Twilight of the Gods: A Metahuman RP (OOC)

[Remnants of Exilvania]

Now, who to shadow and haunt first, not many characters from the last milennium!

Was gonna suggest the Pope. But I am aware things might not be that simply on that front.

I'd be surprised if there still was a Pope.

Atleast one that isn't another top down appointed/bottom up couped metahuman.

[Britanania]

Was gonna suggest the Pope. But I am aware things might not be that simply on that front.

I'd be surprised if there still was a Pope.

Atleast one that isn't another top down appointed/bottom up couped metahuman.

There is, the Catholic hierarchy exists still. Vatican II also never happened.

I only bring this up because my character is Catholic, and rules over a majority Catholic region.

[Naval Monte]

I just realize that all of North America is basically the same size the Technate of North Amercia was suppose to be like. Also the European Technate I found match with West Europe.

[Remnants of Exilvania]

I'd be surprised if there still was a Pope.

Atleast one that isn't another top down appointed/bottom up couped metahuman.

There is, the Catholic hierarchy exists still. Vatican II also never happened.

I only bring this up because my character is Catholic, and rules over a majority Catholic region.

That sounds like an oversight on the supers' part and a rallying point for purge happy mundanes.

Interestingly, the Nazi is catholic.

[Britanania]

There is, the Catholic hierarchy exists still. Vatican II also never happened.

I only bring this up because my character is Catholic, and rules over a majority Catholic region.

That sounds like an oversight on the supers' part and a rallying point for purge happy mundanes.

Interestingly, the Nazi is catholic.

Yeah there's some paradoxes there I wanted to explore, a person deeply religious but who grew up in a certain enviorment.

[Union Princes]

The Papacy would not like Marie at all. Especially when she starts purging the priests and nuns.

[Miekzhemy]

Well this was a doozy but here we are, my dysfunctional Empire of misfits

The Great Yuan (大元)
Family name: The New Yuan Dynasty (新元朝)
Dynastic head: Alakai, The Mingzhi Empress of the Great Empire of Yuan, Khagan of Mongolia and Great Lord of East Asia
Other members:

• Prince-Regent Tolui of Yuan - Head of the Imperial Regency Council

Territorial claims:

• Mongolia
• Several Chinese provinces
  • Inner Mongolia
  • Tibet
  • Xinjiang
  • Gansu
  • Qinghai
  • Ningxia
  • Shaanxi
  • Shanxi
  • Hebei
  • Beijing
  • Tianjin
  • Heilongjiang
  • Jilin
  • Liaotung
• Miscellaneous Russian territories, claimed but never pressed
  • Tuva
  • Buryatia
  • Altai

Political philosophy:
A totalitarian, feudalistic, neo-Tengriist/Buddhist autocracy that places the reverence of and obedience to the Emperor (and by extension the regime as a whole) above all else. The monarch rules with absolute power and authority, and is practically worshiped by the wider populace as a living God.

Brief history:
The story of the New Yuan Dynasty is one of a peculiar rise from obscurity to absolute power.

During and after the Second World War, Khereid Dorji was a nobody. Or, well, a nobody in terms of international recognition, that is. As the hereditary leader of a local clan of rural Mongolian peasants on the Eurasian Steppe, Dorji spent the majority of his early life as just that: a rural peasant. Overcome by his own greater ambitions and a deep-seated wanderlust, he eventually enlisted in the Mongolian Peoples' Army in the early 50s, quickly proving himself as a dutiful soldier and rising through the ranks as he served beneath Soviet officers to protect Communist establishments in the region. But over the next few years, as the Cold War never escalated to armed conflict, he soon found himself with a lack of purpose yet again. He personally cared little for the ideals of Communism itself, feeling more in touch with the traditions of old that he knew so well from his childhood. For a time he considered deserting, abandoning the life he had built and fleeing back into obscurity, and would have done so had a golden opportunity not presented itself...

Dorji's place in the sun finally came after volunteering to become one of the few first generation Metahumans to be created after Columbia and Hammer, serving the USSR in their ideological conflict against NATO. In fact, not only was he the first Mongolian to achieve this superhuman status, his powers of flight, teleportation, and control over the weather easily made him one of the most powerful Metahumans in the Warsaw Pact. And after using his meteorological abilities to avert natural disasters and relieve nations of terrible droughts by providing the rains they so desperately needed, it seemed Dorji was also on the way to becoming one of the most influential. But once again, as the decades dragged on, this sense of purpose just wouldn't seem to last. Even their newfound popularity was beginning to fade away as the Metahumans' role as mere government pawns became ever more apparent.

This was a sentiment shared not only by his superior, Hammer, but Columbia and Metahumans on both sides of the conflict, all that had worked so tirelessly to protect the world from falling into nuclear war. And it was for these reasons that Dorji joined Columbia and Hammer in their conspiracy - their plan to end this pointless conflict once and for all. Dorji was tasked with toppling the government of the recently established democratic State of Mongolia. And like the other nations of the world, it was accomplished effortlessly. When the dust finally settled on New Years Day, it was done. And seeing it fitting as the country's most powerful Metahuman, the new Mongol region was placed directly under Dorji's absolute control.

By this point, Dorji was already well-established enough to settle down. Now in his sixties, he had achieved mastery over his powers, and ruled unopposed over his ancestral homeland and a people that revered him. He had even sired a child in 1996; a son named Tolui. Now four years of age, the young boy was not only bright-minded, but also bore with him an inkling of his own supernatural abilities - a fine successor for the inevitable day that he passed on. Now, with the rest of his life ahead of him, Dorji set about consolidating his control over not just Mongolia, but the East Asian region as a whole.

And it was around this time that the new "Khan" began to go, for a lack of a better term, a bit mental.

It is unknown whether it is due to the influence of some of his more zealous followers, or the steady deterioration of his mental faculties in his advanced age, but as Dorji solidified his position as the all-powerful, storm-wielding warlord of Mongolia, he began to go on a ruthless streak of expansionism. Capitalizing on the chaos in Asia at the time, Dorji easily crushed the neighboring Metahuman warlords in mainland China, carving out a sizable state in the north and delegating his captured territories to loyal vassals of his own. Prioritizing the minority ethnic groups that were once part of a united Republic of China, he captured the provinces of Xinjiang, Qinghai and Gansu, assimilating the Uyghur and Hui peoples into his united Mongol "Khanate." Much of these regions' Buddhist and neo-Tengriist population were astounded by the Khan's power to bend nature itself to his whims, cleansing droughts with rain and annihilating entire armies with devastating tornadoes. They began to revere this aging Khan - so much so that some of these "New Tengriists," a recently-formed sect stemming from both Tengriism and Buddhism, began to dub their omnipotent ruler as the reincarnation of Tengri himself, with the power of the great blue sky at his own fingertips. In time, the Khan would go full megalomaniac, declaring himself in 2005 as not only the physical incarnation of Tengri and successor to Genghis Khan, but even going so far as the declare the rise of a new Imperial Chinese dynasty in the north: The Great Yuan, hearkening back to the days of the great Mongol Empire - an empire that once conquered a world.

It was here that, at the height of his power, the great Mèngyàn Emperor's rule began. The Emperor ruled with an iron fist, tightening his grip over all of his subjects, Mongol, Han, Hui, and Uyghur alike. His ambition seemed to know no bounds, as the following years saw him lay claim to even more Chinese provinces in Manchuria, Tibet, and those of the Central Plain. Even as his conquests earned him the title of Great Lord of East Asia, the Emperor's aggressive policies led him to to look outward beyond his own sector. In late 2014 he would claim land in Russia - deeming the yet unclaimed regions of Tuva, Buryatia and Altai as rightful Yuan territory; A prospect that the other dynasties of Europe and Asia saw as complete and utter madness. Many metahuman dynasties in Eurasia were terrified of the Emperor's might as, unlike many of them at the time, the Mèngyàn Emperor held not only absolute power but the popular reverence of the many subjects beneath him. Fearing the tremendous loss of life that would follow, the Congress attempted diplomatic solutions to prevent an all-out war between this burgeoning East Asian empire and the successor states of the mighty Soviet Union. But even these fell through, and left many fearing the worst for Asia.

