The Dance of Chaos [OOC-Fantasy-OPEN]

[Haedros 92712]

Relic App

Names: Melody
Type: Holy? Cursed? I dunno.
Gender: Male
Sexual Orientation: Bisexual, leaning more towards homo.
Race: Questionably human. He has somewhat pointed ears, not long enough to be an elf, but not short or round enough to be human.
Form as an object: A pendant.
Form as a being: Look at that pretty boi :3

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Position/Status/Affiliation: Currently, Melody has no wielder. He currently performs a musical act in some obscure bar in Anselm
Skills/Powers//Magic:

Anyone who happens to wear Melody gain several abilities that connect directly to their voice. Most users consider her ability worthless due to the fact that she seemingly only improves the sound of their voice, however, to those who actually use her effectively, she grants a multitude of various magical techniques. These various techniques include:
Amplifier: The user can amplify another individual's physical or magical abilities. This effect is selective, as the wielder can choose what enhancements they project, and who they are projected on. However, the user cannot project the amplifier ability on to themselves.
Silence: Inversely, when using Melody, the wielder can decrease a person's abilities, wearing them down and "silencing" them.
Healer: An extension of the amplifier ability, the individual affected by this ability will have their ability to naturally heal boosted heavily, thus allowing them to recover from wounds far quicker. It can also increase a person's mana production rate.
Silver Tongue: Melody enhances his users voice in such a way that they become far more charismatic, allowing to speak directly to a person's emotions, making it far easier to manipulate a person's thought pattern in a way that benefits the user, or causing certain emotions to flare up.
Song of Silence: Melody's only real offensive ability, Song of Silence is an incredibly fatal but draining technique that harms/kills any who hear it invoked by causing a person's body to essentially begin committing suicide, causing the bodies cells to perform mass apoptosis. However, this ability causes intense and rapid mana loss of the user, and prolonged use can easily kill the user as well as the inflicted. In addition, it's the only technique Melody can invoke that can't target an individual or group of individuals. Anyone who hears it aside from the user is in danger.
Though most of these can be inflicted through simply speaking, Melody's abilities are shown to be far more effective when invoked through singing.

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Personality: Melody is an artist. The shut-in kind. Sometimes he'll go for weeks without leaving his room of the inn he works at (despite dissatisfied employers) whilst he works on writing a new song, or practicing his singing, or producing the perfect note with his voice. He is very timid and hates one-on-one encounters with people. Despite this, he doesn't have any form of stage fright. In fact, he's quite proud of his singing voice and loves singing to large crowds of adoring fans. In fact, he dreams of such fame, and so sings his best regardless of whose there to hear him. He's creative, and when he's not confronted with a stranger, he's rather kind and incredibly polite. He also crossdresses. Never will you see him in a man's clothes by choice.
Moral Alignment: True neutral
History: So, Melody's true power and potential is not immediately apparent to your casual finder. Due to his lack of immediately apparent abilities, at one point in time, his user died, and he was passed down to another member of said wielders family, her daughter. Now, due to a lack of mana and a fear of going dormant, Melody did not make his relic status apparent, just kind of hoping that he would be recognized for what he was and an attempt at forming a contract would be made. However... that didn't happen. For a solid 8 generations, passed from daughter to daughter, witnessing the rather wealthy family he was in the possession of slowly decline until eventually his was pawned off, suspected to be just a really pretty necklace, a family heirloom. Luck struck true though, and the man whom he was sold to then sold Melody again to a powerful and rather knowledgeable mage. This mage happened to recognize that Melody was, in fact, a relic. A contract was formed and... the mage immediately died. Oops. Melody accidentally drained all the man's mana in one fell swoop. Granted a massive amount of mana, Melody inhabited a human form, and through some strange alignment of circumstances, came to work at a bar in Anselm as the entertainment.
Goals: Melody doesn't have many real goals in mind. Sing to adoring fans? Not be stuck in relic form for a long time for a second time? Something like that.
Theme Song:(Optional, a song could be nice, but many people don't like it.)

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RP Sample:(If I know you, you can skip this part, but if not, I need a sample to see how good you are.)
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Unfinished, but I kinda want an opinion on his ability.

[Nea Videssos]

If you want some more pics, here's some:

Speaking of pics, I've been finding some more for Amarhael (again):

[Haedros 92712]

If you want some more pics, here's some:

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Speaking of pics, I've been finding some more for Amarhael (again):

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Danke. I think I might actually use the first pic of Cyril

[Nea Videssos]

You're welcome.

Also, that app reminded me that Amarhael has singing listed as one of his skills.

[Haedros 92712]

You're welcome.

Also, that app reminded me that Amarhael has singing listed as one of his skills.

Want Amarhael to have Melody for a relic?

EDIT: Maybe not, I think he would scare Melody shitless O_O

[Nea Videssos]

You're welcome.

Also, that app reminded me that Amarhael has singing listed as one of his skills.

Want Amarhael to have Melody for a relic?

That could work. I'd been a bit cautious about giving Amarhael a relic before, thinking that he had plenty of power already (plus a bunch of magical artifacts acquired over the past millennia), but it could be an definitely be an option.

Edit:

EDIT: Maybe not, I think he would scare Melody shitless O_O

True. Eldritch undead necromancer-shapeshifters can be scary.

[Haedros 92712]

Want Amarhael to have Melody for a relic?

That could work. I'd been a bit cautious about giving Amarhael a relic before, thinking that he had plenty of power already (plus a bunch of magical artifacts acquired over the past millennia), but it could be an definitely be an option.

Edit:

EDIT: Maybe not, I think he would scare Melody shitless O_O

True. Eldritch undead necromancer-shapeshifters can be scary.

