The Book of Ellid (Discussion Thread)

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  1. suddenly BANSHEES

    suddenly BANSHEES Senior Member

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    Just PM'd you my characters, but I'm not sure if it went through. Let me know if I need to resend it, 'kay?
     
  2. Mr Mr

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    Earphone did you get my char idea?
     
  3. Earphone

    Earphone Active Member

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    Dustin, I think you should make a character yourself. Making your character is half the fun.

    Banshees, no I didn't get your PM, could you resend it please?

    Mr., yes I did get your PM, I'll PM you shortly regarding.

    Edit: Also, auras are simply your character's color. While developing your character's personality, you should get an idea of what their color should be.
     
  4. losthawken

    losthawken Author J. Aurel Guay Role Play Moderator Contributor

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    Hmmm, this may take a bit of thinking... I'll come up with something awesome tonight or by tomorrow AM.
     
  5. Forgotten_Memories

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    Name: Anniette (Annie) Kaspara
    Race: Human
    Age: 29
    Sex: Female

    Appearance:

    Annie is taller than the average human female, standing at about 5'8". She has long black hair that is usually tied back in a ponytail, and electric blue eyes. She wears a white gown during her work and experiments, and has rounded spectacles with dark, metallic frames and thin lenses made from crystal. People generally deem her beautiful, with her soft features and almost pristine, fair skin, but she doesn't try to look it.

    Aura: White

    Clothing/Equipment:

    During experiments and work, she wears white gowns, but otherwise dresses in the fashions of the aristocrats, although this is only because she is expected to fit into this society. She makes sure that even these clothes look as plain as they can - she has no desire for material goods. When she is out on missions or research, she makes sure to wear her chainmail tunic for protection, and carries around a baselard with a 25" blade.

    Short Bio:

    Annie was born into a family of respected physicians within the city of Broan, and was the first female to take up the profession. Her schooling included medicine, astrology, and religion. With medicine having such a close tie to religion, and especially with the god Remu, Annie is also a devout worshipper. Her father and two brothers both work as physicians, but unlike her, they choose to ignore everything that is going on with the plague.

    Annie started researching and experimenting, trying to find a cure for the plague when she was twenty years old. It is then that she met her one and only love - Yves Kaspara, an enthusiast who was passionate about the same thing. However, Yves also had a passion for something else - magic. He wished to became an Elementi, and while Annie found this disturbing at first, she soon came around to the idea and benefit of it. Together they began to master the element of blood in secrecy, and were married three years later. Then, tragically, three years ago, during a mission to obtain research material, Yves was infected with the plague, and Annie had no option but to slay the one person she loved. After, she vowed to continue with their research and hopes to be able to one day ascend and become an Elementi, for the both of them.

    Personality:

    Annie is very serious, and likes to keep to herself, but she is never judgemental or dismissive. She is very curious and will give her full attention to almost any subject or task.

    Miscellaneous info:

    Annie is very open-minded, and she especially likes magic. She has only met a few magi throughout her travels, and has always been comforted by their presence. She is also fond of any sort of intellectual, but dislikes snobby people, like her relatives and most other nobles of Broan.
     
  6. suddenly BANSHEES

    suddenly BANSHEES Senior Member

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    Tried resending. Hopefully this one will go through.
     
  7. Earphone

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    'Nother heads up: Depressing Jester has really taken the Elementi, and run with it. If anyone else wants to be one, I'd ask that you please wait 'til his character is up, and read it for an idea.
     
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    suddenly BANSHEES Senior Member

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    Name: Madeline Hyll
    Race: Human
    Age: 24
    Sex: Female

    Appearance: Madeline is six feet tall, with broad shoulders and long, fairly muscular limbs. Her light brown hair is kept back in a low ponytail, tied by a dark blue ribbon at all times. She isn't particularly pretty, with an oval face and a noticeably large, beak-like nose. Her eyes are brown and never seem to open all the way, and she has very thick eyebrows.

    Aura: green

    Clothing/Equipment: Madeline wears a royal blue, knee-length coat, fitted at the waist and trimmed with gold. Beneath that, a white dress shirt with a dark purple cravat and pale yellow waistcoat. She also wears white breeches trimmed with gold thread, and black buckled shoes.

    At her hip she carries a cutlass and small hunting knife, and a silver spyglass. There is a hidden pocket on the inside of her coat, with emergency money.