Until in 2015, as he prepared his long-awaited conquest of his rightful territory in Russia, the Emperor met his untimely demise at the hands of an unknown assassin.

While many lords and laymen both domestic and foreign rejoiced in the tyrant's death, the Emperor's loss left just as much uncertainty in the fate of East Asia. In fact, the power gap that followed almost resulted in the complete disintegration of the Empire as a whole. But thankfully, the timely intervention of his now 19 year old son and the newly-established Regency Council prevented the complete and utter collapse of society in the region. Doubly so, the late Emperor had also luckily set the rules of succession in stone some years prior. In the coming days, a "Kurultai" was held in the temporary capital of Urga (formerly Ulaanbaatar), tasked with electing each new Khagan from the late Emperor's surviving children: In this case, the firstborn Prince Tolui, or the "spare," the 10 year old Princess Alakai. The decision seemed obvious at first, until the unthinkable happened.

As a violent storm the likes of which had been unseen for years wracked the capital city, the young Alakai awoke with a start one morning to find herself having completely changed. The girl's eyes were suddenly a deep sky blue, reflecting that of his father after his evolution to a Metahuman. And though she herself already possessed the innate ability to float above the ground, she too found herself capable of controlling the very elements her father had wielded decades prior. While this phenomenon was unprecedented in the wider Metahuman world, the radical Tengriists and Buddhists within the late Emperor's inner circle saw it as one thing: the blood of Tengri lives on, His godlike powers passed miraculously to the young Princess Alakai. Such an astonishing event swayed the entire Kurultai, even the Prince Tolui himself, to proclaim the young girl as the next Khagan, and Empress of the Great Yuan. And to the relief of many, the young Prince, who has since distinguished himself as a pragmatist and sensible man, voluntarily took up the mantle as Prince-Regent, practically running the Empire in Her Majesty's name until the aspiring Empress' personal rule begins.

In the past five years, life in both the expansive Mongol territories, and by extension their many vassals in East Asia, has changed dramatically. Rather than rule through fear and coercion, the new regime has since turned to a policy of detente, granting the many feuding lords ethnic minorities of mainland China and Japan limited autonomy in an effort to preserve stability in the sector. And while this has greatly diminished the Yuan's overall power in East Asia, it has nonetheless prevented the outbreak of yet another long era of warring states. In these times of relative peace, the regime has dedicated ample resources to the betterment of the people, including investments in massive urbanization of fringe territories, and the restoration of both historical and religious sites. This has, in turn, swayed much of the East Asian populace to the Dynasty's newfound cause of peaceful integration, rather than obedience through fear or blind religious loyalty. And as the standard of living steadily improves, so too has the peoples' trust in and loyalty to the regime begun to grow.

But this is not to say the Empire has grown weak after the tyrant's fall, however. In fact, since the death of the Mèngyàn Emperor, its formidable military has only grown in strength. This is due largely in part to its own rising Metahuman program - a mysterious, arcane art that to this day remains unknown to almost any outside of the Dynasty's inner circle. In a series of shamanistic rituals, the Yuan have since begun to magically enhance their soldiers, taking in only the most loyal, courageous, and healthy of volunteers and turning them into engineered Metahumans - warriors whose superhuman attributes are matched only by their fanatic loyalty to the Empress herself. Within only a few years, tens of thousands of these Metahuman soldiers would begin filling the ranks of the armies, diligently preparing the Empire for whatever danger lurks in the near future. And whether that danger be internal strife or foreign meddling, the vast riches and terrifying might of the Yuan Dynasty stand ready to fight for a brighter future. Not only for a unified Mongolia or China, but a united East Asia.

Come what may, the Empire will endure.

Such is the will of Tengri.

The Míngzhì Empress (明智后)
Name: Her Imperial Majesty, Alakai, The Mingzhi Empress of the Great Empire of Yuan, Khagan of Mongolia and Great Lord of East Asia
Khereid Dorjigiin Alakai [Алакай Доржи, Alakai Dorji] (given name Alakai, patronymic Dorji/Dorjigiin, clan name Khereid, full name Khereid Dorjigiin Alakai-Khagan [Хэрэйд Доржигийн Алакай-Хаган]

Alias: 'Tengri'
Alignment: Dynasties
Age: 15
Appearance: A diminutive girl whose very aura radiates that of absolute authority, with sky blue eyes and flowing jet black hair trailing down her back. Her face seems almost permanently frozen in a listless, apathetic gaze, as if in a perpetual state of falling asleep. Though she often dons vibrant clothes and fine jewelry on ceremonial occasions, she otherwise dresses modestly in more private settings, preferring traditional Mongolian garb with warm furs in the colder months.
Additional physical features: When wielding her immense powers over nature, her eyes begin to radiate with a glimmering blue sheen.

Personality:
Oddly enough, before her ascension to the throne, Alakai was energetic, talkative, and by all accounts a talented girl with much promise. However, the sudden physical and mental changes she underwent after both the death of her father, and subsequent inheriting of his immense power, has left the young Empress seeming like a different person entirely. Now, in stark contrast to the zealous, charismatic and often hotheaded nature of her late father, Alakai is aloof, arbitrary, and apathetic to a fault. To those in her care, she seems almost detached from the world as a whole, going ominously silent and becoming lost in her own thoughts for hours at a time. And even when she is active, she cares little for rules or etiquette, often speaking her mind regardless of company and making many decisions on a whim with little consideration for the consequences or what others think.

Though this sudden shift in personality has sparked much worry among her caretakers and immediate family, much of this childish and introverted attitude also stems from her pampered and often lonely upbringing, as well as the sudden thrusting of rulership upon the shoulders of one sorely unprepared for it. And while her recent ascension to the throne has led to the Regency Council attempting to reign the young Empress in and prepare her for the responsibilities of governing the state, she is still known at times to be the same carefree and mischievous spirit she was as a child.

This is all not to say she is a useless pawn, however. In fact, much of her early life has been spent in the company of tutors and servants, who quickly found the young Empress to have much academic potential. But only time will tell if their attempts to instill discipline and etiquette in her will prove fruitful.

Abilities:
Levitation - Her Metahuman power that she's possessed since birth; Alakai is capable of effortlessly hovering in mid-air indefinitely with no loss of energy nor maneuverability to herself. In practice, it looks as if she has total control over her own gravity, allowing herself to "walk" on walls or ceilings, suspend herself upside-down, or slow her own fall. She is not as quick in this state as most other flight-capable metahumans, but nonetheless can use this ability as a means of locomotion.
Tengri's Blessing - A power that was inherited almost miraculously after the death of her father; Alakai is blessed with the tremendous power to bend unto her will not only the wrath of nature, but the very lifeblood of the Earth itself. This manifests itself in two ways:

• Tenger Etseg, Father Sky - Alakai is capable of manipulating the weather as she sees fit. On a whim, she can conjure and disperse clouds, rain, strong winds, thunderstorms, hail, snow, and thick fog seemingly out of thin air. By extension, this allows her to manipulate the very climate of an area for miles. And with enough concentration, she can wield destructive tornadoes, devastating hurricanes, and even harness the raw elemental power of lightning--either by calling it down from the heavens or propelling it from her fingertips.
• Gazar Eej, Mother Earth - By her mere presence, Alakai can alter the fertility of the land around her. At her will, she can make the soil, crops, and flora for miles thrive and prosper, or starve them into desolation until naught remains but a barren wasteland. Though this can be done on its own, her powers over the weather are capable of exacerbating these effects, typically via blessing the land with the rains it needs to survive, or choking it out with droughts and bitter cold.