I still think it'd be kinda cute though, the unstoppable double trap duo. Nothing could stand in their way!

[Nea Videssos]

That could work. I'd been a bit cautious about giving Amarhael a relic before, thinking that he had plenty of power already (plus a bunch of magical artifacts acquired over the past millennia), but it could be an definitely be an option.

Edit:

True. Eldritch undead necromancer-shapeshifters can be scary.

I still think it'd be kinda cute though, the unstoppable double trap duo. Nothing could stand in their way!

It does sound good. Looking at Melody's abilities, he'd be able to enhance/empower his subordinate(s) with that amplify ability, weaken key enemies, and kill them with Song of Silence (mana supply isn't really an issue with Amarhael on that one, and as for it having possibly fatal consequences; what is dead may never die). On a relevant note, I vaguely recall someone (probably Tracian) saying something about relics and undead using them on another page, but I can't remember the details. Not sure if it was about there being some extra complications or not.

[Haedros 92712]

I still think it'd be kinda cute though, the unstoppable double trap duo. Nothing could stand in their way!

It does sound good. Looking at Melody's abilities, he'd be able to enhance/empower his subordinate(s) with that amplify ability, weaken key enemies, and kill them with Song of Silence (mana supply isn't really an issue with Amarhael on that one, and as for it having possibly fatal consequences; what is dead may never die). On a relevant note, I vaguely recall someone (probably Tracian) saying something about relics and undead using them on another page, but I can't remember the details. Not sure if it was about there being some extra complications or not.

I certainly remember him saying about relics wielding other relics. But nothing about undead... but I could be dead wrong. (I hate myself)

[Nea Videssos]

It does sound good. Looking at Melody's abilities, he'd be able to enhance/empower his subordinate(s) with that amplify ability, weaken key enemies, and kill them with Song of Silence (mana supply isn't really an issue with Amarhael on that one, and as for it having possibly fatal consequences; what is dead may never die). On a relevant note, I vaguely recall someone (probably Tracian) saying something about relics and undead using them on another page, but I can't remember the details. Not sure if it was about there being some extra complications or not.

I certainly remember him saying about relics wielding other relics. But nothing about undead... but I could be dead wrong. (I hate myself)

I had a look and I couldn't find it, so I was probably misremembering something else.

[Granis]

No way in hell. My last post may be recent, true, but it took... What, four months to come out? Characters who were just staring shyly at each other without admitting their feelings when my last post came out are getting married now.

Did you look how much time went by between mine?

No, but what I did see was a post from you just a little bit after my second last post, and then another one just before my last post. Therefore, we have irrefutable proof that I have the more legitimate claim to the coveted title of 'Laziest RPer in Dance of Chaos'! None may question my right to that!

[Remnants of Exilvania]

Did you look how much time went by between mine?

No, but what I did see was a post from you just a little bit after my second last post, and then another one just before my last post. Therefore, we have irrefutable proof that I have the more legitimate claim to the coveted title of 'Laziest RPer in Dance of Chaos'! None may question my right to that!

HA! You wish boi! Dig deeper to find the real truth. Dig too deep and you'll awaken what should've stayed asleep.

[Tracian Empire]

I certainly remember him saying about relics wielding other relics. But nothing about undead... but I could be dead wrong. (I hate myself)

I had a look and I couldn't find it, so I was probably misremembering something else.

Well, to be honest, even I don't remember. And the fact that I've been continuously messing with the lore behind the curtain hasn't been helping. I know that I've been placing a lot of restrictions on relics, but in the end, having fun is the most important thing I suppose - and with the relic lore as a whole still being worked upon, we can improvise.

Amarhael would be able to use a relic. Of course, he can't use it to its full power - no one can. That's their paradox. Relics are in theory strong enough to fight and possibly kill gods, but they can't be wielded by divine beings, and there doesn't seem to be anyone in the mortal world, living or undead, able to use their full power.

He'll be able to use it, but it won't be easy. The relic will demand mana, and as such, Amarhael will simply have to obtain a lot more, which would strain him, but it can be done.

[Remnants of Exilvania]

Relic App

Names: Melody
Type: Holy? Cursed? I dunno.
Gender: Male
Sexual Orientation: Bisexual, leaning more towards homo.
Race: Questionably human. He has somewhat pointed ears, not long enough to be an elf, but not short or round enough to be human.
Form as an object: A pendant.
Form as a being: Look at that pretty boi :3

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Position/Status/Affiliation: Currently, Melody has no wielder. He currently performs a musical act in some obscure bar in Anselm
Skills/Powers//Magic:
Anyone who happens to wear Melody gain several abilities that connect directly to their voice. Most users consider her ability worthless due to the fact that she seemingly only improves the sound of their voice, however, to those who actually use her effectively, she grants a multitude of various magical techniques. These various techniques include:
Amplifier: The user can amplify another individual's physical or magical abilities. This effect is selective, as the wielder can choose what enhancements they project, and who they are projected on. However, the user cannot project the amplifier ability on to themselves.
Silence: Inversely, when using Melody, the wielder can decrease a person's abilities, wearing them down and "silencing" them.
Healer: An extension of the amplifier ability, the individual affected by this ability will have their ability to naturally heal boosted heavily, thus allowing them to recover from wounds far quicker. It can also increase a person's mana production rate.
Silver Tongue: Melody enhances his users voice in such a way that they become far more charismatic, allowing to speak directly to a person's emotions, making it far easier to manipulate a person's thought pattern in a way that benefits the user, or causing certain emotions to flare up.
Song of Silence: Melody's only real offensive ability, Song of Silence is an incredibly fatal but draining technique that harms/kills any who hear it invoked by causing a person's body to essentially begin committing suicide, causing the bodies cells to perform mass apoptosis. However, this ability causes intense and rapid mana loss of the user, and prolonged use can easily kill the user as well as the inflicted. In addition, it's the only technique Melody can invoke that can't target an individual or group of individuals. Anyone who hears it aside from the user is in danger.
Though most of these can be inflicted through simply speaking, Melody's abilities are shown to be far more effective when invoked through singing.

