After the Legends, A New Tale of the Round Table (OOC) OPEN
Posted: Sun Feb 02, 2020 12:31 am
History and Lore Thread
In Character Thread
After the Legends is a psuedo-historical fantasy RP set in the middle of 6th Century Britain. It's an extension of the Arthurian tales and inspired by world history and Le Morte De Arthur. The world of this RP has elements of both the real world and the fantastic world of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round table blended together into a fictionalized version of Dark Age Britain full of the real dangers of war, famine, and foreign invasion, and the fantastical dangers of witches, sorcerers, faeries, and warriors carrying magical artifacts that push their prowess to near superhuman levels.
Players will fill the shoes of a descendant of a Knight of the Round Table but they don't necessarily have to be a mighty warrior the same as their father or grandfather, because after all, family fortunes change. Where their grandfather may have been the chieftan of a small town, you may be a dirt poor farmer or a refugee who was dispossessed and sent fleeing ahead of a murderous Saxon warband, you may be a merchant seeking to peddle wares and earn a fortune or at least a full belly, you could be a scholarly monk who spent much of his life, a traveling bard who sings tales in a new noble court every night, or whatever you can imagine, I leave it mostly up to you. The story will begin with a meeting of strangers; is it coincidence or is it destiny?
Rules
In Character Thread
In the year of our Lord 540, Arthur Pendragon, High King among Britons, has been gone for 20 long years. Those 20 years have not been kind to the Britons nor to the island we call our home. In the west our people have fallen into the old and bad ways, making war upon themselves and fighting for the scraps that remain of Arthur's great Britonic Empire; each of the Kings trying to take more for themselves at the expense of their kinfolk. In the east a never ending tide of Saxons pours in from the North Sea to lay siege to our once mighty kingdoms with great vigor and form new realms of their own. Across the channel to the south our people have taken to calling themselves Bretons and have become less and less interested in the affairs of their homeland.
The mighty city at Camelot is already naught but ruins. Gone is Merlin, gone is the Siege Perilous and the brotherhood of warriors that sat as equals and protected all of Briton lands, gone is the legendary sword Excalibur, gone is the bond of friendship between Briton, Gael, and Pict. But not all hope is lost. The blood of Arthur's knights still flows through the veins of worthy descendants. Warriors, farmers, traders, even princes and princesses all carry the blood of Britons valiant heroes. It is time for the old legends to end and new legends to be formed...
The mighty city at Camelot is already naught but ruins. Gone is Merlin, gone is the Siege Perilous and the brotherhood of warriors that sat as equals and protected all of Briton lands, gone is the legendary sword Excalibur, gone is the bond of friendship between Briton, Gael, and Pict. But not all hope is lost. The blood of Arthur's knights still flows through the veins of worthy descendants. Warriors, farmers, traders, even princes and princesses all carry the blood of Britons valiant heroes. It is time for the old legends to end and new legends to be formed...
After the Legends is a psuedo-historical fantasy RP set in the middle of 6th Century Britain. It's an extension of the Arthurian tales and inspired by world history and Le Morte De Arthur. The world of this RP has elements of both the real world and the fantastic world of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round table blended together into a fictionalized version of Dark Age Britain full of the real dangers of war, famine, and foreign invasion, and the fantastical dangers of witches, sorcerers, faeries, and warriors carrying magical artifacts that push their prowess to near superhuman levels.
Players will fill the shoes of a descendant of a Knight of the Round Table but they don't necessarily have to be a mighty warrior the same as their father or grandfather, because after all, family fortunes change. Where their grandfather may have been the chieftan of a small town, you may be a dirt poor farmer or a refugee who was dispossessed and sent fleeing ahead of a murderous Saxon warband, you may be a merchant seeking to peddle wares and earn a fortune or at least a full belly, you could be a scholarly monk who spent much of his life, a traveling bard who sings tales in a new noble court every night, or whatever you can imagine, I leave it mostly up to you. The story will begin with a meeting of strangers; is it coincidence or is it destiny?