Biography:
In contrast to her elder brother, Prince Tolui, the then Princess Alakai was born into a life of luxury and privilege.

Brought into the world after her father had already taken total control over their ancestral homeland of Mongolia, the young Alakai often wanted for nothing, and was used to getting whatever she wanted whenever she demanded it. Like many daughters and younger siblings of royalty, she spent much of her early childhood being tutored and groomed with the intention of being married off as a political bargaining tool, as the Mengyan Emperor and much of the regime were prepared for the eventual succession of Prince Tolui to the throne. It was a life that Alakai had few complaints about, as her responsibilities were minimal and her schedule was rife with free time to fool around and life a carefree life of fancy, free and whimsy. For a time, she seemed little more than a simple spoiled princess.

But following the untimely assassination of her father, coupled with her subsequent elevation to the throne, the previously free-spirited girl's life was suddenly turned upside down. With no warning, the responsibilities of governing and the phenomenal power of the elements were all thrust upon her, and the effects it had upon the young Alakai were clear from the beginning. It took little time for the new Empress to begin secluding herself into an introverted shell, shunning her responsibilities and attempting to find some solace from all the activity with her own studies and wanton whims. Even as the years pass--as her position as the rightful ruler of the Great Yuan has all but become secured, the young Empress still seems yet to fully embrace her duty as the supposed incarnation of Tengri and the great successor to Genghis Khan himself.

Five years later, the Empress could easily be considered one of the loneliest, most sheltered people on the planet. Still technically a minor, and barred by the millennia-old traditions of Chinese Imperial culture, Alakai is practically a slave to the incessant politicking and tutelage of the Imperial Regency Council. To some, the court is a mess of hidden corruption - a den of vipers, silently scheming to accumulate the most influence. And for Alakai, every waking moment of her life is spent under constant supervision by guards, ministers, tutors, and servants tending to her every need--ceaselessly grooming the young Empress for her eventual rulership. Free time outside of the Imperial Palace is practically nonexistent, save for the clandestine undercover adventures into the outside world occasionally provided by Prince Tolui.

Now, all in the court know that the time will soon come that the Mingzhi Empress will assume her personal rule, shaking off the cumbersome yoke of both Regent and Council, and stepping into the light as the head of what could easily be a superpower on the world stage...

Additional information:
While she shuns most of her advisors and tutors behind closed doors, Alakai holds a very close relationship with her elder brother. Likewise despising both courtly life and the politics that come with rulership, Tolui sympathizes with the unprepared Empress, and often indulges in her mischievous side by using his teleportation powers to take her on brief adventures and escapades around the world. It is also worth noting that, given her age and personality, the Empress is still a rebellious teenager at heart, even if she no longer wishes to admit it. In addition, she has taken a liking to some of the more traditional sports of her homeland, such as archery and horseback riding.

The Prince-Regent
Name: Prince Tolui of Yuan
Khereid Dorjigiin Tolui [Толуй Доржи, Tolui Dorji] (given name Tolui, patronymic Dorji/Dorjigiin, clan name Khereid, full name Khereid Dorjigiin Tolui-Noyan [Хэрэйд Доржигийн Толуй-Ноян]
Chinese given name 柯佗雷 (Kē Tuóléi), courtesy name 恩哲 (Ēnzhé)

Alias: 'The Mongol Prince' / 'The Regent'
Alignment: Dynasties
Age: 24
Appearance: A lanky figure with Asiatic features and a sharp, analyzing glint in the eyes. Though his jet black hair is largely unkempt, his beard is often trimmed short and neat. On official business, he typically dresses in a fine, western-style military uniform often worn by royalty around the world.
Additional physical features: (in casual clothing) Tolui is unusually tall, clocking in at an imposing 6'11'' and towering over most of his peers.

Personality:
Despite his disdain for the cutthroat nature of the world of politics, Prince Tolui has grown to become a beacon of both reason and stability in the Yuan regime. He is level-headed and quite humble, often forsaking his own immense influence over the Empress for the betterment of the Empire as a whole. He has shown to have a surprisingly strong sense of morality, abhorring war in all its forms and favoring a peaceful and pragmatic approach to most conflict.

Much of this attitude comes from his time spent outside of both politics and royal responsibilities for much of his teenage life. This austere, "un-Princely" upbringing among what many of the nobility and fellow Metahumans would consider "mundane peasants," has led to the Prince not just understanding, but often empathizing with the plight of the normal humans living beneath the Dynastic system. As such, in a sea of zealots and radicals, Tolui has distinguished himself as a passionate defender of the people.

However, following the ascension of his sister to the Imperial throne, and the subsequent thrusting of immense governing responsibility upon Tolui's shoulders, the recent years of incessant politicking among the seemingly chaotic Dynastic powers has left the Prince seeming somewhat dejected. He is easily capable of hiding this mindset in the presence of others, but the facade often falls in private, typically manifesting in bouts of cynicism and weariness.

Abilities:
Teleportation - A power inherited via his father from birth; With enough concentration, Tolui can vanish out of thin air and, in the blink of an eye, reappear in a different location. Though this holds very little benefit in combat, it nonetheless presents countless possibilities in terms of travel. Over the years, he has since discovered that there is little to no limit on the distance he can transport himself; a theory he put to the test when he executed a perfect jump from their palace in Mongolia all the way to the other side of the globe, appearing unscathed in the Americas before seamlessly jumping straight back home. The only limitation of this ability is that he must have either seen or know the appearance of his intended destination, though this can easily be solved with a recent photo or recording of the location in question. In the event that his destination is "blocked" by any means, the jump attempt seems to "fizzle out," like a failed magical spell. After further experimentation, he also discovered that he can take sizable objects and even other people alongside him, although at a noticeable loss of energy to himself.

Biography:
Tolui was brought into the world during a time of strife. Following the rise of his Metahuman father to the Lord of Mongolia and internationally-recognized Great Lord of East Asia, the soon-to-be heir to Dorji's Mongol Khanate (and eventually an all-powerful Dynasty in China) had a much more austere upbringing, and was initially forced to work hard for what he wanted in life. His father, though compelled to centralize as much power as he could around himself, nonetheless made sure that his firstborn was given a proper education. After his powers manifested, Tolui spent much of his childhood bouncing between various schools--first in China and later Japan, before touring the various surviving universities in the now Dynastic-ruled Europe. This lifestyle was hardly as uprooting for the young Prince as it would have been for other children, as his powers of teleportation allowed him to easily attend school, live at home, and visit friends and relatives whenever he willed it.

It was in his later teen years that Tolui was shown to have an exceptional intellect, and a deep-seated love for history, literature, and linguistics. While wholeheartedly supporting the Metahuman cause, he nonetheless was fascinated by the more democratic governments that came before. He quickly came to the conclusion that, as it was the Metahumans that lorded over them, it was their newfound duty to guide the common people to a better future - an opinion that was often deeply shunned by the more despotic, vengeful, and paranoid regimes of the new world order. And though the tyrannical Mengyan Emperor was certainly not of this mindset--and in fact often punished him severely for openly expressing such thoughts--Tolui catered a certain respect for his father, who nonetheless provided him with the freedom to explore and learn about the world around him.