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Personality: Melody is an artist. The shut-in kind. Sometimes he'll go for weeks without leaving his room of the inn he works at (despite dissatisfied employers) whilst he works on writing a new song, or practicing his singing, or producing the perfect note with his voice. He is very timid and hates one-on-one encounters with people. Despite this, he doesn't have any form of stage fright. In fact, he's quite proud of his singing voice and loves singing to large crowds of adoring fans. In fact, he dreams of such fame, and so sings his best regardless of whose there to hear him. He's creative, and when he's not confronted with a stranger, he's rather kind and incredibly polite. He also crossdresses. Never will you see him in a man's clothes by choice.
Moral Alignment: True neutral
History: A rather uneventful past. He's been passed between wielder from person to person for several years, with each owner discarding him due to not really realizing the potential he has. Quite recently having exited a contract, he now works at a quaint little tavern in Anselm.
Goals: (Does the relic have any goals? Anything they desire to accomplish?)
Theme Song:(Optional, a song could be nice, but many people don't like it.)

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RP Sample:(If I know you, you can skip this part, but if not, I need a sample to see how good you are.)
Did you read the Rules?: (Yes?)
Miscellaneous:(If there is anything else you would want to add..)
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Unfinished, but I kinda want an opinion on his ability.

Hm, I have very, very little to nitpick in my completely unimportant review of this app. Please disregard this review unless you agree with something on it.

• Super minor. Your description of his race and his actual appearance are a bit...weird. Like the ears on his appearance are longer and pointier than you'd see most elves in most fantasy settings having. But since we don't actually have a canonical representation of how elves in Lonriel look aside from not like in TES, we can assume that usual elf ear length is at Warcraft Elves' level to make your things sensible.
• Song of Silence. Overall fairly balanced abilities I'd say. Do mind though that Song of Silence won't have an effect on dead cells which will leave you a tad bit dead in the water when facing Vampires or the Cult and their undead armies.
• "The shut-in kind. Sometimes he'll go for weeks without leaving his room of the inn he works at (despite dissatisfied employers) whilst he works on writing a new song, or practicing his singing, or producing the perfect note with his voice."
  
  This is a tiny bit of a problem. Or well, used to be. After conversing with Thrac, he decided it isn't as much anymore and rules will be changed to give relics some more room.
• "He's been passed between wielder from person to person for several years, with each owner discarding him due to not really realizing the potential he has. Quite recently having exited a contract, he now works at a quaint little tavern in Anselm."
  
  This is a bit more of a problem though. You see, no one just gives a relic away. A relic is a relic, it holds great power and everyone knows that. And for Christ's sake, it doesn't have to be great at killing. Nobody says a relic can't...I don't know, make trees grow rather than chop down an entire forest in one swipe.
  
  If you however mean nobody even realised that he was a relic...that would mean he probably never left his relic form...which would mean he probably never had a contract for a loooooooooong ass time. His mana reserves might've been pretty depleted or he was dormant. Considering his relic form he probably would've ended up as family heirloom, some jewelry given from mother to daugher for forever. In order to be actually be able to change into human form and sustain it, you might want to make that last wielder, that actually formed a contract with it, be insanely powerful (and smart enough to recognise his relic status) and give him some sort of big mana charge upon dying (violently).

That's all. Really not much to say.

[Elysian Kentarchy]

Introducing some new characters

Character Application

Name: Lidia
Age: 30 though she doesn't appear any older from her last sighting three years ago.
Gender: Female
Sexual Orientation: Straight
Race: Human from Wyzkia
Appearance:

Pretty much exactly like in the image, though there is are several scars under her armor from the 'old days'. Is 6'4

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Position/Status/Affiliation:Former Paladin of Wyzkia, formerly one of the Knights of Light, one of the Seven Traitors
Skills/Powers//Magic: Master swordswoman and griffon rider, she is also a very skilled tactician capable of planning the deployment and movement of forces. As for magic well she is talented in several areas such as most types of elemental magic but where she shines is her telekinetic and telepathic magic, using it to great effect to alter the battlefield she is fighting on to her benefit or to use objects around her as weapons, or to break the morale of the people she is fighting by messing with their minds. There was some talk that during the war she was researching a new type of white magic or even trying to unlock secrets related to Thyria but if so that was discarded by her as was all other white magic she knew in favor of the usage of black magic and she has little to no interest in revisiting them because of her new path in life. She never spoke of her research to others, not even the other heroes or her close friends and she did not keep notes (or if there were some they were destroyed along with all her other writings after the war), she didn't even confirm or deny if she was doing such a thing. This has lead some to theorize that she was researching black magic in order to gain more power, those people trying to argue that her corruption started even before her encounter with the Emperor, pointing to her pride as an early sign of her corruption starting, most dismiss the latter for pride in of in itself is not an indicator of a fall but cannot really refute the former if true.
Equipment: A heavy two handed sword, a long knife, plate armor with the symbols of Wyzkia worn off, an undead griffon.

