WilsonTurner

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Guilty Spark said
Don't go off that "These soldiers look soft" thing, that was me who said it about shiny guards on the walls. Not the Knights of Othea, these guys are not soft. They're not slow. Their armor is heavy, but they live in it and they're trained to fight against lighter opponents as a team.

I thought the Knights went off with the King? I would figure it safer to preserve the King's personal guard, since an Evoker can have unpredictable powers, and could possibly eliminate or even turn them over to the Evoker's own cause. Archers would be more suited to the Evoker-killing cause.

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Myth was quite suddenly outraged. His father, for one, had not done his part in ensuring that some kind of legend revolving around the Blademaster remained, and secondly because the King was fool enough to think that because he stepped forward in order to question about Relics, that he wouldn't know how to handle himself. As the King's Guard approached him, weapons drawn, he sighed at them, which took them off balance for a moment. Opening his arms wide, highlighting the difference between his steel-blue armor and his scaly-black gauntlets, Myth told the Guard, "Well, I suppose you'll think I'm behind this, and you're going to kill or seize me, right? I'm no fool, I'm just confident!"

With that, he raised his hands and unconsciously summoned power to them. After a few moments, his gauntleted hands glowed a dark electric blue, lighting up his hands, arms, chest, and face with an eery glow. As the Knights charged forward, he launched his counterattack: a continuous burst of small, static-y, unpredictable lightning bolts. The electricty aimed straight for the nearest pieces that it could be absorbed into: the steel swords of Knights. The lightning traveled down the swords to the gauntleted hands, and then up the gauntlets to the rest of the armor, and with a few sweeps, the charge weakened, and after concentrating a bit more, they all collapsed, the closest one nearly landing on his foot.

Myth walked towards the man who had the red glowy ring, massaging his wrists from the outburst of energy. "Come, I shock, you act as a distraction. You can handle that, right? Let's get out of here, I owe no allegiance to anyone. They should know better than to use swords against Evokers. Archers are always the best against Evokers. Usually."

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If the Yuushinto family are like the opposites of the Vocators, and they look to recruit someone else to fight their battles for them, Myth would count himself in, provided he isn't restricted to just Hyumi. Myth will infinitely call it "Hy'um."

And Myth will take down 6 King's guards. I am assuming they use heavy armor and a sword/shield or two handed weapons. If not, and they are lighter armored and use different weapons, then Myth would not be able to take down six without help, whether from someone else or his gauntlets. Ceremonial armor seems to be heavy armor.

EDIT: I am also going off on the "These soldiers look soft" that someone said earlier in the roleplay when they approached the Coronation. Too much peace, too little action to warrant real fighting skills to match someone of Myth's caliber.

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Sep said
so obviously you have better control than any Vocator will ever have. Unless they are deadly.

Myth started training to be a Blademaster at, more or less, ten years old. Five years later, gauntlets. Then, training with and without his Relic until he was 30+.

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Sep said
This relic is very old not to mention all the changes in hands. I would say if it could properly bond with its user (More than the standard five years) there is a chance that their potential could increase. The simple fact is though that such a thing never happens.

Myth's had the gauntlets for a long time. Well over five years.

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Sep said
The idea is it is the manipulation of energy. You only have so much energy in your body capable of being used which is why crazy speed can not be met. Other people cannot use more as they are not directly interfacing with the relic. They're more or less borrowing from it. I did have a fancy science explanation but I am tired and forgot.

Hhmmmm...
The story my Relic has is that it has its own energy supply, although I did have the thought that, after the Gauntlets' reserves were used, then lightning would draw on Myth. He'd only manage a couple strikes after that. Lightning is too energy-packed to be drawn on oneself.

Guilty Spark said
You clearly don't know much about vikings or you would know they didn't actually use horned helmets.And in regards to the leader getting the same power, if they they would get that power strongly enough then it would likely happen. The power is shaped by the user, and if the user has faith deep within of their power it can repeat.

True.
I just know the stereotypes.

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AlidaMaria said
Da-Hyun is most definitely Asian, I constructed it from a mixture of Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Thai and Viking culture.

Viking?
That group seems a little out of place, since the others are a bit more used to the lighter, faster swords, while Vikings are known to smash things. With big axes. And shields. And horned helmets.

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AlidaMaria said
Eragon?

Yea.

Guilty Spark said
Unless this than yes.The vocators all share on relic, but you wouldn't be able to just assign the other relics to people. You'd have to run people in front of them like Galbatorix did when he had those dragon eggs.

What I don't get is how the Relic has the same power over and over for every leader, and how strong of a power it must give one person. If you severed the connection between all the Vocators and the leaderVocator, then the speed and strength would be unmatchable. For the leader, it might as well be that the world is standing still, and that everyone is made of twigs and paper.

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Sep said
Nah, mountains are cliché and nearby.What's not to love?Me and Ellri decided that due to its remoteness(And deadlyness) it is likely where any Relics we managed to recover are, if that is okay with you Spark. You could probably decide a number, though on discussion me and Ellri discussed that most of the Relics we "Remove" from their users who don't want to play nice would be assigned to someone in the Capital to put them to good use. Meaning any Relics left under Vocator protection would be either new additions to the collection or ones that were deemed to "Dangerous" or "Unpredictable" for service.

chukklehed said
Wasn't it already decided that a relic could only bond with certain people? That's what confused me about your army of mass produced evokers, unless the empress's relic lets her FORCE bonds.

The Blademaster is a long-lived collector of all things Relics, and Guilty Spark already said that he wouldn't be allowed to have any. How is it that an order dating close to the downfall of the Relic-peoples not have any whatsoever, but the Empire does? There would be times when a Blademaster will have to defeat an Evoker in combat, maybe them being scared or a bandit, but the Blademasters still do not have any Relics.

And yea, you can't just force a Relic on someone. The Relic choses people, and the Relic gives an ability unique to that person. What may be Lightning for Myth may be Ice for his grandson [if he lives], or perhaps control over light, or perhaps over color, or perhaps over life-energy, or perhaps over... animals. Or stone. Or ores and metals. Or woods and greens.

There's no way to predict a Chosen's power, nor is there any way to force a Relic onto someone. Right? I think it's like that. The Blademasters just have the pair of gauntlets that Myth wears, and they won't come off unless you take Myth with you. Even if you cut off his hands and lower forearms, the gauntlets wouldn't release the hands.

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Ok, so I looked at the map, and I wish to make a 'lore entry' for the thingymajig.

How would the current places be described? Egyptian, african, etc.

And are fantastical creatures accepted? If there is the possibility of dragons, then there are the possibility of a race that dwells in the very large valley down the mountain range towards the South-east of the center of the continent, where there's that little lake, and a short ways North, a much larger lake that connects to the ocean. I'm still thinking of it, but if they were a light-boned, feathered, winged race, smaller than humans and more delicate, whom dwell in the mountain ranges around that area, and have several cities within the ranges, more on two or three close mountain-peaks, and then they just build down them and make bridges across, as well as large pads to be used to land on. They'd have a great capital city nestled at the base of the mountains, south of the lake-in-the-center-of-the-valley, which is south of that large bay, and two smaller cities that have the winged people and regular people in them on either side of the lake. If the winged people, let's call them Aeriians, were architects, then it'd also be likely that those two cities are the only points of entry to the capital city and the lands around it, by way of a great wall, of sorts.

or something.