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Due to my being too busy with things IRL, Red Sun is officially dead. I apologize for the inconvenience.

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The northern border of the human kingdom of Talbor is established and protected entirely by a vast ridge of jagged grey mountains which from the foothills look like razors slashing at the sky. Over the centuries, many an army has tried to push through these mountains, but they have proven themselves to be so well-fortified that no army in existence could ever dream of pushing through the endless wall of rock. That is, until said army approached the North Valley. The North Valley is the only gap in the Tartarus mountains, a long and winding path that cuts through the wall of rock and leads to the green heartlands of Talbor. It is protected at its end facing the Wilderness by Fort Imperius, a fort built around an enormous gate forty feet high. It is manned constantly by a standing guard of two-thousand men.

From the top of the tower where the longbowmen watched, they saw the wave of red moving towards them across the green plains, and the trail of smoke which followed it. As the regiment of three-thousand men marched towards Fort Imperius, they burned everything behind them, leaving an expanse of blazing trees and charred grass in their wake. To the men atop the fort, it appeared as if Satan’s Armies were approaching themselves. At their request, Sir Frederick, the fort’s commander, climbed the steps to the top of the wall and approached the Head Bowman, a tall halfling man, with a cynical glare in his eyes. He was an arrogant-looking man, with perfectly-polished steel armor, long red hair which trailed down his back, and a long blue cape with the symbol Talbor, a ram’s head, imprinted on it in gold.

“What is it?” Sir Frederick said to the Bowman.

“Look out there, sir.” he replied “It appears as if we are about to go under siege.” Frederick looked out across the plains and saw the approaching armada.

“Hm. Look at that.” he said “It appears as we are about to have a fight on our hands. I will alert the men to go into lockdown and have another regiment of bowmen join you. I’m sure it won’t be much of a problem. No army in Tithe can break through these walls.” The bowman saluted, and Sir Frederick went off down the steps, where he alerted the rest of the soldiers to go into siege mode. Dozens of longbowmen moved to their arrow slits along the inside of the fifty-foot wall and a heavy metal portcullis lowered on each side of the wooden doors of the gate. A second regiment of archers were sent to the top. The soldiers still inside were commanded to armor up, but were not told to report to their internal battlestations on account that no “band of pyromaniac highwaymen” would ever bust through an impenetrable stone wall.

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As the Head Bowman greeted his new regiment of thirty archers and directed them to their places on the wall, however, he began to notice that there were not one regiment of soldiers moving towards the fort, but three, the other two about two miles farther away and significantly larger than the first. He looked towards his men as the alarm bells sounded inside; this was certainly more than a band of highwaymen. As he stared out at the closest army, he saw a flourishing of metal, and a sound that resembled a blast of lightning in the distance. Puffs of smoke rose from the army as a row of large black dots moved to the front of the army. Louder blasts of thunder roared through the air as the Bowman watched large balls of metal fly head-on into the wall. The entire structure shook, and the Bowman felt a blunt pain in his stomach as he violently rocked forwards. The next thing he knew, he was laying at the base of the wall with a snapped neck, his cold, dead eyes staring up at the blue sky filling with smoke and fire. As the black smog filled the sky, it appeared as if the sun had lost its color and turned a deep blood red.

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Under the Red Sun is a high-fantasy roleplay centered around a war between the magical races of Tithe and the cold, mechanical army of the Red Legion, a group dedicated to destroying all magic in the world. You can play as any of fifteen different races, each with different cultures, weaponry, and abilities to bring to the table in the resistance against the Red Legion Invasion. This is an open-world role-play, with an enormous map. Your decisions will shape the invasion and determine the ultimate fate of Tithe.

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Race and world information (the important stuff) is contained in the second post of this OP (because in one piece the file was so damn big that it broke the guild). The sheet is also contained in the second post.

Basic info:

Roleplay Genre: High-fantasy
Roleplay Level: Advanced. >4 sentences per-post expected.
Number of Members: 12
Acceptance Status: Closed: Not Currently Accepting Character Sheets

