Zeroth

Night of the Marked

Cool, cool. You know that I won't be a cultists myself, future players might be, but I did have a plan with my nightkin involving cultists and them kidnapping women and people who have been marked.

Another question, do our brands bleed when night in come close to us, like a Brand if Sacrifice from Berserk? I think that's be cool, but totes up to you.

@Lucius Cypher

At the expense of being too-on-the-nose with the comparison, that sounds like it would probably be okay. Rather than just bleeding, though, it might be more interesting if the type of pain differs between people and even depending on the Nightkin that branded them. My character Arden, for example, might feel the ghostly brush of lips on his skin and a deep throbbing in his heart, while someone who was marked by a werewolf or something might feel the hair on the back of their neck rising with a painful, almost electrical tingling. I'll leave it up to the players, if they think it would make things more interesting.

I don't think such a feeling would trigger unless a Nightkin is very, very close, though. Otherwise you could just use it like a radar to track down your target monster.

Night of the Marked

Your still open to ideas of cults and worshipers of the night though, right? Yes such thoughts are heresy to most of the Vale inhabitants, but short if having a secret service dedicated to hunting down anyone who thinks "Maybe I could become one", I'm sure there are pockets of people who try to understand the creatures if the night, for whatever reason.

@Lucius Cypher

As player characters? It would take some convincing, as such characters would likely end up in direct opposition with other players, and this isn't really designed with PvP in mind. But just as a facet of the world, sure. If you're familiar with the Warhammer Fantasy setting, think of it like Chaos, and how pervasive and twisted it is as an influence--yet there are still people who worship it and become warped as a result. Or the Darkfriends of the Wheel of Time. (Though, once again, those are High Fantasy of a sort and not on the same scale as this RP.)

There are those who have "good reason" to understand the Nightkin, however. For instance, the Church would probably be the source of any information regarding their natures and how to defeat them, and studying such works might be seen as "getting yourself in deep water," because of the proximity to the ideas of the Night, but wouldn't be cause to label someone as a Night-friend.

Night of the Marked

I'd like to express interest in this.

Question, cuz I saw how you reacted to the half-elf question. Do we have to have a human character or are other fantasy races a thing? I have no qualm about making a human character, it doesn't change the idea I got in my head, but I would like to know what limitations I have when making a character.

@FantasyChic

The thing about fantasy races in this setting is that they aren't the Tolkien-esque form of themselves, but the darker medieval forms. Elves, for instance, might be tall and beautiful, but they look upon humanity with disdain, steal children to use as slaves or entertainment or food, lure maidens into magic circles that cause them to dance until they drop dead from exhaustion, and all other manner of evil things. Dwarves aren't swarthy drunken fellows with a penchant for battleaxes, they're vicious, horrendously ugly and squat creatures whose greed for gold and gems knows no bounds. So on and so forth across the gamut of fantasy races. All creatures of the Night are, universally, tied to and corrupted by evil natures and supernatural forces. What's more, humanity in this setting is still very familiar with the ideas of witch hunts, and anyone thought to be associated with the Night in an "inappropriate" way would likely find themselves the subject of much persecution, if not execution.

Night of the Marked [Dark Fantasy Int. Chk, in Casual]

Bump: The OOC for this RP is now up!

Night of the Marked

@Dynamo Frokane

Interesting name choice aside, there are just a few issues I'd like to address:

Your personality section doesn't have any flaws or any negative aspects of his personality traits. If you could include something like that and how it plays into why certain things have happened to him or because of him, I feel that would greatly improve the character.

In your backstory, while I'm fine with the creation of lore, you've created a good chunk of it without much set-up or discussion beforehand. Could I get some more information on some of these places, maybe through PM? They don't seem very consistent, since Isa Lomita sounds like a Latin name, Port Quinlan seems...Celtic or Gaelic, maybe, Kimura sounds Japanese, and Asala could possibly be Arabic or something else eastern. Are all of these part of the same place? Different countries? There's a lot going on here, and while I don't mind possibly adding some of it, it's just a lot to take in at once and makes your backstory a bit confusing.

