Broken Circle:OOC

[Hellis]

IntChk / IC

~Prologue~

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Within a darkness so thick it might just be tangible, hidden beneath a endless maze of dead catacombs, rests a giant. His name is Toglyran the Terror. And he is angry. Black chains binds him by the thousands, shackling his rage. But they are straining to hold him there, each twist of his massive blackened frame making the the chains creak in exertion. His two red eyes are wide open, malice radiating from the being.



There is another presence there as-well. A man. He wears a suit and tie, dressed with impeccable style. His smile cleaves his face in the most disturbing way. His eyes burn with brimstone and his teeth are that of needles. He observes the chained giant before peering into a book with no apparent title. As his lips moves his voice seem sweet and sickly, like the stench of rot.


“Shadows bind you demon, Light banishes you. But there will be a day when your chains break and become your shroud, when you will banish light. Yes, you are my child, a destiny so terrible only the worst sinners on earth can see you.” The huge shape roars as the man in the suit cackles.

“Speaking of sinners....” The mans head twist around in 180 degrees, completely ignoring the cracking, sickening sound of his snapping neck. “Someone seems to be sneaking a peak!”

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Johan Hök woke with cold sweat pouring down his body. He was alone in his apartment. The dream had left a mind numbing pain behind and it was as if thousands of needles were being jammed into his brain. Everything was blurry as he stepped across the tiled floor. Johan was no hero, no man of great destiny. He was a sinner, a drunk, a failed father and most importantly: A Magician. People called him Rune due to his mastery of the old rune magic of Scandinavia. Staring into the mirror a pale, fifeless version of him stares back. He understands now.. He is still in the dream. It's coming. He needs help.

Story so far

Magics a latent ability, most people, if guided can draw upon it. Usually you see it in old religions. These days people turn to science, magic no longer exist to the mundane. To humanity its nothing but old folklore or smoke and mirrors. But this world harbors secrets. Witchdoctors still, in the middle of LA and New Orleans, practice their magicwith zeal. They see the spitirts, they draw upon the dead. In Rumania, There are still people who hunt the undead with ancient catholic rites or Orthodoxian Chants.

In the north there are still people who worship the norse gods, who still know the runes. Not to mention the many creatures who work for or against humanity, the old ancient horrors, the biblical beasts and the genies of old Arabic folklore. They exist, they live within their own realms but crosses into our world as they please. But as of late, things are slowly taking a turn for worse. Human agents of said beings have been growing more impatient, more careless in their secrecy. Magicians from all over the world have been having the same dream. A giant, a giant whose name they all explicable know, but whom they never heard of before. Then there is the gentleman who sees them in their own dreams.

Aside from that they all know one thing they must go to Los Angeles or “The City Of Angels”. This is where you all find yourself. You may be of any nationality, you may practice nearly any kind of magic, be it voodoo, old Catholic “holy” magic or Arabic Mysticism. You are all human magicians, brought into town by a common vision.

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-The Realms of magic-

Magic isn't as simple as summoning fireballs or shooting lightning. No, these are living entities, powerful in their own rights. Vibrant energies you have to weave and bend to your will. And they all come from different places, different worlds.

You see the world consists not of one realm but several larger planes of existence.

Ours is the realm of mortals, earth. Aside from them there are the 9 rings that are referred to as hell and there is the four hellish plains of Gehenna. There is the 7 realms that make out different forms of 'heaven'. There is the 8 Shadows realms, placea of eternal darkness where gods go to die. Each ruled by a old forsaken god. There is the Realms of Elements, four in total. Here fires, water, air and earth are in constant shift.

There are the Fey Lands where the folklore of old have retreated to. There is the Stream, the place from which arcane magi borrow power. It is a endless torrent of raw energy that never runs dry. There are the Fields of Ulysses, where the old pantheon of the Greeks reside. There is Asgard, where the old Norse gods now sleep.

There are countless others. Each able to lend unique strengths to those that opens its doors. There is a price however. Power always has a price. One does not strike deals with the powers that be without paying their dues. Every magician have to deal with the consequences and backlashes of their choices.

Magic demands sacrifices, personal or trivial. They demand dedication and rituals. Be it carving runes into wood or making summoning circles with salt. Magic is flexible and amazing but it's also risky and wild. Some magic is gotten trough actual deals with entities such as demons and fey. These deals are the basis to contract magic.

Types of magic

Contracts: Trough contracts with mystical being a magician may achieve great powers. Its a two way streat however. Contracts are with a price, and the contractor might find the price a bit to steep at times. A good example would be Faust, selling his soul to a devil. Envoking contract magic usually means you have to summon the power in words or symbols. Such as calling upon the fires of hell or the spirits of the dead.

Arcane Purity: The riskiest is Arcane Purity. These are the mages that tak e from the stream. They dont have to deal with rituals or contracts. Arcane Purity is a bomb however, set to explode at any gven moment. Mages may find them self so bristling with power that they actually explode. Elemental magic form the elemental planes are also considered Arcane Purity.