Tolui completed his schooling and returned to Mongolia just in time for the Emperor, having spent the past several years carving out his new realm, to perish in an untimely assassination attempt. The news came as a grave shock to the then nineteen year-old Prince, who still felt that he was grossly unprepared for the trials and tribulations that came with governing an entire continent. Thankfully, however, his academic skill would pay off with the timely formation of the Imperial Regency Council, which swiftly formed a cohesive central government before a power gap could send East Asia into another bloody civil war. Over the next few days, the Mongols' immediate lords assembled a 'Kurultai' to elect the next monarch from the late Emperor's surviving children. It was here that the wheel of fate would take another unexpected turn, and lead to her little sister Alakai being placed on the throne in his stead - a unanimous decision spawned out of her miraculous inheriting of the late Emperor's powers over nature itself, thus convincing them that she is truly the next living incarnation of Tengri, and rightful successor to Genghis Khan himself.

Many in the upper echelons of power expected this to come as an outrage to Tolui, having for much of his life been considered the designated heir to the throne. But even to this day, the Prince hides his relief that he was spared the responsibility of leading an Empire already on strained terms with various Metahuman regimes around the world. Unfortunately, this has proven to make little difference, as the age and inexperience of the newly-proclaimed Mingzhi Empress renders her unable to effectively govern without the assistance of both him and the rest of her ministers. As such, the educated and pragmatic Prince Tolui remains as the undisputed head of the Imperial Regency Council, ever standing by his sister's side and providing all the assistance she needs to steer the fledgling Dynasty on the right path to glory and prosperity.

Additional information: Tolui has an almost natural linguistic talent, and can understand and communicate in more than fourteen languages. Aside from his native Mongolian, he is fluent in English, Japanese, Mandarin and Cantonese Chinese, Spanish, and German. He is also roughly familiar with Korean, French, Italian, Hindi, Russian, Malay, and Farsi--most of these with varying degrees of fluency. Coupled with his Metahuman abilities and position at the very top of the Imperial court, Tolui serves as the Yuan's most trusted dignitary, embarking on diplomatic missions himself and standing in the Empress' stead as her representative in the Dynastic Council.

[Britanania]

Looking good, Miek

[Britanania]

Okay I think there are still a few WIP apps to be completed, but tomorrow I'll set up the Discord and launch the IC.

[Revlona]

Okay I think there are still a few WIP apps to be completed, but tomorrow I'll set up the Discord and launch the IC.

Oh boy

[Bingellia]

Name: Aisling Keyes
Alias: Aisling Mac Aodha,Crom Dubh, Gan Ceann
Alignment: Clan Mac Mathghamhna
Age: 24
Appearance: Aisling had a relatively average if tall build, at least before the accident that revealed her latent powers and subsequent augmentations at the hands of the Morrígan. Now, she's a deathly pale woman with eyes and hair as black as the raven that symbolizes her master, and she has bulked up as a result of her duties.
Additional physical features: Her head has been separated from her body and is usually carried with her underarm. The stump of her emanates a harmless black mist.
Personality: Compared to the insanity of the head of Clan Mac Mathghamhna and many of her inner-circle, Aisling is a bastion of comparative sanity. She attempts to maintain a professional distance while carrying out her bloody business and remains far from cruel, giving her targets an odd sense of relief compared to the Morrígan's other enforcers who are more than willing to engage in torture to make a point. While carrying out her orders, nothing is personal, but that doesn't mean she need not be humane.

Away from her macabre duties, Aisling makes an attempt to be personable and certainly appreciates the value of humor and good spirit when she can find it, especially while away from the court in Dublin. That said, she is never quite so sure when she can fully relax even while completely alone on her travels. The Morrígan has plenty of eyes and ears, and her wrath is the one thing that Aisling truly fears above anything else.
Abilities:
Enhanced Vision: Aisling's vision is superior to baseline humans in several factors. Her vision is extraordinarily sharp and has basic zoom functionality. She sees equally as well in total darkness as though it was broad daylight. Finally, she has the ability to visually detect metahumans, though she cannot determine anything regarding the nature of their powers.

Body Autonomy: Given that her head is already separate from her body, it isn't any surprise that she can control her body without needing her head affixed to it. She also has a sense of where her body is, what is it doing, and what is going on around it without needing a physical connection. However, the degree of fine control and the strength of her sixth sense about her body depends on the physical proximity of the head to the body.

Enchanted Equipment: The Morrígan has seen fit to provide Aisling with equipment to perform her duties with. Her massive axe is lightweight, at least while in her hands, startlingly sharp, and icy cold to the touch. Her archaic plate armor is similarly enchanted, being light for its size and incredibly strong, though it is still by no means quiet compared to going without it and neither does it render her completely impervious to mundane or meta threats. Finally, she has a horse-drawn cart, covered in bone decorations to match the carts of Dullahan in legend, which can greatly reduce the time to travel across Europe.

Regeneration: Though far from the strongest regeneration by metas, Aisling has some degree of regeneration and heals far quicker than baseline humans. It's particularly at dealing with grievous wounds to a relatively small part of her body. Deep thrusts and slashes can be stiched back together by her body at a rate sustainable in combat so long as her defense isn't overwhelmed. It does, however, struggle when trauma is spread out over her body from, for example being too close to an explosion or being immolated.

Biography: Aisling was born in Omagh to a quietly Republican family and was, beyond a better healing factor, seemingly a perfectly baseline human, with her head attached and with a very healthy skin tone. Her youth has left her with very few memories of the world prior to the new order of Metahumans. Despite the Morrígan's consolidation of power, Aisling's life was fairly mundane for most of her life, enjoying a decent if nationalist education. Her family adapted to the new order well and adopting a more moderate version of the brand of Pagan Revivalism favored by the Goddess-Queen, but they were mostly below notice of the state.

Until an occurance that made more sense to Aisling in hindsight. While in Castlederg visiting family in 2016, she noticed a single raven silloutetted on the moon while biking on a country roud outside the village and she felt a blow on her neck as she rode. She recoiled in hot searing painand flipped the bike in the darkness of the evening. As she reoriented herself, she watched her own headless body rise from the ground, walk over, and lift her up off the ground, and yet she herself was fine. Dusting herself off awkwardly, she got back on her bike and rode home. She tried to make the most of her remaining summer in Castlederg after that. Yet, when she went back home to Omagh, a Gardaí vehicle was there waiting for her to take a long ride to Belfast.

The local meta in charge there very quickly sent her on a longer ride to Dublin County, this time in a unmarked car. When they finally stopped and allowed her to leave the car, they were parked on the side of a wooden road in Cruagh, high up in the Dublin Mountains. She was told to follow, and was led towards a glade flanked by unnaturally large oaks with a few oaks of uncompariable size clustered relatively close together. The surreal sight of men, in suits, leading her towards a scene out of a fairy tail stunned her into silence as they lead her into one of the trees.

As Aisling entered the tree, which was a completely strange sensation of itself, she was greeted by the Morrígan herself, or rather Macha in specific. as the men closed the door behind her. She wanted to introduce herself, to say something to the woman who had brought her here for some reason beyond her own knowledge. Yet, before the words came to her, a furiously swung axe by Nemain dug itself into the door and cleanly severed Aisling's head from her body.

Searing pain shot through Aisling's body, and yet she did not feel the life fade from her as her head rested perfectly on the axe. Her body, meanwhile, reached up, grabbed her head off the axe and stepped forward. She was then made an offer and, considering she had just lost her head, she knew better than to say no to the the Morrígna when they made an "offer."