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Personality: During the war she was an uncompromising perfectionist, believing that one could always do better than what they were doing and pushing others around her to do even better. And in her return that drive for perfection has only been magnified to the point that she has an active disdain of weakness and throws herself into battle not based off of value but the challenge it represents. She frequently talks to herself when she is alone. Has a penchant for beheading her enemies. Also she has a very notable sense of pride that has multiplied several times over since the war ended.
Moral Alignment: No conventional DnD alignment since she can bounce between Lawful Evil and Chaotic Evil at times but she is more often the former.
Biography: Raised in a monastery of Paladins, being given over to them as a baby, she pretty much seemed fated to be one herself, showing an uncanny natural ability with the sword, with the lance, and with magic and took to the saddle with ease. All of the aforementioned laid the sin of pride (and some might say greed) in her heart and started the paving of the path to her damnation according to those who raised her who still live because they did not reign it in nor did they make a true effort to stop her drive to master all of those completely, in fact many of her peers were curious at how far she would go. She had extremely few friends and one of her teachers remarked that she seemed beyond a lot of her peers among the orphans because of how certain she was of herself, how she knew what she wanted to do in life and that passion was off-putting. She rarely got along with those her own age and professing to not understand them at times and that she was often lonely when away from the very few friends. She never spoke of it but she wished deep down to be a normal girl but when she did start thinking that way she fell back on her pride, telling herself to look at what she was doing, what her potential is, what she has accomplished, and more over the years of her life in order to reassure herself that she was in the place she was destined to be. And that if it was her destiny to be a warrior it was her duty to become the best out of all of them.

When she was old enough to enter the war (and indeed the war was still very young when she first fought in it) she displayed her mastery of the sword, lance, and magic to everybody both on and off the battlefield and those developed exponentially the longer the war lasted. Needless to say she became a notable sight to many, so much so it wasn't a surprise to many who knew her personally that she was named one of the Knights of Light later on in the war. Indeed it is recorded that she only ever lost a duel with the sword twice during the entire war. Overall she was considered to be one of the greatest paladins the order had ever seen, especially out of the many Paladin champions during the war.

Indeed she was an icon to many, inspiring them to continue fighting and displaying her mastery of the sword on the battlefield, serving as a counselor to those whose morale broke or to the wounded, and as a frequent face on the war councils as a representative of her order. And the longer the war lasted the more proud she seemed to grow of her strength and skill but still constantly pushed herself because she felt though she could do more, and do it perfectly, she had to if she was to accomplish her goals, that being the end of the war and her drive for perfection in battle became widely known but her motives for it were almost unknown because almost no one bothered to ask her why. Beyond that well, everybody knows what happened during the war, the Fourteen entered the palace and seven were seduced by the Emperor and his dark power, turning on their comrades. And they were supposed to be dead but as they say, death is an amazingly fickle thing.

She is remembered as someone whose pride and striving for perfection proved to be her undoing with the tales saying that the Emperor promised her a way to attain complete perfection in all she desired, swaying her heart to the cause of evil when she concluded there was no other way to achieve that perfection. That she was willing to cast aside all she held dear in order to advance if that was the price she must pay in order to finally reach a limit worthy of her, that of perfection. Her goals of perfection to allow for the war to end faster were cast aside with the idea that she could surpass it all. Those who remember her from the war or even her childhood concede that she was indeed very prideful and a perfectionist but that she was also someone who believed firmly in honor, was stubborn when it came to doing what she felt was right, was rather kind if you got underneath the armor she built around herself, and had an open soft spot for children, which makes her fall to damnation even more shameful in their eyes. She was supposed to be an icon, a leader of the Paladins of Wyzkia, someone to help guide her order to the future, and she betrayed it all.

It is a massive understatement to say that all Paladins of Wyzkia hate her beyond belief as a disgrace to their order and a betrayer of all they stood for, all the virtues she was supposed to profess and embody as part of the order.

Goals: To destroy weakness (especially those from her past), to hunt down the mage that tainted her mind with... something that she refuses to elaborate upon and the person who put a certain scar on her, the latter to return the favor.
Theme Song:

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RP Sample:
Did you read the Rules?: Yup.
Miscellaneous:
#KBE7TY2IEV

Character Application

Name: Felicity
Age: 15
Gender: Female
Sexual Orientation: Bisexual
Race:Human from Wyzkia
Appearance:

is 5'8

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Position/Status/Affiliation:Squire of the Wyzkian Paladins.
Skills/Powers//Magic: Somewhat skilled swordswoman and griffon rider, completely incapable with magic, has book knowledge of herbs and various medicines.
Equipment: Armor and a longsword

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Personality: Given how I am going to have her undergo a personality change within three posts at most there isn't a lot I can say, she is fairly stereotypical as a lawful good paladin would be in terms of personality, except for the fact that she is somewhat proud and stubborn to a fault and relies on that stubbornness to advance in life. She is also fairly naive and does not have much knowledge of the outside world (besides that of current politics) due to always living in a monastery.
Moral Alignment: Lawful Good
Biography: There isn't much to say about her, Felicity was given to a monastery run by a group of female Paladins of Wyzkia as a baby, a monastery she scarcely ever left unless she was flying after she was made a squire and like most orphans at the monastery she has no last name. However most didn't expect her to actually even get that far as she was frailer than most as a child and had to struggle to advance and become stronger meaning she fought tooth and nail to reach the level of skill and capability she is at now. Anyone less stubborn in her state wouldn't have become a squire but it is painful for her to acknowledge that she lacks natural aptitude for the skills a paladin should have.

Whether this means she is jealous of those who are more naturally inclined to those skills or not... well she isn't telling.

