(Fantasy | Time Travel) Stravaganza

[Rose Swan]

At Barnsbury Comprehensive School, there are a few unhappy teenagers. These teenagers are somehow drawn into Mortimer Goldsmith's Antique Shop, where they find a strange and fascinating object. These objects could be any number of fascinating and pretty things, and somehow, it gets you thinking non-stop until you fall asleep with it in your hand that night.

And then you are teleported to Talia.

The country of Talia is both like and unlike the Italy of this world. It exists in a parallel dimension and diverged hundreds of years ago from the Italy we know. The significant moment came during the dispute between the brothers Romulus and Remus. In the history of our world, which at that stage is not fully distinguishable from its mythology, Romulus won the contest and founded the city of Rome. In Talia, Remus was the victor and and founded the city of Remora, capital of the Reman Empire and situated roughly where Siena is in our world.

One change leads to others and there are marked points in Talia's history, particularly in relation to Anglia, which is what they call our England, which differ from Italy's. The most obvious one is that Anglia never split from the Reman Church. Henry the eighth of Anglia had a son by his only wife Catherine who became Edward the Sixth but died young and was succeeded by his two full sisters, Mary and Elizabeth, both of whom died childless. There is no equivalent of the Church of England.

Talia is in some ways more advanced than Italy, in that in the sixteenth century it enjoyed Strega and Prosecco, and had cultivated the potato and tomato, as well as importing coffee and chocolate. However it did not have tobacco.

Once you visit Talia the first time, you become what is called a Stravaganti. Stravaganti are something like scientists in the world of Talia, however the Church, and the di Chimici, the family that runs it, loathe it and call it witchcraft.

Talia is a world full of treachery and danger and magic. Get ready for a ride of your life and a world you may never know what's going to happen next...

[Rose Swan]

I REALLY would like to do this... any takers?

[Rose Swan]

Knock knock.... would really like to do an RP on here. :/

[EnterTheHero]

I have interest in this RP and I wish to know more. Please, enlighten me, ye wondrous person, you.

[Rose Swan]

Well, what would you like to know, curious traveler? There's also going to be info in the OOC.

[EnterTheHero]

Well, what system of magic is there, if any? What, precisely, is the Church's issue with Stravaganti?

[Rose Swan]

The Church thinks it's Witchcraft, and that's heresy. It's also controlled by the di Chimici, and that's just bad news in general, but there are a handful of diChimicis that are pretty chill.

The magic is the stravagation, along with fortune telling with tarot cards, glamour disguises, and maybe a major spell or two depending on the disaster. The Stravaganti are also cool enough to have mirror communication devices that they do some fancy magic on and then they can see each other and mentally communicate. Like Skype, only....not.

[EnterTheHero]

Okay, consider my interest piqued. Let me know when an OOC gets up, si?

[Rose Swan]

Ka. Mind telling any friends of yours and see if they wish to expedite the process of going to OOC please? :3

[EnterTheHero]

I'll run it by some folks.