personal mana is completely under your control.
Wizards - use the power derived from the universe, or the environment. The more specific the environment, the safer and more efficient the power is. So for example, there could be a wizard of the Desert who would gain power based on the health of the desert. Wizards tend to make large territorial claims.
Sorcerers - Sacrifice their mana to another being (usually not in the same plane of existence, otherwise the results can be… confusing) in order to gain access to their strength. While magic is sacrificed to gain access to these spells, the result can come in either Divine or Magic form depending on the source of the spell. While powerful, it takes time to cast, has a limited number of options for modification, and if casted incorrectly will allow that being to possibly possess your soul. youtube.com/watch?v=ecbTsBMeBy8
Arcanists - tend to use items and things like magic circles and runes to produce spells. High level arcanists tend to be able to summon a magic circle with their own mana, but this is a high level technique and is very temporary. Is one of the ways to enchant an item. Arcanists are able to modify an arcane item's original purpose using their mana, which allows them to use things like staves more effectively. Also it allows them to do things like open magic doors by 'hacking' them.

Rules

You know the common sense ones. Just don't post too much or too little.

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OOC is going up, typing it now.

@Dead Cruiser I'll put an official CS in the OOC, but I think you can probably just start with the standard format.

@The New Yorker I mean when I'm discussing an alchemist I would find it difficult to make a potion mid battle. But I'm totally cool with it.

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@Dead Cruiser Yeah. If he was let's say 700 years old I'd consider that just to be very powerful, and I'd be okay with that. He'd be one of the oldest living beings alive, outside of actual gods. Put up a CS and define his magic to me and I'll see what I think.

Also, I think that this is enough people, so I'm going to put the OOC up either later today or tomorrow.

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@Dead CruiserHonestly, I think a character like that would fall into the realm of a minor god simply because of the amount of time he'd have to accrue power/artifacts. Also, he'd probably be too busy trying to manage the apocalypse.

I know this role-play is about the accomplished, but I'm afraid that's a bit too high on what I'd see as the power scale. You'd have to deliver a very convincing character sheet/lore. I wouldn't mind you being a vampire lord, but 8000 years old is strong.

Also, this is supposed to be about characters who've already had their (mostly) happy endings. He's probably gone through eight events of this scale before, so for him this isn't "getting called back from retirement" but rather "that annoying chore I have every few centuries."

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A bit more lore. A balance against overpowered magic.

Might

The Universe created the gods, and not the other way around. This means that the universe can continue to grant power if it so chooses. The Primary ways to gain a piece of this power are greatness, partnership, and grants. These are not mutually exclusive. Also, when we are discussing divinity in humans we are discussing a fraction of it, not suddenly being a god.

Greatness can come from renown, accomplishing tasks, or being badass. Typical heroes like knights gradually gain this type of divinity. This is the most reliable form of divinity around, and those who wield it tend to be familiar with the benefits they receive.

You can also partner up with a divine or partially divine beings in order to gain their strength. Extremely powerful beings like gods will grant you power based on faith and an understanding of their philosophy. Paladins and Bishops strive to understand the greater beings of the universe. Lesser beings like dragons may join up with a person for any reason, and over time they will lend each-other both their divinity and some of their characteristics.

The last way to achieve some divinity is by being born or granted it by the universe. People with particularly prestigious or powerful bloodlines, gods, vampires, dragons, and other mythical creatures simply have some divinity upon being created. This type of divinity tends to interfere the least with magic. However, it also has the most weaknesses since the condition can be removed.

Some of the benefits

The only real cost of divinity is that it is hard to use with magic. No one knows why, but it just is that way. However, here are some benefits you could possibly have.
-Respect of great beasts. Things like dragons may decide to talk to you.
-Faster and stronger
-Legendary weapons tend to synchronize themselves with divinity, amplifying their effects
-Rage can become strength, unlike magic where a constant calm is required.
-Simple luck