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Apologies if I missed any note on closed recruitment as its a little late, noticed you started just recently.

Name: Crono Arinborn
Race: Human
Age: 23
Group: The Travelers

Background: Crono's father was lost to him at the impressionable age of thirteen. His adopted father and his father's best friend, Dalnas, refused to ever tell him the story save to say that his father gave his life honorably for others. Dalnas took him in after the event to his home back at the capital city where Crono tried his best to pursue in his father's footsteps. Dalnas helped with this task in bolstering his acceptance to South Haven Academy, a well kept but private facility in which many nobles sent their youth to learn to fight as a nobleman should, or where lucky others would work in interest of joining the militia or perhaps something more specialized. Crono graduated during his fourth year at the top of his peers, but did all but ignore any attention he drew from those interested in his talents except one - Magnus Martek.

Friend throughout those years, Magnus became bitter during the last as Crono finally showed progression beyond his own. After the final tests, Magnus swore to prove either his superiority or worse, his vengeance. Not wishing to involve others within conflicted spawned of his own pride during his reactions, Crono has decided it best to 'find himself' elsewhere should Magnus decide to pursue him.

Physical Appearance: Crono, despite his best efforts to bolster himself in the years, is far more lithe than bulky. Having learned to work with it, he appears as little more than a well-toned, healthy young man with blond hair streaking a few inches down with a solid set of blue eyes. He carries no remarkable or distinguishing features that can be seen at a first glance.

Weapons: His father's sword, the Arinblade, a family heirloom passed to him upon his father's death. The longsword's intricate design hints at its minor magical enchantment, strengthening it beyond normal steel to keep up in the heat of combat and slice well when the time comes. His second sword is nothing remarkable, a simple but well crafted longsword thats been tried and tested more than once, showing a bit of wear in the blade.

Talents and Skills:
One might try to describe the boy with one word: a Natural. But the term is loosely set at best with the boy's real experience. Having worked with his father and Dalnas since he was a boy, he was more than prepared for the hardships in his years at schooling, but his swordplay shows itself as one of his few real concerns. He is trained in most things martial, but nothing near as well as his awkward but workable dual-bladed style.

It wasn't just talent that got him this far, however, but something abstract in nature. Since his father's death, he has carried a small chain which holds a delicately crafted insignia upon it depicting a hand reaching outwards. Many assume it to be some form of holy symbol, and might be right in their assumptions, but Crono was only told by his father once that it was meant to depict "Lost Causes", exclaiming it as his driving force, that fighting for 'hope' was one of the most gratifying experiences a man could do. Keeping that thought in mind, be it from the pendant itself, something divine, something magical, or something within, Crono is able to manifest a small feeling of drive in his stride beyond that of his normal limits in speed, strength, or reflex. Any such action tears fatigue through him however, often before a conflict can even be resolved. (To be developed or dissolved IC, essentially the strengths of a stereotypical paladin or holy warrior, but sources unknown).

Accepted, you can start posting when you wish.

hey guys. Sorry, Life got hectic for a while. I'll be able to post either this afternoon or sometime tonight. Sorry about the delay.

Hello, I would like to join this roleplay but wanted to know if I could bring in two characters - 1 for the travellers and the other for the murderers? Please let me know and I will post each character sheet upon your reply. Thanks!

Here's my character sheet for the Murderer character I want to use.
If it is alright to do more than one character for the story-line, I will post the character sheet for my Traveller character upon your approval.

Name: Dori (Romanian for 'desire')
Race: Not to be divulged at this time - a definite prankster, illusionist, and mesmerizing persona, she is extremely desireable and has an intense affect on almost everyone in her presence.
Age: unknown
Group: Murderers
Background: Dori's background will be explained as the story progresses. She is a mystery, an enigma, and is spoken of by the few who know of her existence with revered respect and fear. She is mostly murmured about amongst the "fallen women" or women of the streets and the tales of her wrath/punishment are often depicted in gruesome and extreme detail by these women when recounting the many deaths of perverse fiends. Others know her as the "Devil's Daughter" for allegedly luring so many to their deaths for one end or another. Weather she kills for pay or for pleasure it is uncertain as much as how she does the killing. There are too many varying descriptions of her attacks on the hapless who are targeted by her to be able to predict her killing angle. "Shadows and moonlight...she moved like shadows and moonlight," is a common description of her sightings.
Physical Appearance: Dori is relatively petite at 5'2" with an incredibly curvy frame, long lithe legs, pale porcelain skin with a feint "moonbeam" glow to it, platinum waist-length hair that almost always has a roughed up look to it giving her the appeareance of having just risen from slumber. Her eyes are a startlingly clear silver rimmed by a dark steel-grey and framed by dusty thick black lashes accentuated by midnight-colored kohl applied to them at the base of her lids. Her lips are thick and full pink frosted and her teeth are perfect pearly whites. Her nose is pert and small, giving her an almost impish look altogether and an all around very distracting image. Her stare is probably the most unnerving feature about her as it is uninhibited and promises certain desires and/or death.
Weapons: She has no weapons that are visible except for maybe a small curved blade with a pale ivory and silver hilt kept in its silver scabbard. The blade is approximately 3" wide at the widest part of the curve and 12" long. Dori wears bearly there white, ivory, grey, silver, and/or pearl colored gowns of gosshamer, silk, georgette, and other similar materials that hug her curves and leave little to the imagination but more than enough to cover the important things, slits on the gowns are always present to facilitate speed of movement for her attacks. Occasionally she will wear cloacks of the same colors as mentioned previously.
Talents and Skills: Dori is a master Illusionist or "enchantress" if you will. Though this will be more explained as the story progresses. She can make her victims see what they want and/or get what they want for an unexpected price such as stealing their energy, distracting them long enough for her to slit their throats, dismember them, etc., as well as have them suffer at the expense of their own imagination, fears, dreams both in sleep and waking moments in very brief summation of her extensive illusory skill. Her power of compulsion/command is almost inescapable.

My avatar image is Dori and here are other pics of the character:



I hope this is acceptable to you.

Thanks!

Glad you're still with us, ragnaroktok.

Sounds good, garnette, but to make the two groups even would it be possible for you to simply use Dori in this RP?

Ok sure I'll stick to using Dori. The second character I was going to use for the Travellers was a half-elf archer. And I did not plan on bringing her in until later on when they were already on their travels. If she is needed, you know about her for future reference.

Just tossing this up, I'm thoroughly impressed with the skill and intro of Dori, but, as a general question, would it not be a bit too easy to make this character into too much of an omniscient/omnipotent character?

Interested to see how she pans out though.

It would be...but I have a plan. She is...limited Hopefully Gavaroc is cool with it. If there is anything he doesn't like, I can always easily accomodate the story's needs. Glad you like by the way!

Well it would be just as easy to make Jarvax or Astrolanoid omnipotent as well.

Undead = practically immortal, and Astrolanoid spent three hundred years in training with a God. No mortal man or woman could stand a chance of killing him, except perhaps through poison.

Everything has its weaknesses, and the only way to circumvent that is through God-modding. And as far as I can tell, none of us have done that. So long as nobody posts anything too unreasonable, we have no problems.