    Short Bio: She was born the eldest of three girls to a middle-class tailor in a village bordering the Dar Hills. Her parents expected her to inherit their family shop, but it became evident very early on that Madeline was just not meant to be a dress-maker. She spent most of her childhood helping her father, a very meek, scholarly man, with manual labor around the house. After a sudden growth spurt in her teen years, Madeline towered over the little man, and began to wonder if she was suited for the life of a simple village girl.

    Having heard stories of heroes and adventurers all her life, she left home at sixteen, and was promptly robbed of all of her possessions in the neighboring village. Determined not to go home a failure, she traveled Errilia taking odd jobs, and fell in with a band of treasure-hunters. For several years she stayed with them, learning what she could, until the plague broke out in a town they were passing through, and the band was scattered. Madeline searched, but could find no sign of any of them, and feared the worst. She returned to her home village for a while, to see that her family was all right. Luckily, no harm had come to them.

    Madeline stayed only briefly, until she met Romyar, and took him in as her assistant. He was more or less her excuse for leaving home again, as she felt guilty abandoning her family in such dark times, but felt restless living in such a quiet village.

    Personality: Madeline appears to be a perpetually calm, almost dopey person. Her default expression is a sleepy smile, and it takes a lot to upset her. She acts very gentlemanly towards others, especially women, and can be a bit too trusting. More than anything, she loves money, and tends to spend it frivolously on clothes, wine, and women. Madeline isn't an expert swordswoman, and therefor won't draw her blade unless absolutely necessary. She can hold her own in a physical confrontation, but prefers to try to talk her way out of trouble.

    Miscellaneous info: She isn't particularly smart, and can be easily fooled by a girl with big, doe eyes. She also isn't above fighting dirty in a pinch, and trusts Romyar more than anyone else.


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    Name: Romyar Darig
    Race: Gnome
    Age: 18 gnome years (9 human)
    Sex: Male

    Appearance: Romyar is two feet tall, of average build for a gnome. He has short, reddish-brown fur and low-set, drooping ears. His face is long and thin, and his nose is small and black. He has black eyes, and wavy “hair” on top of his head, just a few shades darker than the rest of his fur.

    Aura: dark blue

    Clothing/Equipment: Romyar wears a short, black top-hat with a silver buckle, and copper, custom-made goggles mounted on its brim. He wears a white shirt and purple cravat, and a dark green overcoat that drags on the ground, and too-long sleeves that need to be constantly rolled up. His pants are black-and-grey striped, with a wide, dark brown belt with a copper buckle, and dark brown boots. He carries a silver pocket-watch at all times.

    Romyar is in charge of carrying Madeline's pack, which is filled with dried foods, spare clothes, and basic supplies. The pack looks rather large on him, and he uses a long-handled hammer as a walking stick, to keep his balance while carrying it.

    Short Bio: Like many gnomes, most of Romyar's family was lost to the plague. He himself just barely survived when the outbreak came to his home in the Dar Hills. Romyar managed to escape into a nearby human village, and there he met the Hyll family. They took pity on him, and allowed him to stay in a tiny, back room in their dress shop. For weeks he did not speak, and helped with small chores around their shop to pay for his lodging. Not long afterward, Madeline returned home, and after drowning their sorrows in a shared bottle of wine, Romyar began to speak again.

    His control of the earth makes him a useful ally in uncovering treasures, and Madeline instantly took him under her wing. When the king sent out his missive, it was Romyar's idea to take it, having seen the effects of the plague first-hand.

    Personality: Romyar is quiet, and gives the impression of being very timid. But, when he does speak, he is blunt to the point of rudeness. He's very observant, and tends to be reserved around those he doesn't know. He likes to give the impression that he is a cool, serious person, but has a tendency to jump to conclusions and get wound up over nothing. Romyar is very neat and orderly, and doesn't like to get dirty.

    Miscellaneous info: Romyar hates being picked up by anyone, for any reason. Though he isn't quick to trust others, he'll start to warm up to someone if they feed him something delicious.
     
  9. Forgotten_Memories

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    Oooh! A lesbian! I like this character already banshees! :p
     
  10. Depressing Jester

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    Name: Ryynevaur
    Race: Elementi
    Age: Ascended at the age of 36 (time lost meaning to him after that)
    Sex: Male

    Appearance: The appearance he chooses for dealing with the mortal races is of a pale, slender man with chiseled features with a mane of long, black hair atop his head and eyes that betray a powerful ferocity. His expression can normally be described as distant or disinterested.

