@Antarctic Termite Summarized most of what happened with Amartia. He is born. Lonely, goes exploring the desert, the Venomweald and the soon to be Sin led Human, Hain and Roavik nation of the 'Purple Sands'. Or the land in-between the Ironheart Mountains and the White sea with his great political takeover 'plan'.
Major events involving Vestec (not mentioned by Antarctic)
-Captured the god Julkolfyr (the one who challenged Logos for the title of 'King of the Gods') in his Realm of Madness, presumably torturing Julky there.
-Started a (partially) successful rivalry and hatred between Toun and Niciel.
-Found Slough all fucked up, summoned Vesamara, Illunabar, Astarte, and Niciel to help heal her. Jvan interceppted the message then punched him through the planet, before attempting take care of Slough herself. Vestec returns, tsks Jvan for being rude, warns Illunabar that there would be consequences for not helping. Vowzra shows up and without so much as a 'howdoyoudo' steals Slough and puts her in a cocoon. Jvan flips the fuck out. Vestec follows Vowzra, finds the Tree-minds (Vowzra's bear people with a hive mind thing going on) steals most of them (all but three in fact) and then leaves. Astarte and Niciel show up to find no Vestec and are irked.
-Secured two favors from Kyre and one from Teknall, in return for not having his horde of chaos fuck up any more Hain villages for a while.
-Created an Avatar (known as Violence) and is currently waiting FOR THE AVATAR BRAWL OF THE AAAAGGEEEEEEESSS (with Ul'yang, Teknall, Kyre, and Toun involved) to begin.
-Created the Packminds (wolf people whose CS is finished, I'll add it with a bunch of other things to the creation post today) from some of the Tree-minds.
-As Grot was smashing shit in the Nice Mountains, Vestec chatted with Niciel, trying to convince her that it was totes Toun being a goddamn maniac that resulted in her angels being murderised by him. Niciel wasn't completely convinced, and informed him that she was going to save him and make him a better person, much to his amusement.
-Made a Forsaken Rovaick, Bez, his hero and stole some of the Horde away. The rest that were still alive joined Lifprasil's legions.
-Currently chatting with Astarte (that collab is almost to a close)
Why can't an upcomming demigod take over a mountain. And strip of land. Maybe we can work out a real estate plan? Kinda need a civil war for my multi-fascited plan.
(Sin don't want all the 'Perfection' touching him.)
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I was laughing more at the image of Toun sitting down to tea with someone he's annoyed with and popping every vein in existence just with the effort of not raising his voice.
You both do know that if this cult isn't secretive, Sularn is straight up gonna murder everyone of them he and his Toun cultist friends find.
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You live in a world of myth, just make a magical door/bridge/cave that connects to the moon.
And make sure the moon has oxygen and jazz! That's important too!
Angels can be divided into two categories, one near extinct and one the entirety of all angels but like, two.
Original, or Arch, Angels: These were Angels who were born in Heaven before the Great War, and have never died. They're immortal in the Elven sense, meaning they can die but age will never claim them. They possess and often use, quite effectively and powerfully, all of the classes abilities. Their abilities with them are often more archaic but more powerful than the Surface Angels abilities. For example, with Battle Angels abilities, they can heal instantly and quickly any non fatal wounds they have, but their skin doesn't automatically close against wounds, they have to consciously do it. There are currently only two known ones left. Lucien (the one killing the Council Members), and Ariane (the Last Council member who is currently in hiding.)
Surface Angels: The new and current Angels. They aren't immortal, merely long lived. When they die their Essence is reborn into another Surface Angel. This means, with practice, effort, and time, they can remember past lives. Not all at once, of course (they'd die or go batshit insane), and rarely all the way back to their Original Angel life.
They are divided into classes and represent the entire population of Angels.
There are three types of them.
Pure: Angels who are reborn from the Essences other Angels. Their wings are pure white.
Grey: Angels who are reborn from those few human essences that get changed into Angelic Essences. Their wings are grey.
Dark: Angels who were infested by the Council with the perfected Demonic Parasite, so as to better control them and the entire population. Their wings are black.
The Council: The last surviving Archangels (aside from Lucien and perhaps a few others) who lead the Angels after the Fall of Heaven until 2014 (Where Lucien started killing all of them).
She is the last Gatekeeper. Essentially a Demi-God. She's trying to keep the balance but people won't play nice and now Hazumi is gone and the balance is all fucked again and so she has to go find Hazumi and kill the things responsible.
She has an army of followers (Demons, Angels, Humans, Chimeras, anyone who wants to preserve peace and balance) who adhere to her ideals, known as the 'Keepers of the Balance.' They are helping the Wielders keep the fragile peace and guard Hell's Gate.
