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Can I get me some feedback on this little fellow?

Rise of the Unchained


Free, to Walk the Earth Once More!


For eons, you have been banished to a chamber that exists outside of time and space - put there by the very mortals you once sought to enslave. Over confidence and arrogance were your biggest flaws, but you can hardly be blamed for them, can you?

Your name drives fear into the stoutest hearts of the strongest mortals. Your power is absolute and undeniable. Your will can break a mountain, and your hunger for retribution shall humble Empires.

You are a God, and through the stupidity of some disillusioned humans, who thought themselves wise to pursue the black arts, you are now free to rule once more.

Though you must be careful. The ceremony that has broken you free from your prison was a primitive one, and your powers are still a shadow of what they once were. That doesn't mean you should fear the mortals however - just that you should remember very well what they did to you last time, when you were at full strength.

The world will burn in a sea of fire, but be patient. Know your enemies. Know who can oppose you, and destroy them before they grow powerful enough to challenge you.

Or... you know, open a gateway to some Hellish underworld and unleash hordes of demons onto the land.

The World of Voswurn




Voswurn is a bastard experiment gone horribly wrong, courtesy of your idiot father - The Creator - and is now beyond the control of divine intervention. The mortal races of this world have grown too proud, too stubborn, to bend the knee to any supreme being but their chosen Lords. This is an insult to all that is holy! Your father, maddened by grief, that his creation would shun him thus, retreated from this part of the unniverse to pursue other endeavours that he may forget his mistake.

You and your siblings were left to wipe Voswurn from the histories; to claim the millions of ungrateful souls that walked its surface... Alas, you were defeated and imprisoned by Mage Lords - mortals, who had managed to tune themselves to the powers of your father. How they were able to do this, you do not know, though you suspect your father made them in his own image more than he admitted.

This poses a problem. Voswurn cannot be allowed to exist in this way. It is as affront to all that is Holy. A creation should never grow more mighty than he who sired it. Furthermore, how long will it be, before these Mage Lords discover a means to create things of their own? To rival father's powerful, and to cast him down.

This. Can. Not. Happen.

Voswurn is a world still in its infancy. Medieval kingdoms dot the landscape, as Empires of antiquity are slowly receding. Magic, as the mortals call it, is thankfully restricted to about a 100th of the population - and it is these individuals the Gods must fear. An infant with these kinds of powers may even be a challenge for them, in their weakened state.

Still, there is hope. People still pray to the Gods, though these are few. Perhaps appealing to your followers, may provide you with a tool? Mortal peace treaties are ever such fragile things, after all.

Or perhaps there is no time for subtle diplomacy. Perhaps there is only time for direct action. Different Gods can regain their strength in different ways. Some by absorbing the souls of the living, others by draining life from the land, or by consuming wildlife. For others, it is simply a waiting game. In any case, if a God could regain themselves quickly, then they may be able to make a direct strike against the mortal realms, and bring them to ruin before they have a chance to strike back.

Rules


- Godmodding is very much encouraged, as far as NPCs go.

- Godmodding against other Gods will create a paradox that will crash the RP.

- A God's power, and scope of abilities is defined simply by their specialisation. I.e the God of War, would likely be a warrior without equal, and able to walk through entire armies without taking a scratch. The God of Water, would likely be very keen on the idea of allowing the oceans to overtake the land, and would be able to work tidal waves and tsunamis etc.

- Mage Lords are mortals who have managed to tap the Creator's powers, making them half-Gods. They are scary, and more numerous than the Gods, making them a deadly adversary. Unlike the Gods, Mage Lords are able to call on powers from a wide spectrum of specialisations but to a lesser degree. Whilst your God may be able to bring a mountain crashing to the ground, a Mage Lord might only be able to shake it slightly. Therefore, encounters with them should be dramatic and near-fatal, unless you have a good reason for otherwise.