It took her a while to adjust to the new job, as one of the Morrígan's executioners, but there was little choice in the matter. Her family had adapted before, she could adapt as well.
Additional information:

Got this finished. Huzzah

[Britanania]

Name: Aisling Keyes
Alias: Aisling Mac Aodha,Crom Dubh, Gan Ceann
Alignment: Clan Mac Mathghamhna
Age: 24
Appearance: Aisling had a relatively average if tall build, at least before the accident that revealed her latent powers and subsequent augmentations at the hands of the Morrígan. Now, she's a deathly pale woman with eyes and hair as black as the raven that symbolizes her master, and she has bulked up as a result of her duties.
Additional physical features: Her head has been separated from her body and is usually carried with her underarm. The stump of her emanates a harmless black mist.
Personality: Compared to the insanity of the head of Clan Mac Mathghamhna and many of her inner-circle, Aisling is a bastion of comparative sanity. She attempts to maintain a professional distance while carrying out her bloody business and remains far from cruel, giving her targets an odd sense of relief compared to the Morrígan's other enforcers who are more than willing to engage in torture to make a point. While carrying out her orders, nothing is personal, but that doesn't mean she need not be humane.

Away from her macabre duties, Aisling makes an attempt to be personable and certainly appreciates the value of humor and good spirit when she can find it, especially while away from the court in Dublin. That said, she is never quite so sure when she can fully relax even while completely alone on her travels. The Morrígan has plenty of eyes and ears, and her wrath is the one thing that Aisling truly fears above anything else.
Abilities:
Enhanced Vision: Aisling's vision is superior to baseline humans in several factors. Her vision is extraordinarily sharp and has basic zoom functionality. She sees equally as well in total darkness as though it was broad daylight. Finally, she has the ability to visually detect metahumans, though she cannot determine anything regarding the nature of their powers.

Body Autonomy: Given that her head is already separate from her body, it isn't any surprise that she can control her body without needing her head affixed to it. She also has a sense of where her body is, what is it doing, and what is going on around it without needing a physical connection. However, the degree of fine control and the strength of her sixth sense about her body depends on the physical proximity of the head to the body.

Enchanted Equipment: The Morrígan has seen fit to provide Aisling with equipment to perform her duties with. Her massive axe is lightweight, at least while in her hands, startlingly sharp, and icy cold to the touch. Her archaic plate armor is similarly enchanted, being light for its size and incredibly strong, though it is still by no means quiet compared to going without it and neither does it render her completely impervious to mundane or meta threats. Finally, she has a horse-drawn cart, covered in bone decorations to match the carts of Dullahan in legend, which can greatly reduce the time to travel across Europe.

Regeneration: Though far from the strongest regeneration by metas, Aisling has some degree of regeneration and heals far quicker than baseline humans. It's particularly at dealing with grievous wounds to a relatively small part of her body. Deep thrusts and slashes can be stiched back together by her body at a rate sustainable in combat so long as her defense isn't overwhelmed. It does, however, struggle when trauma is spread out over her body from, for example being too close to an explosion or being immolated.

Biography: Aisling was born in Omagh to a quietly Republican family and was, beyond a better healing factor, seemingly a perfectly baseline human, with her head attached and with a very healthy skin tone. Her youth has left her with very few memories of the world prior to the new order of Metahumans. Despite the Morrígan's consolidation of power, Aisling's life was fairly mundane for most of her life, enjoying a decent if nationalist education. Her family adapted to the new order well and adopting a more moderate version of the brand of Pagan Revivalism favored by the Goddess-Queen, but they were mostly below notice of the state.

Until an occurance that made more sense to Aisling in hindsight. While in Castlederg visiting family in 2016, she noticed a single raven silloutetted on the moon while biking on a country roud outside the village and she felt a blow on her neck as she rode. She recoiled in hot searing painand flipped the bike in the darkness of the evening. As she reoriented herself, she watched her own headless body rise from the ground, walk over, and lift her up off the ground, and yet she herself was fine. Dusting herself off awkwardly, she got back on her bike and rode home. She tried to make the most of her remaining summer in Castlederg after that. Yet, when she went back home to Omagh, a Gardaí vehicle was there waiting for her to take a long ride to Belfast.

The local meta in charge there very quickly sent her on a longer ride to Dublin County, this time in a unmarked car. When they finally stopped and allowed her to leave the car, they were parked on the side of a wooden road in Cruagh, high up in the Dublin Mountains. She was told to follow, and was led towards a glade flanked by unnaturally large oaks with a few oaks of uncompariable size clustered relatively close together. The surreal sight of men, in suits, leading her towards a scene out of a fairy tail stunned her into silence as they lead her into one of the trees.

As Aisling entered the tree, which was a completely strange sensation of itself, she was greeted by the Morrígan herself, or rather Macha in specific. as the men closed the door behind her. She wanted to introduce herself, to say something to the woman who had brought her here for some reason beyond her own knowledge. Yet, before the words came to her, a furiously swung axe by Nemain dug itself into the door and cleanly severed Aisling's head from her body.

Searing pain shot through Aisling's body, and yet she did not feel the life fade from her as her head rested perfectly on the axe. Her body, meanwhile, reached up, grabbed her head off the axe and stepped forward. She was then made an offer and, considering she had just lost her head, she knew better than to say no to the the Morrígna when they made an "offer."

It took her a while to adjust to the new job, as one of the Morrígan's executioners, but there was little choice in the matter. Her family had adapted before, she could adapt as well.
Additional information:

Got this finished. Huzzah

And there was much rejoicing

[CoraSpia]

sorry, got a little distracted yesterday. I'll get my 3 apps that we're waiting on done today, although they might be sort of shells I'll expand on.

[Cybernetic Socialist Republics]

Right, so here's the app, like I said, I'd really like to have Hunan, Jiangxi, Fujijan, Guangxi and Guangdong. I don't think it's much to ask for, even the continent spanning realms that exist elsewhere, but if absolutely necessary I can change the background to work with interior china, but that will entail a revanchist desire to take southern china/Machwolf's homeland at any cost.


Name: Gao Guan-yin (Guan-yin Gao in English Name order)
Alias: MachWolf, Empress of the South Han.
Alignment: Dynasties
Age: 22
Appearance:

Additional physical features: Guan-yin is 6'7 (2 Meters) in height and weighs 220 pounds (100 kg) Her "Tail and "ears" aren't an organic, but cybernetic limbs containing a variety of equipment.
Personality: Generally good humored and personable, if frequently sarcastic. However if she senses the violence is the way to accomplish her aims, she has no qualms about resorting to it. Generally see's the purpose of war and combat to be the systematic, maximal infliction of pain, suffering and dread on an opponent for the purpose of coercion.
Abilities:

Super Speed: Capable of running at speeds of up Mach 5. Rather than having her perception of time slow down, she simply perceives reality faster. Can strike foes at speeds consistent with this in addition to being durable enough to withstand impacts and the G-Forces at her top speed.

Accelerated Total Healing: Heals injuries at a well beyond human rate, including injuries that'd otherwise leave her maimed, though over a significantly longer period of time than otherwise.

Flight: In addition to being able to run at Mach 5, Machwolf is capable of freely maneuvering in three dimensions, and makes heavy use of this in her fighting style

Expert Mixed Martial Artist: Her ability to perceive events faster has made it possible for her to learn a variety of martial arts styles both east and west, though Shootboxing is her favored style.