Ritual Magic:
Very common, mostly safe but slow. Ritual magic draws on the power of the different realms as well as surrounding energies. The results are all depending on the effort, the people and the ritual itself. Its wide spread and seen in common fashion within such religions as Haitian Voodoo.

Magic notes and glossery

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True Name: In magic there is such a thing as your True Name. Its intimitely tied to your very essence, it embodies you. Names have always held importance in religions aswell, such as Drudism and Wickan. To let creatures and magicians know your neame is to give them full control and forfeit your life and freedom.

Divination: Seeing trough time and space, be it visions of past events or the future or finding a location trough a pendant and a map.

Trolls; These are cratures mainly of scandinavian and germanic folklore that are also common in many celtic sagas and slavic myths. They come in all shapes and forms. But are mostly always resistant to magic.

Sin Eaters: A Christian form of faith based magic. The ability to devour someones "Sin" or magical debt. Someone who had their sin devoured will be less inclined to bad luck, illfavor amongs spritis etc etc. Allows contractors to dodge paying their price, keeps arcane users from nagative feedback and other boons. Like all magic, he cost is great. in this case for the Sin Eater who has to bare these sins as his own.

Leylines: A "circuit" for magcal energy that runs trough the earth. Wherever these leylines cross, one can found places of power. L.A forexample. is ontop of amercas biggest crossing of leylines. That is why It attracts so much attention.

Giants: Anti-Thesis of gods and men. These are creatures who consume men, gods and magic alike. Usually features as the greatest threats within old religions such as Greek Titans and Norse Frost Giants.


Runes: Ancient Nordic script language. Can be used for certain forms of magic.

PM ME YOUR BIOS

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Name:

True Name: See glossary


Appearance

Age: 17 at the lowest. The older you the more sense it makes that you know a fair bit of magic. 45 as the oldest. The younger you play the less respected and the less experienced you are. Keep this in mind.

Nature of magic: (see magic section.)

Magic practice: (What are you? Voodoo priest? Witchdoctor? Priest? Illusionist, necromancer? Any magic practice goes.)

Brief bio: Keep it condensed. I don't ask for much. I need to know what makes your character unique. What define him. A little back story and a lead up to his current situation. The rest can be handled in game.

Accepted Characters:

InDefiance - Rosalie Rouge
Hellis - Johan
Noxius - Varvara
Vhien - Andromeda
Aesthetic - Felix
Custoscustodum - Danel Caine
KnightShade - Martin Rasche

[inDefiance]

Name: 'Rosi' - Rosalie Rouge



True Name: She-Who-Speaks-With-Three.

Age: 27

Nature of magic: Shamanic (Contract)

Magic practice: Shaman. Shape Shifter and Spirit Catcher.

Brief bio: Rosalie was 7 when Grinder spoke to her from behind the trees. She was with her first foster family and a good one it was. However Grinder was was wild and aggressive and taught her the ways of the lone wolf. Rosi was the toughest of the girls her age and the most dominant. And when anyone older than her pushed her around, Grinder the She-Wolf would give her surprising strength and speed not to mention a vicious bite. When she was 10 there was a wolf at large in the parks. And when Rosalie moved away the rumours and sightings of the wolf never surfaced again.



Rosalie was 14 when Seeker spoke to her from the sky. She was with her fourth foster family and this one was a bad one. And Rosi was a bad girl by now. This family knew what she was and kept Grinder pinned away, for they knew how to deal with rampant spirits. But Seeker taught Rosi how to fight the enemy unseen. Seeker took her to the place of the Threshold to release Grinder. And with Grinder's mighty form, she slashed and rendered her captors. The police report stated that an Owl called from above the roof of the house before flying away from the bloodbath inside of Rosalie's final foster home.



Rosalie was 21 when Weaver spoke to her from dreams. A young, troubled woman, addicted to drugs, the spider pulled her into the Netherealm, the host world of spirits. It was here where she learned to face her fears and answer the voices that called to her. The drugs were meant to suppress the callings, but as she lay dying, overdosed on heroin, Weaver showed her what she was meant to do. There were bad things in the world. Very bad things. And 'She-Who-Speaks-With-Three' was meant to deal with them. Both here in the Dreamworld space of the Netherworld and in the Waking world as well.

Things changed when they started her heart again. She got a job and started going to the gym, learning how to use firearms, how to fight. She trained hard and even had to force herself into a relationship with a man to learn MMA fighting styles. And all the while, she sought out those of the Dreamworld who had ties to the physical. And soon she became a Spirit Catcher, one who may speak in both worlds as well as walk within both realities.




Rosalie is now a woman of 27. She can speak with spirits. She can fight spirits in the Dreamworld. She can shift into three different types of animals. She can take their strengths and senses, whether crushing teeth, silent wing, or terrible poison and use them in the waking day while still remaining virtually human. And now that the dream has been set upon her, she has travelled from the Western coast of Canada and ready to face what she has been called to do.