- The world is literally your oyster. Lead a cultist uprising, bring through legions of the damned from portals, grow a forest of beautiful yet deadly trees - any way you want to bring the world down, is up to you. Alternatively you might want to just walk around the place, planting bad ideas in the heads of powerful men, creating war all over the show.

- If a player is perceived as problematic, I'll get involved and banish them if they do not heed my warnings.

Who Are You?


I Am the God Of:

My Powers Include, but Are Not Limited To: Name your core powers, such as creating earth quakes, having unbreakable flesh, raising the dead, opening demonic gateways, telekinesis etc etc. You'll be assumed to have other, minor powers, of course.

My Name Is:

The People Who Devote Themselves To Me Are Called:

I was the Creator's: Son, daughter, experiment, shame, - whatever your relationship is to the Creator.

I Gain My Strength From: Reaping the living, drawing life from the earth, absorbing the rays of the sun, by encasing myself in the coeans, etc etc

I am King/Queen/Master of the Realm of: Your Godly residence, more than likely a plain outside of reality - a Heaven, if you will.

My Realm is a Place of: Describe your realm. Is it a place of beauty and peace? of suffering and fire? Of constant warfare?

To Mortals, My Face Is: Your appearance to mortal eyes.

To My Kin, My Face Is: Your true form, although can be the same as above.

I Carry These Relics, That Cement My Power: To remain in the physical world, the Gods each carry a relic(s). If you were the God of War, it may be a sword, or if you were the God of the Wind, it might be a fan or something. These items must remain safe at all times, although most of them will be unbreakable by even the strongest Mage Lord - unless they converged on you, of course.

If a relic is for whatever reason damaged, then your God is sent back to his or her prison -- or loses their powers, and becomes mortal, and killable. The Mage Lords chose mercy last time, for fear out of what would happen if they slew you. This time, they might not be so wise.

I Have Emerged at: Your starting location. View the map, and indeed, right click it and left click "view image" to view the full sized image.
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*likes*
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Im interested
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@Pie Flavor
I'm sorry, but your screen name is awesome.
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Definitely interested in this idea!
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Consider a CS in the works on this end.
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I am, for all intents and purposes, Death.

My powers include a complete control of the dead; no necromancer can match the immortal who is in charge of them. They also include having the last word - someone who pisses me off dies? Oh good, I have a special dungeon in hell for fine tuned. While they have a live view of the fun things i am making the corpse do. I am not the strongest of the gods, by any means, but I do have patience, cunning, and centuries of buried dead at my disposal...

I am known to all as Krypton.

Those who follow me are generally necromancers, those who I had given the ability to summon the dead to the

I was the Creator's afterthought, made only for his purpose.

My powers grow from “Reaping”; the stronger the soul, the greater the gain.

I am Warden of the “Afterlife Chamber”, where the fate of the dead is decided, and ultimately a special form of hell to those who I particularly dislike.

My Realm is a sort of dungeon; depending on what I think of said person, it looks either more comfortable or more like Hell itself. Of course, there’s a place for that too. My own hell is basically hell… just fine tuned to the ones that pissed me off.

To Mortals I am but a dark-tinted skeleton with an old, almost moldy cloak. Old bones they are, but strong nonetheless.

To my Kin, I am similar to above, but with my energies visible and the souls of those I have claimed visible within the confines of my form. I can reveal it to humans if I wish, though… they end up becoming mad as a result.

I wield a staff which looks about as old as me; almost looking like it could break. It is stuffed with souls that it has taken, usually the ones that I gave a… special afterlife. While my body has souls coming in and out, this staff has the long-timers.

I have returned in the northern recesses of the Abbey of Broken Worlds, from where a new storm shall sweep…
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Thanks for the interest guys!

I like your character, Arena! Accepted in advance of the OOC.

Speaking of which, looks like we've got enough to open the real thing up. I'll post the link here once I've got it going.
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Ah, good :)

Side question; how much control do we have over Mage Lords and can we control characters of their own ilk consistently through the RP? Just to add some... side drama to things.