Biography:

Gao Guan-yin was born July 1st, 1998 In Hong Kong to Gao Chao and Gao Bai. Chao, her father, came from a family of metahumans in the Gao family line, an intensely patriotic family that nearly universally agreed to allow their children to receive pre- and post birth metahuman experimentation in exchange for allowing them to have children well beyond the one and two child limit they'd otherwise have to face. In addition to being patriotic, the Gao family line put a great emphasis of the development of their metahuman powers on behalf of the state, but Chao was always reserved and cautious, as his powers were not tied to physical strength, but to his mental faculties. As a result, he was an exceptional student, particularly capable when it came to science and technology. He was permitted to study outside of the united states during China's opening up. It was there, he'd meet Bàolì Bai, a Hong-Konger student studying in his university. At first Bai was incredibly dismissive, often mocking Chao, before she grew to appreciate his intelligence and eventually fall in love with him. After a few dates, Bai revealed that she was a metahuman to Chao, who soon after did the same, though she had suspected it. Bai was part of a secret British program that ran metahuman experiments on Hong-Kongers in the hopes that riskier tests on 'foreigners' would refine the process in their homeland. Bai, while being an intelligent woman in her own right, had powers primarily associated with physical feats, most notable being her ability to fly. The Chinese government, interested in seeing the child would come about from the two of them and to take advantage of british science, was more than happy to give their blessings to their union after they finished their studies abroad. But before they had any children, the two of them took even greater advantage of China's 1990s liberalization parties to be founding members in a computer technology start up that'd be having it's head office in Hong Kong.

It was there they lived and worked for the next few years, while also simultaneously being aware of the brewing plot by which metahumans would take over the world. Bai, was more enthusiastic for this than Chao, though his family, who'd been growing increasingly alienated from the direction that the Chinese government was heading in terms of opening up to the west, were enthusiastic participants in the conspiracy. With the Handover of Hong Kong to China and the date by which the metahuman coup would be occurring approached, the couple finally decided that it'd be time to have a child, who would end up being their only one.

From a very early age, it was clear that Guan-yin was special, the pace at which she learned to speak and walk were incredible, but they'd have no idea as to the full extent of her powers well after the rise of the dynasties. as for that rise, the Gao faimlly would play a tremendously critical role, as they managed to secure secure control over southern China. For their part, Chao and Bai would find themselves key figures in the tightly controlled tech sector in the Gao Imperial dynasties lands. As for their daughter, they were now aware of the nature of her powers and their potential. Chao reluctantly agreed to allow her to train with her dynastic peers, the Gao 'dyansty' now having been expanded to include every metahuman within their imperial borders. Though he was concerned that it'd make her as brutal and heartless as many of her peers, Bai convinced him that do otherwise would disadvantage their daughter and it'd serve to usefully toughen her up any how. In a sense, both were correct and incorrect. Guan-yin grew to be rather fond of violence and had her mother's fiery spirit, yet she maintained a sort of quiet humanitarianism and reasonability from her father that saw her seek out others who thought like her. Together, she an said friends were known as the Softs, a name that began as derogatory, but Guan-yin insisted that they embrace.

Come 2016, it became clear that the Gao Family patriarch, now, clearly on his last legs, due to age combined with his post-Liberman metahuman enhancements, had to find an heir to the throne. After the rise of the Dynasty, they'd intentionally kicked the can down the road regarding how succession would work so as to, in the short term, limit destructive internal power struggles. Now, to save the dynasty, they needed a system. The system they picked, would see a tournament of heirs. Many would be nominated and would face off in combat to win the position of Heir to the Gao Imperial dynasty. Due to the high stakes nature of the struggle and in order to keep out the non-serious, killing one's opponent in battle was considered permissible, though certainly not required. Due to a quirk in the nomination process, which was limited to high level political official, a significant contingent of humans, alongside younger metahumans, some sincere and others hoping to see her die nominated Guan-yin for the competition. To the delight of her supporters and the dismay of others, she thrived, taking out her opposition all older and more experienced then her. She made a point as well of using the opportunity to kill the most dangerous and unreasonable figures in the imperial family, so as to help neutralize their factions.

As the end of the tournament approached, it was clear Guan-yin, now famously known as Machwolf, would become the Empress of the South Han, leading more than one candidate to forfeit. Even before the death of the Patriarch, she begun to be able to exercise political power, with many officials caring out their jobs knowing that they'd soon have her backing as Empress. When the Patriarch finally died later that year, Machwolf found sliding into the role to be mostly a formality. Her ruling style make heavy use of those who could be included in her 'softs' faction of the family, in addition to human administrators. Her rule has also been aided by the fact that her parents had managed to wedge themselves very important roles in managing the administration of the empire through their influence over the tech sector, in addition to hiding the empire towards an economy built around the export of advanced electronics and associated raw materials.

None the less Machwolf makes sure to regularly intervene at all levels of the system, so as not to make it felt that she retained anything less than absolute power over the system as Empress, though when it comes to those ideologically aligned with her and her humans subjects, she is very understanding. However Machwolf also retains a impatience with Metahuman unaligned with her views, frequently challenging them to fight her if they had a problem with her decisions an offer rarely taken up on. Machwolf's ambitions go well beyond simply being Empress of the south Han, she wishes to establish herself as undisputed hegemons in China and Asia at large and though the goal is much bigger than her, she feels the world at large would be better served under her model of rule.

Additional information:

Family name: Gao Imperial Dynasty
Dynastic head: Gao Guayn-yin
Other members:

Gao Chao: Father of the Empress and Minister of technology

Gao Bai: Mother of the Empress and Minister of Education.

Lady Chyou: Governess of Hunan

Lord Bambang : Governor of Jinangxi

Lord Donghai: Governor of Fujijan

Lady Daiyu: Governess of Guangxi

Lord Feng: Governor of Guandong

Territorial claim: Guangdong, Sichuan, Hunan, Guangxi, Yunnan, Jiangxi, Fujian, Guizhou, Chongqing and Hainan,

Political philosophy: Imperial Participatory Technocracy
Brief history: The origins of the Imperial Technate of East Asia, lay in the rise of modern metahumans in China. During the First Taiwan Strait Crisis, the People's Republic of China under, Mao Zedong, recognizing the decisive geopolitical advantage the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics had over China, commissioned the creation of a military program that would find, cultivate, replicate or create metahuman abilities. By the late 50s significant progress had been made in constructing facilities for this purpose and by the mid 60s China was is able to enter the international stage with the capacity to deploy metahumans of immense power, though they'd remain well behind the US and the USSR.

In 1970, the metahuman program received a boost. The Communist Party of China, fearing that the population growth that it had been encouraging up until then would cause difficult to them in the future, instituted a two child policy. However, one of the key exceptions to the policy was to families who were willing to offer their children up to the metahuman program, vastly increasing what they had to work with. A similar clause was provided for after the 1980 implementation of a one child policy.

From the beginning, but especially through the 70s and to the mid 80s, the Chinese metahuman program was brutal and inhumane. Metahumans were kept under control with a potent mixture of a 'patriotic' education and consciousness efforts to defeat group solidarity through encouraging conflict. Metas would be repeatedly, consistently pushed to the absolute limits of their abilities in the hopes of strengthening them. Inevitably, some would end up broken in this process. Records show, however, that this was treated as undesirable, with those responsible being reprimanded for wasting state resources, rather than it being part of a deliberate effort to weed out the 'weak'.

In the late 80s and early 1990s, the metahuman program moved away isolation and brutality as a means of maintaining control over the metas, as they made efforts to integrate them into civil society rather than have them restricted to the military, in an aim to improve economic growth in China during Deng Xiaoping's reforms.

These efforts proved fruitful, but they'd have peculiar effects in Southern China, emanating from Guangdong outwards. From there, metahumans working at the highest level in the emerging Chinese technology sector, would end up meeting with legendary figures with immense sway over South Han Metahumans. Under the nose of the Communist Party of China, they'd create and staff the outline of what would by the late 90s form a parallel metahuman government to coordinate their influence over the region. They had ambitions to extent this system over the whole of China, by the time of the New Year Revolution, only the 10 provinces were sufficiently organized through this means. However, with a organization structure already in place, the transition from shadow government to overt government was far smoother than it had been in the rest of China, though this had the side effect of making the type of expansion undertaken by the Great Yuan infeasible, to the point where the Sichuan and Yunnan provinces could be occupied by the Yuan despite the South Han having government organs already in place.