Judas is the mad human who seized untold power, killed Melody and destroyed Hell's gate, wielding her Gatekeeper harp and powers to establish an empire and eradicate any Demons and Angels (especially Angels) they found. This also extended to any humans foolish enough to oppose him, but for the most part he left the human race alone, if under his rule. His rule ended a little over 200 years ago.
Finished!
Name: Lucien
Alias/Nickname: The Fallen Hunter, Kinslayer, Deathbringer.
Age: Apparent: 22 Actual: He was alive before the First Great War.
Race: Original Angel.
Appearance: Face:
Armor(helmet long gone):
His wingspan is 17 feet long, and his wings are pure black.
Social Status: Renegade. Pretty much everyone wants him dead.
Relations:
He's only on good terms with two people:
Hazumi: Essence of the world, the essence of his daughter reborn before becoming the Essence of the world. Missing.
Azel: Demon that Lucien had to live with for about a week. They bonded, Lucien didn't kill him, it was a good time.
Everyone else wants to kill him.
General Activity: Search for the remaining member of the Angelic Council, and kill her. Kill any Demons he finds along the way as well, along with anything that tries to stop him. Find Hazumi.
Abilities: As an Original Angel, Lucien possessed more than one power. However, due to the Demonic Virus inside of him, he’s limited to a very powerful, but also Archaic, form of Battle Angel. He has complete and utter control of his body, able to turn anything, even a drop of blood, into a weapon, and heal himself in a matter of minutes or seconds, depending on the severity of wound. Provided that the wound isn’t instantly fatal and he’s conscious enough to do so. Also, he can’t grow new limbs.
He is physically capable of matching a Demon Lord of Hell in combat.
Strengths
Soldier: Lucien has been fighting a war most of his long life. Against the demons, against the Council, against the mad human Judas, against Wielders and bounty hunters, Lucien has become really good at killing things and surviving attacks made against him, having dealt with almost every variety of them by now.
Paranoid: Lucien, being one of the most wanted beings in the three worlds, is always on edge. No where is safe and he always assumes that he will be attacked at some point when he enters a new area. He's a light sleeper, able to awaken and react to a situation in seconds.
Control: Lucien has immense control over his body, and not even in the sense that he can heal and control the various parts of his body. He can restrict his strength and speed to suit the situation, so as to avoid overkill.
Tough: As an Archangel who specialized in Battle, Lucien has been trained and further trained himself to withstand huge amounts of punishment and still remain conscious. It is ridiculously difficult to knock him out through sheer brute strength, and he's even able to resist the effects of spells designed to knock him out. Not to say such spells won't affect him at all, but when everyone else is falling unconscious, Lucien will have a few seconds extra time to run or, preferably, kill whomever casts it.
Keen senses: Lucien's eyesight, like most Angels, is incredibly keen and able to see far longer distances than others. Through his long war against Demons and other Angels, Lucien has become good at realizing when he's in an illusion. He can't pierce them, so they'll still be in effect doing whatever they were meant to do, but he often notices that there is an illusion. (Ex: If you caste a blinding light illusion, Lucien will still be blinded by it, but recognize it as not a real light). Lucien can 'smell' Essence, able to differentiate between Human, Angel, Demon, and Chimera. Naturally, if you hide your Essence Lucien can't smell you out.
Weaknesses
Ranged combat: Lucien is only good at fighting in close quarters. If you attack him from Range, he'll have to go and chase after you.
Loner: Due to his choice of profession (attempting to murder other Archangels who most of everyone else like), Lucien is typically alone. He can be beaten by numbers, if they're either insanely high or sufficiently powerful. Not to mention, being in a group with him is difficult as he is an uncaring asshole.
Equipment: His sword. His armor. That’s about it.
Personality: Will show IC
Biography:
Lucien was born during a time when Angels were immortal (in the elven sense. You know could still be murdered, but didn’t age beyond a certain point.), and they were at an uneasy peace with Demons. He was alive when things turned to war, and he is one of the few survivors of the Great War. The reason he hates and hunts down the Council, or the Cowards, as he calls them, is simple. They tested their Demonic virus, supposed to give the Angels and edge of the Demons, on his daughter. It did the opposite. Weakened her, and turned her wings black.