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Hell. Oh.

I am interested in joining if this is still open. Thinking of a shaman or a witch type of character.

[Hellis]

It is indeed open.

[inDefiance]

I have edited my post with my CS. Please let me know what changes are necessary for acceptance.

[Noxious]

Man, I’ve also been playing around with the idea of a priest whose diligence in the catholic church and his faith actually allows him the power to grant “forgiveness”, to cleanse the sinners. But….for now…

Name Varvara Shishkin

True Name [цикл конца] Tsikl Kontsa

Nationality Ruska Roma [Russian Gypsy]

Religion Orthodox Christian

Language Romani [Made up of German, Russian, Polish, Ukrainian] and English

Age 22

Nature of magic Ritual Magic – Though her family line has touched Arcane purity and many of her people fear the effects.

Magic practice Gypsy[indent]

Brief bio

work in progress…Her people are happy, always struggling for money but a very tight knit family line. The women in her family are believed to hold a very strong connection with spirits and elements and have been granted the right to negotiate with such entities. Once a girl relinquishes her virginity it is said that the connection lessons and so Varvara has remained unwed her entire life (very rare for a Roma to make it to the age of 16 without being wed, let alone 22). She has spent the last 22 years of her life learning from her mother the rituals and tales of her people. Nothing is ever written down in the Roma community and so her mother recounts tales, rituals, herbal remedies and prayers; some of which hint at a darkness her people have attempted to forget. Once the dreams began her family sat around a fire, discussing their options. Her mother refused to let her go before she began to recount some exceedingly darker nature of their magic and so it is only recently that Varvara has begun to comprehend the depths of her people’s connection, as well as her own abilities.

I want to develop a more defined character before we start, but these are her beginings. Thoughts? Comments?

[Hellis]

You mean a sin eater Noxius? Thats pretty boss. I won't lie.
As for the gypsy. Its a solid start. As someone who sent alot of time around Rumanian and Baltic Romas who moved here to sweden, I know they have a very specific kind of christianity that lends much from indian beliefs and karmatic practices. So I would be really interested in either idea.

I seem to have missed to add a PM me the Bio rule.

But. Yours is quiet neat InDefiance. Accepted. Really like the way the fluff was written. Well done ^^

[Noxious]

If I made a sin eater I'd have to rewatch the Heath Ledger movie. womp womp. We will see. Maybe if I stick with the gypsy I can talk someone else into bringing a sin eater on.

[Hellis]

Name: Johan Hök
True Name: Winter
Age: 30
Languages:English, Swedish. Ancient Norse (Bits and pieces really.)

Looks:



Nature of magic: Arcane in basis, Ceremonial in practice.
Magic practice: Rune magic
Rune priests bind magic trough words in the shape of runes.

Brief bio: Johan Hök was born to a family in northern Sweden. As it were, Johan was born in the middle of a very harsh, unforgiving winter. His father, Emil Hök wished for the boy to be named Johan, while his Mother would call him "Vinter barn" or "Child of Winter." Thus was it fate that ordained Johan to grow up as Winter to those of magic, Johan to the normal world. Johan was never interested in his parents profession as fishers. He felt no call to the sea, nor did he wish to send his time on a boat any more then was necessary. Instead the boy sought out archeology. Thats when he discovered runes. Learning rune scripture was hard but somehow very close to heart for the boy.

Under the tutelage of a old Rune Priest however, Johan where to enter the shadowy sub realm of humanity. That of fey, magicians and demons. Johan was always a believer of the ways of old. And when he researched deeper onto the magic that vikings once utilized, he found himself in a magicians circle. The Circle consisted by a actual rune priest, his two students: Johan and a girl named Agatha and old African shaman that were interested in how this kind of magic worked.

Under the Priests tutelage Johan were soon versatile and powerful in his magic. An avid student he was very good at the basics. His training however were to see an abrupt end. Trough magic not witnessed in decades a troll somehow awakened. The circle along with pretty much all of the magicians in that part of Sweden rushed to put it to back into slumber.

The problem with trolls however: They are immune to much of our magic. Of course, Johan had the brilliant idea to carve runes onto his own body. An act most unpleasant and forbidden, the result was immediate. For a brief moment Johan became a beacon of arcane power but it left Johan broken in body and soul. The Rune Priest sent Johan abroad to avoid his student from being taken to trial by upset and outraged magicians. Johan left for the US without even knowing his Masters name.

Johan tried to live a normal life. He failed. He grew up, got a wife but fell into depression due to his nightmares and the constant onslaught of magic related things he had to hide. He later divorced. Now he finds himself with a whole new set of nightmares. Ones he shares with a lot of people. Those of a giant...

[inDefiance]

-Hellis- thank you. And when the RP does start, are we just arriving in LA or are we gathered and meeting for the first time?

[Hellis]

This is still open.