Rafia: Under the Second Sky [Archive and OOC]

[Rulaan]

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~~~~Vyseriel the Violet~~~~

Name: Vyseriel Lamente of Illendar
Gender: Male
Age: When you are as old as Vyseriel Lamente, the years become a meaningless blur. After a while, he simply stopped counting, though he estimates that he has seen well over seven-hundred years.
Race: Elf of the High Realm of Illendar
Affiliated Organisation(s): Unless you own the name of the Lamente Family, Vyseriel does not bother trusting you. However, that being said, there are certain exceptions where Vyseriel must adjust in order to keep his kin protected in the Platform City. Certain sellsword groups are paid handsomely, as some transactions are made very discreetly with assassin chapters from all over the city's districts. His most impressive connection is with the Towershield Family, of whom he intends to marry his daughter into.
Other Affiliates: The House of Lamente emphasizes a great deal on the need of family. As such, the only people he trusts are members of his family, in particular his four living children. There is Marais, bloodthirsty and cunning; Athryn, wicked and wanton; dark-eyed Ebonnara with daggers in her eyes and Dhariel, a child with the sun in his hands.
Physical Traits: Vyseriel the Violet is long of limb and tall of stature, a wiry sky elf who stands at an impressive 6’5”. Like the rest of his kin, each step he takes is a delicate dance as smooth as velvet, and each movement a graceful flourish of his limbs. By the way he moves and composes himself, he achieves an aura of majesty that causes lesser men to think twice about approaching him. He has flawless alabaster skin that stands out against almost everything but snow and winter skies.

Years as a ranger in the High Realm have reward him with toned arms, nimble hands and a taut chest. He is still able to move quite quickly and silently, though his joints are starting to ache as age begins to take its toll on him. Despite the pain, Vyseriel is a man who keeps his weaknesses to himself, and maintains his exterior as if he felt nothing.

The Lord of Lamente’s eyes are sad and blue, the kind of which you would find on the melting frost of a bare tree on a cold winter’s morning. His eyes are angled upward slightly, giving him the malicious gaze that he is well known for. Like his skin, Vyseriel’s hair is as pale as snow, strands of silky white winter that flows in a straight river to his legs. When meeting with others, he will tie his hair back with a silver-gold band wrought in the shape of a violet-eyed maiden, with amethysts for eyes and roses for hair, all wrought in a light pink gold.
Noteworthy Abilities: Vyseriel is incredibly political in his thinking. He is cunning and strategic, a master tactician and a master marksman with the longbow. He is as skilled with the bow and arrow as he is with the quill, and is very well-spoken and persuasive when the situation demands it.
Noteworthy Weaknesses: Vyseriel is quick to hate and incredibly untrusting of people. He is proud and quite arrogant, and often quite rash in the decisions he makes.
Background: Vyseriel is a celebrated war commander in Illendar, feared for his deadly skill with the longbow and admired for his strength in battle. For many years, Vyseriel served one of the High Realm’s greatest paragons, defending the mountain home of the sky elves from the constant threat of the Grimmfolk.

When he was old enough, his father married him to one of Illendar’s brightest treasures; Ariendellas of the House of the Sun. Ariendellas was the fairest of all sky elves, a maiden with the sun in her hair and dawn in her eyes. The two were very happy together, dwelling in the House of the Sun as it’s lord and lady. Their first child was born two years after they married, a diamond-eyed child named Sestina. Next, there was Marais, and within five years later, Ebonnara and Athryn were born.

Ariendellas fell pregnant once more; though this time she felt constantly ill and would bleed from her nose constantly. Her hair turned dark and brittle, and even her golden eyes went dim and black. When Dhariel was born, Ariendellas was old beyond her years, and the effort to bring Dhariel into the world killed her. After she died, Vyseriel fell into a deep depression.

After Ariendellas perished, Vyseriel was crowned the Sun’s Prince by his dying father-in-law. In doing so, Ariendellas’ father angered her younger brother Marovil. Marovil’s anger led him to form the House of the Moon, who then declared war on the Sun’s Prince and the House of the Sun. When the war intensified, the upper echelons of the High Realm involved themselves in the war, and it erupted into a major civil war called the War of the Sun and Moon. Vyseriel and his allies were defeated, and Sestina lost, so Vyseriel and his children were driven into exile.

For years, he and his ilk wandered in search of a new home. The humiliating defeat in Illendar marred Vyseriel and the House of the Sun, and forever he is disgraced in his homeland. After a decade, he found himself in the Black Tower, where he also found Sestina, the Phoenix Mistress. Sestina helped him and her siblings establish a life in the Platform City, often inviting them to soirees with the Towershield Family and other important factions in the city.

