The Prophecy OOC - Epic High Fanatasy Adventure

[xbriannova]

Oh okay, understood, sorry. Though I recommend trying all sorts of characters, including older ones- It's liberating and it opens up your horizon a bit.

And urm... You're right that you're never know how stories would turn out like. It's true. I write often as well, I can understand.

[Ezrath]

Yeah I know what you mean by trying different characters. The book I'm writing has a mad-man in it that I can develop surprising well :/ I don't know if that's good or bad. But I prefer to stick with younger characters because it's something I can mold and adapt to rather well, whereas playing an older character with years upon years of experience I don't like because I feel as though you don't have as much... wiggle room when it comes to developing the character.

[xbriannova]

Which leads to the above statement I made. For older characters, I would recommend looking backwards, as in have the character talk about, or think about his path while at the same time deal with his current situation as well as look towards the future. Like I said, there's nothing stopping the older character from changing either, especially in fiction, so he could function similarly to younger characters. Well, maybe some day in the future you could try it.

[Ezrath]

Well and I will at some point, when I'm old enough to relate xD

[Dark Jack]

I know writing out a character introduction like the one I posted for my character is not as functional as filling a template, but I like writing like that better and feel that writing that way gives a better impression - perhaps not as good an impression of such as the character's appearance, but of his personality, and gives a quite different, personal view on its past than just stating what happened to it. If it bothers people I can make a more traditional character sheet, though.

As for my character's age... I actually usually prefer to play older characters, usually putting them in either their thirties, forties or sixties (if they are human... when playing long-lived races I usually end up with a character of some hundred years). Jaelnec has the age he has because that is the way I designed him in my novel, in which a similar main-character exists. There is not much else to it.

[FeyChild]

Given I have lectures tomorrow, I shall leave this cs-making for tonight. I'm about halfway through, but more remains to be done

[xbriannova]

I know writing out a character introduction like the one I posted for my character is not as functional as filling a template, but I like writing like that better and feel that writing that way gives a better impression - perhaps not as good an impression of such as the character's appearance, but of his personality, and gives a quite different, personal view on its past than just stating what happened to it. If it bothers people I can make a more traditional character sheet, though.

As for my character's age... I actually usually prefer to play older characters, usually putting them in either their thirties, forties or sixties (if they are human... when playing long-lived races I usually end up with a character of some hundred years). Jaelnec has the age he has because that is the way I designed him in my novel, in which a similar main-character exists. There is not much else to it.

Well, I love your character, no question about it. Don't worry! As for a traditional character sheet, do bear in mind that there's demand for it due to its functionality, not because you wrote badly. If you feel dejected because of this, don't.

Can't wait for this to get going

By the way. The use of a social group is countless. If you want an example look at my signature and find the social group for a high casual Harry Potter roleplay that used to be running, named 'Meanwhile'. It's a decent example. For example, you could move all character sheets inside, you could host discussions in the group, put up notices, and you could give each member a space for them to organise information and stuff for their characters. There's also a feature to include pictures. There's more, but then I'm only one step ahead in knowing about the social group function- So we can only explore more uses for it later on.

[Ezrath]

Well, I love your character, no question about it. Don't worry! As for a traditional character sheet, do bear in mind that there's demand for it due to its functionality, not because you wrote badly. If you feel dejected because of this, don't.

Can't wait for this to get going

By the way. The use of a social group is countless. If you want an example look at my signature and find the social group for a high casual Harry Potter roleplay that used to be running, named 'Meanwhile'. It's a decent example. For example, you could move all character sheets inside, you could host discussions in the group, put up notices, and you could give each member a space for them to organise information and stuff for their characters. There's also a feature to include pictures. There's more, but then I'm only one step ahead in knowing about the social group function- So we can only explore more uses for it later on.

Hey didn't think about that. Hm.

[Dark Jack]

I decided that it would not really be necessary to write out my characters biography and personality, since the main points of that is really better explained in my original character introduction, but I covered the main points about him. Hopefully this will give a better overview of things.

Name: Jaelnec
Age: 20 years
Occupation: Recently named Squire of the Will.
Race: Nightwalker
Gender: Male
Appearance: 5' 11" tall, well-muscled, but compact, and has the appearance of a sixteen- or seventeen-year-old human. He has almost impossibly black, yet warm and kind eyes, and no visible growth of facial hair. His chin is shapely and his jaw is broad, and he has thin red lips. His nose is perhaps a little too long to be handsome, but it is narrow and generally appealing. His hair is a luminous shade of golden-blond, smooth and is shoulder-length.
He usually wears ordinary black trousers and a white shirt, though the latter is hidden behind a cuirass composed of numerous small overlapping ghiril-scales, shifting between hues of purple and golden depending on the light. He also wears brown leather boots and gauntlets, and wears a long black coat that reaches to his ankles, and which he almost always wears open in the front. He has a wide-brimmed grayed hat, a leather belt and an additional shoulder strap, going diagonally from left shoulder to right hip, containing (when it is full) eight throwing knives of alchemical silver.
He wears a dagger of steel in a sheath by his right hip, and an exquisite longsword called Roct in a scabbard on his left, with a silvery blade and a hilt with a guard artfully formed as extended dragon-wings, the dragon's tail wrapped around the handle, and the blade seemingly spawning from flames spewed from the tiny golden dragon's jaws.
Since then his coat was first ripped by goblin claws, then lost. His calves and lower thighs have received a number of cut-scars, and after his first pair of trousers was torn apart, he changed to another, similar pair.
Skills: Although having no training - or talent - with magic at all, Jaelnec has undergone long and intensive training on swordplay and fighting in general, rendering him an excellent swordsman, a superior fist-fighter and a quite capable knife-thrower. His general fighting style is to rely on speed and mobility over raw strength, as the occupation he was training for - Knight of the Will - would inevitably lead him into battle against monsters against which even the strongest blow would be useless unless a weak point was targeted.
Aside from his fighting-abilities, Jaelnec has a great deal of knowledge on a lot of subjects in Rodoria, including the basics of how magic work, the nature of various monsters and the geography of the land, as he has not only accompanied and watched his master, Freagon, over the past ten years of training, but also studied in a library of the deo'iel.
Since it has turned out that Jaelnec has some kind of guardian entity, although virtually nothing is known about this being aside from that it is apparently extremely protective about Jaelnec and is capable of possessing his body, though this process seems very painful. The entity has also been described as having an enormously powerful soul, and as being blind to the material world, as it instead sees the spectral image of the world, allowing it to see others' souls, but not their appearance.

[Autumn Leaf]

Please, allow me to finish reading, this is very interesting. If/when this is published and I see it on a bookshelf, I would love to purchase it and read it. I may post a character sheet in perhaps half an hour or so. I'm thinking on a Zerulic Rune Mage.