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If there is any other information which you desire, please pm me and I'll do what I can to help.
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List of Accepted Characters
So a quick note about characters: Instead of posting a new post each time you make a character, once your first character is accepted you are going to make one post and keep all of your characters together. All sheets must be flanked by hiders.
Accepted Characters
Maxx: Sr. Iro Hesekar: Fairfolk priest who is travelling to heal those afflicted by the Legion. Apollos del Orarius: A master thief and mercenary in the war business for the fun of it. Luke Feng and Yang Tou: A naive gnome explorer who is travelling around Tithe on the back of his trusty stoic copper golem, Yang You. He is making a map of Tithe to bring back to Ostracus. Asher Stormfront:A young Fairfolk seer who travels Tithe, protecting people from the evil she sees in her visions. Bjorn Svero: The proud an wise chieftain of Ensom, a province of Jikari. He is known for his incredible strength and military leadership skills. Septic Gentleman: Darsi Ruuk: One of the Ruuk brothers. He's a trader that loves chemistry and blowing things up. Dosi Ruuk: One of the Ruuk brothers. He's the more down-to-earth of the two, more concerned with commerce and trade than with experimenting. Lord of Owls: A mysterious spirit said to prey on Red Legion soldiers while they sleep. He Who Walks Behind: Calder: The Minotaur Philosopher: a famous minotaur warrior who left to find his place in the world. Is slowly dying of a magical disease. UrbanEvolution Tucker Clayden: A playboy bard who travels with a fire-breathing dragon. Arya Falen: A young witch-in-training. Wickedly bright and bitingly sarcastic. Tooth-in-the-sea: Nick's lizard fetish. A swashbuckling trader and former ship captain in the Tropics. Fat Boy Kyle Honoria: A brooding and vengeful shade with a hatred of the Red Legion (and also a really big snake). Kuruk: An exiled prince of the Numidian Herds who now operates as a mercenary. Nron Sikarthis: A lone wolf Glacial Knight warrior-turned-diplomat. Tári Númenessë: A manipulative and catlike Haderlockian diplomat. The_Written_John Bartleby Sterling: A cowardly Talborian lord who, pressed for money, has decided to attempt to steal Red Legion weaponry and sell it to the other races. Jonnyh447 Tobias Fischer: A curious and somewhat naive Orc fisherman. Adelaide del Monte: The grounded and neglected middle child in the wealthy Nephari family. Ink Blood Heoron: A calm and collected Ogre treasure hunter. SirBeowulf Tanzanno Fernando: A swordmaster and fencing instructor from Southern Nepharie. Mr Allen J Morag-Nog: A crippled and eccentric orc tinker and inventor. Leonerdo Wizzlebee LaShtup: A secretive gnome alchemist who is secretly a practitioner of the art of necromancy. Kane Bounevialle: A city guard of Maceron famous for his bravery and stance against oppression.
Inactive Characters
These are characters who have not been posted as for one week. If you are going to be away for more than one week, notify me, as characters who are not rped as for two weeks with no reason are killed.
Deceased Characters
They were true patriots...
Notable NPCs
The following is a list of important characters in the rp who are non-player-controlled (NPC).
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I'll have my characters up within the day.
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So I'm adding a brief section to the OP which will be a quicker, bullet point-style overview of the races.
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I've only glossed over this, but I think I'm interested. I'll read this properly later and hopefully submit a CS :)
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Excellent! Great to have you on board. By the way, love the avatar.
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Excellent! Great to have you on board. By the way, love the avatar.
Why thank you very much. I've read through everything and I'm definitely joining (whether you accept me or not)! Expect a Cs later today.
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Here's my WIP CS, I look forward to feedback.
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I like the sheet, Kyle. Just one minor tweak; the siege of Fort Imperius will only be about a week before the events of the IC, so you might want to have it have been a different Red Legion attack if Honoria has been this way for more than a week. The siege of Imperius was the first Legion battle in the southern kingdoms, but there were several large battles in the Wilderness, specifically the battles of Brighton and Pyreton (brighton was in the interest check, and Pyreton was a sizeable mountainside town that Wesserius burned to the ground.) So long as you fix that one wrinkle in the backstory, she's accepted.
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"Hey I just met you, and this is crazy, but I made a bet, so lay me baby?" -Tucker at some point to Honoria. When your initial call to action in the story is to be with every race in Tithe, wih a war on the horizon, drastic times call for drastic measures. My only question is how massive is this snake companion? Like, are we talking Titanoboa in size or...?
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hm...I would have hoped to have attracted more new players by now.
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I like the sheet, Kyle. Just one minor tweak; the siege of Fort Imperius will only be about a week before the events of the IC, so you might want to have it have been a different Red Legion attack if Honoria has been this way for more than a week. The siege of Imperius was the first Legion battle in the southern kingdoms, but there were several large battles in the Wilderness, specifically the battles of Brighton and Pyreton (brighton was in the interest check, and Pyreton was a sizeable mountainside town that Wesserius burned to the ground.) So long as you fix that one wrinkle in the backstory, she's accepted.
Fixed this, I hope :P I've also fleshed a couple of things out slightly, including the powers. I added one or two more (sort of), so I hope I haven't suddenly become OP. I was also wondering if Dryads, or Shades in particular, also share Fairfolk's ability to speak to animals? Would it make sense for Honoria and Iro to know each other do you think?
"Hey I just met you, and this is crazy, but I made a bet, so lay me baby?" -Tucker at some point to Honoria. When your initial call to action in the story is to be with every race in Tithe, wih a war on the horizon, drastic times call for drastic measures. My only question is how massive is this snake companion? Like, are we talking Titanoboa in size or...?
I don't think Honoria would like that, but I look forward to seeing how his advances play out! Colubra, the snake, is about 5.5 metres long. So she's big but certainly not Titanoboa big. p.s. I've just had a proper read through the CS page and realised I've stolen a couple of your characters abilities. Sorry :P
hm...I would have hoped to have attracted more new players by now.
I think this is just a quiet patch for the guild. None of my RPs are active at the moment :/ I might be able to convince a couple of friends to join later.
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Posting in the Advanced section means asking for less people who can deliver more by themselves.
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Posting in the Advanced section means asking for less people who can deliver more by themselves.
But will OP deliver?
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I have to say that this is definitely the most thought out and detailed OOC I've ever seen. I really hope it takes off :)
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I have to say that this is definitely the most thought out and detailed OOC I've ever seen. I really hope it takes off :)
So do I. We just need to not overdo things and we'll be able to keep up a good pace.
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