Not long after, Sestina was slain. Vyseriel once again fell into a deep depression, but when he re-emerged, he was a darker person, colder and more distant, with little in his eyes but malice and malcontent. Many say that there is vengeance in his heart, though for who, the rumours could not say.

[Database Error]

Name - Myst
Gender - Female
Race - Remnant
Age - Young (Between 25 and 100)
Appearance - Myst is frail, petite of body and stands at around five foot tall. She has medium length long, white-blonde hair and Crycon pale skin. She generally wears forest green cloth under light, plate armour.

People

• Rayn (Twin Brother)
• Scardrake (Dragonpriest and Erastrider Head)
• Alabast E. Karvayn
• Vaint (An Erastrider)

Factions

• Erastriders (Strider)
• House Karvayn (Bodyguard)
• Mountain Remnant Tribes (Self-Exile)

Kiihmblade - Myst's blade, Nysterix, does not have a single physical form. Instead it manifests itself as pure, visible magic - in any form she desires.

Noteworthy Abilities - Myst is masterful magician and relies heavily upon the arcane arts in what little combat the Erastriders see. Her brother has already trained her to be a passable swordswoman, though she is not a particularly strong flier, having only acquired her wings so recently.

History
Myst was born several hours after her brother, into a tribe of Remnant settled deep within the mountains between Urnung and Bejaera.
Unlike Rayn however, she was born weak and frail, suffering from a number of physical malformations in bone and tissue that caused her great trouble in physical development.
For many years her parents and brother strove to comfort and console her, but she continued to lay bedridden for a large part of her early life - struggling to survive in such an inhospitable environment.

At the age of eight, the last year that a Remnant's wings are ever known to bloom, she was still grounded and fell into a deep depression.
At the age of fourteen she left the tribe - without consent of her family or elders - and headed alone into Bejaera.

Half way down the pass, only a handful of days into her travel, she collapsed and was buried under a drift of snow. She was eventually found - through some higher power's will or a strange twist of fate - by a named Vaint, who took her into Bejaera and left her with an old widower, a farmer, who raised her as his own for a near hand of years.
Working on the farm she grew up to be strong and healthy, going some way toward overcoming her inherent weakness, though winters still troubled her.
During her years on the farm she developed a natural affinity with animals, one that was strong, even for her kind.
By the age of fourteen she could herd sheep without a dog and ride any of her adoptive father's horses bareback.

She continued to live with the farmer, enjoying a simple, yet satisfying life until he fell into death's natural embrace, not too many moons before her eighteenth birthday.

After this she wandered for a while, stalking the land aimlessly, taking what work she could.
Half a year on - whether by chance or design - she stumbled across Vaint, the man in the mountains, who recognized her and offered her a place in the Erastriders.
After some thought she accepted and began work as a Scout, and later an Explorer - roaming the land and tending to its people and animals where she could and providing information to the order where she may.

Five years on, she's a Strider for the Erastriders, undercover as a Bodyguard for house Karvayn with her brother, new to both the order and her life and her wings are now in full bloom.

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[FlamingBird]

Name: Rayn
Gender: Male
Age: Young - by Elvish Standards (about 25)
Race: Fearie/Remnant
Appearance: http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/706/rayney.png/
About 5'5" tall, Black hair, blue robes, knightly armour. He also has wings similar of those his sister has only darker.

Affiliated Organisation:

• Erastriders (Strider)
• House Karvayn (Bodyguard)
• Mountain Remnant Tribes

Other Affiliates:

• Myst (twin sister)
• The Entity's Remnant
• Scardrake (Dragonpriest and Erastrider Head)
• Alabast E. Karvayn

Physical Traits: Unlike his Sister Rayn is of an avarage size for a fearie and sports quite a bit of muscle.

Noteworthy Abilities: Polar opposite of his sister: Rayn's strength lies in his martial prowess, not his magic, although that in itself, is far from lacking. His magic is not like that of a mage but more suited to a warrior like him, he uses it to strenghten his muscles and reinforce his skin. He is also an exceptional archer.

Noteworthy Weaknesses: Unlike his sister Rayn is not very good at controling magic outside of his body, to the point where he cannot conjure and control a simple fireball. Therefore he had to find other ways to utilise magic. Rayn is also somewhat brash, never really thinking about what he is doing.
in short; If His sister is the brain, then he is the brawn.