Faced with those limitations, along with the fact that the South Han were operating with an Emperor that functioned more as an elderly spokesperson of a committee rather than a proper lord, despite their ambitions, they could not challenge the Yuan's claim to the Great Lordship of East Asia. While the South Han state would be ran smoothly and competently for the next through years, a fierce debate would continue to be waged regarding how to go about who the heir to the sitting Emperor would be. Faced with few options when he passed, the elders of the South Han, concerned about a war of succession, gave their backing to a gladiatorial tournament to succeed the emperor, which would see Gao Guan-yin claim victory and become Empress.

[Northern Socialist Council Republics]

I note that the list of accepted players has not yet been updated.

[Naval Monte]

I note that the list of accepted players has not yet been updated.

Brit will get to it when she has the time.

[Union Princes]

Interesting that there's more metas with self regen now. I guess to break the monopoly Marie has over healing. Though I think Marie has the strongest healing powers

[Sarderia]

Here is my app, I do wish to claim Southeast Asia (however if that's not possoble then stick with the territories ruled by the House of Hussain in the app), and there'll be 3 more apps coming (for the rest of the Dynasty)

Name: Sultan Ali Sharif Hussain (alternative titles: Yang di-Pertuan Agong, King, Sri Sultan, Datu, Rajah, etc.)
Alias: Garuda
Alignment: Great Nusantara (Dynastic Houses)
Age: 83 (born 1937)
Appearance: The Sultan His Crown (Tanjak di-Raja)
Additional physical features: Hussain aged very slowly, starting when he reached forty-five years. The cause of this is unknown, even to him. Most likely it would be a side effect of his brain mutation. Thus even though being 83 years old he would still appear as a middle-aged man, about 48 to 50 years of age.
Personality: Hussain is a cold and stern man who rules his domain with an iron fist. He is very concerned with maintaining order and the class system in Great Nusantara, knowing full well that the region is very prone to becoming a powder keg of revolutions and rebellions. Hussain is calculating and methodical; he rarely ventures into battle, instead preferring his lieutenants, lords, and children to deal with his enemies under his supervision. However that does not meant he feared combat; he participated in many battles and even massacres years ago, although most of which he despised. Hussain is a staunch traditionalist and conservative; the people in Great Nusantara lives according to a strictly regulated moral code enshrined in the Constitution (of which he wrote half), among other things forbidding homosexuality, enforcing state-dictated religious doctrines, and establishing an excelent social security and education system.
Abilities:

• Flight: Hussain possess a pair of wings spanning nearly two metres in length each (from tip to his back). The wings are made of a metal-like substance, completely bulletproof (it can shield him from bullets). He can release small, metal blades of feather from his wing as a projectile when he flaps his wing with force. It allows him to fly up to 100 metres above ground, hence the name Garuda. He possess hollow, light, yet very hard bones to support his structure in flight.
• Telepathy: A mutation in his brain allows Hussein to communicate with other people using only his mind, and it also allows him to probe into people's thoughts without them noticing. A side effect of this ability is that telepathy floods his minds with images and sounds coming from the minds of other people, overwhelming his own brain. He is reliant on drugs (including heroin and methampethamine), as well as frequent meditation sessions, to control this. This is also an embarassment to him considering he has bulit the image of a conservative and stern monarch staunchly opposing drug addiction.
• Mind Control: Hussein can attempt to control the minds of other people, with varying degrees of success. While he is often considered one of the best telepaths in the world, trained people can resist his mind control attempt, which if backfires can cause a considerable damage to his mind - both physically and mentally. He often employs mind control and telepathy to frighten rebellious nobles and unruly human leaders causing trouble in his domain.

Biography: Ali Sharif Hussain Datuk Rajo was born on the mountainous town of Sawahlunto, West Sumatra, to a family of minor Minangkabau nobility. His father, a former Dutch civil servant, was imprisoned at the time of his birth by the Japanese occupation forces. His mother comes from a family of landlords and renowned ulema - Islamic scholars and religious leaders respected in Sumatra. Hussain, as he was commonly known, was raised in a conservative family and would often spend his days at the town surau (Islamic school). When he was ten years old, the Netherlands invaded their former colony (Dutch East Indies) in effort to regain their possessions after the Japanese left - and native leaders declared the independence of a new country. His mother was accidentally shot by a KNIL (Koninkjlik Nederlands Indische Leger) soldier during a raid, later that year. His father, instead of cooperating with the Dutch as expected of a civil servant, took up arms and joined the new, hastily-formed Indonesian Army guerilla unit. Hussain was left in a nearby surau under the care of the local imam.

These events traumatized him, and he became radicalized over the next years. The imam taught him how to read. Occassionally, Indonesian guerillas would take shelter at the school, bringing their loot with them, including numerous books. He studied English, Dutch, and Malay literature - despite never attending a formal school. He immediately enlisted on the Indonesian Army at nineteen - Hussain held a deep grudge against the Dutch (and Europeans, as well as Americans in general). After several years of training was sent to North Sulawesi, where he fought the CIA-backed Permesta rebellion as a corporal. The military was rather new and quite disorganized, so as a veteran, Hussain quickly advanced through the ranks and becoming a captain by the age of 26.

In 1963, Indonesia entered a conflict with Great Britain over the formation of a new state in the former British colony of Malaya and North Borneo (Malaysia). Indonesian President Soekarno, cautious of sending an exhausted Army just finishing deployment in Papua, ordered infiltration teams to be formed in order to take over several settlements in Borneo. After the failure of initial infiltrations, and news that the British had begun their own infiltration operations (Operation Claret), the Indonesian government decided to seek the help of the Soviet Union - not in arms or warships as the Soviets had provided in the past, but in weaponizing soldiers.

Ten candidates, including him, were selected from various battalions (Hussain being a paratrooper), and was sent to Yekaterinburg, a city on the Ural Mountains where several Soviet metahuman experimentations took place in the past. They were subjected to grueling experiments and psychological torture, and Hassan had to relive the most painful moments of his life - his mother shot by a Dutch soldier; his fellow soldiers being gunned down by their own countrymen. Eventually, he was the only one who survived. The experiments yielded a successful result - a pair of wings grew out of his spine, and although Hussain was very horrified of it at first, he slowly embraced the wings as part of himself. The wings' growth was rapid, yet extremely excruciating. His spine bled and cracked almost every night for two months until it stopped growing, spanning a metre and half from his back to the end. The wings also solidified into a metal-like substance, allowing him to send small blades of projectile just by flapping his wings with force. It was also very flexible to fold, so he would not be seen as distinct when he walks.

Nevertheless, on direct orders of Soekarno, Hussain was immediately deployed as a support unit - a one-man support unit - to aid the Indonesian troops (and Malayan Communist Party insurgents) in the war. His arrival was a great boon for the Indonesian forces, since they were able to ambush the British forces more successfully. Hostilities came to an abrupt end, however, when Indonesia, wary of growing British ire and international sanctions, halted Konfrontasi and allowed for the new state of Malaysia to form peacefully. Hussain's contributions was highly noted, but his participation remains very classified. For the next two years he was stationed in faraway Papua, the Indonesian government deciding to keep him out of the public eye.

He would again participate in combat when the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) launched a coup on September 1965, killing prominent Army generals. General Suharto, a hardline nationalistic military commander, led a purge to exterminate the Communist Party in retaliation. Over 3 million Communists and alleged Communist sympathizers were murdered from 1965 to 1967. Hussain took part on several of the campaigns, although he despised such massacres. He was eventually promoted to Major in 1970. Hussain married a civil servant in the same year, and had a son, Ismail, the following year.