And when the Demons were at the gate, getting ready to break in, the Council needed a scapegoat. Lucien’s daughter was used. ‘Her wings turned black because she betrayed us and let the monstrosity at the Gate in!’ they claimed. And the other Angels believed them. They executed her without a trial, right in front of a restrained Lucien. Before Lucien could do more than scream, the Demons broke down the gate. In the Chaos, Lucien killed his daughter’s executioner, before being forced to flee with the rest of the Angels to the Surface. There, the Council decided to set themselves up as minor Gods.
Lucien was imprisoned in Onyx and an excuse was made for it. 'He destroyed a Human city fighting a demon!' They claimed.
In the hundreds of years that followed, Lucien very nearly went insane. Luckily, they let him out before that happened. Hell’s gate was breaking, and they needed everyone who could wield a sword. Even him. To ensure he didn’t do anything stupid, they promised to kill his daughter (or, her reincarnation), Hazumi, if he did anything they didn’t like. That plan was shot, however, when all hell broke loose. A group of Hellions pushed their way past Hell's Gate and started killing and eating everything in sight, including Angels. The Council gathered the remaining Angels in a defensive manner around their headquarters. Hazumi was gone, and all the Council Members and Angels were there. As soon as the Hellions hit them and everything descended into Chaos, Lucien started killing Council members.
By the end of that bloody day, there were only four Council members left. They scattered to the four winds as Hell's Gate finally broke and it's Keeper, Melody, was killed. Lucien started hunting Council members down and executing them and their followers. And anyone who got in his way. He stopped only briefly to help the Academy and others fight and defeat Judas and his mad armies (Though, frankly, it was only so he could get close to the Council Member working with the Academy and kill him.) As soon as that was done, he went back to the hunt.
It has been over two hundred years since he helped stop Judas. There is only one Council Member left alive. And even now,he’s being hunted by anyone who wants to make a name for themselves, or punish the Renegade.
Name: Mary
Alias/Nickname: N/A
Age:Apparent: 18 Actual: 238
Race: Human
Appearance: Five foot 4 inches, eyes are a solid black orbs. There are various scars over her body, some seeming random, others seeming disturbingly purposeful. Oddly enough, they never go above her collarbone. She has a .22 round attached to a chain around her right wrist.
Social Status: She's dissappeared for 20 years. Her status is up in the air.
Relations: Everyone she knew is dead or gone or she doesn't know where.
General Activity: Find out what year it is and go from there.
Abilities:
By herself
Revenge of the Fallen: A war horn blasts a short sound, and three slain enemies of her current enemy(ies) rise to fight at her side.
Heal wounds: A gentle chime sounds and Mary's weapon expands and coats her hands, healing whatever wounds she touches (naturally this takes longer depending on the severity of the wound. Minor wounds take seconds, severe wounds like broken bones take minutes, while mortal wounds could take hours or even days.)
Consume Essence: Screeching instruments sound, and Mary summons an apparition of the Abyss. This apparition lunges forward with wide open jaws and consumes the Essence of whatever it grabs, taking and storing it. This grants Mary an ability based on the abilities and personality of whatever Essence the Abyss consumed. (For example if the Abyss ate the Essence of a protective man who despised demons and could caste magic, she'd get the spell 'Holy Shields: A shield that blocks any and all demonic damage and burns demons and things with demons in them.')
Weaponmaster: War horns briefly sound and Mary is able to turn her string instrument into any weapon of her choice and use it proficiently. She prefers a handgun.
Chains of Judgement: War horns blare to the gentle background of chimes in the wind, and Chains erupt from the ground, attempting to wrap around and pin their victim to the ground.
Anti-Magic Rune/shield: Violins screech and Mary can either make a shield that absorbs and blocks magic, or caste it on the ground to create an area (at largest ten feet at smallest three feet) where magic (even her own) doesn't work.
Orchestra: One of the simplest thing Mary learned, she can make her instrument sound a variety of other instruments ranging from electronic guitars to saxophones to harps. She can even have it play many at once, becoming a one woman orchestra.
Specifically Vengeance
Activation: A long drawn out war horn sounds after Mary manipulates her, now dark red, string instrument.
Appearance: Mary's form turns pitch black, clothes and all, and is outlined in a dark red light. Her voice changes to match Vengeance in her head.
Abilities
-Power match(Passive): Whatever opponent or group Vengeance has locked on, his speed, strength, and resistance to damage increases to match them.
-Vengeance of the Fallen(Active): Vengeance summons up to three copies of slain enemies of his enemy, to battle at his side against them.(For example, Lazarus could have to face those he killed in his past. They wouldn't actually be resurrected, but glowing red clones of them would exist.)
-Instant Retribution(Active): Turning his damage resistance to human flesh, Vengeance returns damage done to him back to his enemies. For example, if someone was to stab his arm, their arm would have a stab wound as well.
