Wernher

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Imperfectionist said (and, to be perfectly honest, I'm not a fan of asshole characters)

I'm a huge fan of asshole characters. Considering I'm the typical apologizing Canadian IRL I find the change most pleasant.

Name:
Flickering Light "Flicker" or "Burninator"

Race/Subrace:
Unicorn

Sex: Male

Appearance:

Dark red mane with cream beige coat and yellow eyes, little more is to say about his appearance, his 'Reminder not to make mistake', namely gross disfigurement, taking most of the field of view and being the main thing anyone would describe him physically with.

Age:
24

Background:
Although his cutie mark and main talent was found within pyromancy, namely burning stuff, Flicker found that it isn't because you have a special talent that it means it's useful to society and you can get a job using it. After his studies at the canterlot academy he had thus the choice to work there to further magical studies along with a thousand others like him with talents relating to a generally non useful in everyday to day purpose or to find an alternative. He didn't like the idea of doing 'Those jobs' manual ones or those requiring magic to power something, essentially being only a cog in a machine that if they could replace with another machine they'd do so without hesitation.

The alternative he found was while staying in the magical research field to go in the sectors with much, much less competition, the understanding of foreign magic. From Camelu desert to changeling infested wastelands, he made many treaties about the other species use of magic today used as reference documents in the matter, his most Famous being 'Buffalos and Nature, understanding shamanic magic', 'Hypothesis on Changelings, the magics of friendship and that of love' and 'Sand and Sun, exotic party tricks with lots of lights'. These documents have made him a popular and respected figure within the academic field.

Being one of the rare person that can have casual encounters with Princess Twilight when he's in Canterlot, she managed to easily put his plan for a second and even bolder changeling expedition on hold and convince him to join the Explorers as the group's Foreign Magic expert.

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Imperfectionist said
I think I understand where you're going with that, but again, the area south of the Griffon Kingdoms is half a world away from the setting of this game, on an entirely different continent. The whole line of reasoning makes no sense.EDIT: Come up with anything you like, but foreknowledge is off-limits. That's all I'm saying here.

Well, more reasons why the expedition would have been doomed to fail then uh?

Anyways, what I had in mind was a character who was in general 'Used to go out in the unknown', so I guess I'll change things up, here are my ideas.

1: Same griffon asshole, but exploring other places like Camelu or the changeling wasteland or maybe unnamed areas of the world, so can say he was brought not as dumb muscle, but as someone with an expertise regarding old and unknown things.

2: Unicorn expert on foreign/unknown magic. Somewhat young and seeks out these mysteries because since there are no experts in unknown magic (Obviously, since they are unknown), he wants to make his fame there rather than staying in canterlot where there are tons of other mages to compete with.

3: Night bat-pony guard, Luna lover but in the same fashion as 2, doesn't want to wait to climb the ranks and so joins as a reconnaissance & night scouting expert.

Which would you prefer, if any?

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Well, I'd like to state that even if he said 'The ponies are going to invade', that is probably not true, just a reason to justify going south and proclaim himself as a 'Defender of Griffin interests'

Anyways, going to work now and I'll ponder on this.

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I was thinking that Steelbeck would have a 'General' idea some things lessening this.

First, he flies and is pretty arrogant about it, so I doubt he'd just blurp out these things, if anything his geography insight might be more vague and relative to give a position compared to how far deep you are: "There's a mountain there, a large stone structure here so we should be around here on this completely blank map, distance wise."

Second, for Irony's sake I think he'd say 'Don't do anything, don't drink any water, don't eat any fruit, my people were dropping like flies the moment they started eating and drinking stuff here, however I'm not actually a trained to say what actually caused this.'

For the ruins the key thing would I think be that he's seen one of many and although he could see paterns and give tips like "There are generally traps by this point." or "I don't trust them, I saw tribesmen make sacrifices to their gods once". Because after all he may have seen SOME things, he would be far to have seen everything.

I thought the deers were somewhat new to the political landscape? So they were already part of equestria the moment Twilight laid eyes on them? That would have been the point: Conquer the unknown land before Equestria decides to annex it. As for where they went, some of it stayed back to 'Occupy', meaning flying above the wild while occasionally fighting with deers, while the rest would have just 'Gone south', but with little navigation expertise, have actually just got lost after 1 year, gone around for 1 to 2 year and spent the remaining time trying to figure out how to go back for the rest of these 4 years. The point is that they found almost nothing worth of interest and Steelbeck was ruined when he came back.