Had she been a bit older she would have probably served in the war but she was thought too young and too new to the Paladins to be sent out there so she has never fought someone in real battle or killed anyone.
Goals: You'll see.
Theme Song:

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RP Sample:
Did you read the Rules?: Yes.
Miscellaneous: Yes I know I am a bit low on the details but honestly most character development is for IC for her. Especially with giving her reasons and shaping her personality.
#KBE7TY2IEV

Lidia
G: 1
Con: -10
Status: Corrupted Traitor

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Felicity
E: 1
P: 1
Ho: 7
Cor: 0
Ha: 0
R: 0
B: 0
Status: Squire to Paladin Maria

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Ignatius
R: 0
B: 0
Status: Bound to Paladin Maria

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[Remnants of Exilvania]

Introducing some new characters

Hear, hear!

Time for my inconsequential reviews.

Character Application

Name: Lidia
Age: 30 though she doesn't appear any older from her last sighting three years ago.
Gender: Female
Sexual Orientation: Bisexual
Race: Human from Wyzkia
Appearance:(Image)
Pretty much exactly like in the image, though there is are several scars under her armor from the 'old days'. Is 6'4

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Position/Status/Affiliation:Former Paladin of Wyzkia, formerly one of the Knights of Light, one of the Seven Traitors
Skills/Powers//Magic: Master swordswoman and griffon rider, she is also a very skilled tactician capable of planning the deployment and movement of forces. As for magic well she is talented in several areas such as most types of elemental magic but where she shines is her telekinetic and telepathic magic, using it to great effect to alter the battlefield she is fighting on to her benefit or to use objects around her as weapons, or to break the morale of the people she is fighting by messing with their minds. There was some talk that during the war she was researching a new type of white magic or even trying to unlock secrets related to Thyria but if so that was discarded by her as was all other white magic she knew and she has little to no interest in revisiting them because of her new path in life. She never spoke of her research to others, not even the other heroes or her close friends and she did not keep notes (or if there were some they were destroyed along with all her other writings after the war). This has lead some to theorize that she was researching black magic in order to gain more power, those people trying to argue that her corruption started even before her encounter with the Emperor, pointing to her pride as an early sign of her corruption starting.
Equipment: A heavy two handed sword and a lance, plate armor with the symbols of Wyzkia worn off, an undead griffon.

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Personality: During the war she was an uncompromising perfectionist, believing that one could always do better than what they were doing. And in her return that trait has only been magnified to the point that she has an active disdain of weakness and throws herself into battle not based off of value but the challenge it represents. She frequently talks to herself when she is alone. Has a penchant for beheading her enemies. Also she has a very large sense of pride that has multiplied several times over since the war ended.
Moral Alignment: No conventional DnD alignment since she can bounce between Lawful Evil and Chaotic Evil at times but she is more often the former.
Biography: Raised in a monastery of Paladins, being given over to them as a baby, she pretty much seemed fated to be one herself, showing an uncanny natural ability with the sword, with the lance, and with magic and took to the saddle with ease. All of the aforementioned laid the sin of pride (and some might say greed) in her heart and started the paving of the path to her damnation according to those who raised her who still live because they did not reign it in nor did they make a true effort to stop her drive to master all of those completely, in fact many of her peers were curious at how far she would go. She had extremely few friends and one of her teachers remarked that she seemed beyond a lot of her peers among the orphans because of how certain she was of herself, how she knew what she wanted to do in life and that passion was off-putting. She rarely got along with those her own age and professing to not understand them at times and that she was often lonely when away from the very few friends. She never spoke of it but she wished deep down to be a normal girl but when she did start thinking that way she fell back on her pride, telling herself to look at what she was doing, what her potential is, what she has accomplished, and more over the years of her life in order to reassure herself that she was in the place she was destined to be. And that if it was her destiny to be a warrior it was her duty to become the best out of all of them.

When she was old enough to enter the war (and indeed the war was still very young when she first fought in it) she displayed her mastery of the sword, lance, and magic to everybody both on and off the battlefield and those developed exponentially the longer the war lasted. Needless to say she became a notable sight to many, so much so it wasn't a surprise to many who knew her personally that she was named one of the Knights of Light later on in the war. Indeed it is recorded that she only ever lost a duel with the sword twice during the entire war. Overall she was considered to be one of the greatest paladins the order had ever seen, especially out of the many Paladin champions during the war.

Indeed she was an icon to many, inspiring them to continue fighting and displaying her mastery of the sword on the battlefield, serving as a counselor to those whose morale broke or to the wounded, and as a frequent face on the war councils as a representative of her order. And the longer the war lasted the more proud she seemed to grow of her strength and skill but still constantly pushed herself because she felt though she could do more, and do it perfectly, she had to if she was to accomplish her goals, that being the end of the war and her drive for perfection in battle became widely known but her motives for it were almost unknown because almost no one bothered to ask her why. Beyond that well, everybody knows what happened during the war, the Fourteen entered the palace and seven were seduced by the Emperor and his dark power, turning on their comrades. And they were supposed to be dead but as they say, death is an amazingly fickle thing.

She is remembered as someone whose pride and striving for perfection proved to be her undoing with the tales saying that the Emperor promised her a way to attain complete perfection in all she desired, swaying her heart to the cause of evil when she concluded there was no other way to achieve that perfection. That she was willing to cast aside all she held dear in order to advance if that was the price she must pay in order to finally reach a limit worthy of her, that of perfection. Her goals of perfection to allow for the war to end faster were cast aside with the idea that she could surpass it all. Those who remember her from the war or even her childhood concede that she was indeed very prideful and a perfectionist but that she was also someone who believed firmly in honor, was stubborn when it came to doing what she felt was right, and had a soft spot for children, which makes her fall to damnation even more shameful in their eyes. She was supposed to be an icon, a leader of the Paladins of Wyzkia, someone to help guide her order to the future, and she betrayed it all.