-Weapons master(Active): Vengeance can create weapons from his own body, stretching from ancient swords to modern day RPGs, an use them effectively as if he had always been using them.
-Unnaturally flexible(Passive): Vengeance is disturbingly flexible, boneless some would claim. He can bend his elbow in such a way that would break your average person's elbow like a twig. He can bend his knee backwards in a way that most people would attribute with breaking. And so on so forth.
Weaknesses
Instant retribution, while killing whoever killed him, is a quick way for him to die.
-Can't be healed: Vengeance's very essence rejects any healing magics. After all, when seeking vengeance dig two graves.
Specifically Mercy
Activation: A single chime, that rapidly swells in volume like a wave of sound, echoes after Mary manipulates her, now a soft gold, instrument string.
Appearance: Most of Mary's features and clothes are covered with a simple brown robe. The lower half of her face, the only thing visible, turns to a light brown color.
Abilities
-Bandages(Active): From the darkness of her sleeves, Mercy seems to have a limitless supply of bandages. These can be used for defense, or to restrain someone. They are quite resistant to all forms of damage.
-Rejuvenating Aura(Passive): People within 10 yards of Mercy never seem to run out of energy for spells or whatever else they need, and their wounds seem to heal of their own accord..
-Heal(Active): Mercy can heal allies wounds, the more severe the wound taking longer. A cuts, shots, or beatings, take seconds. Broken bones take minutes. A mortal wound would take hours.
Weaknesses
-Pacifist: Mercy is physically incapable of hurting anything.
-Human: Despite her abilities, Mercy has the damage resistance of a normal human.
Specifically the Abyss
Activation: A screeching noise of many string instruments being played badly sounds as Mary's, now black, string instrument is manipulated.
Appearance: A black sludge oozes out of all of Mary's pores, covering her in a thick layer of sludge. Her height increases dramatically to 8 feet, and she has a Cheshire Cat grin, stretching from ear to ear with razor sharp teeth. Her eyes are pure white, glowing like pearls in the dark sludge.
Abilities
-Essence consumption(Passive): When someone thing with a soul dies within a mile of the Abyss's presence, the Abyss eats it. No chance of the void, or rebirth.
-Anti-Magic aura(Passive): Magic just doesn't work within 6 yards of the Abyss. Healing spells don't affect him, fireballs fizzle out, manipulated earth becomes regular earth again, and so on. Even the natural healing ability of Battle Angel fails in his presence.
-Sludge manipulation(Active): Once the Abyss' sludge gets any amount of distance away from his body, it can be manipulated into weapons or shields or whatever the Abyss desires, and however long he needs, given that he's constantly generating it.
-Hellion Archangel match(Passive): The Abyss is strong, fast, and agile enough to match a Hellion or an Archangel in hand to hand combat.
Weakness
His sludge isn't particularly good at resisting piercing attacks.
His sludge is quite flammable, before he manipulates it.
Consume Souls: The Abyss eats the Essences of anything that dies within a mile radius of it, growing with each consumption. This is active even when Mary isn't in the Abyss form.
(It should be noted, that while Mary is in any of these forms she can't use any abilities from the others. For example as Mercy she can't use Revenge of the Fallen, and as Vengeance she can't cast an anti-magic aura)
Strengths:
Adaptable: Mary is quite able to adapt to any situation with her magics.
Kind: Mary is nice to basically everyone. Even if you're an asshole. This typically makes friends.
Courageous: Mary may be terrified out of her mind, but if she needs to do something to help someone she'll do it.
Good shot: Mary was taught by her father how to shoot, and she's quite good at it.
Field medic: Mary knows basic stitching, how to make a tourniquet, and other life prolonging skills, so she can keep you alive until she can heal you with magic.
Weaknesses:
Out of her league: Mary is way out of her depth. She comes from a time when Angels and demons kept to themselves and Humans couldn't cast lightning bolts from their eyes.
Innocent: Though it's getting better Mary is quite trusting of people. She isn't used to killing things either. It makes her distinctly uncomfortable and ill. And scared. Very scared.
Human: Mary doesn't have any special bodies awaiting her soul, no tough skin, not even healing runes waiting to fix her up. She can get hurt as easily as any normal human before the Essence was spread to them.
Equipment: TBD
Personality: Will Show IC.