Basically, I think you know I'm not a dick so use this as a plot device. For all his background says he might have run into ONE ruin. He's an expert, because no one else ever did, but I think there may be more, much more in there. If you say as a GM: Steelbeck, you know what's going on here, then fine I will tell of it, if not, Steelbeck will just be an arrogant dick acting like he knows all that's going on but actually doesn't.

The final judgement however, is yours.

One Life, Lived in Death ~ PopeAlessandros x Wernher

Haha, oh lord, so little communication, what a bunch of fools we are xP

Edit: Posted btw

One Life, Lived in Death ~ PopeAlessandros x Wernher

Sorry for not posting, when I have time the site is down on maintenance, etc.

Anyways, yeeeah, I have to delete this entire post and half of my previous one has been invalidated. I think I'll keep my thing much shorter from now on if you want to lead the plot, answer and not add much new elements, etc.

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Name:
Lord Magnus von Steelbeck, "The Conquistador"

Race/Subrace:
Griffon

Sex:
Male

Appearance:

Very large in size even by griffin standard, his fur coat is becoming entangled with grey and white fur, many patch being missing showing a scar or another and although it is covered by fur on most of his body, his left front leg shows remains of the plague known to the Deers as 'Swamp rot', a sickness he managed to heal on his own without shamanic intervention, a feat saying as long as his scars to the natives about his incredible endurance, even if it left him scared and part of his flesh almost completely insensible to any physical stimuli.

Age:
55

Personality:
Although he swore that he'd behave, Steelbeck still isn't used to be in a position where he isn't in command and considering ponies as his equal is hard at best. His racism is so pervasive he can hardly control the arrogant stares and comments he keeps blurping out. Still, he knows the value of companionship in life or death situations and has evolved as quite the donkey, although those left alive to tell the tale can be counted on a claw.

Background:
A proud griffon and once a powerful Sovereign Prince, his life was one of the average griffon noble: Fighting off challengers and backstabbing the family and other nobles to gain more power, he lived by this creed and eventually became the Sovereign himself, getting involved in 2 succession crisis at the death of the king, less than 3 years apart of each other but failed to take the throne, another more powerful securing it. When news came about the exploration of the Equestrian Princess Twilight Sparkle of the Equestrian Kingdom and how they planed to 'Invade' their southern land, Steelbeck saw the opportunity to gain more power and decided that in the name of the Griffon Kingdom, he'd secure the southern land for Griffin kind, this of course, in exchange for the title of Viceroy of all the lands he managed to conquer and hold. The deers could serve as slaves or cattle, no one cared. Thus, Magnus assembled a large force from his household and went south, deep into territories not even the griffins knew of to try and bring wealth to the kingdom and himself.

Little did he know, it was the beginning of the end and although he knew some success at first with the sheer amount of manpower and war supplies he had brought with him, he quickly found that white conquering the territory was easy, holding it was another matter entirely. The deeper he went, the more stretched out his resources were and he constantly failed to find the ore and spices he had promised to bring home. As he went deeper he lost contact with civilization all together and in the meantime cogs were turning in the Kingdom and his own children and wife were taking his place, pretending he had died in his foolish enterprise, never to be seen again eaten by the wild.

He came back 4 years later, almost dead with only a handful of griffins compared to the hundreds that had followed him at first, sick by some unknown disease and raving about tales of lost civilizations, strange magic and unknown lands no one had ever laid eyes on in centuries. Thinking he was mad (And because he didn't want to relinquish power), his own son cast him out of the castle and although he tried to fight this by dueling him, Magnus hadn't fully recovered from the sickness that afflicted him and was defeated.

He was exiled to Equestria, barely managing to make it by until Twilight Sparkle, having heard of his tale asked him to join the Explorers, his knowledge of the geography, dangers and lands in general to be explored being invaluable. Although Twilight expected to have to insist to get the prideful griffon to cooperate with Equestrians, von Steelbeck accepted almost immediately. This would allow him to achieve what he had began, to rub it in the faces of those who had cast him out and called him a fool.

Chevalier: A New Initiative

Welp, had a small chat with Jinxer and I'm sorry to say that I've lost interest in this. I find the premise of the academy to have had very little to do with the plot twist we keep having and ultimately this has changed beyond what I expected. This combined with other things planed that I won't spoil to you give me little desire to continue. Have fun and do what you will with my characters.

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Hey there. You guys wouldn't have seen Missy around?

Mirai Nikki: Alternate Entry

Welp, PM me if anyone actually does anything.