It is a massive understatement to say that all Paladins of Wyzkia hate her beyond belief as a disgrace to their order and a betrayer of all they stood for, all the virtues she was supposed to profess.

Goals: To destroy weakness (especially those from her past), to hunt down the mage that tainted her mind with... something and the person who put a certain scar on her, the latter to return the favor.
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RP Sample:
Did you read the Rules?: Yup.
Miscellaneous:
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• I assume you talked about her position with Thrac so I won't inquire any further.
• Considering the types of magic she's supposedly good at, it seems unlikely for her to be that much into white magic or and skilled/knowledgeable enough at it to do research to unlock new ways and stuff. Will definitely lend a lot of credibility to those who claim she fell long before.
• Quite powerful but this is supposedly one of the (former) heroes so she should be.
• I just have to imagine the great Paladins nursing a baby lol. Thrac hasn't revealed overly much about the Paladins. I assume that was talked through?
• I can't exactly see her serving as a counselor to those whose morale broke. By your description she was anti-social so I can't really see her be too good at that. Though perhaps she the pychologic applications of magic that she is supposedly so good at to give more weight to her counselling?
• Now this is interesting. She got swayed by the promise of perfection yet with the defeat and seeming death of the Emperor, shouldn't she feel tricked? Betrayed? Scoff at her and the Emperor's weakness, their imperfection as they fell to the forces of light, atleast temporarily?

Overall very good app, no real points I could honestly critique. I assume most was talked over with Thrac privately?

Character Application

Name: Felicity
Age: 15
Gender: Female
Sexual Orientation: Straight
Race:Human from Wyzkia
Appearance:(Image) is 5'8

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Position/Status/Affiliation:Squire of the Wyzkian Paladins.
Skills/Powers//Magic: Somewhat skilled swordswoman and griffon rider, completely incapable with magic, has book knowledge of herbs and various medicines.
Equipment: Plate armor, a longsword, and a griffon

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Personality: Given how I am going to have her undergo a personality change within three posts at most there isn't a lot I can say, she is fairly stereotypical as a lawful good paladin would be in terms of personality, except for the fact that she is somewhat proud and stubborn to a fault and relies on that stubbornness to advance in life. She is also fairly naive and does not have much knowledge of the outside world (besides that of current politics) due to always living in a monastery.
Moral Alignment: Lawful Good
Biography: There isn't much to say about her, Felicity was given to a monastery run by a group of female Paladins of Wyzkia as a baby, a monastery she scarcely ever left unless she was flying after she was made a squire and like most orphans at the monastery she has no last name. However most didn't expect her to actually even get that far as she was frailer than most as a child and had to struggle to advance and become stronger meaning she fought tooth and nail to reach the level of skill and capability she is at now. Anyone less stubborn in her state wouldn't have become a squire but it is painful for her to acknowledge that she lacks natural aptitude for the skills a paladin should have.

Whether this means she is jealous of those who are more naturally inclined to those skills or not... well she isn't telling.

Had she been a bit older she would have probably served in the war but she was thought too young and too new to the Paladins to be sent out there so she has never fought someone in real battle or killed anyone.
Goals: You'll see.
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Did you read the Rules?: Yes.
Miscellaneous: Yes I know I am a bit low on the details but honestly most character development is for IC for her. Especially with giving her reasons and shaping her personality.
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• IF Lidia was as much of a catastrophe to the Paladins as you make her out to be, I'd be surprised if they wouldn't have started screening for signs of pride or perfectionism and stuff within their ranks and try to get that out of the squires ASAP.
• Again, babies, not sure if they do things that way. Gonna assume you talked with Thrac.
• Nice that you explained Lidia's lack of a last name here. I assume they hail from the same monastery, heck, might've even met?

Not much to say since not much is there. Will be looking forward to reading more of your posts since these apps mean that more of those IC posts of yours are coming our way.

[Elysian Kentarchy]

[*]Considering the types of magic she's supposedly good at, it seems unlikely for her to be that much into white magic or and skilled/knowledgeable enough at it to do research to unlock new ways and stuff. Will definitely lend a lot of credibility to those who claim she fell long before.

Maybe. maybe not, Hence why I left it open on if she was studying white or black magic in secret. Or if she was studying anything at all. It is a rumor after all and it isn't like she was around after the war to explain stuff.

[*]Quite powerful but this is supposedly one of the (former) heroes so she should be.

Yeah kinda had to make her powerful since the Knights of Light were, and I quote from mine and Trace's talk on it, "the fourteen most powerful mages in the world", coming up with her magic was actually the hardest thing of all.

[*]I just have to imagine the great Paladins nursing a baby lol. Thrac hasn't revealed overly much about the Paladins. I assume that was talked through?

That part specifically no however he didn't object to it when I said "raised in a monastery of Paladins" to him so he agreed to an equivalent. Just presume this specific monastery had an orphanage since the Paladins are pretty noble and giving kids to monasteries was a thing in our own history. Plus time of peace and all that since she is older than the war.

[*]I can't exactly see her serving as a counselor to those whose morale broke. By your description she was anti-social so I can't really see her be too good at that. Though perhaps she the pychologic applications of magic that she is supposedly so good at to give more weight to her counselling?