Biography:
Before being dragged, kicking and screaming, into a world of Demons and Angels, monsters and magic, Mary was a simple college freshman. She was learning to become a small animal veterinarian. Of course, that all changed when she was kidnapped on her way to visit her parents (divorced, both single). Because Mary had attracted the attention of a Demon Lord known as ‘Sir’, he sent two of those who serve him to capture her and bring her to him. Why she was chosen, she doesn’t know. But that matters little when you’ve been kidnapped by two vampires. When the two got in an argument and subsequent fight, Mary managed to escape.
She ran away, only to run into another vampire, an angel, and a human with a rather nasty sword. Long story short, her captors tried to take her back. They were killed violently by the vampire and the human, much to Mary’s horror. However, she was far from being safe. An ascended werewolf arrived, managed to implant Mary with the Abyss, before being killed by Solus, who had killed the werewolf’s partner and then followed the werewolf.
Longer story short, the Abyss was contained inside of her mind by Solus, at the expense of nearly driving Mary insane and assuredly driving the Abyss insane. Mary was then supposed to leave through a magical portal (Mary in no state of mind to question exactly how that worked), and be relatively safe in Scotland. Only it didn’t work that way. Mary and her protector were separated, her own portal got hijacked, and rather than going to Scotland, she was dumped straight into Sir’s hands.
What followed was two centuries of experimentation, with Mary mercifully comatose and kept alive (if immortal) in a figurative cocoon of spells. During these two centuries, Sir managed to remove the old Abyss (mental trap and all), and add a new one. One more…kind, to it’s host. When Sir decided Mary was ready for ‘field testing’ he released her and woke her up in the ruins of what had been Loom, where she was found by Lazarus.
Lazarus taught her some skills and took her under his wing as her apprentice before enrolling her at the Musicians College in Loom. She got her instrument there, and two new voices in her head; Vengeance and Mercy. Vengeance and Mercy were exactly like their names. Vengeance was always ready to fight and bristled at the slightest hint of an insult to Mary, while Mercy was calmer and more forgiving. They, in addition to the Abyss, helped guide her through the waters of having magic.
That is, until they started clashing. It wasn't intentional. Their just wasn't enough room in Mary's soul for them and the Abyss to be so tightly bound. Mary started having seizures and splitting headaches, the worst and last coming on a outing into Loom, hunting down a Renegade Vampire with a couple other Musicians. The last thing Mary remembers is screaming in pain and collapsing to the ground as arrows flew through the air and everything went dark.
When she woke up she was trapped in her mind, distant from Sir as he began to experiment on her once more. Having nothing better to do than talk with Vengeance, Mercy, and the Abyss, Mary slowly came to terms with her situation and her new powers. She even began to accept the Abyss as apart of her, and train with each of their abilities so she can use them herself, rather than relying on them. Twenty years passed this way, before Mary found herself awakening once more, somewhere random in Loom.
Maybe some less polarized angelsvand demons? From what I've read they are respectively always lawful goodvand always chaotic evil. I don't mind these tropes on their own but am worried they will make the background conflict entirely black and white. Maybe expand on the chimeras or introduce some moral ambiguity to the conflict? For example I could easily see a high-ranking angel resort to evil acts for the greater good.
On the subject of rules, I place great importancr on magic A being magic A. That meaning magic users should be consistent in what they can and cannot do. (Example: a necromancer can interact with the dead but holds no sway over the living). On a more OOC level I'm in favor for a soft posting order. Some organization helps, but it is always in the interest of the group to be able to skip over people's turns if they're taking too long.
I can't think of a title off the top of my head. But please just don't make it a cliche deluxe level title.
That is the RP before this one. A brief glance through the characters should settle any worries you have about black and white. If not, read the IC. Essence isn't 'Angels good, Demons bad, Humans do whatever you please' Essence is a layered RP. For some characters it's about the nature of the person vs the nature of the beast. Humanity vs what you've become. For some it's about doing whatever it's called for a higher power they believe in. The belief that they have to do whatever they can do to fix it. For other characters it is a simple quest of bloody vengeance, killing any and all between them and their targets.
Still others it's a desperate roll of the dice for survival, putting yourself at the mercy of people who should hate you.
As for magic it is generally consistent among the Angels and Demons. There is a lot of flexibility among humans, but that's because their magic was literally thrust upon them with no plans or consistency. It is as adaptable as they are, allowing limitless possibilities (within Wind's approval of course)
The posting order is very flexible as no one is required nor expected to stay in a main group. We could have three or more separate groups for all we know.
As for the name, frankly, if you don't like it don't join.
I think that sums up the feeling in general. You don't have to join this if you find it too young adult, black and white, what have you. If it's not your cup of tea don't bother joining. We won't shoot you or anything. Promise!
If you do join all I can promise is your suggestions will be listened too. Implemented is another matter entirely.
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