Hussain, having cultivated excellent relationships with Suharto's generals (and the new military bureaucracy that ruled Indonesia during the New Order), slowly rose through the ranks of the government. His status as a metahuman was known to Suharto and the President's cabinet members, but it was largely overlooked - since he was better known to the public as a nationalist war hero and no-one would have suspected him of being metahuman. He was appointed Indonesian Ambassador to Thailand in 1975, and helped engineer the first ASEAN Summit in Bali (1976). Being an Ambassador, he maintained close relationship with Thai generals (both Thailand and Indonesia being American allies at this point), and soon discovered that Thailand, too, invested in metahumans - albeit far later than Indonesia's initiative (himself). His friendship with a Thai metahuman soldier close to General Prem Tinsulanonda would prove beneficial when they engineered a region-wide coup d'etat decades later. His son Ismail would later marry the daughter of a Thai diplomat in 1996.

In 1980, he was reassigned to serve Ambassador to Malaysia. In contrast to Indonesia and Thailand, Malaysia has not yet developed metahumans. However the time he spent in Malaysia was used to create a good image for himself in front of the Malaysian people. Ten years later Hussain resigned, focusing to expand his power base in Indonesian politics. He stood for parliamentary elections as a member of the Working Groups (a nonpartisan parliamentary group created by Suharto to consolidate his grip upon Parliament). Normally, this would've been seen as a downgrade from Ambassadorship, but he managed to create a following of loyal politicians in the Parliament.

When Columbia and Hammer seized power at the New Year's Eve of 2000, chaos and instability reigned over the Third World as both the American and Soviet governments collapsed at the same time. Suharto, faced with demonstrations, ordered harsh repercussions. But his government would only stay in power for a month before Hussain marched on the National Palace with thousands of his supporters, and even a few platoons of the Army supposed to guard the Palace. It was during this time he revealed himself to be a metahuman - soaring high above the National Monument and adopting the moniker Garuda (from Indonesia's national symbol). Within a year, Hussain has consolidated his rule over Indonesia, and sent help towards the Thai metahumans to usurp Prime Minister Sinawatra and take power for themselves. Hussain spent five years strengthening his rule in Indonesia, Malaysia, and parts of the Philippines - while his allies conquered Thailand, Myanmar, and Indochina. Finally, in 2005, Hussain was crowned Sovereign of all Southeast Asia, taking the title of Sultan in the style of old Malay monarchs. The Hussain dynasty now rules over Southeast Asia as feudal monarchs, delicately maintaining peace and stability while being on the forefront of the Metahumans' war against independent humanity.

Additional information: N/A

The King of Malaysia in throne (for reference)

Country name: Great Nusantara/ڠوسانتارا رايا/Nusantara Raya (Southeast Asia)
Family name: Wangsa Diraja Hussain/وانعسا ديراجا هوسساين (Royal House of Hussain)
Dynastic head: Sultan Ali Sharif Hussain
Other members:

• Crown Prince Pengiran Mahkota Ismail Hafiz Hussain (b. 1971, d. 2006) - deceased
• Princess Raja Permaisuri Iskandariah Sharifa Hussain (b. Narissapat Pranoj, Chiang Mai, Thailand, 1950 d. 2008) - deceased
  • Princess Pengiran Istri Latifa Hussain (b. 1997)
  • Crown Prince Pengiran Mahkota Iskandar Umar Hussain(b. 1998)
  • Prince Pengiran Kaisar Fuad Hussain (b. 2002)

Territorial claim:

• Great Nusantara: entire Southeast Asia
• controlled directly by the House of Hussain: Indonesia, Malaysia, Southern Thailand/Pattani, Brunei, Singapore, Philippines (Mindanao), Southern Vietnam (Champa)

Political philosophy: Semi-theocratic Absolute Monarchy. Great Nusantara is modelled after the Islamic caliphates of the Middle Ages, including the Abbasid and Ottoman empires. Sovereignity lies in the Sultan, Great Nusantara's paramount leader, and his dynasty (the Royal House of Hussain). However, the Sultan only directly controls Nusantara's majority Muslim areas (with some exceptions, the sparsely-populated islands of Moluccas and Papua, as well as most of Mindanao). Buddhist and Christian lords ruled over their respective majority areas, although by now it has became mostly a cultural thing, as religion further declines in importance with the rule of Metahumans. The system is modelled after the Millet system of the Ottoman Empire. While Great Nusantara's national religion is Islam, the state effectively ignores this in Buddhist and Christian-ruled areas (mainland Southeast Asia, the Philippines) - and enforcing a massive cult of personality centered on the Sultan (also titled Defender of the Faith) in majority Islamic areas.* Although nominally feudal, the government possess a significant degree of centralization as most laws needs the Sultan's assent to pass, even in territories ruled by Buddhist and Christian lords. The state imposes a strict class system with ordinary humans being at the bottom of the social pyramid, while Metahuman lords ruled over them in a hierarchy that ends in the Sultan. In several territories, however, regular human dynasties are allowed to rule - although ultimately they would be subservient to Metahuman lords.
*a nominally Islamic country with the government centered on a powerful figure - similar to Egypt under Gamal Abdel Nasser, or Libya under Muammar Gadaffi

Brief history: (see Sultan Hussain's app for background)
In 2000, Ali Sharif Hussain seized power in Indonesia and proceeded to expand his power base into the neighboring countries. Through a series of alliances and interventions, Hussain consolidated his rule throughout Southeast Asia - proclaiming himself Sultan, first over Indonesia, then Malaysia, parts of the Philippines and Thailand, and eventually being crowned sovereign of the entire region. Hussain's only son, Ismail Hafiz Hussain, died fighting a human uprising in 2006. Ismail wife, a regular Thai human named Narissapat Pranoj, fell into depression following his death. Her health quickly worsened, leaving Hussain to care for their three children, who has been subsequently designated heirs apparent to the throne of Great Nusantara. Pranoj (styled Raja Permaisuri Sharifah Iskandaria Hussain) died in 2008, two years after her husband, of heart attack. Now, with the Sultan increasingly withdrawing from public appearance, it fell to his grandson Crown Prince Iskandar to lead the state against the Human resistance in Australia, which has been a threat against Great Nusantara ever since its founding.

[Britanania]

Both of the new apps accepted, and yes, Sultan Ali Sharif Hussain will be the Great Lord of South East Asia

[Naval Monte]

Both of the new apps accepted, and yes, Sultan Ali Sharif Hussain will be the Great Lord of South East Asia

When will the app list be updated?

[Britanania]

Roster updated

[Britanania]

IC and Discord server shall be up within the hour.

As a reminder, we're all starting in Australia. My post shall explain the general situation

[Nea Videssos]

Hmm... I think I might reuse that Japanese femboy assassin after all. Of course, I'm a bit busy now since I'll be going up to Scotland tomorrow, so I'll be preoccupied for a week or so.

[Britanania]

Hmm... I think I might reuse that Japanese femboy assassin after all. Of course, I'm a bit busy now since I'll be going up to Scotland tomorrow, so I'll be preoccupied for a week or so.

That sounds good to me, still working for the Reich?

[Nea Videssos]

Hmm... I think I might reuse that Japanese femboy assassin after all. Of course, I'm a bit busy now since I'll be going up to Scotland tomorrow, so I'll be preoccupied for a week or so.

That sounds good to me, still working for the Reich?

Well, I've done various different versions of that character in different RPs. This one'll be the more Yakuza-linked one that grew up in Japan, rather than Brazil. With regards to who he might be affiliated with, I'm not sure yet, though I'm tempted to make it "whoever happens to pay".