Kiihmblade: Rayn called his kiihmblade Vanair. His kiihmblade is a little special in the fact that it as three seperate form. The original form of the blade is a Broadsword. The reach of the sword is longer than the blade itself because of the kiihmblades powers, this mean that even if the blade itself misses there is still a chance that you will be cut by it's aura. The blade also leaves an after image lingering for a few seconds, this after aura makes it hard to counter emediately after an atack as the after image could still cut you.

In its secondary form the broadsword splits into a longsword and a shield. In this form the longsword is imbued with the powers of lightning, making it's atacks quite lethat as you would not only be cut but also electrocuted.
The shield in this form is slightly larger as a buckler and designed to not hinder mobility but still provide decent protection.

The tertiary form is a longsword and dagger. In this form it is not the sword that has special powers, but the dagger. It is imbued with fire and has the ability to extend these flames in the form of a fire whip.

Background: Rayn & Myst being twins were both born into the same remnant tribe. They were born in Urnung, a harsh and cold land.
At birth Rayn was born as a hale, healthy and heavy baby while his sister Myst was frail and weak-bodied.

Her weaknes caused a problem for the tribe as it was hard to raise such a weak child in the harsh land of urnung. Had she been born anywhere else she would've been fine but as it was she nearly died several times.

Rayn on the other hand was strong and from a very young age he showed an interest in fighting and proving that he was the strongest, battle was a contest to him. Because of this he soon pleaded with the tribes best swordsman to train him in the way of the sword, and to nobodies surprise he seemed to excel at it.

Even though the remnant aren't a cruel people it was evident that they thought myst was more trouble than she was worth and despite Rayn who looked out for his siter at all times she still left the tribe at the age of 12, leaving the tribe and Rayn behind.
However Rayn himself would not stay in the tribe for long either. His training with his master was comming to an end and it was beginning to come to the point where the pupil was getting stronger than the master, it was time for Rayn to leave, And so it happened.
At the age of 14 and 2 years after His sister had departed, Rayn left the village to wander the lands and seek out strong opponents in order to hone his skill. However this was not the only reason for his departure, he had always wondered what happened to his sister and this trip was the perfect opertunity to look for her.

For 2 years Rayn wandered the lands of Urnung, testing his metle against the strongest fighters, learning different styles of sword combat. After a while even the harsh land of Urnung grew boring to him, he desired for a different challenge. He had heard of the Land of Rafia from many people, how it was home to many great fighters and strong beasts, he decided to go there and become even stronger.

When Rayn arrived in Rafia his Khiimblade materialised in his hand much to his surprise, he named the weapon Vanair. During his travels in Rafia Rayn would meat his next teacher, a man named Minos. Rayn had heard of Minoss skill and came to him in order to challenge him to a duel, Rayn got overpowered to such a degree that he emidiatelly surrenderd and pleaded with Minos to guide him in his warriors path. Minos impresed by the abilities of this young man agreed and taught Rayn everything he knew, it was here where he learned to use his unique style of magic.
Minos used a style of magic like Rayn had never seen before, instead of throwing flashy firebals or lightningbolts Minos used his magic to strengthen his muscles and increase his speed giving him physical prowess beyond his bodies current capabilities, this sort of magic however put's a strain on the body and cannot be used for to long at a time. Minos howeverd had suffered of a dissease for some time now and after two years he finally collapsed to his illnes and Rayn was forced to bury his master and resume his travels.

It was 2 more years before Rayn finally heard of his sister, apparently she had joined a group called the Erastriders. He heard she was stationed in The city atop the black tower, so this would be his next visit. It is there where they finally reunited and Rayn, who didn't want to leave his sisters side again reluctantly joined the Erastriders. He longed for a life of adventure and battle while he suspected that the erastriders were more about knowledge an peace of mind, his suspicions were confirmed fairly quickly.

The twins have been part of the Erastriders for about 4 years now, doing their duty and protecting the lands around the city as best they could.

[Basilisque]

@Rulaan, Database Error and Flamingbird.
Well, you folks know large chunks of the lore Already, and you've already discussed yer characters with me over skype.
So yeah, they're approved. ^^

I'll wait for Fuss to finalize his char, then I'll start the RP.

EDIT: ALright, we've got five finalized characters!
There's been posted a map, as well of a list of the districts which players have information on in the first post.
Choose one of the districts that there is available information about for your character to begin the roleplay in, and once everyone has chosen their location the Roleplay will be in motion.

[Database Error]

Myst will start in District 39 please.

[FlamingBird]

I'll just copy what Database Error said.

where in the bloody hell did you come up with that name. oO

[GreenGoat]

45.

gimme gimme gimme

[Rulaan]

District 6! haw

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District 6! haw

[Fussiler1]

District 29.

[Database Error]

GO GO GO!