I am thinking of having my character's first challenge being a king of one of the northern peoples who is a Mage Lord and this question is to help me figure how I should make things work.
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Hey, very interested!
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Color me interested too!
Hopefully there will be a ooc thread when I woke up. :P
I will post my character sheet first thing tomorrow morning w/ the ooc.
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Ah, good :)

Side question; how much control do we have over Mage Lords and can we control characters of their own ilk consistently through the RP? Just to add some... side drama to things.

I am thinking of having my character's first challenge being a king of one of the northern peoples who is a Mage Lord and this question is to help me figure how I should make things work.


Of course, and this is very much encouraged. The alternative would have been getting other players to do it, which would have created inevitable fall outs in God vs Mage Lord combat scenarios, or for me to do it all, and I just haven't got the time for that. As far as I'm concerned, NPCs, including Mage Lords, Kings, townsfolk, cultists etc are the joint responsibility of the players.

This RP also leaves room for NRP elements, as it is very possible for a God to become "king" of their own land, using deception and the sort to lead mortals against each other in a war to end all wars.

Anyway, sorry for the OOC delay, I'm busy at the moment but will get to it as soon as I'm back home :)
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I like that response :)
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Mmm... god RP is quite rare, I'm interested on this one as long as it it's not a speed post game.
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@SuperTacticalDerp Very nice! However, I'd like to check that Arena is okay with you taking control of the dead - even though Vas is restricted to a certain type of them. I've got no problem with it, but he or she may have, and I abide by "They who were first, has the final say" policy :)

As for the map, the link has indeed died... I was hoping it would be more permanent than that. No worries, I'll use other means to get it up.

OOC is about to go up. Sorry for the wait.

Arena can go ahead and post their sheet into the character tab, but I'd like any others to go into the OOC first.

EDIT: @ArenaSnow, can I get me your approval/disapproval of Derp's planned God? Specifically this part:

" The War-Worthy! Often stolen from Krypton's boney clutches, (who never seems to mind,) these are the lost spirits of wars old. Vas has given them new purpose as his War-Worthy and summons them from his realm to do battle. Vas never calls on living mortals for worship. War should never be worshiped, for it is already seeded in every heart."

I'd rather go through you than stamp it with my approval and cause upset.

OOC is up!
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I totally understand if I overstepped with The War-Worthy. @ArenaSnow and I are in other RPs, so I'm hoping he is cool with this. If not, I'll change it completely, no problem.
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Who Are You?


I Am the God Of: The God of Magic, Mankind and Pride

My Powers Include, but Are Not Limited To: Control over all sorts of magics, able to shape reality at will (unless there's an opposing god interfering with my powers), after stealing a shard of my father's power.

My Name Is: Xerval

The People Who Devote Themselves To Me Are Called: Before their betrayal they were just humble mortals who were bestowed by me with the gift of magic, stolen from their Heavenly Father, but now they call themselves the Mage Lords.

I was the Creator's: His biggest mistake, the son who betrayed his father and sought to usurp the heavens for his own.

I Gain My Strength From: After stealing the shard my power became a as infinite as that of my father, though I can still benefit from my previous source of power the ever increasing hubris of mankind.

I am King/Queen/Master of the Realm of: The betraying Mage Lords had usurped even my own realm, the ancient city of Kirós, the capital of the greatest empire of humanity's history, thought now that I'm free I shall once more reclaim what's mine.

My Realm is a Place of: Kirós though long lost to the ravages of time now, was at it's peak a jewel standing amidst the great arid plains of Usafar, in a valley formed by the confluence of two rivers that long since dried. Now only its highest ziggurats stand tall against the waves o rolling sand.

To Mortals, My Face Is:



To My Kin, My Face Is:



I Carry These Relics, That Cement My Power:



The flask which contains the shard of essence stolen from the Heavenly Father.

I Have Emerged at: In a plain area, near the desert of Usafar.




"And thus the betrayer became the betrayed..."
-The final line of the Mage Lords creed, regarding Xerval's fate.
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No issue at all.
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No issue at all.


Thanks man!
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