    Aura: Violet

    Clothing/Equipment: His attire is usually made up of a pair elegant cloth trousers and robe that seems to flow with non-existent winds. His feet and chest are left bare. (Note that this is the attire that is worn in his human form.)

    Short Bio: Life before the Ascension seems like a distant dream. His senses have become dulled to the physical world, as if everything was happening from a great distance. He finds the passions and drives he felt as a man to be slowly drifting away in the wind.

    Personality: Distanced from the world, viewing it almost with disdain. Has little connections with his fellow Elementi, save for a few. But due to the fierce individualism of his kind, this is not uncommon. He is so much like the storm, a fierce and unstoppable act of nature one moment, and calm and serene the next. He longs to loose himself in the wind.

    Miscellaneous info: His Familiar is a feathered serpent by the name of Quetzanctil. It is often malevolent and urges him to acts of violence. Ryynevaur often views it with disgust.
     
  11. suddenly BANSHEES

    suddenly BANSHEES Senior Member

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    Why thank you! There aren't enough lesbians in the fantasy genre, methinks ;D

    I love your character, too.
     
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    [ignore this post. delete, if you can. i can't seem to figure out how to.]
     
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    Name: Pytt
    Race: Human
    Age: 20-25 (Exact age unknown, even by himself. His tribe makes no effort to record the passing of years)
    Sex: Male

    Appearance: Pytt has a protuberant, almost beak-like nose and fierce, dark eyes. His long, black hair is kept in a braided ponytail. Pytt's most striking feature is his skin color: a distinct reddish-brown a shade darker than most. On his right forearm is tattooed a single line of black ink, snaking from elbow to wrist in a tangled, abstract design.

    Aura: amber

    Clothing/Equipment: In an effort to conform to the society around him (and to avoid disconcerting stares), Pytt has abandoned his tribe's usual minimalistic wear for "normal" clothing. Unfortunately, due to his ignorance of this new style of clothing, he often dresses himself improperly. He usually wears a simple cotton shirt - backwards and/or inside-out - and canvas pants. He still refuses to wear shoes, however, and insists on always going barefoot.

    Pytt prefers to live off the land when on the trail and thus carries limited provisions. Nevertheless, he still carries a bladder canteen, a handmade bone knife, and a steel machete - a weapon he begrudgingly began to wield only after his old wooded sword broke in two.

    Short Bio: Pytt was born and raised in a primitive tribe, far to the south in the "uninhabited" parts of the world. Though he has long since reached manhood physically, he has yet to be fully accepted as an adult in his tribe due to his inability to hunt and kill his spirit animal. (His tribe has a belief about this, which I will explain if ever any other characters ask him)

    Knowing only that his spirit animal does not dwell anywhere in his homeland, Pytt has journeyed far to the north in search of it. Over the years, he has begun to forge a career for himself assisting expeditions such as these; the wilderness survival skills of his tribe making him an invaluable resource. Having heard King Elthidius' missive, Pytt was quick to volunteer partly out of concern for those dying, but also greatly out of desire to explore yet another unknown land in search of his beast.

    Personality: Though Pytt often wears a fierce expression, this is more out of feelings of discomfort in his still-unfamiliar surroundings than actual anger. When on his own in nature, he tends to soften up.

    Miscellaneous info: Pytt has a limited mastery of the common tongue, ergo his sentences are often short and broken. He is very stubborn and does not take to changes well, however he dislikes ostracism more and will sometimes conform to a standard if he feels he is the only one against it.
     
  14. Earphone

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    Alright, we have enough characters to start, so submissions are closed. I'll wait for Hawken and Mr Mr to post their characters, then we can begin.

    In the opening post, I will be listing more people than our characters to go out. They are NPCs, feel free to control or interact with them. Take the time to mingle a bit before it all starts.

    Edit: I've changed my mind. The first post will be from Chani's perspective.
     
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    Name: Etri
    Race: Gnome
    Age: 26
    Sex: Male

    Appearance: Etri is average height for a Gnome, standing at 2"3. He has a cat like face.

    Aura: Green

    Clothing/Equipment: His head is adourned with a large sombraero like hat. He wears a simple outfit consisting of a tight fitting robe. He carries a pickaxe to help with tunneling and moving the earth. Etri is never seen without his pet boar and mount Tusk.

    Short Bio: Etri was the kings head tunneler, helping to evacuate villages and cities from plague carriers, and was sent to assist the other races in finding a cure for the plague. He lost most of his family to the plague and hopes to save others from the same fate.