Rules
The Golden Rule: Fun is MANDATORY!
1. Read all of the rules here and in the character app section before making an application.
2. No godmodding. Godmodding is here defined as taking actions on behalf of other players without their prior consent, taking massive world changing actions without clearance from myself, and assuming that your attempt to affect another player will automatically succeed.
3. Treat each other with respect in the OOC. If you are obnoxious or habitually rude to other players I reserve the right to cull you from this RP and its OOC.
4. Follow all the site rules. If you are violating the site rules in my IC or OOC I will call the wrath of mod down upon you as well as erase your existence in this RP.
5. Profanity, nudity, and violence, are all perfectly fine but make sure to keep things PG13. If you think Hollywood would give it an R rating then tone things down.
6. My decisions are law.
7. In my absence the decision of my Co-OPs is law.
8. Metagaming is bad, just because a player knows something does not mean their character does. Don't fall into that trap.
9. Try to keep your post to a paragraph (3-5 sentences) long at the minimum, exceptions can apply to dialogue.
10. You are not a one man army. You character is mortal, they can die, and if they take stupid risks they can suffer stupid penalties up to and including stupid deaths.
11. Please try to be active, even if you can't be in the IC hang out in the OOC or let me know about any leave of absence you might have to take.[/blocktext}
Character App
Just Copy and paste the code below and fill in the blanks after removing anything marked in parenthesis (). If you fail to follow any instructions I will make you fix your application without even reading it and if you make three strikes then you're out.
1. Read all of the rules here and in the character app section before making an application.
2. No godmodding. Godmodding is here defined as taking actions on behalf of other players without their prior consent, taking massive world changing actions without clearance from myself, and assuming that your attempt to affect another player will automatically succeed.
3. Treat each other with respect in the OOC. If you are obnoxious or habitually rude to other players I reserve the right to cull you from this RP and its OOC.
4. Follow all the site rules. If you are violating the site rules in my IC or OOC I will call the wrath of mod down upon you as well as erase your existence in this RP.
5. Profanity, nudity, and violence, are all perfectly fine but make sure to keep things PG13. If you think Hollywood would give it an R rating then tone things down.
6. My decisions are law.
7. In my absence the decision of my Co-OPs is law.
8. Metagaming is bad, just because a player knows something does not mean their character does. Don't fall into that trap.
9. Try to keep your post to a paragraph (3-5 sentences) long at the minimum, exceptions can apply to dialogue.
10. You are not a one man army. You character is mortal, they can die, and if they take stupid risks they can suffer stupid penalties up to and including stupid deaths.
11. Please try to be active, even if you can't be in the IC hang out in the OOC or let me know about any leave of absence you might have to take.[/blocktext}
Character App
Just Copy and paste the code below and fill in the blanks after removing anything marked in parenthesis (). If you fail to follow any instructions I will make you fix your application without even reading it and if you make three strikes then you're out.
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[b]NS Name:[/b] (Your nation name or preferred nickname used for easy app tracking)
[b]Character Name:[/b] (The name of your character)
[b]Culture:[/b] (Are a Briton, a Breton, a Gael, Frank, Saxon, something else?)
[b]Gender:[/b] (Whatever gender your character presents, male, female, neuter)
[b]Biography:[/b](Write a minimum two paragraphs about your character. Include things like where they came from, when they were born, which Knight of the Round Table you are descended from, and any information about their personality and lifestyle you find relevant. Any pictures of your character should also go here.)
[b]RP Example:[/b](Pick your RP example from any RP you want to or write your own sample; link directly to a post that you wrote and not to the OP or OOC of an RP you were in. If you write a sample please put it in a spoiler.)
[b]Possessions:[/b] (Any weapons, armor, musical instruments, clothing, and et. all that belongs to your character should be added here.)
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