Finally, your character doesn't seem to have had any kind of run in with creatures of the Night, or even make any acknowledgement of them. The biggest part of this RP will be about the players--the Marked--overcoming the monsters--the Nightkin--who gave them that Mark in the first place. I highly suggest including some form of interaction with the Night, or at least discussing a plan that would allow the character to get involved even if you choose not to play as a Marked person.

The Jade Stream

Sorry, are you guys waiting on me? I know we usually make a full cycle with the posts, but I was kind of giving it some time before I did Dai Xin's next piece because I wanted it to feel like time was passing more naturally. I can whip something up though if needed.

FT | The Sky And The Earth

A setting like this is pretty easy to free-form as long as people don't go too crazy with it. Fairy Tail actually doesn't have a super coherent story up until after the first time-skip; it's all arc-based, either stemming from the jobs they go on or the characters themselves. So as long as we can create interesting situations for ourselves and no one tries to make a super-big-bad-dark-lord who really hijacks the story, it should be fine until Vongola returns or the Co-GMs come up with some way to tie things together into a more naturally consistent story.

Night of the Marked [Dark Fantasy Int. Chk]

I'm still watching this space, it's just I've currently committed to a few games. If any of them drop I will be all up in this on a flash!

@Dark Light

No problem, feel free to jump in anytime.

Night of the Marked

i am allowed to make up regions outside of the setting right? like a country my character would be from.

@Sophrus

Yes, as long as it fits the same general theme of the world. After reading your character submission, though, has Praetan been destroyed entirely? If so, in my opinion I think it might be more fitting to shrink it down from a country to perhaps a single city or town. There's not much point to adding lore for an entire country if it's no longer around and thus doesn't have much bearing on anything, from my point of view. I'm open to discussion about it though.

As for your character, most of it looks fine, but I have a few questions about the Lich. Usually, a Lich is an undead wizard, and in most settings they're presented as very powerful creatures. But many of those settings, especially D&D and WoW and others like them, are considered to be High Fantasy or Heroic/Epic Fantasy, where Magic is much more powerful and much more present throughout the setting. While the Nightkin have magic, it's more along the lines of vague and misunderstood powers, things that people fear but often don't truly understand. It's not the same kind of in-your-face, "I cast Meteor!" kind of stuff. So would you mind terribly if I ask you to tone it down some? After all, if a Lich has an army of undead large and powerful enough to destroy an entire nation, that's not really something a band of adventurers would ever have any hope against in a gritty setting like this one (another reason I suggested to reduce Praetan from a country to a town). And if they're capable of shooting lightning from their fingertips or causing earthquakes and such with their magic, that's even more difficult to deal with in my opinion than something like a Vampire or Troll who simply has more physical strength or speed or size than most humans could match.

Just as a suggestion, maybe the Lich is less like a wizard and more like a clergyman of sorts for the dark forces? Rather than following his orders because he holds mass mind control powers over them, perhaps other monsters are led by him in a similar way that a priest is a leader figure within a village? Maybe whatever magic he does can't be used very often, because it requires large numbers of sacrifices and extended rituals?

The last thing I ask is just a simple editorial look over. Your capitalization and sentence structure needs work in several places, please review it and make adjustments where needed.

@Dynamo Frokane
Sorry, I'm pretty firmly against having half-blood characters unless you can give me a really convincing explanation. If it's just for flavor text, to me that seems even less necessary, because in the end it doesn't impact the character's narrative or how others will perceive them beyond a superficial sense. I'm still willing to discuss it if you'd like, though.

@Halvtand
Like we discussed in the PM, as long as IT is just a charisma thing, this looks fine to me. Go ahead and put it in the CT.

Night of the Marked

Aaaaaye, are we allowed to post our CS straight to the CS tab, or shall we repost them here for further screening?

@Lucius Cypher

I've already seen yours in the Interest Check, and I noticed the changes you made earlier. You can go ahead and put him in the character section.