The Bonds That Tie Us

Maeriel

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Hello lovely people!

@AJPhips and I have a fantasy thread going and are looking for some people who would like to join us in a cooperative story-building manner. We never really intended it to be a 1x1 and foresee our characters might part ways temporarily and it is just generally more fun with others to interact! I do not have the time to truly GM but I will be helping where I can, still, we would like some creative people who like to introduce their own story points too.

Don't be afraid to toy with the world as it is pretty much open. We have discussed some points and below I put the information gathered so far.

The continent of Yrmant, in a world called Aramont. A long time ago, a conquering, viking/barbarian like people took over part of the frozen north, battling Elves to the west kingdom of Kherandor and the southern inhabiting Humans of Lorr, annexing their lands into a large territory. They are called Nords by the people of Yrmant because of dubbing their lands Nordholm, but call themselves the Fenrir. United under one war leader, the Nords were too strong to fight off, taller and more physically impressive than all other races, and the Kherandori and Lorrites did not unite their efforts for past grievances, especially over magic. The Dwarves to the eastern mountain ranges of Duras did not care about the surface politics and were too busy with the orcs and goblins rising underground. On a stalemate, the borders remained as they were and the war grew cold.

Time passed. The Durasin Dwarves managed a victorious hold of the mountains, the orcs and goblins were driven out. They came upon a divided north, the lack of an actual war drove the Nords into warring clans once more. In that state, they were slowly conquered by the orcs clan by clan, without aid from the south (which in fact did what they could to get in their way and recover some of their lands in the process). The Elves were too busy fighting the orcs and other problems themselves. The Nords became fully enslaved by the organised though brutal orcs and those who managed to stay free are hunted to death and band together as outlaws in the hopes of one day driving the orcs back, though their numbers are too few in comparison to the greenskins. The orcs having found their seat of power through their Witch King Kolrak, began sending forays into all other territories, including again the dwarven underground halls, but their attention is still not fully focused on such, because of slave uprisings and outlaw raids.

The Nords have no magic, they are far superior physically and have always counted on their strength, but they do have a few shamans, medicine men and women who receive visions from their revered ancestors and perform rituals to grant boons, such as luck, wisdom, fertility, knowing much of the land and able to create potions and talismans of some strange power. The Lorrites are a more traditional kind of medieval kingdom, their magic highly controlled and legislated, all mages marked for permits to use their magic. Rogue spellcasters are hunted and regarded with suspicion and fear, imprisoned in their dreaded Mage Towers. Elves are more free about their magic, coming from three different roots: arcane, divine and nature. But the numbers of the ones who can actually cast magic have been decreasing over millennia and are these days considered rare and guarded by traditional guards at all times.

The sisters Ara and Elise are currently in Braedon, in Lorr, but it is a large city on a previously very well frequented conversion of main roads leading to all other regions, so feel free to play what you wish. Here's the OOC thread where you can post character concepts to join us and discuss ideas you may have. We're a couple of friendly gals, so feel free to poke us!

We hope to play with you soon!
 
This world sounds super cool- consider my interest piqued! I'd love to join.

So Ara's just about to try to leave Lis, and I assume Lis is going to try and go after her. Would you guys prefer a character who could travel with Ara, or with Lis? Or do you want to take the story somewhere else entirely?
 
Oh, that's the thing, Ara is about to sneak off on Lis, but Lis is also going off to start exacting some bloody revenge for what was done to her sister. So I believe they'll be losing each other for a bit while Lis tries to find Ara. Maybe someone to get on with Ara in this case would be best, as Lis has nothing good in store for the first Mage Hunter she gets her hands on :p
 
Hm, okay, I can work with that. Give me a bit, and I'll get some character ideas up in the OOC thread, you guys can tell me who you might want to run into.

Also, a question- what are race relations like now in this world? I know you're sort of in human territory, so how odd would it be to run into someone from another race, and what would the interaction be like?
 
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There is tension between the races and in Lorr you don't run into Elves, Nords and Dwarves at every corner, but you can see them, yes. Nords, maybe less. Some people look at them curiously, others suspiciously or downright unfriendly. Authorities might harass you for papers now and then.
 
Thank you so much to you both (inkdragon and maerial) for responding!

I saw you're both in the fantasy thread so I thought I would join that. I read through the "spoiler" part and came up with an idea, but I wanted to run the idea through with everyone on this thread first.

So, I thought I could be an elf who can make use of nature/ elemental magic. When you mentioned the magic users being guarded, I thought of making my character nobility of some kind in line for government/ruling. There will be an uprising that means her and a loyal guard/friend need to escape and go into hiding in another region because those who led the uprising want to get rid of any existing elves who would be able to contradict their rule.

After reading the other posts in this ooc thread, I think this idea might be a way to introduce "Kianne" (or get equivalent) into the story without causing too many disturbances. It will be easy to slot her in like this.

If you guys like it, I'll make a character sheet.
 
Thanks! As I said, it is fine by me your concept, as long as it is so for the other players too. :)
 
Well, while I don't feel like my place to okay the concept, since I haven't been playing either, I don't have any problems. You can feel free to take what you want from Kianne's concept, modify it, go nuts. Or do your own thing. That was just an idea, I don't really mind what you do or don't do with it.
 
For the record, that last post wasn't intended to be snarky or sarcastic, I was serious, I really don't care. I had just been tossing around ideas, I wasn't super attached to the character concept of Kianne. If the story ends up going there, it goes there, if not, I don't mind so long as everyone has fun and we write something cool. I didn't mean for that to come off as all passive aggressive or anything. I'm looking forward to writing with you guys. :)
 
Would you all prefer if I made a character sheet first or I can I just jump straight to my initial post?
 
I'd prefer you post your character sheet on the OOC Thread and then we can work on how to introduce your character in the story? We'd not want you to be alone :)
 
I'm definitely interested but I lack any experience in RP whatsoever. How should I start?
 
Hey @Earth , that is not going to be a problem. Head on over to the OOC Thread and check out our sheets. It's a way to help you imagine your character and enter the game. I would advise you to check out the Game Thread and the posts we put there so you have an idea of how things work and if you have any doubts, feel free to PM me and I will answer you as soon as I can. :)
 
It would be so cool if we could have some characters on the other side of things. Mage hunters or ruffians or something. Or even Lis and Ara's father!
 
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