Telepathy has many uses, even peaceful ones, that is why I tossed it in. That and anti-social in the sense that she felt though she barely had any peers or equals, or at least felt like she didn't, but still could talk with people, especially in her capacity as a Paladin and she was supposed to be the ideal paladin in her mind. Plus she wasn't really anti-social since she could get along with others outside of her own age group (as I noted) but just couldn't connect to said age group outside of a select few.

[*]Now this is interesting. She got swayed by the promise of perfection yet with the defeat and seeming death of the Emperor, shouldn't she feel tricked? Betrayed? Scoff at her and the Emperor's weakness, their imperfection as they fell to the forces of light, atleast temporarily?

Maybe, maybe not, a lot that goes on with my characters are developed in IC after all, plus one will note that I didn't present her present views on anything. So maybe she does.

Overall very good app, no real points I could honestly critique. I assume most was talked over with Thrac privately?

Yes. Actually asked him since I was considering a traitor character and we went over several things.

[*]IF Lidia was as much of a catastrophe to the Paladins as you make her out to be, I'd be surprised if they wouldn't have started screening for signs of pride or perfectionism and stuff within their ranks and try to get that out of the squires ASAP.

She is explicitly a catastrophe because Trace told me she would be one (in the sense they all hate her). And in a sense Felicity's pride is more healthy than Lidia's in that she feels proud of having to managed to get as far as she has gotten despite lacking natural talent so that pride is more or less overlooked. In a sense Lidia was proud of her natural born capabilities, of her own greatness, of her thinking that she could reach perfection, while Felicity is proud of how hard she worked and gets offended at people who look down on it but also knows that she isn't as talented as others but that means she has to work if she wants to do anything, that is why I said "somewhat proud".

[*]Again, babies, not sure if they do things that way. Gonna assume you talked with Thrac.

Reference above.

[*]Nice that you explained Lidia's lack of a last name here. I assume they hail from the same monastery, heck, might've even met?

You'll see.

Not much to say since not much is there. Will be looking forward to reading more of your posts since these apps mean that more of those IC posts of yours are coming our way.

Oof, yeah I am having problems with getting in character with Augustine, some reluctance to touch him or make him do things I suppose. I just need to finish that part and I can post it.

[Nea Videssos]

to hunt down the mage that tainted her mind with... something

Just curious, who is that mage?
I don't see that particular person getting mentioned in the backstory, unless I've missed something. Not sure if you kept it deliberately vague for a reason or simply forgot.

[Elysian Kentarchy]

to hunt down the mage that tainted her mind with... something

Just curious, who is that mage?
I don't see that particular person getting mentioned in the backstory, unless I've missed something. Not sure if you kept it deliberately vague for a reason or simply forgot.

Deliberately vague for a reason.

That and need to talk with Trace again since I had an idea concerning that, granted he knows the reason why this is going on and what that 'taint' (Lidia's word not mine) is exactly.

[Zapatha]

It just occurred to me that this RP is going to be 2 years old this year.

Damn, time flies as two years ago I was still in high school lol

[Tracian Empire]

It just occurred to me that this RP is going to be 2 years old this year.

Damn, time flies as two years ago I was still in high school lol

I'm still rather confused about the whole thing to be honest. I'm surprised that this has been going on ever since without dying, but sometimes I just still feel like at the beginning when I launched.

It's just so difficult for me to comprehend that nearly two years have passed xD

[Remnants of Exilvania]

It just occurred to me that this RP is going to be 2 years old this year.

Damn, time flies as two years ago I was still in high school lol

I'm still rather confused about the whole thing to be honest. I'm surprised that this has been going on ever since without dying, but sometimes I just still feel like at the beginning when I launched.

It's just so difficult for me to comprehend that nearly two years have passed xD

Time flies indeed. I was also baffled when I learned not long ago that I've spent more of my time on NS outside of NE than in NE now.

[Elysian Kentarchy]

Not truly satisfied with how it turned out, and really it is a bit superfluous with what is planned, but the first part of Silvia's merry adventure is posted.

[Tracian Empire]

Alright, hopefully this will make sense since I really, really should sleep

• Exil is right, technically. His ears in the picture that you have for him look pretty Elvish, but that's really super minor. The actual appearance could have rounder ears if you so want, or maybe his hair is long enough to mostly cover them, I don't know, it's alright.
  
  The lore as a whole still has big gaps, so I'll leave the actual size of Loroi ears for later
• Yes, the Song of Silence looks like a pretty balanced ability to me. It will have a rather meager effect on undead beings and vampires though, that is true. I don't think that dead cells can perform apoptosis, but my knowledge on that is limited, so I'm thinking things from a fantasy perspective. I'll admit that I haven't thought about undead beings from a cellular perspective, but regardless, its effect would be very small, if it would even have an effect.
• It was a problem, I'll admit, it's mainly related to how relics can't produce any mana by themselves. That's the main reason for why they need a master. All relics get a tiny, tiny flow of mana from somewhere (no one knows where, most assume that it could be the remains of the Silver Throne somewhere from the Blight), but all that's enough for is to guarantee that they won't disappear completely. That's why when they run out of most of their mana, relics fall into hibernation in their object forms.
  
  Previously, I made it so that relics had to use a lot of mana in order to maintain a body, so that they couldn't remain around without a master for long, but that's too limiting and kinda boring. So now I'm working on the idea that while they would use mana to keep those bodies, it would be a low enough level to allow them to exist without a master for longer. They would probably consume quite a lot of mana if they were to use magic though, so for a relic to survive without a master they'd have to really conserve their mana still.
  
  It's alright though, I'm sorry that you have to make a relic app when the relic lore is still not completely finished.
• It's true, relics are kind of unique, it would be difficult to mistake them for other magical objects or artifacts. So wielders would probably not abandon him even if they couldn't use all of his powers. The idea here is that for them to be wielders they would have to have entered a contract with him, and if they did, that means that they'd know that he was a relic - so there is a very, very low chance that he'd get abandoned.
  