    Personality: Etri is headstrong but caring. He has a tendency to think before acting and has no problem with fighting dirty (litteraly) or doing whatever's neccesary to acomplish his task.

    Miscellaneous info: Likes honey and anything sweet; can't stand daylight or heights.
     
  16. losthawken

    losthawken Author J. Aurel Guay Role Play Moderator Contributor

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    PMed my character to Earphone. Awaiting approval.
     
  17. losthawken

    losthawken Author J. Aurel Guay Role Play Moderator Contributor

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    Name: Archanos
    Race: Elementi
    Age: 75 at ascension >100 years ago
    Sex: Formerly Male

    Appearance: Archanos exists as a mere presence observable as distortion of light. When interacting with the world he manifests as something akin to a drayad or hamadrayad, being composed of living plant matter generally reflective of the vegatation from his surroundings.

    Aura: Green

    Clothing/Equipment: None

    Short Bio: Before ascension Archanos lived as a monk. Devoting himself to the study of the magic arts and the service of others he became known as 'the Giver' to the surrounding communities because of the bountiful gardens from which he freely gave to anyone who asked. Most of his past has been forgotten since his ascension. He has spent the last decades communing with nature and exploring the ascended realm and its relation to the physical world. His desire is for increasing the good and maintaining the dynamic balance of the world.

    Personality: Like all elementi, Archanos is distant from the plights of mortals. However, his desire for maintaining the natural balance of the world and his inherent generosity brings him into interaction with mortals far more frequently than most elementi

    Miscellaneous info: Archanos is in communion and covanant with the plant world. His powers allow him to form the plant life in his surroundings into whatever he desires. He is rarely violent but can weild his dryad manifestation into a formidable weapon. However, he prefers to intervene by providing healing herbs and remedies for those in need. Archanos' strength is very susceptible to his environment, he tires quickly in the dark and is limited in his abilities in the absence of vegetation, earth, or water.

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    Name: Tumblefoot
    Race: Hyla (Summoned Familiar from another realm)
    Age: Unkown
    Sex: Presumably male

    Appearance: Tumblefoot is a 3 foot frog with bulging dark eyes, he wears a plain tattered cape and is sometimes seen carrying a large pack on his back

    Aura: Orange

    Clothing/Equipment: A short twisted walking stick with a heavy knob on top.

    Short Bio: Tumblefoot was summoned from another realm by the monk that became Archanos not long before his ascension. He has since been his zealous servant and aid.

    Personality: Self important and loyal Tumblefoot is perpetually confused by the attitued of humble sacrifice of his powerful master. Committed to a fault, he will never disobey his master, but has been known to argue when when Archonos does or asks him to do something he considers 'beneath them'.

    Miscellaneous info: For his size Tumble foot possess amazing strength. He is also quite agile and fleet of foot. However, his use in a conflict compares only to that an average human.
     
  18. Earphone

    Earphone Active Member

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    Alright, everyone's character is up! We can start now!
     
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    Yay!

    Also, I told Earphone, but if anyone missed my edit on my character, her element is blood instead of metal. :p
     
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    I've made the first post, it's more of an introduction, and I'm awaiting approval. I'm not going to have a lot of time to write today, but I'll be back after ten.

    Where you lot will start writing is in the courtyard. You have all been waiting several hours for the Fauns to arrive. Please write your posts leading up to the Fauns' arrival, then later tonight I will introduce the monk.
     
  21. losthawken

    losthawken Author J. Aurel Guay Role Play Moderator Contributor

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    Wait I missed that what do you mean?
     
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    Forgotten_Memories Active Member

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    Well, initially I had it so that she was a physician, but secretly trained in magic to manipulate metal. Now I've changed it so that she's been training to manipulate blood, which I think makes more sense, being a physician and all, and trying to find a cure for the plague.
     
  23. Brandogg12

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    Got some good bio's here- though from the looks of it there are a great load of characters. Hopefully we keep it simple and clean so I don't get lost like I have a tendency to do. Curse ADHD =\
     
  24. losthawken

    losthawken Author J. Aurel Guay Role Play Moderator Contributor

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    I was going to suggest that we repost our bios as the first posts in the official game thread. In other RPGs I am always going back to the first page to figure out what who is and so forth.

    We started kind of unconventionally here but I think its been a good thing.
     
  25. Brandogg12

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    That's a good idea- we should repost our bios just to make it so we dont have to go back and forth so much
     

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