  The one way for him to be mistaken for a normal object would be if he was in hibernation, yes. Only really powerful mages can feel dormant relics - but that means that he would have passed from owner to owner while in his object form, never being awoken. Exil's idea would work really well here if you'd be alright with it - a family heirloom.
  
  But, that implies that he was in hibernation for a long time, so that he ran out of mana at some point before that (or that he was never awoken after the Calamity, which is possible. There are still relics that were never discovered). The idea is that in this case, like Exil said, he'd need a wielder to infuse him with mana, enough to help him survive without a master for a while.
  
  But that's all yes, everything else should be alright, and hopefully this dual review isn't too intimidating, I don't have enough time to review apps quickly so I sometimes enlist Exil's help, even if we end up saying roughly the same things xD

Alright, time for my review that totally isn't a point by point copy of what Exil said!

• The Heroes and the Traitors have both been open from the very beginning, but unfortunately, as the lore around them is very complicated, and since they're incredibly powerful characters, they're actually very limited. I had to spend some time thinking about Elysian's idea, but in the end I liked it and I decided to accept it xD
• Yeah, the Knights of Light (name still pending, if anyone has better ideas, please help ), were the fourteen most powerful mages in the world. The Traitors should in theory be just as powerful as the Heroes. In practice though, they are generally a bit weaker than their previous selves - the whole dying but not really dying thing leaves its marks, but they would be very powerful.
• Considering her drive for perfection, it would make sense for her to research new magic. Now of course, whether she studied white or black magic will be up to Elysian, but anything is possible.
• Well, it's not like the order is only formed from the actual paladins/flying knights. Like any military-religious order, they are divided into a branch that actually deals with the fighting (paladins, their servants, their squires, and supporters), and one that deals with administrative and more economic things - the Paladins have some temples that they use to gather donations to help the poor, and they certainly do have monasteries, monks, and nuns that are under their protection. And since most orphanages in this world are in temples or monasteries, the Paladins always received children - some were abandoned for normal causes, but there probably is a small minority of people trying to give their children away to them on purpose - though the Paladins really discourage that.
  And the Paladins have believed from early on that the best way to raise a proper paladin is to raise them from when they are little. So these children are taken care of and are imbued with the values of the order from an early age. Monks and nuns take care of them, and as they grow, all of them train with the idea of becoming squires - but they're not forced (unlike children of actual paladins, unfortunately). Only those who want to become paladins and have the skills end up as squires. Those who have skills but not enough can train to become auxiliaries, those who don't have the skills or don't want to can be taught other things, and once they become adults, they can work for the order, they can join the Faith, or they can leave and do whatever they want.
  Not many become squires that is true - there are a lot of tests involved, and the reason for why the Paladins continue to remain the purest knightly order is because of their griffins - they can generally feel the soul of a human being - but not even their power is completely infallible it seems.
• While she was anti-social, she seems to have been pretty kind. She could have used telepathy yes, but her status and this kind part of her would be more than enough for her to help people like that. Especially since she was a heroic paladin during the war. So no problems with this.
• She could, that is up to Elysian
  And as for the Emperor, I have no plans to bring him back at any point in the foreseeable future, and I probably never will, but in a way, he isn't completely gone xD
• I don't think that there is much that I can mention about her myself. Pride would certainly like her, that's for sure xD
  The rest is pretty much alright. I just wanted to quickly talk about magic -telepathy is going to be a much more personal and subjective part of magic - you know that I'm still working on magic as a whole, but even if there would be some chants for it, it would require a natural talent for it. It could also be very powerful, but I'm sure that you can portray it well xD

Moving on to the rest

• They probably did, it was certainly a huge blow for them, but you have to remember that the Emperor was the most corrupting force that the Paladins had faced in well, forever. So while there would be people who believed that she had been corrupted from before, the upper echelons of the order, the ones who know more about the Emperor, would probably simply assume that the Emperor's power was too strong - after all, seven of the best mages in the world fell prey to it. And one of those seven, not Lidia obviously, was also partially blamed for the disaster. They would hate her, but considering that overall the Paladins are doing much better than even the Scriptures, there would be no immediate need for major measures. Especially since the Paladins have had bigger problems to deal with ever since.
  And once again, the issue with the paladins and the griffons is that while the griffons can feel the soul of the human, they don't completely understand human emotions. So Lidia and Felicity's pride could have been overlooked- Lidia's wasn't at a point at which it would have become bad yet, and Felicity's isn't necessarily bad.
• One issue however, is related to griffons. Squires do not have griffons. Griffons are intelligent and magical beings, to they form a bond with their paladins/riders. Forming a bond with a young griffon is generally the last test before joining the order. Rafal as an example, fought in the war as a squire for his father, riding with his father on the griffon (they're pretty big after all), and after his father's and the griffon's death, he fought together with the auxiliary forces. After the war, he was trying to get the chance to take that final test, but it happened naturally - he formed a bond with a wild griffin that hadn't been grown by the order. He still has to be accepted formally by the Order though, so he's still a squire.
  Squires do train on griffins though, but on the griffons of their masters (in the case of squires like Rafal), or on older griffons/griffons of older paladins who have become teachers. No matter how, a squire in his or her last stages of preparation will be exemplary at flying on a griffon, but wouldn't have one.
  So if you want Felicity to have a griffon, it can be done, but it must be done in different ways.

[Tracian Empire]

Also, as a reference, this will probably be a normal size for griffons